If.you.die.I.go.stupid

I only have four copies of Oathbringer. I'm sure it would fit one.

Right. I can't recall him ever saying what his boon and curse are. I've assumed the boon was taking away the pain of loosing a wife he loved, and the curse was to forget her entirely. If the boon or curse made him forget why he asked, then it would make sense that he might assume this too, especially if people around him talk about how much he loved her. He could just be wrong about knowing. The boon could be to forget his wife and he doesn't really know the curse. If something like that is the case then I wonder what the curse is. Lift's curse seems designed to help her or to lead her to being who she needs to be to fight. Perhaps Dalinar got a curse that helped him become who he is now. The only thing I can think of is him being a man of extremes and needing rules to control himself. That's just a stab in the dark though, and I'd have to look at some timeline issues to see if it were remotely possible.

He says that his people were thinking of choosing the cobbler. I'm not sure that means it was Wyndle with the cobbler. I thought they might have sent out a few spren to test different candidates for the bond.

@Calderis Thanks for the info

Do you mean that making spren undefined might be the method for breaking the bond? I assume the spren would need a new bond to be returned. I know Brandon said bringing back a dead spren would be difficult. I thought this was because it would be hard to form a bond with a broken spren. The sprens mind is broken so what is there to bond to? Though Brandon said difficult not impossible. Studying how humans observing or interacting with spren changes them, yeah that seems like that kind of thing that could lead to reviving a spren, but I think it would be some combination of what they learn and a way to replace the bond.

I don't see the connection, but either she is a recluse or she must have some way to disguise herself when she goes out. That mask would make her stand out. I tend to think she keeps a low profile on Roshar. I assume she is from Scadrial, but haven't put a lot of thought into her place in things.

I'm very curious how this will play out. I don't see why Attica's soul wouldnt still belong to alcatraz. A ghost Attica could be very helpful and less likely to destroy the world with his arrogance.

Yeah, something like this anyways. His blog said they considered putting in an envelope with the letter in it, but they thought it would get lost easily so not good for libraries. Also, who wouldn't open the envelope before reading the book?

Yeah. Brandon has said a knight can use an honorblade and gain the surges. It would be cool, but I bet most of his fighting will be in flashbacks. I expect Dalinar will be the politician and we will have some interesting play between the warrior in the flashbacks and the politician he's become. I hope Brandon throws in at least one non flashback Dalinar fight, show us he has grown but is still the blackthorn.

@qarlinJust checked the blog. Brandon has been working on book 6in secret and plans to finish it in 2017. Probably depending on how long SA3 takes. http://brandonsanderson.com/alcatraz-the-big-reveal/

Didn't she use glass for that? She was replace by a statue of herself. It sounded to me like a use of the transporter glass that the free kingdomers hadn't thought of. Brandon had to buy the rights to the Alcatraz series back and sell them to tor. I think the long wait was mainly due to that. I haven't heard anything about when he plans to rite book 6, but because of how book 5 ended I'm not surprised he hasn't mentioned it. I wouldn't expect to hear anything for a while though. Wouldn't want to spoil that kick for those who haven't read it yet. I got nothing on this too. I guess the silly chapter intros will be gone, and probably the puns too. We have only seen Bastille as Alcatraz sees her. It will be interesting to see how she sees herself.

Grandpa gets his brains blown out and Attica gets sacrificed, probably mutilated, and Alcatraz gets PTSD. Yeah, it took a pretty dark turn and pretty fast. It doesn't surprise me from Sanderson, but I was a bit surprised how dark it got for a middle grade book. I actually like having key characters die. I mean, there's a war going on. It's always weird to me when only b or c list characters die in war. That said, I like Grandpa Smedry, so it's cool to bring him back. I suspect that Attica is really dead, but maybe not gone. What happens to a soul that is owned by someone else when body dies? The souls that belong to the library of Alexandria stick around. Attica could haunt Alcatraz because Alcatraz owns his soul, or maybe Alcatraz will get to boss him around. His dad's soul could make a pretty good research assistant. How so? In the first book he is stabbed with a knife and arrives late to it, even with the knife sticking in his leg. He lets that injury arrive to him slowly in small spurts, but that wasn't a life threatening injury. If it were, he might have delayed it as long as possible, like he is with the bullet. The whole power source thing matters too. Arriving late tot he bullet indefinitely may have been well beyond his talent, but he has been building up lots of energy and if his talent provided a way for it to all release at once, then he could accomplish something more difficult than his talent would normally be able to handle.

There isn't a lot to draw inference from, just Kaladin because we know his brothers death was his breaking point. We do not know what broke/cracked Shallan or anyone else. I would guess that Dalinar was broken either by his brother's death or his wife’s death and his reaction to it. Do we know the nature of the required break? It is usually discussed as some sort of mental break, but when I consider what broke Kaladin and what I think broke Dalinar, I wonder if it is a spiritual break instead.

When Kaladin tried really hard to breath in stormlight he heard crying. I always wondered about that. I'd have expected him to hear screaming like he did with the blades. Perhaps Syl wasn't fully dead.

Yes, I typed Roshone and didn't notice the auto correction. Lirin instead of Laral was purely my own blunder.

This is my point. Most would expect Jasnah and Shallan to have political marriages. Such marriages sometimes have a big age gap, so I doubt society would be shocked by the age difference. They'd be more shocked that the two married for love instead of choosing a politically wise marriage. I was assuming your age concern was about how society would respond. It occurs to me that you may mean that two people with that age gap wouldn't fall in love. I think the age gap would make it less likely but not implossable.

I definitely meant Laral. Sorry about the confusion.

Q: The ending of mistborn was hidden in the first chapter epigraphs. Is there something similar to that in The Way of Kings? A: There are but they are hidden in different places. The last chapter of the stormlight archive is somewhere in these two books. Sounds like it's hidden piece by piece. No clue though. Haven't had time to look into it.

Better yet, you could spend that time trying to figure out where he hid it. According to WoB, the last chapter is hidden somewhere in the first two books.

R emember Lirin and Rosanne? Maybe they are an exception, but I get the impression it's not that uncommon. Shallan's father wanted to marry his second son to a middle aged woman for connections. Most powerful lighteyes marry for connections. Marrying for love may be odder than the age gap. That said, I think Shallan ending with any woman is unlikely. It would be cool, but Brandon said her crush on Jasnah was something he did unconsciously. We've already seen her flashback book, and Brandon's already written the final chapter of the series. I suspect Shallan's story is already nailed down, and if the bisexuality is an unconscious inclusion, then I bet it will remain subtext. Maybe he can confirm it openly in the text, which would be awesome, but I bet her relationships are important to the overall story and aren't likely to change from his current plan.

I know Brandon said Adolin broke a law, but is it Alethi law? Urithiru isn't Alethi land. Why wouldnt the radiants rule and law apply instead of Alethi?

I didn't mean that it was insignificant to him. He probably carries it into duels because it's a memento of a mother he loved. I'm just saying I wouldn't read too much into it. It is something consistent with her death being traumatic and unexpected or peaceful and painless as a mothers death could be. Either scenario is consistent with Adolin carrying the chain. I was also saying it might have been going on before his mother died, and isn't related to her death at all. She died when he was 13? I missed that somehow. Do we know when he one the blade? I know it was from Tinalar. I got the impression he was young and expected to loose, but I don't remember an age. I do think there is a bit of superstition, unrelated to his mother, involved. I was a kendo duelist for several years. A lot of people have little traditions like this that they do before duels. It's like baseball players who won't change their socks when their on a good hitting streak. It's silly and almost everyone admits its meaningless but they do it anyways. He expresses that pretty well when Navani seems surprised that he is still following his old rituals.

Do you mean his, Adolin's, mother? I don't think we know when she died. There may be some hints or a way to figure it out. For example, if someone has figured out when Dalinar went to find the old magic, that would give us a good, rough idea of when she died. I haven't looked into this yet. The chain is meaningful to Adolin, but Brandon has said it has no significance beyond its meaning to Adolin. I wouldn't read too much into it. He caries it into duels. That could be a sign of respect to his mother or a show of her influence on him, or it could be simple superstition. Maybe he had it at the first duel he won and feels he needs it every time after. His mom could have been alive back then and given it too him before the duel for luck. I'm hopeful that we will learn more via conversation between Adolin and Shallan, or Dalinar's eventual flashbacks. I wonder if they will have his wife's name.

Shallan POV I think Rock also points out that her hair means they are related, but the only quote I can find is him calling her cousin. I'm pretty sure there is a quote prior to this on in WoR where rock says her hair means they are related, but I'm not finding it with search

She is a step further on the KR path than Kaladin. If her eyes are going to turn red, it should have happened already. Though she does have Parshendi ancestry. If that becomes known it could cause trouble for her and maybe an identity crisis or something.