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I am super excited about this one. Dark One has always sounded really cool to me, and I'm stoked to read this!!

Okay, first: I'M ACTUALLY SO EXCITED FOR THIS SIXTH OF THE DUSK STORY.

Ahem.

Now that that's out of the way, I think it's crazy that he confirmed that there are going to be both a Rock short story and Lopen short story, on top of the already mentioned Rysn story. I was hoping that Rock going back to his homeland would be in RoW, but I think I can deal with it being in just a short story.

Yay, an episode where one of my who’s that Cosmere character submissions was played! I don’t even remember when I sent that one in. 

In hindsight, you were probably right, @Chaos. I definitely should’ve led with my normal clue of “this character is [gender].” 

@Argent I’m so thinking about doing a submission where the character is one of the Khal’s....

@Windrunner My little brother can’t believe you managed to guess his character with just the first clue! We were both dying from laughter when that happened. 

Anyway, I’m definitely the most hyped to learn about the Willshapers. Partially because I really like Venli and partially because I can’t wait to see a Willshaper in action. I’m imagining that they can use Cohesion from a distance, and I’ve envisioned a scene where a Willshaper is riding a wave of rippling stone while destroying enemies. 

This episode definitely increased my hype for the Dustbringers though. I forgot how little we really know about them, so it’ll be cool to finally get to learn more about them. I’m excited to see who the new Dustbringer for book 4 is. I hope they get a POV chapter at least once, but I doubt it. 

48 minutes ago, Chaos said:

This would have a lot more weight if Brandon pronounced things correctly. He doesn't, so I don't see why I should have to. He doesn't pronounce Elantris as E-layn-tris, and I'm going to say it the way he does.

Brandon has said the books don't have strict pronunciation, that you can pronounce them however you want. So in some sense you're not valid for saying "there is one correct way to pronounce things." If you have a beef there, you can go take it up with Brandon, and I am going to handily pass the buck there. E-lahn-tris forever, man, and I'm going to cite Brandon there directly. If he can say it that way, then so can I.

Your comparison with a fictional thing vs. a real thing has an important distinction: real people actually get annoyed and will stop talking to you if you pull that, whereas fictional things have no feelings. It's fine for you to have strong feelings about that, but I don't think this is a fandom where that is important, because Brandon does not think "correct" pronunciations are important. If he did, he'd get them right.

Do you say Kelsier as Kel-see-ay? 

Yeah, I can definitely see that perspective. And I know that Brandon doesn't even pronounce things the "right way," which really makes me mad. I just want there to be one right way to pronounce a hy does there need to be all of this confusion?

Kelsier is the hardest one to remember for me because I thought the French way to pronounce it was Kel-see-air since I didn't know that French left off the last consonant like that. I have been getting better at pronouncing it the right way though.

@FeatherWriter Renarin is my biggest beef. 

This isn't a Cosmere beef, but a Reckoners beef. I despise the end of Calamity. Like, David was able to go up to Calamity and just go like “yo, humans ain't all evil” and Calamity just had an existential crisis and fled? No. That doesn't make any sense. And David getting powers. Ughhhh. It could've been done so much better, but it was just kinda there at the end. It undermines how well he was able to take down Epics as just a normal dude. Don't even get me started on all the alternate reality crap. Calamity is Brandon’s worst book, in my opinion. It's so storming terrible. Like, it started off pretty okay and then just went downhill from there.

@Chaos pretty much summed up my feelings on Zane perfectly. Zane and the middle of the book just made WoA so storming boring and slow to read. The end saved it, but that's only because Brandon is amazing at ending books. 

I actually don't have very many beefs that weren't mentioned in the podcast. Also, I definitely agree with @WeiryWriter when it comes to Aonic pronunciations. Actually, this has reminded me of a beef, but it's less with the books themselves and more with the fandom in general. There are CORRECT and INCORRECT ways to pronounce things. Personally, I think it's not okay to mispronounce a name because you think the pronunciation is stupid. It'd be like if I refuse to pronounce Eric (is that how you spell it, Chaos?) as “air-ick” and pronounced it as “eh-rick.” I know I'm exaggerating, but this just really annoys me. Don't get me wrong, I think Aonic pronunciation is stupid too, but I think lots of things people do are stupid, but I can still respect their decisions and pronounce things the way they're supposed to be. 

I'm sad no one has commented on this yet.

You basically summed up how I feel about violence in media perfectly. Somehow, we absolutely abhor violence in the real world, while glorifying it in movies and TV shows and books. Plus, I feel like you nailed perfectly what Brandon was going for with Vin and Dalinar.

I want this.