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Hmmm... I think my favorite aside from the chasms already mentioned was Jasnah choosing not to kill Renarin during his vision reveal. Might be my Renarin bias, but learning that he accessed strange -- yet beautiful -- arcane powers given by the enemy was a striking scene even considering Dalinar's story in the same book.

1. Stormfather dies/deadeyes, the era of free Stormlight is over, and a perpetual Weeping occurs 2. Dalinar dies/becomes Fused 3. Nohadon is not Tanavast or Dalinar 4. Child champ is true, and not even aged up 5. Adolin is not Odiums champ, this is the character who surprised Brandon 6. Neither Kaladin nor Dalinar end up with Honor (the foreshadowing implies Dalinar will concede the shard to Kaladin, but it's too heavily foreshadowed at the beginning of the book. I think that will be the plan but something unexpected happens.) 7. Syl will become human, this will have the side effect of no more nahel bond for kal 8. Either the Unmade are all Dawn city spren like the Sibling OR BAM is the spren of Roshar itself PLEASE don't quote-respond me on these for two weeks, because I will be out of town and unable to read the book.

Hey, he could always kill Syl right after she becomes human and confesses her love to Kaladin! It would be a crime against writing, too, which scores bonus points.

This is unlikely but still within the realm of possibility: Moash hits absolute rock bottom this book, somehow getting worse than he was last book. This completes his five-book descent into villainy and sets up his five-book slow, agonizing redemption.

What if instead of the child champion theory, Dalinar has the option to leave on time but it would mean leaving Gavinor in the spiritual realm possibly forever. So he misses the deadline to save the "suckling child" (and either Kaladin becomes champion or odium goes free)

I forgot about your theory! It's one of my favorites out there, and it ties in so nicely with the themes of spren and Honor being stagnant vs. human's ability to grow and change.

As the title says, I'm looking for a WoB that talks about Cultivation basically having analogues to the Adhesion-wielding Knights. It's not this one: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/482/#e15314 but pretty similar.

If Shallan could consent to a bond as a child AND break the bond, all while not truly understanding what it would entail, I think that Gav's consent would count. Contest aside, I think that the actions of Dar'kness the evil god of evilness have very little impact on the way people see Sanderson's morality. Odium (the shard) is hatred manifest, and manipulating a child is extremely benign compared to, say, torturing the Heralds infinitely.

I'm hoping El has more of a minor role that mostly sets him up for the back half. A large number of villains in this series die quickly after they're introduced, so I'd like to see an overarching one

Hard agree with this. The fact that she's STILL cutting thoughts off even though it's overtly dealing with the already-revealed testament makes me think it's foreshadowing the final secret here.

Leaving the rest of your theory aside, I think you're a little to the left on this one. Maybe testament will be enlightened, maybe not, but I think that Shallan's role will be similar to Adolin: restoring both the deadeyes' minds and their relationship to the Knights Radiant. They are pretty much our only two main characters who have interacted with spren government, and they're also the most closely tied to deadeyes as a whole. I can see Shallan and Adolin together restoring relations with the spren who resent humanity for the Recreance. Renarin and Rlain are much more likely to be the bridge between regular and enlightened knights (as well as listeners and humans). Renarin's book is coming up, for one, so he has ample room to explore it. Rlain has been referred to as the Bridger of Minds, for another. They're going to be our first onscreen human-listener relationship and Renarin was shown on a throne in front of the Parshendi in the most recent chapter. They're probably going to explore both dichotomies when it comes time.

Speaking narratively, I think that they would have to contain all investitures. Ambition, autonomy, devotion, Odium, even more abstract shard like ruin -- they all sound like parts of a human. It's fitting that people have the potential for any Intent within them. Speaking mechanically, I think we know that scadrial humans are pure ruin and preservation, no other investiture. So humans on non-shard worlds MUST still be assigned to a shard, since scadrians are functionally no different than other humans. That might mean they're just assigned to whatever shard holds the most investiture on their world, or else their personality assigns them to a specific shard. Would be a great question for Brandon!

Is this possible?

I believe that 100%, especially since chickens and horses are clearly offworld creatures. I assumed that the Shin were the original Ashynites and Shinovar was their designated refuge, hence why they're banned from walking on stone. Humans weren't supposed to leave but did. Obviously this means that the Shin should be more ethnically diverse than they've been presented, bc there are black and Asian Heralds in addition to white ones.

Love the idea, but who would be on it? Dalinar, Navani, Kaladin for sure, maybe Adolin or Szeth or other part one characters who need to lose the limelight. Becoming Honor seems like it would cut short someone's character arc, so lift / Renarin / Jasnah / Venli are likely out. Some of the Heralds, maybe? I like the idea of a multi vessel shard, but I don't know if ten is the number. Maybe it ends up being screwed up like Dalinar and Adolin locked in disagreement, or them and Navani.

This helped me understand your point of view. SLA is the only Cosmere story where I've truly been impressed by Sanderson's characters, personally, but the worldbuilding and plot kept me interested and engaged through the other novels. If those two things are much lesser factors for you, then I get dropping the author as a whole.

Makes sense that ink spren would accept enlightenment, given Elsecallers' general vibes. I'd be bummed if the Ghostbloods have more Elsecallers than the Radiants do now. Hoping we get to explore this Unmade pretty thoroughly

I'm curious about this, so I'm going to ask some questions reader-to-reader. Is your objection a matter of writing or morality? All your points are about how leaving this question unanswered is poor writing; however, questioning what the author thinks about this moral issue could possibly allude to the core problem you have being a moral objection. I don't want to put words in your mouth, so I'm asking. How would you feel if the matter gets addressed again but the characters are left divided by the end of the book -- if the in-world resolution is that there is NO resolution? How would you feel if Sanderson himself said "it's a very thorny issue tied to the series' theme of honor, and I wanted to challenge readers to interpret his actions based on the rest of the series?"

Who would you suggest? I don't know if we have a singer developed enough / at the end of their arc enough to take Honor

I mean, the real question is why there's no allusion to this in the moment. There could very easily be a line like "Shallan remembered Drehy's panic during [that scene] and drew on it." And if it's THAT easy to form a significant Connection with someone -- just touch their soul in shadesmar -- then there's gonna be serious shenanigans down the line

I would be surprised if it was the Shattering, but at the same time I don't see how else we could figure out the name of the last shard in this book. Although I suppose an epigraph could do it

Things are just different in a fantasy world. If this were the real world, I'd have difficulty rooting for a monarch to expand and cement his absolute rule. No matter "how good of a person be is," I wouldn't want a despot in power. But because it's a fantasy world where that sort of thing is the norm, supporting Dalinar feels natural. It's the same with Sadeas's death. In the real world there's habeus corpus and a citizen's right to a trial, etc. There's none of that here. In universe Sadeas just essentially declared intent to murder with legal abandon. He's arguably the closest thing possible to ontological evil (excluding Odium), and being treated as such isn't morally questionable

Well, I would definitely NOT expect that! Honestly, with the way Jasnah acts, I sometimes forget that's she's fairly young and put her closer to Navani's age

I might be misunderstanding, but the guy you're replying to was referring to Shallan's "posterity," as in children, kin, and general legacy. [Edit: page hadn't updated, it was already responded to. Sorry!] I don't really have a horse in the pregnancy race, but I'm surprised it never occurred to me that we could see a "next generation" in the second half. Only Adolin and Shallan are really in a position to have kids, though. I guess if Syladin really does happen they could have some kind of kid relevant in the second half? I don't think Renarin and Rlain will magically produce offspring, but I have been dreading what Rlain meant when he said mateform was a "disaster" for him.

Are you talking about her aviar or is this a joke?