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That was my alternate theory, the one that's a little more tame in terms of a story but it's probably much more likely

Ok so I've looked through A LOT of Stormlight 5 predictions and theories and there's one things that I have yet to see discussed. Everybody seems to be hyper-focusing on the Contest of Champions and how that might play out. But the one thing I haven't seen is people discussing if it will even happen at all. So here's my theory: Todium will back out of the Contest We all know that this contest has been hinted at/foreshadowed since like the first or second book (I can't remember off the top of my head) and in my opinion I think Brandon has WAY too heavily leaned into it and put up a very good smokescreen so he can have Todium pull a Houdini and back out. During the negotiations for the Contest Dalinar asked Odium about him breaking his word and pulling out of the contest and he responded with something along the lines of "I cannot because it will leave me weakened and open to a strike from Cultivation". But now that Cultivation seems to trust Todium, I don't think that she would attack him if he were to pull out. She obviously cares about humans (as far as I could tell) and she doesn't want to see them destroyed, so I think that she'd maybe even encourage Todium to back out and he'd exploit that trust she has in him. This in turn would maybe get rid of Todium's attachment to Roshar and therefore set him up as the big big bad of the second arc of Stormlight and possibly the next arc of Mistborn. So what do you guys think? I think it's pretty plausible but what about you guys?

ohhhhhhh That explains a lot of what I read in there, thanks so much!

hey guys this is my first post anywhere on this sight but after I was done reading the book something stuck out at me: Riina was able to use Lightweaving, something only accessible through spren or the Honorblades. Am I wrong? If I'm not how exactly was she able to Lightweave? Sorry if this has already been discussed but I didn't see it anywhere