quadbox

Umm...  is that *nightblood* adolin is holding? 

I dont have the scene handy, but isnt there a scene in Oathbringer where Rock is observing a handful of honorspren watching the men train on the shattered plains?  If so, anyone know if he actually mentions how many of them there were?  Might give us a clue

It'd certainly be interesting to find out if regenerating shardplate whilst on a ship works the same way it does when on land.  Might lend some clues as to whether or not the component spren are actually moving around in shadesmar to make it happen

On the same subject, am I the only one going slightly stir-crazy waiting to see what michael whelan's come up with for the US hardcover?

So if we assume it's a shard world we *know about*, the candidates would be Ashyn, Braise, Obrodai, whatever on earth Vax is, or Yolen.  Plus there's one possibility we *have* seen, Threnody, given we know basically nothing about the other continent/fallen world/homeland.  Ashyn or Braise seem unlikely, the only thing we really know about obrodai is that autonomy implied their avatar is a singular female which doesnt sound sleeplessish, we know nothing at all about Vax beyond that ati knew the place, and yolen is probably out. Thoughts?

There's a recording of him reading a lift interlude (not sure if the same one or not) here on the brandon and dan show, skip to 41:30 for the reading

4 hours ago, Ookla the Prolific said:

7. Kaladin is ell aware of what the fused are doing and was just trying to avoid them while completing his mission.  He failed.

I dont think he's failed yet.  If I interpreted the queue of refugees right, he's probably only about ten metres from the general, and all he's gotta do is grab him and escape, afterall.  Assuming he's got a reasonably large number of infused gemstones on him, I wouldnt bet against him.  Also, we're assuming here that he's on his own, he might well have some of bridge four, or even teft, lopen, drehey or skar with him.  Assuming his mission is just a grab and run, I reckon he's in with a fair chance of frustrating the fused again. Especially as it doesnt seem like they know the mission.

Hell it might also be that kaladin's deliberately being the distraction so the others and/or squires can do the extraction

Next time someone asks me what superpower I would have, I'll remember to say "Manipulation of all classical and non-classical fields" .  That encapsulates the entire universe lol

God how frustrated must the spren of a knight who never advances past the first or second oath be lol

I do see Balat as a dustbringer.  The constant references as he's tearing cremlings apart to wanting to find out what's inside...

I like the theory that the bondsmith's equivalent of squires is pretty much other knights radiant.  In the sense that their powers, rather than giving abilities to ordinary people, instead supercharge other knights radiant

Plus if this were the fact, it's not like the orders wouldnt have been aware of the solution.  And while urithiru was losing its powers, they all were still working together enough to agree they should all leave their thoughts on those gems...

Did anyone else notice, when Dalinar summoned the perpendicularity, odiums wording? 

Quote

“No!” Odium screamed. He stepped forward. “No, we killed you. WE KILLED YOU!”

He said "we". Not "I", "we". Is this an indication he had help from another shard in splintering honour? Bavadin perhaps? If so, is the reason he was so able to splinter dominion, devotion, etc similar perhaps? We saw how hard ruin tried and failed... 

Thoughts? 

It strikes me reading several of the comments here that dalinar's implanted compulsion to "unite them", combined with what he now knows and his ability to touch all three realms, might well make him realise that part of that uniting is healing the distrust of the spren.  If he could heal those who went catatonic with the recreance, it might well go a long way to restoring inter-realm trust, etc.

Thoughts?

Apologies if anyone has already pointed this out, but it seems to me that the contradiction of Autonomy saying "But we stand in the sea, pleased with our domains." when taldain is a desert planet, doesnt that imply autonomy is beholding her/his domain from shadesmar/the cognitive realm, where it WOULD be a world of ocean?

EDIT - Could the third race from yolen be ocean-born, like sentient whales or something?

8 hours ago, Ammanas said:

I always believe the more openness and communication that exists between the author and their audience the better. There are a few series that I am following where I am just hoping the author is making progress with it, but I really have no idea. 

Then again, there's a few series where the author genuinely has no idea, and has been pretty clear he has no idea.  Brandon's a lot more process-driven than some.  For some other series the author is a bit of a drafter, and writes drafts, throws them out, rewrites bits, spends years and years on them, and then when he's finally done something spectacular emerges.  but in a far less systematic process.  Plus he probably keeps getting so much rude crap thrown at him online he feels less motivated to engage on it

Hypothetically speaking, of course.

I rate brandon's communication, but it's largely because he actually has stuff to communicate that he can

I'd read it significantly faster if it wasn't coming out in the middle of my exam period

Unfortunately quantum theory exam is higher priority for a few days after it's released.  Come that weekend though, I'll probably finish it in a single sitting

Something else...  if brandon is counting the patron herald of each order as a member of the order, and the bondsmiths only ever have three members, doesnt that mean that we're down to two possible human bondsmiths?  So presumably just the stormfather's and the nightwatcher's?

It all kind of makes more sense to me if you broaden the definition of what is considered a "shardgun".  I mean, the way brandon has talked about the relationship between nightblood and shardblades...  but nightblood is absolutely nothing like rosharian (dead or alive) shard blades...

Imagine instead if a 2nd era scadrian like Wax found out about shardblades, and tried to adapt that to scadrian investiture, and was able to invest a firearm somehow to the point it got psuedosentient...  I see that as more likely than an actual rosharan shardgun.

On 17/04/2017 at 5:39 PM, Extesian said:

Here's the rough transcript of the Oathbringer draft Prologue.

And here is a ttanscript of an interlude involving an Ardent and a romance book.

Something interesting from the oathbringer draft linked...  Is it just me, or is the implication that

Lol...  how characteristically evasive

Not the only odd thing about the shin and shinovar.  As has been observed elsewhere, shinovar seems to have an entirely different ecosystem complete with species that dont natively exist on roshar.

I've seen it theorised elsewhere that shinovar has somehow been transplanted whole from another world

It really wouldnt be a good idea to try and read them out of order.  Each book's had enourmous spoilers for previous books (and hell, Edgedancer has huge spoilers too)

Considering, in one of the early visions dalinar had back in WoK, how he observed them make their helmets just vanish, combined with the idea that the stormlight the knight's putting into the plate is what repairs it,  I wonder if rather than the windspren theory the plate itself is actually made out of stormlight itself.  In much the same way as a radiant can draw back in stormlight they've used to invest an object, perhaps they can draw the plate back into the mistform of stormlight and reabsorb it?

I'm not even sure that's entirely incompatible with the swarm-of-spren theory even, they might form the structure, and the knight invests them with a solid form of stormlight to give it its qualities?

I was just vaguely pondering...  is there WoB on whether shardplate in its original form, as owned by a knight radiant, still had embedded gems on the inside to power it?  Or was it was powered by the stormlight leaking out of the knight herself?