ElMonoEstupendo

It is not the suspiciously-surnamed Koravellium. Not Moash. Not Rayse. Not Vasher. Not the anonymous blasphemer. Not Vin. This character has killed a god. This character mostly keeps to themselves. This character grows things. This character weeps.

Neither Moash, nor Rayse. Edit: Not Vasher either, though I can't figure out how to quote in an edit. Not the anonymous blasphemer. Not Vin. This character has killed a god. This character mostly keeps to themselves. This character grows things.

Not the anonymous blasphemer. Not Vin. This character has killed a god. This character mostly keeps to themselves.

Noice. This character has killed a god.

Gavinor!

Sebruki.

Friend Moash.

Not so emotionally devastating, but: Adolin-Sadeas at the end of WoR. Dalinar-Sadeas at the end of WoK. Dalinar-Elhokar at the end of WoK.

Redin.

Correct!

There's one huge lapse that struck me when I was re-reading WoR. Just after he's launched Dalinar into the air, Szeth turns to walk away. Adolin attacks him in a weakened state and gets easily slapped down. Szeth grins and says something along the lines of: "I can kill one more on my own time." That's not part of his instructions, not part of self-preservation (Adolin was practically crippled). That's spiteful execution. At that point, he's lost it - straight-up bonkers. He spends the entire time tormented by the killing, then opts to willingly and unnecessarily increase that burden? There's also a question about his own legal ability to renounce being Truthless. Clearly it's morally wrong that he was so-named, but he unilaterally decides his punishment was unfit and stops obeying it - that's not how the Law (or Oaths) work, unless perhaps you're a 5th Ideal Skybreaker. Prisoners can't just decide the judges are corrupt and leave. I'm surprised Nale didn't take extreme exception to this. Maybe the Shin system permits it...

Not Phendorana. Not Szeth. Not Nale. Not Sylphrena. This character has had more than one bond. This character is judicious and selective. This character dies in battle. This character is relatively small, but also relatively big. This character is extremely valuable and versatile on the battlefield, and useful and empathetic off.

Not Szeth. Not Nale. Not Sylphrena. This character has had more than one bond. This character is judicious and selective. This character dies in battle. This character is relatively small, but also relatively big.

Now that's some quality evidence. Textual proof that: Goats are a thing on Roshar. They're called "horses" by Rosharans, but they... Are distinct from the horse-horses people ride. Horse-horses are shod. So that's pretty conclusive that normal horse breeds on Roshar are not goats, but what we would recognise as genuine horses. It doesn't on its own mean that Rhyshadium aren't Giant War Goats, because if anything it reads that they're well suited to rocky terrain, aren't shod, and goats are called horses. Together with the WoB about them being genetically close to normal Rosharan horses, though, I think that narrows down my hope to one small possibility: that Brandon was talking about the goat-horses, not the far more widespread horse-horses, in that WoB. I think that's stretching the limits of believability. I concede the point.

That would be cheeky. I wouldn't do that. Not Nale. Not Sylphrena. This character has had more than one bond. This character is judicious and selective. This character dies in battle.

Not Sylphrena. This character has had more than one bond. This character is judicious and selective.

Aha! Very good point. Probably a leader, but perhaps not a ruler? Either way: This character has had more than one bond.

You have keenly discerned that I'm having a bit of fun. But it's also an exercise in spinning out crackpot theories from a single phrase, because it's not explicitly denied anywhere, and testing ideas through argument, and learning more about the cosmere through incidental research. I think the above are an enjoyable feature of these forums. Probably related to Brandon's propensity to play with wording and to leave a mixture of foreshadowing clues, mechanical progression, and fun red herrings (is there a Rosharan word for "herring"?). So I'm afraid these WoBs fall into the same issue that the previous one did - Brandon often refers to creatures by their in-universe label. The best you can say is I'm probably wrong. I AM probably wrong. But can you prove it?

This sounds to me like more evidence for Rosharan "horses" really being Giant Goats.

That must surely be a trap. Nale's only ever been in charge of one organisation, as far as we've seen. So: Kalak.

I'm going to die fighting on this Giant War Goat hill. You fools! You've fallen into the classic trap, of mistaking a compressed oval for a rectangle. Ha! Surely Adolin would not make such an error.

Doddery old Taravangian?

Dalinar.

Kelsier.

There are other War Goats the Rosharans call horses, which you will not convince me Brandon isn't talking about here.