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This is the only source I could find.

I don't see how they would know what the Heralds did after the last Desolation. How would they know that Taln was the only one who died, or that the other 9 chose to betray the Oathpact, or that Taln has been single-handedly holding the Desolation back all this time?

Well, considering that her full name is Sylphrena...

I was wondering about this too, actually. Plate takes a while to put on - how could Gavilar had known to take it from Tearim? And why has Tearim not been mentioned in those two books? I have to wonder if some weird switch took place?

Worldbringer has to be 920 or 925 - I have it now at 927, and I didn't at 919.

It could be any Radiant's though. This sounds a bit poetic, and Kaladin doesn't strike me as one to worry about the literary quality of his last words.

He hates himself, not other people. I wouldn't be surprised if Odium makes / has made a move on him.

Definitely wouldn't.

I've been trying to pronounce both the 's' and 'z' sounds in Szeth's name, but recently I just started calling him Zeth, after Brandon.

I believe Lightsong is wearing some sort of robe-like garment, but I am not sure. And this is sooo not how I imagined Wit...

I've noticed no change.

Why wouldn't Syl be referring to Szeth? He is a really hateful guy (which, by the way, may be why his Honorblade eats so much Light).

I am sure there was a remark somewhere about the bigger, more powerful spren being able to effect the world in small ways. I'll see if I can find it easily, but if not, I am okay dropping this point, it's not too important.

What you call odiumspren I call voidspren.

Can't wait for Sticks Unhallowed where I hope we will find more about our Lord, the Prime Stick.

2015 is next year

Well, somebody had to strip them of their bond - the Last Legion was the only group that voluntarily adopted dullform to escape their gods' influence. I don't see who else could've done it.

Spren do have a physical presence, let's not discard this - windspren are notorious for playing tricks on people (though that could be just them convincing their fellow bondspren or something to play along). Syl in particular carries and entire leaf! And there are other reports of bigger spren interacting with the physical world.

Sounds possible - plausible even.

Yea, I hear you on that one. I bought Dangerous Women only for Brandon's Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (I swear he chose this name only because they wouldn't let him write a 300,000 word short story for an anthology...) and Jim Butcher's Bombshells. I think I read two of the other short stories there, started another one, and gave up. I'll probably come back to it one day, but it's not going to be soon.

Well, in all fairness, Awakening is really about animating inanimate objects, not about color - no more than the magic in a game like Warcraft is about mana. But I agree with you, chromaturgy* is a very well designed magic system, and Blinding Knife is on my to-read shelf. I just happened to pick up The Black Prism a couple of weeks before Words of Radiance came out, so I didn't want to be caught in a situation where I would have to choose between making WoR wait and putting BK on hold. It's probably the next thing I am going to read though. * Fun fact, as I was trying to remember the exact name of the magic system's name (I was thinking chromatology), I landed on a Wiki page about Romanticism and Bacon.

Bondsmiths, in all likelihood, have some power of spren bonds - Words of Radiance suggests that it was the Bondsmiths who turned the Voidbringers into parshmen, so they must've done something to separate listeners from voidspren. Let's not refer to the Unmade so confidently, we don't know if Eshonai has an actual bond with (one of) them, because we don't know much about them.

Speculation. We haven't seen Shai outside of The Emperor's Soul, though Brandon wants to show her off some more. His responses to similar questions make it sound like she will join the Worldhopper Club.

Sweet! And, of course, there is Bast's short story The Lightning Tree coming in the Rogues anthology, also mentioned in that Tor article.

You should put a label somewhere, remind people we are in the Cosmere Theories subforum and we should all be mindful of spoilers. This being said, we have seen spren in Shadesmar - Words of Radiance has a scene where a character sees exhaustionspren, which look like large birds; said character knows they are exhaustionspren because there is a spren with them, informing them. How's that for a spoiler-free hint, huh? Now, let's tackle the problem with the transference of physical bodies into the cognitive realm. The reason spren look and behave the way they do in the physical realm is because they: don't have a physical aspect to anchor to in the first place probably have very little Investiture (compared to humans), which they can't just convert into a physical form. Since spren are Investiture, any conversion from cognitive matter to physical one literally makes them less than what they are in the cognitive realm; which means they probably won't (can't) spend too much of themselves in creating their physical aspects are living ideas, and ideas are pretty mutable... well, ideas. Windspren take the form of objects we associate with wind; creationspren assume the forms of things that have been created (recently?), and so on With this in mind, it looks clear to me why spren need to both much of themselves when they come to the physical realm, and why they behave the way we've seen them behave. Humans, now... first, they need a spren to open the way to Shadesmar, either through a Nahel bond, or from a fabrial. Why humans get to keep their bodies? I imagine because humans have a much more stable cognitive (and spiritual, for that matter) aspect than spren. We have physical bodies that serve as a very good anchor - a reminder - of who we are. Other people's opinions don't affect us as much as they do spren - which, being embodiment of ideas, are literally only affected by opinions, and the opinions of a lot of people at that (e.g. a lot more people think about the idea of fire than the idea of, well, me). So not only do we have a much better anchor, we are also have a much more stable (at any one time, at least) cognitive aspect.