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Night 2: The Accusation Fortunately enough for us, as it were, the inclusion of this Inquisitor only served to spread the seeds of distrust between the various factions. No one could any longer be sure of who to trust, or who could betray them. Of course, it also meant that none of us could trust one another. I pity Vin, who Elend had tasked to search for any traitors in our midst during those nights. They were dark times indeed… any yet, they only got darker. The guests from the previous night’s ball hurried into the keep -- the former Keep Hastings -- in order to enjoy the holiday. The holiday was supposed to celebrate the Lord Ruler’s conquering of the Deepness, hundreds and hundreds of years ago, but honestly, who cared anymore? The Lord Ruler was dead. Business went on as usual. “LOCKE!” a voice shrieked from across the ballroom. “Show yourself!” Locke winced at the sound, rolled his eyes, and hobbled over to the source of the shouting voice. “Silk,” Locke growled. “What do you want?” “What do I want?” Silk chuckled to herself. “Nothing much. It’s only that I happened to get a drink at the punch bowl over there, and something seemed a bit off.” Locke crossed his arms. He could not stand such youthful and obnoxious nobles. Talked like they owned the place. Talked like they were the only ones who mattered. “What is it?” Locke asked, struggling to keep the exasperation out of his voice. “I was just wondering… did you happen to spike the punch bowl?” Locke blinked. “Uh… what?” He looked around at the other nobles, who seemed equally as confused. “Is this some kind of joke?” “Of course, my dear Locke!” Silk laughed for several seconds, then went silent. She tentatively put an arm on Locke’s shoulder. “It’s only that… well, you know.” “What are you even going on about?” “Well… you’ve been influenced by the forces of the Deepness!” “What in the name of the Lord Ruler are you even going on about? There is no ‘Deepness,’ Silk. Have you not figured that out yet?” “On the contrary,” Silk said, smiling slyly. “I’ve been mulling over what’s happened to the Steel Inquisitors after the Lord Ruler’s death. If you haven’t noticed, they’ve been quite absent from Luthadel.” “Wonderful.” “Ah, but haven’t you heard about the mists in the northern dominance? The mists that kill?” “Sure, but I don’t see where…” “I’m a seeker,” Silk rolled her eyes. “I followed a set of Allomantic pulses last night to a very peculiar location. And I seemed to spy someone who looked very much like you helping to--” “Enough!” Locke shouted. “Have you gone mad? I was sleeping in camp Penrod last night. I don’t even have any Allomantic abilities, you fool!” “Wait,” someone said from the side. “Did that man just admit to being from that loser Penrod’s squad?” “Ferson Penrod sucks!” another shouted, and several more rushed in towards Locke, carrying him towards the punch bowl. “Let’s plunge him in the punch bowl!” “Wait, what?” Locke shouted, thrashing wildly. “What’s even wrong with Penrod, anyway? You’re all ones to talk! You… following the vile Straff Venture or Ashweather Cett… you are nothing but hypocrites! We will not stop until you are all extinguished from this planet!” The mob of partygoers threw the thrashing follower of Penrod into the giant punch bowl. It wasn’t until the thrashing stopped that some of the partygoers finally realized that the punch bowl had not been spiked. - - - - - Locke (OrlokTsubodai) was lynched! He was an unspiked non-Allomancer from the Penrod faction! Vote Tally OrlokTsubodai (11): Elbereth, Amanuensis, Arraenae, Straw, Araris Valerian, Nyali, jaimeleecee, dowanx, TheSilverDragon, TheMightyLopen, Conquestor Amanuensis (6): OrlokTsubodai, Mailliw73, Alvron, Master Elodin, Kipper, STINK The Only Joe (1): cloudjumper Alvron (1): The Young Bard Burnt Spaghetti (1): zas678 jaimeleecee (1): Burnt Spaghetti dowanx (1): Sart STINK (1): Bugsy6912 Night 2 begins now and will end in 47 hours. Your faction information will be updated with the boxings you’ve received during the day shortly. Good luck!

After a brief conversation with Brandon on the matter, I think I might be onto something. This theory revolves our current understanding of Physics so it would be some time in the timeline before we could confirm these theories. However I cannot stop thinking about these ideas and Brandon confirmed a couple of my speculations. But if the skills that Shallan has displayed, along with the words of Pattern, we can extrapolate incredible future abilities. Now I could be wrong simply because we don't have an understanding of all the radiant groups as of yet, but here me out about this. So what do we know are Shallans abilities? Well the first and probably the most powerful (that we KNOW of) is the soulcasting. Shallan can separate her cognitive mind from her physical body and interact with shadesmar directly. Once she masters this skill she will be able to use storm light as a bargaining chip to convert matter and form. I'm excited to see what this entails and if there are any real limitations to this power. Like can they only soul cast into one essence at a time? Why do the soulcasters in the Alethkar army look like they have stone for skin? So many questions, but despite this ability, I want to focus on lightweaving itself. i just feel that transformation is "more powerful" than progression. No the ability to manipulate light is the real power here. Although "Lightweaver" is a deceptive name. Remember how Pattern said that Shallan could manipulate sound as well as light? When I read that the second time through I did a double take. I mean, on the surface these two are vastly different. Light is a collection of photons, where as sound is a vibration in moving particles. The only thing that these two truly share is that the nature of light and sound is determined by the waves and wavelengths that they maintain. So how could this be? If Shallan is creating false light barriers, then that should be the extent of her abilities. it would still be amazing and incredibly versatile, but that's it. Including the ability to affect sound waves tells me that there is something far greater going on. If Lightweavers actually shape the wavelength of physical particles and energy waves, then her powers become nearly unlimited. First I'll start with sound. If Shallan as a Lightweaver can control waves of vibration to create sounds, then what else could she do (Assuming stormlight were no object for the sake of speculation) Well she could most likely stun people with powerful sound waves. Especially in the water, large enough shock waves can actually stun of kill. Remember a noise is simply a managed vibration in particles including liquids and solids. If you can manipulate shock waves and add enough power, stunning people would not be too far fetched. Even Earthquakes are effectively massive shock waves that travel through the soil. They seem vastly different from a verbal shout, but on the large scale they really operate on the same physical premise. And we now know Shallan uses her powers to effect shock waves, so far just on the small scale. So we can presume that with enough stormlight, Shallan could cause an earthquake. Now to the real power. Light manipulation. Often times we get comfortable in our spectrum of light. We have the colors of the rainbow and every shade in between. Shallan had displayed the countless applications of light manipulation in stealth and espionage. However we are not so limited in Physics. Visible Light is a tiny part of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. The levels of light along the spectrum are only different in their wavelength and frequency. This is where things get exciting. First lets go to the large end of the spectrum. So if we have two lightweavers, perhaps standing on the peaks of two different mountains. If the lightweaver can manipulate radio waves, using stormlight to create a variable radio broadcaster and receiver, we would have the perfect way to communicate without anyone being able to listen in. This could be very useful, although span-reads honestly are better at this, so this is less exciting. More likely Lightweavers would become radio hosts in the future as they transmit music and voices into the homes of radio owning families in the future. I can imagine Lightweavers as traveling radio performers sharing their skills as actors of comedians across the radio waves. But it's the other end of the electromagnetic spectrum that gets really crazy. Imagine how soon x-rays for medical diagnoses could be used when your doctor can literally create x-rays out of thin air? Crime scene investigators will have a local Lightweaver create UV lights to help reconstruct the crime scene and look for trace evidence. But the ultimate form (That Brandon said would be too much to be practical both in needed stormlight and application) would be the control of Gamma Radiation. If this could be harnessed, Lightweavers could literally become mini nukes, or death guns. The biggest downside to making Gamma radiation would be the damage the lightweaver would most likely suffer. So gamma radiation is impractical but its a fun thought experiment. So that's the end of my thoughts, I just see people talking about how Lightweavers are cool, but not as powerful as Windrunners. Now you know the possible future of lightweavers! The best part of this whole speculation was how excited Brandon was about my train of thought. I don't know if anyone had brought up this train of thought before. But he was happy to remind me that things will get pretty interesting when Lightweavers discover lasers and start using them in combat. Seriously, he said that, I couldn't ever make this up. Hope you enjoyed!

Much hipster, I see. You should start posting thoughts before you think of them. It's what politicians do.

Below I give an update on the situation of my temporary home for cats. If you're not interested, scroll on.

What did Fleet say to the Highstorm? Want to Rayse? How ow do you cook chouta? Braize it.

Argon didn't have such a good time in weeks. Exchanging jokes and stories about his cake summoning powers was fun, as Rick had great sense of humor. They were just finishing their food and slowly getting ready to continue their walk, when a young woman approached them. “Good day, you two,” she greeted them with a polite nod. “I take it you just arrived in the city?” Argon looked at Rick to see if he knew her. Surprise on his face revealed that he didn't. Argon knew that they didn't look like Epics, sitting on some old boxes, chewing on pieces of cake and laughing. There were two options. Either she was an Epic, walking around the city, having fun with regular folks by showing her supremacy in some way, or she was a normal human, looking for some company. It was hard to tell in this city, because even the servants had relatively nice clothes, so they didn't differ much from lower Epics. Obviously, Epic or not, Argon was safe from this woman. However Rick wasn't and it wouldn't be nice to have a new potential friend killed on the day they met. Having friends was important for Argon. It's always easier to be liked if someone speaks well of you. He shifted on his box a bit, getting ready to intervene is this woman tried anything funny. "Hello! Yes, I'm new in town, arrived just hours ago. My friend however is local. Would you like to join us for a snack?" he asked, while materializing a piece of apple pie with whipped cream and a strawberry on top (including a paper plate and plastic spoon) on his hand. He reached out to her with an inviting gesture.

Here it is! Basically, at the rate he's going, and with no tours or other interruptions planned, the first draft should be finished around mid-October. He's finished up through Part Two, as well as all of the Dalinar flashbacks, and the word count is 247k of an estimated 400k. Also, he's trying out a new process in an effort to speed up revisions. After he finishes each part, he's sending it to his team to do continuity and editing while he keeps writing, which means the second draft should be finished more-or-less at the same time as the first draft. As for actual content: Any speculation on who the "unexpected and interesting" viewpoint characters might be? Personally, I think it would be very interesting to learn more about Tezim, the Tukari god-priest.

I know, I know. Photoshop is not circle-friendly. Resize an avatar to LJ-size 100x100 pixels? Easy peasy! Try and crop something into a circle? UNLEASH THE ELDRITCH ABOMINATION! SUMMON CTHULHU! THE MORTAL DARES TREAD IN THE UNHOLY SACRED REALM! Also, I feel like since our corners got cut off, our avatars should be made slightly bigger to make up for the lost real estate.

When you notice your Malatium decal is missing a spike and after tweeting Peter about it someone at Brandon's store sends you a full sheet of new decals, a cartoonish koloss sticker, and a hand written note!

Throughout the past year in a half I have read or listened to all of Sanderson's works (except the Alcatraz books, which I couldn't get into, and his electronic only fiction). I'm obviously a big fan and Sanderson is one of my favorites along with Glen Cook, Steven Erikson, Joe Abercrombie, Pierce Brown and Jim Butcher. My favorite series of Brandon's is a toss up of Mistborn or Stormlight. My favorite character changes, but currently is Lightsong.

I listened to the Stormlight Books, but own the physical copies mainly for the beautiful artwork. I will probably read them some day, but I love how Krammer and Reading present the story. Krammer is my second favorite narrator behind James Marsters (Dresden Files).

Also I think all you guys are overreacting to Orlok and just trying to bandwagon him, probably cause he's not in your faction and your worried that he'll get ya like a bogeyman or something. Know what I mean?

*hops on a bald eagle and rides around waving the star spangled banner whilst eating a hamburger* IT'S MURICA DAY! But I think we all know which American patriotic song is the best. Ever.

Happy Independence Day, my fellow Americans! Here are some patriotic pugs and an equally patriotic German shepherd.

It was good to be home again. Granted, it was a bit rough, what with the holes all over the place but that’s what they’re here to fix and even in this battered state, the white walls still gave her a sense of security. Soon it would be her own little castle again… and maybe Voidgaze could even get some friends to stay over. She was making some of them lately after all. Voidgaze explained the basics of the needed repairs, trying her best not linger on how the damage actually happened, to Funtimes, who listened intently. The way she tilted her head in thought actually made Voidgaze think of the pug that was running around her bedroom and excitedly sniffing everything. She looked eyes with the animal and was just about to try and coo it over, when Funtimes asked her if she wanted polka dots on her walls. “No thank you,” Voidgaze answered. “I like my house white. It just feels right to me that way. And why would you just turn parts of my walls into polka dots? Although they are dots, so I guess only having them in some places would make sense. Still, that seems like a weird design decision, breaking up a pattern like that. Not that it really matters; I mean I want it to stay white anyway. Um, can I maybe do something for you while you work, like preparing some food or watch a movie… no you couldn’t really do that while working, unless we maybe pull the television behind you, no that wouldn’t work with the cables, so… maybe I can keep you entertained?”

This is so incredibly offensive to me. Screw macho d-bags like that. Macho masculinity has done so much harm to the world. Some people shouldn't own firearms. I'm one of them. It is a very bad idea for me to own firearms. Access to firearms in homes increases suicide risk by a lot. But macho men don't understand that suicide is a really huge part of gun violence, presumably because they do not understand how emotions or feelings work. Also, please, the power fantasy that you're going to defend your home or stop a mass shooting with your gun is irresponsible. Not only is it statistically unlikely for you to ever be in that situation, but when your adrenaline is that high in a situation like that, how good do they think their aim is? Probably not that great. Unless you are ex military or police, you probably have no idea how to shoot straight under insane stress. If your brother wants some masculinity I will happily punch him in the face repeatedly. I'm infuriated just hearing this. Screw people like that.

Hmmm it seemed pretty obvious it was her... if only because of the hair. It is interesting to note how often Dalinar comments on golden hair: back in WoK he refers to them rather often whenever he thinks of his son. In the flashback, it may be the first thing he notes from the strangers, their hair. Shshshshs walks into the room, Dalinar may have been thinking about Navani, but his eyes were on the newcomer and he refers to her as a "candle into the darkness" or something along those lines. The timeline is also spot on to have Dalinar meet Shshshsh, then court her for three years. The left-handed comment comes from Navani describing Shshshsh as clumsy, always trying to eat with her left hand, which undeniably marks her as left-handed. Also, it has been implied in the books Adolin's mother was Iriali, so to have Iriali strangers arrive during the right time frame pretty much confirms it. Finally, the last argument is Dalinar himself. He may not remember his wife, but he remembers he loved her. The scene when she walks into the room, the one where Dalinar states she was like a candle, is very reminiscent of the scene where Shallan walks in. Dalinar's eyes, just like Adolin, are locked onto the beautiful stranger and both father and son note the hair. If Dalinar is intrigued by the golden hair, but Adolin is relived to find no black hair onto Shallan. Therefore, I'd say the hair, the hair comments pretty much, all by themselves, confirm we indeed have the right person. Not to forget, they had a stolen Shardplate they were willing to use as a bargaining chip to ensure their safety. My personal theory is Toh got the upper hand: he outsmarted Gavilar. The Plate was supposed to be given to the king to be, it wasn't.

But that won't help me remember my baking measurements. D:

First-time submission: complete short story at 3036 words. Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I'd love to hear back from you with comments, critique, etc.

Thanks NG, I do appreciate you taking the time, and there are some good comments that I will certainly make use of. Also, thanks for taking the time to explain further in relation to my response, that is helpful. Much appreciated. <R>

Long Game 22, Night 8: Part 2 Rubix was lynched! They were a Corrupted Darkfriend Aiel-blooded! Night 8 will last for the standard 24 hours, lasting until 2AM Wednesday, July 6th! I *swear* I have an awesome story coming with all the pending write-ups, just haven't had a day off in over 2 weeks and haven't had time to get it all going. >.>

Should've gone with Aman...

Yeah, but your message is decryptable without giving you any information just from word length analysis. I've pretty much gotten it, and all I have to say is, no, I don't want any vanilla Cookies. Thanks for asking though.

For sake of balance in feedback when you get to revising, I have to mention I disagree with this. There are a couple sentences here and there that are a bit winding with unclear antecedents and such, but typically, your sentences are structurally sound. Making every last one perfect is very late revision work; letting a few slide by until you're 100% sure you're satisfied with your content is fine. Otherwise, you could spend hours laboring over edit level work only to cut them in a huge swath due to a revision choice. My two cents.

Every Sanderson meme I have on my phone:

Brilliant comments. Thank you, Krystalynn. I take great confidence from these and the other feedback that I am making strides. There are some clear and specific targets for further revision emerging from these responses that I will target in another edit. - Fermarald's unreliable description of the horde does not land; - Harth's choices could be more convincing; - I suppose I could cut Cresca, but she is there for a reason - to highlight Fermarald's detachment; I've taken a couple of days to reflect and I think there are only four submissions this week...

Don't worry, you'll get used to it. Basically, put people who's names you find suspicious in red, and try to get them voted off. Unless you're the suspicious one, in which case try to keep you and your team-mates alive and put everyone elses names in red.

In Spanish, man (hombre) is one letter different from hunger (hambre) A man needs to be fed!

It cut off my hair and a bit of my horn! *throws self onto a chaise lounge, a la Rarity* "I used to be sooo beautiful!"

I would like this a lot. It's sometimes difficult to track down all the threads.

I like the way you think, sir. Upvote for you!

I had had similar thoughts. Here are few of mine: 1) Either he is asked to forfeit his Shards or he loses them through battle, but in any way he ends up separated from them. The gemstone is most certainly broken and he most certainly releases the bond, but nothing can shatter the "other bond" he has started to have with it. There are several ways this scenario could play down. One of my favorite is having Adolin starting to struggle controlling his Blade: he is stressed out, he is emotionally very unstable and learning his Blade is a dead-spren which he is torturing each time he summons it, truly incapacitates him. He has a hard time maintaining it in the physical realm, he has a harder time summoning it, each command requires him to concentrate, immensely. Thus, he loses a fight, because he can't control his Blade as well as he should. He has to unbound it and then, he struggles even more. Whether he is asked to give up his Blade or whether he is forced, the action of unbounding it is very difficult for him. Dalinar has once stated it was the hardest command to send, you had to force the Blade to unbound you and it requires heavy concentration (which is why he is surprised at how easy it was to unbound his second Shardblade at the end of WoR). I suspect Adolin, Adolin who has struggled in throwing his Blade, who has shown us being emotionally unstable impacted his ability to send commands, would struggle to the point he will need time to force the command in, right under the prying eyes of either his family or an arena full of hateful lighteyes booing him. 2) Shardless Adolin would give us the chance to glimpse at how Shardbearers have to adjust when they lose their Shards. It has been sated, in the books, how difficult it was for former Shardbearers to fight again, how they had to re-learn everything because being a Sharbearer requires different techniques. Adolin has been a Shardbearer at a ridiculously young age: he never fought without Shards, he never learned. It would be very interesting to read him cope with this, to comment on how heavy and constraining a regular armor is, to run out of breath because he isn't used to pace himself and armors have a way to basically strangle you, to see his fighting ability lessen because a regular sword need more than one hit to kill, to be faced with a much more horrible battle because let's face it hacking people with a sword is bloody... all in all reading him adapting to this would be interesting, tragic even. 3) Of course, Adolin can't remain Shardless forever so in the ideas I have had, he would indeed end up re-forming a bond with his Blade. Maybe he kills its new owner or he manages to steal the Blade from him, but whatever happens Adolin just refuses to re-bond the Blade once it is his again. His family thinks he has gone insane and worry about him and his insistence on refusing to bond a 6 foot Shardblade he keeps on his back at all time... or perhaps he manages to send it back to the cognitive realm, but can't re-summon it again. I have all kinds of scenarios of how he may bond it, but I sure think it will be a slow progression. He will say the words because he needs to say them, but he won't have the immediate result. The result will happen once he says enough word... I have no idea about Kaladin, but I have noticed Brandon loved over-powered main protagonist, so it is highly possible Kaladin will simply keep on growing in strength. I do not see him as an antagonist though.

That image of Syl sitting on the end of Kaladin's spear may be one of my favorites of all time. I love the flowing Rapunzel hair, it's perfect!

Not at all true, bye troll! Banned.

We have contact with the outside world. I can e-mail my family and friends. Besides, I knew about all this when I signed up for it. I read and agreed to the terms and conditions. All of them. I'm not being cut off from the outside world as much as separated from it. I'm basically agreeing to spend two years in service, and the restrictions just help me to accomplish that. Besides, the worst punishment for breaking the rules is being sent home, which is only a last-resort action that nobody likes to implement.

This is less a peeve, more a source of anxiety: When I'm the last to post in a topic, or say something, and no one says anything,and my post is just...sitting there. I start thinking "Oh no, I've killed the topic/offended people/they don't say something because they hate me now," and... Yeah. Not fun. And a major reason why, I think, I come across as needy or clingy, or... I dunno? For which I apologise. (and now the worrying begins)

[Shallan and Adolin on a date] Shallan: So what do you want to know about me? Adolin: What's your family like? Shallan:[shoving chouta into her drawing satchel] I have to go right now immediately

When BBC News assumes its American readers are idiots raised under the heaviest of rocks. I found one (which vanished the second I went back for another look) purporting to be information about the EU referendum for US readers. Opening paragraphs included things like "If you're from the US, your probably have questions....like 'What does EU stand for again?'" It went on the explain, in the most dumbed-down way possible, that the EU is a European organization with its own flag and everything! Wow! Isn't that neat, Americans? Are we going too fast? Yes, I'm American. I already know what EU stands for and what the referendum is all about, and why it's controversial. Tell me what will happen if one side or the other wins. I might live across an ocean, but I'm not an idiot. I'm one of your readers, actually, and you'd think that'd buy me a little respect.

Couple of problems with that, though I wouldn't say they are necessarily proofs: I think it would undermine Kaladin's arc, the same way the "Kaladin is Dalinar's son" theory would. If Lirin was actually a Herald, wouldn't he find a way to deal with Roshone? He lacks other Heralds' crazy. Nale is justice-bound, Kalak is paranoiac, Jezrien is drunk, Ash hates her image, and Lirin acts... like a regular, if flawed, human being, really. All the divine attributes that would befit a surgeon (Healing, Giving, Caring) are associated with female Heralds, not male ones. In fact, the Herald said to specialize in surgery is Vedel, who's definitely a woman.

And by that extension, what happens when you get "half breeds" like twin born, or Kenton who is born of a darkside mother, and dayside father.

Good point is good.

Two sides of the planet, with potentially two different Cognitive identities. Focus on sunlight/starlight/things going on in the sky... Expanse of the Broken Sky, anyone?

For the same reason of ZenBossanova, because I think plant to be Taldain's Focus... I see well the Taldain's Cognitive like a jungle (yeah I know it's ironic)

To me the sunlight have nothing special (or at least magical proprierty) and the whole ecology/magic is Plant based. My interpretation of how magic on Taldain work, is this: We have some tiny organism in the sand. These organism are plant like and do the photosyntesis. This organism are vital to Taldain ecology, because they are the food of Sandling (and after bein digest some trace of them may grow again with enough Sunlight). The Sand Masters insted put this organisms under mind control, using their own water as "menace" because like Sandling that organism are killed by water. What happen when a Sand Master stop to use the Sand (and it became Black) is about their control over the Sand became no more and the "water put in the Sand are no longer keep separate from the sand itself). In my own opinion also Darkside have plant based magic and more flexible but rarer than dayside. Because while on Dayside only 2 kind of plant life form may survive, on Darkside potentially many species may grow... but of course they have very less light to proprerly grow. Slatrify work with a "humidy control", after all with my interpretation is quite the base of Sand Mastery. To me Sand Mastery is of Authonomy because you use your own vital reserve to perfome it (your water) and pushing to hard with your own limit (in the and you refuse to accept external source) you may improve your control on the sand. PS: I never considerated the Terker like raw alluminium, nice catch

I personally doubt the journey to Heartstone will fit within the interludes... Kaladin has stubbornly refused to face his parents following Tien's death and only resolved himself to do so because the threat of the Everstorm triggered his protective mode. Without the Everstorm Kaladin would have never gone back home or perhaps not never, but not at the end of WoR. I personally want to see Kaladin have closure on the events in Heartstone. I want him to make peace with his parents and, potentially, with Roshone. I want him to met again Laral and realized she was just a teenage flings and have them part ways as friends. I do not want to have Kaladin come back only to find his parents dead bodies and rant on pages and pages on how he failed, again. Failing Tien has been part of his main story arc, I feel having him deal with the death of the remaining of his family may be a repetition of WoK's plot. I also wish for Kaladin to further develop his leadership skills by proving position of authority should be earned and not awarded based on rank. I wish for him to settle his little village before leaving it behind, in good hands. He would then be ripe to move onto Kholinar. The riots in Kholinar could then be exploited either in book 3 or in book 4: I would be fine with both options. I think both would work as well. I am not saying Kaladin will not have any bumps along the road, but I wish for these bumps to be about assuming leadership, not failing at protecting loved ones. If he parents end up dying, I hope it will be after he makes peace with them. This one, I am highly divided about it as I do not appreciate Szeth as a character. I have always found his interludes painful to read and my interest in whatever happens to him is slim to known. I agree he is a relevant character, but he is not one I have an emotional connection to, so my petty wishes are he does not take up too much plot time. However, realistically, he is bound to gain in importance, though perhaps not in book 3. Brandon believes another flashback character may fit better for book 3 which leads me to believe Szeth's journey will not be part of the main story plot. If it were, then his flashbacks would make sense and since Brandon thinks they may not be best... Anyway, huge speculation here on my part, so take it or leave it. I am unsure how relevant is the lost Parshendi story plot... This one could fit within the interlude, in my personal opinion. but I supposed we are going to have to wait and see. My personal wishes would be for: 8/12 on Urithiru with POV from Adolin, Dalinar, Shallan and potentially Renarin whom we are supposed to get more in the next book. 4/12 on Kaladin in Heartstone/Kholinar. The remaining being left for the interludes, Szeth could easily get 5-6 chapters via the interludes, no need to get such random characters there. But the reality may more be something like: 6/12 on Urithiru, 4/12 on Kaladin and 2/12 on others such as Szeth and/or Eshonai. In any way, I personally hope the major plot line will be the Urithiru one as too many is happening there.

I doubt Kaladin will not be part of the main story plot in the book 3... just as I doubt both Szeth and Eshonai will be major major players. So far, they have been featured into simple interludes. I suspect their importance will arise because Brandon wants to do flashbacks on them, but I do not see the currently major characters losing much plot time for them. There is much going on in Urithiru and in Heartstone, I do not see the next book main plot not taping in this. Perhaps Szeth going back to Shinovar will be included within the major plot, I dunno. He is not a character I like reading about so whatever page time he gets, I hope it won't come at the cost of any other character However, my petty wishes do not matter much As for Kaladin, I am hoping he will get slightly less page time, not because I dislike him, but because I fear he may be getting overused. I believe having his plot into one part out of two, similar to Shallan in WoK, would work best, but again, this is my humble opinion. The plot time he is not using could then be used by other characters such as Szeth, Eshonai and Renarin. Either one of the three or a combination of two or all. The only thing I hope is for Adolin not to lose any page time. In fact, I hope he'll get more, but again, petty wishes Sadly, probably won't happen.