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I like the Mistborn trilogy covers and the Elantris cover a lot, but the rest I could take or leave. I think the firs WoR cover is just a bit boring. The second is so dynamic! I remember when the first WoR cover got released, I speculated that it might be Kaladin wih Shardspear and Shardplate. Peter then told me that the artist had not yet read the book. So I am sure that it is not canonical. Still a cool look though.
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As many of you probably know, the UK paperback release of the Stormlight Archive books usually comes in two parts. Without further ado, here are the two covers. Why couldn't the hardcover have had the second image? Szeth looks so cool! Source
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My guess would be that Jasnah will be SA3's interlude constant - we will get to see a few of her adventures in Shadesmar across the different interludes.
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LONDON (UK) Signing 4th AUGUST 2014
callumke replied to Sabrina Stormshard's topic in Events and Signings
What time are people heading to the Forbidden Planet for? The thing starts at 6, but I assume we want to get there early. And how do we go about trying to eavesdrop on the questions etc? The only signing I have ever been too was an hour long, and I took up about 10 mins asking questions. -
LONDON (UK) Signing 4th AUGUST 2014
callumke replied to Sabrina Stormshard's topic in Events and Signings
Almost certainly. It will be tough, but I am determined to make it! -
Btw, Brits are weird. I have no idea why we say "lef-tenant". I think many young Brits don't realise it should be said that way. Is stupid. I am quite happy saying lieutenant normal way. But awesome reading. I am looking forward to Part 5.
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Yeah that sounds like fun! I can get a train into London quite easily.
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I think he has mentioned it, but I can't find a reference right now. I think that he may have changed his mind about the back 5 several times - there was a possibility of Kaladin getting a second book. The four I mentioned above have all been confirmed recently, which is why I mentioned them. EDIT: I can't quite see why people don't believe that she will be. I like the idea of being inclusive with the Parshendi, rather than rejecting them. I believe Brandon has confirmed that each book will be based around an Order, but again I am having trouble finding my quotes to back that up.
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Ahh thanks. I had missed that quote. Certainly a Willshaper then. Does this mean that Chanaranach is going to be the last viewpoint character? Brandon has previously said we might get two heralds in the back 5.
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I have long suspected as many have that Eshonai will be a (the first?) Parshendi Radiant. A new WOB from the DC signing seems to confirm this: The term not allowed is interesting, but I digress. I think we can work out which order Eshonai might belong to, based on the fact that each of the 10 books is linked with an order of Radiants. The front five are Kaladin - Windrunners Shallan - Lightweavers Szeth - Skybreakers Eshonai - ??? Dalinar - Bondsmiths The back five include by most recent accounts Lift - Edgedancers Renarin - Truthwatchers Jasnah - Elsecallers "Taln" - Stonewards The only two Orders not represented on this list are the Willshapers and the Releasers aka Dustbringers. I reckon than Eshonai is one of these two. But which one? Willshapers - Resolute/Builder Dustbringers - Brave/Obidient Personally, I would guess at Eshonai being a Willshaper. What do you guys think?
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I know. The problem with that is that if the levels were say, each 1 meter further out than the one above, Urithiru would quickly become a) rather squat and 2) absolutely massive, with the bottom have a radius of about a kilometre. By my model Urithiru is already larger by floorspace than any building on Earth - if Urithiru was as described then it would be mind numbingly big. I already have a hard time seeing it situated in the mountains tbh. Yeah that is a good point. I have the Oathagtes at being 50 meters radius or 100m in diameter, giving an area of 2500*pi meters, which at 3 people per square meter would be about 21000. My maths seems to have gone wrong somewhere as that actually sounds sensible ... ish...
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Heyy all From reading the descriptions of Urithiru, I couldn't quite get my head around how it actually looks, so I tried to create it using a CAD program called SketchUp (formerly of Google). From this, I have created a few low quality pics of the layout of Urithiu, The tower is an odd shape (its actually modelled by using an exponential function). This is due to each level of the tower jutting further out than the one above. This is just my interpretation, Brandon almost certainly has it differently. And the Oathagtes are too small. Perhaps the whole tower is too small, I can't quite tell from the book descriptions. The tower is 500m and the bottom level has a radius of 500m. The total platform that Urithiru sits on is 1500m in radius, and the Oathagtes are 50m in radius (as I mentioned perhaps too small). If anyone is at all interested, the calculations for the level radii are here. Is this anything like how you imagined Urithiru looked? What do you think about the odd shape and proportions? PS I know these don't look great but when I am feeling more creative I want to do a few sketches of Urithiru in situ, which will hopefully make it look much better. I just thought people might like to see what I spend my spare time doing
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Also, the only thing I have noticed is that the person who appears in Kholinar at the end of tWoK is described as having "no hint of an accent" to his Alethi. However, in the Taln interlude, he is described by Dalinar(?) as having a northern Alethi accent. Not sure what that means though. ... and can the interlude titles lie? It says Taln, so we have to assume that guy is Taln... right? Damnation Brandon!
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Well at least one of the Herald's true names survive into modern times. Sigzil tells of Jezrien during a story to Bridge 4 in tWoK, and says that the Vorrin call him Jezerezeh. Therefore at least some people know some of the real names of the Heralds. Maybe Nale is one of those names? Who knows. Answer: Brandon.
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I always thought as Taln as a nickname or abbreviation for Talenel, given that his how he introduces himself. And Nale is mentioned by Szeth as being one of Nin's names "here in the East". I thought that Nin sounded very Shin, (didn't even realise why until I just wrote that, but probably because they rhyme), and perhaps the Shin have their own set of names for the Heralds. EDIT: East, not west
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My apologies for the badly formatted table, this is copy-pasted out of my personal Knights Radiant table. Chan-a-rach is an odd one - there are references in WoR to Chana, Chanaranach and the epigraph above of Chan-a-rach. I've put Chana down as the original name for the time being. EDIT The table turned out horriblly, so here we go. Herald Vorrin Name Jezrien Jezerezeh Nale Nalan Chana Chanaranach Vedel Vedeledev Pailiah Ash Shalash Battar Battah Kalak Kelek Talenel Talenelat Ishar Ishi
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Random Speculation time! I rarely like doing much unfounded speculating, but my final re-listen to tWoK has put me in the mood for it. I think Gaz was killed by Darkness, for being a potential surgebinder. Evidence: 1) Gas disappears without a trace; perhaps like Ym? ii) Gaz, as evidenced by his POV, is a better man than he pretends. He hates himself for being part of the horrible lives of the Bridgemen. c) Gaz's description of being watched and his missing eye could be a spren lurking just out of sight, And finally what prompted me to think of this - 0b100) The title of Chapter 30, the one which contains Gaz's POV, is called Darkness Unseen. It is obviously a reference to Gaz's half blindness, but could have another meaning? We know the chapter headings are more important than most give them credit for.
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A few thoughts: a) Soulcasting is supposed to be secret - thus the ardents with the Soulcasters must be left alone to do their work. Leaving soulcasters alone out on the plains for Parshendi to steal? No no no 2) From Jasnah's actions with the boulder in Kharbranth, it seems that Soulcasting conserves mass (hence pressure change and the volume of smoke produced). Perhaps then to Soulcast a bridge out of thin air would require a massive concentration of air? iii) Soulcasters have specializations, essences to which the are particularly attuned (according to Shallan's research anyway). maybe the Soulcasters that exist in the world are mostly focused on food production. Maybe there are special wood to stone soulcasters, which is why such a bridge would have to be made out of wood first. Finally) the complacency of the High princes and the King probably don't help. I reckon it might be a combination of the above points. Or maybe I an just clutching at straws Shards.
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Signed & Numbered Copies of Words of Radiance
callumke replied to Argent's topic in Stormlight Archive
You can buy it from Amazon US, who will ship it to the UK. I live in the UK too, but I have ordered a signed and numbered edition. Expensive? Yeah sure, but in 10 years I won't care about paying £53 for a book, I will care about the signature, the personalisation and the number. PS I am however a bit of a collector - I am also getting the UK version of the hardcover. The US copies are just so nice! I recently got a US tWoK from Brandon's website, and the endpapers, embossing etc are a lot nicer than my UK hardcover. -
No, its says "The war with the Parshendi will move into a new, dangerous phase, as Dalinar leads the human armies deep into the heart of the Shattered Plains in a bold attempt to finally end it. Shallan will come along, hoping to find the legendary, perhaps mythical, city of Urithiru, which Jasnah believes holds a secret vital to mankind’s survival on Roshar." That is, Shallan hopes to find Urithiru there. It doesn't even say that Jasnah believes it to be there. My guess is that the ruins the Parshendi live in was the capital of the Silver Kingdom on Natanatan. It may however, contain an Oathgate or somesuch with will allow Urithiru to be found (probably on the Horneater Peaks).
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"Hoid raised an eyebrow and lifted the flute to his lips. He played it differently from flutes Kaladin had seen - instead of holding it down in front of home, Hoid held it out to the side and blew across its top." - Pg 802 I though of that as well, then remembered this bit. Anyway... I loved it. My favourite bit? Shallan's engagement to Adolin. We got so much cool spren stuff, cool Shadesmar stuff and cool Radiant stuff, but that character interaction is now one of my most anticipated bits of the whole book. Only 58 (ish) days to go!!!! EDIT: The new cover also looks amazing! Finally I think it can stand up to the first cover. And looks as good (if completely different) to the Shallan art.
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An advantage to listening exclusively to audiobooks is that I am given the pronunciation for all of the words. Which is great! For those who don't know, the book is read by two people. All of the male POVs are read by Michael Kramer, and all of the female POVs are read by Kate Reading. If you are interested in what they sound like, chapters 4, 5 and 6 are available on the Tor website here. Except for when Michael Kramer and Kate Reading disagree and pronounce things differently. The two most notable of these are the Devotaries and Sadeas. Word Michael Pronunciation Kate Pronunciation Devotaries devo-TAries DEVot-aries Sadeas Sad-eas sa-Deas I tend to use Kate's version of the devatories, as it comes up more often in the Shallan parts, and use Michael's for Sadeas, as he says the name way more often. Kate Reading only says it in the Navani POV near the end.