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  2. I believe this is the first time I've ever seen Jezrian's Honorblade referred to as a 'little annoyance'. But screw Moash anyway. By any means necessary.
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  3. The thing about Jasnah is that most of what we know of her character comes from Shallan's POV. Shallan thinks Jasnah is perfection personified. She's overwhelming, intimidating, brilliant, beautiful and always correct. Shallan is the head priestess in the Church of Jasnah. But in the limited time we get to spend in Jasnah's head we see that the face she presents to the world isn't a mirror to how she perceives herself. She armors herself in logical and upright behaviour. It causes people to misunderstand her, both in-world and in real life. I have spent so much time derailing this thread responding to everyone I never said what I don't want to see. I don't wanna see the Oathpact restored in any shape or form. It was a bad idea to start though it had a good run. The advent of the Everstorm has robbed it of the limited effectiveness it already had. So kill it dead and find another solution.
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  4. A good night's sleep for Kaladin. Also, a whole bunch of psychotherapists for Roshar.
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  5. I've read through the stormlight archive books (waiting anxiously for the next one), the Arcanum unbounded, and the mistborn series. I've loved every one of the stories I've read so far. I think that the stormlight books are my favorites thus far (mistborn is a close second) and I assume they will remain in that spot after I read the rest of the books from the cosmere. I hope some of the more senior members here can help give me some suggestions on which book or books to read next cause I don't want to ruin my pace that I've kept while reading the previous ones.
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  6. From the album: Random Photos/Art

    I don't really know why I did this, only that I was bored with a notepad and pen next to me, and a stubborn dog who wouldn't move from sleeping on me for the cosmere.
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  8. Just then, the pole’s son came over. “My name is pole jr. You hit my father. Prepare to die!” he said, brandishing a sword.
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  9. For Hoid’s birthday, he’d want his flute back. He’d spend the day pestering Kaladin about it and sighing dramatically.
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  10. From the album: Bored Doodles

    A sketch of the moon Mishim rising over Tsa’s towers in Wit’s story.
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  11. Guys, this was supposed to be my 1,000th post, but I'll have to settle for my 1,001st. Enjoy this sonnet about this thread. Posting on this thread entails a steep price. To win, to lose, to form a dumb remark, To draw some mighty hemalurgists’s vice. All for what mystery do we embark? To claim the one title, no wits are strained. No futile blood is spilt, nor tears are shed (Except when Marsh’s real sight wast regained Or when Shard of Thought left Galavi’n dead). Vict’ry’s a fickle thing; one we’ve all seen Stretching from day, far into the nighttime For good times and loathsome, and ones between The stubborn call remains unchanged by time. Oh thou fellow posters, hear my shrill cry A claim that shall too soon wither and die;
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  12. I really need some hugs right now. I just had a really nasty fight with my father and I just need someone to be sincerely nice to me. Please and thank you for anything genuine. I love you guys.
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  13. I would give Moash a one way trip to the bottom of the river in cement boots and heavy steel cuffs.
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  14. Umm..... Her last truth literally broke her mind. She was fairly put together in WoK and WoR but at the end of WoR when she spoke her latest truth it broke her mind and shattered her soul into three pieces. Are these restraints? Not really. Do they affect her character? Definitely!
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  15. No weirder than Kelsier making out with Jasnah in a closet. And I guess that didn't happen, but... Butt Venture was having difficulty choosing who to side with.
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  16. He had told the Mayans that they had dumb faces, so they had decided to end their calendar prematurely to seek revenge.
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  17. I would just give Kaladin a bucket full of happiness and tell him to keep it.
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  18. Jasnah would ask for some secret knowledge. If not that, then the Heralds. And if not that, then something to help with the Desolation. Dalinar would agree with this while Navani would roll her eyes and request Shallan's help picking out decorations for a homemade cake (Jasnah would never eat it otherwise). Rock would want "Happy Birthday" sung in his native language. He would never ask, but Bridge 4 would do their best anyways. Adolin would want fashionable clothes. Kaladin would give him a Bridge 4 uniform (and demand it back by the end of the day...but wouldn't be too upset if it turned up "missing" or with a couple of "design suggestions"). Shallan would give him fashionable clothes. Jasnah would give him some book to read with Shallan. Dalinar would give him a new Ryshadium. And Renarin would help make a meal that Evi used to make. Dalinar...probably wouldn't really advertise it (I mean, neither would Jasnah, but when you're a queen...). Jasnah would give Dalinar a book about the Radiants. Adolin, Renarin, Kaladin, and (secretly) Sebarial would do their best to make sure Urithiru was running smoothly, so Dalinar could relax for a day with Navani. Hoid would come in and sing a special song.
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  19. To be honest, there felt like a lot of very important scenes that didn't get done. I know Brandon said he couldn't land the first reunion of Jasnah and Navani, but that felt important to me. Jasnah and Kaladin meeting for the first time, or really, Jasnah interacting with any of her family more. But at least we did get her and Renarin at the end. The lack of reaction around Szeth feels the most egregious to me, and very serious in my opinion. I imagine there were a lot of cuts/things Brandon just couldn't fit in OB, so altogether it paints the picture of Brandon only doing the essentials.
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  20. Hi, almost done with "Oathbringer" and looking forward to reading more from Brandon Sanderson. I am also looking forward to being able to talk to others who enjoy this series as much as I do.
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  22. They brought him to shadesmar to cheer him up. Where there are marbles everywhere
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  23. I think Jasnah would appreciate some socks instead of all the books she normally gets.
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  24. He was defeated in a duel by Westley, The Dread Polerate Roberts.
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  25. I would give Hoid what he wants so that he doesn’t need to see Roshar burn.
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  26. He has 5000 less than Shallan, who has 4000 less than Kaladin. So the order woukd indicate that the characters word count correlates with when they had their flashback book. Which makes perfect sense and indicates that the gap will shrink, not increase. All of your assumptions, that other characters' roles will grow and Dalinar's wont, are opinion only with little/no evidence. It would be bad writing if Brandon does this. But there is 0 evidence he will and based on previous experience, we can assume he won't. He's not in the habit if breaking promises fo readers and he actively tries to make sure it doesn't happen. Because Brandon always follows clichés and take the traditional option? If the only evidence you can give for Dalinar dying is "the older character within the cast who always dies" then it's not really evidence. Your other comments are in a similar vein. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, if you think Dalinar will be poorly written, killed off and discarded thats fine. But it is your opinion, not fact, so people are going to disagree with you.
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  27. I was gonna say therapists, but you beat me to it! Other than that...maybe I'd give Bondsmith Dalinar a book on tactics and Navani a book on technology. And Rock I'd probably just give him Gordon Ramsay.
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  28. There was baby that was constantly crying all the time.
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  29. They got stuck in the Labryinth, enchanted by David Bowie's singing and wild hair.
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  30. Kelsier hires a crew to formulate a plan to get Eragon to accept the stone. He hires Count Olaf.
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  31. Kelsier gives the stone to Eragon because he doesn't know what to do with it. Edit: Ninjaed. Edit 2: Wait, I think Bean ninjaed Hoid. Edit 3: DOUBLE NINJA!
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  32. How about Queen Fen? She seems like someone a spren might be interested in.
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  33. Good luck both. And don't forget to bring you good autographing pens to Dublin Are 'we' getting excited yet?! (Clue, I'm getting excited.)
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  34. But then Shawn saw a pretty lady, and wandered off to flirt with her.
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  36. The Calendar went into Witness Protection.
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  37. Mac walked out of the alleyway next to the tavern, dressed in his usual suit and bowler hat. Yep, this appears to be the place. Hopefully I didn’t risk assassination for nothing. He pushed in the door and walked in, looking around for Laurelai. He spotted her and walked over to the bar, keeping an eye on the other patrons. “Now what do we have here?” He asked quietly. @Voidus @ZincAboutIt
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  38. This was, of course, perfectly normal.
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  39. I believe it was H? KoW for book 5? ... Knights of Wonder! It's an in-world fanfiction of the Radiants!
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  40. Day 2 has started! The day will last until 10 PM MST on February 24th. Cadmium Compounder has been lynched. He was a Northern Aristocrat. A Nicrosil and Aluminum medallion were destroyed along with him. Fifth Scholar has been killed! He was a Northern Aristocrat. An Iron Medallion was destroyed along with him. Player list:
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  41. I actually thought this was very clever on Brandon's part! Like Venli, I totally thought of Eshonai as invincible. When she was found and discovered to be dead, I was shocked just as much as Venli. Venli's pain and disbelief were echoed in me. It made me sympathize with Venli, and while I still don't like her, I no longer think of her as pure evil. My gripe....... I'm a pretty positive person and don't spend too much time thinking about these things but I was disappointed with Amaram's ending. I felt like he was cheated just a little.
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  42. This conversation seems to have gone far into the Navani theories and ignored the juicy piece of speculation that is Yanagawn. We know that Knights have squires (see where squires of Kal/Shallan for obvious examples).. we know that he hangs out with lift a lot. And we have a WoB that Knights seem to cluster together around other Knights cuz spren are attracted by the Knights already there. It could very easily be argued Yanagawn is a squire to lift at the moment and will be an edgedancer... I would quite like that actually given he was made King for 'performing the miracle of regrowth'. It would be pretty cool if he eventually can actually do it, as if in that moment he were an incipient Knight...
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  43. You're right. That was an oversight on my part. Word count is probably a better metric (because mutli-POV chapters are common), although I will note that Dalinar has more individual chapters in his book than Kaladin or Shallan have in theirs. Not sure where you're getting this. By word count, Dalinar is in third place (in a series with 10 main characters). He has 21% of all Stormlight words compared to Kaladin's 30% and Shallan's 26%. He has almost 4 times more than the next place character (Adolin). He has 7 or 8 times more than the next place flashback character (depending on whether you lump Eshonai and Venli together). So, volume-wise, he clearly has a major role in the series, especially if "compared with other characters." If you're talking story-wise, well I think Dalinar is the most likely candidate if you had to pick just 1 main character. He's the bonded to the most powerful spren around and Connected to the remnants of a Shard of Adonalsium. He's the leader of the entire human coalition. He's going toe to toe with Odium. He even Ascended (to some degree)! Plus, he's frequently Brandon's pick of favorite character. But he tends to reduce people's expectations, if needs. With Dalinar, he refuses to clarify things. He does not "tend to reduce people's expectations." There are tons and tons of theories and speculations here on the Shard about what's going to happen to various characters. Brandon very, very rarely weighs in on them. I listed a bunch of examples of him taking years to confirm things that were fairly obvious in the books. Almost all questions about the future of characters' plotlines are RAFO'd (which means "no comment"). Did Sanderson ever said: "Dalinar will have a role in the second half of SA and beyond?" No, he didn't. That's why I said he most likely won't. In your WoB he says that characters will die, and those, who survive will appear in the second half. Guess who will die, considering there's a time skip between the books. Maybe he just doesn't want to give spoilers. Maybe this is because Dalinar will die. I think he will die, because characters like Dalinar never lives. Never. I've now caught up on the various threads where you're bemoaning the (purely speculative) fate of Dalinar. I didn't realize that your reasoning was so specious: "Brandon hasn't confirmed Dalinar will survive to Book 6" -> "Dalinar must die before Book 6" By that logic everyone will die before Book 6, because Brandon has never confirmed that any character will survive.
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  44. Yeah, we can bridge the gaps and understand that there was scene in between we didn't see. It wasn't as critical as Jezrien's death and Vyre gaining the blade or the Odium / Mr. T scene which explained what happened with the Oathgate and the honorblade and them making a deal. But he killed Dalinar's brother, tried to kill Dalinar twice and nearly killed Adolin. Dalinar's a forgiving guy now, but there would be questions after the battle.
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  45. I don't want to see a redemption arc for Moash either since I think he's a good antagonist. Though I can't help but think he would make an acceptable casualty for Kaladin's Fourth Ideal (if we go with the assumption he needs to admit and accept that he can't save everyone). No more love-triangles either, I was so happy the one we had got solved in Oathbringer. Sure there could and should be bumps in the relationships but let's not go back to something that has been solved. Also, I don't want to see a random female character becoming Kaladin's love interest. If he finds his love eventually I want it to be a character we know before they get together, like we did with Shallan and Adolin (Dalinar and Navani were a special case since they knew each other from the past and Dalinar was very against the idea of him courting her). I don't mean it has to be a character that has been introduced to us already in books 1-3, but I do want to learn to know the character at least few chapters before Kaladin falls head over heels for them... I also agree with the solo missions, I love the character interactions and would hate to see them going on their own ways or spend the whole book in the same little groups. I would also hate to not see Zahel/Vasher's reaction when Szeth brings Nightblood near him. The one year skip kinda makes me fear we'll miss that kind of small but important events. And I don't want Adolin to get killed yet. I have this irrational fear of Adolin getting killed off suddenly like some characters have in the past (outside Stormlight Archive).
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  46. Final Battle in Skyward Meme-Scene:
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  47. I don't want to see a preggers Shallan. Like, really really really really don't want to see it.
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