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He's not saying that Adonalsium was working with the people nor that he helped to Shatter himself. He said that all we know is that a previous plot failed, we don't know why, but it's not necessarily because Adonalsium fought against it. There's just no solid evidence one way or another.

I'm definitely in

I really need to make a topic on why I don't want that to happen, too. Briefly, too similar to the ending of WoT (cyclitic Ages), too obvious, and given the Traveler excerpt, pretty sure Hoid wants to bring someone back from the Beyond, not reassemble ol' Ado.

I think it has more to do with intent than Identity. Identity appears to mostly be a tag for investiture, to mark it as yours, rather than anything tied to your personality or beliefs. Storing Identity wouldn't make a difference in how you perceive yourself, therefore none in how Nightblood would perceive you.

I theorized on this a few days ago:

On Roshar, the lighteyes actually have unusually light eyes--to a degree that isn't usually seen in our world. Darkeyes ditto, on the other end of the spectrum. It's due to an alteration in the spiritweb from Radiant/Shardbearer ancestry. So I would imagine the pigmentation is actually pretty funky in regards to lighteye/darkeye colors.

I would personally say he can see the future because Glys is corrupted. Regular Truthwatchers, I'll bet, can see the present and maybe the past.

So how it works is that TLR stored a bit of his youth, in some atium. He then swallowed that atium and burned it. It would have given him a huge chunk of youth. He then stored that huge amount of youth in a second metalmind (otherwise he might have youthened himself into a baby or a handful of cells!). He would then, as he got older, tap that second metalmind to look the age he wanted to look. Any time he would start to run low on youth, he would burn the remnants of that metalmind for another huge amount of youth. His spiritweb knows what age he's supposed to be, and so any time he stopped tapping atium, he would return to the age that he actually was. Gold heals you to your spiritual ideal, and then stops. Atium isn't a permanent change because it can't change your spiritual ideal, just your physical aspect while you're tapping it.

Anything is possible, but I don't believe so, myself. As I've said in the past, I feel like reassembling Adonalsium would feel too cyclitic, and thus, too similar to Wheel of Time for Brandon (or editors) to want to touch with a ten foot pole.

Remember that Roshar predates the Shattering, and was created by Adonalsium. So any motives for it being a giant fabrial (if that's even possible pre-Shattering) would have to predate the arrival of Honor, Cultivation, and Odium.

I thought I'd revive this thread for the upcoming Valentines Day 2019 I just realized I should tag @hoiditthroughthegrapevine because you'd love it.

The Heralds and the Oathpact are simultaneous. The Heralds were formed for the Oathpact. So they can't be separate events. Given that the Oathpact was a response to the Fused, the Fused would have to predate the Oathpact. And the current form of surgebinding was based on the spren figuring out how to copy the powers of the Honorblades, so the spren bond would have to post-date the Oathpact. And *Rayse didn't necessarily follow the humans, nor did they necessarily worship him. He could move around on his own, and after getting humans to destroy Ashyn, I'm sure Roshar the planet was going to be next on his list anyway. You might be interested in my theory on how Ashyn's magic works: Also, it's Honor and Cultivation. The typoes in the thread title is driving me nuts

I might be more anal retentive than most.

You might be interested in my thread:

I would imagine all Shards can do that. Kelsier was dead, he could see dead people. We have it from the Stormfather in Oathbringer.

Part of that is because the people who are alive in Shadesmar don't see the same things as Cognitive Shadows do. Also, a bit about your original theory:

Yeah that's just a RAFO, which just means he wasn't ready to reveal it. Then he does, in the one I posted. Also, the Oathpact doesn't bind Odium, except indirectly. It binds the Fused to Braize.

Sorry Also, double posting is frowned upon. You want to click on the Edit link and add to your post if you have additional thoughts.

Pretty sure they're basing it off of this extremely tenuous WoB about Autonomy helping Odium. But given that it's paraphrased and that in any way can mean just about anything, it's really not a good WoB to base anything on.

It would not, from what I understand of how silver works. It's a counteragent to the withering of the Shades, but it doesn't heal damage that's already done, aka the severing that a Shardblade does. This? https://coppermind.net/wiki/Shard#Known_Shards Brandon has said that there are not necessarily equal and opposite intents, like Ruin and Preservation were, so we really don't have enough info to accurately guess what the remaining intents are.

There are times when it really is Vin remembering Reen, and times when it's Ruin. Basically, when it follows naturally from her thoughts, it's her memory of Reen. When it's more of an imposition, then it's probably Ruin.

All of those have been RAFO'd so far. We likely won't know until Dragonsteel comes out in a couple decades.

She couldn't get it from Dalinar when he opened the perp. She asks him where she can find some food just afterward.

Yeah continuity errors and typos both go into the Oathbringer Typos thread. I think this one has been brought up, but I'm not positive. Ctrl-F through that thread and see, I guess.

Edit: Oh I get it now. Hah that's a neat coincidence.