Necessary Eagle

Lift extends Wyndle's repertoire to include sporks, spoons, chopsticks, and a replica of Dalinar's pork-knife.

Dungeons & Dawnsingers? I can't pass up a good chicken joke, however. EDIT: or Laits & Larkins

Actually I think I feel a fanfic coming on... on the one day I don't have access to my computer. Well, in lieu of actually getting writing done, what do you think edgy\"goth" Alethi teenagers wear? And is there an SA name generator somewhere?

If dungeons&dragons (or chickens&chasmfiends or whatever) existed in Roshar, it would be a women's thing. Because you can do it with one hand and there's lots of writing. Also, it would be considered edgy because of how the dice control what happens. That's close enough to fortune-telling to make that sort of moral guardian Think Of The Children.

Nale is basically Inspector Javert with a magic sword.

Crossover confirmed.

This is like a wannabe ficwriter's dream come true. Hand over those lovely plot bunnies to someone else and watch them do the real work! My most coherent plot-bunnycremling is a post-Oathbringer story, working title: "cracks are what lets the light shine through". POV: an OC Sadeas soldier at the battle of Thaylen City. At this point the Sadeases are pretty much the Slytherin House of Stormlight, so I suspect a redemption arc is coming up. Part one: the story opens in the grip of the turbo-Thrill berserker rage. Red red slide the spear in out forward red red, that sort of thing, I dunno. And then the Thrill is suddenly gone, and POV Dude (let's call him Urb, that seems like a solid darkeyes name) is awake and he's standing in front of Thaylen City and he's covered in blood and guts and wounds and there's a guy he knows impaled on his spear, and he breaks down. He falls to his knees and throws up and freaks the eff out. I think Part One would be about half in Thrill-mode and half angsty aftermath. Part two: Urb deals with his PSTD over the next day or two... badly. He gets wanders around like a zombie and tries to get drunk enough to forget being mindraped by Uber-Nergoual. It doesn't particularly work. Urb doesn't particularly work either. Actually, do the soldiers in Urithiru have day jobs when they're not soldiering? Even if they don't, not showing up for roll call because you're passed out on the floor isn't likely to impress your commanding officer. Part three: Urb is sitting alone in his house, having a think. He's been taught all his life that fighting is the highest Calling, that war equals glory, etc. But he can't stop thinking about the blood, the bodies, the dreadful emptiness that was left when the Thrill went away. Even his memories of previous fights and normal-strength Thrill now feel tainted, sickening. He's starting to have heretical thoughts about preserving lives being more praiseworthy, more right, than taking them away. He struggles for a way to put these new feelings into words, and he finds himself whispering "Life before death..." Maybe this is stupid or maybe it's good or maybe it's part stupid and part good, I dunno. But if anyone wants to use this outline, or bits of it, or constructively criticize it, feel free.

"Me!" -Drifter

I just came across this on Arcanum, and I'm really intrigued. I can't wait to see the general in action again.

*Immediately steals this to tell her Sanderfan friends*

Well, I guess we know now.

Davriel reminded me of Lightsong's persona. And Highwater made me think of Blushweaver- not just the sea appeal thing, but also in the tone of her banter.

I am loving the idea of Rlain as a Bondsmith. If this happens I will be so happy.

I was just wondering why the questioner would be making such an assumption in the first place. Oh, so you're saying the person was trying to trick Brandon into a spoiler? Weird way to go about it, and there's no point unless you already have strong reason to believe he might die then in the first place, but I can't think of any other explanation.

I haven't been paying as much attention to Cosmere stuff lately... but Kaladin is supposed to DIE in book five? When did Brandon say this? Since when does Brandon "RAFO" Sanderson spoil things like that anyway? Is this some sort of fandom in-joke I'm missing?

I never noticed the first time around that Kelsier is blond. Or the second time. In fact, I think I didn't realize it until I looked closely at the illustrations in AU. In any case, in my head he's got dark hair. Renarin has entirely black hair, that's just common sense. At best I can picture tiny wisps of blond. For the longest time, my mental image of Nale was... well, like Szeth, really. White skin and a hood. When I'd come across one of the many, many passages that described him as really dark with a crescent-shaped birthmark, his picture would shift back to canon- and then revert as soon as my mind focused on the next bit. I never even noticed the conflict- if you asked me what he looked like, I would have said "Dark skin and birthmark, it's right in the text"- until I had a dream about him, and then was remembering the dream later.

(minor spoilers for both series, I guess) For those of you who haven't read AEitA, it's a fantasy YA series. One of the main characters is named Elias Veturius, and of course, me being a Sanderfanatic, I kept misreading it as "Elend Venture". Then I started to think about it... and I'm beginning to suspect Elias is actually a shout-out to Elend. He's the only son (that he knows of, he has a secret half-brother) of one of the most powerful noble families in the Evil Empire. He meets his love interest, a leader in the slave-class rebellion, when she is undercover in the place where he lives. And he has a parent who is a complete monster, cruel even by Evil Empire standards, who tries to kill him when he rebels. What do you think? Shout-out or coincidence?

When you do a double take upon seeing a librarian wearing a shirt that says "Alcatraz".

Might as well have someone update this thread, there's a heckuva lotta easter eggs in OB...

WoB to the rescue: it's possible.

For some reason I only saw Llaramar's post when I was replying- anyway, that's very interesting, especially about Szeth.

Honestly, I'd been pronouncing Ialai as I-al-ay without thinking about it, then I actually took a moment to think, and I figured that if it was supposed to be symmetrical, then the "ai" was probably supposed to be the same as the initial "I". So, i-al-i. Or ee-al-ee. Which is not symmetrical in pronunciation, because if you read it backwards it would be i-la-i. But the rules only get broken so far. There may be different legitimate ways to read "Ialai", but no one is going to be saying it as "aw loo ee" or "ooh la la" or "kaladin". English is chaotic, not anarchic. But he's writing in English. It should be something within the standard pronunciations of English, not "I'm going to jam two vowels next to each other that are always pronounced as a unit, but let's pretend that this one time it isn't." That's like saying that j-a-s-n-a-h is meant to be said with a Y even though there's no reason in the text at all that we should think this one consonant is supposed to said like a completely different consonant, it's not like Alethi looks Scandinavian or something, THAT'S NOT HOW SEMITIC LANGUAGES WORK, BRANDON Anyway, like I said, I'm curious how it's written in other real-world languages. And if you speak a language that pronounces every syllable separately, then it works as a four-syllable symmetric word. But in English, "ai" would usually be said as one sound, whereas "ia" is genrally two sounds. So Ialai's name would be three syllables.

Oh we do see him? I have to reread OB, I thought his last scene is right before Dalinar Ascends. I figured that Taln might be more visibly effected, since he was more visibly unwell.

Not to mention- I remembering people here were theorizing that Taln's period of lucidity was due to Honor's perpendicularity opening. So if that turns out to be the case, what effect might it have had on Nale?

I just realized that I see "Kholin" and think "ch", but that I've been mentallin pronouncing it with a hard K anyway.