Xaladin

Can you spoiler tag that please? Thank you.

She is an Awakener though, and out of the closet, so to speak. So, no titles and basically disowned. She wouldn’t inherit.

Well, Dalenar now has a reason to make babies with Kinae. He ran out of heirs!

When at work you need to draw a diagram of a hidden Markov model, and it looks like this:

A friend once told me this is called a “noisy introvert.” I’m one too. People can get me out of my cave to put on a performance, but when it’s done I go back to the cave. With lots of Brandon books. Don’t bother me.

TLDR (there actually is a Mistborn 1 spoiler though).

Moash is going to join the Ghostbloods. The next place we see him is getting all up in Shallan’s business.

Taln is the real hero of the SA.

So, this is a big curiosity of mine, and when I went to the coppermind article on spren, I just have to say HOLY CRAP that’s a long wiki page, with over 200 sources! Kudos to you all! So. We know spren have genders (most of the time — the Sibling is an exception) and parents (how many?). So ... how does it work? Does one spren just start to get thought of in more than one way to the point that it splits? That doesn’t sound likely. Like, what happens? Does someone tear a piece of a spren off or something? The spren cut by spanreed fabrials divide in separate spren perhaps? Does Stormlight coalesce into a new spren under the right circumstances? We know most of the Honorspren are relatively young — younger than Syl. Where did they come from and how? Does the Stormfather regularly birth new spren? Perhaps Sja-Anat’s status as parent is a better starting place? How do spren generally have specific parents, like the Reacher (?) in OB? The word “conceive” may be strangely relevant (tangent). Perhaps we will learn more about this in Stormlight 5? Any predictions?

I know, right? There’s that word ‘willing’ ;P I have toyed with this identification of Thaidakar for a couple of books now, and can’t say the so-called reveal is very satisfying. It sounds a lot like when my wife was reading WoA and asked me directly if (Well of Ascension spoiler) and my face told her everything she wanted to know <pulls hair>. Honey, if you don’t want to get spoiled don’t ask so many questions! I guess that’s the risk of coming on here, isn’t it?

Thaidakar serves Autonomy. Autonomy is the one with all the avatars, no?

My reaction: Skyler is Prince Zuko (from Avatar the last airbender). I couldn’t help seeing his face with that voice.

This begs the following question: Was Tanavast a dragon? Because they were romantically involved ... and not to dis too much on Shrek, but yeah.

Did you notice how his chapter icon turns upside down based on if he is stupid or smart?

My upvote is because of Wedgie.

When, upon a reread of Warbreaker, you realize with surprise that much of the charming language you used to woo your wife came from Lightsong the Bold. (my wife still doesn’t know. Haha!)

I thought it was heavily implied to be a fork of Atium. Gemmel wouldn’t have been much impressed by anything else, and we know Atium is required to make Malatium.

My, my! Such aggressive swearwords!

Using “they” as a gender-neutral pronoun has bothered me because it is plural, but in the case of Morriumur it is quite appropriate, I think

Just finished WoT and it is Awesome (not in the Edgedancing way but there is plenty of magic too). That’s why I have been absent from 17thshard the last year and a half, lol. Re WoT warnings (I just barely read it, so listen up): ”Will I enjoy it”: The biggest criticism for WoT is probably length. The series is very long. If you didn’t struggle with reading tWoK and enjoy the genre, you probably won’t mind the length of WoT. Are there flaws if you psycho-analyze it? Sure, but I don’t think you’ll be disappointed. There is a considerable amount of “chosen one”-driven plot too, so if you really don’t like that kind of story, you have been warned. Sexual content: Present, though most details are left to the imagination of the reader. I wouldn’t classify it as pornographic. It really is the same level as Warbreaker, but with more (due to length of the series). There are a lot of unorthodox relationships too, so if “open relationships”, sharing women/men etc. bothers you, you have been warned. Nudity: Present. Details of genitalia? Not present. Gender politics: If you get easily offended by political correctness/ incorrectness, be aware there are a lot of gender politics in the Wheel of Time. Indeed I would say that is a major theme of the series. Robert Jordan explores in detail a world where women play a much more prominent leadership role than in our present “real world”. Swearwords: In-world swearing ftw! Exactly the same as in Brandon’s books I’d say. Violence: Very frequent, and somewhat graphic. Blood, torn bodies, etc. present. Not maxed-out level graphic, but RJ was not shy here. Violence is also not promoted by RJ (any more than by Brandon, in my estimation), meaning that sympathetic characters do avoid violence wherever possible, sometimes even to endangering their mission, etc. Disturbing imagery: Very much present. If “worse than dead” scenarios (eternal screaming) or psychological torment (like being forced to do something really Bad, or being inside the head of a character who thoroughly enjoys very graphic violence) freaks you out excessively, consider yourself warned. I would rate WoT’s disturbing scenes more disturbing than Brandon’s, though maybe not by a mile. If nothing bothered you in the Mistborn original trilogy, you’re probably OK. Smoking/alcohol: Present, and not discouraged by the author. Awesome level: 10/10 on my scale. Enjoy!

Wow. See if you can find it. Oh, minor WoT spoilers by the way. That word!!!

When you realize on Koloss Head-munching Day that the best way to describe Koloss to normal people is: people on ultra-steroids. Think about it. Steroids (in excess) make you scary buff, violent, and unable to have kids. Sound familiar?

So the question is having to fight a super powerful veteran or a super powerful rookie (scary for different reasons). Hmm, it depends on why the fight is happening. If there is no peaceful way to resolve it, the Radiant because they would make it quick. If the is, the Radiant because it would be easier to talk them out of it. Too many variables with the rookie. Would you rather be a Truthless wielding Nightblood or a hemalurgic Fullborn in a scenario where Rayse holds the shard(s) of Harmony? Edit for clarification: in the scenario, Rayse is not also Odium, but is still, you know, Rayse.

Wow. I think it’s hilarious that someone resurrected my old thread. I made it when I was a young wart hog. My only comments now about it are: don’t forget I made the list before some books were published, and while Sadeas May have bee nice to his wife, don’t forget he goes to prostitutes (remember the in-sluts joke from Hoid?). Men don’t do that when they love their wives. Actually, after reading Oathbringer I am tempted to say flashback Dalinar. I want to, if only as a lesson that even the worst of people can repent and be good.