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It's implied, but not stated.

You're making the assumption that Szeth becoming a Truthless occurs before the Diagram was written...

That's not a very nice attitude! But what we know about the Recreance thus far lines up with it being precipitated by a secret rather than an object:

In this context "hold the secret" means keep it a secret until the right moment comes to use it. I agree that it is a piece of information, something learned by the KR which precipitated the Recreance.

Aw, no ketek, guess it was a red herring.

Yes, though the other option of course is that from 52512157 the initial 52 is the stand-in H rather than the 7. Implications of a stand-in H: - It is a phonetic code rather than representing alethi glyphs which could not be represented in this way. - A single phoneme can be represented by either a singlet or doublet code (maybe even triplet?) as the 52 and the 7 would have to be interchangable as one unit. - Words may be represented correctly phonetically but alphabetically incorrectly. For representations of how English can represent the same phoneme in many different ways see:

I still think the key is likely to be a H in the imperfect palindrome in the ketek.

If we do things like that don't we lose the palindrome / ketek? I think that's going to be key.

Dalinar - Received: ??? , Punishment: Forgot Wife Received = getting over his grief? Seems like a fair use of the genie-wish trope.

This is a bit unclear even to me, but could 7 represent H acting as any other letter with a diacritical mark? As with Nohadon's name. So the Palindrome could extend to 710 at the beginning with 210 at the end and the middle 7 could be replacing 52... or something. So the numbers would be representing phonemes rather than letters, either individually or in combination. This implies that using letter substitutions would be unsuccessful, at least if we're trying to translate it as an English word as this language is phonetically irregular. We'd need to match numbers up to these: http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/wells/phoneticsymbolsforenglish.htm if I'm right.

"Cultivation's holder" could easily be past tense since we'd be aiming nobody else could hold it currently instead.

Holder is not specifically present tense... Perhaps what is keeping Odium on Reshar is Cultivation's having voluntarily and reversibly given up and split apart her Shard, and would be able to undo this if Rayse left without eliminating the Sliver

I imagine she's in a similar state to Honor, perhaps with the Nightmother being an analogue to the Stormfather as a chief remnant.

Yes, I said the person writing could be Harmony, the person towing chaos behind is who it is written to, Wit/Hoid. But if WoB says it's from a dragon then whatever, this thread is answered.

Word of Brandon.

I don't think that Shadow's absence is necessarily the problem with her being a Skybreaker so much as the fact that Young Shallan is unlikely to have committed sufficient criminal acts to act as a fig-leaf justification for her execution.

How do we know Brandon is making the same assumption when responding to whether Hoid possesses a Shard? :conspiracy:

He seems to want to counter Odium, while whoever penned the Reply wants him to remain occupied and effectively in stasis on Roshar.

Which Hoid? The original, or Wit, who apparently uses his former master's name?

I do. I get how Shallan could heal that but hadn't Syl already had her scream of disappearance while Kal was falling? How did he heal?

Well Sounds like something you might hear from Harmony? Yes, Sazed post-dates the original Shards and their relationships, but would he have inherited memories of that time?