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MountainKing is misquoting a WoB. Brandon said that the first three will reasonably stand by themselves, but the fourth will really require you to read the others. That does not mean that Starsight is not a sequel; it obviously is, it's just Brandon means that it won't be a disaster if you didn't read Skyward first for it. Specifically:

Post typos and errors for Skyward here.

@thegatorgirl00 was mentioning this earlier in Discord! It's an excellent catch!

Guys, don't ping me for forum games. I don't appreciate pointless pings. Thank you!

Hi guys, looks like most ebook places are distributing Skyward now, so it's time for full book spoilers! Post them here. I didn't really like how the topic tags happened with Oathbringer, so I would say don't do that here but please do keep spoilers out of topic titles. So yeah, here we go! I hope you enjoyed it.

All Ebook retailers in the US and Canada! Do note also there's a bundle of all three for $7.18 too, which is ridiculous.

This topic is not about discussing downvotes. Thanks!

Who's your spirit cosmere character? Who are you most like, on the inside? I'll begin. I'm totally Vasher. I'm a teacher, but sometimes I can be very grumpy about it.

I didn't know. I don't check Instagram for my Brandon Sanderson news because that's stupid. I don't go to a social network about photos for my book news. My apologies for misleading you all.

According to Instagram from last week, this is the last batch of chapters. Thanks Brandon for using friggin Instagram to get the word out rather the thing people actually follow you on (Twitter).

Thank you for all the kind words on my birthday. I'm kind of surprised as to whatever time zone this server is running on, because that appeared quite early on the 30th for me! But thank you all. It means a lot.

Must be a consequence to the HTTPS update. Something is wrong with HTTPS support on the IPS Content module (which this is on) that I guess I just need to do software updates to fix. That will not be soon at all. Any news page, this will not work on for the next while. I suppose I'll just need to hide the buttons in the meantime. Yes, we will, but do note that this was the Legion release. Though this episode was popular, and that's really great, we also want to balance other topics so Shardcast isn't just WoBcast. We are allotting three episodes of time to the Skyward tour. With that and the AMAs we'd really need to get all of them done in four episodes total and spread them out. Too many WoB episodes at a time is too much. That's why we did the last two Kholins episodes before airing this one and next week's.

You can just report the images and we can move them. I assume you'd like them in the Cosplay Photos category?

So, after doing this podcast I actually did work on some math regarding how long the Desolations period of Roshar would be, along with Pagerunner. The short answer is that the Desolation period basically has to be at least three thousand years, but could also be nearly five thousand or six thousand years. (That's the TL;DR, incoming long wall of text about math.) What data points can we use? We know that for the Last Desolation, the Heralds broke less than a year from the previous Desolation. For the purposes of math I said it was .5 years. We also have a quote from the Starfalls vision (Way of Kings Chapter 19), where a Radiant mentions what year it is: "It is Eighth Epoch, three thirty-seven." Now, that's very explicit. I can only assume what separates Epochs in this scenario are Desolations. I also assumed that this means it has been eight Desolations since the Heralds formed the Oathpact. So when t = 8, we had at least 337 years (with a Desolation coming soon, according to that vision). Since Brandon said "not much more than 15" Desolations, I looked at having 20 or 25 Desolations, so t = 20 would be .5 years. I thought it'd be a pretty nice exponential decay but curve sketching actually led to sums of the Desolation period always being a bit over 5000 years. We abandoned curve sketching pretty quick because that would have meant the first Desolation post-Oathpact would have taken nearly 700 years, if we got 337 years after 8. In the end, I made a quick spreadsheet where I just picked numbers to see what the lower bound on the timeframe of Desolations could be. I said every other Desolation before t = 8 would be exactly 300, and then I had the numbers drop off very rapidly after eight. Check out my poorly formatted spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1prORC7cmaPfyzR3O6RBYT5NtZRDEsmu_rG10oRaSQOI/edit?usp=sharing Don't take any numbers too seriously, but if you just map out the numbers like that, I really don't see how the Desolation period could be less than 3000 years, and it could be upwards of nearly 6000 years.

Three chapters this week (but the first is short): https://www.getunderlined.com/read/excerpt-reveal-start-reading-skyward-by-brandon-sanderson/

We currently do not have anonymous logins enabled. I could, perhaps, if people really wanted to.

I don't think it's necessarily the worst. It's useful if someone missed everything about Skyward to be able to have it all in one spot. But yeah there are some downsides...