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  1. I suddenly remembered that I know Moshe Feder, Brandon's editor, slightly. He is getting it fixed.
  2. Any beta readers, or others who have access to someone on Brandon's team? The "Pre-order the book" page (https://read.macmillan.com/torforge/the-stormlight-archive/ ) has a "Pre-Order Now" dropdown and a "Buy the Stormlight Archive" dropdown. The Pre-order dropdown has a link to Indigo, which is selling, quote, "Tor Fall 2024 Title to Be Announced". None, zero, of the preorder links let me buy a DRM-free epub. That's what I actually want, so .... The Buy dropdown is worse. There are two Barnes & Noble links. One goes to Apple Books, and one goes to nowhere, because the URL in the hyperlink runs two bookstores together. The Apple link leads to Books-a-Million. The Books-a-Million link leads to BAM as well. The Target link leads to Indigo. It's a real mess. I realize that this is a Macmillan site, not Dragonsteel, but a call from, say, JABberwocky (Brandon's agents) would definitely wake them up. Note that I did try the Contact page at https://brandonsanderson.com, but Cloudflare times out without showing it. Thanks.
  3. Eric has no ego! His favorite secret project isn't the one that namechecks him. Sig has found a way to hack the Torment, which Hoid in all his millennia seemingly never has. Will he share the trick? So both Tress and Sunlit Man have a climax in a spaceship? My favorite moment: Sigzil recreating years of the Scadrian scientists' work in minutes while they keep asking if he read their notes. Around 1:25:50, David's talking about the Shades forming a giant mass ... if you put enough Investiture in one place, it develops sapience, says Brandon. Would the Chorus (made of mostly-mindless shades) develop a collective intelligence just by virtue of having so much Investiture gathered together? The planetary core is apparently super-dense because of so much Investiture. So wouldn't it become sentient or even sapient? For that matter, why aren't Taldain's and Canticle's stars sentient? Or are they? Eric (1:43:29), you don't think Brandon is heavily foreshadowing Cultivation dying? Or at least Koravellium Avast? She has really good futuresight and she's putting a lot of work into making an heir .... Least favorite point: the Cinder King is the weakest villain I've seen from Brandon. He's so two-dimensional you should be able to see through him. Compare, "I'm insecure so I need all the power" boy to the Lord Ruler, or Bluefingers, or Torol Sadeas. The 'casters don't think that was important, of course.
  4. Yes. In fact, it originated before the Shattering, when Virtuosity was a component of the living Adonalsium.
  5. So ... does it seem to anyone else that the Shades of Threnody, the Nightmares of Torio, and the creatures of the Midnight Essence are connected? Nightmares and Shades are both the Cognitive Shadows of people who died on that world, and remain to prey on the living. They both have visual similarities to the Midnight Essence, which strangely can be created by the Unmade Re-Shephir and (in Tress and the non-canon Aether of Night draft) by a black Aether.
  6. Actually, Lightweaving would seem to be a Virtuosity thing that other Shards copied, now that you mention it. I wonder which Shard first started sending souls back to the Physical (like Endowment sends the Returned) and having other Shards (e. g. Honor, maybe Autonomy) copy that.
  7. Wouldn't mind seeing it, but it certainly shouldn't be part of SP4.
  8. Yeah, manifesting a Shardpaintbrush while in the Cognitive Realm isn't using Investiture at all. /s Painter spends the entire book being terribly, terribly underestimated. Including by himself. (That's one of the main themes of the book.) This is the planet of Virtuosity! That is, the Shard of artistic excellence. Being a great painter there would inevitably mean being highly invested. (This, after all, is why Yumi is so highly invested--she's the greatest rock-stacker ever.)
  9. Notice that Painter-as-temporary-Cognitive-Shadow made a shardpaintbrush without even bonding a spren. Unfortunately, only Hoid in the entire Cosmere knows that this happened.
  10. That's one of my major complaints about this (and other recent Brandon): slow start. This (and RoW) could have stood another draft, removing 20-30% of the current word count, mostly from the beginning (but also at least two of the incredibly hard-to-read "Yumi is miserable and a fish out of water in Painter's world" scenes. We didn't need or want entire chapters of Hoid explaining things that could have been better included in the actual story (or just left out).
  11. I propose that this book could be called Jessie and the Math Teacher. I am in no way trying to intrude, but Jessie and Eric were pretty open about how they met virtually while living in different worlds (North America and Australia), and communicated a lot over electronic media (Connection) while being physically unable to be together due to the Shroud (global pandemic), but have had a happy (courtship storyline) ending. I have to think that, consciously or unconsciously, Brandon was inspired by their long-distance relationship when writing Yumi. IIRC he did attend their wedding celebration. (I'm really not prying, Eric talked about it on the podcast.) I am in no way saying that Jessie is anything like Yumi, or Eric like Painter, but the situation has similarities, yes?
  12. Please do not apologize for someone else's actions, sir! I didn't even want an apology from Reinhart, just a reason. I was sincerely confused and unsure what to do, so I figured I'd ask. I've done much more Wikipedia editing than Coppermind, and I didn't want to presume that the culture here is the same (and of course, it isn't). I'll un-revert after work today, then. Thank you (and your fellow Keepers) for taking the time.
  13. I figured out (I think) what happened after posting. I thought the article was about Bondsmiths. It isn't. It's about "The Order of the Bondsmiths". There is no article about people who are Bondsmiths, that is, have the Surgebinding abilities associated with Bondsmiths. I actually don't disagree with reverting my change, now that I figured that out. I do wish @Reinhartmax had just said that as a reason for the reversion, so I wasn't confused. I am also still curious about why the talk page was deleted. Would it have been a problem to recreate it?
  14. So ... I added Ishar to the list of canonical [[Bondsmiths]]. My edit was reverted with no explanation. Rather than edit war, I figured I'd ask why on the talk page ... which is deleted. And the page says, "The deletion and move log for this page are provided here for convenience:" Then there's nothing after the colon. Can anyone perhaps tell me why my edit was reverted by @Reinhartmax? And why the talk page was deleted? And why the deletion log is invisible to the wiki's own code? Thanks.
  15. Hey, is the Overlady going to read Tress? Because I'm very interested in her reaction. Big fan.
  16. Vacation? Who told you that you were allowed to take vacations? Entertain me! Now excuse me while I pack for my trip to Las Vegas.
  17. What happened, here? I hope both Marvin and Danielle are OK!
  18. Just dropping by to say ... I just read the Secret Project 3 sample chapters. I can actually hear Eric saying "Spicy!" in my head now. Wow. Just wow. You might want to book two 90 minute episodes for this one. Not a joke.
  19. Nightblood killed a horribly wounded Vessel, of course. Some of those injuries seemingly go back to Rayse's fight with Dominion/Skai.
  20. My fault. Someone elsewhere said "He" and I just accepted it, then replicated it here.
  21. So ... Nightblood has to go. He's already the most Invested object in the Cosmere, capable of killing a (weakened) Vessel, far stronger than the mere Bands of Mourning per Brandon. How can it be removed from the story? Well, who's really good at disposing of surplus Investiture? How about Rysn's great friend and protector, the Ancient Guardian, Chiri-Chiri? He eats Investiture, and presumably will need more and more as he grows and develops--he, like Nightblood, has already absorbed enough Investiture to become sapient. (That's my explanation, anyway--we know that enough Investiture gathered in one place becomes sapient by WoB.) In fact, Larkins are rather like non-murderous Nightbloods, aren't they? I predict [looks around to be sure no Vorin people are present] that Chiri-Chiri will end up draining a huge amount of Investiture from Nightblood. Might not kill him, but will most certainly weaken him. And like Nightblood, Chiri-Chiri never seems to be full. Another prediction: Chiri-Chiri will form a romantic, or at least child-producing, relationship with Nale's larkin (who drained Lift back in Edgedancer). Yet another: the Sleepless were worried that Rysn might become capable of actually exerting the Dawnshard power by becoming a Radiant. She agreed not to. But she does have a Connection to Chiri-Chiri. And if my first prediction is right, Chiri-Chiri will drain an enormous amount of Investiture from Nightblood and become, effectively, a demigod-dragon-flying-crab thing. Could the bonded pair of Rysn and Chiri-Chiri use the Dawnshard power?
  22. First time posting here. Hi, everyone. So I just happened to randomly notice today ...in the Gathas, there are seven Amesha Spenta, that is "emanations" of the creator, Ahura Mazda. Two of them are Vairya and Armaiti--that is, Devotion and Dominion. That same article on Zoroastrianism also mentioned that theYasna is a ceremony to strengthen Creation against the forces working to destroy it. Coincidence? Well, maybe. I thought it was interesting, though.
  23. "... I think I like it quite a bit better than the White Sand graphic novels." Not to be too snarky, but that's a pretty low standard. I liked the first-draft text version of White Sand quite a bit better than the graphic novel.
  24. I just watched Shardcast on YouTube, and followed the link to this article. I was all ready to correct the biology (I'm a biology teacher by training), but ... well, LadyLameness is actually an expert and there was nothing to correct. Nice job. I do feel obligated to point out that since transfused leukocytes are not only useless to the recipient, but actively damaging in some cases (as our esteemed author says), they're generally removed in a process called "leukodepletion." I used to work for the company that invented leukocyte depleting filters for transfused blood. Also, consider that Shallan was actually a Radiant when she cut herself open and started to bleed out. She didn't remember it consciously, but she had manifested her Blade years before. Even if the Soulcast blood harmed her, she might have been able to heal herself with Stormlight without realizing it, just as Kaladin and Dalinar both did.
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