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Nah, the contest itself in the end can't involve enough characters to be satisfying in any way. I expect the contest to end by part 2 or 3 in a net loss and the ending to be similar to Oathbringer with all out war. The contest is too small and is only the ending to Dalinar's character arc, not for all the characters.

Nightblood is the most dangerous weapon in the cosmere we have seen yet. Wouldn't you want to have it on your side, just to protect yourself or your planet? It's because she is focused only on nalthis that I think losing Vasher and nightblood to Roshar was not in the plan. And she created nightblood for a reason ( not to destroy odium as we know she doesn't care much about the cosmere). I see a lot of reasons why she would want nightblood back. If nightblood does turn out to be a dawnshard like some theorize, then wanting it back makes even more sense

Oops. Thank you

SA 5 prologue

He also had a small redemption arc in his death, so it would be hard for him to come back now as a villain Everyone was so happy to see that he was a storming idiot, but i was like 'but I wanted an evil mastermind villain' Will Dalinar ever find out how much of a jerk his brother was now? Also, why develop his character so much if he is just gonna die now??

I think I know what the words the 'SF' was asking for. On the one hand, he dismisses the words close to the first ideal as 'not even close' Then when gavilar says ' give it to me, I need it', he says that was close. When gavilar thinks of it as a demand, SF backtracks again He says the words are in the way of kings Maybe the words are 'I seek my duty' In the nale flashback, jezrien clearly says think of it not as an honor, but as a duty. In in world words of radiance, melishi's plan was based on the divine 'duties' of a herald The heralds are uniquely equipped with skills to help civilization rebuild each time, part of their duties? The chapter icons for heralds have names like 'the king' 'the judge' 'the guard's. I am sure there are more instances of 'duty' being attached to the oathpact.

We do know that connections have different levels of strength in the cosmere? I don't get what you are talking about

It did take him time enough for szeth to save Dalinar, and Dalinar could feel the process in real time, instead of an instant. We know connections have different levels of strength. Manipulating different types and strenghts of connections would be different, obviously

Ishar struggled with ripping the stormfather bond, but easily connected sigzil to the ground.

AGHHH I AM SO ANGRY!! If I had known that Brandon would drop the prologue on us, i would have written down a lot of my theories before, since some of my predictions seems like they are true. I had a theory that braize was surrounded by a body of water, or a moat like thing. Why? When taln appears in kholinar, he is soaking wet, like he swam a great distance. There was something Nale was guarding, as we heard from him in venli's flashback. He was tricked into thinking that he had not been vigilant enough and ulim escaped under his watch. Then he says that ishar told him a connection would create a bridge. My theory was that this is an actual bridge. The everstorm is called the barrier storm. Where have we seen something like that? On aimia. Which was an island in sea With just one word, i think my theory has been confirmed? Brandon may have tipped his hand on that one. I checked Google to see if ferry could colloquially mean any transport, but no it definitely means boat transport in particular. I should have posted this before. Sighhhhh

Lol but gav was saying the truth there. The Alethi kings will is the law

Oh yay I thought this question was forgotten by now, since no one replied Aww that eliminates a theory i had. Thanks

Yes

We already know from Dalinar's vision of nohadon that stormfather does not control all visions. We still have no idea who or what did that by the way. It could be easy to mimic the stormfather's visions. This is def not stormfather. This spren seems more uncaring.

I havealso been thinking heavily about this, and I just read that we already have the answer. The seon box Mraize says they already figured the problem out. Now ghostbloods want restares to die to keep a monopoly on the secret. Seon boxes can transport seons, which should be impossible. Also in the row prologue, Gavilar says ,"the box allows for travel". The way is apparently a seon box

Hasn't he already answered this with a definite yes?

Tldr: Endowment will restart an ancient conflict with rosharans and ashynites, helping Todium, to get her nightblood back. Odium had friends This theory kinda began with this quote by Dalinar in rhythm of war So Dalinar has no idea why Odium had to remain trapped in roshar when Odium was ready to leave the planet completely for a thousand years. Dalinar refuses on a gut feeling that letting odium leave would be a bad idea and hopes Honor had a good reason for the trap, and i believe that Honor did. I don't think it was for the sole sake of the rest of the Cosmere, and the 'honorable' thing to do. This would mean that Dalinar should have just taken the deal, for the sake of Roshar. Instead Honor(and cultivation) prolly had a more practical reason to bind Odium to Roshar So that he doesn't bring his friends. Evidence: Odium was weak from all his battles already, Honor and Cultivation had a romantic relationship and their shard intents aren't very far apart in the way Devotion and dominion are, and there are dawnshards (plural!) on Roshar. Why did Rayse think he could take this planet on? Unless he thought he would have help but then quickly got trapped Honor did not let odium leave because even if odium promised not to come back again for 1000 years, he could just send his ally instead to gain his advantage. And this friend at that time was probably Autonomy. But after 7000 years, Autonomy (prolly trell) has his own plans for scadrial and you know, rayse died and taravangian took his place. I don't think Tara can really rely on Bavadin anymore. So maybe Dalinar should have taken the deal anyway? Nope. Because taravangian will instead make a new friend, Endowment. Meta theorizing Imagine you are a casual stormlight reader who isn't cosmere-aware and doesn't read WoBs. You won't know that this is a ten book series or the delay between the front half and the back half being near five years. The first five books are about Odium and you expect Odium to be defeated at the end of book 5 and SA is done. But Brandon won't kill Odium again after he just killed odium in the fourth book! So we can be sure Tara will survive book 5. That looks like a sequel hook. Infact, the back half being set 15 ish years later with other characters being main characters sounds a lot like a sequel story, instead of continuation. Brandon has also confirmed that book 5 will have a satisfactory ending. He can't just end book 5 on a cliffhanger and leave for 5 years, that would kill interest in the series. And sequels often need escalation of the conflict. So an extra 4th shard is a no brainer. Brandon likes to keep killing villains when they become stale, so he will keep introducing newer, bigger villains. Endowment is a perfect fit. Let me explain Stormlight archive is very cosmere aware. Hoid is a huge part of this story, the ghostbloods are shallan's main antagonists now and of course, Vasher,vivenna and nightblood. Why tho? Well because SA is Brandon's biggest story. If he wants people to go along with the broader cosmere story, he has to seed it along SA to not let his biggest fanbase get confused and turned off. The ghostbloods and hoid make sense now as set up for the rosharan vs scadrian space age war . But why the nalthians? To a reader who knows nothing, Nightblood is a maybe corrupted honorblade made by Shalash( false but they don't know that) that is very different from any other shardblade in the series because it talks without a spren form, with the power of chipping an honorblade. It was also used by taravangian to kill rayse all according to cultivation's plan! And you still know nothing about it! The sword is connected to 'zahel' and 'azure', the two most mysterious characters after hoid. They do nothing much plot relevant in their screentime unlike hoid. They will also prolly have huge part in the horneater novella. Why endowment? Endowment, i feel has already lost nightblood, her most powerful weapon, to Roshar. And taravangian is extremely interested in nightblood now... He could promise her the sword in exchange for her alliance. We know she lost it because she had no plans outside her own planet, so this was not intended Ashyn was on war I think wewill see Ashyn in the back half. My biggest reason here would be the parelels between Ishar and Venli. They both were ambitious, glory minded(tezim cares about glory, so maybe ishar does too), scientist type figures that were tricked by Odium into doing something that caused a great problem to their planets and nearly ended up killing their own race. Now venli's mistake drove the listeners to find a new place on Roshar. Also the singers allied with odium paid the price for it the desolations, the listeners escaped the conflict, like venli is doing now. That is what happened with Ishar. The refugees were driven out of Ashyn. That why some humans still live on Ashyn. The refugees escaping their burning planet reminds me of nuclear Ash, and Nuclear war. The listeners would have never called the everstorm if the humans were not threatening their extinction. Maybe Ishar's country was also in a war? Why else would you experiment with and use a dawnshard(even if they didn't know how deadly it was). And now, the ashynites remember rosharans with a vengeance and maybe want their dawnshard back. Tinfoil: Magic System Ashyn has a magic system where you symbiotically house a disease to get powers. This, Brandon confirmed is cultivation based magic. But Koraveri seems to be setting up lift to be the next vessel of cultivation (since lift's whole arc is not wanting to change, but cultivation is change). So we can expect some problems with cultivation in the future. Will the magic system of Ashyn survive that change. A bit tinfoil but i think it could happen. Because Symbiosis is what I think Endowment+Cultivation could be. In Symbiosis, are you cultivating parts of yourself or endowing the other guy with your abilities? But most probably Endowment would just get her new planet some awakening too. Clues: Endowment already hates hoid, like Bavadin or Rayse. She even saw through his disguise, which is pretty smart for a shard. They could have a rivalry Awakening is a perfect complementary fit to what Roshar needs right now, Like having enough breaths gives you perfect pitch, something very important for anti-stormlight production Warbreaker was created so that Vasher could have some backstory. Infact Vasher's story's main theme is the handling of power, the same theme that's running throughout stormlight with the recreance and the Bondsmith unchained storyline. There is already some nalthian influence on Roshar like: In The Girl who looked up, she has white hair, tying her back to Shalash. The story has a lot of awakening type language around her red tthing on her neck, and the color is brought attention to a lot. The curses around Kelek are His breath and His tongue. I don't think he was an awakener, but he could have been a singer of some sort. A dawnsinger maybe? Because cohesion is heavily tied to dawnsinging, as we saw in venli talking to the stones and the are arcanum. The ars arcanum even talks about Intent and Command, and the second has not been relevant info for SA. But it is for Awakeners Sadees the Sunmaker has a name very similar to Nalthians (ends in -ees) and the other part of his name sound a lot like Nalthian returned naming convention ( like warbreaker the peaceful). Humans on Roshar have something like royal locks(or atleast adolin does). Does anyone remember the WoB? Shashara did come to Roshar and made nightblood seeing shardblades. The iriali have colors in their quotes( in one of evi's lines) Also dawnshards. They are Commands of adonalsium that if you hold, you have heightening-like abilities. If you want to understand them, u need Awakeners to explain. And didn't Vasher just start talking to kal about types of invested entities? The silence divine just happens to take place in the back half time Also soulcasting used to be called awakening. Just a small point

Since lightweaver truths are more personal truths... "I actually have no idea what I am doing. I just act mysterious" "Sometimes I cry in the shower" "I mostly joke to stave off the deep existential nihilistic abyss i fall into almost everyday" What? They could be true....

He says the torment (or burden, i don't remember) i held once. Seems like he isn't holding that burden anymore

We don't know when if he started running immediately after becoming a dawnshard. If sigzil was good at keeping a secret, he could have lived on Roshar for decades

The person doesn't even have to live forever. We know hoid cares about Jasnah and she isn't immortal

Oof It's beautiful

Why is everyone assuming that the people sigzil loves are people we know at all? Hoid still falls in love after so long, we really can't use that as evidence that bridge four members are still alive. It could be skar and drehy's adopted great-great granddaughter sigzil could be talking about for all we know. Edit: sorry I don't remember who was the gay couple. Shite

Hoverbikes, contact with multiple offworlders, the word spaceship appearing in the text Oh and Brandon saying that the book happens far in the cosmere's future. Definitely centuries Sigzil can have loved ones after a long time, see hoid and Jasnah