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I don't know if you have read Hero of Ages but spoilers below if you have not.

http://coppermind.net/wiki/Leras

That pretty much explains why Preservation as the Mists did what he did. The Deepness was really just part of a story TLR used to hide what really happened 1000 years before.

It was never "Hunkey Key." It was always "Hunkey Kay."

 

The new audiobook pronunciations are more in line with Brandon's preferred pronunciations, but we didn't make them change all of the Aonic words, such as pronouncing Elantris correctly as EE-LAYN-triss.

If I remember correctly, the original audio book actually got the "Hunkey Kay" thing right though, I can see how people can misinterpret the pronunciation the other way. It's good to know these changes were initiated by Brandon thank you for answering that.

I started listening to the audiobook this week and A LOT of the pronunciations are different from the previous version I listened to. I'm not sure and would like to know why, if anyone knows. I'm guessing either Brandon didn't have enough clout back when the old one was recorded and couldn't provide his preffered pronunciations and did so this time or he has little time to micro manage something like that at the moment and Jack Garret/Tor just winged it without reffering back to the previous recording. I will say that it is quite annoying adjusting to the new pronunciations but would be less so if I knew which version was preffered by Brandon.

I seem to remember Dalinar remarking on how Gavliar hated lending his shardplate and blade to duelists in line with that tradition. I think its just now that Gavilar/Elhokar are king over the other high princes they are the sole leaders who have to take part in the tradition as princes are technicly subserviant to the king.

Helaran is definitly aligned with the Sky Breakers. Shallan/Helaran's dad was aligned with the Ghostbloods as he somehow got a soul caster from them. Amaram is aligned with the Sons of Honor as he wishes to return the voidbringers which the Sky Breakers headed by Nalan clearly do not want and the ghostbloods in WoR are trying to spy on him so clearly he isn't with them. Either there's ANOTHER secret society that Helaran belongs too which after the Ghostbloods, Skybreakers, and Sons of Honor seems like there would be too many for there to be any more than those.

This is just a thought but Honor seems to be associated with stone and in Shadesmar the purelake is a mountain. Maybe it's Honor's shardpool? Also as to the WOB about devotions shardpool I think he might have been refering to the people who don't know alot about shardpools and just assumed its a suicide pool where elantrians go to die?

I was recently doing a reread(or rather a re-listen as im doing the audiobook) of Well of Ascension and I noticed a weird mistake. At some point after Vin discovers the mist spirit and is sensing the Well of Ascension(though she doesn't know it) and she asks Clubs to burn bronze and see if he senses anything which he replies that he doesn't. But Clubs is definitly a smoker so he shouldn't be able to burn bronze. I'm guessing it's an error and I'm pretty sure it isn't just on the audio file as sometimes things get mispronounced but never something on this scale.