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Sunlit Man spoilers.
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Okay, there's another weirdly specific theme I've noticed in the three Secret Projects I've read so far:
SpoilerFairly big spoilers for Yumi and Sunlit, not so much for Frugal Wizard. Anyway, the theme is:
SpoilerScientists behaving so badly that they make life objectively worse for entire populations, if not entire planets. I mean, in Frugal Wizard, you have….
SpoilerFrugal Wizard LLC, who allow what amounts to demigods to run amok in technologically backward dimensions with no regard for how that will affect the lives of the people who live there, and
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter has the
SpoilerTorish scholars who built a superpowered soul-eating machine and killed everyone on their planet except for bands of nomads, locking the memories of the few Invested yoki-hijo into never-ending tedium while the planet itself was plunged into darkness and the nomads were left to contend with living nightmares attacking at random, and
The Sunlit Man gives us
Spoilerthe Scadrian scientists, who not only developed a means to end the harrowing sacrifice system and told no one, but straight-up decided to help the planet's only unstable megalomaniac on his way to worldwide domination while they sat back and stared at the sun.
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SpoilerI can't wait for the space-age cosmere novels so I can like the Scadrians again, because so far every time we've seen them they've been awful.
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Maybe it's just the Scadrian government that's evil? I mean, their planet spent centuries under a despot, so maybe they think that it's the government's job to support despots all over the Cosmere.
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Forgive me for not remembering if you've said whether or not you've finished Era 2. If so:
SpoilerIt seems Scadrial's well on its way back to good old-fashioned political corruption, so I wouldn't be surprised. I expect that whoever our POV characters are in the future, they'll be more-or-less good people, and that the roles we've seen so far just self-select for callous people.
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62 pages into The Sunlit Man and I've noticed something.
SpoilerPainter is something of a pariah among other nightmare painters, but his artistic ability captures the admiration of the Torish village where he practices it.
Runian is a good but not amazing artist, yet the people of his Earth-Lite dimension think he's good enough to control their souls.
Nomad is short on Roshar, but he's considered tall on Threnody.
The Secret Projects have a persistent theme of people being average or below-average in some respect who are seen as above average or downright amazing when they go off-world. This probably has nothing to do with anything, but it's a weird thing I noticed.
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Major RoW spoilers:
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Odium approaches Taravangian to demand he be his champion, c. 1175, colorized
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Bondsmiths bond the grumpiest spren because if you can out-grouch the Stormfather, you can definitely stop a war or two.
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Yes!
the storm father and the sibling are tests.
I am convinced, tho, that the night watcher is basically just Lift-
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@Thaidakar the Ghostblood The Stormfather needs someone who can beat him at his own grumpy game.
The Sibling needed a mom friend.
The Nightwatcher needs someone who won't let her hyperactive antics get in the way of cooking gourmet meals, so….I guess that means Gordon Ramsay will become a Radiant in the next book?
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SA spoilers
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Basically, a bunch of people lost their money (up to and including their life savings) when the housing bubble burst in 2008, and Lehman Brothers was deeply involved and not even sorry.
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So broke, he has to beg Lehman Brothers The Bank of Evil for funding. (I have no idea how well that reference has aged, tbh.)
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I've kept up okay, but I probably should've at least reread Oathbringer before picking up Rhythm of War.
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Cosmere theory: Honor once looked to the future and saw that Moash would one day exist. The knowledge drove him mad and made him easy prey for Odium.
This is why Vorinism forbids seeing the future.
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At some point, we're going to get a secret novel so secret that even Brandon didn't know about it.
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The trial of Adolin Kholin:
SpoilerAdolin: Oh dear Stormfather, what is that?
Sekeir: Behold, my next witness! A bear!
Adolin: Are you sure this is a good—
Sekeir: *pokes the bear in the tush with a fork*
Bear: *does what bears do*
Sekeir: See how the creature roars its disapproval at this monstrous human!
Bear: *continues to do angry bear things*
Adolin: Stop provoking it, you moron!
Sekeir: It can't stand to be in the same room as this human!
Adolin: It's eating the jury!
Sekeir: Because it knows they would rather be eaten than have to spend one more second in this courtroom with you.Bonus:
SpoilerMaya: Where. Did. You. Get. Your. Law. Degree?
Sekeir: Only the finest of institutions. A place of knowledge and boundless resources, withheld by greedy humans from poor, innocent deadeyes like yourself.
Maya: Tell. Me!
Sekeir:
Maya:
Sekeir: ….eBay. -
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RoW spoilers.
Raboniel and Navani:
SpoilerRaboniel: Please, Navani, lend me your intellect and help me end this war.
Navani: By merging Voidlight and Stormlight to prove our peoples can coexist as a beautiful, if chaotic, mosaic of diversity and love?
Raboniel: No, by letting me win.Those storming honorspren:
SpoilerAdolin: I thought you were honorspren! Embodiments of honor!
Honorspren: No, we just want everyone else to show us honor while we show them our bare backsides.
Veil: Oooohhh, so you're not honorspren.
Honorspren:
Veil: You're hypocritespren.
Honorspren:
Pattern: I sense no lies here. I starve.-
Fr tho
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