Glimpses of Radiance

[Aminar]

My messages show up in the GMail Promotions box. Check there Bremen. I'll pm you the same.

BTW, that PM was the 666th profile view for Bremen. I feel honored.

Edited February 14, 2014 by Aminar

[Gloom]

Yup, I've made multiple attempts to sign up myself and have consistently been incapable of accomplishing anything. Most people seem to get signed up no problem, but a few of us have had no luck at all.

[Scriptorian]

Yup, I've made multiple attempts to sign up myself and have consistently been incapable of accomplishing anything. Most people seem to get signed up no problem, but a few of us have had no luck at all.

We of the lucky majority weep many tears for you. 

[marianmi]

So, who thinks #3 is the Parshendi stormform?

[Delightful]

So, who thinks #3 is the Parshendi stormform?

My other guess is thunderclast based on the 'skeletal' imagery. Which made me realise it's a THUNDERClast ----definitely sound storm related, though we haven't *seen* any evidence of this yet so far as I am aware. Edited February 14, 2014 by Delightful

[Argent]

I too don't get Glimpses. I've emailed Tor about it, we'll see if it gets me anywhere. Until then, please post the full text here so we, the cursed ones, can bask in them too.

[Chid]

"that wall of destruction"

I definitely think that is referring to the stormwall of a highstorm.  The figures moving inside are Parshendi in stormform controlling it.  They are being illuminated by the lightening in the storm.  

[Binnut]

I've tried 3 times already.

 

Once each day when a glimpse failed to materialize at the appointed time.

 

edit: and I do have emails in my history from tor in 2011, so it worked at one point...

Checked Spam-filter directory (or whatever it is called in English) ?

[FollowYourMuse]

For those who are not getting the glimpses:

The discussion posts on the Glimpses thread on Tor have had others mention they have not been getting the glimpses.

Suggestions: 

101. Katharine
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[Mysty]

For anyone not receiving the Glimpses, if you PM me your email address I could forward you the email from Tor until Tor fixes your registration/subscription.

[Asha'man Logain]

Thunder, Thunder, Thunder-clasts! (magically growing shardblade)

[Terra of Roshar]

Of fires that burned and yet they were gone. Of heat he could feel when others felt not. Of screams his own that nobody heard. Of torture sublime, for life it meant.

Sound like a death-quote to me. Or maybe from Taln's POV? Or some other Herald? 

[Natans]

Of fires that burned and yet they were gone. Of heat he could feel when others felt not. Of screams his own that nobody heard. Of torture sublime, for life it meant.

 

This one is easy. Tal thinking with himself that are good be alive and out of damnation =)

Edited February 14, 2014 by Natans

[Moogle]

Sound like a death-quote to me. Or maybe from Taln's POV? Or some other Herald? 

 

Could be Szeth. Szeth follows his master's orders so he will not cease to exist and so that he will exist in agony ("torture sublime, for life it meant"). Szeth hears screams ("of screams his own that nobody heard").

 

Could also be Taln or another Herald, or maybe an Unmade, or a death-rattle...

Edited February 14, 2014 by Moogle

[EvilKetchupCow]

Glimpse 2/14/14

Of fires that burned and yet they were gone. of heat he could feel when others felt not. Of screams his own that nobody heard of torture sublime, for life it meant.

 

ninja'd

Edited February 14, 2014 by EvilKetchupCow

[kobain]

Of fires that burned and yet they were gone. Of heat he could feel when others felt not. Of screams his own that nobody heard. Of torture sublime, for life it meant.

 

This one is easy. Tal thinking with himself that are good be alive and out of damnation =)

 

I agree with this one. Seems like our sacrificial Herald having a thought.

[Mysty]

My gut reaction was Szeth because of the screams he always imagines. But maybe you're onto something with Taln.

[Terra of Roshar]

Could be Szeth. Szeth follows his master's orders so he will not cease to exist and so that he will exist in agony ("torture sublime, for life it meant"). Szeth hears screams ("of screams his own that nobody heard").

 

Could also be Taln or another Herald, or maybe an Unmade, or a death-rattle...

I guess. But the diction sounds a little over-formal for Szeth to me. "torture sublime, for life it meant" sounds like a sentiment Szeth would agree with, but I don't feel like he would use that phrasing to express it. It sounds more like the style of the death rattles to me, or maybe Taln, because we don't really know what his internal monologue sounds like yet.

[FollowYourMuse]

Could be Szeth. Szeth follows his master's orders so he will not cease to exist and so that he will exist in agony ("torture sublime, for life it meant"). Szeth hears screams ("of screams his own that nobody heard").

 

Could also be Taln or another Herald, or maybe an Unmade, or a death-rattle...

Moogle, I like the idea of it  being Szeth - I have thought in the past that Szeth's Oath and Stone Shamanism is some warped belief of becoming a Herald, or at least joining the Heralds in Damnation.

 Now that we have an idea about his sword I am more inclined to believe this.

[Moogle]

I guess. But the diction sounds a little over-formal for Szeth to me. "torture sublime, for life it meant" sounds like a sentiment Szeth would agree with, but I don't feel like he would use that phrasing to express it. It sounds more like the style of the death rattles to me, or maybe Taln, because we don't really know what his internal monologue sounds like yet.

 

'Torture sublime' makes it sound like the person likes the torture (sadism?). I imagine Szeth will come to like his station in life and become a little bit insane after all the stuff he's been through. I highly doubt Taln would have a thought like that. I think it would be a good death-rattle or epigraph.

 

Or perhaps it is Szeth just being rather eloquent. The quote seems like the second half of a thought. What's the first part? What is it 'of'?

 

Also: Szeth regularly speaks with an elevated vocabulary. He's a scholar. Throughout TWoK he mentions that he has been trying to speak in a less refined fashion. He may have given up on that.

Edited February 14, 2014 by Moogle

[dionysus]

For me the obvious interpretation is that the quote is a from Taln, but there are other possibilities.

[Duskshard]

This has the ring of an epigraph from the start of a chapter.

 

Of fires that burned and yet they were gone.

Of heat he could feel when others felt not.

Of screams his own that nobody heard.

Of torture sublime, for life it meant.

 

 

I definitely think this is from Taln from his time in damnation. The first three lines could be about him suffering alone in damnation because the others betrayed the oathpact.  

 

The last line could be that he gladly endures the torture because it means life, not for him, but for everyone else.

Edited February 14, 2014 by Duskshard

[Argent]

Huh. I guess Taln makes a lot of sense, but this sounds like an epigraph to me. It sounds like a (piece of a) poem.

 

@Duskshard, you posted more or less my exact thoughts within less than 5 seconds of my own post. We must now become blood brothers.

Edited February 14, 2014 by Argent

[Terra of Roshar]

'Torture sublime' makes it sound like the person likes the torture (sadism?). I imagine Szeth will come to like his station in life and become a little bit insane after all the stuff he's been through. I highly doubt Taln would have a thought like that. I think it would be a good death-rattle or epigraph.

 

Or perhaps it is Szeth just being rather eloquent. The quote seems like the second half of a thought. What's the first part? What is it 'of'?

 

Also: Szeth regularly speaks with an elevated vocabulary. He's a scholar. Throughout TWoK he mentions that he has been trying to speak in a less refined fashion. He may have given up on that.

I imagine Taln would be a little off, too, after being abandoned by his friends to 4500 years of torture. I read the "torture sublime" bit as a sort of coping mechanism, trying to downplay how awful the torture was by focusing on its purpose: "for life it meant." Although, that's not really very journey before destination, now, is it? Did the Heralds follow the Ideals? It seems like they should, but I don't know...

 

Edit: spelling

Edited February 14, 2014 by Terra of Scadrial

[Duskshard]

 

 

@Duskshard, you posted more or less my exact thoughts within less than 5 seconds of my own post. We must now become blood brothers.

 

The Order of the Blood. Welcome brother.