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I find it especially relevant that on Canticle they worship Adonalsium instead of any shards or mythical gods. Plus, Zelion (the original lonestar of Canticle) had a Yolish name. Perhaps he thought of Canticle as a safe place because he knew Adonalsium had built it for some purpose.

I thought that it mentioned in passing in WaT that the 5th ideal meant immortality. Can't find the quote, it was around the time Kaladin and Szeth both said it. Matches other top tier invested entities. Kinda boring in isolation. Feel like we should have heard about it already if that's the case.

TLDR: I think Braize is part of the Grand Apparatus. As I understand from the WoBs, the Grand Apparatus is something Brandon is planning based around intentionally built planets with a specific purpose. The last time he mentioned it, it was in reference to Canticle, a planet which attracts investiture to its core. In WaT, I seem to recall Tanavast saying that Braize is strange because it attracts investiture, and souls, towards its core, and that this is why the Oathpact binding Odium and the fused to Braize works. Two planets with the same mysterious feature. Sounds to me like they are part of the same apparatus.

My read of this was that, because ruin and preservation made Scadrial, the metal of Scadrial is imbued with investiture. Different metals are encoded with different abilities, similar to how honor encoded oaths with surges, hence why iron spikes are needed for inquisitor eyes. This would also explain why iron eyes see metal, when crystal eyes see investiture. Since storm/void/warlight and the crystals that contain them are fairly generic investiture, they could be used to replicate heamalurgy by someone with knowledge of Ruin's art. To me, it's sort of like allomancers using purified dor to perform metallic arts. And yes, I agree that it would still require killing a person first.

Nothing intrinsically wrong with wood in space, but the cabins would need to be metal and glass. As mentioned before, we have seen Thaylan vacuum tech so if anyone were going to do it, it would be them. And I can't help but love the fantasy meets sci-fi of a wooden ship in space. Having said all that, the origin of storm or Shadesmar via perpendicularity do seem much more likely, but one can live in hope.

In interlude 15, Rysn meets Hoid and concludes that she needs to flee and hide. She decides that she doesn't have to give up on her ship because of its new capacity. I have two thoughts on where she went, one unlikely but I think more fun, and one more likely and still fun. Overall, I think she will upgrade the Wandersail with fabriols combining the Fourth Bridge and her chair. Destination one: Rysn has built the first space ship. Thaylan vacuum and diving equipment are already established in world, and it is a logical leap that Rysn could develop space proof cabins. Additionally, I'd be interested in the speeds a ship is capable of achieving when seeing the planet move in a different frame of reference. Downside A, no stormlight would leave them drifting in space. Downside B, sublight speeds would mean she can't get far. Destination two: Shadesmar. Very similar story to the adaptations to the Wandersail, but not going to space. Would be less fun than spaceflight, but the end of stormlight would be less of an issue. Thoughts?

It has long been my tin foil hat theory that the Shadesmar Sun is the body of Adonalsium. This post is my attempt to find evidence that supports this. Please help, or if you can find anything that explicitly contradicts this theory, that would be appreciated. Support for: 1. In world religions in Cosmere generally are built on foundations of historic events. A few Szeth quotes give us insight into the Shin religion, and it's belief that the "god of gods" is a sun. WoR - I10 Szeth - He did not look up, he would not meet the gaze of the god of gods, but it was good to be in the sunlight. WoK - 71 Recorded in Blood - Szeth kept his eyes down, partially to imitate the look of a worker, partially to lower his gaze from the blazing sun above, the god of gods 2. In a similar vein, Adolin's name comes from "Adoda" meaning light, and "lin," meaning born of (Adolin = born of light). Adoda could be derived from Adonalsium, and light derived from a sun. 3. In Dawnshard, the mural seems to generally be accepted as being a depiction of the shattering of Adonalsium, and what does it depict? A sun! DS - 16 - It depicted a sun being shattered into pieces... She knew it was being ripped apart like a person on some awful torture device Points currently against the theory: 1. These quotes are all Stormlight, I have yet to spot any in other Cosmere books. 2. (Sort of a repeat of the first point, but) as far as I am aware, the Shadesmar Sun is only visible in the Rosharan cognitive realm.

In Rhythm of War, we see that Odium's forces now have weapons capable of killing spren (anti-light)... Could Sigzil's Honor spren be killed? In Sunlit Man he gets some of his radiant powers back whenever he is protecting people, could he have bonded a high spren with the ideals of following the windrunner ideals, having lost an Honor spren and being unable to bond a new one?

I could have sworn that the book says that this skipping is a leftover effect of the Dawnshard. Think it might have been in the first chapter. As for why Hoid is not skipping: 1. He is not on the run, his protections have been mentioned a number of times, and I suspect he has put wards in place to avoid the night Brigade. And 2. It costs a lot of investiture, and may just not be economical for Hoid.

Something that I felt when reading, will need to reread to confirm... The Admiral is chasing Nomad because four Dawnshards together form a god-killing weapon. This implies to me that she already has one. We see the Admiral controlling shades, a power no one else has demonstrated yet. Could this have been the same admiral that once lead the Night Brigade to hunt the Evil on Threnody? If so, perhaps the Evil was a Dawnshard, and she claimed it, now centuries later she is hunting more. Again, very loose theory at this point, but would be up for hearing people's thoughts.