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38 minutes ago, Hexagonal said:

That's a fair statement, but I am fairly certain that it is being used in the manner of a curse. There have been other examples, especially before the Stormfather becomes a character we meet, of using his name in a similar manner.

Sounds to me more like a prayer than a curse, but yeah it seems correct to me, perhaps just a bit archaic or regional but definitely intentional. I don't have a Wind and Truth ebook yet but another example from Rhythm of War chapter 27 is "Almighty send that the cure was not worse than the disease."

3 minutes ago, Daniel Reynolds said:

Chapter 95: Quoting Sadees at me? should be:  Quoting Sadeas at me?
Thanks
Daniel

Not a typo, he's referring to the sunmaker.

1 hour ago, Velsii said:

I feel like I'm crazy. Wouldn't Dalinar's step daughter be hypothetically Evi's daughter,and wouldn't Jasnah be his niece? Who is the stepdaughter Wit is referring to here?

Dalinar married Navani, who is Jasnah's mother, so Jasnah is his stepdaughter. Jasnah is also Dalinar's niece because he is Gavilar's brother.

Chapter 125, I thought it might be a continuity error but it's probably not, it just stood out to me so I figured I'd mention it.

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It felt as if she hadn't slept in days

Navani doesn't need to sleep anymore due to her bond to the Sibling.

Chapter 127

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Together they started down the halls of Urithiru, walls marked by spiraling strata, Stormlight shining from their glowing sections.

This should be Towerlight or just Light, not Stormlight.

Chapter 11:

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She should have been able to create one without a blueprint, but she couldn't yet–but she did reach out

Not a typo, but the repeated "but" kicked me out of the story briefly.

Chapter 12:

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It hadn't yet been ready to move beyond his brands.

Should be "he hadn't yet been ready", or maybe "it hadn't yet been time"?

Chapter 27:

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They don't reverence stone or the spren who live within them.

Should be revere. Looks like reverence can technically be used as a verb, but I've never seen it used that way and someone already reported the same thing in an earlier chapter so I'm clearly not the only one.

I hate having to deal with DRM, but I can't just stop halfway through!

Chapter 3: "You make, he thought at himself, a terrible cynic.", confused me for a hot second, "he" shouldn't be italicized.

Chapter 12: "What do you think of those? the studiously serious knight asks, somewhat confusedly.", missing capitalization on "the". I see multiple occurrences and it seems like it might be intentional.

3 hours ago, Treamayne said:

It seems some hyphenations from the physical print were not reversed for the epub version (and/or have a space added):

Also Ars Arcanum: "leaking into spirit- webs" should be "spiritwebs"

5 minutes ago, teknopathetic said:

Also, the Irali are on Scadrial now? That Newspaper editor mentions the good skinned Faye people?

Oh, that seems like a strong possibility!

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Was it those people with the golden hair living on the east side? They’re some kind of fairy creature; I know it.

4 hours ago, teknopathetic said:

We also get some Skybreakers it sounds like in the last part. The main man of the Ghostblood contingen  asks "Are you sure it is legal [to sink the ships], and once convinced he and his friends fly off. Steris assumes they must have been undocumented Allomancers, but it seems to me these were Skybreakers for sure. 

18 minutes ago, teknopathetic said:

On a meta level, mentioning law and then sending worldhoppers out to fly seems like a choice Brandon had to know he was doing.

Nice catch there! Seems like that one is kind of controversial, and I can see why. I'm not totally sold on it, but it does seem like Brandon had to be doing that intentionally. It does seem very odd though that there would be such a large number of Skybreakers working for the Ghostbloods not too long after SA5. I suppose maybe they could have helped evacuate some refugees and then stuck around on Scadrial?

6 minutes ago, Karger said:

Is Saze lying?  This is just a guess but I think that what was produced was in the gas state rather then a solid.  Using it to effect doesn't seem feasible.

He's definitely lying:

It's possible it was in a gaseous state since he says Wax may have inhaled some, but I think it's more likely it was dust. Either way, he definitely put some metal dust in the vial and it worked.

I figured that was their Harmonium/Trellium bomb testing, and helping convince the abductees that the ashmounts were erupting was a nice side-effect.

• Hoid is super obvious
• Codenames Are Stupid is Kaise from Elantris. Name is a giveaway, confirmation when she says "I with my brother were here...He'd do this math easily"
• TwinSoul we've never met (cool to see someone connected to an Aether though!)
• Moonlight is Shai. She uses soulstamps, and when Essence Marked as an Elantrian calls herself "Shay-I...Blessed of the Shay-ode"
• An unknown Seon (Edit: Per @marching_miner it's Dao)
• Nazh is in the broadsheets again

I wasn't paying super close attention, how many did I miss?

Edit: How could I forget Dlavil, Iyatil's brother!

Per @teknopathetic

• Skybreakers helping scuttle ships at the end (maybe, lots of debate) Disconfirmed by WoB
• Iriali in Bilming, Maraga mentions "those people with the golden hair living on the east side"

Not 100% sure, but I think I'd count these as typos. TL;DR letters following an apostrophe (maybe only in the case of 'd?) aren't italicized even when they're in the middle of italicized text and the rest of the word is italicized.

I noticed towards the end of reading my hardcover that were several cases where there is an italicized section with a word containing an apostrophe like "you'd", but the letter after the apostrophe isn't italicized (eg "you'd"). After seeing it once they started popping out at me. I grabbed the ebook and extracted the epub contents, and it looks like all instances of words with "'d" are like "And he<span class="kern">’d</span> made some modifications." I assumed (based on the class name) that this had something to do with making the apostrophes look correct due to some sort of kerning issues, but stylesheet.css has a section for "span.kern" and it's blank, so I'm not really sure what's going on there (maybe the existence of the separate span solves some sort of problem?)

The trouble is, this special handling for apostrophes doesn't play nicely with the way things are italicized. Instead of having the "<span class="kern">...</span>" inside the "<i>...</i>", it does it like "<i>It is something else. But it didn’t work as I</i><span class="kern">’d</span> <i>hoped.</i>". Several of the examples I found by grepping for '</i><span class="kern"' are like "blah blah he'd blah blah" where only the "he" is italicized and the "'d" isn't, which seems less clearly like a mistake, but I think they're still unintentional.

Examples:

• Chapter 19 paragraph 24 - "...then again, he’d done his..."
• Chapter 30 paragraph 5 - "...his flat after he’d had too..."
• Chapter 46 paragraph 84 - "...if I'd been there..."
• Chapter 66 paragraph 14 - "...didn't work as I'd hoped."
• Chapter 69 paragraph 80 - "You'd end up..."
• Chapter 70 paragraph 45 - "You’d better be on..."
• Chapter 73 paragraph 7 - "You’d better not have..."

Sorry if I was a bit overly verbose

Chapter 16:

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I didn’t have time to figure out where they was coming from.

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... looking a little like an series of overly large ...

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... have to wait another year or more for another yoki-hijo ...

Repeated another sounds weird.

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As I said, I said I owned the restaurant.

Not sure if that repeat is intentional or not.

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separate parts—thought they’d come from the same spirit

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It fill the nooks of the soul

17 minutes ago, Honorless said:

No. Szeth killed him with Nightblood. That's why after Rayse's half-destroyed body dropped, Szeth thought it was Taravangian's body.

The body is half destroyed because Taravangian killed Rayse with Nightblood. Szeth just accepts it because he's a bit crazy.

Szeth uses his knife to kill Taravangian (though it's debatable whether Taravangian actually died):

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“I decide now,” Szeth said, reaching toward his waist—not for the terrible sword, but for the small knife he was wearing beside it. “I finally decide. Me. No one else compelling me. Taravangian, know that in killing you, I make it my choice.”

Szeth thinks Taravangian somehow drew Nightblood:

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Almost all possible futures agreed. Szeth would confess that he’d gone to kill Taravangian, but somehow Taravangian had drawn Nightblood—and the weapon had consumed him.

They've definitely been used previously, they were used for the floating tower experiment in Words of Radiance in chapter 35.

Anti-Voidlight gemstones warp the air around them, what causes this? Presumably anti-Stormlight and anti-Lifelight gemstones would cause a similar warping effect?

My theory is that this has to do with the destructive interference. Roshar has rhythms of Honor, Cultivation, and Odium, which seem to infuse the entire planet, perhaps even the air? Since the anti-Light is 180 degrees out of phase with "normal" Light, perhaps the light (lowercase L) that anti-Voidlight gives off destructively interferes with Odium's rhythm in the air, leaving just Honor and Cultivation's rhythm. This difference in rhythms for the air around the gemstone causes a visible warping like heat waves.

Something I would like to know is, if anti-Light were taken to another planet with no normal Light or rhythms from Roshar around, would it behave the same as normal Light (since it seems to be the same thing, just 180 degrees out of phase), or would there still be a warping to the air, or would it behave differently in some other way? Would it still cause a warping to the air because it has a different tone than the rest of the planet?

1 hour ago, KandraAllomancer said:

Anti-Light is built from Investiture (like everything in Cosmere) and all Investiture got assigned to Shards at the Shattering, so I would assume that anti-Lights and their Intent must be some combination of Shards

It's just Odium's rhythm though, 180 degrees out of phase. I would think each Shard would have their own rhythm, as most people seem to be assuming.

On 11/22/2020 at 4:19 PM, Legobinder said:

The most notable example of this is in Lhan's interlude in WoR we see an ardent Pai make several glyphwards comparing Aesudan to the Ten Fools. Then in OB Aesudan is influenced by Ashertmarn, the Heart of Revel, and Aesudan becomes the embodiment of what Pai accused her of.

You have it backwards, Aesudan was already being influenced by the unmade, and Pai merely described what Aesudan had already become.

On 11/22/2020 at 4:19 PM, Legobinder said:

Next in chapter 69 of Wok upon hearing that Sadeas has claimed Dalinar was defeated by the Parshendi Navani burns an enormous glyphward of Thath, meaning justice, then what happens a message runner arrives with news of Dalinar's survival.

There is clearly no causal relation here as they had already survived and were nearly back to the warcamps. A religious alethi who regularly burns glyphwards hears something awful that they don't want to accept, what do you think they are they going to do? It's a great scene, but it's just that, a dramatic scene, there's nothing mystical going on here.

On 11/22/2020 at 4:19 PM, Legobinder said:

Then twice in RoW Navani burns glyphwards. The first is in the prologue when see burns a glyph for the death of Gavilar after their conversation, and surprisingly Szeth kills him that very night.

Yes, but it wasn't exactly surprising was it? To them at the time maybe, but with all we know now there are very rational explanations that don't involve any glyphward mumbo jumbo. We even have Klade "stumbling upon" Szeth explained now as Ulim leading him after being let go by Nale.

On 11/22/2020 at 4:19 PM, Legobinder said:

The next is when Navani is trying to sleep after Raboniel told her that she will create anti-Stormlight she paints glyphs for divine direction she finds the dagger raboniel used to kill her daughter which had a bit of anti-Voidlight left in it. Navani realizes that she can use this to kill Raboniel and escape Urithiru with the Rhythm of War.

This is the best example as it seems much more like coincidence than any of the others, but it's still just coincidence. She'd probably have found the dagger anyway.

I see a lot of confirmation/selection bias here. Yes, you could conclude that glyphwards work and are answered with divine intervention (or not as the case may be), but none of the uses of glyphwards have truly mystical outcomes, there's no solid evidence, and I'm extremely skeptical they have any true power. It's just the Alethi form of prayer. People who are religious tend to burn glyphwards, so when things go the way they want they can attribute it to their prayer being answered. When things don't go the way they want they either forget about it, or explain it away (not worthy, not meant to be, etc).

US hardback page 554 smallcaps "how?" is uncapitalized.

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"Then make him afraid. Make him dread. Break him."

how?

Vyre looked up, across the endless field of golden stone.

Not sure if this one is an error or not, but in a flashback to the night of Gavilar's assassination on page 882 Venli refers to parshmen as "enslaved singers". I hadn't thought Ulim had taught her that term yet, but I suppose he could have offscreen.

Words of Radiance interlude 4:

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The others hummed to Appreciation. Only Venli did not join in the song. If this stormform turned out to be real, would they add another person to the Five? At first, the Five had all been dullforms, then all workers. It was only at the discovery of nimbleform that it had been decided that they would have one of each form.

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If I could ask a question- from Rysn's observations in the epilogue, it seems like she has alot of the same aspects of a Fifth Heightening/Returned at the least. Is this because her Dawnshard is particularly connected to Endowment or because the effects of a certain level of investment result in similar effects?

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The latter.

Seems it's just an effect of holding investiture.