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  1. Sand Master
    This is amazing. I got goosebumps, awesome way to give sound to the song from the book.
  2. Sand Master
    Looks cool. I always imagined a chasmfiend's head to be bigger, have more of a face rather than being mostly mouth. But other than that it looks pretty spot on. I like Elhokar in his golden Plate, though I think Sunraiser could be a bit longer. Aren't Shardblades usually around six feet long? If I may ask, what kinds of things do you mean when you say, "certain things that were described weren't physically possible"? All in all, I'm excited to see it. This was one of the coolest scenes from WoK, it will be interesting to see how it turns out.
  3. Sand Master
    I did not know this. Explains a lot.
  4. Sand Master
    As far as I can find, this is the only mention of what the order of children means. It doesn't specifically say anything about a distinction between farmers and cooks. I had considered "making food" to include cooking, but I guess cooking could fall under craftsman. I had assumed craftsman meant making things like furniture or pottery.
  5. Sand Master
    Ah, yes, that's right. I remembered him saying that the first son was a cook, because it was the most important, and thought that it applied to him as well, him being Bridge Four's cook. I forgot that he said he's the third son and is the craftsman of the family. That being said, I wonder what he crafted? Maybe bows/arrows?
  6. Sand Master
    I've considered Kaladni/Syl before as well, but I don't think it would work out in the end. Yes, Syl has a kind of innocence to her that Kaladin tends to want to protect (much like Tien), but I think it's that very innocence that would make Syl into something more like a sister to Kaladin than a romantic interest. She's usually depicted as very youthful, and I feel like she's (probably permanently) going to be more of a child with the intelligence of an adult than anything else. I think it would just be weird. As for my personal hopes, I absolutely ship Shalladin and hope that we get to see Laral throw herself at Kaladin after seeing that he's a KR, followed by Kaladin completely ignoring her.
  7. Sand Master
    I didn't specifically say anime because the two you named I was not familiar with and didn't know they were anime. I said cartoon because it's a broad term that refers to any animation, not just western style, even though it usually carries that connotation. I also personally dislike anime as a style, because every one that I've seen over-exaggerates every emotion and is so over-the-top that to me, it's unwatchable. As for the budget not being big enough to pull it off right in live action, I completely agree. I never meant to imply that this was a show that was actually going to happen, I just wanted to express what the ideal would be in my mind. Given an infinite amount of money and time, that's what I personally would have envisioned for it.
  8. Sand Master
    Personally I wouldn't want it to be animated. Don't get me wrong, I love animated shows. In fact, I'd say that most of what little TV I watch is cartoons. But I don't think it would fit with SA. It's very gritty and serious (usually), and animation just doesn't lend itself well to that, in my opinion. It may also have to do with the fact that I always imagine it in my head as more live action when reading it, and seeing the same story in such a hugely different style would feel really awkward to me.
  9. Sand Master
    I agree with @Spoolofwhool. However, I have also thought about SA as video, and I think it would be really cool to see it as a TV show. Only problem is, I wouldn't be satisfied unless they used the book as a word-for-word script, meaning it would have to be very long. Like, each episode is a chapter, and each season is a Part in the book. Meaning just the Way of Kings would be five seasons. Plus, it would have to have a lot of special effects, for things like chasmfiends, spren, and Surgebinding.
  10. Sand Master
    To clear up the confusion about the number of Ideals, in WoK Teft says this: So from this we know that there are Five Ideals, and each order shares the same First Ideal.
  11. Sand Master
    Another one? Isn't this like the third one? Well, needless reboots aside, I have high expectations for this show.
  12. Sand Master
    Just got ReCore, and it's a ton of fun. Kind of a mix between Ratchet and Clank and Borderlands. The scenery and art style is very much Borderlands, but the movement and combat reminds me a lot of R&C. Only thing I wish it had more of was weapon customization, but other than that it's a blast.
  13. Sand Master
    I recently found out that there's a new show coming out soon called Milo Murphy's Law, about a kid who suffers from a literal Murphy's Law: everything around him is going wrong, all the time. I didn't make this connection at first, but after watching the first episode (for some reason available on Amazon for $0.00 even though the show isn't actually out yet) it distinctly reminded me of Alcatraz vs the Evil Librarians. Stuff breaking all the time, causing nobody to want to be around him, yet making it work out in the end. I thought it was great, and just wondered if anyone else had any thoughts on it. Best part is, the main theme song and the main character are both sung/voiced by Weird Al. Here's the main theme:
  14. Sand Master
    He also knew how to fire a bow when nobody else did, and has said that the first son (him) is needed for cooking, because cooking is the most important role in the family. Maybe they base their leaders on this? We know he's not the chief (or nuatoma, as he calls it) because he followed his nuatoma to try to win a Shardblade from the Alethi. I had considered that maybe he was hiding the fact that he was actually the nuatoma, but his refusal to fight and the fact that I would think that upon losing the duel for the Shardblade, the challenger would be killed makes me think otherwise.
  15. Sand Master
    That's exactly how I imagine him. Also, I think there's more to Rock than we've seen. I feel like he's some kind of lighteyes in the Horneater Peaks.
  16. Sand Master
    I find this interesting, because from what I understand, if this were true it would mean that people could change spren like Syl, just by thinking about it. I don't particularly like this, for a couple of reasons. First, it would mean that a character's personality and physical form could be changed by other people, without that character having any control over it themselves. It would remove (in this case) Syl's free will, and I have a hard time seeing that happen. Secondly, at one point in Words of Radiance, Kaladin and Syl have this conversation: To me, this would seem to imply that, in the same way as parents can't control what their offspring do (not in the way we're talking about the spren, anyway), humans also can't control what an already-sentient spren can do. Even though Syl was created by human ideas, she is beyond that stage where they can affect her. Now, maybe I'm wrong, but it seemed that way when reading it to me.
  17. Sand Master
    I also considered the fact that the liespren might be lying. But Pattern seemed to be genuine when he tried to hide from Shallan the fact that he was convinced she would eventually kill him. Not necessarily hard evidence, but I feel pretty confident that he wasn't lying about that.
  18. Sand Master
    Anyone can be born an Oculator (it's hereditary I believe, so it has to be in your family line somewhere), it's just far more common in Smedrys.
  19. Sand Master
    I imagine Dark Oculators get their powers the same way as anyone. They just happen to be evil. Just as Librarians can be good, some Oculators can be evil.
  20. Sand Master
    LOL. Take my upvote, good sir.
  21. Sand Master
    Ah, thanks, I'll fix that then.
  22. Sand Master
    I had considered doing this before posting about him in WoR, but couldn't think of where to find a list of the ways he's been described. The Coppermind page on him doesn't have any physical descriptions of him, and I didn't know where else to look.
  23. Sand Master
    I did a little bit of searching, and it turns out that the ardent we see drawing bridgemen in WoR has already been confirmed to be Nazh. Unfortunately I don't know how to link to the exact question on the page, but the WoB on it is here, number 58. That just leaves the question of whether or not the ardent in WoK is the same ardent. Personally I think it is likely, not only because he uses the word soil, but also because of the strange things he says to Dalinar. I don't think that some random ardent would say something like that to Dalinar and never have it be relevant.
  24. Sand Master
    I'm now re-reading Words of Radiance, and there is a part that I think may be very relevant to this. In chapter 31, Kaladin sees Rock "shooing away a lanky man in an ardent's robe." When Kaladin asks about it, we see: This is another unnamed ardent in the warcamps behaving strangely. Additionally, he's drawing bridgemen. This is from earlier in the book. Look at the text. "I had to spend hours watching bridgemen to sketch their stupid forehead glyphs..." And it's signed by Nazh, a confirmed Worldhopper. I think that the ardent that started this whole thing, and the one talked about in WoR, are both Nazh.
  25. Sand Master
    True, and I agree. I did mean to mention this somewhere, but there didn't seem to be a right place for it. I just used her because it seems like that's what Sanderson is foreshadowing at the moment. Who knows if it will actually turn out that way though.
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