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The only correct way to pronounce Kaladin is with this intonation

Let me first say that Brandon Sanderson is my favorite author. Full stop. So, this is very much a nitpick and I have no intention to stop reading his work, nor would I suggest anyone do so for this reason. But I could keep qualifying how huge of a fan I am forever. In leu of that, I'll just get right to it. through reread after reread of his various series, I noticed a pattern. As far as I'm concerned, he is easily top of the fantasy world in terms of his settings, lore, plot progression, world-building, and ESPECIALLY magic systems. But Brandon's characters, especially in multi-book series, have always struck me as a little weak. And I could never quite put my finger on why. But I think I figured it out. Brandon is famously an outline writer. If he has a series, he starts by planning out the entire series. That means after book 1, the world, people, etc need to be in a specific place, both emotionally and literally. Same for book 2, 3, and so on. Within the context of a single book, he plans out something similar where everyone and everything needs to be in a specific place a the end of act 1, another specific place by the end of act 2, and so on (or the end of a part in regards to Stormlight) But then, he discovery-writes the character interactions. Overall, I like this method because it makes the characters seem defined by more than just their role, while moving the plot forward. But it's a bit of a double-edged sword, too. I've noticed that while macro character changes are retained, micro character changes are sometimes abandoned by the start of the next act, or part, or ESPECIALLY book. I first noticed this with Shallan. She'll have a very deep, personal revelation in one chapter, and then she will seem to have forgotten all about it by the next time we see from her perspective. This effect is typically more obvious from one part to the next. And it's just blatant (once I thought to look for it) between books. How she views other characters, and especially herself by the end of certain scenes, just don't seem to #Stick. I now believe that's because those particular character moments and realizations weren't pre-planned, and so they unfortunately got dropped in the midst of trying to juggle so much else in such a complicated story. Brandon is usually good about maintaining world lore things. The hard facts Shallan knows and the things she can do with her powers are stable. But her mental state is not. Originally, I chalked this up to her own personal mental issues. But I think it makes her seem a little more mentally unstable than seems to be intended. And the same can be seen for other characters as well. Take Kaladin. By the end of book 1, he is a whole new person compared to when he started. He knows more about the world, about his powers, he's literally stronger, he has all these things changed about him. At the start of book 2 though, he's just as strong as where he left off at the end of book 1. He's just as knowledgeable, his relationships have maintained, etc. But I would posture that aside from his powers, aside from his relationships, aside from his status in society, and only in regards to his own mental state and self-actualization, he's closer to the Kaladin in Chapter 1 of Way of Kings, than the Kaladin we saw at the end of the book. The same is true for Vin in Mistborn. She's stronger, more capable, etc. But her own mental state and especially how she regards her relationship with Elend, degrades from the end of book 1, to the start of book 2. And then again from the end of book 2, to the start of book 3. This is mostly explainable by the sheer trauma she experiences at the end of literally every book, but I think this trend plays into it as well. I can keep going with other characters, but this post is already long enough. So what do you think? Have you noticed this in his writing? Am I just totally off-base?

I was trying to be vague enough not to spoil it. But if you don’t care about Hunter X Hunter spoilers, just Google it. There’s plenty of YouTube clips basically, a character is having a tough time fighting an enemy, easily stronger than them. that whole fight happens, the character is nearly killed, and then Killua shows up, slowly walks forward, casually does something similar to going super Saiyan for the first time on-camera, and then proceeds to lay an effortless smack down on this enemy who we’ve only ever seen overpower all opponents thus far. it’s just an awesome moment that I imagined being adapted into someone doing the same thing, but as they’re walking forward, they erupt in Stormlight, simultaneously summoning their blade, and save whoever. my main point was that with the way Stormlight powers work, as well as shardblades, they lend themselves so well to epic entrances and quick, flashy, satisfying fights, that you could practically get people to watch it just for those bits if you do them well. yeah it would be a lot of money, but it’s popular enough and the potential for a great visual experience is high enough, that it seems like a no-brainer to adapt it. More so even than any other un-adapted property that I know of

I mean come on How is this not picked up as a series already?

Whenever Brandon talks about his early writing career, he mentions talking with this other author who debuted at the same time. Brandon got popular. That other author didn’t, apparently. He explains that the problem was that the other author’s book starts as a super generic fantasy story. But late in the book, it twists in a major way and becomes something completely different. Brandon’s theory is that this displeased both people who wanted the generic fantasy story because it wasn’t one by the end, as well as people who like subverting the genre because they never read that far. Does anyone know what book he’s referring to? Popular or not, that sounds like it’d be really interesting to read.

I think it's obvious that leading up to the second half of the series, the time skip will be preceded by massive shifts in plot focus, lore, and universe-breaking developments As a result, I'm pretty sure that book 5 will be called Dianetics

Next PoV is The Stick comfirmed

Uli Da?

Lift not liking bacon is a horrible character decision that will keep her from being an influential figure the Cosmere and will stifle the reader’s ability to accept her as a viable POV character throughout the Stormlight series once her personality quirks become stale

Put Alcatraz Smedry in a room with Adonalsium The Shattering happens

It’s a little bit of a cheat but Hoid

I only asked him one question Me: In The Final Empire, the captain of the Luthadel garrison is named ‘Bevidon’ Brandon: Yes Me: which sounds suspiciously like Bavadin Brandon: It does Me: Any connection there? Brandon: RAFO

This has been my theory for a while now humans find the dawnshards, use them to kill Rayse Moash takes up Odium Kaladin takes up Honor They both kill each other Shallan takes up both, becomes Sarcasm end of Cosmere

Stick: I’m the Map (Dora the Explorer)

Wheel of Time. That was my first real epic fantasy series and I started it right as Memory of Light was coming out. Around book 8, I learned Robert Jordan died and that someone else wrote the last 3 books. So I made my way through, dreading the switch and expecting them to be poor imitations of the rest of the series. But as it turns out, The Gathering Storm wound up being my favorite out of the entire series so I was hooked on Sanderson. If I had to put it down to a specific thing, the whole is what sold me on him as an author

If I’m being boring about it, it’d probably just be the Book of Mormon but longer

Way of Kings: Words of Radiance: Edgedancer: Oathbringer:

Jasnah uses plate in the final battle of the book. It was heavily hinted at anyway. I forget whose PoV this was, but they saw a fused fly through the air and crash heavily into a wall. The person looked around the corner at the source, and saw Jasnah there, glowing faintly for a moment in a way that wasn't from stormlight, but was identical to earlier descriptions of what it looks like when a Radiant's armor appears/disappears.

Kaladin playing the weird flute Hoid gave him for Syl

The radiants find the dawnshards and kill Odium. Kaladin becomes Honor, Moash becomes Odium, they both kill each other and Shallan rushes in, takes up both and becomes Sarcasm. /Cosmere

Abrasion and adhesion would be pretty fun

That'd work too. I was putting myself in her shoes a bit too much since I would absolutely love to just laze around, eat constantly, and stay fit because I'm burning all those calories by touching people for a second. But she could also hear about someone who needs healing, sneak into their houses, steal/eat their food and then come back to heal them after they go to sleep hungry and confused. Basically a reverse Batman

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