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
Hello again!
I am incredibly excited to once again document my mad ramblings as I read through the newest installment of the Stormlight Archive. I had an entirely enjoyable time doing so for both Oathbringer (link to Google Docs) and Rhythm of War (link to 17S). Doing this force me to slow down and really appreciate all the elements of the books, and I'm very glad that I did. Fair warning, these reaction notes and analyses make for a prolonged reading experience, so it will be months befor
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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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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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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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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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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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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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
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
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
