What's Going on with the Heralds? (FULL COSMERE SPOILERS) Cosmere Connections Ep. 6 

I laughed out loud at work when you gave Nale a 'Bananas out of Ten'

I just figured they'd been insane for their entire time since the last desolation, driven mad by the supernatural torture.

I think I’m going to quit my job and become a full time Cosmere scholar!!

"Ishar a force to be reckoned with " boy were you right What the Fuck was with that house of horrors in the row

This intro is awesome. This is the channel I’ve been looking for. Enough analysis of GRRM or Patrick Ruth. who don’t really follow a timeline nor care about the fans. It’s time we back Sanderson and build up more Cosmere theories!

Seriously your work both content and visual are superb ..... Wellwisher from the other side of world

Very impressed with the quality of this video even with this channel only budding, great work!

Saw this posted on reddit. This is the type of content I need to keep the stormlight buzz before RoW. Thanks and great video. 👌

A new oathpact will have to come to pass, and the one who started the oathpact has now fallen traitorous. We can assume that at least one other Herald will die, and that a few of our beloved characters will become Heralds themselves as they form a new oathpact or something greater that will lead to the eventual defeat of the Shard known as Odium.

Great video thank you!!!

These videos are the perfect preparation for RoW if, like me, you read Oathbringer ages ago. I've been waiting this one since the last came out. Keep them coming! Awesome work man. (this is my first comment EVER on YT, that's how good this is)

If you do theories I'd love an episode on Shallan! With the new release chapters (if you're reading as they're released) I can't get enough of speculation on her secrets

Great video! I'm getting ready to read rhythm of war

I like your channel keep doing videos 😄

Love it! Keep up The good work!

after RoW Ishar gets a 10/10 on the yikes meter.

Yikes meter, genius

After ROW Ishar just skewed the scales.

I'm assuming this video came out before Rhythm of War. Otherwise how would Ishar not be a 1,000/10.

Kaliden is taking an interest in the mental health of others? Is this what he is up to? Perhaps going to heal the heralds? I'm only a few chapters into ROW at the moment. Thanks for your videos

Voranism: And lo, the Heralds chased the Voidbringers back to the Tranquiline Halls, and verily they took the fight to them there, to drive them even further into the Great Void and reclaim the Realm of the Almighty for all True Believers! Reality: Actually, we uh... sorta blew Heaven up with unrestrained Surgebinding? But some of us were able to escape death and came here! And the nice crab people let us have Shinovar which was more or less like the world we came from, but it was so small, we just had to take over the entire planet and trap their minds in an Unmade! Oh yeah, we also stole their less angry God from them and in return, we let them have our old crappy one! I don't understand why everything on Roshar hates us so much?

It seems quite obvious to me that their madness is related to memory. I assume spoilers for Rhythm of War are fine here, given the title of the video and all, but in the epilogue of RoW, Taravangian/Odium says to Hoid that he would had to have stored his memories in some way to avoid going mad. Of course, Hoid is older than the Heralds by far, but it seems safe to say that just straight up getting too old will make you mad if you do not control the amount of information stored in your brain. I think it's also quite obvious that torture has some part in their madness. While it has been mentioned that they seem quite lucid at Aharietiam, the last Desolation, I don't think that means it had no effect. They were all clearly tired and incapable of going through more torture, but the memory of the millenia spent being tortured remained. Madness is not some instant thing that happens after you hit a breaking point, but rather a slow decent from lucidity to complete insanity. They might have been experiencing some symptoms of madness already when they made their decision, and the constant memory of what they have experienced slowly bringing them further and further away from lucidity. I would not be so quick to think that Honor or the Oathpact is at all relevant to their madness. We have seen quite clearly that mental health is not cured through investiture, even Honor's investiture specifically. All the Knights Radiant suffer from mental health issues and not a one has been given a quick fix from bonding a spren. I would thus conclude that a connection to Honor is not what drives them mad, nor what fixes them. Taln clearly reacted positively to Dalinar opening the perpendicularity though, but whether that was because of investiture or a close connection to the spiritual realm is hard to tell. I do believe they mention in RoW that it doesn't work anymore after the first time though.

Ishar is incredibly dangerous... and crazy. He's gotta be at least 9.

Is there any possibility this series doesn't end with our main heroes (from perhaps across multiple books) taking the place as new Heralds in some new Oatpact, probably not quite so awful?

Blind Justice doesn't usually hunt down specific people. While he takes no consideration for nuances, he can't really be considered blind justice. He is more Letter of the Law, applied when needed. That is the single worst type of injustice, since it defies the actual blindness of true justice.

Post RoW Yeah Ishar is right up there at bananas out of 10