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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 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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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 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 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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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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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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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 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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