Stormfather-in-Law

So, I thought about this some more, and I figured out what was nagging me about it. This isn't a map of the whole Shattered Plains; it covers only about a quarter of them. That means the lines here converge around 1/8 the way through the Shattered Plains, not in the center. The answer is right in the caption above. The Tower is the place at the end of Alethi reach, shown here at the very right edge of the image (the "largest plateau of the area"). Bad battles were fought over it, with the Parshendi generally having the advantage of arriving first. They were also quicker to travel over this terrain, which makes Stormseat at least twice the distance shown on this map. That would then mean the lines that appear to converge nicely in a radial manner above should instead be much more unidirectional, West to East. Hate to rain on the parade, but I don't think it can be correct.

I've always thought cymatics in a form we've not yet seen was responsible. A couple things that are probably related: Dawncities being in cymatic patterns indicates that there is some ancient tool or weapon that could create these patterns in rock. Dalinar sees this process, whatever the cause, in the vision he has that shows Kholinar being decimated. Seems hard to conceive of why the heralds might be behind that, rather than a weapon of some sort. With regard to the 10 'craters' at the warcamps, Kaladin notes at one point that they look like they might have originally been domes, not craters as they are now. More like they might have been for protection than for originating the destruction.

He probably feels dead inside.

Can we spoiler topics that are rhythms of war, for those of us who go out of our way to avoid them?

The rest of the 5 books is actually the end scene heist sequence told in excruciatingly slow motion. Book 4 is just one woman crossing a room!

Quite the turnaround! Perseverance should be one of the 16: sometimes it brings big rewards. Glad you stuck it out.

Your mileage may vary, but I'll add that the Rock chapter is one my favorites in the whole series. To me it is a perfect gem.

Obviously, it's a kind of chicken.

Running with the analogy, I personally don't see anything wrong with running someone over with a car when that person has been killing people left and right and was just interrupted from trying to kill more. Or that Han, who is supposed to be a scoundrel, might shoot first. Which he did.

What would you like to discuss then? Toenailfungusspren?

So if I trim my beard, will I attract Goateespren? Mustachespren? Soulpatchspren?

Dunno, for me do this to anything but Stormlight, which borders on a religion to me. Don't think I want the 4th wall broken on this series. Skyward 3? Yes. Warbreaker 2? YES! 'Princess' would be intact there too.

Hitler lost. Bomber Harris of the UK would likely have been called one had the war gone the other way. Or the U.S.'s LeMay of the Japanese firebombing campaign, who went so far as to admit it: Stalin, who won, would easily have met those same definitions - in many respects, the man was more of a monster than Hitler himself. Ramifications? None. In-world Jasnah has the right of it as mentioned above: murder is a legal definition. War crimes are that too, but are often used for political reasons as much as for what was done.

You could call it the "Iron Man." I'll see myself out.