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No. That's a super easy detail to figure out...

Screwed up seems a bit much. More... He realized he was falling into a pattern and he doesn't want to be predictable. But killing Jasnah would have truly been a detriment to the story. She's a fantastic character and has history with her family that I can not wait to hear. (Even though I guarantee it will be super depressing/revolting.)

Heh. I was referring to characters with a lot of screen time and development, but fair enough.

Readers get invested in every character. Look at the whole May Aladar thing. Potential is a horrible thing to waste, but Eshonai was almost certainly dead as is. And she had a good arc in the sense she told us about the world. The rest of that potential is... Ephemeral. Sadeas as could have had a great storyline too.

Which Spren? None of the Spren in there are bonded and manifest.

Wouldn't the first real death be Sadeas. I mean he was awful, but his death had impact. But Eshonai is not a major character. We built her up to be, but all we got is a set of interludes from her and we know we're getting flashbacks from her. But those flashbacks are likely meant to highlight something else, not her story.

I think I'd trust the listeners on their own biology over Kaladin. She's quite clearly dead. They pulled the armor from her body and death is not hard to detect up close. (Beyond that, if she's in a coma in the Chasms she's dead. No way around it.)

I wouldn't call her a main character. She was the interlude focus last book. I think someone from all 3 books will probably go. One of the Kholins seems likely. Navani or Adolin would be devastating.

Unlikely. But it won't be description that fills us in. It'll be how she acts or what she says. I'd look for people that stand out and are using color metaphors.

Walking faster does not make the journey less meaningful.

Eventually the brain adapts and you start picking up those nuances. I think I went from 1.5 to 2x over like 4 or 5 months, upping it a little at a time.

Agreed. I avoid audio as a first method with my favorite books.

We listen at speeds that mere mortals can barely process(2x at minimum). This sounded like the reader was talking to an infant.

From what I understand she is nowhere near as camouflaged as Vasher.

Those things don't need to be powers so much as they have more freedom to interpret their oaths. Maybe.

Kal is wrong about Light Eyes and prejudiced is very much a plot arc.

And yet we only see it in extreme cases. Almost like that might be an outdated belief, or one common in rural areas of little import. Think about how much Kal has learned about his misunderstandings of lighteyes.

Outside of her Dad's marriage, which was extraordinary due to her father's difficulty finding a match, none of that implies wide age ranges. Her mother and father were far closer in age range. Her father's allies have wide age ranges and the implication is she'd marry into one of their houses. You're putting medieval expectations on a society much closer to our own in development because we expect it out of fantasy. Even Roshone only married outside his age range because his son died. Nothing suggests its normal.

Book World? Three of them in my area are going away. It's... depressing. Good to hear that a lot of this is ambiguous.

Roshar isn't at a low tech level. They're remarkably advanced, just magically rather than technologically. They have cross world communication on par with the telephone(more portable, less wideranging) They have history going back as far as ours and a good grasp on a number of scientific disciplines. I think we've seen that even most Alethi royalty has similar age ranges in their relationships. Gavilar and Navani. Sadeas and Ialai. Elhokar and his wife seem to be similar in age. So comparing them to feudal society is off. And again, I don't think its too wide. Just as wide as we'll be seeing.

I figure there's a few immortals and worldhoppers capable of getting her pointed in the right direction. Maybe ones that have experience with the way lightweaving mucks with the mind. And who like to tell stories that get characters pointed in the right direction.

Yeah. Pretty much. But using it to explain why Shallan Jasnah is ooky.

Science disagrees. There are massive developmental changes in the brain between those ages. Culture doesn't change that. And I'm not saying its inappropriate for the world. Just as wide as we should be seeing for our main characters. Adding a decade to that gap as Jasnah would would be too extreme.

Common doesn't make it not exploitative. We've learned better and normalizing that kind of thing in a series read by young readers has a lot of dangers. Jasnah Shallan strikes me as in poor taste.(Especially with things happening in the world at the moment.) Either way I don't see it happening.

This is a common thing in people suffering from mental illness. They see the real them as a person without the struggles or trauma. Coming to accept this isn't true is one of the biggest hurdles in getting people through treatment. So good on Brandon for really getting into the meat of what PTSD feels like.