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Didn't Dalinar have a relevant vision regarding the Recreance (http://coppermind.net/wiki/Day_of_Recreance)? I can't recall the details but perhaps a hint is hidden in that passage. I find it odd that The Diagram is so vague when it comes to the Radiants. It suggests that Mr. T may not have to destroy them after all. Besides, saving humanity should be an objective of the Knights. Therefore, they would in fact align with The Diagram, or not?

Excellent! That is exceedingly helpful!

Check the earlier posts, if I'm reading your idea right it's been done.

Have looked into that earlier today. Someone else has made an excellent timeline of events in Words of Radiance and the dates match the highstorms recorded there. That being said, I've also double checked them against the death rattles from WoK and there's no apparent correlation. And finally logic would dictate that death rattle predictions are less probable that high storm predictions, which are fairly commonplace.

One of my favourite possibilities! I've tried KNIGHTSRADIANT as a Vigenère key, without much success. There's also the epigraph: "They will come you cannot stop their oaths look for those who survive when they should not that pattern will be your clue", which would seem to point to this key. However, following that line of thought SONSOFHONOR could also be an option as it's implicitly referenced in the chapter 83 epigraph.

I think Spydr makes an interesting observation in point 2 regarding kings and kingship. I've been wondering myself about the odd punctuation here: "You must become king. Of Everything." But I've reached the conclusion that this is unlikely to be directly related to the code. At least I fail to see the logic.

I've tried the first epigraph you cited as a key, its interesting because it mentions both a "pattern" and a "clue"! Here's the file, if you look at the grid right now it contains another phrase that I tried (which is a bit more random). https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B-jbUcMIL__CUVZRUzA5bVNFUEU/edit?usp=sharing For the first one, which I find more appealing personally, I left the (0,0) blank. Because the epigraph contained exactly 99 characters and if split into pairs the code does not contain 00. I have a feeling similar methods have been tried by others, but as far as I can tell not with that particular phrase.

Hey! Having recently finished the book, I've been following this thread for a couple of days - now it's officially time to stop lurking I find this puzzle incredibly interesting and have been playing around with a couple of theories (more on that in another post later). More importantly, I've seen something like this code before here: http://fabiensanglard.net/Ghost_in_the_Wires/index.php Edit: See Chapter 27 for a prime example. That is, by the way, also a very good book! Anyway, here's my two cents: I reckon Mitnick's codes provide some good prompts for common types of ciphers (mandatory reading really). Two other things of note are: Mr. T gauges his intelligence with mathematical problems (such as Fabrisan's Conundrum, which he solved) We know from the mention of a logarithmic scale (btw the pattern is written in a rotation; circles and the natural logarithm are intimately related i.e. Euler's identity) that their mathematics should be compatible with our type of mathematics I think that Mr. T would have followed a rational and pragmatic logic, meaning that he followed the simplest way, kind of like his policies aimed at increasing the average intelligence of the Kharbranthian populus. Can't wait to get this cracked!