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Good catch. Ch 21 (line 61 in the xml) The first sentance has the Fort class for text (<b class="fort1">), but the second does not (<b>). Not even sure why it breaks there, it's not like the period is exempted from the bold tag. I checked my version and just removing the separation fixed it (del "</b> <b>" and add the space back). Update 20220109: New Kickstarter update email says the downloads have been reworked to fix some of the errors and typos described thusfar.

Geas, from Wiktionary:

Ch 7 - PDF pg 65 - Page 45 - epub line 37: Boring is duplicated. Boring jobs? Boring lives? ePub Ch 49: Extraneous symbol - ">" Calibre 6.11 should be out (not that it makes much difference in this instance). I noticed the .kepub actually has a double file extension (.kepub.epub) so I think Calibre automatically converts it to epub3 when the book is added (but i noticed that adding the .kepub to my device, then inspecting the device library in Calibre - it showed as an inaccessible file extension - the same way DRM objects display). I updated my post above with the changes I made to my Calibre epub to make it display correctly on my device. Now that formatting is "fixed" I'm reading the story (finally) and looking for any issues I may have missed.

It's deeper and uglier than that. <slight spoiler described in-text soon> Hmmmmm, possibly. . . <grin>

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AFAIK, the closest we get is the admission that the Scadrial system is closest of all story-relevant Cosmere worlds to Earth. So, in the absence of contradictory data, we should expect that the Pre-Rashek/Post Catacendre orbit is 1AU around a G2V class star of approximately 4.8 magnitude.

No amount of Ashfall is going to make up for those temperatures (at .7AU). Sure, some of that is atmosphere, but you still are way above any compensatory temperatures. Venus temperature is due to runaway greenhouse effect of its atmosphere. It's 96% CO2 that traps heat inside. And it's around 100 times denser than Earth's atmosphere. Venus might have been in Sun's habitable zone in the past, when Sun was dimmer, but right now if Earth was in Venus orbit, the oceans would boil. Exactly my point - even discounting atmospheric effect, at .6AU a planet is no longer in the goldilocks zone. The Ashmounts would not have been able to compensate that much. This implies that the picture in Arcanum Unbounded was exaggerated for artistic effect, which implies that attempting any temporal calculations based on an orbit period that matches the artwork is dubious at best.

HoA takes, approximately, three months. BLUF: TFE takes place over about 16-18 months, more than 1 year passes (TFE ending in late summer/early autumn - WoA starting in mid-to-late autumn), WoA covers about four-to-six months (ending in late winter), another 15 months or so pass, then HoA starts in early-spring and takes only two or three months and ends late-spring/early summer. I made a timeline of just the books here. I went by a combination of the stated time passing and seasonal clues, and lay out all of the references in the referenced thread. If Rashek's Ascension was year 0 - which puts the Well's refill at the end of Year 1023 - allowing 18months after that event for Vin's death to have occurred 1025PC. I think the Well refills during the entire 1024 years - otherwise it would not have already had enough power to tie Kelsier's CS to the Cognitive Realm. It's just that it becomes full-enough to be sensed during the last year and is ready to be tapped when complete. This is definitely the case for both both time breaks. TFE ends in Summer, WoA starts late Autumn - so at least a few months over a year. Likewise WoA ends late Winter and HoA starts early Spring. I think the artist's rendition from Arcanum Unbounded is just that - artistic license. There is no way Scadrial's FE Orbit is less than .9 AU. For example, lets look at Venus (from Wikipedia): No amount of Ashfall is going to make up for those temperatures (at .7AU). Sure, some of that is atmosphere, but you still are way above any compensatory temperatures.

The Messenger is somebody you have already seen in TWoK, and when that person is back in Words of Radiance, Shallan will make the connection with you. Edgedancer comes after Words of Radiance, but before Oathbringer. I predict it will be a favorite of yours. . . Good answers. One and all. It's amazing how many characters (and people) who find themselves digging a metaphorical hole actually believe they can "dig" their way out instead of just getting in deeper.

I also checked the Author's Site and Coppermind, and since the information was missing, I sent a "contact us" message suggesting they add the languages and publisher information to each book's synopsis page. Hopefully a future website update will make it so that people can easily find which publishers released with language editions for each story - either no the Sanderson site, the Coppermind, or both.

From the annotations to the Warbreaker prologue: I think any commands that would work <20 breaths would have to rely heavily on the "shape of life" and "body focus" aspects of the magic. Possibly, if a person had accumulated a few breaths (but not enough for the first heightening) and made a doll with body focus (maybe use hair as the doll's wig?) they could possibly get away with some simple commands when Awakening the doll. However, most things you would want such an awakened object to perform would probably be too complex for few breaths (even with the help of the shape and focus) since the prologue also mentions: It's too bad we don't know how many breaths that command used on the straw man to estimate how much less breath it might take on a well crafted doll using a similar focus. Also, from Ch 46, we have: So, possibly a doll with body focus could make use of the "Grab something" and "Hold something" type of simple commands with 10 or less breaths. I could see a craftsman using such a construct to help hold tools while doing a job, for example.

Normally, I would agree. In this specific circumstance, however, The Court of the Gods is only buying about 25 breaths per week and only from children. I would think that a random adult would not get a similar price outside of the Court and could not sell to the Court. Also, a random adult is unlikely to pay that much outside the court for a breath for which they may not even know the providence (adult/child, healthy/sick, etc.). It's absolutely a good baseline, but I'm just suggesting we consider it's more like gems - collectors pay a premium for exceptional quality - but that doesn't set the current market value for just a normal gem. Too bad we don't know how much money Dedelin sent to Lemex as a way to calculate what he might have paid for the breaths Vivenna "acquired." Edit: The more I think about it, the more I think the gem comparison might be an angle. Instead of a gem's 4Cs (Cut, Clarity, Color, Carat) a breath might be measured by Age, Vitality, and possibly other criteria - with the culmination of those attributes determining buy and sell prices.

That might not be the cost of breath on the street. The Priests overpay specifically for vibrant child breaths (nothing's too good for their gods). Also consider that their food supplies are unlikely to be of similar cost to manufactured food items consumed by modern Americans. Example: Enough flour to bake bread all year is less expensive than buying 52 loaves of Wonder (assuming 1 loaf/week) - when the cost of manufactured bread includes labor, processing, packaging, warehousing, shipping, advertising, etc.

The collected description (from all books) on the Coppermind is: No writing or glyphs noted.

Also, it was never 16% are Mistings - it was more convoluted than that. In Hero of Ages it is: 16% of non-innoculated/non-snapped people in any given event became sick 1/16th of those died (technically - 1/16th of each 'misting group' died) 1/16th of the survivors each became a Misting of a different metal Also, we know that Harmony changed how Snapping works, so it is likely the percentages changed as well.

Did you peek? Though maybe not the way you envision, and it is one of my favorite chapters in this book for other reasons. The whole section around Spoiler (check after chapter 42): I would almost consider this a spoiler, if the chapter name itself wasn't already a spoiler. Still, just in case, I think the chapter you are really looking forward to is:

Yeah, my favorite duel was the one in Ch 29, but this next one sets up the awesomeness that is Ch 56/7. Best part of Ch 37 though. . . It's just the casual way the thoughts play out that makes it so funny. I think without the Adolin viewpoints he would come off as a more malicious lech, but with his viewpoints it almost becomes humorously oblivious in nature. True, and it's set up similar to a classic comic crossover - nobody likes or trusts the others: Adolin distrusts Kaladin because of the Tower in TWoK Kaladin distrusts all lighteyes (and Shallan's boot-snatching doesn't help) Shallan is just fish-out-of-water since what happened with Jasnah and her uncertainty of the Alethi

On the one hand, Shallan finally found somebody with whom to match wits; unfortunately, on the other hand, she also alienated him and stole his boots. . . very minor spoiler:

More specifically, for each book that Isaac's name appears in the Acks - he spells it differently (usually with one or more non-standard characters) In this case, it's actually the character ʫ (02AB - Latin l z digraph - found on PC in the Character Map Row 31, Col 18)

From what I saw, backerkit had 4 downloads: Kindle, Kindle #2, ePub, and ePub #2. I'm guessing the "#2"s were download mirrors, in case one link fails - so they should be the same file (but I have not confirmed they are the same file). I just downloaded the second ePub and one of the Kindle versions, so I can compare the CSSs. I also just noticed - the h2.green is only defined in the ":root" section and has only the #019d78 color property.

Which download link did you use? And were you on Calibre 6.10? I also use a Kobo (Forma), and have so far seen the same formatting issues on the device and in Calibre 6.10 on PC.

Am I the only one for whom the epub is . . . oddly formatted? For example: PDF Layout (expected ideal - I think) ePub layout (50% size) There are other oddities, such as the Table of Contents running the "Part" titles to the edge of the first chapter in the list (or slightly overlapped - depending on "em" size). I opened it in Calibre, and found some discrepancies. Such as tags that are missing from the style sheet. I've also noticed that the images are a ton of white space (making large files) rather than using the XML to correctly place the data on the page (the chapter number images are 2754x1452 px in size - with only 466x466 px of usable image) - which I think is why it displays in Portrait with the numbers running off of the right edge. I haven't read the story yet, but as I fix the CSS and XML, I'll update this post with the changes I made to my copy, in case others need to "fix" some formatting. Update1 (20230102): CSS changes and additions: Chapter Code: Also, it really bothered me that the altered Chapter Start text was an arbitrary number of words, and inconsistent from chapter to chapter, so I changed that to: Result: Now the first letter is sized appropriately, and the whole first line will change to fit the chapter (and adjust for smaller devices, so it is always only the first line. . . ) Not quite where I want it to be yet, and I'm sure I'll find other things that need a fix as I go (such as the missing "ch-img" class that I replaced above) so more updates may follow. Update 2 (20220108): I think I have it mostly solved (at least for my devices). The Multiple Div tags ended up being unnecessary, but I did need to define some img classes and experiment with making the images display correctly in both portrait and landscape on the e-reader. CSS: Chapter html/xml: I added the .bodytext class for the paragraph tags because I was finding some errors and was trying to eliminate the source(s); so I don't think that class is strictly required. I added the img classes for portrait and landscape to make sure it scaled tall images and wide images differently (and correctly) Please let me know if you find something I missed, if something here isn't working on your device, or if you need help making changes (once i had it mostly worked out for Ch 1 and image, I used find/replace to enact teh changes through the rest of the book - just note which images need the landscape class instead).

My version (but not an arbitrary 10 word limit - no idea who Jello is. . . or why it matters to the Cosmere): Elantris: 8/10 - Good world-building; liked the chapter triad layout. Great magic system. A bit too DEM in the ending. The Final Empire: 8/10 - Great world-building and characters. Good story and reversal. Ending a bit off. The Well of Ascension: 6/10 - Agree with @cometaryorbit - I love that this book tackles subplots normally avoided and a good "politics" contrast to Elantris and Warbreaker The Hero of Ages: 7/10 - Great conclusion for the trilogy, but missing some "meat" and some character choices seem off. Warbreaker: 5/10 - Not bad, and I like Awakening; but this book was mostly saved by Lightsong and a very well done villain reversal. The Way of Kings: 9/10 - Great world-building. Good characterization and well portrayed mental illness. Shallan's best book. Words of Radiance: 7/10 - Good continuation. Less world-building but better character development. Kaladin's best book. Oathbringer: 4/10 - Loved Dalinar's flashbacks; disliked almost everything else. Especially Shallan's arc starting in this book. Rhythm of War: 6/10 - Started feeling disjointed (first real time skip in SA), and felt very unstable across the board. Great easter eggs and finally some Fabrial background. White Sand: 4/10 - I understand why BS felt Sand Mastery would be good for a visual medium, but the lack of some explanation hurt the story. Omnibus will fix most of this, I hope. White Sand (Prose): 7/10 - The additional explanation really helps the world-building and understanding what is happening throughout. The Alloy of Law: 5/10 - Middle of the road across the board - world-building, character arc, etc. Wayne saves this from a lower score. Shadows of Self: 6/10 - Better example of what Era 2 could be, but still a little disjointed in that some character decisions/motivations don't mesh. Bands of Mourning: 7/10 - Good to see that Era 2 isn't just Elendel, but it felt a bit unfinished.

I've always thought of Nightblood as a nonbinary neuter. Why would a sentient object have gender? As seen by Vasher (male pronouns) and Lift (female pronouns), pronoun gender is in the mind of the person, not Nightblood. . . I don't think Sanderson has ever confirmed this, but I'm fairly sure the term "Nimi" was inspired by the Korean Suffix "Nim" - which is an honorific given to somebody of either gender (e.g. SeonsaengNim (선생님) = Honorable Teacher). At least Szeth's use of the term is very similar. . .

That's a highest ranking bureaucratic official from another series. Congrats, you're a bureaucrat now Specifically Mistborn, which I believe you said you once started. . . So much to look forward to. . . . . . While not a wish fulfillment, Ch 56-57 will be a solid step in the direction for which you are waiting. And I, for one, cannot wait to hear your reaction to that sequence.