Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 Hey guys, I just read the sample chapters. srsly don't read the stuff in the spoiler if you have not read the sample chapters. Spoiler YEEE!! Iriali! Hoid! Sorceress! I wonder if the twelve moons have something to do with the magic system? Immediately I knew it was Hoid telling the story.
Nathrangking he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 Hoid is a Gem!! "I wish", Brandon. Really? You sentimental man you. So many cosmere nods!! It was wonderful!!
Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Author Posted March 3, 2022 now we know one of the other planets the Iriali have been at! this is excellent. I bet we are going to get a lot more cosmere nods throughout the novel. I wonder if the epilogue is Hoid finishing the story and the person he was telling it to talking about it.
#1 Taln Fan he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 I wonder what happened to the old Iriali. What if this is set in the future, and the old Iriali were the ones on Roshar?
Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Author Posted March 3, 2022 I think this is set three hundred years or so after the Iriali went to Roshar. remember Roshar and Scadrial had major things keeping them from evolving and gaining better tech. Though the point that the Iriali came a long time ago in Roshar's history. Though I theorize that the Iriali came during one of the last few desolations, but that is still a long time. hmm, this needs more thought.
Scriptorian he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 I’m rather satisfied with the fact that I spied Hoid’s lemony narration for what it was, well before he was name-dropped. 1
Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Author Posted March 3, 2022 Hey can a mod move this to the cosmere secret project areas.
+Invocation Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 Place your bets on who he's talking to. My money is either Lift or Jasnah.
+Oltux72 he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 4 minutes ago, Invocation said: Place your bets on who he's talking to. My money is either Lift or Jasnah. It has to be somebody to whom machines spitting out smog, cannons and elephant seals make sense. That means Scadrial.
+Invocation Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 17 minutes ago, Oltux72 said: It has to be somebody to whom machines spitting out smog, cannons and elephant seals make sense. That means Scadrial. It means probably someone with knowledge of Scadrial. He's probably told Jasnah a good amount about the other planets, at least enough that she'd be able to understand that. My third place guess is Harmony, and fourth is the kandra on Roshar, both of which would have knowledge of Scadrial enough to make this tale make sense. Of course, assuming this falls after Oathbringer, they could have absolutely no knowledge of any of that and he could be providing Lightweavings for context.
Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Author Posted March 3, 2022 I think he is talking to Jasnah.
AonEne he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 5 hours ago, Nathrangking said: @Chaos Seeing this ping only after the edit sure was a trip. Anyway, done
Thaidakar the Ghostblood he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Author Posted March 3, 2022 4 minutes ago, AonEne said: Seeing this ping only after the edit sure was a trip. Anyway, done thanks Ene!
iceblade44 he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 There us still much of the tech level we need to know first of the Tress before coming to a conclusion. Though if the plot does involve pirates, maybe we can hedge are bets to 17th centuryish or so. Definitely excited to find out how much swashbuckling adventure then will do.
AonEne he/him Posted March 3, 2022 Posted March 3, 2022 13 minutes ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said: thanks Ene! Happy to help
Kandrafish Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 The first chapters were excellent. I loved all of the cosmere references. AoN spoiler Spoiler I didn't even pick up on the verdant thing until the second time I listened to it. I think I must be pronouncing verdant wrong in my head because the way Brandon said it, just didn't register with me. Now, I am totally convinced that this is an Aether planet.
AquaRegia he/him Posted March 5, 2022 Posted March 5, 2022 (edited) Anybody else notice the Cytonic nod? "Dominating your view, like if you had a wart on your eyeball." Please tell me I'm not the only one who noticed this... Edited March 7, 2022 by AquaRegia
Johnny Silverlight Posted March 7, 2022 Posted March 7, 2022 On 3/3/2022 at 9:57 AM, #1 Taln Fan said: I wonder what happened to the old Iriali. What if this is set in the future, and the old Iriali were the ones on Roshar? I think the term "Old Iriali" refers to the language written on the cup, not to any specific group of Iriali people. It's like we refer to "Old English" or "Old Irish" or "Old High German" here on our world. 1
+Oltux72 he/him Posted March 8, 2022 Posted March 8, 2022 10 hours ago, Johnny Silverlight said: I think the term "Old Iriali" refers to the language written on the cup, not to any specific group of Iriali people. It's like we refer to "Old English" or "Old Irish" or "Old High German" here on our world. How so? You are referring to Old English as Old English because there is a Modern English. You woudn't call Sumerian "Old Sumerian". Yet the Iriali have vanished. As far as those people are aware there is no modern Iriali language.
Johnny Silverlight Posted March 8, 2022 Posted March 8, 2022 We have no idea how long the Iriali had lived on Tress's World before they disappeared. We do know that the Iriali have been on Roshar since the time before the Recreance (they were one of the Silver Kingdoms). The Recreance occurred at least 2,000 years before the events of the Stormlight Archive. To put this in perspective, Old English was spoken some 1,200-900 years ago. Apparently, the Iriali lived on Tress's World long enough for their language to evolve into a substantially different form. The term "Old Iriali" is probably used as a contrast to the version of the language the Iriali were speaking before they vanished. The people currently living on Tress's World would probably refer to the most recent version of the language as "Iriali" rather than "Modern Iriali."
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