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IIRC, there was only one Bondsmith at the time of the Recreance (and it sounds like it was Melishi). Maybe the lack of a bondmate is why it was withdrawing?

If you click on the Herald's name, it should take to to a page that talks about what we know of each Herald, and when/where we've seen them, if we know (or have a reasonable suspicion).

Sapient beings don't become spren on death. If they are invested enough, they can sometimes become Cognitive Shadows. There's no reason for Odium to have Invested Eshonai enough to become a CS, since she was fighting against him (subconsciously) the whole time. And if she did somehow become a Cognitive Shadow, she wouldn't have been able to grant Venli access to surgebinding, as opposed to whatever the Fused use. And Timbre specifically says her grandfather was killed in the Recreance. I don't think there's confirmation that lightspren are Truthwatcher spren? The prevalent theory is that lightspren are Willshaper spren. Glys is male. Renarin refers to Glys as "he" and when Sja-Anat talks to Shallan, she tells her to speak to her "son". And Brandon has said that Eshonai is dead.

Roshone's lineage is known. He's related to people in the kingdom, so I don't think he can be a Herald. Hearing that a Desolation, something out of myth and legends, is real and happening right then, I think, fully justifies his reaction. I'm not sure what you're asking here. Timbre was originally trying to bond to Eshonai, but since Eshonai was dead, fled to Venli. Timbre is almost certainly a Willshaper spren, and is possibly the daughter of the ship captain in Shadesmar, Ico, who says his daughter ran away chasing dreams.

Did anyone here ask or hear the question about whether Azure was hunting the Herald or Zahel?

Avatar is what Brandon used in the letters, so that's what I'm going with. I think Chaos used aspect when he asked about it, but he says he wishes he'd used Avatar instead, since that's what it is in the books.

Yeah, I think it was just Szeth taking in a huge amount of stormlight. The explosion of power is something unique to Windrunners (and maybe Bondsmiths), and doesn't happen with the other Orders. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/171-oathbringer-release-party/#e8220 He clearly swears the Ideal at the end of the battle:

Right. Szeth doesn't swear the Third Oath until after the big battle, so that was when he would have been able to summon a Shardblade.

No. Timbre talks about how her grandfather died in the Recreance. Eshonai is dead and gone. Brandon is not allowed to bring her back on pain of stern looks and lectures. Eshonai being a Cognitive Shadow wouldn't give Venli access to surges. Eshonai would need an extra infusion of investiture to become a Cognitive Shadow. None of the current Shards would be likely to do that. (Sorry, I just hate that theory with a vengeance. Nothing personal.)

It's been confirmed for a while. Also, Brandon's said that he's fine with having a flashback character that's dead. My guess is that the PoV will be Venli, with the flashbacks being Eshonai. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/116-general-reddit-2017/#e4007 https://wob.coppermind.net/events/116-general-reddit-2017/#e8854

The asterisk is that it's an avatar of Autonomy, rather than Autonomy herself.

It is confirmed to be Eshonai. Szeth will be Book 5.

Isn't Ialai on the run? She appointed a highprince who betrayed the Kingdom and its allies.

Perpendicularities are where there are such concentrations of investiture that they pierce all three Realms--the Physical, Cognitive, and Spiritual. They're sometimes also called Shardpools, even though they're not always actual physical pools of "water". Because the perps pierce all three Realms, they allow travel between those Realms. Honor's Perpendicularity would be a place where enough of Honor's particular flavor of power is concentrated to the point where it pierces the Realms. It, by itself, does not represent a threat to Odium. However, the fact that Dalinar could summon it has a large amount of significance that we don't wholly understand.

Agreed. Whatever Hoid is up to, it's not going to be as simple as that.

A few notes: You can't Awaken a deadspren Shardblade. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/312-orem-signing/#e8953 Atium is described basically like mercury, except solid: You can definitely tell, at a glance, between steel and mercury. Mercury is incredibly shiny, far more so than steel. And yes, Vasher would have had enough Breaths for automatic color recognition. In TLR's Empire, that small ball of atium that Vin is holding cost about 2000 boxings. Enough to make a sword would be.....somewhere in the millions, I would guess. And there's no chance that a purchase that large wouldn't draw the notice of the Steel Ministry, or TLR himself. And to purchase that much multiple times to make multiple swords? Not enough atium existed in circulation for even one sword, let alone multiple. Just because Vasher doesn't know the exact Command or method of forging the Breaths into Nightblood does not mean that he didn't know or couldn't tell what the sword was made of in the first place. The two of them were working and planning together. In order to do that, he would have had to handle and theorize about the sword. I just don't see any possibility that he didn't know what it was made of. In this WoB, Brandon explicitely makes a difference between awakening a regular physical object, and working with an object that is made of Investiture. As atium is made of Investiture, if NB were made of atium, he wouldn't have made this differential. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/9-calamity-philadelphia-signing/#e7902

No, I mean, to master sand, you have to have one end of the sand ribbon touching your skin. Cut off that connection and the ribbon dies from the cut on, and turns black and falls down. I'm sure he's using it, I just don't think he's using it at that particular time.

I think Hoid is using the Yolish version of Lightweaving here, like he does with the Wandersail story, not mastering sand. Note that the jar of sand is black, which means it's been used, except for the part facing Shallan, whose use of investiture is probably recharging it. As far as we know, he has to be touching the sand to master it, and it would glow. Then it would turn black and fall to the ground once he released it. I think that Shallan and the rest of the audience would have noticed those things.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/312-orem-signing/#e8943

Yep. Which is why Nale is utterly bugnuts, and the Skybreakers too, for following him. Like, how do you NOT see your leader (and HIS leader) is a lunatic and a raving lunatic?

The Skybreakers travel quite a bit, right? So none of them have been in Tukim in the last few decades, to see first hand what the guy is doing there?

Maybe because he also trusts Ishar, and Ishar is starkers? ^ Does that sound like a man in possession of all his marbles?

He was trying to lure Ash to him for some time, with famous depictions of the Heralds, is what I would guess. He says in his scene: For the rest, I have no idea. Maybe info on the Oathpact, or the locations of the other Heralds?

Because they were more interested in stopping or converting budding Surgebinders.Szeth was a threat to a few people. Desolations are a threat to the entire planet.

Yep.