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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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Shallan's Sketchbook - Part III

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.   Shallan’s Sketchbook Part III: Urithiru Ooo, surprise illustration. I didn’t think we’d get another one until after the interludes. Looks like Urithitru from the Shadesmar side. The crystalline, translucent construction of light, almost like a ray tracing, is a sweet look. I don’t remember what it looked like before the tower came to life. Did we get a shadesmar description? We must have, at least fro
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Chapter 13

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.   Title: Promise I've got nothing reasonable to guess what this is about, so I'm going to make an unlikely guess and say it's something about Shallan's questioning of reality and the voice promising she can trust Adolin.  Icons: Pali No truthwatchers around, to my knowledge, so this is more likely to be connected to Pali’s divine attributes, learned and giving. Neither of those match tonally to a
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Chapter 12

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Beyond the Brands Is Kal going to heal from his slave brand? That would say something about his personal development, but I doubt it at this point. Although, I vaguely remember that already happened in the last book? Man, my memory is crem sometimes. Either way, his next intended stop is visiting Rlain’s party, so this title probably is about the developing brotherhood of Bridge Four after all of the
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Shallan's Sketchbook - Part II

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Shallan’s sketchbook part II Musicspren! Not a whole lot to analyze in this page, but I do have a few thoughts. These musicspren are much more grassile and thin than I gathered from the descriptions. Gallant having a ghostly afterimage made me think the spren were a similar shape to the Ryahadium, but their proportions are quite distinct.  This drawing also shows less overlap than I imagined. I
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Chapter 11

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Musicspren Gonna rescue Gallant and learn more about the Ryshadium and their bonded spren. Icon: Ash First repeat of the book. I suspect that Brandon just wanted to give us a full set in the first 10 chapters + prologue, and that from here on they will follow a less forcefully varied sequence, but we'll have to see. This one obviously follows Shallan's fourth Truth and the accompanying lightwe
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Chapter 10

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.   Title: Book-Quartermaster Sounds like a librarian, militarized (i.e. Alethi), but this is right after Syl promised to show us her possessions, so I'm not sure if it's really what it sounds like.    Icons: Nale Maybe there's Skybreakers supporting the Heavenly Ones in Shallan's section? Just and Confident as heraldic attributes are fairly widely applicable, but morning about them jump
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Chapter 9

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here. Title: Tossing Spears This could be a violent encounter in all likelihood, or less likely a training scenario with the squires, but I choose to think that Kal and Szeth will make a game out of throwing things back and forth while they fly to Shinovar.   Icons: Taln Hopefully Kal will get to talk to Taln and Ash before he leaves… but it could also be the endurance or resourcefulness that Tal
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Chapter 8

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.   Title: A Coming Storm Maybe the Wind will elaborate on its warning?    Icon: Chana Continuing the no-repeats pattern so far. A reputation for destruction would match a devastating storm.    Epigraph: apparently the Wind has no future sight, just experience and intuition. I'm not sure how Jasnah is drawing conclusions about how Wind usually behaved compared to how she acted
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Chapter 7

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: Lost Blades This is one of the big mysteries for the series so far. Where have all of the dead blades gone since the Recreance? We're talking thousands of them that have gone missing over the centuries. Has someone in Shadesmar been doing something to sequester the deadeye Spren away from the physical realm? How would that be possible?    Icon: Battah Elsecallers have affinit
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Chapter 6

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Title: Nobility  Probably a reference to Kaladin’s respect for Dalinar and possibly Navani. Icon: Ishar  Because that's his task, and also possibly for Dalinar's bondsmithliness. Oh and maybe Navani's too  Epigraph: Okay, this is starting to sound like it's Jasnah speaking. She's doing her historian veristitalian thing by tracking down primary sources. Presumably Kaladin’s mission will re
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Chapter 5

This is my reaction blog for Wind and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Note: I just realized that I’ve been calling the book Winds and Truth (plural) when it’s really just Wind. That’s important given what we have learned about Wind the being, so I’ll adjust going forward and correct the overall blog title. Title: What Might Still Be First thought is a reference to Testament, second thought is something to do with Shallan’s aspects. Probably it’s none of those. Icons
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Chapter 4

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Listening Either Edgedancers or actual Listeners make sense here, but my actual prediction is to do with Navani listening to the Sibling and working to accommodate them. Icons: Jester Worldhoppers in the house. This is most commonly Wit, but my prediction/hope is that this is going to be a surprise appearance by Zahel, since the prologue thrust his importance in our faces. Epigraph: “I h
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Chapter 3

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: The Cost of Heroism Combined with the icon of Kelek and that this is a Shallan chapter, I assume we’re getting a conversation with Restares. Icon: Kelek Epigraph: Okay, this one is pretty informative. The epigraphs are speaking of very recent events (Taravangian’s displacement of Rayse as Odium’s vessel) so the text must be a new work. THe Wind is apparently going to vanish at some point,
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Chapter 2

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Taking the Next Step Lots of things this could mean, I don’t have a good guess for which one it’s suggesting for this chapter Icon: Vedel Can I hope this means Lift will show up? Alternatively this could be about the attribute of healing, and Kal is going to start mending things more with Lirin and continue improving his mental health. Epigraph: Okay, the Wind is getting capital letters,
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Chapter 1

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Title: Unfamiliar Ground Possibly speaking about the new truce between Kaladin and the listeners under Leshwi and Venli? Icons: Pali Dare I hope for this to refer to Rlain’s new Truthwatcher status? Epigraph: Okay, first up we have the in-world book being titled Knights of Wind and Truth, but the Stormlight book is just the second half of that? I’m not complaining, but wasn’t the point to keep
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Shallan's Sketchbook - Part I

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Looks like we’re getting Kaladin and Shallan to start with. Not gonna lie, I’m more excited for seeing Navani in Kaladin’s sections than for the man himself. On the other hand, I am stoked to find out what’s going on with Shallan’s mental balance and with Maya. Shallan’s Sketchbook Part I And we get art right away! This feels less detailed than usual. A more hurried sketch? Or an effect of her merg
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Prologue

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    Alright, we’re into the book proper, now. Time for our final look at Gavilar’s final day, this time from the perspective of the man himself. It’s shocking to me how many secrets are left to reveal about the night in question after seeing so many different elements of the assassination and its participants. How much did Gavilar actually know, and what was he truly working toward? (The Sons of Honor sti
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Endpages and Frontmatter

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.  Endpages Wait a minute. Wait just a minute! What the what? This is the Nightwatcher standing by Cultivation. This is not a herald, this is one of the gods. Presumably then we have another one on the front. Surely not Odium, that does not match his description. Is this honor? Is this Tanavast? Checking the illustration list, yes to both. Honor and Cultivation are accompanied here by Talenel and Battah.
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The Cover

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Beware of spoilers! Index post here.    I discovered when reviewing my previous blog that the links I created at the time to the artwork hosted on Brandon’s site are now broken. Dragonsteel continues to host the artwork from the books, but I don’t have confidence in those addresses remaining static, so I’ll refrain from linking the official art and simply trust that you have a hard copy to reference or can find it online. Cover Art Anot
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Pre-reading commentary

This is my reaction blog for Winds and Truth. Index post here. (No spoilers for Winds and Truth this post, but the rest of the cosmere is fair game.) This post is for my expectations and predictions. Got to get these etched in metal before I’m tainted with anything like actual content. First, I will note that unlike the other Stormlight books, I’ve only read Rhythm once so far. I ran out of time for a true reread, and when I tried to go through the audiobook I had to quit several chapt
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