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I kind of feel like the key is the basin-shaped rune she made immediately after transformation. The purified Dor powered the transformation up to that point, but then the rune allowed her to pull investiture directly from... wherever investiture comes from (spiritual realm?) as if she was on Sel.

It makes me wonder if that original rune is still there and what happens if it is destroyed? What does it take to destroy an Elantrian rune? Maybe she recreated it somewhere more secure?

It's a bit of a reach, but what if the bands were drained to make Trell's perpendicularity?

Based on the name, Mythos seems reminiscent of the spren cities in Shadesmar. Probably not in the Rosharan system or we would have heard of it before, and therefore probably not inhabited by spren but something spren-like, some natives of the cognitive realm. 

On 12/7/2020 at 6:28 PM, Rushu42 said:

I don't have a ton of evidence for this, but a nice idea I had was "I will allow myself to be protected".

This. I actually thought it was going to be the fourth oath. Something along the lines of self care.

Windrunners tend to be givers, and one thing that real world givers have in common is that they tend to neglect themselves, in my experience.

Hypothesis: Adolin helping Maya's rehabilitation puts him on the path to repairing and possibly taking up the shard of Honor.

Kaladin is the son of Tanavast, but Honor is not the same as Tanavast. We know that the flavour of a shard can be slanted by the personality of the vessel and Adolin has as strong of a claim to honor as anyone I've seen.

They'd be one of the few (only?) native species without a shell of some kind. My guess is they have been magically altered somehow.

On 11/24/2017 at 3:21 PM, teknopathetic said:

it would be interesting if Cusicech is the last of his oower level-spren, and the other 9 were turned into the unnmade. 

This was pretty much what I was thinking. Cusicech is the type of spren that the Unmade were unmade from. That could account for both the similarities and the differences.

So if I recall correctly (I don't have my copy handy), we saw Ashspren in Shadesmar and they seemed uniformly hostile to humans. I think if we do see a friendly dustbringer it will require unique circumstances.

Szeth and Adolin started to be actually interesting in this book. I have a personal connection with Teft. Elhokar grew up.

From what I understood, the Everstorm ended the Oathpact for good as now the Fused don't have to go back to Braize, but return to the Everstorm instead.

I wonder whether an awakened cloak could block a shardblade.

I had the big ruby pegged for a dawnshard, but this is also a possibility. Could be a form of fabrial though, for trapping the spren of the person it killed.

You're right that she does later mention that she was a royal. I forgot about that.

I'm not caught up on everything Brandon has said though.

I suspect it has to do with Taln. The shin would know that his was the only honorblade missing. They may have known what this meant-Taravangian did- and it may have led to the belief over centuries that walking on or breaking stone weakened him.

I figured the shin are just most like the original humans while other nations are the result of interbreeding and possibly some magical alterations.

My poorly-substantiated idea is that he was a stonemason. Partly because of the obvious stone motif, but also because his sword is a very utilitarian shape that I imagine to be reminiscent of a stonemason's tools.

I think it uses breath because it bleeds its victims of colour instead of burning their eyes. This was what caught me on to who she was ( or at least where she was from. I still don't know why we know this is her.)

Does anyone know of the existence of high quality graphics versions of the glyphs? I'm thinking windrunners in particular. Excuse my ignorance: I'm not a graphics guy normally but I need to make something for team spirit day at the office.

I was thinking of the Ryshadium

You may have glossed over the "though they often take the forms of departed humans when needed" part there.

Well I'm proposing something specific there.

It is true that the shattered plains in particular would allow a lot of freedom of action for a kandra. However that has only been going on 5? years. And it may not get them as close to the action as they would like.

I general though high-ranking Alethi (and I suspect Vorins in general) soulcast their remains to stone, and lower ranking ones are burned? iirc. So getting bodies may be a chore.

 

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Like all the rest of Scadrial’s sapient races, the kandra were restored by Harmony during the Origin... In gratitude, the kandra transferred the Contract which they held with the Lord Ruler to the true Hero of Ages. The Faceless Immortals take no other contracts or serve any other master — only Harmony, for whom they now act as eyes, ears, and hands in the mortal world. The Faceless Immortals operate under a different set of rules with Harmony than they did with the Lord Ruler. First and foremost, each Faceless Immortal is strictly forbidden from revealing his or her true identity to anyone directly; their role is observation, not intervention, and their messages are guidance, not directives. Secondly, Faceless Immortals are forbidden from killing under any circumstances, particularly other kandra. Gone are the fancy True Bodies of old; now, all kandra live in animal forms, though they often take the forms of departed humans when needed. Finally, Faceless Immortals must carry out Harmony’s orders, whenever and wherever they are given — an edict none dare defy, for Harmony is the kandra’s prophesied Hero of Ages they had waited over a thousand years to find.

 

So all we need to do is find some seemingly intelligent animals who have attached themselves to important persons.

The surgebinding charts inside the covers of TWoK are copies of in-world art from somewhere, iirc. Do we know where?

I find it very unlikely it's "the Parshmen". That's way too simple. 

Parshmen are likely involved. As Kobold King pointed out, there are likely many kinds. One of Odium's tendencies seems to be to corrupt what is already there. The storm form Parshendi, the corrupted spren in Dalinar's vision etc. I see no reason why it wouldn't affect humans, Aimians, etc. You could argue that the Alethi are pretty close from the start. I imagine we'll eventually see human voidbinders as well.

I thought we had WoB that the storms predated the investiture within them. I'll see if I can find it

Edit: Can't seem to find it now. I could have sworn the highstorms were a pre-existing condition.