Timewaster's Guide Archive

Sadeas hasn't read it, though he seems to be considering it. Refer to the very end of chapter 58.

Also I copied the inside cover to use to identify the symbol/color/picture for each Herald for easier reference and identified soulcasting since that's the one we know must be shared between Jasnah and Shallan.

http://stormlightarchive.wikia.com/wiki/File:Heralds.jpg

Might I suggest that we know one other besides Soulcasting? In ch. 19--Dalinar's first vision--we see these two things:
~Pg. 303

Dalinar lurched, turning to see a woman in delicate Shardplate kneeling beside him holding something bright. It was topaz entwined with a heliodor, both set into a fine metal framework, each stone as big as a man's hand.

Topaz and Heliodor are Taln and Ishi, which would mean that connecting the two of them ends up with the Shardbearing girl's ability:
~Pg. 306

"Lady Knight, could you heal him again?"
"I should save Regrowth for others who might be wounded."

Which would make the top left small circle Regrowth.

Well the fact that he's now sharing a new story in the same section makes me think that Dalinar only shares stories that have really stuck out to him.

On I-1 and ch. 12 the guy with the mask--is that confirmed to be Hoid?

I've been doing my first reread, and found something rather interesting:

The miners eventually tired to Took's increasingly slurred stories. They bid him farewell, ignoring his broad hints that another cup of beer would prompt him to tell his greatest tale: that of the time when he'd seen the Nightwatcher herself and stolen a sphere that glowed as black as night. That tale always discomforted Szeth, as it reminded him of the strange black sphere Gavilar had given him. He'd hidden that carefully in Jah Keved. He didn't know what it was, but he didn't want to risk a master taking it from him.

Sweet. It's a stretch, but there are also ten countries on the map next to it, vaguely set up like the Heralds on the first map. any connections?

I just read this entire thread and want to throw a few ideas out there.

1) has anyone considered that the person on the floor wasn't her father? I can't remember the scene, but if the guy isn't specifically considered 'dead', then it could even be Nan Balat.

2)I like the idea that Shallan picked up the blade by accident, but it also seems possible that she convinced her father to give her the Blade, which may have been an indirect cause of his death. Her father had a lot of enemies. This may have put him without a weapon when in need.

3)that brings up the soulcaster. Given what we now know about spren, I wonder if someone intentionally sheared the object in order to release the spren or at least render it useless for a future murder. I know that theory has a lot of holes in it since I'm not inclined to believe that a Shardbearer would bother cutting up a soulcaster for that reason.
-random point- did they find the sheared pieces of the soulcaster, or did those just decide to go off and vanish?

4) I can see the Ghostbloods killing members off for slight discrepancies. Her dad must have had a million opportunities to piss these guys off, so maybe he took one.

5)Shallan refers to herself maybe once as a murderer. But she says a lot of times that she's a traitor.

Considering what I've done before, she thought, this is nothing. It wouldn't be the first time she betrayed someone who trusted her.

Though I must point out, I'm not really sure why she'd classify her father as someone who trusted her. They weren't the tightest-knit group.

6)I'm not a fan of the idea that Shallan was directly responsible for her fathers death. This constant idea of betrayal, though, makes me think she may have slipped information/gave someone the means and opportunity to go after her father. May or may not have been intentional. Either way, I'm inclined to believe that Shallan's part in her fathers death was indirect.