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gotta get more creative than that. my gut says to do something like Stormlight 4, Mistborn 7, Tress, Edgedancer, Mistborn 2, Elantris, Stormlight 2, Sunlit Man, Dawnshard, Yumi, White Sand, Stormlight 5, Mistborn 6, Secret History, Warbreaker, First of the Sun, Edgedancer, Mistborn 4, Shadows for Silence, Stormlight 1, Mistborn 3, Emperor's soul, Mistborn 5, Stormlight 3, Mistborn 1 I havent read Isles of the Emberdark yet, so not sure where to slot that in for maximum chaos. my gut says near the beginning. and you could also break up White Sand into the 3 separate volumes too, and scatter it around a bit more in random order. I think i covered just about everything in that list.

100% with you on this description. even at his best, Covenant is insufferable. its like a whole series of just Kaladin's worst most self-recriminating chapters, but without the eventual self-realization to resolve it.

sure, but the impression I always got was that soulcasting takes a lot more investiture than lightweaving. so yes that is possible, but may not be the best use of resources.

Was going to say something similar. though I did want to add for completeness: being able to manipulate sound in similar ways as light is important too, overall. if you make an illusion of a cave, but it doesn't echo correctly when someone yells into it, it would blow the whole thing

Went to a used book sale a month or so back, and then another in the last week or two, and have been working my way through my hauls from those when I have time. so far: the Coyote trilogy by Allen Steele - a so/so sci fi series about colonizing a planet (technically a moon actually) in another star system. the books, especially the first, are almost more a series of interrelated short stories than a single cohesive narrative. the Dread Empire's Fall trilogy by Walter John Williams - a B+ space opera set 10000 years in the future when the last member of an alien race that conquered quite a few star systems finally dies, and what happens to their interstellar empire afterwards. The Secret Commonwealth by Phillip Pullman (second in his Book of Dust series) - i'm not 100% on this series or this book as a follow up to His Dark Materials. I don't hate it, but the world-building and characterization feel inconsistent with the prior books. The Black Company by Glen Cook - Very Good fantasy. Mercenary company in a war between a resurrected evil and those who might resurrect an even worse evil to defeat her. very obviously an inspiration for Malazan. I only got the first book at the first sale, but did pick up the second later, but haven't started it yet Assassin Apprentice by Robin Hobb - Another very good fantasy book/series (though I've only read this one so far - somehow I had never picked this series up over the years, despite the library definitely having it). illegitimate son of a royal family is brought in to work as their assassin Sung in Blood by Glen Cook - not nearly so good as The Black Company. can be skipped. The Godspeaker Trilogy (omnibus edition) by Karen Miller - Fantasy series with a heavy focus on religion and ritual. not sure where I stand on it, as I haven't finished it yet, but its at least a solid B. the first book felt more like an extended prologue to other two. Still have another 7 to get through, and there is another used book sale this weekend I plan to go to to increase my to-read stack even further.

out of curiosity, did you play Breath of the Wild first?

I'm not actually sure this has been demonstrated. the Heralds were tortured for hundreds of years BEFORE they gave up their honorblades, to say nothing of the following 4000. Kaladin hasn't gone through anything close to that. to your question: personally, I think eventually he would succumb, the question is whether that would take long enough that he would still have the willpower to destroy it when the opportunity arose. and I think that question depends on how he sees it. Boromir saw it as a weapon that could be used in defense of his people, and if Kaladin took the same point of view, then I think he'd go the way of Boromir. but if he saw it for what it truly was - a tool of the enemy and one he couldn't control or truly use - then I think he could probably resist for a reasonable duration. I think he'd take that second route. I think he'd recognize it for what it is, especially with people like Syl, Dalinar, and Wit to persuade him. and in that case I think he could resist it, probably for long enough to destroy it.

ahh, well I'd prefer dedicated app, like I used to have, over in-browser use, but better than nothing. reading on my computer isn't my preference, but overdrive/libby have access to a lot more material than the physical books so its worth it.

Can you get libby on just a computer I now I used to have overdrive on my laptop for library books, but they discontinued that and merged with libby or something, and when I looked into downloading that it was not actually available for windows. that was a few year ago though, things could have changed since.

A friend of mine has been reading that, and told me he has read something like 17 novels' worth of Reddit Posts just in that overarching series

Started up The Tainted Cup the other day on the advice of a friend, and really enjoying it so far. have the sequel in the wings as well, and after that Mordew.

I doubt its possible to HAVE an unkeyed essence mark. it is far too specific to a single person's history. it would be like asking about an unkeyed biography - its almost definitionally impossible. the best info I could get from the WoBs (which I forgot to copy the source for before I closed it) was that someone with blank identity would probably not be able to use someone else's essence marks. at best i'd guess that if you made one while your identity was blanked, it might be usable by someone else with blank identity (though you'd probably need to fiddle with Connection too). also if you were somehow able to mimic someone else's identity and connection you could possibly use their essence marks.

this time through it was just a reread of Ender's Game, Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, and Children of the Mind. I have in the past also read Ender in Exile, and the Shadows series at least through Shadow Puppets. Don't remember offhand if I ever did get to Shadow of the Giant (I think so) or Shadows in flight (less sure). I don't really have any plan to read the prequel books, to be honest, but i might at some point make it through all the Shadows books, at least to get final closure on Bean and see how the series closes out past Children of the Mind. but not this time, I'm thinking.

Been on a bit of a Sci-FI kick recently. in the last couple days I read the Ender's Game series through Children of the Mind. Debating whether to try and pick up The Last Shadow to finish it up, but leaning toward not and just jumping to something else instead.

2 additions to what Quantus already said: 1. Devotion already exists. or did exist and was killed - it was the shard held by Aona on Sel. So the combined shard would not be that. the combined Rhythm of Odium and Honor was the Rhythm of War, as was already noted, so the shard would presumably be something related to that. 2. Honor has been splintered, so to merge it with Odium would require gathering up the pieces. not impossible for a shard, presumably, but not as simple as Ruin and Preservation either.