Dahak

"You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way." and "The best lies about me are the ones I told." -- Hoid, King's Wit

“The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.” -- Odium

“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.” -- Pa'alm

‘Aristocrats don’t notice philosophical conundra. They just ignore them. Philosophy includes contemplating the possibility that you might be wrong, sir, and a real aristocrat knows that he is always right. It’s not vanity, you understand, it’s built-in absolute certainty. They may sometimes be as mad as a hatful of spoons, but they are always definitely and certainly mad.’ -- Vin

“You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant.” -- Jasnah Kholin

"There was a door, but it was terribly bashful, so Renarin politely pretended not to see it."

'Harmony does not require that you think of him, but he does require that you think ...' Lord Waxilium Ladrian.

Another response of Lady Jasnah's, when faced with a new and unique situation, was to look through the nearest libraries to see if it had ever happened before. This was, Shallan Davar reflected, a good survival trait. It meant that in times of danger you spent the day sitting very quietly in a building with very thick walls.

Things not mentioned that should fit for Sanderson readers. The Web novel The Gods are Bastards. The Age of Adventurers is over and for the first time in decades the Goddess of War has chosen a Paladin. And promptly sent her on a quest to go to university... Lawrence Watt-Evan's Ethshar books. Start with With a Single Spell or Ithanalin's Restoration. Most of the rest other than Spriggaqn's Mirror are stand alones usually show casing a different one of the magic systems. Lyndon Hardy's' Master of the Five Magics. Roffuss credited this tale ofan apprentice learning each of the loacl five magics as influential for the Kingkiller chronicles. Megadeth wrote a song about it. Terry Pratchet's Discworld novels. Mamare Touno's Log Horizon. The Yen Press translations are an excellent look into our heroes and others suddenly waking up as their characters from a long running MMO. Unlike Sword Art Online this has actually been written by someone who understands what an MMO is like and then promptly has his veteran players look at the edge cases between the game rules and the world they were supposed to represent. Ben Aaranovitch's Rivers of London. Our hero Peter Grant's first introduction to Newtonian Wizardry is when on his last day as a trainee cop he interviews a ghost as a murder witness. The Palace Job, first of Patrick Weekes' Rogues of the Repulic fantasy caper stories. Loch—former soldier, former prisoner, current fugitive assembles a crack team of magical misfits that includes a cynical illusionist, a shapeshifting unicorn, a repentant death priestess, a talking magical warhammer, and a lad with seemingly no skills to help her break into the floating fortress of Heaven’s Spire and the vault that holds her family’s treasure.

Opening of the fourth book IIRC. -- "You’re dead, right?" Dalinar said slowly. "Oh, yes. It’s one of those things one is pretty certain about." replied the Almighty.

A mild amusement I've been involved in elsewhere is taking notable quotes and misattrributing them to other characters for the salke of generating wry grins and the occasional laugh or giggle. So I thought we could do it here with Sanderson characters. Both with quotes from other sanderson characters: "So there I was, standing in my chambers on the day before the world ended, facing my greatest adversary to date. The royal wardrobe coordinator." -- Jasnah Kholin And not. "Why are you smiling?' asked Steris. 'I'm relieved,' Wax said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me." “Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.” -- Hoid

Oathbringer Chapter 25. That doesn't appear to be one of the Midnight essences (They are blobby, don't have bones and look like shiny tar, so more than the eyes would reflect the light.) I suspect this is Paalm, one of the better Kandra shapechangers and Sazed's senior agent at this time, doing a version of the trick TenSoon used when he was with Wax in the Pits of Hathsin. Described in a manner that doesn't look out of place to people who haven't read Mistborn, like Azure.

yeah Szeth. Brandon told us who he had planned a while back and that it was one per Order and hasn't changed the list (Originally he was going to have Navani, Adolin and Taravangian rather than Renarin, Lift and Eshonai) since before he swapped Dalinar and Szeth's books (Thus we know Szeths working title but not Venli's.). Second five is currently set to be Jasnah, Taln, Shalash, Renarin, and Lift. But not becersserily that order.

Sanderson intends that books alternate between male and female(n) flashbacks. Sazed and Eshonai(and so Venli) are the remaining flashback characters from the first five. That is I assume Eshonai's flashbacks are going to be mostly femalen. If she's in Mate form for them all that could be odd.

Technically Skybreakers are the vapid ones. They have vapour as their essence. I'm not sure about Navani as Pious and Guiding. Kadash or Rushu in different ways seem more likely.

No, merely that it is an example of something that could be a description in short of the final climax and which hasn't shown up yet. While also not really giving away anything in the same manner as the epigraphs for Mistborn 3. There are a couple of other possibilities including the one about holding a knife to a baby's throat. And aren't the florid deconstruction of the world Dalinar saw at one point.

I could see Syl convincing Ivory that encouraging a romantic relationship is an important part of caring for your Knight Radient.

Sazed can demonstrably provide copies of her body for Kandra to eat, so they could look like her.

Steris should wield Nightblood. She's given more thought to the issues he doesn't understand than pretty much any other character. And not being Invested she has good reason never to draw him.

A reflection of Kaladin in a dark mirror.

“Ten people, with Shardblades alight, standing before a wall of black and white and red.” WoK Chaper 9 Epigraph. might suffice for that though.

Elend's arranged marriage end so well didn't it?

Actually, it is you have to have a crack in your sprit web for the spren to get in. And we know from Vin the stress of being born can be sufficient. Also there ways of artificial getting such a crack, Hemalurgy being the obvious one, and bonding a dead shardblade is likely another. The necessary level of brokenness isn't that high if you remember Ym.

Until the Aes Sedai first Oath turns out to be a Truthwatcher Ideal.

Explodomancy, it appears. From the blast craters in the prologue to the first book they seem to be the artillery order. Adolin. Hoid. Szeth. Shallan.