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AllomancerSam

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  1. Kaladin for sure. I mean, I love nearly every character in this series, but reading about Kaladin and his story is what helped me to realize that I have (seasonal) depression and lead to me seeking treatment, so he'll always be incredibly important to me.
  2. That Oathbringer would utterly destroy me emotionally In all seriousness, the only things I remember getting right were 1. that Kaladin's parents would be alive, and 2. that we would see another awakened sword (possibly made to combat Nightblood), but that was more of a general series prediction rather then specifically Oathbringer so I'm not sure if it counts.
  3. I would definitely agree with this. Just throwing in my two cents here, but my general experience with other forums is that having character and shipping threads split up so that there are two for any given subject works really well. ie; 1. [Ship/Character Name] Discussion Thread. For analysis, debate, pros/cons, etc. 2. [Ship/Character Name] Appreciation Thread. For the fans. A more lighthearted sharing of favorite moments, headcanons, fic, fanart, etc. This allows for both in depth (hopefully balanced) discussion and a place for people to just enjoy their favorite things without having to worry about being "right," or having to defend their enjoyment.
  4. I would say that this Secret Project is likely either something new or something he hasn't talked about in a long time, as was the case with Skyward. However, if it is something we already know about, I'm placing my bet on Alcatraz #6 since it matches up with his projected timeline from last year's State of the Sanderson: But let's be real, I am so hoping it's something Cosmere because I'm going through serious post-Oathbringer withdrawls. This would be hilarious and absolutely something I can see him doing.
  5. My favorite romantic relationship has to be Vin & Elend. I loved watching their relationship grow throughout the Mistborn trilogy, plus Final Empire was my first Sanderson book so they have a really special place in my heart. My favorite non-romantic relationship has to be Lightsong and Llarimar and boy oh boy does their last scene in Warbreaker make me cry. Every time.
  6. You know you're a Sanderfan when you get a notification of an event happening close by and even though you've been super sick and in bed all day you legitimately consider going and it pains you when you can't Also whenever you go to a bookstore the first thing you look for is the Sanderson books, even though you already own all of them...
  7. It's a theory that's been going around. Here are a couple of threads on it:
  8. So I looked for another topic discussing this and I couldn't find one, at least not one on the OB board. Now I know I'm not the first person to notice that a lot of our main Radiants have lost siblings, and with WoR it was only three (Tien, Gavilar, and Helaran), and OB brings that number to five (with Eshonai and Elhokar), which is a heck of "coincidence" on its own, but when I started really thinking about it I noticed something else: Elhokar: proto-Lightweaver Eshonai: proto-Willshaper Helaran: proto-Skybreaker Gavilar: proto-Bondsmith (or at least on the same path that Dalinar was with the visions) Tien: possible proto-Lightweaver All of their deaths are (as far as we know) unconnected, but still, Brandon doesn't tend to work in coincidences. Thoughts? Am I reading too much into this? Does this pattern have anything to do with The Sibling?
  9. Oh boy the last couple of days have been so incredibly busy so sorry I'm only now reporting back. I did make it, it was a grand time. Got some books signed for myself plus a gift for a friend (a copy of Edgedancer. It was so funny when she opened it, looked inside and was just like "When the heck did you get this signed?" because she didn't know I was going to this signing), and asked some questions. @JoyBlu I am kinda bummed I didn't see you. I kept my eyes peeled but I don't think we even passed by each other. Okay, questions: Me: When a shard vessel dies after holding the shard for thousands of years, how much do they remember about holding it? Brandon: Depends on the shard. Usually everything, or most everything. It is not impossible that there are shards that don't want to remember certain things... they have a large and vast mental capacity for remembering things. Me: Okay, would Ruin be one who would be more likely to want to forget? Brandon: I think all of them would have things they might want to forget, it depends on whose personality would be more likely to actually make that happen. ---- Minor Oathbringer Spoilers: ---- Me: Does the physical proximity of two planets have an effect on how difficult or easy it is to worldhop between them? Brandon: Yes ---- Me: If given the opportunity which shard would Kelsier most want to punch next? Brandon: Who would he want to punch next, ooooh. He would find it really fun to punch Honor. Really fun.
  10. Okay, it's looking like I'll make it! I can't wait for this one. If you see a blonde girl in a Mistborn shirt and a big gray poncho, that's me! Please say hi/chat. I am very lonely. Also, if anyone's curious, I called the store and they said they'll probably be handing out wristbands until it starts, so there is still time.
  11. I am trying my hardest to be there. I'm on my way up to Orem right now to pick up a wristband but I'm stuck in Filmore with car trouble right now so who knows.
  12. 2 things! 1. One of my best friends comes home off of her mission in exactly one week! 2. I just applied for graduation in the spring. I'm getting my Bachelor's people! I'm so close to being out of here.
  13. @A Budgie, @Ookla the Maccabee, and @Sunbird, thank you all so much. I am feeling considerably better now, and I think part of that is knowing even people who barely know me care. You're all so kind.
  14. When your only condition for giving your sister a ride across town is that she has to listen to you talk about the Cosmere the whole time (and specifically Oathbringer, because at that time no one I knew in real life had read it) When you watch a lot of bookshelf tours on youtube (it's relaxing okay) and the first thing you look for is if they have Sanderson books and then you proceed to judge them, like, super harshly if they don't.
  15. I've just been having a rough couple of weeks mentally and emotionally. A lot of family drama's being going down, school is stressful, some money issues/worries, I won't bore with details. Also yay seasonal depression which is just ruining what has always been my favorite time of year. I just feel really sad and lonely and empty and I have no idea who to turn to since all of my friends are busy and having their own issues and comparatively maybe mine really aren't that bad, but I still feel awful all the time, and I know it's not super healthy to rely on distractions to make me feel better but I do and now those are failing me too so I've got nothing right now (except relaying all of this to strangers on the internet in the hopes that actually putting it into words might help, so sorry for all this, you guys don't even know me, but I just had to tell someone).
  16. One relatively minor pet peeve I've found especially relevant recently is when I read faster than anyone I know irl, but not quite as fast as a lot of my online peeps, so I'm never quite on the same page (hehe puns) as everyone else.
  17. I don't know why or how, but some, maybe all of our main Radiants will die at the end of 5, spend the 10-15 year break between 5&6 on Braize, returning at the start of 6. (I'm thinking definitely Kaladin and one of our Heralds (Ash or Taln), probably Shallan, Lift, and Renarin, possibly Jasnah and Dalinar, and wherever Dalinar ends up is where Szeth will be). The now time honored tradition of Radiants losing siblings will continue. Sorry Adolin. (but seriously we're up to five (5!) now, this is a pattern). No textual support, but I feel like Shalash will fill the spot of Dustbringer, bringing our ten main characters to one from each order. The front five's main goal is probably stopping the desolations and defeating the Fused/Voidbringers in general, the back five will see more of a team up between humans/Parshendi to destroy Odium once and for all. The Oathpact will be fulfilled, and the remaining Heralds will be allowed to die one final time. Kaladin and Moash will face off, and part of Kaladin's arc with that will be accepting that he cannot save him from himself, or that killing him would in some way be saving him from himself. Either way Moash is going to die. My experience with Brandon's writing is that for every 1 plot twist I see coming, there are at least 2-3 more that completely blindside me, so if any of these are right I'll be shocked.
  18. I knew as soon as she showed up and we got the first description of her, but not for the reason you might think. It's actually fairly dumb of me but it worked? 1. I knew Vivenna was going to show up so I had my eye out for her. 2. When she's first described, I think it's pointed out that she has orange eyes, but for some reason I read it as orange hair, and didn't even question it. I just thought it was odd, and I was like "Hey, you know who has really odd hair? Vivenna." I kept thinking that when Kaladin asks her why her men call her by Sir/he/him and she just kinda shrugs because that was their doing, she doesn't care. Given that women = no fighting on Roshar, she had to be a worldhopper. Then her sword turning people grey confirmed it. Funny enough I didn't catch her use of the "white on black" one, even though I was specifically looking for her to use color idioms like Vasher. *raises hand* I was! I was! Though to be fair I wasn't expecting it this book or with Vivenna. I was just thinking at some point someone was going to at least try to make a Nightblood 2.0 to try to counteract or maybe even destroy Nightblood itself, since that sword could very well cause a lot of problems.
  19. I started Way of Kings no less than three times and just couldn't get into it. Eventually I ran out of other Cosmere books to read and had to pick it back up and actually keep reading past the prelude. It's not that it didn't interest me, I just wasn't ready. I own not one but two sets of the Reckoners trilogy, and I still haven't read it. I just keep putting it off, probably because once I'm done with those I'll have no more unread Brandon Sanderson books (barring Wheel of Time 12-14 and some non-cosmere short fiction) and idk if I'm ready for that yet. On more a secret secret note, for a while I thought I would never read Mistborn because the premise didn't really interest me, and my best friend told me that it was too violent for me (she was wrong), so I told her that she could spoil it for me since I wasn't going to read it and she wanted to talk to someone about it. Thankfully she didn't spoil much, just a couple of character deaths, nothing too deeply plot related, but I still regret it.
  20. As a rule I generally want unknowns cast in all of the Cosmere adaptations (fingers crossed for Mistborn mini series with 6-7 episodes per book), and I really don't any of the hollywood super stars in there, but that being said, even I can't resist fancasting a couple of characters. Kelsier - I know I said no big name actors, but I jokingly put Chris Pine for Kelsier a while back and now I can't really see anyone else. He just has the kind of natural charisma that works well with the character. Vin - Isabelle Fuhrman, she's the right age, right height, and the right look. Someone also suggested Millie Bobby Brown in a couple of years and I can also see that. Elend - The whole time I was reading the trilogy I pictured Elend as a cross between Toby Regbo and Charlie Cox, but really I haven't found an actor who matches Elend for me. Spook - Thomas Brodie-Sangster Dockson - Troy Baker Marsh - David Anders. Personal choice, can't explain why. He just fits for me. Tindwyl - Claudia Black The Lord Ruler - Jonathan Rhys Meyer Straff Venture - Alan van Sprang Ruin - On a more meta note, I want Ruin/Ati to be played by whomever gets cast as Kvothe in the Kingkiller Chronicles adaptation. I feel like that would be a nice little nod to the connection between authors/fandoms. Of course this also means that someone from the Cosmere (maybe Hoid?) will have to have a small part in Kingkiller as well. Steris - Meegan Warner, for no reason other than the fact that her character on TURN reminds me a lot of Steris.
  21. I definitely cried a lot. In my defense I've also had a lot of other stuff going on so it was partly this book and also partly because I just needed a good cry. So let's see, I cried when: Kaladin reunited with his parents, and then again when he met his brother, during the flashback where Adolin was born, when Shallan had her complete breakdown and Wit hugs her, when we find out exactly what happened to Evi, when Kaladin freezes and Elhokar dies, during the flashback where Dalinar is losing it, snaps at his sons, and Renarin hugs him, and when Jasnah spares Renarin and it talks about how she remembered comforting him a lot when they were younger because he was so quite and misunderstood and unloved and she hugs him and he breaks down again and I pretty much did not stop crying from that point onward until the end. This book pretty thoroughly destroyed me, but in a good way.
  22. You know you're a Sanderfan when one of the biggest things you look for in a guy is his ability to pull off a Wax cosplay to go with your Steris.
  23. When you work overtime on homework/your senior thesis rough draft and turn everything in early so you won't have any distractions when OB comes out When you live three hours away from Provo so you bribe your BYU going sister with pizza and groceries to get a release party wristband for you. When you then drive all that way after a long day of classes to go to said party. When you stay until 2am to get your book personalized even though you have classes the next morning When you don't want to wait until you get home to start Oathbringer so you make your friend (who also loves BS and who you kinda dragged to the party with you) read it out loud the whole way home. When you skip semi-important classes to read, and bring OB to the classes you can't skip so you can read in those few precious minutes before the lecture starts. When you finish OB and immediately get on 17th Shard to see what everyone else thought of it. When you spend every spare moment of your Thanksgiving break reading threads on here and rereading different parts of OB to dissect it. It... has been a busy two weeks.
  24. THIS. Everyone I know who has read Stormlight either only started liking Shallan during WoR or they still don't like her, but I felt a kinship from her very first chapter and she's been one of my favorites ever since. Other unpopular opinions: The Marvel Cinematic Universe is only 'meh' I don't know if it's popular on here, but in other circles the Six of Crows duology is often lauded as the pinnacle of YA Fantasy, and I did not really like it. First book was okay, but the second I hated. I have no interest in reading/watching Game of Thrones. Stormlight is not my favorite Sanderson series Stargate SG-1 is my all time favorite sci-fi, and in my humblest of opinions, better than Star Wars.
  25. Long time lurker, occasional poster (but almost never in these kinds of threads) here, and I just want to say: thank goodness for this thread. I am so happy that I'm the only one who wasn't satisfied with how everything played out re: Adolin/Shallan/Kaladin. I finished the book on Tuesday and I was just so incredibly disheartened. I loved 95% of OB with everything I have but I could not get passed this one thing. I initially chalked it up to my being disappointed as a proud member of the SS Shalladin, because that obviously didn't happen, and the general consensus over on tumblr, where I interact with the fandom the most, being just so happy that "the love triangle no one wanted was taken care of." But they're none too kind to Shalladin over there anyway (I actually saw a post circulating saying "the evil that is Shalladin has finally be cleansed from the fandom," and honestly, uncalled for) so I don't know what I was really expecting. Anyway, I'm so glad for this thread and I love the discussion that's been going on here. Some thoughts, in no particular order (and sorry for rehashing anything, I just have to get some of this out there. Also, apologies for the impending wall of text, I have a lot of feelings on this matter.) *I was fully prepared to have Shadolin be endgame, and as much as I love Shalladin, I could get behind the other side if I was given a reason to care about their relationship, but I kind of wasn't? I liked them well enough after WoR but by the end of OB I started actively disliking it. I guess I have two real problems with them, and it might be wholly personal, but 1. they're completely boring together. I love them both individually as characters but together there's just nothing there. This is especially weird because while a lot of people say that romance is one of BS's weaker writing points, and I can see where they're coming from, I have greatly liked and even loved almost every canon pairing he's thrown at us, except Shadolin. 2. I'm not seeing them offering each other the chance to grow and change. This is particularly important for Shallan right now because she has so much healing to do and Adolin is just not helping, and as it's been pointed out, he's actually hurting her by treating her different personas as different people, which they are not. *That being said, I agree with the general sentiment here in that I didn't want Shallan choosing anyone in her current state. Homegirl is not in the right headspace to be committing herself to such a serious relationship and I feel like it's only going to make her worse. *The Shallan and Wit scene is easily one of my favorites of the entire series, and really hit me hard. It also really draws the point of what Shallan needs to do in order to truly heal. Forgive herself, accept that the pain exists, that it hurts, but she doesn't deserve it, accept that there is only one her, and that she doesn't have to try to be anyone else because the real her is worth so much. (Also, Wit seems so certain of this, so certain that she may be broken now, but eventually she can pull through. Also also, Pattern agrees.) I really think this is right, because it's very close to what Dalinar does later on to heal. He takes his pain upon himself, claims it, and is able to forgive and be forgiven. "The pain he'd so recently insisted that he would keep started to fade away on its own." - Pg 1139. This is in direct contrast to what Shallan does, which is to repress everything and just pretend that there's nothing wrong. I also find it interesting how all three of our leads (Shallan, Kaladin, and Dalinar) talk about being different people throughout their lives, granted, Shallan does take this a step or two further than the others. They talk about becoming different men gradually through change an growth, and Dalinar in particular acknowledges that they weren't just a different part of him, he was those men, all of them, but because of them he has been able to change. Every step counts. There are actually a lot of interesting parallels you can draw between Shallan and Dalinar in this book. They both experienced incredible pain, Shallan brought this into herself, seeing herself as a "monster" because of it, while Dalinar refused to claim any responsibility, but still hated himself. They both repressed their pains and memories -Shallan, through her lies, and Dalinar, through his drinking. In the end of OB we were given one very clear and healthy way of eventually dealing with all of this (Dalinar), and one way that is decidedly less healthy (Shallan). *I love the comparison of A/S/K with Dalinar, Evi, and Navani. That's actually what I was thinking for most of the second half of OB. Adolin is compared to his mother at least a half a dozen times, and there are some comparisons to be made with Shallan-young Dalinar (truly awful coping mechanisms for one, which actually makes me more hopeful that Shallan will be able to deal with her issues in time like Dalinar has). There really aren't any obvious Kaladin-Navani parallels, except Shallan/Dalinar still not being over Kaladin/Navani even when married to other people. In any case, even without Kaladin, this doesn't bode well for Shadolin. Dalinar and Evi's marriage wasn't really that happy, especially towards the end, not for lack of trying, but Dalinar at that time was not who he needed to be to make it work. Evi knew he could be so much more, so much better, and she was right, but she paid dearly for it. *Pattern. I feel like you guys might be on to something with the bond breaking or being in jeopardy. Pattern definitely got less talkative as the book went on, and I may be wrong here but I cannot recall him saying anything in part 5 except for a line here or there and a bit of "Mmmmm"ing. Shallan is in deep denial about who she is, and that pretty directly contradicts the Lightweaver ideals. If she continues down this way and Adolin keeps enabling it, then it might be a choice between him and Pattern, and that's not going to turn out well. Like I said though, I am so grateful for this thread. It's made me reevaluate everything, and honestly? I feel a lot better. I have read of lot of BS's books, and he has yet to disappoint. But letting all of this stand as it did at the end of OB? Feels wrong. I just hope it feels wrong because that's how it was intended. Sorry if this got really ramble-ly.
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