Confused Posted January 27, 2016 Report Share Posted January 27, 2016 (edited) Honor’s exhortation to Dalinar to “Unite Them!” has many meanings. Unite the Knights, Unite Roshar’s peoples, etc. (Honor is the “binding” Shard.) The natural question is what will happen when that group IS “united”? I think the “them” to be united refers to the Heralds. The re-establishment of the KR will draw the Heralds to them. Why do I think the Heralds? Let’s look again at the WoK Chapter 9 Epigraph: “Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red.” Though this refers to “Shardblades,” I think it really means Honorblades capable of consuming investiture. Herald unification enables them to combine all of their Surges and, perhaps together with the KR, re-form the “bonds that drive Roshar” (WoK Ars Arcanum). I envision the ten Heralds standing against the Voidbringers, Honorblades “alight,” sucking in vast amounts of investiture – and thereby stripping the Voidbringers of their Odiumspren. Violent Voidbringers will again become passive Parshendi, and the thunderclasts and Unmade will fall lifeless, their state before Odium invested in them. Unfortunately, the Honorblades consume ALL investiture. (See my theory of "investiture imbalance" as the cause of Desolations.) That means the Heralds’ souls and all spren, including the Radiantspren. Victory against Odium means the end of the spren. See ya, Syl! We barely knew ya… Edited January 27, 2016 by Confused 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patrick Star Posted January 27, 2016 Report Share Posted January 27, 2016 Completely off topic, but I just realized that the chapter 9 epigraph would have sounded way better if it ended with "a wall of red, black, and white." Anyways, +1 for outside the box thinking. Once I get onto a desktop, that is. Don't want to accidentally downvote because of my fat fingers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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