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Just noticed this. It seems that Baxil's mistress (Shalash) has payed a recent visit to the the bronze palace. She certainly gets around.

This is obviously Kaladin talking, the question is about what? He's not talking about what to do with someone that's injured, he's using his medical knowledge as a metaphor to suggest what they (whoever he's talking to) should do about a certain situation. So what situation are they facing that will require sacrificing something for the good of the whole? Things that could be the festering hand; Ridding Dalinars camp of spy’s Amarams friendship with Dalinar Sedeas doing something that could rip apart the kingdom I definitely think that it's something internal in that camps, nothing to do with the Parshendi.

That's how I read it at first too, but after a few more rereads I started to see it differently. She shuddered when she looked at him, as if she couldn't bare to look at him after what she'd seen him do. His touch made her skin squirm. I know read this as her rejecting the affection he's trying to show her by not returning it, because "a monster shouldn't be held in love" I never said I thought it was a shardblade, just that he used what was in the box to kill those people, or as I've said on a different thread, that something in the box used him, or just made him lose control and go crazy.

I don't think that she killed anyone in that scene, I think that the murderer and monster she refers to is her father and that whatever is in the safe (that she also thinks of as a monster) is what he used to kill all those people and Shallan witnessed him do it. I just can't see her reacting to Jasnah the way she did when she killed those 4 murderers if she had anything to do with those deaths. The only person I think she's killed is she father, and that she did that in self defence.

You know, this could just be a woman who doesn't moisturize.

Could this be the effect of an Odium corrupted spren on a living person, much the same way it animates rock into a Thunderclast?

I was thinking it could be a Stoneward surge as well but then I thought, what would be the point in a KR making their skin hard as stone, they have Shardplate. So I don't think it'll be a surge.

Hmm... I don't think that this is someone who has been soulcast, not with them being described as a living statue. A new Parshendi Form maybe?

He'll turn, he'll see Kaladin and the look on his face, and an unintelligible sound will escape his lips. Then Wit will suddenly enter the scene and say to Kaladin, "Did you here that? Something just changed. I believe that's the sound Amaram makes when he pisses himself."

So I was thinking some more about this glimpse. I now definitely think that this is the stormfather talking to Syl. I think that this is a warning that Odium is coming for her, and I think that the "little traitor" is spoken with affection. Sort of like he doesn't approve of what she did in defying him, but he admires her bravery. And the apology is because there isn't anything he can do to help her. While I was thinking of reason for Odium to go after Syl I came across this WoB. It wasn't so much the question, but the answer that got me thinking. This could be how he corrupts spren, he puts a small amount of his investiture into a spren and that changes it's personality making it loyal to him. Then I thought, what would happen if Odium corrupted a spren that had bonded to a human? Would the Surgebinder also become corrupted? If this is possible then I think that it would be a good reason for him to go after Syl.

OK, this one seems like Kaladin talking to Bridge 4 about Amaram and his crimes. Actually after reading it again this seems more like Kaldin trying to convince himself he can still trust Dalinar, even though he's friends with Amaram. Like it should be expected that a lighteyes would have criminal friends, so he shouldn't let it bother him. Or let it affect his relationship with Dalinar.

Maybe it Cultivation talking to Szeth, as truthless he could be a traitor to his people, and she's warning him that Odiums coming for him.

The Almighty speaking to Kaladin or Dalinar? He comes for you - Refers to Odium? Little traitor - If it's the Almighty I don't know what or who he's referring to, everything he says is prerecorded, so he doen't know who he's addressing. If it's as some suggest and it's the Stormfather talking to Syl, then the traitor reference can be ascribed to Syl's defiance of him in coming to the physical realm to find someone to bond with. Telling her that Odiums coming for her, perhaps being an Honorspren she makes a good target for him to corrupt.

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Doh! Didn't think to check there Well there goes that theory. Thanks.

While I haven't formed any solid opinion yet, something kept jumping out at me on my reread. People kept mentioning that the Nightwatcher is located in a valley in the west. It's probably like you say, and they're different places, but every time it was mentioned I kept thinking of the Valley of truth in Shinovar. Then my mind started to run with it. How the Shin as well as other countries in the west seem to worship Cultivation, and how Cultivation might be the Nightwatcher, and if the Nightwatcher is located in the Valley of Truth then maybe that had something to do with him becoming Truthless. Like I said, I've formed no solid opinion, it'a all just wild speculation based on absolutely no evidence.

Ah! I've got it. It's Wyndle talking to Lift, she asked the Nightwatcher to make her into the God of Awesomeness!

I think that this is Kaladin talking to Syl, talking about how Rock treats her. If that's the case, what does it mean? Is Syl a splinter? Are all of the spren from the 10 orders?

Yes, when Compounding you're creating a new metal and burning it, but it's not Compounding until you store what you burned into another bit of metal and then burned that as well. I disagree that the Allomantic rules apply rather than the Feruchemical, if we use TLR as an example, he had to continually tap age from his metalminds to stay young. He just used Allomancy to Compound and increase what he had stored in his metalminds, but it was Feruchemy he used to stay young. Therefore I would say it's the Feruchemical rules that apply while asleep. With Compounders tapping so much and so often from their metal minds it makes sense to me that the body would come to think of that as it's natural state and try to maintain it by tapping your metalminds while asleep to maintain its homeostasis. Much the same as an Allomancer who continually flares their metals can change their bodys default settings.

I think Yalb is going to die, I keep thinking that he's going to turn out to be a saboteur/assassin and Shallan will be forced to kill him with her shardblade.

A summary of my thoughts on the first 5 glimpses. #1 "Thirty-eight days," Renarin read. "The end of all nations." - 62 days death follows” It make sense to me that these two go together. Possibly more warnings during the 62 days, each one offering more information on what’s to come. Possibilities at the end of the countdown, Szeth will try to kill Dalinar and if he succeeds it will mean the end of all nations. The parshmen and the parshendi will be taken over by Odium and turn against the humans leading to the collapse of nations, as the final Desolation begins. The return of the Voidbringers and the 10 Deaths. #2 She felt and heard the storm approach. The ground shook, the air roared. Bits of leaves swept across her in a chill gust, like scouts before an oncoming army that charged behind, the howling wind its battle cry. A female. Caught outside during a Highstorm. But in shelter not looking directly at the oncoming storm. Someone who’s seen battle. Is familiar with how an army moves. Jasnah - As Gavilar’s daughter and Dalinar’s niece I would expect her to be knowledgeable about the military and how they maneuver. She was also at the Shattered plains before she went traveling to do research on the voidbringers so she could’ve witness battles first hand. The last we saw her she was on a boat heading to the Shattered plains where she and Shallan encountered some (as yet unknown) trouble. They could of been forced to abandon ship and try to make it to the Shattered plains across land on foot, getting caught outside in a Highstorm. Not been a POV character so far, so that makes it less likely to be her. Eshonai - As the General for her peoples army she’s well versed in military tactics. Been out on the Shattered plains or living in the ruins of an ancient city, in dwellings that use greatshells to roof their shelters. I can see these dwellings being less secure to the elements and allowing bits of leaves and debris in during a Highstorm. - I think that this glimpse is most likely to be Eshonai. #3 In places, it flashed with light from behind, revealing movement and shadows within. Like the skeleton of a hand when light illuminated the flesh, there was something inside that wall of destruction. With the way that the character compares what they see to the skeleton of a hand when illuminated by light, I’m convinced that this is from Kaladins POV. He could be riding the storm again, this time examining the storm itself instead of what’s in it’s path. He could be witnessing the Listeners attacking the war camps using stormform. #4 Of fires that burned and yet they were gone. Of heat he could feel when others felt not. Of screams his own that nobody heard. Of torture sublime, for life it meant. I think that this is an epigraph from Taln. I think that the first three lines refer to him suffering in damnation alone because the other betrayed the oathpact. I think the last line refers to him willingly suffering the torture, because while he does it mean life for everybody else. #5 Have you given up on the gemstone, now that it is dead? And do you no longer hide behind the name of your old master? I think that this is part of a return letter to Hoid from his old friend. The gemstone could refer to Honor and how Odium killed Tanavast and splintered the shard. Hoid stole his name from his old master.

This is what I'm thinking too. Gemstone being dead? A reference to Honor maybe?

I put the quotes in my last post that mentions when he first was mentioned as missing. It's in Chapter 59 "An Honor"

It just says "I will protect those who cannot protect themselves" repeatedly, I just magnified my browser screen and scaned over the whole T shirt hoping that I'd see Kaladin next ideal. No joy.

I see they sell vials of metal, what's the bet that some of the guys who bought them actually swallowed the metal just to make sure they weren't secretly Allomancers. EDIT: I'm convinced that the way those 5 swords are piercing the surgebinding table means something. Like they're separating the different orders into groupings. Maybe 5 at the top with the hilt and 5 at the bottom with the blade. Or maybe the 2 in the middle with the biggest sword is one group, then 4 at the top with the hilts and 4 at the bottom with the blades. Or maybe this fan is just reading too much into a simple logo.