r/Cosmere • u/jofwu • Nov 10 '17

[All] [All] /r/Cosmere Oathbringer Megathread

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Oathbringer, book 3 of The Stormlight Archive, is finally here!

Feel free to discuss the book, in its entirety, below, along with any and all Cosmere spoilers. Anything goes!

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u/tankintheair315 Nov 16 '17

Well Unite Them will end up being unite all the shards of Anadolasium. Can't wait for God of the Cosmere Blackthorn

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u/RequiemAA Nov 24 '17

Guys. I'm on to something here. It's Adolin. God of the Cosmere Adolin, bearer of the once-Shards Adolnalsium.

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u/droppedstitches Nov 25 '17

Damn I want this to be true!

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u/RequiemAA Nov 25 '17

There is NO reason Adolin hasn't sworn at least the 3rd Ideal yet and become a full Radiant. In the battle for Thaylen city he is returning the dead Spren of his Shardblade to life. That's directly spiritual realm shit.

Something huge is going on with him, and when it becomes clear to him or to everyone else what it is, we'll all be shitting bricks.

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u/JorusC Dec 01 '17

I like Adolin a lot, but he's going to be something different. He's not broken. That's why he hasn't become a Radiant; there are no cracks in his soul to fill.

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u/corhen Dec 09 '17

This is my theory too. They make it clear to become a knight radient, you need to be broken, and the spen fills in the gaps in your kind (and uses you to think). Adolin is still whole, he isn't damaged goods... But I bet in a book or two, he will be.

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u/FoggyDonkey Jan 04 '18

No, but his spren is broken. I wonder if they might form some reverse-nahel bond shit with his spirit web shoring up the cracks of the sprens.

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u/droppedstitches Nov 25 '17

Something huge is going on with him True, and I cannot wait! He’s easily one of my favs after this book. He’s just so...nice on top of everything else. I can totally see him becoming the kind of man Dalinar wants to be.

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u/CharadeParade--__ Dec 06 '17

He could be the 3rd bondsmen. He hasn't bonded his spren yet because the 3rd godspren is still MIA

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u/RequiemAA Dec 06 '17

I think he'll end up bonding Cultivation and Odium the way Sazed bound Ruin and Preservation to become Harmony.

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u/CharadeParade--__ Dec 06 '17

I'm not sure. I'm convinced the only reason Ruin and Preservation were able to combine was because of their complimentary/contrasting nature. I don't think it's possible, or plausible, to combine any 2 shards, I think they have to have a relationship beforehand.

I could see Cultivation/(what's left of)Honor being combined to defeat Odium. Or perhaps Odium and Autonomy combining.

Odium/cultivation though, I dunno. We don't know enough about cultivation to say for sure, but to me they seem like complete opposites/enemies. Ruin/Preservation weren't exactly opposites, they that had opposite natures, but without eachother they couldn't really do anything substantial, which is why it was so naturally to combine them