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Branf

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  1. https://soundcloud.com/user-223827617 Here you go!
  2. So I have a podcast with a friend of mine where we rate fictional dads on their parenting skills (niche I know) and I did Dalinar, Gavilar and Lirin just before Rhythm of War came out. I want to go back and re-record because I really dislike Lirin now a lot more than I did before, I was hoping he'd grow a lot in this book but it's clear he still has a long way to go even after his little change of heart at the end. You can try and instill the values and ideals you see as important in your children, but once they are adults you have to accept them as who they are and who they turned out to be. Anything else is just going to hurt them. Besides his relationship with Kaladin I also massively disagree with his stance on pacifism. He needs a way more nuanced understanding of what violence is, its not just physical harm, and I think it's quite childish to put physical violence on a pedastal as the worst possible thing ever that trumps all other considerations including pschological harm/poverty/slavery etc.
  3. Ooh, This is very different from what other people have picked but I do like the ideas. There's not been that much discussion yet where valour, mercy, and whimsy fit in with dawnshards so I'm curious to see what other people think. Might have to come up with my own ideas.
  4. I was telling a friend about the stormlight archive yesterday and I said "So basically God is dead, getting better at magic requires you to grow emotionally as a person, and bonus there's lots of crabs" then I sent her a picture of some of the art which she really liked. Honestly I think the art is a good way to get people interested because its a pretty unique thing for epic fantasy and conveys a lot of the tone of the story/world without you having to put a lot of effort in to explain without spoilers. Then we had a conversation about how Jean Paul Sartre halucinated crabs following him, so I'm pretty sure it will be a memorable conversation for her.
  5. I think it is speculated that they come togetherto form the shardplate of lightweavers, which is why they show up around Shallan so much. Hopefully ROW will reveal this if it is true.
  6. So my friend and I started a podcast back in March, it's not Sanderson related directly but I thought I'd share it on here since the most recent episode covered The Stormlight Archive. It's called We Rate The Dads, and basically we rate Dads. I mean it does what it says on the tin *shrug emoji* It would be really cool to get some feedback, or chat with anyone else who has a podcast. We've been doing this for fun, and really enjoing it, but also we have no idea what we are doing!
  7. I don't remember them actually touching it, though do correct me if I'm wrong I don't have the ability to check the book right now. I thought it was contained inside devices like the little cube and the ship where there was some other metal around it.
  8. Hate to break it to you but you often have water on your skin. You aren't supposed to touch pottasium with your bare hands for this exact reason. Though you wouldn't likely blow up, just get severe burns.
  9. Scion usually means descendent right, so I think that is just a fancy way of saying she is a descendant of Ham not referencing his title.
  10. To be honest I always assumed the masks on the floor were creation spren mimicing Shalash’s light weaving of a mask. I believe they are the right colour, but they don’t necessarily behave in the right way. Shame spren are supposed to be a mix of red and white petals, so I agree they don’t really make sense for Kalak, and the picture only shows white. Time for me to dive back into the wiki! For Chanarach and Dustbringers I think flamespren match well enough with the picture and the order even if they aren't shown as little humanoids but just sparks/petal shapes.
  11. So I'm not sure if this is a crazy idea, but looking at the official illustrations of the heralds for spren clues it seems like Talenel is surrounded by exhaustion spren. From the coppermind: "A type of spren that appear around exhausted people. In the Physical Realm, they appear as brown-colored jets of dust shooting up in the air.[9][108] In Shadesmar, they seem indistinct yet also large and birdlike.[107] I know lots of people have suggested pain spren for the stonewards but too me this seems a much better match for the picture whilst still in the same realm. Exhaustion being similar to pain.
  12. This is such a good idea, I'm excited to find out who is closest (probably not me, I'M ALWAYS BAD at guessing)
  13. I think that Sanderson won't put in too many from people that we've already met. I think there will be one re-occurring character and three ones we've already met at most. I'd like to see one from an unknown in jah keved, shinovar and herdaz as it would be cool to know a bit more about those places
  14. I'd be up for a UK meet up, I'm London based so a London pub would be great. I'm 23 if that helps illsmithyourbonds?
  15. The shard of procrastination, the longer you put off using your powers the stronger you would become. Then again it probably hasn't got round to creating people yet so that's not really much of an issue.
  16. I agree with pretty much all the points above (especially BICHOK) but I think, for me, the most helpful thing that I learnt where all the things I already knew. Even if I didn't know that I knew them. Listening to a show where something that they're saying seems really obvious to me is the biggest confidence boost. It's like WOW I'm not completely awful at this writing thing after all.
  17. I like this idea, but I'm not sure I completley agree with it. The fact that there are (at least) two forms of the Dragon makes perfect sense. As for the Dragon being the myhtological origin of the creator, it could be possible, however I think it is made very clear in the books that the creator is responsible for making the world, which is never the reponsibility of the Dragon. This doesn't contradict the idea of there being no beginings or endings so long as he stands outside of the pattern and outside of time itself i.e. he creates all of time at once. I'm not sure if this makes much sense to you but it makes sense in my head.
  18. I hope no one considers this spam, but my heart really went out when I heard this on the new 'do I dare to eat a peach' podcast, made by Dan and Robison Wells. David Farland, an author and mentor to many authors, including Brandon Sanderson, is holding a book bomb today to raise money for his son Ben Wolverton's medical care. His son was in a tragic long-boarding accident on Wednesday the 4th of April, 2013. He suffers from severe brain trauma, a cracked skull, broken pelvis and tail bone, burnt knees, bruised lungs, broken ear drums, road rash, pneumonia, and is currently in a coma. As an author David has no medical insurance. The book bomb is focusing on his novel 'Nightingale', which has great reviews, and 'Million Dollar Outlines' a guide for writing outlines for new authors. You can find out more here http://www.helpwolverton.com/p/books-for-book-bomb.html as well as the links to buy the books from amazon. As I said, my heart really goes out to this family and I hope that Ben makes a swift recovery. P.S a book bomb is where everyone buys the book on the same day, if you didn't know. Edit: realised this is also on brandon's blog
  19. Hi! I'll try my best to answer your questions. In my understanding the bridges are indeed symmetrical, with the bridge men turning around to return so that those who were at the back are now at the front, etc. As for different heights I remember a passage where Kaladin describes shorter men padding their shoulders to match the taller bridge men. I'm not sure how much more detail I could give you with out the book in front of me but I hope this was helpful.
  20. My name came from a rather interesting scrabble game where we decided to play with words that didn't actually exist. Mostly because we were bad at scrabble but also because it was fun trying to think up definitions for new found words. The supposed meaning of Branf has been lost in the mists of time but I still quite like the word.
  21. Hahaha! I thought that was hilarious when I signed up and actually sent a message to him congratulating him on the ploy (but also asking for my soul back). He was very nice and said: Anyway welcome to the forums, hope you enjoy it here!
  22. Ok my first ever first line. Actually that's a lie, I wrote a terrible first chapter to a novel when I was about 13, but this is the first serious attempt, so please be gentle.
  23. To be honest I am too, but I actually quite like that, if the dark one is a something that exists outside of the patern and is infinitly old how is a mere human suposed to understand that? I wouldn't have wanted to finish the series with him becoming understandable, I think it would have cheapened it a little. Agree about Nakomi being a hero of the horn, I think that one of the wise ones told Aviendha that the name Nakomi was very old and she hadn't heard of anyone alive wiith that name, which could back up the theory. Can't find the exact quote, sorry.
  24. Stayed up till 2am just so I could finish it without sleeping! LOVE, LOVE, LOVED IT! Such a bittersweet book, so happy but so sad it is over, I'm not sure I'll read any series that affected me like WoT in a long time. Thank you Robert Jordan and Brandon Sanderson! I totally agree about the Perrin chapters, I was surprised since I he's not my favourite character. I disagree about Mat though, I loved all his chapters as well, but I think I felt a little of what you describe in Towers of Midnight so I understand. Don't really have any complaints apart from 'why is it over?' and 'why don't we have an entire book dedicated to the adventures of Androl?' That guy is awesome! Tempted to go off and re-read the entire series (for like the 5th time) just so I can justify reading aMoL again....
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