Szeth's flashbacks are going to kill me [no spoilers, just worries]

[Necessary Eagle she/her]

(Hope this is the right forum, since I'm not talking about anything we didn't already know for a while)

One of my biggest fiction "triggers" (or equivalent word that doesn't have to involved PSTD, just outsized emotional distress) is when a character is falsely believed to be a liar. Falsely accused of anything, really, but especially lying. And of course, we already we know Szeth's backstory involves him trying to raise the alarm about the coming Desolation, then being gaslit by the Shamanate into believing that he's the worst sort of lying scum who deserved whatever happens to him, for being a filthy liar.

Up until now, the most painful part of Stormlight for me to read has been Syl's "death" and Kal's decline in the back half of WoR. But I think this is going to worse. This is absolutely going to murder me. I will be found dead on the couch, my new signed copy of WaT clutched in my hand

[who_slew_aicirtap she/they]

Totally agree. His flashbacks are the ones I'm excited the most for, but also dreading the most, since religious trauma is something I can definitely relate to.

[Wanguu He/Him]

Strength before weakness (not that you're weak!). Szeth now knows that he is right, although I suspect there is much more going on. You will make it!