#stormlight thoughts

Just saying something bad is going to happen in stormlight 5 isn’t enough???

Uhhhh something something Adolin and Maya. I want to see her restored to not being a deadeye but not being a full spren either. Like enough that she can come as a Shardblade instantly but Adolin doesn’t have the full range of Edgedancer abilities that he would get.

On Adolin I think that in the timeskip him and Shallan will have kids. We saw it in the hope of elantris and again with Steris and Wax. Brandon likes it when couples have kids. Plus I think it’ll be interesting to see the different hair colors and whatnot.

Also on that note I feel that Adolin would be a great parent as his weren’t the best. Especially for Renarin. And since his parents weren’t the best parents and Shallans are dead he’s probably end up going to Hesina for parental advice. I think she’d be quite excited to help him out.

Also Kaladin and Aesudan are related through Hesina and I want to know more on that. (One of her parents is a lighteyes or something?)

Additionally. I think that Szeth and Kaladins road trip is going to get cut short by the 10 days timeline thing. I keep going back and forth on this. With all that there is that we know will happen in stormlight 5, will the book just be occurring within those 10 days? Because with the lost metal that was like less than 48 hours. But like idk it’ll make the relationship feel very rushed.

Also I think Dalinar is going to lose the contest of champions thingy. There’s no good ways of putting it.

Renarin!!! I love him so much. I really hope that he gets more povs in kowt. I’d love to see more inside his brain. The little bit in Oathbringer during the battle of Thaylen field wasn’t enough for me. Because hes like way too relatable it’s almost scary.

I just want aspec Kaladin confirmed because at this point it’s driving me insane. Hes gotta be on the aroace spectrum. Because there is ZERO explanation for all that he’s got going on.

It would be really super cool if we saw some more worldhoppers too. Maybe Khriss and Nazh(?) and also maybe Kelsier(???) especially after the kowt prologue absolutely.

I think this book is going to have more with the Heralds too. Idk what or why but I think so. I actually really REALLY want to know about Chana (the only herald we haven’t seen yet.) Mostly because of the Chana is Shallans mom theory. I love that one and also it’s been like triple(?) RAFO’d now so… hmmmmm

Dustbringer Moash!!! There’s just something about that that makes me go insane and someone somewhere had like a great theory about that and also just dustbringers in general because we haven’t really seen much of them but I dont know where that theory is right now or anything.

I hope we see Azure again. Specifically with Vasher. Some point they both see Szeth wielding Nightblood and they both go like Woah woah woah holy shit no dude. How are you not dead? And Szeth goes oh I’ve already died once so…

Speaking of Szeth. My beloved white boy Szeth. Idk if he’s still wearing white or not but if he is give him some color to his wardrobe. He deserves it. Also I think this death rattle is talking about him and going back to Shinovar because his house was kind of by the ocean and the everstorm most likely destroyed Shinovar as they’re not used to highstorms being that powerful and then it came from the other direction and yeah.

So the Heralds and this Return.

Since listening to the SA5 prologue I've been assuming that Jezrien was not the first Herald to die. Except the Heralds 'die' all the time, they've been doing it for millennia thats the whole thing there.

ANOTHER assumption I've been holding is that since Taln did not break - manifested clear by now - that Gavilar's little trick with the voidlight/Shadesmar/whatever worked and there was now a way to travel between the planets making the Heralds a little pointless now anyway.

(I liked that theory. I was quite attached to it. Honestly I had myself fully convinced)

However Gavilar really doesn't know much about, well, anything. So maybe it worked. But more likely this Herald who 'died' did so in the way they always have and went back to Braize. At which point they immediately gave in, because of course - they've all had enough, and bam the Fused are there.

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Except this still doesn't explain the Everstorm or what the Spren were doing with Venli, bringing the Listeners to the Fused. If a Herald had released them again would they have needed all that?

Maybe they did still bypass the Heralds.

*Shallan showing off an artistic depiction of the fall of Kholinar in only blue hues.*

Shallan: So what do you think? UwU

*Kaladin and Adolin only seeing a bunch of random blue paint strokes.*

Kaladin: It's a... lot of blue.

Adolin: But a great selection of blue! It's very pretty gemheart.