Sylveris

My hopes are for Rysn getting a book, probably as a Willshaper (the adventurous thing of the Willshapers really fits her in my opinion), I don't know why but I just like her character, and I'll love to see her use Stormlight to heal herself.

In fact, Brandon said that while each order had spacial unique abilities, the Windrunners' one was not enhanced combat abilities, but rather likely related to their squires (he said we should take a look at the number of squires, or something along thous lines)

The fact that Kaladin and Lift got more named abilities from one surge that from the other doesn't mean that they got a better affinity to said surge. Kaladin learned to use Adhesion well enough before he was able to use Gravitation properly. Shallan had problems trying to get Transformation to work properly, succeeding only two known times (the goblet to blood and the ship), but was able to use Illumination throughout the whole book (and likely during her childhood, patterns in the gardens, dreams that became real, etc.), Lift was using Abrasion for a long time before her interlude (as stated by Wyndle), but used Regrowth only a few times, with Wyndle's instructions, and used Growth for the first time on Gawk. That being said the biggest problem to your theory is the WoB, that the surges act the same to each order that got them (Gravitation to Windrunners and Skybreakers, etc.), I just don't know how to find the right quote. About Windrunners, wind is created by differences in air pressure between to spots, resulting in the movement of the wind, and pressure and vacuum is exactly what Adhesion is about.

My biggest problem with your theory (beside how limiting it is, eg. Lightweavers can manipulate sound as well, Elsecallers can range-soulcast [if its not a general soulcasting ability], etc.) is that the names of the abilities we know sound to me like nothing more than a human-given terms, for example growth and regrowth can be seen as the same thing, only applied to different types of organisms, and Basic Lashing can be divided into Self-Lashing and Other-Lashing. There was also some WoB that two orders that share a surge get roughly the same powers and abilities from it, so a Windrunner and a Skybreaker will get the same abilities from the Gravitation surge. PS. I also think the main-secondery surge thing, if it does exist in some way or another (like in the order of affinity to it) is the other way around, so the main surge for Windrunners is Adhesion, Abrasion for Edgedancers, Illumination for Lightweavers, Transformation for Elsecallers, Division for Dustbringers, etc. This is supported by both the orders names as well as what we saw from Kaladin, Shallan and Lift (as well as Ym)

It's a great list, but there is just one thing that bothers me, why it says that Kaladin is 21 and Shallan is 18, when even the references you've put says they are 20 and 17. While there is the tiny chance that in the last part of the book Shallan had her birthday, which she unlikely forgot, Kaladin definitely didn't had his, given it was at some point during WoK.

I was just about to ask about the nations as well, I think it reasonable to connect each kingdom to a herald, just wondering how you choose this arrangement. I also think the surges should be the other way around. While each order doesn't necessarily have one primary and one secondary surges, in case they do it just feels more fitting to me that for example, Adhesion as the primary surge of the Windrunners, Illumination for the Lightweavers, Division for the Dustbringer, etc. (This is mostly based on the orders' names, as well as Kaladin's, Shallan's, Lift's, and maybe Ym's (if he is a Truthwatcher) affinity toward their surges) P.S. Great work!

The only problem with Honorblade is that we know where they all are suppose to be, Kaladin got one, Nalan got one, and then either Nalan or Szeth (or maybe both, can't remember right now) say that the other eight are in Shinovar. beside that, really liked this theory! So I'm pretty sure that if she is a surgebinder, its one of the middle orders, since the more Honor-oriented ones seem to be rather disapproving of assassination, at least as a job. Edit: yea, forgot Taln's blade, which leaves the stone shamanate with seven. But since the prologue is before Taln's return, my argument is still valid.

I might be wrong... but isn't it stated in WoK by Dalinar that Navani has violet eyes? and I really don't think that mark her as someone influenced by Odium...

Good point.... Also, all of this ideal-level thing really doesn't work when you got the truths. Is every truth equal a oath? Does every order as a different amount of oath? etc. I think its stated somewhere by either Syl or Pattern that its really just depends on how the spren in question (or its type of spren) choose it to be.

Just a minor thing - Jasnah is at least ideal level 3, since she got a shardblade, and as far as I know Dalinar is only 2, not 3. Otherwise looks fine to me!

Lol, I'm all in for that, can't wait for this book!

From what I understood, While mateform is more suitable for mating (surprise surprise), mating isn't limited to it, just as warform can still try to make art. So the parshmen, who are parshendi in slaveform, without free will (unlike dullform who look the same but only act as if with no free will), can still reproduce, through it probably require someone telling two parshmen to do it (which is weird on its own).

Its so annoying that for me, even if Amazon sent me an email saying that my order had been sent, I'll have to wait a month for it (For some reason all Amazon shippings to Israel come from Germany, no idea why) Guess I'm gonna get the ebook after all... P.S. my first post after five months of lurking