This is the second of my theories for Brandon Sanderson's next book, Wind and Truth, expected out on December 6th. Since Tor is planning to start serializing the book in two weeks, I figured I should post it now:
The new Odium thinks that there is a loophole in the contest
of champions that he can exploit. However, he hasn't said what it is, but if I
can offer a guess. It's Shadesmar. The agreement doesn't cover Shadesmar, it's
based on the Physical realm. The Fused already control much of it, including
Cultivation's Perpendicularity. But now, they have a means to kill spren permanently.
I predict an attempt at genocide, regardless of the result of the duel. Odium
always said that he'd have to destroy the Splinters of Honor. All the Radiant
spren are pieces of Honor, but especially the honorspren. Taravagian isn't any less ambitious than Rayse
was. If these Splinters had to be destroyed for Rayse’s plans, they'll likely
need to be destroyed for Taravagian’s too.
Radiants can fight in Shadesmar, but Shardblades won't work,
and Shardplate probably won't either. The
Stormlight which fuels their power is harder to come by, and their spren can't hide or become tiny and
mobile, meaning they’ll be more vulnerable to spren-killing anti-Stormlight
weapons.
I wonder if this is the reason that Ishar is trying to pull
spren into the Physical Realm bodily. Even if he had no way of knowing about
anti-Stormlight, he probably had reason to know that Odium wishes to kill the
spren, and may believe that bringing them into the Physical Realm would make
them safer. Of course, since he's insane, he's doing it in the most horrific
way possible. But it does give a purpose to his mad experiments.
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