Argenti

Basically, that interloper is released, and the world starts to get destroyed again.

Like, a revelation that the Sunmaker was touched by Cultivation would be sick. It would give the vibe that she really has been shaping the world.

Nah it's good, I honestly had no plans for you to discover it. This is just world building I do sometimes. It's changed so many times. Yeah he was just there, not understanding silly humans.

Oh I know. A monarchy is an oligarchy, technically.

That castle thingy has unreasonably deep lore for being irrelevant to the plot. Basically, a longgggg time ago, the human universe came into existence, which the Gardeners didn't like, cus we where kinda screwing things up (choking out the other universes). So they tried to destroy the universe, by sending one of their own in (the eye I'm the sky), the universe didn't like this very much, so it made magic. The first 4 mages were aligned to: Metal+ Fire, Metal+ Water, Wood+ Earth, Wood+ Air. For a while, they all fought the intruder, until they learned about the truth of the universe. Two of them, it shocked so much they left. (The wood mages, who later got married.) One of them, it drove into a nihilistic rage (Metal+ Water, who was the corpse lady in the basement), and one was driven to desperation. (Metal+ Fire, the lord of the house) Corpse lady betrayed everyone, and started working with the Gardeners, so her husband (Lord of the house), decided he had to put an end to it, and too his wife. He captured her, and tried to kill her, but couldn't bring himself to do it. So then he sat in his house while the world was destroyed, the universe literally burning down around him, until all that remained was his house, and a few distant remnants (the wood people). As the Interloper approached, he felt resolved, and Knew what he had to do. He only wished his daughter didn't have to die with him. So he set a trap, and captured himself, the interloper, his wife, and his daughter into a pocket dimension that's constantly being destroyed and created. If he wavers for even a moment, it will collapse, and his millenia of suffering will be for nothing. As for the green lord thing. Honestly no idea what my motives where. Wish I knew LOL

This! Aluminum isn't affected by investiture, it doesn't absorb it. Shard plate probably would be unable to reform around it, but that's beside the point.

So from what I remember, the valley was the domain of "The Old King" an ancient fae lord, who ruled the valley for a long time. The fae have a kind of pocket realm that overlaps with the real world, that's where they all where. Then, his son got upitiy, and decided he wanted to be king. Unfortunately, the king was too strong for him to defeat on his own. So the son bargained with the stars, which are the eyes of the "gardeners" looking in (think like Cuthulu, also the owners of the universe). They gave him power but also corrupted him. This is who Autumn (The rockstar) met, and who sowed her mouth up. Since he was then king, his corruption cursed the forest, leading to a whole mess of issues, including, but not limited to, the partial fusing of the real and fae realms, madness, removing some people from existence, and picking up a relic pocket dimension from back when the universe was almost destroyed (that funky mansion). The shadow king, as the son was called, then banished his dad, and drove him mad from longing for the forest. Can you guess who he was (If not I'll just tell you) The green lord Who spoke like this was kinda like a general, and the more "alien" part of nature. He was fun. Bellow is also the full map. I don't really remember what most of the stuff was, but I think I wanted you all to lure the Shadow king to a big lodestone, bring the old king, and let him reclaim his mantle. Ask away if you have any specfic questions

It's a cool image: Syl steps back onto Roshar, the storm crackling behind her eyes, staring up at the everstorm that hides the sky. "I think... I think I could bring it back." she says to Kaladin "Bring back what?" he asks. "The Highstorm. I've taken up my father's mantle... maybe..." Syl holds her hands together, and a cloud of rain, wind, and crackling lighting forms between her palms. Time seems to slow, and the Everstorm overhead goes silent. The Centerbeat. Kaladin thinks, staggering a step back, feeling the rain lash against his skin. "KALADIN?" Syl's voice booms like thunder, as her father once did. "SHOULD I?" "It would surely draw Retribution's attention to us." Ishar warns, seemingly unfazed by the wind. "So be it. Do it Syl." Kaladin says. She smiles, and time slows further, the crimson lighting freezing in place. The storm in her hands begins to expand, the wind whipping around all of the heralds. "I HOPE THIS IS RIGHT." Syl begins to stretch up, impossibly tall. The air grows tense, a blue light illuminating the land. Suddenly, a thundercrack sounds and the sky seems to shift... In the distance, a storm front begins to gather, stretching down from the heavens to meet the sea. It surges towards roshar, towards the heralds, towards Syl. The heralds brace themselves for impact as the Stormwall slams into the land, wind howling through Syl's hair, buffeting Kaladin forward. A soft, steady glow comes from Kaladin's pocket. The gems in his pocket were infused. As the two storms meet, the clouds of the Everstorm are pushed back, revealing the first rays of sun on roshar in a long time. The Evernight was over. The Desolation had begun.

If any of you are curious of how this would have ended had it not died, I can write up a summary? For closure?

If reason was on roshar, which i'm not convinced they are, they'd probably be called Reasonspren. But since they're probably not; they won't get a Spren. If they get a selfa-aware splinter, they'll be called something else, like Hijo, Seon, and Skaze.

Why would it not be Autonomy?

Yup! A Nahelcracy is a type of oligarchy! Might end up as a junta, honestly.

I've gotta say, I have no idea what you're trying to say with this theory. Are you saying that Jasnah's future argument with T-Ret will bring back the highstorm?

Well, that's cause they're different scales. Each Herald should be maybe 600x times as investited as a fused?

I would assume truthwatchers can "Illuminate the past" it's a more spiritual thing than lightweavers, but isn't future sight. My crack theory is the voidish version of the surges are... backwards? Truthwatcher illumination lets you see the past, but the enlightening version makes you see the future. Maybe Regrowth can create rot, gravitational won't let you fly, but "anchor" you to the ground, Transportation will push the realms apart, draining Investiture, and transformation will let you unmake?

As nitpicking said, that's simply not true. Oligarchy breaks down to "rule of few" and is defined as "a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution." Aristocracy isn't really a government system. It's more of a social classification. An aristocracy is a type of oligarchy, as is a theocracy. The radiant orders aren't really an aristocracy. Blood and breeding very explicitly don't matter, and there's no barrier to entrance, other than being picked by a spren, which is random(ish). Well, yes, but jasnah has yapped about it before. The edgedancers had heard about it, and a democracy is not that complex a concept. While it may be alien to the alethi, with their strict command structures, the whole tower isn't just alethi, and I'm sure many of the azier have at least heard about it. (I'm almost certain one wrote about it at some point.)

It would be very difficult to bind another Shard with an oathpact. As the heralds said, the reason it worked is because of their connection to Odium, and then honor. There's not really anyone in roshar with that kind of connection to either Invention or Reason. T-Retro could probably bind Cultivation somehow, there's enough of the people blessed by her running around for it to have "traction." Instead of making more heralds, he could just make more fused! Make some voidbinding types of fused, and voila!

Vasher is a splinter, not a sliver. He never held Endowment, nor another shard.

I presume you mean the Dustbringers?

That's an oligarchy / representative democracy. And all this means is that there's gonna be at least one elected official: Do you really think the edge dancers are gonna be okay with an oligarchy? Listen to the forgotten? I suppose? Though it's more a theocratic oligarchy. The fused rule, not so much tarvavangium, he's busy.

Well, the orders are going to decide how it's ruled. Via a democracy. Traditionally, they're ruled over by a bondsmith, not anyone else. The common radiant won't do (my order is better than yourrrss) and you can't have a normal person in power. that's just silly. Their only good option is a democracy, or at most like an oligarchy. By merit of the radiant orders, you have a bunch of groups of people with very different ideas all in some objective power. You can't favor one over the other. I do like reading about non-democracies, but here at least it makes sense.

It's not due to the time distortion. The spiritual realm, where most of the shardic Investiture is, is immune to time stuff. All times and all places are one, so spacetime warping doesn't do much. I assume it's mostly cus they're just that "big" It's easy for you as a human to miss the day to day life of ants, they're just kinda beneath you.