Salkara

I am now shipping all of this!

WoB:

She Elsecalled somewhere into the Unclaimed Hills, so depending on location, she'd be closest to either the Stormseat or Kholinar oathgate. My guess is that she used Stormseat (Shattered Plains) as I don't expect to see Kholinar until parts 4 & 5. Yeah, Lift is probably not with her. WoB is that Windrunners have more and stronger squires than other orders, but other orders do have them. Some don't have any though. I doubt she'll have any squires with her. I'll be sad if there's no Hoid.

Take your upvote! We have Syl's word that her aunt used to hunt other spren so we know they can harm each other in the CR somehow. My guess is the attack from the Fused was combined with an attack from their voidspren. So would Nightblood be closer to a shardblade or a voidblade? Jasnadin is officially shipped.

I'm predicting it'll be dark. The Fused kill them all. Or force some to change and kill the others. Poor Sah and his daughter.

Another possibility... Naln arrives in Urithuru, takes one look at Adolin, and says, "murderer."

Just did a word search for "god" in WoK. T never used the word. Also, we don't get a PoV from him until the WoR interlude. All we get in WoK are him from Szeth's and Shallan's PoVs. Well, he did ask the Nightwatcher for the power to save humanity, so if we consider the Diagram to be his boon (he probably does), then it would make sense to say the endgame of the Diagram is saving humanity (not saying I agree with the methods). Fair enough. With T, for whatever reason, the darker side of his character has been spotlighted. We're supposed to be critical of him at this point, but that doesn't mean that he won't have an avenue of redemption later on.

I mean, there's a couple problems with this. I don't think T has ever referred to the Diagram as his god, so putting quotes around it is misleading. He doesn't worship it, but he does follow it, so it would be more proper to call it his scripture and the Old Magic his god. Just because we don't know what T's end goal is doesn't mean he doesn't have one. He's remarkably well informed compared to many of the other characters, but he's also secretive. Honestly, we haven't seen enough of him to really state what his endgame might be. Finally, labeling T as a religious fanatic when we know so little just seems like a setup. The little bit we have seen of him has been divisive, but we haven't seen enough that it should be easy to draw rock solid conclusions. Brandon has given us conflicted characters time and again. MB:TFE At this point, we've seen T doing the wrong things, but we haven't seen all that much. There's plenty of time for a change of heart and noble sacrifice. There's still time for the man who wanted the power to save the world to find a way to do it.

Has it been confirmed that they are confirmed to the CR whilst on Braize? Also, even if they're only in the CR, so was Jasnah for most of WoR, and I would consider her alive.

Last two chapters, you mean.

My understanding is that when a Herald does during a Desolation, they get sent back to Damnation/Braize. He is alive because Heralds don't die permanently like the rest of us. He's just alive on a different planet (and being tortured horrendously everyday).

That is provided you are omniscient. Otherwise, you're weighing the word of a full shardbearer against the word of a darkeyed slave. In Alethkar, you side with Amaram in that situation because of course the slave is lying. It would be the equivalent of, in our world, being approached by a homeless person who reeks of his own feces and tells you that the guy in the suit over there stole a BILLION DOLLARS from him. Do you even think for a second that this is true? No, and not because you even care about the guy in the suit. You don't believe it because how many homeless people have ever had a billion dollars to be stolen? Even if there have been a couple, it's way, way more likely this guy is just a crazy meth addict. You should probably move along to avoid getting stabbed. That's what people think when Kaladin claims he killed a shardbearer and Amaram stole the shards. Up until he starts glowing and gets a Sylblade, of course.

I mean, for me, it's pretty simple. If the Heralds were able to help humanity survive Desolation after Desolation, then getting the Heralds to abandon the Oathpact would lead to a significantly higher win probability for Odium. Flip the leader, get him to convince the others to give up, and then Odium doesn't need to worry about Herald-inspired opposition. This, of course, relies on us understanding the basics of Desolations (e.g. Odium tries to destroy everything, and the Heralds are intrinsic to humanity's continued success against him), but it doesn't require us to know the details (e.g. why does Odium have to win a Desolation, how do the Heralds help humanity, etc.).

Yes, but it feels right to me. Not including OB, we have 2 more books to the end of the front 5 and then 5 more books after that. If the characters continue to progress without bumps in the road, they'll be ready for whatever the ending way too soon.

It makes sense to me that "memory" is part of the CR. Memory and congnition go hand in hand in my mind, but yes, a lot of this is based on our gut feelings and unfounded extrapolations. Take your perfection of memory example. My gut tells me at least some of the books will remember what they were very well. It makes sense to me thematically. Also, we have Syl's statement that there are fundamental differences between humans and other things (if you break a rock, it's still a rock; if you break a human; it's something else). That's the foundation for my belief that a broken book will remember what it was much better than a human remembers what s/he did exactly one year ago. Is it a good, solid foundation? No. Doesn't change that I'll believe it until proven otherwise though .

I'm reading your argument as everything has the ability to heal. My argument is that only some things have the ability to heal. We've only seen plant matter Grow, so I'll limit my previous assertion even further: only sapient beings can be the target of Regrowth. I would not cut out the "I want to" from that WoB since it seems particularly important to me. In my mind, anything without enough sapience to express a desire would be incapable of healing because they would not be able to express how they want to be. Humans, listeners, dragons, and koloss are all examples of potential Regrowth targets. Books, chairs, houses, and fences are examples of targets which cannot Regrow (until I'm disproven by text or WoB). Still, it will be a very boring book if all Renarin does is fix things, sleep, and wait around for highstorms so he can fix more things. A Soulcaster, using a fabrial, may not be familiar enough with Shadesmar to see what the book remembers being. On the other hand, Jasnah, an Elsecaller, should be able to see the book's memory in the CR. If she knows what it was, then I don't see why she couldn't Transform it to be that again.

I agree on the most salient point that Re-Shephir was trapped, but I do have a couple qualms (surprise, right?): "Who" can be both singular or plural, usually determined but the context. Here, that's unclear, so it could be an individual or a group that released the ME. Who knows... maybe the SoH have been around for a long, long time. The KR never actually states where the ME was released from. I'll agree that Urithuru seems thematically appropriate; however, for all we know, Re-Shephir could've been bound to a cave in the Misted Mountains, a gem buried on an Amian beach, or even some poor greatshell's bum. The traitor(s) may be from outside the KR and Urithuru.

It basically comes down to whether or not the books retain memories from when they weren't decayed. If so, I see no reason why Transformation couldn't be used to fix them. I don't mean a Soulcasting could do this. It would require a KR who has access to Shadesmar to find each book's memory. I think Shallan will work well with this. The more I think about Progression being used, the more I dislike the idea, and I think I've settled on one main point of discontent: as of yet, I don't think we've seen Progression used on something without being cable of living. We've seen Growth used on seeds and Regrowth used on injuries and Gawx's dead or dying body. We haven't seen it used to change non-living matter to a previous state. Maybe it could be used to "heal" paper so that it's a plant again or the ink to a functioning organ from some animal. However, if Progression can reverse decay in matter which could never be alive, we have to ask how else it could be used. Could it also "heal" dents in armor? What about houses that collapsed during the Everstorm? What if Odium destroys a city with an earthquake? Could a band of Truthwatchers and Edgedancers go fix it in a couple hours? How much would you like Renarin's book if he had to stop every other paragraph to "heal" some odd trinket, like Dalinar's painrial or Rock's razor. There needs to be a line between what can and cannot be healed with Progression, or it could very easily become overpowered, boring, or, even worse, both. For me, a logical litmus test would be, "Could the target be or have been alive?" Seeds can be a living plant, so they can Grow. Injuries to living people can Regrow. Dead bodies, if acted upon fast enough, could have been alive with the proper medical attention, so they can Regrow. Books, however awesome they may be, were never alive and thus shouldn't be a target for Progression in my mind.

Not quite. Shallan just didn't understand how to Soulcast. Here's Jasnah Soulcasting from the WoR deleted scene: She's commanding the rope to change, not convincing it to.

Merin.

Some people are cut out to be a healer, others just get the job because the party needs one. Hopefully Renarin is the former. I raided pretty heavily in WoW through vanilla and the first expansion, and I saw enough of the latter to know they're never happy.

It would be funny to see Shallan getting all worked up about BOOK, then Jasnah arrives and goes, "Oh good, you found the library," and *poof* all the books are restored.

Except that pretty much everything about Hemalurgy is "forced." It's not a very kind magic system. Also, I was just trying to come up with a way that a spren could revived within the confines of Realmatics. I don't think we'll see my method used in SA. Agreed. This isn't how Adolin can or will revive his blade. It's just a method that could work according to my understanding of cosmere magics.