u/Melliorin

I'm chest deep into another round of listening to Wind and Truth, and I was reminded today while listening to ch. 100 that Roshar was created as a celebration of the divine interplay between mathematics, numbers, and music. This suddenly got me thinking (can't believe it never occurred to me before) that **maybe, just maybe** Pattern's iconic "MMmmMmm"s, and those of all cryptics, might actually be attuned to the various Rhythms of Roshar. The more I think about it, the more I love this idea.

What do you all think?

Spoilers Disclaimer: Mainly Stormlight (Wind and Truth) but also Mistborn Era 1.

As referenced above, **What do Ruin and The Wind Share in common?!**

In W&T ch. 103, "Weathered," The Wind speaks to Kaladin about how Nale "is just weathered, like that stone you sit upon," and gives him a time-lapse vision of the stone he sits upon having once been "a masterwork statue thousands of years ago." She tells him that the things she loves, she nevertheless ends up weathering. A couple chapters earlier, we hear the Stormfather/Tanavast describing the function/Intent of the Wind being "to protect," in a wat that even he does not quite understand. This obviously connects to the Ideals of the Windrunners (and explains Kaladin's deep Connection with the Wind, at least from a narrative-thematic perspective), but also leaves a weird Connection dangling loose - that the Wind seems to be about *protection,* (ostensibly an Intent similar to Preservation) but also *weathering* (which to me **heavily** implies Ruin, given what we learn that actual Intent identifies with, in both WoA and HoA).

So the question arises, as the Wind seems to embody (by Her own words) both protection and weathering/Ruin: What (else) do Ruin and The Wind and Ruin share in common?

This is less of a theory post and more of a conversation-starter and actual question to all of you worldhoppers. What do you all think about this seemingly contradictory combination of Intents? Is The Wind, as a splinter of Adonalsium (rather than of a Shard), more nuanced and holistic in Her Intent? or conversely, is there some clue here about the geometry (sic) of Shardic Intents? What does this weird and mostly obscure revelation bring to mind for you all? Am I falling into a fever dream of Connection? Am I, like our heroes, caught in a swirling web of nebulous Spiritual/thematic Connections? Or is there actually something **tangible** here that we can grab hold of?

The Everstorm comes, and the Singers take up arms against their human oppressors!

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