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  1. From the album: Stormlight Character Paintings

    It's been forever since I last did any SA art (nearly a year, holy crap), and I finally got around to doing more! I'd meant to try drawing some other characters but ended up going back to my comfort zone, heh. This is another military-style Dalinar portrait, based off of a couple of existing ones I happened upon. (I envisioned this as something Dalinar "I-don't-do-politics" Kholin was forced into dressing up and posing for, probably by Navani) I kept his face pretty much how I had him before, with Polynesian, East/South Asian, Middle Eastern and Native American refs all mashed together. Maybe he doesn't look wrecked enough but we can pretend that the painter (me) idealized him a bit. I have no idea how to do costume design, so this was totally done on the fly and not super creative, and probably too typically Western. It's also been a while since I've read the books so I don't trust my memory of any smaller details... but anyways, sorry for rambling, feedback is appreciated as always! Hopefully I'll get back into the swing of doing SA fanart especially with RoW coming soon, but who knows with my attention span :')
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  2. Brandon released a thoughtful and personal political statement about BLM which I appreciated. Nevertheless, I'm having too much fun posting my theories on here. This one ranges quite a bit so bear with me and as always I welcome disagreement and correction. Spoilers for Stormlight. Blackmail Theory: The Real Recreance A certain epigraph in WOR suggests that Taravangian has a secret that broke the knight's radiant in the Recreance. We then see him releasing a secret to attack Dalinar by decoding the Eila Stele. It is revealed that human's are not the original inhabitants of Roshar, they came, invaded, and displaced the singers. This causes Kaladin and others some moral guilt and we are led to believe that this is the secret that broke the Knight's Radiant. Except I don't buy it. The knights who abandoned their oaths, abandoned their fight against a mad god, gave up their super powers, and killed their best friends. I might have felt guilty if I was a knight during the Recreance, attempted to make peace with the Singers, find a way to co-exist, even some kind of reperations. I wouldn't abandon everything because my ancestors were guilty of a horrible crime. I don't really have to wonder about this. I'm a white man in the south. I think we should build a world that's good for all of us now (liberal socialism) and not hold people accountable for the sins of their ancestors. I also get that this is a self serving point of view. My own ethics aside, it is hard to imagine an ethical system that would require the Radiants to abandon their entire civilization and way of life because of their displacement of a native people in the distant past. Nor did the Radiants actually help the Singers during the Recreance they left them a broken enslaved people. Finally, the idea that humans aren't from Roshar (excluding Shinovar) can't have been that big a secret. Jasnah figured it out without help. Dalinar who though sometimes clever is not a scientist almost figures this out. Really anyone familiar with evolutionary biology would figure this out pretty quickly. Where is the human evolutionary branch? There are barely any other mammals. If that's not enough a quick examination of the fossil record would be. Scholars on Roshar had to think human's came from Shinovar at least. Perhaps this information was subsequently suppressed by Vorinism but I don't think it came as a surprise during the Recreance. Taravangian hasn't played his trump card. He was attacking Dalinar, trying to control the Knight's Radiant not destroy them. Indeed, destroying them completely would have removed his bargaining power with Odium. So what is the secret that broke the Radiants? Before we answer that, we need to pause and consider two seperate questions. First, what does the ecology of Roshar look like? We have seen that spren are deeply tied to several species of greatshells, but there are continual references to spren being involved intimately with other animals, Ryshadium, sky eels, fish in the pure lake. The spren involved with the greatshells seem to be exploiting something similar to a surge of gravitation. Can other species access other pseudosurges? Perhaps fish in the Purelake access regrowth through a spren, which explains why they can cure aches and pains. Grasses could access cohesion to help them burrow into rocks. Birds could use adhesion to glue their eggs in their nests during highstorms. Cremlings could access illumination to hide from predators. Rockbuds could use transformation instead of nitrogen fixing bacteria. The possibilities are endless. I believe that spren are tied far more deeply to the ecology on Roshar than we are aware of. Such an ecology would be far stranger than any we are familiar with on earth. Ecosystems on earth are rather strictly bounded by things like, amount of sunlight, available water, temperature, oxygen levels, and available nutrients. Answer a few basic questions about these types of things and I can predict a great deal about the kind of life you are likely to find in such an ecosystem. Not so on Roshar, spren and the surges they offer allow all kinds of work arounds to these limitations. We can expect life on Roshar to be stranger, more varied. Indeed, the spren have their own ecosystem. There are clear references to spren eating each other during the trip to Thaylen city. These sprensystems must overlap somehow with Rosharan ecosystems. We know so little about spren. What do they get out of their interactions in the physical realm? Are they immortal? Do they reform or reproduce in someway? What sustains them? What would a spren food chain look like? I don't have the answers here except to speculate that this deep connection to spren makes the Rosharan ecology almost 4 dimensional in nature. Second, how does Odium plan to kill Cultivation? He is not simply seeking to conquer Roshar. He is planning to cause the total ecological collapse of all life on the continent. This is how Odium killed Honor, he caused Honor to invest himself in humans and then he caused those humans to act dishonorably breaking that investiture away from Honor leading to his madness and death. Similarly, Odium observes Cultivation causing life to florish all across Roshar. When Odium kills all of that life he will cause her investiture to act against her intent. This is foreshadowed by the fate Ashyn, the scowering of Aimia, and Honor's ravings about the Radiants and the danger of their Shards. It is also a not uncommon theme in Brandon's other books. How does Odium intend to end all life on Roshar? This is the secret that broke the Knight's Radiant. Humans and especially surge binders are destroying and are fundamentally destructive to the ecology of Roshar outside of Shinovar. The human presence outside of Shinovar is causing a slow but inevitable environmental catastophy, not unlike global warming. Humans with their mere presence and emotions are attracting Spren and interacting with them, surgebinders even more so. They are disturbing the key element that makes the Rosharan ecology work. There are limited numbers of spren in each area, many of whom are drawn preferentially to humans. Even in victory the Radiants are destorying Roshar and Cultivation. That's why the humans were originally confined to Shinovar. That's why the Shin refuse to leave the valley of truth. That's how humans ended up harming the sibling. That's why so many parts of Roshar are barren and empty, unclaimed hills, frostlands, Aimia, etc... That's why the Radiants betrayed humanity. It was a noble gesture to save Roshar or at least forstall the end. Odium is confident in victory not because of his past record of success but because there is no path to victory. Fall before Odium's armies and he will orchestrate the systematic destruction of Roshar's ecology unopposed. Defeat Odium by using surgebinding and the ecosystem will collapse everyone will starve, Cultivation will die, and Odium be set free. (Not really, I think Stormlight will have a happy ending where everyone lives) Thanks for reading my theory.
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  3. Hot take: we only have one dustbringer because they're usually not the type to geek out about books on the internet.
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  4. The people killed aren't really random and they aren't being killed because of a bad day. The existent and extent of systemic racism in policing (and more generally) is very much not a given fact in American politics. Reading your post in it's entirety, I suspect racism in America is just different from racism in Poland. I know next to nothing about Poland. I certainly don't understand racism there. I have a vague recollection of watching soccer 'hooligans' on the news, something about antisemitism. Racism where I live, North Carolina, is a kind of daily experience. It's old and violent, it reaches into schools and workplaces, hospitals and courthouses. I don't think I'm the right person to explain it, maybe read Tim Tyson's, Blood Done Sign My Name. Anyway the point is the protests are highly contentious and sometimes dangerous to be a part of. Just take my word for it. Friends of mine were attacked by police. I washed their faces with milk.
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  5. Kaladin Lashed himself to the side, narrowly avoiding the Parshendi spear that would’ve hit his gut. He jabbed with his Sylspear, and watched the parshendi’s eyes burn out as he began falling towards a larger group of parshendi. He landed on the side of one of them, then Lashed himself down, landing on top of the parshendi and crushing the skull. The other parshendi moved in, chanting a hostile, war-like rhythm. Kaladin danced in between the spears. Weapons could not hit him. He was the wind. He was- A searing pain shot up Kaladin’s leg. He cried out in pain as something sharp was ripped from his calf. Not a spear. Something longer... Kaladin turned around to see a Fused floating above, it’s wicked blade gleaming on the end of a long pole. Storms! Where had it come from? The last of Kaladin’s stormlight healed the wound, muscle and sinew knitting together to make the leg whole again. He breathed in prepared to feel the storm ignite inside of him again. Except... nothing happened. Storms, he was out of stormlight! Surrounded by parshendi and a Fused, Kaladin fought with everything he had. His Sylspear rose in silvery flashes, frantically trying to slap away the spearheads. A cut on his leg. A nick on his side. Kaladin began to breathe heavily, sweat running down the side of his head. Kaladin stumbled, watching one of the Parshendi swing his spear- Suddenly, something slammed into the group of the Parshendi. A glowing, almost divine figure in glowing shardplate. Adolin? No, his shardplate wasn’t this bright of a blue. And besides, he was off fighting one of the Unmade heading this assault. The figure swung its magnificent-looking shardblade, cutting through the parshendi, leaving a row of them with their eyes burned out. Oddly, the figure dropped a bit of rounded metal and soared through the air towards the Fused. It seemed to be as surprised as Kaladin was, and it’s reflexes weren’t quick enough to stop the gauntleted fist from smashing into the Fused face. The Fused dropped to the ground, motionless. The figure in the shardplate turned around. It seemed to be laughing... where had Kaladin heard that laugh before? The figure reached up and slammed open its visor. Kaladin gasped. “You!” “Me!” Hoid said, a big grin plastered to his face. “You seem to say that a lot. I suppose being dropped on your head as a small child certainly doesn’t help your intelligence.” Kaladin was too stunned to even react to the insult. “But... how? Hoid, you’re a storming Radiant! And you’ve already got plate!” “Yes, yes, I know. Everyone seems to be surprised by how fast I got that. Especially ole’ Swirly right here.” Hoid’s sword disappeared in a puff of mist, and a spren similar to Shallan’s crawled up to Hoid’s shoulder. “So... many... Truths...” it said, sounding not unlike someone who had eaten about two more chickens than they should have at Middlefest. “Anyways, I’ve got to fly. You know, songs to sing, people to confuse, Dalinar to insult.” Hoid raised a small vial to his lips, chugged it’s contents, then threw the small bottle to the side. Odd man Hoid was. He dropped another bit of metal on the ground, and then soared away with the wind. As he was flying away, Hoid yelled out to Kaladin, “Don’t forget to play my flute, everything you think you know about the Nahel bond is a lie, the Dawnshards...” Hoid’s voice trailed of to the point where Kaladin couldn’t hear him anymore. Shaking his head, Kaladin jogged off to find Dalinar. He would need another perpendicularity to charge up his spheres.
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  6. After concluding my studies of the Urule people, I wandered the planet for a some time, making note of various cultures, some with magic and some without. This planet truly is quite interesting, with great varieties of magic and cultures. I do find it strange, however, that some groups do not seem to care too much about the powers they were given. Take, for instance, the town of Skitrae. Skitrae is a medium sized city on the coast of one of the smaller continents in the North. Despite their relatively low population, the city boasts of great wealth and influence due to it being the only port in the small coastal nation of Igta that was not destroyed during the Second Urule Onslaught. This was in part due to unconventional Skitraean practices regarding politeness, which had greatly befuddled the invading army of Great Jaenrielackenconriel Jire. Their language has no form of greeting, respect is implied rather than acted upon, and the gift culture is non-existent, all of which prevented the Jaenrielackenconriel from channeling their destructive powers in the ways that they had traditionally done so. Another factor into the continued existence of the Skitraean peoples is their unusually powerful and common ability to manipulate matter to an unprecedented degree. Almost every citizen born in the city is able to manipulate and control great quantities of matter with great ease and dexterity. The surrounding geography itself was fashioned by the inhabitants of the city around the time of the collapse of the Evire Empire by directing the nearby Ua Mountain (the location of which is presently a large swathe of flat grasslands and fields) to move a couple hundred leagues to the South, where it now stands in the middle of the Selir Desert. This is believed to have been after the submission numerous petitions to the city council from the citizens to remove said mountains on account of "it blocking the view." Apart from these rare and infrequent displays of power, the general populace of Skitrae typically do very little with their magic. The only common use of their abilities is in the game that is called Skitrie (It is unknown if the city was named after the game, or the game named after the city. Both have incredibly long and intertwined histories.) This game involves two or more players, and takes place on a large, flat surface (in recent times, the go-to playing ground is the flatland where the Ua Mountain once stood. In fact, some scholars suggest that the Ua Mountain had been moved for the sole purpose of creating a playing field, and the petitions were simply meant to disguise the true purpose.) The contestants then form a number of large, solid pillars (around the height of a man) using the underlying bedrock, arranged standing up in a manner that would form a triangular shape when looking from above. The number of pillars can vary, but the most common amount is ten. Each player then uses their ability to compact the surrounding soil into a sphere about an armspan in diameter. They then take turns using their power to roll these massive balls across the field. Points are calculated through the number of pillars that collapse due to the ball (fallen pillars are repaired and replaced between each player's turn). The winner is the one who has the most points at the end of an agreed upon number of rounds, and traditionally is allowed to choose a place to eat a meal at the losers' expense. Many citizens of the city enjoy this pastime, and during my stay, I heard from the town crier that there would be a vote in the coming days on whether or not to move the nearby Uo and Ui Mountains in order to provide more space for playing the game. Judging by the generally positive reaction from the people around me, I expect that the Selir Desert may gain two more mountains in the coming years. Building houses.
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  7. Might be more souly, like stormfathers bondsmith can put together the souls of material, nightwatcher bondsmith the souls of living things, and the sibling can fuse souls to material. Like SFBS can reknitt stone as dalinar does in with the temple. While a NWBS might fuse together animals? Wich could explain some of the really strange creatures on roshar. Then TSBS would be able to fuse some thing from the cognitive realm to the materialistic realm. That would be as quoted, urithiru and oathgates, but also posibly thuderclasp. (my first time,so I might be entirely of)
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  8. We has a taste of dalinars joint surge when he repaired the temple, this was with stone (inanimate). What if the bondsmith, for cultivations god spren, same surge is bonding living things, perhaps like horses and spren to create roshadium. The sibling maybe a mix of living and inanimate things. Bonding spren and stone for the oathgates and urithiru.
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  9. Spook and Kelsier as the two sides of Scadrial. ^-^
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  10. Just putting this out there: It is understandable for the poster on Reddit, or anyone else reading this thread, to associate "Mormonism" with conservatism. However, there are millions of people, people on every continent, who practice that religion. Are there racist folks in that church? You betcha! Have the policies of that church always represented equality for people of color. No. BUT, this church is also one that has sought out to ally itself with the NAACP, and really worked to improve the way it's policies and members interact in that regard. So, it may be surprising if you aren't familiar with it, but LDS faith wouldn't be at all at odds with BLM. To my way of thinking it should be supportive of this movement, but members aren't really told how to vote or think politically, so there is a lot of variance in thought and views amongst actual members. So, yeah it is totally reasonable to equate Brandon's faith with a universally conservative world view, but the reality is that there is a lot more room for more progressive and liberal political thought than most people would assume. Utah is really conservative as a whole, but there are a handful of democrats here! I know all 5 of them! (that's a joke. there's more than that...)
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  11. He finally said the storming words. So happy. I do hope someone lets him know many fans are not on reddit (twitter, for example, has many people still asking). Might be good for Adam, or whoever runs it, to note that Brandon does not read the tweets (based on this statement).
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  12. From the album: Stormlight Character Paintings

    I don't know how consistent I'm being with my Dalinars, but anyway... I tried my hand at a younger version of him - I'm worried he's a bit of a pretty boy here, so I'm going to pretend it's because of his youth, heh. Also, I didn't know how to create an album before and have no idea if it's possible to move my previous posts here :/
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  13. I'm really curious to see if there are any patterns with the top three results. I've noticed people who get Edgedancer also usually get windrunner too. Also windrunners seem to be the most prolific. Makes sense I guess:-)
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  14. Something strange is going on with Nohadon. I trust Dalinar when he says that it's a vision and it's unlike the rest. Nohadon, inside that vision, speaks to Dalinar with familiarity, and directly addressed the manifestation of the thunderclast. The Stormfather also says that Dalinar was shown all the visions of Nohadon. And yet, in the vision, Nohadon addresses Dalinar directly: This is something that has not happened before. This is also the first time we see the question "what is the most important step a man can take," which will have great significance later on. Before I go any further, I want to extend some thank yous to the folks who beat into my head the possibility of this being a thing over on this thread. It took a lot of hard convincing but they finally won me over, so thanks for sticking with it everyone, especially @hoser and @Paragrin So the essence of that thread was trying to figure out who Odium was referencing when Dalinar Ascended and he said "No, we killed you." While I'm supposing that person is Nohadon, I don't want to get into that discussion per se, but rather, the proofs behind whether it's possible and what people think about him on a broader level, as a quick search didn't show a Nohadon topic. To boil things down, I think that Nohadon was a Bondsmith, and he was bonded to the Sibling. I think that after he died, he bound his cognitive shadow to the spren in a similar way to what Honor did, preserving him for the future and allowing him to connect with Dalinar. There is some textual evidence to support this theory. First off, of any order, the Bondsmiths would be the ones who would be able to accomplish something like this. The Way of Kings is also very much about unifying people. It's the book that inspired Dalinar to become a Bondsmith. Nohadon exhibits those traits of uniting instead of dividing. But let's continue on past this point. The evidence is not hard, but plausible, that Nohadon could both be a Bondsmith and accomplish such a task. We know there are only three Bondsmiths. In Oathbringer, we learned a few more things. So one Bondsmith that generation. They fear it's because Honor is changing. I put forth that it because this is when Honor intentionally splintered himself into the Stormfather. I say this because we know that Dalinar is the first to bond the Stormfather since the change. This means we can infer they had been previously bonding the Stormfather and one other spren since they were aware of their concerns with Honor. We have this information from an Elsecaller, saying that one Sibling had withdrawn. I put forth that this Sibling was bonded to Nohadon, and she discovered that Nohadon had preserved his cognitive shadow inside of it. Paragrin has solid evidence that with Connection, you can interact with people from the spiritual realm, even without it having a direct influence on the way the text formatting is displayed, or the internal voice is distinguished in the character's mind. I'm still going through my reread, but, in the chapter 'Bondsmith,' I found another little piece that made me think Nohadon was nudging Dalinar along. Dalinar has his reaction, the Stormfather rumbles around, as he is want to do, and then there is a disappointment beyond that. Which is what I am putting forth to be Nohadon's Cognitive Shadow bonded to a spren, using Connection to interact with Dalinar. He does this again later, answering the question he gave Dalinar earlier as Dalinar struggles for meaning against the pain of his past and questions the answer he came to so easily. On a more personal note, the way Brandon answers this question makes me feel like he wanted to see if they had picked up on some foreshadowing he had put into place, but I haven't scrutinized WoK or WoR, and this is from when WoR was published. He's reacting similarly to the when I asked about Helaran not being bonded to a spren during the WoR signing. So, brief wrap up, plausible evidence that it could be possible using a Bondsmith's power, Nohadon displays the right temperament to be a Bondsmith, Nohadon interacts with Dalinar in a way that could not be a vision and Dalinar recognizes to not be a dream, we have evidence that using Connection a character can interact with another in a way that doesn't alter book script, and the italics during Dalinar's Ascension pick up right where they left off conversing in the dream, where Nohadon answers the question he posed to Dalinar.
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  15. Windrunner 75% Edgedancer 71% Bondsmith 71%
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  16. Yep, same here and same order.
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  17. Tried to answer as honestly as possible and not "game" it based on order knowledge. Stoneward, Skybreaker, and Windrunner.
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  18. Windrunner, truthwatcher, and edgedancer
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  19. What? Entry points? Who said anything about entry points?
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  20. Willshaper, lightweaver, elsecaller were my top 3
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  21. Got Edgedancer, Truthwatcher, then Bondsmith. Windrunner was 4th
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  22. Yep. They're too disciplined and productive, making choices that use their time wisely.
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  23. We know that the singers only went in to slave form, after the false desolation, with the side effects from imprisonment of Ba-Ado-Mishram. Presumably the listeners took dull for before the this, otherwise they would have joined their kin in slave form. So what happened to the singers between the desolations? Heres the options I can think of, let's hear your theories. Did they simply flee and hide as the listeners did? Did humans and singers live in peace in their own citys each time the void bringers were banished? Did humans and singers live together and fight along side each other against the void bringers? We have seen that some humans used to fight along side the enemy. Could border skirmishes or wars have took place between the singers and humans all through history between desolations (before slave form), just without the complete destruction added from the voidbringers?
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  24. ALL HAIL THE NEW LEADER OF THE 17TH SHARD KNIGHTS RADIANT! @Ryshadium Trainer, congratulations, you now have an army of nerds at your command! Also, @Halyo_Alex, would you mind making a Windrunner-Willshaper glyph? A Windshaper glyph, if you will?
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  25. I can see two possible scenarios here: A. It might be a quality shared among some but not all Shards, possibly one opposed to Passion. The plans to defeat/contain Passion-aligned Shards (Odium, Ruin) we've seen so far seem to cause anguish of truly massive proportions (the Oathpact, mists snapping people) B. If we're talking a Shard, it might represent Adonalsium's Empathy, warped into Anguish by the lack of ability to let go (Ruin) and give up pain (Odium), similarly to how divine wrath became Odium
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  26. This doesn't bother me. Not at all. And, because, why not:
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  27. The edit button is a pathway to many abilities some consider... unnatural. 405. If someone you meet tells you not to trust anyone (including themselves), don't trust them. They are guaranteed to betray you, and potentially get you killed. 406. Don't mess with rites/items/etc. that are supposed to convey immortality. They have a tendency to dramatically reduce your lifespan if they go wrong.
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  28. I’m teetering on the edge of two orders with 70% Lightweaver and 69% (nice) Edgedancer. My third was Willshaper at 67%
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  29. I got Windrunner 74%, Edgedancer 73% and Truthwatcher 69%. For what i have seen i seems that people usually get windrunner and edgedancer really close, which make sense.
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  30. I got sucked into the Fandom during the run up to the release of Oathbringer when TOR was pre-releasing the chapters. Like a Stormlight junkie, I would park my car after dropping my kids off at school and devour the week's new chapter. The thing that got me through to the next chapter release was discussing the chapters on the TOR chapter forum, and there was some great speculation to be sure, but in researching specific items I kept coming across theories on the 17th shard, and the proverbial scales fell away from eyes. I realized at TOR I was taking a community College level course in the Cosmere, when the whole time I could have been studying at the Cosmere equivalent of Oxford. So I joined the Shard, and went to my first Signing, driving 4 hrs in a day and getting back home at 2 in the morning. It was the Oathbringer release, and I got my first WOB about Awakened Toupees. I also got to see what an amazing person Brandon is too, I think he's a large part of why this Fandom is so amazing. The people that participate in discussions here, and who run this site, have the 4 qualities I value most, in equal measure, they are intelligent, kind, funny and amazingly creative. I don't really participate in too many forums, but the 17th shard is special. One of the things that keeps me coming back too is Shardcast. I love the times it spirals into pendantic-cast because the nuance and details they explore are important. High level stuff. My favorite thread, the one that kept pulling me back into the Shard life is Tornament: Cosmere Character Roast Battles. @Zath roasts with Spook burning other Cosmere character's in High Imperial, @Archer roasts as Allomancer Jak roasting people with corrective Handerwyn footnotes, @Herowannabe roasts as Human the Koloss (with awesome custom koloss emojis) and @Paranoid King roast as Tilluane the butler are some of the funniest things I've ever read. Solid gold. The Shakespearean exchange with @Toaster Retribution in the Roast thread about returning his Oryginal Folio Had me dying. When I first came to the shard and was speculating wildly based on intuition instead of facts, I really appreciated the incredibly nice way that @Calderisand @RShara would point out a theories flaws, always with lightning fast WOBs. You know you've got a decent theory it if makes past those two. T is a plant still makes me laugh. @Jofwu post on the Moons of Roshar, and his comprehensive timeline are amazing. @Pagerunner post on the Physics of Allomancy was incredible, and later in that thread the work that one sharder did on creating simulations of different physics models for steel pushing for a video game that he was making (can't remember his username) were really great). Pretty much any thread that @Argent puts out. The thread were you could see the work that went into cracking the women's script. I basically love all the threads (and there really are too many too count) that could be college level thesises with supporting WOB citation. I'm getting really excited for the RoW release! My theory (that's since been debunked) that the Aimians were agents of Cultivation. I got a signed book WOB that put a nail in the theory's coffin, but it was a fun ride until it was over. I have some MP3s that I was recording using the Soundmapper on my computer when that theory was still actively being discussed and they are full of notification sounds that someone replied to that thread, and when I listen to those songs now and hear that little notification burble noise it makes me smile. I loved the time right after OB's release when the theories were coming in hot and fast. My only friend who loves Brandon's work is 400 miles away, so the Shard is where I go when the need to talk about the Cosmere. Thankfully I can relive those times this coming November and I'm super excited y'all will be there! Congratulations on the 10 years! With Brandon's long term plans for the Cosmere in my mind, hopefully I'll still be around to congratulate you on your 50th anniversary!
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  31. Thanks for pointing that out. I've gone ahead and fixed this. For the future, the way you fix something like this would be to change the word/name inside the double brackets to the correct one. For example, in this instance, I changed [[Allrianne]] to [[Allriandre]] which links to the correct page. P.S. This is my 100th post on the forum!
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  32. Welcome! I like the Idea of Nighsmiths healing the souls of living things. Things like Shardblade injuries. Although it might not stop there. With that power, they could heal the heart (Something that the Radiants desperately need) A Nightsmith could help open Kaladins eyes to the fact that he's not alone, and that its okay to not save everyone. Or they could help Shallan accept her past and work toward the future. Maybe even heal Taln and the other Heralds who aren't completely sane. Like a therapist that reaches farther then words, but to the soul itself.
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  33. But hey, at least Elantris doesn’t actively set up a sequel.
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  34. I took it three times and got Edgedancer for all three, with Skybreaker at the bottom for all three. I promise I still obey the law while I'm parkouring all over town healing people....
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  35. 10AM Hammond’s breath came in ragged gasps, each more faltering than the last. Telina’s bullets, meant for the Kandra, had instead found their home in his chest. He knew he would not survive the hour. He didn’t really care to be honest. There was nothing left in this city that meant anything to him. The Governor’s power grew daily, and the constables were given more and more authority to do as they wanted. They didn’t have a chance. He watched as they argued, discussing whether Emi or Shard were more likely to be a constable. The easy answer was to kill them both, but no one took the easy answer these days. “What about you?” One of the arguing lords called out. “You think Emi’s a Conner?” Hammond sucked in another breath, “Aye! I think she is.” Shard and Lumen nodded in agreement, but the other four shouted him down. Looked like they were about to pull guns on Shard. Hammond didn’t envy the lad. But he didn’t care much if he lived or died. None of them cared about him. Someone walked up to him, and crouched down. Hammond watched them without moving his head. He had learned, while laying before the yawning window frame, that movement of his neck or shoulders was excruciating. “You don’t look good friend.” Hammond laughed, then groaned and coughed wetly. “Don’t make me laugh on my deathbed.” “Is that your dying wish?” “Sure. Why not?” Hammond looked away from the man, and out into the last remnants of the morning’s mist. Looked to where the Survivor watched him back. “My da named me for your general. But I think you would be disappointed in how I measured up.” “You a survivorist then?” “I worship one at least. Don’t think I can survive much longer. Don’t think I want to anyway.” “That’s an easier wish to fulfill.” The man placed one boot against his side and pushed him over the edge. Hammond squeezed his eyes shut as he fell. He didn’t want to know when it would end. Bless the Scars, he didn’t want— Welcome to the 10th Hour! Since more people have started posting, I’ll leave it up to the survivors. Should we stick with 24 hour turns, or 48 hour turns? Please bold your answers. Megasif was killed! They were a Criminal Gossip/Gambling Tycoon! Experience was lynched! They were a Constable Bodyguard! Awake players: 6 Votes required to Disperse the Party: 4 Vote Count: Emi (3): Experience, Megasif, Mist Experience (4): Coda, Emi, Matrim, Xino Dispersal Votes (0/4): Player List:
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  36. He commented more, in reply to this post, which I have to link for the context of this reply. Also mods if me continuing to post his reddit statements here on this matter violates the rules please let me know, not trying to be disrespectful. I felt it was very germane to the question many 17th sharders seem to have asked, namely, “doesn’t the content of his work speak for itself?” Original poster, followed by Brandon’s response -
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  37. I've actually been kind of hoping that Adolin will become the model for a new relationship between spren and human. Because the current relationship is obviously not great, especially for the spren. They connect to a human, and then if that human forsakes their oath, they die. We're even told that when that human dies, it's extremely traumatic for the spren. If Adolin could be the trailblazer for a new way of working with the spren, without the nahel bond, it could be very interesting.
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  38. I think that's actually kind of hard in this world because the act of being an amazing person seeking to make change seems to draw Spren, enabling greater change. The Recreance changed this. Otherwise I'd agree. It's great to have non-magical folks. But when Magic comes from effecting change and doing good it's harder to root for that.
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  39. The Wanderer’s Song That day when days went dim the fish of some unlooked-for pool shone bright and pink and blue. A song. I’d wandered long through endless space debris and dust in search of it. But found it not. Instead, I found a woman. Cunning, knowing, Loving skies. We joined in common enterprise to find the song. The song. One day We landed on a barren hill. “We will not find it here” I said. But she was gone. A fall. No more. It was enough. The hard land drank of her while I turned onwards, ever upwards. I had a longing for the sky. But I got lost in crags then caves where dappled beings slouched and water wormed primordial cracks. I sat beside a pool and thought and saw. That day when days went dim the fish of some unlooked-for pool shone bright and pink and blue. I saw. And wept.
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  40. Hi! Im bisexual, technically non-binary, I sometimes identify as gender fluid, its more like "what the storm is gender and can this dysphoria please go away thanks". Wait I swear a lot these days. I guess Ill find out in a minute if the swear filter still works. So I know its not books but while we're talking about queer representation in media: SHE RA. THEYRE ALL GAY. Basically the showrunner has said previously that all her characters are queer unless confirmed otherwise. The show just finished and its one of my favourites ever and I love it so much. That is a queer mood. I went from homophobic/not knowing any better, to curious, to an ally, to holy crap could I be gay to holy crap what is my gender and now I'm a certified gay disaster! Fun times! And often trans characters are non-human or....weird. Like Janet from the Good Place is not a girl, also not a human or a robot, she's like an AI? Theres a show on Netflix called Carole on Tuesday, really sweet, its set on Mars, so theres a trans woman who's kinda violent, who's trans because of the "martian atmosphere". And in season 2 theres a non-binary character who was iirc born a guy, the martian atmosphere made him/them (?) non-binary, and as they fully achieved non-binariness their life was complete and they died. There's a lot of weird rep out there. And like in Starsight.....I dont know what the spoiler period is so STARSIGHT SPOILERS Magic transition yes please! Huh, I've only heard good things about Magnus Chase before now. I haven't actually read the books though. Hey. Life is definitely harder for queer folks, but it's ok. If you are one of us, that's nothing you can help and nothing you can change. Safety is always the most important thing, and if you needed to stay closeted to stay safe thats totally legit. When you get away from unaccepting and toxic environments, and you can really be yourself, its beautiful and liberating and so worth it. The trans suicide rate is high, because people are cremholes. That's why we gotta support each other. That's why allies are so important. Having one single accepting adult in their lives makes trans youth's suicide rate drop drastically. You gotta be careful, you gotta be safe, you can only be who you are.
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  41. i am surprised you could take brandon's silence for lack of support, as all his books show his faith in humanity, and specifically in the lowly. take bridge 4, where the people who were discarded by society are turned into an elite unit. take elantris, where you have a savage society turned into an utopia. think of marasi, with her "social reforms prevent crime more than the police" and "if you have to stop a criminal by shooting at him, society already failed". does the guy who writes this strikes you as a white suprematist?
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  42. To celebrate the new KR quiz...
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  43. I think the part of some people swear oaths even though they know they wont get spren is amazing. Shows that Radiants (At least not all of them) weren't power hungry. I wonder If the God spren would informally hold them to the oaths even without powers or if its simply a test of integrity. Id also Like to see a squire, though im not sure who would be Dalinars. Maybe Navani?
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  44. The Benefit of the Doubt It was odd for someone to be gardening at two in the morning, and I said so. He seemed alarmed at the statement, however, so I returned to him his dropped shovel and continued on my walk. I hope I didn't disturb him; his wife's disappearance was enough strain already.
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  45. Oh how nice! There are six suited florists here to give me some flowers, but why is that guy loading a bullet magazine into that bouquet and attaching a silencer to that rose? The Nightwatcher says "Awwww, that's so sweet", and suddenly you find that you are looking out of your sister's eyes...it was her request to get a 17th shard account, but it's your account! Now your sister, after she swapped into your body did age 6 months, but unfortunately you'll have to wait 6 months to setup a new account. But since you were so sweet the Nightwatcher gave you an everlasting lollipop. I wish that I could, without dying, travel past the event horizon of a black hole, with a firefly traveling companion ( who likewise wouldn't die) and see what happens to the light it emits.
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  46. I don't think this should be taken as a literal canon prophecy of unerring accuracy. I believe the Sleepless have been confirmed as being part of Mistborn Era 4 (WoB). I seem to remember the events of the Stormlight Archive books taking place before Mistborn Era 2. I guess the Era 4 could involve one or a few survivors of an event destroying the Sleepless, but I think the "redeemer and destroyer" should taken as an expectation, rather than foresight. However, I do think one of the Radiants will cause destruction beyond what we've seen so far. I think Kaladin-Destroyer would be taking his tragedy too far into grimdark. Dalinar-Destroyer would be ruining his redemption and growth. Shallan-Destroyer is what everyone expects, but would also be almost unfairly tragic. She's been on a tragic trajectory from her early childhood, and having her arc end up in a dark place would be a denial of agency counter to the struggle we've been shown. Also remember that Hoid spends a lot of time on Shallan - I think this is for the very purpose of aiding her have the choice and opportunity to rise above her tragic circumstances and broken soul. This leaves Szeth. I think Szeth will end up a Destroyer. He's carrying Nightblood, he was insane prior to his death and while he is not evil, he does not have much humanity left to redeem. I think he will end up causing terrible destruction out of (what he perceives as) necessity. Perhaps he will end up a new vessel for Odium. Unlike the ego-centric, almost solipsistic Rayse he doesn't merely hate others and desire their hatred in return. He hates himself far more than he hates others. His hatred of the outside world is also strangely naive. My take on the candidates: Szeth will destroy to defeat Rayse - take up Odium. The shard will be transition from passionate, self-aggrandizing vessel of hatred to a volatile but humble vessel of hatred. One who embraces that he deserves to be hated, but who also embodies the fiery hatred of vengeance and retribution.
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