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Reactions and analysis for my first-time read of Wind and Truth. Start with the intro post here.

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Chapter 40

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Stuko Stem Um, why are we using those chess terms again when this is a Szeth chapter? Is there some analogy to the tactics being used in Azimir? Does Szeth play Towers?  Icons: Tanat, Vav I’m really not sure. Maybe their inverses of not-dependable and not-healing will match the decline and moral abdication of the stone shamans? Very wild guess here. Epigraph: Sleepless say that the Herald
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Chapter 38

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Those Who Subtract Szeth meets the raiders and their consequences, and likely has low self esteem. Icons: Ishar and Shash With the raider attack, this has got to be the blood and sinew essences. Not a good sign. Yeah, finding the heathen stonewalkers sitting on a stone and by the rock that your family semi-blasphemously moved is not going to make you immediately discount the idea of retribut
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Chapter 36

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  NOTE: Okay I think it's pretty telling that I stopped for months after I got to a Szeth flashback chapter, and then didn't find the motivation to pick it up again. Which is sad because  prior to picking up this book I was really looking forward to getting his backstory and learning about the Shin society in particular. Unfortunately I'm really not feeling it. Hopefully I'll get over that.  Also despite
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Fashion Folio: Takama

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  I do really like the comparison between the traditional and modern styles, with a clear distinction drawn between the practicality of one versus the aristocratic finery of the other. The stiff, starched collar of the undershirt as well as what I’m imagining as gold thread adorning the sash of the modern dress in particular give a lot of character to the outfit. The open chested look with the weapons and trave
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Chapter 30

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: Not Alone This took me a minute to figure out because I was trying to figure out what the POV symbol was for. Who is a human-singer teamup? Renarin and Rlain, that’s who. Which means we might finally learn something about Renarin and his powers, or at least lay the foundation for his sub-order of enlightened Truthwatchers and how he and Rlain will get along. The stained glass crystal backgro
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Chapter 29

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  A Lift chapter! Huzzah! I saw the feast POV symbol and got confused for a moment. I’d almost forgotten which symbol was hers. Title: Secret Handshakes Lift is gonna make up some secret handshakes. I can’t wait to see how impractical they are. Icon: Vev Edgedancer in the house. Epigraph: Don’t apply judgements or aphorisms to situations they don’t fit. Fair. I’d criticize Shallan for ho
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Chapter 28

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Obstacle Not sure if Shallan is the obstacle here or if she’s facing one. Glad to see it is in fact a Shallan chapter, though. I rather expected a POV switch again. Icon: Chach Destruction from the fight, is my first guess, but maybe it’s for obedience. Or possibly Mraize or Iyatil’s spren makes them an alternate version of a Releaser/Dustbringer. Still guessing they’re Elsecallers, but we hav
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Chapter 27

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: What is Right I dunno, but Szeth’s whole rigidity of belief suggests that he’s not going to take well to whatever lesson of nuance his father tries to teach him here. Icon: Ishar Honorblades make an appearance? Apparently Szeth’s mom Zeenid teaches painting in town. That’s got to be rather prestigious given the Shin respect fo
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Chapter 26

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Hunting the Hunter Shallan doing her infiltration. At a guess this is suggesting she gets caught/recognized and Mraize does his gentleman antagonist thing and compliments her before trying for murder. We’ll see. Hopefully the chapter sticks with her long enough to progress the ghostblood thing and not just take us to the next cliffhanger. I’m looking forward to seeing how she handles the challenge of
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Chapter 25

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Purposeful Danger See, the most likely/obvious interpretation of this is Shallan putting herself in danger for a purpose in attending this meeting. However we could all soon be purposefully dangerous in either threatening the ghostbloods overtly, or in the ghostbloods agenda using the danger that they pose to influence the course of events. That same interpretation could apply to other groups outside
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Chapter 24

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: In the Dancing Ring That’s one way to euphemize a likely death dojo. Until told otherwise, that’s how I will picture the honorblade training Szeth’s family got. Icons: Ishar King of heralds, appropriate for a presumed introduction of honorblades and oaths, not to mention the extreme piety that Szeth presumably acquired from his family. I note also the color-swapped Szeth for these flashb
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Navani's Notebook - Part I

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Navani's Notebook - Part I A page from Navani’s Notebook! Finally! I love deciphering these pages and looking at the beautiful sprengineering sketches. The contents of this page are pretty obvious from the chapter we’ve just read, so before going through the text I’ll just appreciate the art for a moment. The oven looks elegant, especially with its little exhaust attractor at the top. Such a neat ae
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Chapter 23

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: Compromise It’s a Navani chapter, so gotta be some negotiation about sprengineering with the Sibling. Icons: Vev and Pali Loving and Obedient, as motivators to compromise? Or maybe this is edgedancer listening and truthwatcher planning. Epigraph: Oh, here’s a conclusion to the parable: let people leave if they wish (like dust that travels between borders). A sentiment that applies bot
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Chapter 22

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Looking for a Third Option Seems obvious. What else can we try? How do we utilize the power of Honor without taking it up?  You know, hear me out. If a normal spren gives you a shardblade, what would a shard do if you Connected in the right way? Forget becoming a vessel, why not just grab honor by the hilt and smack Vargo with it? Okay, that’s facetious, but I’m being somewhat serious. In the previ
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Chapter 21

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Incomplete Truths At first I was going to accuse this of being a reference to Wit or Cultivation with hidden cosmere info, but now I see from the chapter symbol that this is a Shallan chapter, so it’s most likely a confrontation with Mraize. It feels a bit fast for that, though, so maybe it has to do with the way Shallan’s truths about herself, spoken to reach this path on her lightbringer journey, a
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Chapter 20

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Three Vital Points of Defense Gotta be Azimir, Thaylenah, and… I dunno. Urithiru is already well defended, Herdaz and Alethkar are part of the deal, Emul and Jah Keved have already capitulated, and the singularity in the peaks wouldn’t be a defense but an offensive strike to retake. Aimia isn’t a population center and its importance is still a secret from everyone in this room. That leaves Iri, Tu Ba
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Chapter 19

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Ruled by Voices Yup, this is a Szeth chapter.  Icons: Chana Destruction! Or maybe bravery? Or subversion of obedience, as Szeth is going against everything he learned from the Stone Shamans? Epigraph: Oh, the travelers aren’t looking for something so esoteric as all that. They’re looking for Nohadon’s well-governed lands where the king actually cares about his people. That kind of mythica
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Chapter 18

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: An exception to the rules Going by the Jester icons, I suspect Wit is going to say something about the contract loopholes. That interpretation is based on Adolin’s POV symbol, suggesting that anything Ghostblood related will wait another chapter to show up. Icons: Jester We know Wit is present in the meeting, and he’s consulting with offworlders, so it tracks. Epigraph: Nohadon’s encou
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Chapter 17

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: A Tough Kind of Love Gaz just described his treatment of the bridgmen as “tough love” and anything that could be used that way for the treatment Mraize showed to Shallan is either euphemism or manipulation. Not a good sign of what’s to come in this chapter. Icons: Ash Lots of lightweavers doing lightweaver things. Unseen Court is going to battle (and probably gonna get trounced and tricked
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Shallan's Sketchbook - Part IV

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Sketchbook page! Shallan’s own shardplate! Love the satchel at her side for the book and reeds, and whatever else she plans to keep in there. (Not sandwiches, probably, since she’s not Lift.) I do like how ornate it is, especially with that one armpit section that looks like a leaf. It is distinctly feminine in proportions without being overly feminized.  The plan to add a cape for Adolin’s benefit is
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Chapter 16

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: Vague Promises and Hints Yes, that’s about what we’ve come to expect from the Shard vessels at this point. I’m not really anticipating anything else from Cultivation despite her supposed interest in opposing Taravangian now. Icons: Jester and Vedel Same as chapter 14, but with their positions swapped. Jester was on the outside before, now it’s to the center. Not that I’ve got any clue a
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Chapter 15

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.   Title: Passionspren That’s not a type of spren I would have thought existed until now. As used on Roshar, Passions is primarily a broad term to encompass all strong emotions and desires, and therefore there should be no “passion spren” since we already have dedicated spren for anger, fear, awe, glory, joy, et cetera. Theoretically there could be passionspren in the sense of romantic ardor, assuming th
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Day 2 / Chapter 14

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here. It’s Day Two! And holy POV explosion, Batman! We’ve got a ridiculous number of people listed as viewpoint characters at the beginning of this section. That whole trade-back-and-forth-between-different-core-groups idea is going out the window, apparently. This looks like an answer to my question at the beginning of how a strict chronology was going to change the format and structure of the book.  Expected
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Interlude I-2

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.   Title: The Divided God Presumably this is related to his dual capacities with Passion and his intelligence/foresight/etc.  I note that the chapter illustration is altered from the intelligent/compassionate representation in Rhythm of War. This Taravangian has swords and frowns in both directions. This does also suggest that Taravangian is once again the (or at least one) repeating interlude charac
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Interlude I-1

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here. Title: Kalak I’m surprised we’re getting a viewpoint from him already. We just barely left him behind. So either there’s something important he chose to withhold from Shallan that we’re going to find out about, or there’s another assassination attempt incoming. Hard to think of another reason to give us something from him associated with Day 1. I’m sure it’ll become obvious soon, though. Icons: Kalak
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