Curse you Ookla, I've already forgotten and broken my oath not to read your treacherous and confusing texts, meant to lead me astray, with those tantilizing bits of information, which I crave!
OCTOBER!
The bit about something being right in front of our faces might involve that "over arching mystery," hidden in the prologue epigraph, or it might be something else, but if Ookla had trouble with it even after reading book three, what chance do I have, alas, I must try. I will solve this mystery, or go mad trying (or both).
I like Czanos's point about Vin, Rashek, and Alendi all being "tired." There's something there I think. Vin had trouble sleeping, because she felt she couldn't sleep, or else something would happen during said sleep that she would have been able to prevent had she been awake (ie Elend's assassination), while the Lord Ruler's tiredness is of a different sort. He is tired with life, he's seen and done everything, and he's tired of things not going smoothly for him. He's been "working," on the same problems for a thousand years, and people still doubt and fight his power. He is tired of people not realizing his overwhelming power. Alendi suffers from insomnia, correct me if I'm wrong, because of the mist spirit who follows him, and from his inner turmoils. Three pivotal characters in the books are suffering tiredness, I think Czanos is on to something, but I am unsure of what it is exactly.
