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Ah, you are, unfortunately, incorrect here. Brandon, in a polarizing move, decided to change the ending of Words of Radiance a little bit and have Kaladin not kill Szeth with Jezrien's Honorblade, but to instead let him get killed by the storm itself. There is a blog entry on his site where you can read the new (and now officially canon) ending, as well as his reasons behind the change.

Not necessarily. We now know that magic in the Cosmere works by way of (Spiritual) Connections to Shards. Most of those seem intentional, created (or allowed) by Shards. Some - see Hemalurgy - are unintended, forced. Honorblades might be working off the latter principle. So, when Radiants form a Nahel bond, their cracked Spiritweb allows spren to... squeeze in a little and form Connections; Honorblades might be creating only temporary ones (in fact, I think that's pretty much granted) by kind of... glueing them to their wielder's Spiritweb in a process similar to Hemalurgy, but less intrusive.

I think that would be going too far. I don't know this with certainty, but I think that in every ecosystem the biomass of each individual organism tends to be inversely proportional to that organism's species' population; in other worlds, the smaller a thing is, the more of it there are. Which would suggest there are a lot of cremlings on Roshar. I find it difficult to believe they are all Sleepless...

I don't think she would make an assumption like that without noting her ignorance. It's similar to how she felt it was necessary to point out that Ruin and Preservation were humans.

Fair enough, this is compelling evidence. I still don't like your theory, it doesn't feel right to me, but I don't have a good reason (beyond a gut feeling), so I'll head back to the Batcave and think about this some more.

Yeah, I've been thinking about that passage, but the time flow of the scene is unclear.

I think you (unintentionally) have the relationship backwards - or slightly sideways, at least. Shardpools are a type of perpendicularity, but not necessarily the only type. I believe there is still room for both terms to exist.

Because Roshar is not terrifying enough as it is...

Yes, but it's also a brand that retails electrical goods and cleaning products in the floor-care sector, and which has its headquarters in the United Kingdom. Is this exactly ambiguity that has us all confused. Secret History spoilers

Yeah, I figured you might be getting at something like this, but I still don't like it. Shadesmar is not just another layer of the Physical Realm which you can peek at if you know how. It's more like a different place, with its location mapped to physical locations. For your idea to work you would need to have Szeth's Cognitive aspect move in exactly the same way Szeth's body does, just a little delayed - which then requires the Cognitive Realm to be pretty much identical to the Physical, otherwise the landscape would cause Szeth's Cognitive aspect to move around. No, I think the answer is different.

Ah, hmm. Then who knows? From what we've seen there is just about the same amount of evidence for him and Shalash, though I've started considering that it might be Ishar 'cause that guy is starting to sound fishy.

My very recent response to pretty much the same question (i.e. "maybe, probably, not sure").

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That's extra interesting. In retrospect, it's not, but I had it in my mind (for no good reason) that Vasher had come to Roshar chasing Nightblood. A lot more pieces fall in place if we know that they had arrived together however. Welp. Put on your tinfoil hates, folks, it's time to let the borderline insane theories out of the box! Good questions, @valerieofavonlea, and good answers.

I too find it likely that only Lift sees those. I am not quite ready to accept the explanation that "his Cognitive self is a little out-of-sync" - the phrase doesn't quite make sense to me. I think I can accept that the afterimages have something to do with Shadesmar, but what - I don't know. This particular peculiarity has had me thoroughly stumped (heh).

No, you are justified in expecting "Edgedancer Spoilers" in the title. It's in the policy. @Walker, I find merit in your idea. If the premise - that Radiants are driven to seek other Radiants by their spren - is true, then it would make a lot of sense to extend that back to the time before the Nahel bond was fully formed. I could easily see spren being slightly biased towards Radiant candidates that are in the immediately vicinity of other Radiants. There are two decent counterarguments I can marshal against this. One, that not all spren are likely to want their Radiants to find other Radiants, especially if the latter belong to Orders whose spren have different... views. Wow, that sentence is horrid. I mean to say that I can't imagine Syl and Pattern encouraging Kaladin and Shallan to seek each other out, given that honorspren and Cryptics hate each other. And two, we haven't seen any of the Nahel bonded spren encourage their Radiants to seek others of their kind. It just kind of... happens.

Possible? Sure. But I think the evidence against Nale being a Herald - the name, the knowledge, the mannerism, the seemingly supernatural speed (which we've also seen from Taln), it all points towards him being a Herald.

Direct transfer over cable to a computer?

Oh, you are going to feel so silly when you find out this information is available in plain text in the collection itself

I suspect those non-Dalinar flashbacks are more like Kaladin's flashback from The Way of Kings where he remembers Tien's death - not a flashback chapter, but an in-chapter sequence.

I would actually encourage you to double post certain situations. For example, when you are including new information some time (more than a few minutes) after your original post. This will make sure the forum filters pick it up and other users (who may have caught your original post) don't miss the information.

I even thought Brandon confirmed something to that effect not too long ago?

Ah. I want fancy though

Let's not assume we know how the Nightwatcher works - or at least not base any arguments on such assumptions.

Vax has not officially been confirmed as a planet. In fact, Brandon is being intentionally vague about it - when I was telling another fan about it during Brandon's latest visit to Chicago, I said it was strongly suggested that Vax is a place (which Brandon agreed with it). I took that as a confirmation that Vax is a planet, but Brandon corrected me that the implication was only for a place, not necessarily a planet. This being said, I do believe it's a planet. But this has not been confirmed.