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Correct!

Not Forton. Not Ym. Not Jasnah. Not Kaladin. Not Hrathen. This character benefited from poison. This character had a long, peaceful life. This character has quite a few siblings.

Not Jasnah. Not Kaladin. Not Hrathen. This character benefited from poison. This character had a long, peaceful life.

I subscribe to the Chana-is-Mama-Davar theory. It's a nice fit. Now, onto more important matters: This character benefited from poison.

Chanarach.

Talenel.

Arsteel.

Alright, time's up! I'm off on another holiday. It was Claude Aradel, Governor of Elendel. Turn is up for grabs!

Not Taravangian.

Not sure which Seb you mean, but not Seb. Not Sazed. Not TenSoon. Not Silence. Not Vin. Not Kelsier. Not Raoden. Not Wax. Not Rysn. This character improvised at a critical moment. This character succeeds despite their ancestry. This character neglects some duties in favour of others. This character is technically in charge of the PoV characters they meet. This character was given power by an imposter, then took even more by force.

Not Sazed. Not TenSoon. Not Silence. Not Vin. Not Kelsier. Not Raoden. Not Wax. Not Rysn. This character improvised at a critical moment. This character succeeds despite their ancestry. This character neglects some duties in favour of others. This character is technically in charge of the PoV characters they meet.

Not Silence. Not Vin. Not Kelsier. Not Raoden. Not Wax. Not Rysn. This character improvised at a critical moment. This character succeeds despite their ancestry. This character neglects some duties in favour of others.

Not Raoden. Not Wax. Not Rysn. This character improvised at a critical moment. This character succeeds despite their ancestry.

Oh yes, that's a whole other set of conspiracy theories. I think it's further evidence for Honor (or its Tone) being changed - the parallel example on Sel is that Elantris and the seons got severely messed up when a critical component of their Connection to the Dor slightly shifted. It's just that in Roshar's case it's not the landscape changing, it's something else. Deadeyes are like maddened seons. After the Reod most humans and their seons in Arelon were fine. It's only when the Shaod takes them, when they're unwittingly Connected to the Dor and unable to access it, that they get messed up. The singers when they're Connected to BAM but suddenly unable to access her, get messed up in a very similar way. The idea is that the process of forming a Nahel bond and swearing the Ideals Connects not just spren and human but also the Shard (or perhaps whatever accepts the Words, the source of Light). When the oaths are broken, both sides still retain that Connection, but after the Binding (and my proposed change in Honor's Tone), the spren are like the Sibling - they no longer recognise Honor's Tone. The Sibling narrowly avoided being a full-on deadeye because it still had Cultivation's Tone. For whatever reason, though, human's kept track of Honor's changed Tone. We all think "Honor is not dead so long as he lives in the hearts of men!" isn't just a catchphrase, right? Something made humans able to do what spren and Sibling could not - keep track of the change. That is: reconcile Honor with the presence of Odium. Something something War, yeah? Incidentally, I suspect that that whole thing about it being a three-way Connection of human/spren/Shard might explain why Dalinar is capable of doing such surprising feats - he's bonded with only one other being, one thing which is both the Nahel spren and the entity/Lightsource which accepted the Words. He and Navani will probably be the only ones to have done that, ever, as there hasn't been a Bondsmith since Melishi. I expect shenanigans in Urithiru in Book 5.

Alright. This character improvised at a critical moment.

Steris!

Dabbid.

Marasi.

Ooo, thanks for the links. I was looking for just that sort of speculation! I must have focused on the wrong keywords. You're right, I misremembered the terms. The stakes of the duel are even smaller fry! The final terms specify that Odium "remains bound to the system" in either case - as in, this agreement doesn't nullify a previous one. Honor's tone changing is one part of my speculation. The Sibling needs to hear both Honor and Cultivation in order to generate plentiful Towerlight. It can hear Cultivation fine, but it lost Honor's. Navani restores it by finding Honor's song and singing it. So one explanation could be that Tanavast is dead, there is nothing singing the song of Honor, the Tone didn't change it just disappeared and dissipated, and Navani was a "loud" enough source to bring it back. But Roshar is literally sloshing with Honor's Investiture. Stormlight must carry the Tone. All the old singer Rhythms are still around, attunable. The Stormfather is dispensing Light left, right, and centre. Honor's Tone is still around. Add to that the discovery that the Tones can be shifted in the right circumstances and it seems a neater answer that Honor's Tone changed when Tanavast was no longer around the hold it, and what the Sibling needed was to find where it went, rather than for it to just start again. Everything that was just of Honor simply followed it, but a child of two Shards needed to hear their relationship to each other, which had altered. As for the timing of it, it would have started during the False Desolation and culminated with either the Binding of Ba-Ado-Mishram (dumping a lot of Odium's Investiture into the planet, making his a True Tone) or with Tanavast's death (when he could no longer do as Cultivation must be doing, holding it steady). The Sibling starts to lose its Light just as BAM is making dangerous Connections and distributing Voidlight? Just as Honor is getting nuttier and nuttier? No way these are coincidences.

Tien.

Ranette!

Not Taravangian. Interesting choice. Not Gav. Not Elend. Not Navani. Not Lin. This character is quite wealthy. This character has a specific and useful fascination. This character is inspired by heroes of the past. This character issues a lot of threats. This character has developed weapons against magic-users.

Not Gav. Not Elend. Not Navani. Not Lin. This character is quite wealthy. This character has a specific and useful fascination. This character is inspired by heroes of the past. This character issues a lot of threats.

Not Elend. Not Navani. Not Lin. This character is quite wealthy. This character has a specific and useful fascination. This character is inspired by heroes of the past.

Not Lin. This character is quite wealthy. This character has a specific and useful fascination.