Future Flashbacks

[Draginon he/him]

Since we all kind of know who the flashback characters are it's going to be interesting what parts of their lives will be covered in their book. Pretty much this is just going to be us speculating how far back we think it'll go.

Eshonai: I think it'll probably cover her life leading up to Gavilar discovering her people, her life during the Vengeance Pact and what she was doing during WOK (unless some of this was already revealed in WOR and Oath which I've yet to read)

Szeth: I think it'll show his life before becoming Truthless, the circumstances why he became Truthless and what he was doing between that and the WOK prologue

Jasnah: I'm not sure what could be covered but I'd guess her childhood, anything not covered during the Dalinar flashbacks, when she's off screen in the first five books and whatever happened to her in the gap years.

Lift: Now this one will be tricky since she's got multiple interludes and a novella showing her actions during the front half so unless the future interludes, and the mentioned possible upcoming novellas about her, show more of her past my only guess is what she was up to in the gap years

Renarian: I have yet to read Oathbringer so I don't know how much he features in Dalinar's scenes but it'd be whatever he was doing in the gap years

Taln and Ash: These two are going to extremely interesting since they've been alive for 4500+ years so we could get anything from why they became Heralds, what life is like in Damnation, seeing more of the Desolations, what Ash was doing from the Oathpact breakage onwards and even seeing what exactly made the Heralds call it quits

[Bort he/him]

I think we're also going to see flashbacks to during the time of the first series of books as well as the characters' personal histories. I'm not going to tell you what scenes I think we'll see, as you've not yet read Oathbringer and I don't want to include spoilers.

[Draginon he/him]

On 2/19/2018 at 11:29 AM, Bort said:

I think we're also going to see flashbacks to during the time of the first series of books as well as the characters' personal histories. I'm not going to tell you what scenes I think we'll see, as you've not yet read Oathbringer and I don't want to include spoilers.

Well I'm nearly done with WOK, in the middle of part 4 before the big battle, and I can see some things to talk about with the upcoming flashback characters. Like with Jasnah the reason she got interested in researching the Voidbringers and Urithiru, unless it's explained in the next two books.

Also it'd be pretty neat if Brandon did some flashback novellas to fill out more with Kaladin, Shallan and Dalinar, especially if something major comes up with these guys in the later books that wasn't talked about in their books.