Andy92

Just to add some to this, we do have confirmation now that Patji and Autonomony are related. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/312-orem-signing/#e8902

I have the first edition because I bought a hardback that was in print before the change was made. Kaladin stabs Szeth in the chest with his Syl-spear in the version I have. ...Kal stabbed first.

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Thanks. Figured it was a signing that hadn't been transcribed yet.

Source? I'm not too surprised personally. Was leaning that way...

One of the main traits associated with the order of Windrunners is leadership. Windrunners historically had the most squires, and while some other orders also had them, some didn't have any at all. I think Kaladin is simply grasping his role well as far as leadership and training his squires is concerned. Dalinar, as a Bondsmith, must lead the Radiants, not lead squires. The order of Lightweavers may have some squires (or at least Shallan was trying to figure that out in this book), but she doesn't have a group of people that follow her in the way Kaladin does. He's just farther ahead in the leadership role following his time with Bridge Four.

@BlackYeti Thanks, thought that was the case but I hadn't searched through Arcanum for it.

It's definitely a good way to ask him something. I always seem to struggle thinking of questions I can't find on this website though lol.

Is it on record somewhere that the night of the assassination is going to be the Prologue for just the first 5 books and not all 10? I feel like that's the case, but I can't quite remember.

I think it's simply because he was the last one on the scene. The other 7 Heralds had already abandoned their Honorblades by the time Kalak got there.

Queen Jasnah sat down at her desk after a grueling day in the presence of the high princes. She continued her ongoing process of searching through folder after folder of policies that had been documented by the scribes under Elhokar's reign. "Does this...does this paper say that Elhokar...abdicated the throne?" Navani nodded. "He told me this decision was made during the Battle of Narak. The family that kept him safe feared for the repercussions of harboring an Alethi king." Jasnah raised her eyebrows. "This document is missing a key piece of verbiage. Notice line four, clause seven. It states that the King would abdicate his throne on this date, the same day as the Battle of Narak...but there is no part in this document that states when he would return to the throne. It is an open-ended document." "Was Elhokar's official seal stamped to this document?" Navani questioned. "Yes, I..." Jasnah was cut off as the door slammed open. But the person on the other side wasn't walking on the floor. Lopen stepped through the doorway while walking on the ceiling, crown fused to his head using Adhesion. "Hello ladies. Goncho is ready to rule."

I'm personally a little torn because although the good moments were really good, there were some other moments that didn't hold up for me. The plot of the Resistance in general felt a little lacking to me, and the side quest with Finn and Rose at the casino was the worst part of the film. I really, really liked the direction they went with Rey, Kylo, and Luke. This sets up Rey vs. Kylo for a pretty epic finale in Episode 9. But I do feel like a lot of the moments from The Force Awakens were tossed aside. Who were Rey's parents? Doesn't really matter. Who is Snoke and how is he so powerful? Doesn't really matter. So right now I have a love/hate feeling going with this one. It had some extremely good moments (R2 showing Leia's Obi-Wan recording, Yoda, Luke's final moments under the twin setting Suns), but I also wasn't the biggest fan of the general First Order vs. Resistance plot in this one. Watching a fleet float through space with low fuel for nearly the entire movie was...questionable.

I always have him write quotes I like in my books. I see why people use it as a method to get their questions answered, but I prefer handwritten quotes myself.

The WoA Leatherbound is up on Brandon's store today. Ordered my copy earlier today. Anyone else ordered one yet?

So just to follow up on my issue with the search function on mobile...it works now lol. I didn't change anything as far as phone OS or web browser, but no complaints.

I enjoyed reading Dalinar's chapters the most in this book, so after a while the Shallan PoV chapters did start to get a little tiresome for me. Dalinar just had such an interesting story for me, and I loved reading about how his past tied into his present. I think Kaladin was the main character in this book whose story felt a little more...stagnant? He struggled with saying his fourth ideal, and he had important moments in the book, but I didn't see his character moving either forwards or backwards much. Shallan was arguably getting worse in this book, suffering from her split-personas, but there was still a lot of substance to be taken away from that. So for me, Dalinar was the highlight of this book. I didn't enjoy either Shallan or Kaladin's arcs as much as I did in the previous two books. I do see what you mean about how it felt like Shallan dominated a lot of screen time, but a lot of Dalinar's PoV chapters had to be dedicated to his flashbacks. That's just how these books are set up.

One of the reasons I still think Autonomy is plausible is because we know from the Letter in tWoK that Hoid and Bavadin don't have the most pleasant history. So instead of writing to Bavadin herself, Hoid decided to write to one of her autonomous Splinters. He knows he needs all the help he can get, but he assumed going to Bavadin herself wasn't his best option, like @Ookla the Rusty said. We know from the AU essay on Taldain that Autonomy is a Shard that practices isolation when it comes to Taldain, but in contrast to this, the Shard does interfere with other planets. So how could a Shard have an extremely isolationist policy when it comes to one world while at the same time having a very interfering policy when it comes to other planets? Maybe Autonomy just wants to keep its home world defended/unbothered while it interferes with other worlds, but maybe Autonomy operates on multiple fronts. In order to kill a hive-mind, you have to take out the heart/brain of the system. I think it's plausible to believe that central piece of Autonomy is the part that exists at Taldain, and that's why the Shard wants to keep that planet isolated from others. I really like the theory that the Shard that wrote this Letter acts like a hive-mind. The way the Letter is written almost spells that fact out. But I personally don't think what we know about Autonomy discredits the possibility of this Letter's author being a sentient Splinter of Autonomy. Just because this particular Splinter doesn't care about interfering with another world doesn't mean the entire Shard does. I also don't think Autonomy's intent prevents the Splinters from acting as a collective body. I can create an Autonomous robot, but as that robot's creator, I can still oversee what it does/make it submit to my authority. With all of this being said...I think the Ambition theory is also very plausible. I just don't think we currently have enough information to prove or disprove this one way or the other.

I feel like the 2nd Letter fits the theme of a Shard that's just trying to survive (doesn't want to meddle with others, is surprised Hoid found it/them). The hard part with this is that Brandon said it's a Shard we know of...whether or not he means we know of the Shard from a book or from WoB makes it tough to tell if the "survival Shard" qualifies or not.

Dalinar asked the Nightwatcher for forgiveness. Over money, power, fame, it was the thing he wanted most in the world. Szeth badly wanted to atone for his mistakes after learning his supposed Truthless status was a lie. Amaram never really did seem to care about asking for forgiveness. He didn't see that he ever did anything wrong. Same with Sadeas. I never recall him asking Dalinar to forgive him for what he did at The Tower (but it's been a while since I've read WoR). I think the difference in the characters mentioned above is that forgiveness is less about the magnitude of the mistakes that were made and more about the willingness to change. Maybe there could have been room for redemption from Sadeas and Amaram, but they never asked for it. It was easier to call Dalinar a hypocrite because his past was full of bad stuff too. Why ask for your own forgiveness when you can just point to the faults of other people?

But we know Bavadin has many personas, no? That may not mean Bavadin's Shard acts like a hive mind, but the multiple persona part of Bavadin does seem to point towards a collective mind of some sort. That being said, the Ambition idea is certainly interesting. I personally feel like the Shard that's trying to survive fits the theme of a Shard being surprised that Hoid was able to find it. But as the OP said, not much we can go off of for a Shard we haven't heard of in a book before.

When Rock mentions the best help he could ever find as the cook was a guy with no legs, because you never had to worry about him running off.

There was no respect in that gesture. He might as well have spit in Kal's face when he did that. You have to remember that Kaladin prevented Moash from getting the revenge he wanted in WoR. This was Moash's payback, not only to Elhokar, but to Kaladin.

Mass market paperback doesn't have standard page sizes, they're smaller. The mass market paperback for WoR is really dense...might be able to make one for Oathbringer but I wouldn't want to read it lol.

I'm pretty sure Glys is a legitimate Truthwatcher spren corrupted by the influence of Sja-anat. He seems to still be a Surgebinder (he can heal at least). It's possible he might be able to Voidbind too...but anyways, I do believe he is a Radiant. The spren has been corrupted/altered in some way.

I wondered this for a while with my two Kingkiller Chronicles hardbacks. Paper thickness was the conclusion I came up with too after comparing the margins and font sizes.