darkanimereal1

I ADORE this idea and just had the same thought this morning. Especially because the face in the highstorm seems not to be Honor or Odium, since he refers to both in a third-person manner (Referring to Kaladin as a son of Tanavast and also mentions Odium). This would mean that the highstorms are still something involving Honor (which I really believe, particularly since the Windrunners used to ride the Storms and they are bound with Honorspren to their surge abilities) because spren are said via WoB to either be of Honor, of Cultivation or of both.

I've been trying to search just to make sure if anyone has brought this up yet, but I haven't seen anything. If someone has, I'd love a link to the topic. I want to point out that I only just discovered this wonderful website this past week. I've been reading/gobbling up all the theories and WoB voraciously, but I obviously haven't read everything yet. Still, it was bugging me that I noticed this and hadn't seen anything about it, so I'm going to post it. I don't have the annotations for all of the information, although I know for sure that I've read them in the past few days. Please forgive my lack of evidence for some statements. I was looking at a picture of the colored front page of TWoK that shows the 10 surges/Heralds and their faces and symbols, along with the odd dragonwasp-things. (I found an image via Google here: http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20121114044819/stormlightarchive/images/c/c7/Knights_Radiant_and_the_ten_Surges.jpg). I was already beginning to think that the ten heralds and the KR and the different surges can probably be further categorized because of Navani's notes (http://coppermind.net/w/images/Navani2.jpg). The bottom image labels each of the ten jewels in the double-pupil (I forget the proper name for that formation, and surprisingly Coppermind doesn't have it listed that I can find), and I noticed that the top are all related to love while the bottom are all related to hate. Also, it seems the ones on the left are somehow related and the same for the ones on the right. The jewel placement obviously lines up with the Heralds' symbols in the first image from the front inside cover. I noticed that each of the symbols of the surges line up with a face on the outline (I'm sure people have noticed this) and also that each of the KR order symbols on the inside (they have to be) have lines connected to two of the surges, which makes sense since the different orders were said to be able to access two kinds of magic, correct? I don't have an annotation for this one, but I'm sure I read that. The one in the upper right hand corner is Jezrien 1) because the face is of a man with a crown and 2) the surge symbol associated with him is part of the symbol for Jezrien's shardblade. This got me to wondering how each of the 10 surges may be similarly related/categorized. Each of the surges also has a line that connects it to the one directly across from it, so Jez's surge symbol is connected by a line to the surge in the bottom left corner, etc. Each connection is between one man and one woman, meaning that the Heralds had 5 men and 5 women. I was looking at them all and realized that the top half is all men and the bottom half is all women (also can't help wondering if Navani's image has them switched/upsidedown, since I would associate women with love and men with hate, or even if Navani has general terms that are only partially correct). But then I realized that the categorization is very similar to the table of Allomantic Metals. Each of those are categorized, and are put into four quadrants in a similar way that the surges/jewels seem to logically be divided into four quadrants (http://images.wikia.com/mistborn/images/0/04/Table_of_Allomantic_metals.jpg). Could this possibly be a connection between the magic systems? Also, it really bothered me when I realized that Kaladin's symbol (seen on the big image here: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/3091-not-a-herald/) looks like either Lerasium's or Zinc's Allomatic symbol (especially Zinc's). Is this just a coincidence? Especially because Zinc is in the upper right-hand corner of the Allomatic table, just as Jezrien's surge is... I'm less convinced about the Kaladin connection than I am with the connection between the two charts. Also, perhaps this is somewhat off-topic and maybe has even been discussed, but do the Allomatic symbols seem to have spikes driven through them? Are the symbols actually some sort of Hemalurgic guide to illustrate the type and placement of spikes in order to extract that particular ability?

I always kind of think of Yin-yang here. Not "good vs bad" but two different and opposing forces. I could totally see that Adonalsium isn't "good or bad," which is why it can have different parts that seem to oppose each other. Also, the opposite of creation would be void, right?

This was KIND of mentioned earlier, but never explicitly: What about Syl? I feel like she could maybe help tip the scale in Kaladin's favor, even just ever so slightly. Also, are we forgetting that Kaladin killed a full shardbearer with a spear? Of course, that was in the middle of no where and the shardbearer, I'm sure, was not expecting anyone to be so fool-hardy. But it also seems to imply that Kaladin is resourceful enough to overcome large odds. Szeth may have lashings, a shardblade, and his own combat skills, but he lacks a spren and the oath. I think all of these things combined at least helps to even the scale. I'm not sure who I would pick at this point. I also think that Szeth may be able to get to Dalinar when Kaladin's not around. The more Brandon emphasizes the "I won't guarantee that a character will be around for 'their' book," the more I worry about Dalinar. I just reaaaally hope that doesn't happen for two main reasons: 1) I love Dalinar and I really hope that he learns what Gavilar wanted him to find before he dies (and he certainly seems to be inching closer) and 2) as someone pointed out (I believe on the latest AMA, but it could have been anywhere) Kaladin would almost certainly spiral into another state of depression for not upholding his duty. Yikes.