Toaster Retribution

I’m biased against removing Chrom since he is one of my favorite characters in Awakening. But I get your point, his moveset doesnt offer anything new. I would have personally preferred if they had added Chrom instead of Lucina in Smash 4, and swapped Robin for another mage character who actually has a personality (like Tharja, Henry, or even Anna). Byleth could have been any of the house leaders (or just all three of them with a swap-mechanic). Corrin probably wins the award for most boring character in Fire Emblem ever, and thus shouldn’t have made it into the game. Put in Leo instead.

They should add more Fire Emblem characters to Smash. Like, actual characters, not the player-insert protagonist. Give me Anna, Edelgard, Xander, Hubert, Basilio, Shamir, Frederick, Ryoma, etc. I honestly dont want multiverses to be a big thing in the MCU. The 100 is one of the best tv-series ever made.

Playing Three Houses at the moment, and I can´t stand Rhea. She is either annoyingly boring, or a manipulative bag of crem. I never buy that she really cares about the people she hangs out with either. Also, while I´m at it: basically every supernatural dragon/fairy character from Fire Emblem. The dragon-thingy (Lilith was her name, I think) in Fates was the worst one, but pretty much all of them are either boring or annoying, often a combination of the two.

I broke my toe when I was like four years old. Fell off the kitchen bench when climbing on it. So I think that counts? Never have I ever 100% completed a video game.

I agree with Bliev, I dont buy that Formless is one of Mraizes operatives, or that Formless killed Ialai. It doesn't really make sense, and the implication in the text is quite clearly that Formless is not established as of yet. I do think though that the as-of-yet nonexistent Formless is a distinct personality, and not various different potential ones, like Cal is suggesting. Shallan and Veil seems to be scared of "Formless" in singular, which I read as a single, specific persona.

Who is Formless? Im drawing a blank on him/her/it. Also, regarding the morality of the Ghostbloods, they are a self-interested third party, willing to play any side to get what they want. I think they are something like a more evil version of Hoid or the 17th Shard. Pretty sure that they will be mostly villanious down the line.

I´d argue that this is the general consensus on the Shard, not necessarily in the wider sci-fi/fantasy community. But I agree: both have their charm. Just look at Lord of the Rings. The magic system is incredibly soft (I honestly still have no clue as to what Gandalf can and can't do, or how) but they are still praised as the foundation of the fantasy genre.

Late to the party, but I just wanna throw in that the fact that people still, ten years after the final book, are still debating wether or not Snape was a good guy, means that he is an incredibly well-written character. I personally really like him, not necessarily as a person, but defenitely as a character. Writing-wise, he is Rowling at her best.

They are on a five-Desolation contract, and Odium will be in trouble with the Fused workers-union if he fires them, even though he would very much like to. But he can't risk a general strike on Braize, so he has to put up with the antics of those insane Fused.

I think this might be a really good prediction. Could defenitely see Leshwi being killed by Lezian while defending Kaladin, and then has her spirit obliterated by Odium, leading to her permanent death (pretty sure Odium can do that, he threatened Turash with it at the end of OB. Also, where is Turash? He was cool). I can defenitely see this, even though I think the most likely Bridge Four-killer will be Moash. Would feel a lot more emotional, since he has a personal connection to the bridgemen, which Lezian doesn't have. And also, Moash is on a killing spree at the moment, and he shows no signs of slowing down. Honestly, with both Moash and Lezian running around, Odium defenitely has enough unhinged serial assassins.

Amaram with multiple personality disorder?

The predictable thing would be him going after Kaladin and dying permanently at the end of the book somehow. Therefore, that wont happen. I wouldn´t be surprised if he, as a way of "taking out" Kaladin, kills one of, or maybe even both, of Kaladins parents. Would certainly be easier than beating Stormblessed himself.

Really enjoyed this chapter. I have long wanted distinct and cool Listener/Parsh/Singer/crab-people characters, and I finally feel like Brandon is starting to deliver for real in that department. So far we have had Eshonai, who was kinda boring, Venli, who, until now, has been kinda boring, a bunch of random parsh with no screen-time from WoR, who we havent seen since, and Rlain, who is ignored on purpose, which doesnt really make him very engaging. But this chapter really made their culture a lot cooler (especially with how it pointed out that a lot of the Fused are basically just tired old warriors, forced to fight an eternal and unjust war for a dark god who doesnt care about them). I really enjoy how the Fused are growing more and more desperate, and that Brandon made us believe that, despite the fact that they seemingly have all the advantages. Anyway, Lezian the Pursuer seems like the unhinged bad guy the story needs, to create some chaos and mayhem. And Raboniel feels like she could become an anti-.Jasnah, which could be great. Leshwi is getting some development too, which I defenitely didn't think would happen after OB. I do wonder where Nale is though. No mention of him or the Skybreakers, which is wierd, since they might be just as useful as Taravangian when it comes to invading Urithiru. And also, who else thinks that Urithiru might fall at the end of RoW? We have had three "good guy wins" endings in a row, and having Urithiru fall would be a suitably dark ending to set up the finale of the first sequence.

I think has to do with how invested you are, and how Connected you are to that investiture, as well as how Connected the investiture is to the planet. A misting, for example, really isn´t that invested, while a Cognitive Shadow is basically only investiture with an Identity. Similarly, the breaths aren´t really strongly connected to anything, given how freely they can be passed around. Stormlight seems to have a very strong connection to Roshar as a place, so I´d say that is why it cant be moved around as much. Now, Im not very good at these kinds of things, so I hope someone like @Calderis can correct me if Im wrong.

Am I the only one who felt like Mraize was using the mole as an analogy for how humanity came to Roshar? The first part, about an invasive species from Shinovar, fits perfectly with how humanity expanded from Shinovar to the other parts of Roshar. The second part, about living where Rosharan creatures cant, and lacking the adaptions, could be some kind of vague hint about how humans bonded with Honor, settled in Urithiru, and gained the Surges and the spren bonds. Or am I just reading to much into this?

Oh, storms! Robardin, you okay? Maybe there was a fifth brother?

Its fine! I can be on the waiting list, but I dont know how much time I have to write good roasts at the moment though :-) Mostly just wanted to see if you needed my help.

She presumably fought Nale and his Skybreakers as well, since they also fly. But agreed, she might have considered all of them just bad people.

I discussed this in the general reaction thread as well, but I want to make a topic of it. This last chapter has me even more convinced that Sebarial is a Ghostblood. Evidence: 1. The Ghostbloods meeting-place. It was in Sebarials warcamp, back in WoR. 2. Mraizes latest outfit was a Sebarial guard-uniform. 3. Sebarial was building himself a small merchant-empire in WoR. We now learned from Mraize that the Ghostblood objective is to become investiture-salesmen. Sebarial, who is commercially interested, would defenitely be a guy who could involve himself with something like that. 4. Sebarial puts up an act to hide how shrewd he really is. This aligns well with how much acting he would have to do in order to hide his leadership of a criminal organization consisting of brutal murderers and ambitious salesmen. 5. Sebarial joined Dalinar to fight the Parshendi in WoR. While we know Aladars and Roions reasoning for joining (it was the right/honorable thing to do), Sebarial just said that it would be interesting. An opportunistic and shrewd character like Sebarial would not join such a risky expedition just for shits and giggles. He suspected that there would be an Oathgate at Narak and wanted to be there when it was found. What do you think? Could Sebarial be Thaidakar?

Whoops, had a month-long hiatus from sharding. I assume that the spot is taken by now? Otherwise, I'll join if you need an extra guy.

Oh, no, they should. I just mean that "Ghosbloods" as a name sounds rather shady, and if I were to establish a business, I would want it to be called something less suspicious. They should call themselves "The Happy Unicorn Corporation".

Fair enough, even though I´d argue that Renarin would be the most prominent non-standard Alethi. I just think that there are a LOT of things pointing toward Sebarial being a Ghostblood at the moment.

One thing that points toward the Ghostbloods having a more sinister purpose than taking the monopoly on the energy market in the Cosmere is their name. If your goal is to develop a popular brand on multiple planets and make a rust-ton of money, you dont name yourselves "The Ghostbloods".

Taln says hello.

Adolin reviving Maya seems almost guaranteed at this point, and I doubt Brandon would kill him off just after accomplishing that. He will live until at least book 5, is my bet.