Erik Holmes

Maybe that's how Rayse killed the Almighty, he threw a big rock at him...

This is just a guess, but I'm thinking that she hates the fact that people worship her. From the prelude its obvious that the heralds don't see themselves as such, so she probably just wants to do what she can to stop it.

Ok, so I was rereading and noticed something big I think. There are no Spren AT ALL whenever Dalinar goes back in time for his various visions. And there are plenty of times where there should have been. Dalinar even mentions that he should be seeing Terrorspren at one point with Taffa's daughter, but figures its just too dark. There are no painspren when he and Taffa are being cut to ribbons. And no terrorspren from Taffa or her daughter. In the prelude, even with all that death and destruction, there are no spren. There's no anticipationspren even when 300 radiants begin to charge Feverstone Keep. Nohadon does mention spren, such as honor spren, but I get the impression he's talking about spren like Syl and I think she's something different entirely. Also, in all of his visions Dalinar notices something that wouldn't work during his time. Flimsy buildings, long winters, etc. He explains them all away, but during his visions there are no signs that the world is plagued by highstorms. So here is my theory: The Almighty tells Dalinar that most of the things he's shown him he witnessed himself. Meaning he was alive at the time. But during Dalinar's time the Almighty is dead. I think that in the past there were no spren for everything. Anticipationspren, terrorspren, deathspren, etc. There were the sentient ones like Syl, but they were everywhere like they are now. The modern spren came about when the almighty was killed, they are a remnant of his power, maybe his body, etc. Like the Mist in the Final Empire. And his death brought about the highstorms as well. I think maybe the face in the storm is the spirit of the Almighty, his body has been destroyed, but he lives on as the raging source of the storms. Thoughts?

After looking at this I noticed that none of the Heralds we meet use Shardplate. Its the Shardplate that seems to give them their almost white eyes. I'm assuming its because Radiant shardplate is more powerful than the plate we see in WoK's. So either the Mistress used to be a Knight Radiant or if she was a Herald she used shardplate. I still think the idea of her being a Herald is a good one. I'm betting that shardplate just gets in some of the Heralds way, depending on their powers.

When I read it I had the impression that it was a powerful Spren. Like the spirit of the Highstorms.

Not sure if anyone else noticed this, but his Mistress had the same type of eyes as the Knights Radiant. If you look at the various times we see a Knight Radiant, they all have "almost white" or "nearly white" eyes. She is the only person we see in the book who'd not a Radiant that has the eyes. Which makes me think that the idea that she's one of the Heralds is a pretty good one.

I finally finished WoK's. What a great book! I had a lot of thoughts/questions/ideas after reading it. I'm sure some of these have been gone over before, but who knows, maybe I noticed something that hasn't been spoken about yet... 1. Shallan possesses a Shardblade. She used it to kill her father, cutting up the Soulcaster he possessed during the fight, which is why the chain and crystal were cut. 2. The Death visions come form Talenel while he was suffering in agony in that damnation place. But not all of them, I think a few of those are just ones Brandon threw in there to throw us off. They are just the random things people said as they died that ended up getting recorded too. 3. I'm thinking that Dalinars gift from the old magic was either to make Navani love him or to become the Blackthorn. 4. I really want to know what this paragraph is hinting at: