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Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. I just wanted to pass this along to all of you. Consider it a christmas present from one Sanderson fan to another. I recorded this interview with Brandon this summer in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The total running time is around 20 minutes, and he talks about a great deal of his personal story as an author. It would have come out much sooner if it hadn't been such a crazy year for me. I am very proud of how it turned out and I hope you enjoy it. Please pass along the link to anyone you think might be interested. Thanks for your time & Merry Christmas. - Derek Pearson Here is the link:

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Just what the description says. Brandon is bad at keeping track of this kind of stuff, so please tell me what you read and commented on.

I would like to announce that if I receive passing scores in my exams, I am officially a graduate from UCLA with a Bachelors in Mathematics for Teaching. This also means an end to my hiatus and hopefully a resurgence of productivity on my book, which was on hold for my last quarter of college.

We can all agree that the city of the radiants was linked to other via oath gates. Moost likely the city was linked to every dawn city, which means every capital of the silver kingdoms. Do we know if any of the dawn cities were destroyed or abanddoned? If still around, likely to still be key cities for the lands around them. Imagine if the gates were repaire, and the alethi could march armies through. The assasin in white has been destabilising the whole of roshar, enough that if an army suddernly appears in the capital, could be enough to take power, or at least set up a power that ensures they follow their lead.

I have been thinking for a while, but is it possible that Urithiru is in the horneater peaks? Those mountains were on the west boarder of Alethela. It would be high up, (close to Honor). But one of the things that makes me think this the most is Rock. Rock is more knowledgeable about surgebinding and spren than he lets on. He can see Syl, an honorspren, without her having to make it so. He also knows about Kaladin's powers. In chapter 73, the last camp-fire bridge four have, Rock says Kaladin's abilities are "of the holetental. For him only." When Teft questions this, Rock replies "You don't know for certain I don't know for certain". My guess is that the horneaters are descendants of those who lived in Urithiru and worked with the Radiants. They could see spren, and so were valuable servants. What do you guys think?

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Either you’re wrong and a honorspren is a honorspren and a truthspren is a truthspren which seems like a logical way to look at it. Or we have the windspren for the windrunners and stonespren for the stonewardens ect ect and they are called honorspren as a group because they are of Honor, then we should have at least cultivationspren and odiumspren and probably the different combination sprens like odium-cultivating-spren and honorfull-odium-cultivating-spren with their own subset of ten sprens and that brings the total number of spren up to 60 if I count it right. 60 types of spren gives us 60 surges (or 6 ways to access the same 10 surges) and 60 orders of surgebinders (who might or might not have the same surges and combinations thereof) out of which only ten is in the KR. To me this feels like a stretch so I think I’m going to go with the honorspren=honorspren and truthspren =/= honorspren. Urithiru could have been built during the years between living through a desolation and writing the book parallel with the ordering of surgebinders. “Radiant / of birthplace / the announcer comes / to come announce / the birthplace of Radiants.” This could be read as “Radiant, the announcer of the birthplace comes to announce the birthplace of the Radiants” and it could mean that Nohadon gave his vision of the KR to world at the place where they should build their city. In order to build it where no one can reach it they would have to have had surgebinders and it was most likely built by the KR with soulcasting or a similar method in order to be built by the hand of no man ( the KR are more then ordinary men and soulcasting does not involve much handy work) “Though many wished Urithiru to be built in Alethela, it was obvious that it could not be. And so it was that we asked for it to be placed westward, in the place nearest to Honor.” “I walked from Abamabar to Urithiru.” “My family traveled to Urithiru via the direct method, and had been awaiting me for weeks when I arrived” This indicates that someone built it (and given my previous statement that surgebinders had to be involved it makes sense for it to be built after a effort to organize them had been undertaken) and that a majority of those asked wanted it to be built in a specific kingdom ( this could have 3 reasons, 1 “I’d like him as a neighbor” 2 “ my new family needs a new home but I’d prefer if I had my mom and dad across the street and besides, it’s close to work” and 3 “ put those crazy bastards where they belong”) and that their wishes could have an effect on the placement, it also tells us that the locations was known before Nohadon died and that a direct method of transportation to Urithiru was available. Looking back at the ketek the announcer would have to be either a KR or Nohadon himself, radiant in the effect of a guiding light. The “many wished” and “we asked” might be different groups as in “they wanted us to fight for them but we knew that it could not be so we moved away” and that would mean that the KR asked someone to place Urithiru somewhere else and the only someone that comes to mind is Nohadon. So looking at the map knowing it’s west of Alethela somewhere that’s inaccessible by mundane means and thinking that Urithiru was something that people wanted to have close I think that it’s located at the meeting of the kingdoms Valhav, Selatales and Makadakam in the mountain range. It’s in the middle of the whole continent, not in any specific kingdom, could be high up in the mountains, it’s in reasonable distance to a lot of city’s any of which might have been named Abamabar, and if you look at the map it looks like the whole continent rotates counter-clockwise around this point and that makes as good a argument about where “ the place closest to Honor” lies.

The Windrunners' order is #1, they're headed by Jezrien, king of the Heralds, and one of their attributes is leadership. Being presumably the leaders of the radiants I don't think it's too much of a stretch that *their* order are the ones bound to 'Honorspren'. The alternative of having all sorts of spren bonding with people is just ridiculously messy. Would it mean powers are independent of spren type? 'cause that's one of the few things we think we know. Otherwise it'd mess up the nice and tidy magic system. There are supposed to be hundreds of types of spren... how could there be any rhyme or reason to the powers they give?

Hi Windrunner, I love this thread of yours and feel grateful for your letting me play here. I really like having my constructions challenged. Hopefully together we get further than we would have individually. As with anything, there are infinite possibilities. On your interpretation, the Terxim quote seems full of non-sequiturs. It seems to me that we have far too few clues to throw any away. If the only nonradiant access to teleportation is through Urithiru then the quote hangs together. I like to think that Brandon is leaving hints, and that quote seems gravid. Besides, if Terxim finds the tariffs through Urithiru unreasonable, but he could avoid them by teleporting directly from place to place, why would he bother complaining about them? Wouldn't he just avail himself of the cheap alternative transport and not even think of the expensive routes through Urithiru? I obviously don't know why the Radiants made all the Oathgates go to Urithiru. But think about what we know about the Radiants. They have technology and spirituality that is millenia ahead of what the rest of the world does. They use it to protect the world, but don't share it. Then they take off, apparently without a word of explanation. It seems completely consistent that they would set up oathgates that only they could control. You make another excellent point. We know that Nohadon is a king in what is now known as Kholinar. The point of his book is that the journey is more important than the destination. He could start his journey from some random place that he teleported to. To me that turns his journey from quixotic to farcical, but I am making leaps from the scantiest of clues. All I really know is that Abamabar does seem to be a Vorin name. Great questions. If I had limited personnel and wanted to control a network that was also a source of income, forcing all travel through a single nexus would be an efficient way to administer it. The radiants themselves could teleport wherever they want, as we saw in the Midnight Essence vision. But really, I'm just interpreting the few clues we have in what seems like the most meaningful way. If the oathgates don't all go to Urithiru, why did Brandon write the Terxim quote the way he did? Why would Nohadon make a pilgrimage from another country than his own? Actually, I just thought of something. The radiants were inspired by Nohadon's book. They didn't exist at the time of Dalinar's visit w/Nohadon. Urithiru is the birthplace of the Radiants. The book is about a journey to Urithiru. How does that work? The book must predate the radiants, and Urithiru apparently predates the book. Oh well. Sorry for the ramble. Please educate me. EDITED: grammar, punctuation, corrected Kholin city name to Kholinar

We know what happens when the organic or in organic is awakened, but what happens if a living entity is awakened. A returned breath will cure and restore anything except death. What happens if some one awakens plants or trees or animals. In some stories, there are creatures like elves that can convince trees to give up wood freely, and shaped but with out any harm coming to the tree it self. This is often done with with songs. SO i thought a tree awakened then commanded to shape a new form what would happen. THere are crystals that grow and coral, what would be the effect. Clams and muluscs and outer shelled creatures. Sheep and goat, and horned animals, they all produce living material that grows, imagine it awakened, shaped and commanded.

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"“Unite them. The sun approaches the horizon. The Everstorm comes. The True Desolation. The Night of Sorrows." "And stormwardens whisper that the highstorms are growing more powerful.” The true desolution, which is done by Voidbringers who are "horrors of rock and flame, dozens of feet tall, foes whose eyes burned with hatred. The Voidbringers." The storms becoming more destructive is a sign of monsters whose eyes burn with hatred coming to mess everyone up. It's perfectly reasonable to suggest that seriously bad magical things happening are a result of the only functional god messing things up.