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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
Nick is one of my favorite characters, hailing from a sci-fi story I’m slowly working on. On the Shard, he’s in the Teleportations RP.
Skills: ingenuity (creativity and xenoengineer training), leadership, advanced biotechnology (bulletproof suit, growth of tools, enhanced and fast healing body), AI assistant SIMON (translation, advice, anything a laptop can do)
Personality: creative, helpful, inquisitive. He represents some of my best attributes, and is always eager to help people and l
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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
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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
