Lord Spirit

I'm not super knowledgeable about BAM and all of the relevant terms, but I think this is a very plausible theory. Kelsier wants his powers back and has spent a lot of time and effort over the past 300 years trying to get them back. However, as of The Lost Metal, he hasn't succeeded, so either his plan for BAM is stopped by Shallan, or it doesn't work for granting the metallic arts, at least not for Kelsier.

Del throws a rock at Roy's jar. @RoyalBeeMage

You could always say...

I think I'm starting to see a pattern...

I’m in!

Del side eyes the sky. “Why do you do this” she mutters under her breath. “Oh, it looks like you get some to.” She says to Roy.

I love how he can just put a number in the background of his video and we spend so much time theorizing it could be. I wonder if he just did it for fun, to see how we’d react.

“Just some soup. For me. To bad you don’t have any.” She responds.

@Edema Rue

Del walks up and opens it.

Del walks up to the cornucopia and looks around for other tributes.

Granted. Scroop comes with him. I wish for a portal gun.

After thousands of years of torture, Taln got high fived by Chuck Norris. The Everstorm came the next day.

No one cries “they won’t return”

Delind heads back towards the Cornucopia, hoping to find bandages for her shoulder and other injuries.

No, I haven't seen the first either or read the book Fuchsia or Mauve?

If not Kaladin, then who? I can't of think any characters we know of who could handle being a herald, since it involves lots of torture. Jezrien died, and if Dalinar wants to fully reforge the oathpact, there would need to be another Herald. I feel like the therapist is a temporary setup for book five. I don't therapy can save the heralds at this point. Kaladin isn't the only one who can help, and it will be carried on by Lirin and maybe some bridgemen.

Still one more to go then. Yeah, this the biggest issue with this theory. the only thing I can say is that we already have the reason why she doesn't like shardblades; because she killed her mother with one. but it still doesn't explain why she's scared after she admits to doing so. Yeah, but that didn't save Teft or Elokhar. I don't want him to die, but Brandon likes to crush our hopes and dreams She's been introduced to the Cosmere, but she has several ties to roshar that might keep her from leaving. It would depend on why she did. I feel there are situations where it could make sense (for the greater good, accidently.)

Clearly, we have 631 more secret novels on the way.

I'm glad you acknowledge the message on the back of book one. In my opinion, the two most important lines are the last two One of them may redeem us Out of the four, the only two I see with this potential are Dalinar and Kaladin. Shallan is... Different and I agree with you that She'll go on to be part of the bigger Cosmere and be involved with the ghostbloods. Szeth's struggles are internal and he has yet to do much redeeming. At the end of the day, he is the Assassin, not the hero. but this is his book, so things can change. Dalinar has the most obvious means of saving Roshar; if he wins the contest (an apparently unpopular opinion) Odium gets sealed away and they live happily ever after (as much as it's possible for a cosmere book to be happy). You could argue that he's already saved Roshar by reorganizing the Knights radiant and binding Odium to braize for another thousand years. He very much fits the "may" part due to how close he came to falling in Oathbringer. Kaladin is the main character of the series. He's the only one to have a perspective in every part and has the highest word count by far. I don't think he's going to become Honor; it would be too similar to mistborn, but I think that he could replace Jezrien (the Windrunner herald) and reforge the oathpact but maybe in a better that makes it more secure. He's been through enough that I think would survive the torture. Reforging the oathpact regardless of Dalinar's success would save Roshar to some degree. Or it could be that none of them succeed and Roshar is doomed (until the sequels...) 2. One of them will destroy us. In my opinion, this would be Szeth or Dalinar As stated above, Shallan is going to be important later in the cosmere, and also, she realistically isn't capable of destroying Roshar. She isn't great at fighting and has cut her ties to the ghostbloods. Kaladin is a good person. As Moash puts it in RoW, Kaladin isn't going to join Odium. the worst thing he would do would be to kill himself, but that was dealt with in RoW. The only scenario I can see where Kaladin dooms Roshar is if he ends up as champion and Odium puts an innocent. As theorized elsewhere, Kaladin would struggle between doing what is nessecary and what is morally right. Szeth, on the other hand, is an extremely cabable, mentally unstable assassin who wound up with the most deadly weapon in the Cosmere. Nightblood is capable of killing pretty much anything. I don't have a specific idea for why Szeth would end the world, but he certainly has the capacity to. Finally, we have Dalinar, who already has the weight of the world on his shoulders with the Contest between him and Odium. if he fails, I still think Roshar would survive, but it would definitively be bad.

This might be a bit extreme, but here me out: Shallan killed both of her parents and testament. At least one of her truths is related to their deaths. She currently only has two confirmed oaths, and one book left to resolve her story. Radiant was created to help Shallans relation with Adolin. Adolin isn't a radiant and is one of the more expendable characters (In my opinion) for Brandon to kill in book 5, probably after he finishes his arc with Mya. Shallan is one of the more likely characters (again, in my opinion) to end up worldhopping and becoming part of the greater Cosmere. killing Adolin would give her a reason to leave Roshar. This is purely speculative, but I thought it might be fun to see how people tear it apart. I'm not sure why she would kill Adolin, she might go full formless (unlikely), it might be accidental, it might be for the greater good, or, like what happened for her parents, it might just be in the heat of the moment. Thoughts?

She is jerked towards him and stumbles, almost falling over. "You don't need help. Just death"

Lord ruler, I storming love it when people use rustin fictional curses