Karger he/him Posted September 18, 2019 Posted September 18, 2019 (edited) I recently read White Sand 3 and while I personally did not like it I did come up with a few questions feel free to add your own. 1. Baon can master. Khriss cannot. What is up with that? What determines who can and cannot master? 2. Elorin relates meeting the Sand Lord and from his flashbacks it looks like he is speaking literally. Who did Elorin meet? I would guess the avatar of Autonomy took physical form for some reason but it could also be the A'kar using sand mastery secretly. Also if he took form why? What is up with him? 3. Satisfaction is no longer a thing but Kenton still thinks it is. Could this please be cleared up? 4. Why did Kenton let Khriss into the Deim when he previously said that doing so was wrong and why is he letting her go away to Darkside with the express intention of creating sand masters outside of the Deim's control? 5. What strange ability is Kenton using to feel the entire sand during his duel? Feel free take make a guess or two(although keep your aluminum hats off). Edited September 19, 2019 by Karger
Calderis he/him Posted September 18, 2019 Posted September 18, 2019 3 hours ago, Karger said: . Baon can master. Khriss cannot. What is up with that? What determines who can and cannot master? We have no idea, and we never have. That sums up most of your questions really. 3
Karger he/him Posted September 18, 2019 Author Posted September 18, 2019 14 minutes ago, Calderis said: We have no idea, and we never have. That sums up most of your questions really. They should still be asked. 2
Calderis he/him Posted September 18, 2019 Posted September 18, 2019 1 hour ago, Karger said: They should still be asked. Don't disagree. Just saying for now we don't have a lot to go on. Unfortunately, this particular format is a lot harder to dig through for clues. It's frustrating.
+Harrycrapper Posted September 18, 2019 Posted September 18, 2019 27 minutes ago, Calderis said: Don't disagree. Just saying for now we don't have a lot to go on. Unfortunately, this particular format is a lot harder to dig through for clues. It's frustrating. I recommend the Graphic Audio version, it's as close to a prose version as we will get for a little while. Though, it still won't be as easy as a straightforward prose version.
Karger he/him Posted September 19, 2019 Author Posted September 19, 2019 22 hours ago, Harrycrapper said: I recommend the Graphic Audio version, it's as close to a prose version as we will get for a little while. Though, it still won't be as easy as a straightforward prose version. I don't suppose there is a way to get that transcribed?
Weltall Posted September 20, 2019 Posted September 20, 2019 On 9/18/2019 at 10:29 AM, Karger said: 1. Baon can master. Khriss cannot. What is up with that? What determines who can and cannot master? We don't know, but I think someone should ask Brandon about that since he's previously used Baon as an example of someone who isn't Invested. 2
Karger he/him Posted September 20, 2019 Author Posted September 20, 2019 1 minute ago, Weltall said: We don't know, but I think someone should ask Brandon about that since he's previously used Baon as an example of someone who isn't Invested. Are Sand Masters invested? The investiture itself comes from the sand. The Master just connects with it. Also at the time he might not have been invested.
+Harrycrapper Posted September 20, 2019 Posted September 20, 2019 16 hours ago, Karger said: I don't suppose there is a way to get that transcribed? I thought about suggesting to anyone who buys it to use a text to speech program and let it run while they go to work or school. However, I remembered that there are made up words in White Sand just like every other fantasy/sci-fi book and that would probably not work as well as anyone would like. You could still try that and edit the parts it gets wrong, might cut down the time it would take to transcribe it all yourself. And I will not and will not suggest anyone that tries to transcribe it themselves distribute it as that would probably be a violation of copyright in some way and I doubt Brandon and his team would condone that.
Karger he/him Posted September 20, 2019 Author Posted September 20, 2019 59 minutes ago, Harrycrapper said: I thought about suggesting to anyone who buys it to use a text to speech program and let it run while they go to work or school. However, I remembered that there are made up words in White Sand just like every other fantasy/sci-fi book and that would probably not work as well as anyone would like. You could still try that and edit the parts it gets wrong, might cut down the time it would take to transcribe it all yourself. And I will not and will not suggest anyone that tries to transcribe it themselves distribute it as that would probably be a violation of copyright in some way and I doubt Brandon and his team would condone that. They would not. In a good decade they will probably release it but by then I doubt it will matter.
Menderbug Posted October 5, 2019 Posted October 5, 2019 Let me add one question to the list (which is likely also unanswerable right now, but maybe someone can ask Brandon at a signing some day): did Aarik pick up some kind of magic during his travels or is he just an insanely good warrior. That blindly caught arrow looked pretty supernatural and I was wondering if there were some Fortune or future sight shenanigans going on. 1
Karger he/him Posted October 6, 2019 Author Posted October 6, 2019 13 hours ago, Mender said: Aarik pick up some kind of magic during his travels or is he just an insanely good warrior. That blindly caught arrow looked pretty supernatural and I was wondering if there were some Fortune or future sight shenanigans going on. Aarik was always a good warrior no? Even before his travels.
+robardin he/him Posted October 11, 2019 Posted October 11, 2019 On 9/19/2019 at 11:25 PM, Weltall said: We don't know, but I think someone should ask Brandon about that since he's previously used Baon as an example of someone who isn't Invested. Aha! I thought I remembered this detail, but ascribed it to fan assumption. Or maybe what happened to him at the end of White Sand v3 was external. Like a reaction of the white sand to something else he had on him, a kind of nicroburst effect.
Wander89 he/him Posted October 12, 2019 Posted October 12, 2019 These are all good questions. I did like WS3 more than the others and will need to re-read it but it seems that there's more mastery involved now in Darkside and we definitely need to know more about it. Has it ever been mentioned how long the series is?
Karger he/him Posted October 13, 2019 Author Posted October 13, 2019 14 hours ago, Wander89 said: These are all good questions. I did like WS3 more than the others and will need to re-read it but it seems that there's more mastery involved now in Darkside and we definitely need to know more about it. Has it ever been mentioned how long the series is? The series is over. The next series on Taldain will be following Khriss.
Wander89 he/him Posted October 13, 2019 Posted October 13, 2019 7 hours ago, Karger said: The series is over. The next series on Taldain will be following Khriss. Yeah? Will it still be White Sand? Anywhere I can see this info?
Karger he/him Posted October 13, 2019 Author Posted October 13, 2019 5 hours ago, Wander89 said: Yeah? Will it still be White Sand? Anywhere I can see this info? Quote #50 Aug. 31, 2019 Share Copy Play/Pause Questioner Taldain, are you going to do something with Darkside? Brandon Sanderson Yes, we are actually... now that we have more experience with graphic novels, we are gonna do probably a Darkside-- three more graphic novels that are gonna be kind of like more focused on Khriss. Questioner Will there be a prose for that? Brandon Sanderson There will probably not be a prose for it. I will probably do Taldain novels in the future but I can't promise them. For right now we are just gonna do the graphic novels. They take a lot less time from me. And we are gonna see it how it works out. There are certain things we like and certain things we don't like, and mostly it's our fault, right? Not getting across some of the worldbuilding to the artists and things like that. We are gaining a lot of experience. But I don't plan on a prose Darkside novel anytime soon.
Lidolas he/him Posted January 10, 2020 Posted January 10, 2020 On 10/5/2019 at 8:01 PM, Ookla the Prolific said: Aarik was always a good warrior no? Even before his travels. On 10/5/2019 at 6:52 AM, Mender said: Let me add one question to the list (which is likely also unanswerable right now, but maybe someone can ask Brandon at a signing some day): did Aarik pick up some kind of magic during his travels or is he just an insanely good warrior. That blindly caught arrow looked pretty supernatural and I was wondering if there were some Fortune or future sight shenanigans going on. That image really jumped out at me as something more than normal physical ability. His opening fight scene when he saved Ais was impressive, but catching the dart/arrow was too good to be natural. I'd love to find out more about his past AND his future. He's the most intriguing character to me in the series. 1
ftl Posted January 11, 2020 Posted January 11, 2020 Yeah, I've been assuming for sure that Arik has some sort of magical ability. Reminded me of the fighting style one of the guys in Elantris... ClayShan or something?
Karger he/him Posted January 11, 2020 Author Posted January 11, 2020 On 1/10/2020 at 4:49 PM, Lidolas said: That image really jumped out at me as something more than normal physical ability. His opening fight scene when he saved Ais was impressive, but catching the dart/arrow was too good to be natural. I'd love to find out more about his past AND his future. He's the most intriguing character to me in the series. I always assumed he was just naturally gifted at a high level and due to some training from a very young age.
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