vineyarddawg

TenSoon

Nah, you won't miss anything by reading the book you have and then just reading the (extremely small, considering the size of the book) list of changes that WeiryWriter posted in a thread in the Stormlight Archive subforum on this site. There's only a couple of substantive changes (all of the others are either grammar or fixing continuity disconnects), and reading those changes after you've already read the book once doesn't spoil the entire experience of reading the book in the first place.

I don't trust the information that Mailliw posted. Some of it is probably correct, but we don't know what is correct and what isn't. One of the players he "outed" claimed directly to me in 1:1 PM that they belong to a different faction. And he got my faction wrong, as well. Finally, anybody can claim any role in PM's, from which he had to draw his information (since there are no role-finding abilities other than the SK). There is virtually no way to conclusively prove so many roles after just 2 cycles, so Mailliw was essentially just playing a guessing game. That doesn't mean I'll be completely ignoring all his claims, but I'm not taking any of it as the absolute truth.

Winner!

No. This next hint should really give it away, once you examine the wording of the original clue and the clarification statement after it: The cause to which this character was intensely devoted is not the cause which most of those around him assumed he pursued.

It is not an Elantris character. Or any non-Cosmere character.

Good guess! But no.

Karlin, correct your "it's/its" grammar mistake or I'm gonna eat this candy bar I'm currently holding. /empty calories threat

But my pants aren't on fire...

Ha! I figured you'd get it wrong, which is why I decided to go ahead and vote for you. (You are, indeed, incorrect about my faction alignment.)

This person is not a main (protagonist/antagonist) character from any series, and they are not a firstborn. (And also no to your question, Piff.)

No

Nope. As I've shown in my last few guessing targets, I'm fond of wordplay with my clue. This one is certainly not the most clever I've ever seen. Quite careless, in fact.

Mailliw. Mailliw

All no.

Woot! This character was intensely devoted to his/her cause, contrary to popular belief.

(Wilson) Ostrich, would you say that what Mailliw is doing fills your heart with... hatred? /red smoke appears //Mailliw evil laugh

-/ aM vOT/nG for Wilson. I Am MOVing T0 tH3 K17Ch3n.

I think Tolkien probably is the best "good" example of an author tweaking their story. A more modern "bad" example towards which I naturally gravitate is Orson Scott Card and the Enderverse (the universe of books that started with Ender's Game). OSC wrote the full novel version of Ender's Game in the early 80's when the world was a very different place than it is today, and in the decades since, his newer books have significantly conflicted with the original story in several areas. (He admits that in some books, most notably Ender in Exile, that he just "forgot" some critical continuity contradictions, which is just crazy.) Not only that, but with the EG audio play he released last year, he did far more "tweaking" of roles and dialogue than Brandon has in this instance. OSC justifies this by essentially saying "I changed my mind" about the story, and as its creator, I guess that's his prerogative, but IMO he gutted so many parts of the story with the "small, but huge" changes he has made. (And I'm not even talking about his newest "first Formic war" series, which is just straight-up rewriting the history that had been presented as canon in the entire rest of the series before it.) IMO, Brandon's changes are closer to Tolkien's changes than OSC's changes, because Brandon has a very solid, logical in-world reason that he wanted to make the changes, much like Tolkien, and those changes are keeping in line with the characters' original story arc as it existed in the rest of the story. OSC's changes, on the other hand, materially change the essence not just of Ender, but other key characters, as well, and feel very disjointed and out of place.

Vya just stared at all the people milling around him, quietly whispering to each other, the din of whispering punctuated only by a handful of people yelling out where they were from. "Well, this a very weird set of games," he said to no one in particular. "I'm kind of hungry, too. I wonder if the odds will ever be in my favor of finding something to eat around here?"

Whoa, what? (looks around innocently) I would like to officially state for the record that I am not Steelheart, the Wyrn, one of those evil chalklings from Nebrask, whoever the bad people in the Alcatraz books are, or Odium.

I don't get why it's a major problem for Kaladin to go after the honorblade instead of trying to save Szeth. The Windrunners aren't dedicated to protecting everyone in all of existence regardless of alignment. Szeth is the assassin in white. Kaladin shouldn't automatically feel a need to protect Szeth just because he happens to be falling to his death in a fight that Szeth started. In fact, Syl told him to rescue the blade (implied "at all cost" in her tone), so it's actually Syl that tells Kaladin to go after the honorblade, and he understands by this point that Syl knows more about these things than he does, so he has no reason in that moment not to obey her command.

I AM VERY HAPPY TO BE HERE!

AonDor and Rithmatics

I couldn't agree more. I'm just as excited about the Ars Arcanum, though. All those Aons are hard to keep track of.