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Holy crap. Taravangian is the Broken One. "Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns!"

I love that Kaladin acknowledged that Shalladin never could have been a thing. Their respective problems would have been really bad for each other. I always believed this. “Yeah. They’re my friends; I want them to be happy. But there’s more. I try to imagine myself with Shallan, and I can’t help thinking our individual neuroses would feed off one another in dangerous ways. My sadness fueling her feelings of abandonment when I retreat. Her self-destruction triggering my panic at being unable to help…”

I always assumed the white spren was a Lightspren. The other type that grants transportation.

Shallan's 4 truth is confirmed, as she has plate. Does this mean when she acknowledges that by killing her mother the Herald she did end the world, and it was (or wasn't) her fault, she becomes a 5th ideal Lightweaver? Now it makes me wonder if she or Kaladin got to the 4th ideal first. Once Dalinar knows, does he try to put her in the line of succession too? Kaladin's was flashier, but she was in Shadesmar so the armor couldn't immediately manifest. Anyone know how that timeline works?

Syl was a longshot, but is definitively ruled out now. "I was not with them. I did not know of their quest. —From Knights of Wind and Truth, page 10" That also rules out Shallan and Dalinar who knew of the quest.

I am not sure Adonalsium was related to the number 16 before the shattering. We know Hoid was offered a shard, so it is possible that there could have been 17 Shards. Post shattering 16 is a significant number, but I don't think there is any evidence of 16 being significant pre-shattering.

Love the theory, but Yelig Nar was the Blightwind

Because we don't know that Ado left anything behind. The Shards were picked up by others and taken elsewhere. Ambition was splintered and the power is still there. Devotion and Dominion we splintered and their "corpses?" thrown into the Cognitive realm.

I think it is much more likely to be pointing either to the Dor or the Evil.

Given that the 17th Sharders were discussing whether there could be something to the magic fish of the Purelake, wouldn't Nu Ralik and/or Vun Makak be prime candidates for Old Magic gods?

As the book is going to take place over 10 days, I can't see "during"

Is it possible that any of the other Unmade are also Ado spren?

Back cover of Way of Kings: "There are four whom we watch. The first is the surgeon, forced to put aside healing to become a soldier in the most brutal war of our time. The second is the assassin, a murderer who weeps as he kills. The third is the liar, a young woman who wears a scholar’s mantle over the heart of a thief. The last is the highprince, a warlord whose eyes have opened to the past as his thirst for battle wanes." Brandon confirmed that the back cover blurbs are written by a Sleepless. Maybe this is a red herring, but we know at least one being that was watching Szeth.

It could be done to finally explain where the Natan people got their blue skin and white hair? Unless I missed something, that has been just hanging out there since Way of Kings. Hoid's explanation of the queen sleeping with the moon is less than persuasive.

Brandon is making us think it is Kaladin in chapter 1, so clearly it isn't Kaladin. Just like we were led to believe the Hero of Ages was other people than Sazed. He wouldn't be that obvious.

Adolin healing Maya is a huge plot point. Knowing whether that would make a new Radiant or something else is not something Brandon would tease and throw away. If Adolin dies what was the point of that arc?

I think it is people who are still certain Shallan/Kaladin needs to be a thing, so they are wishcasting Adolin's death.

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I straight up missed Twinsoul calling her by name. Makes my discovery less impressive.

Codenames are Stupid was barely in the story. The hint we are given of her identity is that when doing math she said her brother would be better at it. Could she be Kaise from Elantris and be referring to her half-brother Adien who is a mathematic savant? Per the Coppermind "He constantly mumbles numbers (e.g., distances to landmarks in steps) and words (e.g., "Elantris") to himself. Adien has a natural way with numbers, instinctively knowing the distance in strides between any two locations."

No evidence that the Highspren are as fastidious as other spren about using spren corpses. Further, even if they are, no evidence that Nale would care one way or the other. Nale is also insane. His current view on justice is incredibly twisted. Just because Amaram is one of his buddies' pawns does not mean he wouldn't take him out if he thought he had a good reason to do so. We don't know if there were other Skybreakers there. Absence of evidence does not equal evidence of absence. We get this scene through Kaladin and Cenn (the raw recruit)'s POVs. There could have been the entire order of Skybreakers and Nale himself there, and Kaladin wouldn't have known, very much less Cenn. Bottom line, I don't see any reason to doubt Helaran was involved with the Skybreakers, and a huge reason to believe he was. The Skybreakers were trying to prevent the return of the desolations. The Sons of Honor were trying to start them. Killing Amaram is exactly what a Skybreaker would be wanting to do, regardless of whether Amaram ever would have gained a nahel bond.

From the recent spoiler stream, Brandon talked about possibilities for book 5 title. If "o" and "t" can be moved around, we can come up with possibilities for: oKWt oKtW tKWo tKoW KoWt KotW KtoW KoWt KWot KWto toKW otKW I might have missed some combinations. None of the other titles have reused the same major word (again omitting "of" and "the"), so Way and Kings should probably not be used. Knight or Knights is pretty obvious for "K". Knave is a possibility. Knife... Knowledge. Kingdom... Keeper War is almost too obvious for "W" Now for ideas: King of the World (will it be tOdium or Dalinar) the Knave of Whimsy (Hoid messes up the contest for his own ends) The Kingdoms of Woe (Roshar ends up split between factions permanently) Knight of the White (this is Szeth's book after all) Ideas?

Ishar gets a replacement for his spot in the Oathpact? And, Ishar is our resident expert on screwing with Connection. If anyone could do what the Stormfaker is promising, it would be Ishar using Connection and his Bondsmith powers.

In WoR chapter 45, Shallan remembers her mother as having been brave. Chanarach's primary divine attribute is brave. Did Brandon really slip that in a decade ago? It also makes nice symmetry that Shallan (daughter of Chanarach herald of Dustbringers) is a Lightweaver and Shalash (Herald of Lightweavers) is likely to become a Dustbringer.

I also got a Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court vibe.