Rasarr

Granted, you can now tell exactly what the best thing to say to any given person is just by looking at them. Unfortunately, you can never turn this off. I wish for eidetic memory.

That's a good way to put it. Also, please do get some sleep.

Oh, I so want so see your reaction to part 5 right now. You'll be picking your brain off the floor once per chapter

I'm with you on Endownment. Magic powers for everyone and a chance to come back from the dead? Sign me up.

When you decide that 3 in the morning is the perfect time to start browsing Stormlight Archive fanfiction. On a related note, TIL Kaladin/Elhokar slashfics exist.

I like the idea of Ash being the girl, though I'm not sure about Fleet being Jezrien. One of Fleet's achievements was outrunning Chana, which I imagine would be much less notable if Fleet was a Herald himself.

Granted, but from now on you can only say obvious things. I wish for a copy of Words of Radiance (the in-universe book, not SA2) in a language that I would be able to read.

Godammit I've always assumed that this is just an allegorical representation of the Surges/Essences/etc., as the description suggests, or maybe a representation of both Honor and Cultivation in one, but now you got me thinking. Edit: Actually, Dalinar meets Tanavast in one of his visions. You'd think he'd notice something like that, but there's no word of it.

Chapter 90 is the one where Szeth is inducted into the Skybreakers. No man in a cape there, at least none that I've seen... Can you quote?

Be a compounder. Stormlight doesn't appear on Earth, while metals do. Would you rather have Adolin's looks or Renarin's future-sight?

I seem to recall from Edgedancer that Nale had the appropriate document naming him the local... uhm, sheriff equivalent, so he probably goes around bullying people into giving him papers (or just legitimately earns the proper ranks). On another note, how many Heralds do we suppose were at that party? I remember Kalak, Nale, Jezrien and Ash confirmed - or, in Ash's case, at least her handiwork was present. Ishar is playing God-Priest over in Tukar (well, not playing, that's literally what he is), Taln is still tortured at this point (I think?), and Battar is apparently in Kharbranth Diagramming it up (if Mr T's words are to be believed). So, that leaves Chana, Paliah and Vedel unaccounted for. Should we be looking for them?

What's worth noting here is that Vorinism seems to assign administrative roles to women (reading, bookkeeping, etc.). It may well be that it's perfectly fine for a woman to rule under Vorinism, and it's the Alethi, warrior kingdom that they are, who would be unusual, since the king seems to be somewhat expected to be an accomplished fighter (impossible for a woman in Vorin society).

Not all. From the prologue: So there was a group down in the unloading bay, and Venli was off somewhere as well. (the last one seems... suspicious to me)

Plotting, I imagine. Sadeas' job during Gavilar's reign seemed to be underhanded politicking (the way he did during Dalinar's where's-my-knife flashback), so he might've been talking with Sadeas for perfectly mundane reasons. I am curious what Navani was up to, though. Given how her marriage with Gavilar seemed to be an unhappy one, she might've decided to sit this one out. This seems dubious, though - with how keenly interested in science she is, I imagine she'd want to meet the listeners.

Granted - you can travel to anywhere in the Cosmere by snapping your fingers, but the boon interprets any time your index finger and your thumb meet (even through a glove) as snapping, and brings you to a place closest to what you've been thinking about at the time (even if you're unconscious). I wish for a jar of Nutella that never runs out.

Granted, but now everything smells like grapes to you. I wish to be able to go back in time.

Seconded, Codex Alera is great. The third book is the best one, IMO, though I guess that depends on your preferences, as each one is every so slightly different in just what subgenre it fits into.

The idea that Heralds are tied to cities has been floated before, I believe, though mostly in reference to the Silver Kingdoms. This being said, I always though that Dawncities were significant due to having Oathgates (though that might be just me extrapolating from Kholinar apparently having one), so Urithiru wouldn't be counted among them. And apart from that, Urithiru has that status of being the city where all Orders meet, so having a Herald tied to it seems counterintuitive to me. I'd say Ishar could be tied to Sesemalex Dar. It's a holy city, and Ishar is associated with being pious; it's been speculated in-universe to be a Dawncity; and the mysterious Tukari god-priest Tezim (who some Sharders have theorized might be Ishar) is one of the central figures in the conflict over who Sesemalex Dar belongs to.

I'm one of the people who disliked SoS, though that's partly for reasons rather unrelated to the book - the reveal about Bleeder being Wax's wife was spoiled to me before I picked it up. As a result, not only did all the foreshadowing of this reveal feel horribly blatant to me, but I felt like I was reading a Greek tragedy, the kind where you know that no matter what happens, it's all going to end horribly and everyone will be feeling awful about themselves at the end of it. Which brings me to the next point, which is that for me SoS was just plain unfun to read. While I neither want nor expect every book I pick to be a barrel of laughs, I do want to be entertained, and SoS was too glum to do that. I do recall there being some great moments (MeLaan, and the stuff about Marasi figuring out the crowd at the "governor's" speech was being manipulated with allomancy), but overall, the book felt grim and almost depressing. Yes, it is a serious Cosmere book, and it's not bad, but... I just don't enjoy myself while reading it the way I do when I read other Cosmere books.

When every time you read or hear "flare", you expect the next word to be the name of a metal.

We did get that sketch in Words of Radiance. Though I admit I'd love to see a full interior illustration of him and Renarin.

I'm guessing you'd see woman Shardbearers in the west of Roshar - remember, the Vorin society and it's divisions between sexes only apply to the eastern part of the continent. We see a female guard captain in Edgedancer, so there are probably some female Shardbearers on the local lords' payroll as well.

IIRC, this idea has been proposed several times before, but I think your list of cities and their Heralds is the longers anyone's every complied. This being said, I'd argue that Kholinar is "Taln's city", as Taln manifested in Alethkar and Alethkar itself is a country most associated with war and warriors while Taln is called the Herald of War.

It's going to get doubly awkward when she finds out what the original Shallan did to her parents... Answering the question, I like all the Kholin names, but especially Renarin and Adolin. They're very melodic. I also like Jasnah, because in Polish, "jasna" means "bright" (feminine form of the word, no less), and if it's a coincidence, it's hilarious.

Relational Databases. We have to make a database as a way to learn SQL. Everyone else is doing stuff like shops, wholesalers, yacht rentals or (my favourite) prison, and I'm reaffirming my nerd credentials with the Stormlight Archive