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This week on SpanReads, we are onto Starsight, the sequel to Skyward. How do we feel about this controversial book on a reread? Stay tuned to find out. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). For a recap, see Jessie's video on her personal channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYkAoQ6HSeo&pp=ygUPc3RhcnNpZ2h0IHJlY2Fw SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Starsight episodes air from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the US hardcover art of Starsight, by Charlie Bowater. If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to [email protected]

This week on SpanReads, we are talking about the Lore in Skyward! We talk about foreshadowing for the future, and inconsistencies. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Skyward episodes air August 31st to September 14th, Starsight from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the Italian Skyward cover, by Federico Musetti! If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to [email protected]

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This week on SpanReads, we are talking about the Characters & Relationships in Skyward! We talk about M-Bot, Cobb, Skyward Flight and Jorgen, and of course, ZEEN NIGHTSHADE. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Skyward episodes air August 31st to September 14th, Starsight from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the UK Skyward cover by Sam Green. If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to [email protected]

So this Saturday, we are doing two Secrets in Stained Glass streams. First, at 8:30am Pacific / 11:30am Eastern, we will be talking with Matt and Grace about Grace's PC, Cecily, and some other NPCs. This will go for about an hour, then at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern we will have the full cast on and we will answer your questions! If you'd like to submit questions, you can do so in the comments below, and we will try to get to them all! Of course, we will be interacting with chat as well! Main stream with full cast (10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern): Preshow stream, feat. Matt & Grace (8:30am Pacific / 11:30am Eastern):

Welcome to Reveals in Stained Glass, our Secrets in Stained Glass talkback show, where we discuss all sorts of SiSG things now that the show has concluded! We discuss all sorts of behind-the-scenes stuff, like character creation and more, as well as some new secrets! And of course complaining to Matt that he's too good at this. Today we have Matt (Comatose) our Narrator, and three players, Eric (Chaos), Alyx (FeatherWriter), and Verónica (Cheyenne Sedai). See all bonus content and stories at: https://www.17thshard.com/forum/tags/secrets%20in%20stained%20glass/ Character portraits and thumbnail art: Eli (https://instagram.com/elisgardor/) Backgrounds/Overlays: Connor (https://instagram.com/conjchamberlain/) Editing by: Eric (Chaos) Mistborn is a creation of Brandon Sanderson, and a trademark of Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC. The Mistborn Adventure Game system is designed and licensed by Crafty Games. Diceborn is also available on audio: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/diceborn 00:00 A chaotic introduction 7:12 We're blabbing about stuff 14:34 Matt's inspirations 28:16 Character creation & Eliane subbing in 1:05:08 The "Murder" 1:20:28 Matt's knives, some epilogue thoughts 1:56:36 Headphones off behind-the-scenes 2:25:49 Working theories, Mysteries 3:06:32 Matt's headcanons during the books 3:16 Final thoughts, favorites If you like our content, support us on Patreon, for exclusive items and more: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss

SpanReads, our reread show, returns! For 2023, in anticipation for Defiant's release, we are doing the Skyward series! We're doing three episodes on each book, and this one is Reactions & Retrospectives. Importantly, unlike our cosmere SpanReads, we need to compare with the rest of the series, so this does have full Skyward series spoilers, excluding Defiant, of course, because it isn't out yet. So, what did we think of Skyward on a reread? Stay tuned to find out. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). Need a recap? Jessie has you covered, and her own channel, she did a full recap for Skyward: https://youtu.be/vfGZwEgoX9A SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Skyward episodes air August 31st to September 14th, Starsight from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the US Skyward cover by Charlie Bowater. If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to [email protected]

She would certainly use it against Tevidian, at least! Definitely.

The main episodes of Secrets in Stained Glass have concluded, but we do still have some content to show you! Below is one more entry in Jenna Tekiel's journal, set after the end of Secrets in Stained Glass. Very big Secrets in Stained Glass Episode 5 spoilers follow! But that's not all we have for you. This Sunday, we will be releasing a long behind the scenes video with Matt and some of the cast talking about the creation of SiSG and more. On Saturday, September 9th, we will be doing a Q&A stream as well. There is also some more prose/story content, and a few items before the stream that we will put out. Lastly, we have put out Matt's final Narrator Notes on Patreon, covering episode 5, and shows previously redacted material now that the show is done! You can support us for as little as a dollar! And if you missed it, we posted Jenna's previous writings a while back, before episode 3! A Final Jenna Tekiel Journal Entry By Eric Lake Written 1010 FE, two months after the Elariel Solstice Party A lot has happened. I look back to my previous journal entry and I am... ashamed. Julian did love me. I did not believe in him as I should have. More mistakes of mine. And my mother had him killed. Damn you, Mother. I have never been more angry to get everything I thought I wanted. I should have killed you in that carriage. I should have just let everything you built burn. But... Of course, she was right in one thing, as she can frustratingly be: killing her would ruin me. Tevidian would not protect me. It would ruin Dier, when I need to protect him from Straff. What Mother never taught me was how to feel. Julian...started that process. I went off that river when he died, but when I burned pewter on that lake, I didn't realize, but I had made my choice. My house was not everything. What she made me into... is perhaps not how it should be. I could not be a person who just casually threw her friends and love to die for... a pittance of political advantage. Lord Ruler. She killed Julian. So much more, too, which no doubt she is pleased by, given her hatred of Elariel. Such coldness brought by extreme bitterness, and a bitter woman who would do anything to see it done. But that my mother was so willing to kill the man I loved. She would do it again, to Dier. She would do it to anyone. She is just like Straff. I hate Straff. I cannot be like them. I will not be like them. I hate you, Mother. Regardless of Julian's parentage... I am glad he is not a rebel, and that he loved me, for some reason. I am genuinely so confused, a storm whirling within me that will never stop raging. What I am certain of is that I need to make sure Petrine does not cause more ruin. I will need to be careful in how I act—oh, how it always comes to that—but I can never act like her, anymore. Perhaps I should channel some Dier, though he correctly advised me against sudden murder of parents. He's very good at this, when he tries, as I suspected. Petrine was quite happy with my engagement to Dier, once he renounced his title. Of course she hated him personally, but I sold her on the arrangement, convincing her this would give Tekiel access to Venture secrets. Of course, I have no intention of telling Petrine any of those. It's good leverage, to try and keep Petrine from acting against me again. It's a shame, Mother. Perhaps you should not casually betray those closest to you, or else they will burn you instead. It would certainly be a shame if you died in a fire at some point, wouldn't it? So sad. Lucius would love the poetic nature of that. Lucius told me Maevis is gone. She has to, because Tevidian and Petrine would hunt her down for what she knows. Whatever she uncovered, she's right. Petrine will stop at nothing. But I hope, some day, Maevis realizes I was, in fact, always on her side. Fortunately, I happen to be very close to the Canton of Inquisition through Verity. I could tug on some strings there. It sure would be an awful look, Mother, for a lady of a Great House to be working with skaa rebels, wouldn't it? I will clearly need new allies if I am to destroy Petrine, and I am in short supply of them, except for Lucius and Dier. This is my primary concern. When I am Lady Tekiel, will there be anything left for me to command? Would I even want the alternative, being in service to those disloyal snakes currently here? I think not. Dier has helped immensely. I am more in control of my faculties with him, even as everything has collapsed around me. The river in front of me will be impossible to navigate, but it must be done. Together, anything is possible. How unfortunate, Mother, that you never trusted me enough to truly work with me. The complete catalog of Secrets in Stained Glass content, featuring prose content, art, and other behind-the-scenes content can be found in this tag.

All three of these posts are much better suited for here: Thanks!

I did change it on Discord for Diceborn: Secrets in Stained Glass (which you should definitely watch, it's honestly really good). Square unless otherwise stated. I'd definitely prefer you didn't regardless. Probably just an artifact that for work, that's what I do. I very specifically use my first name for Shardcast. I think it's a little more personal in signing things, though.

Certainly we could install many themes if you wanted. I couldn't guarantee they all look to the same quality necessarily, but a lot of themes are perfectly serviceable. As Stargazer said, many of these things are things we can do, and we are happy to discuss such things. I admit some of the things you said like "initiate an edit" does not make much sense to me. I do want to make some comments on this one though: I can certainly admit that navigation and what defines as user-friendly can be in the eye of the beholder, but man, I don't know if I can let "loads fast" go when there are just so many ads and videos playing all over the place. It's horrendous especially on mobile--where most traffic comes from. I also think the way Fandom links all of its wikis together and so you get search results from wikis you aren't even on is... not ideal. I guess I don't exactly understand what precisely makes Fandom easier to navigate. A few dropdowns? I'm genuinely a bit baffled. I'm happy to listen to suggestions. And yes, if you have any suggestions on how to structure content articles, we can discuss things. I'm still very curious what examples of multiple pages being disorganized. We always want to improve things. You're more than welcome to do your own thing on Fandom, but I don't know. Maybe I'm getting old, but these seem like minor, workable issues, and I don't know, seems like spending thousands of hours to get close to content parity doesn't really seem like the most efficient way of doing things. But again, totally up to you, but we can only try to be open. I think if we joined forces, things can be even better compared to the alternative. Certainly a lot of the Era 1 articles do need work!

Pivot has this change. You can go use it now if it bothers you (which is fair). I think you'll like that.

I appreciate that, but do realize design changes are not likely to be taken lightly. Also, frankly, I disagree with some of your comments, but not all; I think the lines on infoboxes would look very busy. Wikipedia doesn't do that either. These are definitely things to trial and see.

What sort of preferences would you like specifically? I'd love to know. I'd certainly agree that finding what you want on most wikis--Coppermind included--can be challenging, and certainly the old skin is the old default Wikipedia skin. There is a Pivot skin you might prefer more that I think looks much nicer but has some small issues. I'm curious if you have any specific example of pages like that. That gets very complicated for things like, say, the Knights Radiant and Surgebinding. What goes on what page is nontrivial. Ideally, something like the Roshar page is a good example of where you can have an introductory section of a topic with a link to, say, the full article on the False Desolation.