Columns and Features

It's our full cosmere spoiler episode for Warbreaker! Turns out it's a pretty important book.

One of the most common questions we see prior to every Stormlight Archive release is a request for good recaps of the previous books. Well, you've found the right place! This series of four articles will serve as a brief but thorough overview of the previous Stormlight Archive books, so you can pick right up where you left off when Wind and Truth brings an end to the First Arc of Stormlight Archive when it releases this year!

This week on SpanReads, we are discussing the colorful magic of Warbreaker!

Next up on SpanReads, we talk about the many characters of Warbreaker, like Lightsong, Siri, Vivenna, and Vasher!

SpanReads, our reread series, returns! We are starting with Warbreaker, and then moving through Stormlight until Wind and Truth comes out! So what did we think of Warbreaker on a reread? Stay tuned to find out! 

Excited for Wind and Truth and planning on a Stormlight reread? We are too, with our weekly SpanReads reread show returning Thursdays until the release, starting June 27th with Warbreaker! Then we continue with Way of Kings on July 25th. 

Hear ye, hear ye, here comes another Patreon fanart commission from last November - once again, full of spoilers for The Sunlit Man!

Hello hello! The last couple of months saw an uptick in the membership of our Patreon page, in both free and paying members, so if you are one of those - welcome, welcome! (And of you are not, could we interest you?) Either way, hopefully you are enjoying your time here, on the 17th Shard, and hopefully the new year is treating you well. To increase the odds that everything is going peachy, we've got a Yumi and the Nightmare Painter fanart commission for you, right after the break!

Happy New Year, everybody! In the spirit of the whole "new year, new me" mantra, we are turning a new leaf and... well, not really changing anything! We know you like these monthly fanart commissions, we like these monthly fanart commissions, so why break what isn't broken?

Spoilers for The Sunlit Man

It's the last SpanReads for the 2023, our last Cytoverse SpanReads, and Defiant is just days away! Last up we are talking about lore in Cytonic, and oh boy there's a lot to discuss!

It's time for characters and relationships in Cytonic, and our longest SpanReads yet! There's just a few Jessie rants, as well as some discussion at the end of general Brandon comments too.

Hey Sharders, I’m sure you’ve been enjoying the wealth of official art we have gotten in the Year of the Sanderson as we’ve been reading through the four Secret Projects. All the books may be out now, but that doesn’t mean all the fun is over yet! We were fortunate enough to be able to ask Aliya Chen, the artist behind the cover and interior art for Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, some questions about her wonderful illustrations and the process that went into their creation. Keep reading to check out what Aliya has to say and also check out her website to learn more about her and her work.

Beware of spoilers!

It's onto our last Cytoverse SpanReads: Cytonic! This is certainly not a controversial book, and we didn't have too much to say... Oh wait, this is one of our longest SpanReads. Also featuring Defiant hopes, some general Brandon comments, and the ocean.

It's our last Skyward Flight SpanReads, where we discuss the lore in the Skyward Flight novellas! 

It's time to discuss the characters in the Skyward Flight novellas, and oh boy, there's so much to discuss in these, from all three protagonists, romance, and more!

We're onto to the Skyward Flight collection, the novellas written by Janci Patterson in collaboration with Brandon. We talk about our thoughts and compare them especially with Cytonic!

Oh boy, we learned about so much lore in Starsight! Let's talk about it. We talk about delver mazes, figments, slugs, and of course, Twilight Imperium.

This week on SpanReads, we are onto Starsight, the sequel to Skyward. How do we feel about this controversial book on a reread? Stay tuned to find out.

This week on SpanReads, we are talking about the Lore in Skyward! We talk about foreshadowing for the future, and inconsistencies.

This week on SpanReads, we are talking about the Characters & Relationships in Skyward! We talk about M-Bot, Cobb, Skyward Flight and Jorgen, and of course, ZEEN NIGHTSHADE.

It's time for possibly our last Secrets in Stained Glass story! This one occurs during Secrets in Stained Glass itself, showing an important scene the main characters didn't witness. Major spoilers for Episode 5 of Secrets in Stained Glass. You can download a PDF of this story here!

So this Saturday, we are doing two Secrets in Stained Glass streams. First, at 8:30am Pacific / 11:30am Eastern, we will be talking with Matt and Grace about Grace's PC, Cecily, and some other NPCs. This will go for about an hour, then at 10am Pacific / 1pm Eastern we will have the full cast on and we will answer your questions!