kobain Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) Go. http://www.tor.com/stories/2014/01/excerpt-brandon-sanderson-words-of-radiance-chapter-six-eight-and-nine Edited January 21, 2014 by kobain 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccstat Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) Wow, great stuff! But what's so incredible about chapter 7 that it didn't make the preview? What spoilers were too juicy to throw our way? Edit: I'm expecting a Shallan flashback there. Edited January 21, 2014 by ccstat 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodfalcon Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 START YOUR ENGINES!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riceloft Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) Yalb can see Shallan's spren? Will be be a surgebinder? HMMMM. *edit* Apparently they all can based on this comment. So Syl, being of Honor, isn't able to be seen by most but Pattern can be seen by all? She worried about letting them see Pattern. She’d tried staying in her cabin to keep him a secret from the men, but being cooped up had been too difficult for her, and he didn’t respond to her suggestions that he stay out of their sight. So, during the last four days, she’d been forced to let them see what she was doing as she studied him. They were understandably discomforted by him, but didn’t say much. Edited January 21, 2014 by Riceloft Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyzkle Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 I absolutely love Pattern. It's also interesting that abstractions come so easily to him. This really supports my theory that they aren't liespren so much as obfuscationspren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardbearer Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 I haven't read much yet, but I did see this: We had never considered that there might be Parshendi spies hiding among our slaves. This is something else I should have seen. —From the journal of Navani Kholin, Jesesan 1174 I so called that. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kyzkle Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) Yalb can see Shallan's spren? Will be be a surgebinder? HMMMM. *edit* Apparently they all can based on this comment. So Syl, being of Honor, isn't able to be seen by most but Pattern can be seen by all? Unfortunately, I doubt it. All the sailors can see Pattern, so it seems he has trouble hiding himself. Edit: yes, just saw your edit. Also, I don't think Syl or Pattern are any more of Honor than the other. Syl associates with the human concept, not necessarily the Shard. Edited January 21, 2014 by Kyzkle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccstat Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 My favorite was this exchange between Syl and Kal: “Laws are of men, Kaladin. Nature doesn’t have them!” “If I toss something upward, it comes back down.” “Except when it doesn’t.” “It’s a law.” “No,” Syl said, looking upward. “It’s more like… more like an agreement among friends.” 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moogle Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) Brief thoughts as I read: Terrible Destruction: Pattern is so adorbs oh my god I love him. Also, limes are terrible destruction? Maybe a bit on the creepy side. PATTERN IS MESSING WITH HER PAPERS HE IS A KITTEN-SPREN THERE YOU GO I'M RIGHT THE DOG-SPREN PEOPLE ARE WRONG HA I SO CALLED THIS Shallan, Lightweaving an illusion here? On the verge of it? Pattern wants her to remember her old memories this is wonderful. Deck turned green. Yep. Lightweaving. WOOOOOO Liespren seems completely wrong, but also right. Very appropriate. It's amusing that they don't like the name, because it's a lie (they don't like lies, not really) made of truths. It fits. Jasnah terrified? Oh my. "But back then, new knights had teachers to train them, generations of tradition." Evidence the Knights were not immortal? Histories are not very trustworthy, but hrm. I guess a lot of Radiants could just end up dying every Desolation. Path to Urithiru on the Shattered Plains, you say? But if it's in Shadesmar... no, that wouldn't work. Underground tunnels to it? A Radiant is needed to open the way, maybe Soulcasting, but 8/10 of the Radiants couldn't do that. Something to do with Oathgates? Centuries between each Desolation. "She awoke to screams, shouts, and smoke." NO NO CLIFFHANGERS NO BAD BRANDON Knives in the Back/Soldiers in the Field "Most recently, Dalinar was coming to detest plateau runs. They were a frivolity, a waste of life. They weren’t about fulfilling the Vengeance Pact, but about greed." And yet, Dalinar still wants to fulfill the Vengeance Pact and kill all the Parshendi. Sigh. Give it up, Dalinar. Blades are not necessarily given up when you will them to not vanish, you say? "Good of you to mention Gavilar, as he didn’t bring the kingdom together with honor. He did it with knives in the back and soldiers on the field, cutting the heads off any who resisted. Are we back to that again, then?" BURNNNNNN. Also, appropriate given Gavilar really sort of was a dictator, and Dalinar sort of is one himself, given how he manipulated Elhokar. Dalinar wrote the words himself? Yeah, that theory made the most sense. Voidbringers possessing men? Walking the Grave: Double Nalan arch header. Do I detect Darkness visiting this chapter, or is it just going to be more about themes of law and justice? Yep, it's all about laws of nature. Oh well. I wanted to see a Darkness vs. Kaladin duel. Hahahaha oh Syl. Spren attracting spren would be awesome. It would be a chain reaction of spren. ... maybe that's how Honor will be reformed? You find a way to get honorspren to attract honorspren, and get all of them to combine? Stormspren for Stormform Parshendi. Oh no. I am really liking Syl. Something about her in WoR feels so much more right. Syl was in the Cognitive realm! Stormfather in the storm rules the honorspren? Syl was the only honorspren to come? So much information! Shrine for Syl? <3 What nice chapters. Edited January 21, 2014 by Moogle 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natans Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) Sly yout little devil, you made the chapter very good =) Well Kaladin promised if he break his word he will suffer dearly. But I guess that the third ideal of the radiants are "I will keep the promises that are made" This gonna be his conflict this book. Do what he must even if he are afraid. Also Order of Bone i liked =) Edited January 21, 2014 by Natans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colby Jack Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) ...Chapter 8.Man, if there were any more chapters like this, I'd have to start shipping Syl and Kaladin. Forget Tara, Shallan can have Renarin or whatever, and I don't even care about Laral anymore; SylxKaladin is where it's at!I just gagged a little in my mouth but I DON'T CARE! Edited January 21, 2014 by Colby Jack 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodfalcon Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) My quick thoughts as well: 7 · Wow, Shen is going to be a spy….. L · Puppy. He will always be named Puppy. · “Terrible destruction to eat!” Puppy is calling Shallan fat. · Turning the deck green- first illusions · BOOM! Posted on lies being a different concept this morning. Loving this. I think he considered the deck illusion to be a lie and that is what used up Shallan’s Stormlight. Confirmed by Jasnah · Only a KR could open the way – Can’t wait for Moogle’s (?) Oathgates. · I could see Jasnah influencing the Kholin camp to get rid of Parshmen, but Dalinar set her up to fail with the others. Maybe that is why Navani is journaling as she is – Kholin is the only camp left? · WoR is a book in WoR. So meta. 8 · Dalinar disliking needless deaths. Hey Moogle! J · Learning about Shardblade loaning is interesting. Might add into a couple threads. · Dang, I was looking forward to new Dalinar cracking some skulls. · Dalinar suspects…. Dalinar! 9 · Glad Teft is going to continue being a boss. I like Teft. · Glowy red spren = bad news. · Syl tugging her hair – The woman she saw in the market must have been Nynaeve from WoT · Syl has a little weight now? I wonder what that means.· Stormfather is more mysterious now. Rules over some spren at least. Maybe Jezrien does make sense as he is the Herald of that Order. Hmmmmmmm... · NOOOOOOO! Chapter 10 please!!! Dang, why do I have the feeling we will have to wait for it? Edited January 21, 2014 by Bloodfalcon 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moogle Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 ...Chapter 8. Man, if there were any more chapters like this, I'd have to start shipping Syl and Kaladin. Forget Tara, Shallan can have Renarin or whatever, and I don't even care about Laral anymore; SylxKaladin is where it's at! I just gagged a little in my mouth but I DON'T CARE! I was sort of thinking SylxRock for a while there. He is building her a shrine... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Natans Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) I was sort of thinking SylxRock for a while there. He is building her a shrine... A shrine Ohhhh =) Edited January 21, 2014 by Natans Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moogle Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) Puppy. He will always be named Puppy. Too bad. Messed with her papers, definite Kitten. Crytten? Pattern is okay for now. Dalinar disliking needless deaths. Hey Moogle! Annnnnd he's still pressing the war hard! Not terribly impressed by the implication that it would not be 'needless' death to pursue the Vengeance Pact. Edited January 21, 2014 by Moogle 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodfalcon Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 (edited) I was sort of thinking SylxRock for a while there. He is building her a shrine... eh, I definitely didn't date the last guy that made me a shrine... Too bad. Messed with her papers, definite Kitten. Crytten? Pattern is okay for now. Annnnnd he's still pressing the war hard! Not terribly impressed by the implication that it would not be 'needless' death to pursue the Vengeance Pact. Just a shoutout to the conversation! Edited January 21, 2014 by Bloodfalcon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moogle Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 eh, I definitely didn't date the last guy that made me a shrine... Ah, but Syl doesn't think of Rock as creepy. I think there could be something there. Also, yeah, everyone in this thread agrees that Syl is really doing well in Words of Radiance it seems. Nice job, Brandon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodfalcon Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Ah, but Syl doesn't think of Rock as creepy. I think there could be something there. Also, yeah, everyone in this thread agrees that Syl is really doing well in Words of Radiance it seems. Nice job, Brandon. Fair enough. All hail Syl, future Horneater queen! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meddler Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Reinforces the theory that Shen wrote on the wall. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HydrogenAlpha Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 While reading the Shallan chapter something came to my mind: If you tell somebody about a lie you simultaneously telling the truth - that you lied in the first place. So a spren that requires to confess lies is not only a Liespren, but also a truthspren. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cromptj Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 So will someone ask Brandon if all the books in the series will be named after books in the series? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bloodfalcon Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 So will someone ask Brandon if all the books in the series will be named after books in the series? Perhaps each of the books will even be related to a particular Order, or the KR in general? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardbearer Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 I never had a cat eat my homework before. Pattern is a puppy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardlet Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 For me, The Quote of chapter 6: "For now, I would prefer you expend your efforts on learning this Surge, as opposed to Soulcasting. That is a dangerous art, more so now than it once was.” Shadesmar is more dangerous than it once was. What has changed? The force pulling Shallan and Jasnah under the sea of beads is a relatively recent development in Shadesmar? I agree with Bloodfalcon, it appears that Shen is a Parshendi spy. Also, the Heralds trained the KR before the desolations. Sounds like a significant leadership role to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colby Jack Posted January 21, 2014 Report Share Posted January 21, 2014 Okay, more seriously, Syl also said she was the only Honorspren who came back. Szeth aside, this makes Kaladin the only true Windrunner in Roshar for a while. Does that mean their abilities are significant in ways other than the battlefield? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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