maybunny

I don't really have any opinion on which a fourth shard on Roshar would be, though I do think it would be cool if done well. Honestly, when the fourth moon and four tones of the chasmfiends were mentioned, I was really convinced that it would be Mishram, probably as a god on Roshar pre-shattering, created by Adonalsium. I was actually a bit disappointed by it not being the case. I did find a couple WOB's that could be of interest to the theory at whole. Seems pretty relevant to the topic at hand. This is such a random question to get RAFO'd if the answer is actually no. Who have we seen living under a sea elsewhere in the Cosmere? A dragon. If Valor is hiding somewhere on Roshar, might it be under the ocean somewhere?

I just finished the book today and immediately had the thought that Nohadon was Adonalsium, so I'm glad I'm not the only one! I dont have anything to add, I think you've gathered good evidence and I'm fully on board.

Ooh, those are good! They do seem to fit with what we've seen of Kaladin's arc so far, and I feel the final one could mesh well with him as well, with how much he wavers between killing and healing. Thanks for the addition! I admit that my theory is really loose and I also have no idea how it would work in practice

Hi everyone! This is my first theory I'm posting, and first time posting here in general, so apologies if I've formatted this weird or anything. I read all of Stormlight last year, and doing my first reread now. I read them all pretty quickly, so I admit I may have missed things that completely invalidate everything I'm about to say. I've been thinking about what Kaladin's 5th ideal could be, since I'm really positive we'll see it. I know it's been discussed a lot that it could be something similar to the Skybreaker ideal of 'I am the law', and I do agree that it could be something like that. But I've got my tinfoil hat on and am going to take this a step further. What if the 5th ideal somehow allows the radiant to become a spren of their order? If the bond between human and spren has changed the radiant so much by that point that they are able to cross the bridge between physical and cognitive to become a cognitive being if they wish to. I think I've seen the opposite theorized, where the spren can become physical, but I don't believe I've seen this version before. If the skybreaker ideal is to "become" the law, perhaps they can become a highspren? Assuming the other orders have similar 5th ideals, maybe Kaladin's fifth would involve being a living embodiment of honor by becoming an honorspren? For me, I have two points where I feel this could be tied in/have been foreshadowed. 1. Ishars experiments. I've seen it theorized that he's trying to give spren a physical form for whatever his reasons are. What if he is studying spren that specifically were once human. Possibly to see how human they still are and if he could return one to a physical being again. 2. Something that stuck out to me in TSM is when Auxiliary says that he also spoke oaths. Maybe i missed it, but I don't think we've seen other references to the radiant spren swearing oaths. Could Auxiliary possibly have been a skybreaker that became a highspren upon swearing their 5th ideal, who then bonded Sigzil? Flaws I can see with this theory: What happens to the Nahel bond if both spren and radiant are now both spren? Is it considered broken? Is it somehow considered 'completed' and the now-spren radiant is free to bond a human of their own? If a now-spren radiant bonded someone, why wouldn't this have been mentioned? The same mechanism that doesn't allow Syl to tell Kaladin what his oaths will be? Maybe it's one of the things they forget when they cross back over into the physical realm? The recreance - I know we haven't yet learned all the reasoning for the recreance. I had previously thought that whatever the 5th ideals were had a part to play, and I'm not sure how this would fit into that. Bondsmiths. This really falls apart with bondsmiths. I have no clue how they would fit into this. Would be an easy leap to Syladin for some people. Not hating on people who want that, I just...very much do not lol. This is a total crackpot theory, so I'm sure there are more flaws than just these, but these seem to be the big ones to me. Feel free to explain exactly how wrong everything here is. As I said, I read the entire cosmere minus mistborn last year pretty quickly, so it's very possible I missed tidbits that completely destroy this theory.

Right now, I think it's a tie between Allomancy and Surgebinding, but I'm fascinated by them all! Brandon always comes up with the most creative, inventive ways for all his magic systems to be used!

Hello, I'm May. Currently working my way through the Cosmere for the first time and it's all I can think about