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I basically agree with you. The first time I read OB, I felt a little disappointed. There were plenty of amazing, epic, and well-written moments, but there were also tons of things that felt lackluster to me. Then I reread the book twice, and I realized just how good all of this book is. The "bad" parts just look bad in comparison to the epicness of the really good parts.

Really? I don’t like Song of Changes as much as Song of Secrets, but I definitely think it’s a good title. I also think it has a nice ring to it, but to each their own.

I think of the word spren like this: spren is to Investiture as animal is to matter. Spren are simply sentient investiture, which includes Nightblood. Anything that is not sentient but is made of Investiture is not spren.

Venli. That would be all-around amazing.

Personally, I think the reason that there are so many different, diverse groups of humans on Roshar is because the Ashynites who fled to Roshar were not all the same race. It’d be stupid to think that all the people all on a planet were of one race. So, there were already distinct races on Roshar when the Ashynites migrated there. Over time, since people that are similar to each other tend to group together, distinct cultures and races began to form.

I really like Song of Secrets because it sounds cool and it fits thematically with the Eshonai/Venli/Singer focus of the book. As for the acronym, we could just call it Song.

Oh, sorry, that wasn’t what I was trying to say. I was just going on a mini rant about why both British and American English bother me.

@Servillius Okay, I can understand being upset with gray and aluminum because grey looks cooler and aluminium is the proper way to spell it and American are just stupid in that regard. But color and honor, really? I just don’t understand why you would ever add a ‘u’ to those words. It doesn’t change the pronunciation at all, and it just looks weird. Do you want us to start spelling all words that end in ‘or’ with ‘our’? Obligatour? Misdemeanour? Acceleratour?

Yes, I’ve been bothered by the title as well. Disgust just has such a negative connotation and sound.

Don't even get me started.

As someone who has taken (basic) music theory, I wanna add something. Assuming Brandon is basing his idea of Resonances on actual music theory, you could probably have about 5-6 different powers and still get a Resonance, though anything higher than that could get funky.

@Draginon @Fanghur Rahl I don't know why you guys think that there needs to be another "evil" Shard. Brandon has specifically talked about how he doesn't consider any of the Shards to truly be evil. When certain Vessels hold them and influence the intent, then you can get into whether or not their evil, but the intents of the Shards are not evil by themselves. If there is going to be a big bad I'm a huge fan of it being Autonomy, but I don't think there necessarily needs to be a big bad.

It'd be so perfect because the Edgedancer Oaths are all about rembering those forgotten. Adolin often forgets himself and his own wants and desires to help others. Bonding Maya would help him care more for himself.

So, I was actually incorrect. The Firebird is actually another work of Stravinsky's, and we're using some music from the soundtrack to Dancer in the Dark, which Björk composed.

This is slightly off-topic, but I'm curious: why does it bug you?

Why would cultivationspren be different from all the others though? That doesn't really make any sense. Plus, Lift implies that she only started to bond Wyndle recently before her first interlude, while she says that she visited the Nightwatcher about three years prior.

I play regular clarinet during marching season and bass clarinet during concert season.

I've been listening to the recording of the most recent runthrough of my marching band's opener to our show this year over and over again. It's soooooo good. It's got some of Stravinsky's Rite of Spring and also Bjork's The Firebird. I'm so excited for our show this year.

I'm a little behind, but yes! I loved that book and it's sequel. The series is weird at first, but pretty easy to get into once you get past the "unconventional" storytelling method.

So the marching band I'm in finally found out the show theme this year about a week ago. It's gonna be so cool. Everyone is so hyped up this year, the show sounds like it's gonna be pretty awesome, and we have storming amazing music this year. I think if we keep the energy going until state finals we have a pretty damnation good chance of winning this year. Also, I got an audio recording of the opener from our most recent full-band runthrough...I've listened to it way too many times to count now.

@dnavenom This seems like an interesting theory, but what would you think of soulcaster fabrials that can soulcast more than one essence?

I'm definitely no religious scholar or anything, but I think I might be able to add something interesting to this conversation as an atheist/agnostic. I LOOOOOVE how Brandon writes the religions in his books. They feel so real, for fantasy worlds at least, and it's not like Brandon is trying to say "this is absolutely true" or "this is absolutely false." He shows how religions can be based on actual facts while also obscuring the truth or being mostly false. He also does a good job of not being very preachy in his books, and represents many different religious ideas in his books. I especially enjoy his representation of atheism through Jasnah. She doesn't feel like she's worse of a person for being atheist. She's just who she is and also happens to be an atheist. Brandon has helped me become a better person through his portrayal of religions. He's awknowleded the fact that religions can be and have been used for evil purposes, but also reminds us of the good things that religion can accomplish. Even if I don't believe in a religion, he's helped me to remember that other people do and have the right to believe what they want to. I only hope that I might be able to write religions as well as he does someday.

I don't even understand most of this, so I don't know how to answer your question.

I can understand your point about Navani being a little careless when it came to considering if Shallan wanted to do the marriage. I would like to point out, however, that Jasnah repeatedly told Shallan that she was sorry (indirectly, but that's kind of Jasnah's way) for setting up the marriage. It wasn't so much that she tried to arrange the marriage without Shallan's permission either, it just kind of happened since Navani was so excited at the prospect. As for your opinions on arranged marriages, I'll just say I agree and disagree, but I don't want to start an argument.

I think @MountainKing meant when Ico used that weird machine to make the water for the Kaladin and co when they were in Shadesmar. Of course, I don't know if that process would be able to make something new, or if that's what MountainKing was even referencing.