Extesian

@Toaster Retribution it was a Weiry signed book

When you go out in public with your girlfriend and ask her to wear a glove on her left hand

Iirc the Highstorms manifest as small showers there. I guess it depends why that happens, if it's land breaking it up everstorm may be different. But i think purelake is special. The fish there bond with spren, Cultivation influences the place and its just nar the valley where the Nightwatcher is. i suspect they'll be fine.

I'm pretty glad one of the greatest threads on this site is back in gear. It's all way over my head but today seems like remarkable work!

I know how much effort you put into this and its a thing of beauty, thank you mate

Just changed my name by deed poll to Evgeni Kirilov.

This is...the greatest.

CATLADYMAN SPLINTERS That's all.

Those poor, poor parshmen (Not sure who to give credit to for this art)

So, after daylight saving made this a midnight release for me, and sleep/work got in the way, my long awaited first thoughts reply! I mean, awaited by me, 271 posts indicate that other peeps have been doin' a'thinkin'. Hmmm and I feel like there had been 271 posts last week when I did this... Well those chapters gave a glorious wealth of info compared to the last three! Some wonderful mentions of realmatics, spren, Shards and bonds. Such delicious lies. Clearly I've read none of the other posts so apologises if you've seen it all before! There have been discussions on the length of Shardblades and Honorblades. Thank you for neatly answering both (even though that was the evidence to date). Oh Stormy, say more things like this please. Honorblades are not sentient. Dead Shardblades scream - it is not the live spren nor the Radiant's soul. Honorblades are directly of Honor (Which we knew by WoB) but the soul...I take the word loosely but it certainly confirms the the blades themselves are splinters, which makes me wonder about the status of the Heralds who 'broke' the Oathpact and what changes if they're no longer bonded to a splinter. And they are the mark of the Oathpact. And Shardplate is related but different! AND more confirmation that the spren, even the uberspren, are limited in what they can tell the Radiants after each oath, by their own oath. Oh. And Shards ARE bound by rules, by oaths. So much awesome (if largely expected) morsels of tasty truths. The beauty continues. The Stormpapa as the unreliable narrator - his steadfast refusal to question himself could become an issue. Odium's hatred being timeless and the fact that he is in no rush. But mostly, oh mostly, my previous Cultivation! Odium wants to avoid drawing my Culty out! Odium was damaged by a Shard or Shards before and those wounds cannot heal! GIVE ME CULTIVATION Rain down your lore droplets upon me SDaddy! What more do they give?!? How like a Herald? What do Heralds have other than a bond to a splinter? Answer me! What a glorious metaphor. Simile? Cheers Yes, Extesian from a few days ago, Navani will get back to making fabrials, bless her. I'm becoming increasingly curious about the extraordinary range of powers fabrials are using. Ah my dear Vasher, my scruffy, insolent, morally vacuous plaything. I've missed you and your color-themed idioms. Oh how how i wish you'd done the dueling. WELL. So the thrill is many centuries old at the least and was always just the Alethi. What was different compared to the other Unmade, which seem to gave only become active recently? Why was it confined to Alethkar until recently? Did it only become active during the time pig Sunmaker and if so what interest did Odium have in the fall of the Heirocracy? Non-contact Stormlight-drawing? He's beginning to believe... Omh I have my new sickeningly sweet name for my partner Wouldn't it make far mo...YES you storming idiot, yes it would. You were planning on doing it YOURSELF? Delegate, guy. Hey! I love you Iriali and I adore your religion, but don't you get all fatalistic with it, you anarchist-hippie. You give One a bad name. What you gon' do when things get hairy, just leave and go to another...oh, yeah, that's exactly way you'll do. I do hope this isn't just a bargaining position... BOOM! I mean it had to happen for there to be flashbacks involving Evi, but daaaaam son. Why NOW? Has his bond healed him to match his own spiritual ideal of himself without that block? Is it a Bondsmith thing? Why now? Who's your Daddinar? And... better be careful there who you pledge your allegiance to big guy... I...hope the Listeners win :'( Syl! Here I think you're all about sex and death and you go all realmatic on me! So let me clarify... Little Yellow IS a voidspren. Some Listener forms, or maybe just voidforms, can see spren that doing want to be seen. The mechanics of creating parshmen was to rip a whole in their soul that removed their Identity and Connection! But locked it away, as in the same piece of all their souls... The Everstorm's mechanics were to fill test hole with investiture (presumably Odium's but, could it be...Cultivations?)! Bless you, my favorite imaginary friend, for brightening up these Shallan chapters. Still so much Shallan. Sigh... Anyway Radiant seems to be harder for her than Veil, presumably a part of Shallan is like Veil but shallan is just not really Radiant. Pattern... did Pattern just...is Pattern in love with Adolin? Finally a ship i can embark! Adolern! Oh and I feel like this settled the little issue of using dead Shardblades. They're distasteful coz they're corpses but the spren is actually dead and bringing it into the physical realm doesn't cause it pain the scream is just an echo of the thing that caused it pain and killed it. Blade me up yo. Awww. Maybe you'll be happy after all little guy. Also of interest in this part was the 3rd person limited switching from 'Shallan' to 'Veil' as soon as she got agitated. Hmmm. Natural? Fabrials with Stormlight access? A perpendicularity? Vivenna? WHO KNOWS I feel like we knew that the more intoxicating colors are spirits but, well, if you don't know, now you know, Sharder. It seems the illusions don't hide what's behind the eyes. Windows to the soul indeed. Pattern with the buuuurrrrn. Oh and I find that last line very intriguing. Many of us felt sure that this was all proof that she can basically change other people's souls (Gaz etc) and could do it to herself at whim, switching back and forth having sort of rewritten herself like a soul stamp might do. This sounds like Pattern is saying that her illusion is only that, that she's letting herself change her personality through belief/ psychology rather than there being anything magical. Very intriguing. Could she Brandon? Could she? Or are you trolling us. Rust and Ruin woman! Oh you just got coooooool. Well it may well mean adolin wasn't specifically targeted as part of the copycat killing. Wow, I...that was longer than i thought. So so many good quotes. I shall say no more.

and remember, no mating!

Five hours to go and, astonishingly, the most recent topic is Elhokar! Will there be any last bids for the last topic? Will Chaos finally lump talk of Adolin's relationships into the same category as religion and politics, and ban it outright? Will Syl shrilly demand Kal has sex whilst drinking the blood of Voidbringers? Will Navani get back to making fabrials? Will Lift hug someone? Will I get four upvotes? Will I continue to inceptionize my own quotes? Will I do more than three posts this week? Stay tuned Shardlings... Spoiler alert - the answers are Yes, No but , Not Yet but Soon, No, Yes but It Will Be Offscreen and Referred To Obliquely, Probably but Undeserved, Yes Most Definitely, Maybe?

I...just noticed exactly what a rockbud looks like, so...

This will spark a debate about the morals of doing it

Awww. My 9 month anniversary as a Shardling and you guys gave me my 2000th rep point. Thanks guys! You shouldn't have! I love you too. And I promise, I'll remember our 1 year anniversary and I'll buy you something pretty

Hmm you can do this

Robin Hobb is extraordinary, I think she's the best character writer I've read. NK Jemisin and Naomi Novik are two Brandon repeatedly recommends. The only thing I've read of Janny Wurtz is when she teamed up with Raymond E Feist to cowrite a series in his universe, but those books were my favorite of all the Feidt books because she balanced him perfectly and for the first time made his female characters fantastic. The protagonist of those books remains one of my favorite female characters.

@Paracosmic_nomenclator calderis is right narratively but Brandon also seems to be trying to work it to his magical advantage. Here's a couple of WoBs you turn your mind to (as I don't have time to do more than link them) But your idea is quite interesting whether or not it has any truth to it. The main problem is the first WoB if i understood your reasoning

Looking good so far

That's some first post! Welcome

@Sunchicken is it insulting to your other photos that these are maybe my favorite of all your photos, that I've seen? I dub him Mantis Toboggan. (R-e-s-p-c-t-e for anyone who gets that reference)

Good theorizin but