Overlord Jebus

The table will definitely be there for the whole weekend but I am unsure as to Brandon's availability during that time. What days are you there?

In case you missed it, Arcturus will be at ECCC demoing the Escape the Shattered Planes VR experience!

The first one I'm sure will get RAFO'd, the second I'm not sure. From what I've seen, Brandon likes talking about the nature of Investiture in meaningful ways, as you've seen when in the previous questions I've asked I'm thinking my Iyatil WoB will probably just be RAFO'd. If it's not, I'm just simply going to follow it up with "Naturally or using hemalurgy?"

Ignoring the fight to take back the Tranquiline Halls aspect of the mythology seems wrong to me. And while it may be semantics, I think it's an important distinction, in Vorin myth, Ashyn would be the Tranquiline Halls. In reality, it's Roshar. I'm with you there. I was simply using the Vorin name for it, the singers might not have a name for it at all and just called it Roshar.

In Vorinism yes, I agree. However, I find the myth of the Tranquiline Halls to be extremely similar to the reality of the singers/Fused situation with Roshar, leading me to believe that this myths roots are in singer culture.

Excellent! Looking forward to meeting more Sharders! As for questions, here's what my current list looks like (Oathbringer spoilers):

Looks like I'd be one of those debating scholars. For real though, as I said, the Vorin myth would have Ashyn as the Tranquiline Halls. I believe the origins of this myth are actually in singer lore, making Roshar the original and far more valid Tranquiline Hall.

Hello and welcome, I don't post theories or interpretations very often but this is one that I wanted to get off my chest. Ashyn isn't the Tranquiline Halls, Roshar is. Now, very quickly, I want to make sure that I am not misinterpreted: I am not claiming that humans did not come from Ashyn, the vast majority of humans on Roshar are descended from Ashynites that fled their self-caused cataclysm. What I am claiming is that the Vorin mythology of humanities fight for the Tranquiline Halls is originally a singer tale, co-opted by humanity and twisted into their own theology. So, I just want to establish the mixing of cultures that has occurred between humans and singers on Roshar. I only have 2 (Maybe 2.5) examples of this. I wish I had more but I feel we don't know enough about old singer culture to say what came from them other than what we have been told directly. 1. Human use of the term Voidbringers This ones an easy one, Eila Stele shows that singers were the first to refer to humanity as Voidbringers during the first Desolation. We actually also have a little of the opposite happening, with Listener songs describing humanity in a very similar way to the way Midnight Essence are described. Eshonai mentions this in the prologue: 2. Humans took the singer names From Leshwi and Moash's conversation: So what we see here is humanity on Roshar seems to have adopted some of singer culture, intentionally or not. The Tranquiline Halls So, the tale of the Tranquiline Halls has the following as it's main points of belief: Humanity is not native to Roshar Humanity was forced out of their old home by an invading force of Voidbringers When a human dies, their soul sticks around, they are given super powers and get sent to fight for the Tranquiline Halls The Heralds are leading the fight Now, points 1 and 4 we can trace in human culture. We know humans are not native to Roshar, we see Jezrien telling the people this lie in Oathbringer: But where do points 2 and 3 come from in Vorinism? What are the origins of these parts of their belief? Humans weren't pushed out of their homeland by Voidbringers. Humans don't die, get given super powers and get to continue the fight against said Voidbringers. But you know who does? Singers were pushed out of their homeland by Voidbringers. When singers die, they do get given super powers and get to continue the fight against said Voidbringers. Humanity took the singers world, their god, their names and even their religions. In Vorin myth, Ashyn would be the Tranquiline Halls. In reality, it's Roshar. Thank you for reading.

Sup party people, I will be about on the Sunday. This is the first time where I'll be going to a con to see Brandon, how does it work? Will he be sat at a booth all day signing books except when he's doing talks?

Adonalshum is clearly the best pronunciation @thegatorgirl00, thanks! Glad you enjoyed I'd say it's possible they went to Roshar because Cultivation felt her connection to it. The Breaths/Stormlight thing is dependent on the ratio and I think Brandon has stated even he hasn't worked out an SI unit for Investiture yet so it's hard to say (I do think that he's said they are considering the Breath as a unit for Investiture because they are all the same amount). We'll have to wait and see!

Don't worry, when you start chatting a bit more with the other staffers, they have very similar issues! And yeah, I hadn't even noticed that no one mentions the Shardblade and Plate that Moash stole. Navanis lack of reaction to Szeth is forgivable imo, simply because we never get to see Navani reacting to much. But yes, the more I think about it, the more I'm thinking "Why is everyone so okay with Szeth being there?". Also I'm glad someone agrees with me on Venli! I was starting to feel I was alone in my dislike of her! And thanks, I look forward to making it!

Thought people would get a kick out of that! Luckily for you, I want to make more Thanks! I'm not going to lie, I've listened to these WoBs like 10 times at this point. I didn't realise until later that Brandon basically confirms that Shards are limited by their Vessels! Such good stuff! Same! Good to get a bit of confirmation on that second letter!

Done!

Done! Enjoy everyone! I know I did

Thanks for this! I'll update the OP

From what Brandon has said, they normally keep the store open for the signing for an extra hour or two so don't worry too much!

We could call it like "Old married couple tries to talk about the Cosmere" or something

Added Walking to Urithiru - Finale and Announcement

Added Walking to Urithiru - Part 17 - Chapters 31 and 32

Added Walking to Urithiru - Part 16 - Chapters 29 and 30 - 1/2 Followed by Walking to Urithiru - Part 16 - Chapters 29 and 30 - 2/2 Had to split it in two this week. My video editing software doesn't like 28 minute long videos...

Added Walking to Urithiru - Part 15 - Chapter 28

No, Vorinism says there was 99. Brandon has said there was less than that.