Leuthie

If you can't trust yourself to be prepared to make quick changes to a plan, you set up plans that don't require quick changes and contingencies should those plans get mucked up. It doesn't take much intelligence to remember how to handle Szeth should he arrive on a stupid day. IQ and memory are two different things.

Aimians and Parshendi might be native to Roshar

Spren are cognitive. The raw power of a Shard seeks out cognitive entities and pulls at them (Shallan being pulled down in Shadesmar).

Shardplate is heavily invested and, in turn, heavily invests the wearer. Its also heavily invested with the same power a Surgebinder is using. Lashings also seem to work by adding Investiture to another object or objects. All that combined makes it so a Surgebinder can't lash someone wearing Shardplate. However, a coinshot could probably push off of said plate.

Eigenpathways would be a play on eigenvalues. Linear Algebra hubub. I think a lot of problems go away if we stop assuming that all things exist in all three realms. If all clear windows are gone from the physical, why would they necessarily stop existing in the cognitive? Wouldn't the memory of them exist as long as things that were connected to them exist? Memory being an analog of cognitive connection... Of course, no physical existence+no memory = no cognitive existence. Posit: Requirement for existence in the spritual realm is ability to make changes in the cognitive realm.

I don't think he's evil...at least his ends aren't. I think he's kindly enough to actually be kind on his stupid days. Its actually his IQ that allows his lack of morality to show through in the means toward his ends.

As described by Honor quoted above, the shattered window analogy, it seems they can all see possible futures. Whether or not they can determine the actual future depends on several factors; one being their Intent.

Physics gobbledy-gook with lazy formatting

Your cognative aspect is defined by what you think about yourself combined with what others think of you. Your spiritual aspect is a step further: your spirit web is your sDNA combined with your connections to others. Think of kinematics: Position - Physical; Velocity/first derivative of postion - Cognative/ first derivative of Physical; Acceleration/first derivative of velocity/second derivative of position - spiritual/first derivative of Cognitive/ second derivative of Physical.

Some from column one, a little from column two.

If that's true...I'm disappoint. I had assumed he was playing dumb to misdirect people, get them to underestimate him. Megalomaniac hiding behind a "Stupid mask" seems more narratively interesting than Old Magic hokey pokey.

Actually, your explanation fits with Kaladin's mom's explanation of spren. Everything has a spren and if you break something into pieces, every piece has a spren and so on.

Sounds like its legit. The only question the official people have is to the release date which isn't firm because the first draft isn't finished. Neither disputed the synopsis.

Brandon has read a parshendi pov section. Can't find the link at the moment. In it there are some lines that hint at the shattered plains being...more than they look. Urithiru hidden under centuries of crem?

Don't think Nehal bonds alter sDNA. Rather the spren shares its sDNA with you. The spren would have to be spiked...

But would not Devotion seek to make even a river devoted to Her? Would it not be possible for a shards intent to lead that shard to create things that fulfill that intent? A river that requires instruction from Dor (assuming Dor is a power directly related to Devotion) to flow could be a result of intent run amok.

They all have the same power but over differing domains. Preservation has as much power as Odium but could never use that power to kill a shard (without killing itself in the process). Odium, on the other hand... There's also.existing.investitures that others have that Odium isn't saddled with. Odium may be able to actually use the investitures of other shards against them. How hard is it to turn a devoted man against Devotion itself when you ARE Hate?

If most things on Sel were created by Devotion and Dominion, wouldn't it stand to reason that the power used to create those things would either have dominion over the creations or the creations would have a devotion to the power? So a river requiring Dor to provide intent to flow would be a natural result of the limits of power of creation inherent in the shards doing the creating.

Words of Brandon, I believe

The Heralds were just Rosharans who vounteered to be part of the Oathpact. The Shareholders, themselves, are from Yolen. So is Hoid. That might be enough to explain shared terminology. Then again, Dragon steel isn't canon, Hood never mentioned lightweaving. There's nothing to explain.

Ruin+Preservation, Devotion+Dominion, Honor+Cultivation. These aren't coincidental pairings. Honor is a neutral -- more ambiguous -- lntent. Cultivation, as you've described, is a positive intent. By pairing Honor with a positive Intent, Honor is given positive focus and becomes a positive force. The arrival of Odium.provides another focus.for Honor that is negative, requiring those of Honor to fight amongst themselves. This, ultimately, leads to the death of Honor itself and our current state. I like it.

Think about how easy it is to invest and nurture hate in humans. Odium's intent is one that doesn't require much effort to bring forth. If Odium has an advantage, it's because of that.

Good things are not synonymous with Honor or Cultivation. Honor (in the form of serving whoever holds the oathstone) makes Szeth do a lot of murdering. Successful Cultivation requires pruning (for plants) and culling (for animals), both of which would seem pretty evil to the targets of the pruning and culling. What makes it hard to really see what's going on so far is the neutral nature of the Shards involved. Even hate can be put to good use. The Alethi seem to be the bad guys. The Parshendi could very well be the good guys. The perspectives we are given by the author have so far put us in a bad position to judge anyone. It's quite possible that the Desolations (culling the herd), the Oathpact (allowing Honor to gain something with each culling period by having champions), the Highstorms (providing a mechanism that powers life on what would otherwise be rock), the Parshendi (seem pretty damnation honorable), even the Voidbringers (we know nothing definite) are all a result of the interactions between Cultivation and Honor. All we know is Odium killed Honor (based solely on the words of Honor to Dalinar), is at least partially responsible for the constant state of war in Alethkar (based on a few death quotes and a conversation between Kaladin and an unknown entity related to the Highstorms), and is hated/feared by Syl. Everything else is unfounded conjecture.