Words of Radiance Typo Thread

[PeterAhlstrom he/him]

Chasm life picture.

[Stephen Lightheart]

This might have been mentioned already, and it's not really a typo, but page 780 needs some serious math work:

 

(Spoilers ahead, btw!)

 

 

"It turns out," Adolin said, "that I'm in possession of not one, but two new Shardblades and three sets of Plate."

 

2 blades, 3 plates.

 

 

One complete set of those Shards is going to General Khal

 

1 blade, 1 plate.

 

 

I've ordered two of the sets of Plate given to appropriate lighteyes of rank

 

2 plates.

 

 

That leaves one full set.

 

Uh, nope, it doesn't. It leaves one Shardblade, that's all. Moash is now in possession of magical non-existent plate.

 

Or am I missing something?

[Zizoz he/him]

Okay, this one is surely an actual typo. Page 647, paragraph 14. "Bedside" should be "beside".

[cris34b he/him]

Okay, this one is surely an actual typo. Page 647, paragraph 14. "Bedside" should be "beside".

 

In what version of the book? The word beside isn't even in that general area in my US hardcover version.

[Zizoz he/him]

US hardcover. The line is "Blasted spren, Kaladin thought, walking up bedside Shallan and Adolin." It's in Chapter 55.

 

Should also be paragraph 15. I didn't count the first paragraph, that was continued from the previous page, before.

[Quazar87]

The Ars Arcanum says the following in my ebook:

 

Cohesion: The Surge of Strong Axial Interconnection

Tension: The Surge of Soft Axial Interconnection

 

Perhaps this is intentional, but from Brandon's descriptions at signings I was under the impression Cohesion allows Surgebinders to alter materials to make them malleable, etc., while Tension allows them to make loose materials firm.  I may be misunderstanding what is meant by "Axial Interconnection" but I just wanted to head off Brass Feruchemy level error.  Just in case.

[Windrunner he/him]

This might have been mentioned already, and it's not really a typo, but page 780 needs some serious math work:

 

(Spoilers ahead, btw!)

 

 

2 blades, 3 plates.

 

 

1 blade, 1 plate.

 

 

2 plates.

 

 

Uh, nope, it doesn't. It leaves one Shardblade, that's all. Moash is now in possession of magical non-existent plate.

 

Or am I missing something?

Not that I can think of... I tried factoring in Adolin's other three duels to see if it would help, but we're still a Blade short.

 

Duel One: Shardblade

 

Duel Two: Shardplate

 

Duel Three: Shardplate

 

Duel Four: Two Shardblades, Three sets of Shardplate

 

 

Comes out to three Shardblades and five Shardplates

 

One Blade to Renarin

One Plate to Rust

One Plate to Serugiadis

One Full Set to Moash

One Full Set to Khal

One Full Set to Teleb

 

The nice thing is, I think that's the only place where it's mentioned that Khal gets a full set. It would be fairly easy to change that line, although it does potentially raise the question of why they would try to give a full set of Shards to a captain of the guard before fully outfitting one of the two main generals.

[Zizoz he/him]

Page 730, paragraph 10: Is "now weak as wet" correct? I thought perhaps it should be "now weak and wet", but I suppose the drops were already wet...

[israel8491 she/her]

p. 409 of US hardcover: "Why had father put a darkeyed soldier outside of the command structure?"

"father" should either be capitalized or changed to "his father."

[harry31j97 he/him]

Chapter 87. It has quite a few 'the' used for Lopen. Isn't Lopen his name & so should not be given an article? And if it's a title shouldn't 'the' be used everytime? I see both uses in the book. (ebook by the way.)

[Windrunner he/him]

I think that's just a feature of Lopen's POV. He refers to himself as The Lopen, but no one else does. It's a feature, not a bug.

[PeterAhlstrom he/him]

The Lopen is correct whenever it is used. And Lopen is correct whenever that is used. "Weak as wet" is also correct.

I need to look at the number of Shards thing further.

[grinachu]

It's not precisely a typo but p.694 of the Lift Interlude contains this sentence - "Fortunately, she'd guessed right, unfortunately". 

[RShara she/her]

I think that's intentional.  Fortunate, because the guards move, unfortunate because Gawx is caught (which she anticipated).

[Zizoz he/him]

One thing I did notice about the Lift interlude is that it says she calls Tigzikk "Tig", but she uses his full name when talking to Wyndle (Page 692, paragraph 13).

 

Also, I'm not sure on this but I *think* there should be another comma after "large" in the fifth paragraph in the corrected Chasm Life image.

Edited March 10, 2014 by Zizoz

[Seloun]

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but who operates the Oathgate in the last chapter? Dalinar sees a group of people coming through the portal as he's about to speak with the Stormfather, but a few minutes later he goes down and sees Shallan and Kaladin idling in the conference room thing at the top of the tower. The very -high- tower. Who else could have operated the gate?

[Nogzio he/him]

I'm not sure if this is the right place for this, but who operates the Oathgate in the last chapter? Dalinar sees a group of people coming through the portal as he's about to speak with the Stormfather, but a few minutes later he goes down and sees Shallan and Kaladin idling in the conference room thing at the top of the tower. The very -high- tower. Who else could have operated the gate?

 

Only plausible explanation I can think of is Kaladin flying up quickly.... It's also possible (But very unlikely) that Renarin operated the gate, but I doubt that because he hadn't yet revealed that he was a radiant and he probably doesn't yet have the ability turn Glys into a shardblade.

[Zizoz he/him]

Another possible miscounting: on page 955, paragraph 4, it says "Dalinar had pushed the three armies into another day of marching." Shouldn't that be four armies? 

 

Edit: One more, a timeline inconsistency. 

 

The feast in Chapter 67 is 12 days before the end of the countdown. Bethab and Thanadal went on a successful plateau run that day.

The scouting expedition takes place the next day (11 days before the countdown ends), assuming Bethab and Thanadal didn't capture gemhearts two days in a row. (I'd expect this to be impossible with the rotation, though I wasn't paying too much attention to how it worked.)

That day, Kaladin and Shallan fall into the chasms.

The final highstorm is the day after that. 

The expedition left the next day, so nine days before the end of the countdown.

 

Page 959, paragraph 5, says it is the eighth day of the expedition. Page 963, paragraph 13, occurring the same day, says the countdown ends the next day. Thus, I think it should be the ninth day of the expedition; it's eight days since the expedition set out, but the day they set out should be counted as well.

Edited March 11, 2014 by Zizoz

[israel8491 she/her]

Page 871 of the US hardcover edition:

"Eylita held to him..."

Should be "Eylita held him" or "Eylita held onto him."

[LordBurger he/him]

Page 367 of the US hardcover - "If she knew that, it might tell her how her own princedom was fairing."

 

Pretty sure that should be faring, but I'm not 100%.

[PeterAhlstrom he/him]

Another possible miscounting: on page 955, paragraph 4, it says "Dalinar had pushed the three armies into another day of marching." Shouldn't that be four armies? 

 

Edit: One more, a timeline inconsistency. 

 

The feast in Chapter 67 is 12 days before the end of the countdown. Bethab and Thanadal went on a successful plateau run that day.

The scouting expedition takes place the next day (11 days before the countdown ends), assuming Bethab and Thanadal didn't capture gemhearts two days in a row. (I'd expect this to be impossible with the rotation, though I wasn't paying too much attention to how it worked.)

That day, Kaladin and Shallan fall into the chasms.

The final highstorm is the day after that. 

The expedition left the next day, so nine days before the end of the countdown.

 

Page 959, paragraph 5, says it is the eighth day of the expedition. Page 963, paragraph 13, occurring the same day, says the countdown ends the next day. Thus, I think it should be the ninth day of the expedition; it's eight days since the expedition set out, but the day they set out should be counted as well.

Yeah, there's an error here. Where it currently says "Twelve days" on page 788, it's supposed to say "Eleven days." That should fix everything you say here, right?

 

Page 871 is correct. Page 367 should be "faring."

 

Thanks!

[Zizoz he/him]

Yes. And that puts the start of the Weeping on Jesel. Better than my solution.

[sppipe]

I Bought the Kobo e-Book version of the book, and I also found the "Bedside" instead of beside in chapter 55.

 

 

Blasted spren, Kaladin thought, walking up bedside Shallan and Adolin. Arguing with her is like . . . well, arguing with the wind, I guess.

[ricree]

Compare it to the one here.

Perhaps I'm missing something here, but "the volume seems incredibly elastic" doesn't make nearly as much sense to me in context as the hardcover version: "the vines seem incredibly elastic".

Oh, and a possible typo in chapter 79, page 955 of the hardcover. "Dalinar had pushed the three armies into another day of marching."

Did I miss two of the armies merging? Or one of them splitting off? There were four armies at the start: Dalinar, Roion, Sebarial, and Aladar.

[PeterAhlstrom he/him]

Yep, it needs to be four armies.