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Nazh, I believe is someone in the warcamps in Wor we have seen indirectly. 1.when kaladin is on his way to the king, rock mentions about an ardent painting the bridgemen. Then we get to see Nazh's work on the tattoos. 2.When shallan is painting the wherebouts of the oathgate, a scout arrives and corrects her work of the plateaus. Then there his mapwork of the plains. I suspect the person is nazh. both of the times he has been described as thin man with a light beard.

It's in chapter 63. Not main plot related, but a cool bit of foreshadowing about Kaladin's past in Amaram's army. I hope we get to see how he became the spear master and more of this mysterious Tarah. Seriously, a second Kal flashback is needed.

I think that what honour has cut certain portions of history where all the outcomes are certain and unchangeable, then he takes dalinar to this specific memory simulation. It seems that only the spiritual aspect is taken for a ride. Perhaps the storms are the key for this transfer to take place. Dalinar is spiriutally divided into two but the connection is maintained so he thrashes in the real world. Remember the nohadon vision, dalinar sees himself just fine but to nohadon he is karm and missing one arm. The visions are - future, midnight essences, kr giving up, and nohadon . None of them are exactly changeable. For example dalinar messes up the nohadon memory, but nohadon fate during the vision is unchanged. A question about shardblades. One of the awesome topics here is the explanation of the physical, spiritual and cognitive realms and how they affect each other. The shardblades are stored in the spiritual realm and can be summoned by the shardbearers themselves. Now imagine that at the beginning, would honour and/or herald created the shards not as weapons but tailor made for the kr. He changed the sDna which allowed them to summon the shardblades into the physical realm by manipulation of physical realm via cognitive .realm. They could now summon a part of their souls into battle, a pointy , unchanging part. If they summoned it , and lost concentration the sword would vanish, as it requires focus to maintain a part of you soul. Basically they learrned how to summon shardblades. The thrill was also probably built into it, as a means of improving battle senses. When the kr walked away, lthey intentionally cut the blades off, ordinary men could bond with them, but could not probably access all the the benefits that akr wielding it could get. In support of my theory- 1. We have to see how people bond with the swords. 2. Everyones sword has names . Sunraiser, oathbringer etc. 3. The blades were corrupted when ordinary men picked it without earning it.

Again another question from the prologue itself . The nine heralds decide to leave their swords in stone and just walk away. Whats stopping them to come back and fight after taking a long fight. Or is the Oathpact specifies them to seriously show up at the desolations only and then disappaer? Also the prologue is the 99th desolation and the true desolation , the 100th one is arriving now.its sure that the heralds did not know of this, or otherwise they might have decided to go for a final push. As for titular know it all, Dr Whoid (i could not find a single doctor pun, seriously was expecting it! ) his letter is the most troubling one. In all the mistborn books the epigraphs where from either rasheks journal, otr the prophecies or sazed. And in this case, a letter and few death viewings. Now there are three possibilities- 1. The epigraphs and the letter are all collected by a single person or team. As they have hoids letter it can be the 17th shard , hoid himself or some one else. Also they have jasnah notes, she maybe their ally ,or they stole or copied the notes. They also broke into taravignan (i probably spelled it wrong) palace too. 2. As the story progresses we will see how jasnah , the tara-i am going to call him eom now(evil old now) eom , soneone else , geraid work together, and it is their collection we are reading. 3. An unkown mythical guardian, the Radiant Keeper of the Stormlight Archive has collected it as a means if preserving it. maybe , that the winner against odium published the book at the end of the book 4. They are just epigraphs. Nothing to see here. And why is the series named stormlight archive anyway, huh? This is the only book where i see no connection whatsoever. Coming back to hoid what irks me the most is that we have idea whether the letter actually reached its reciepient and if it did, how? Does he write with some sort of attuned spanreeds that can travel all the void to Patience? Or what do you think?(i named the shardholder patience. Blame robin hobb) Seriously, what are the theories on the letter delivery?i couldn't find any so i posted it here. And finally can someone please show where i can i find a summarization of the liar of partinel to see how the first became the second doctor?(thats what happens, right?)

A few idle observations on the top of my head. The Shin naming style.What is it exactly? Do the sons take the name of the father and the daughters the name of the mother? Can you add the name ofthe grandfather ? Or is it something else entirely? In one chapter there is mention of Szeth as Szeth son neturo, in another it is as szeth son son vallano. In the dalinar and wit chapter he mentions a dysian aimian whereas i definitely remember the spren guy to be another type. How many types of aimian are there? And do they bear different curses and have different powers? Also one of the epigraphs has a mention of a prophecy, "he has to pick up the tower crown and the spear". Could it be referring to kaladin? Kalak in the prologue,he goes back to"that place" whether he dies or survives. How does he go back without dying? Shadesmar travel? And finally the szeth prologue chapter, a man asks szeth" have you seen me?" . immediately after szeth notices one of the statue is missing. Draw your conclusions.:-)