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Wasn't aware which characters he really liked so I guess she's in danger unless he wants to defy that for once

I haven't read Oath yet (I'm close though!) so I don't know the exact details and context of Moash's problems there, but I'll put my $0.02 in. To me it's more about the actions and thoughts of the character that determines if they deserve forgiveness, or at least understanding. Using other characters as examples Snape is still a very bad person because he was a bully to his students but the flashbacks in book 7 helps you understand him but not forgive. Then there's Hrathen who really does feel bad for his actions in Duladel and not wanting to repeat them in Arelon and when push came to shove he chose the path of saving people versus letting them be killed. In a way Kaladin's role in the attempted assassination in WOR is similar to Hrathen in a sense since he was content to let Elhokar be killed but then realized he couldn't live with himself if he stood by. Kaladin chose to save a life he regretted condemning to death because he didn't like Dalinar 'doing nothing to punish Amaram' (that's the straw that led him to his actions in the attempted assassination), but with Moash he only cared about vengeance and couldn't understand why Kaladin wanted to defend the king. Sure the king wasn't the best monarch but he was trying his best while being stuck in a situation he wasn't prepared for and he was trying to make up for his past mistakes. Pretty much what I'm saying is trying to get past your mistakes, making up for your mistakes or fixing your mistakes before they finish is a reason for forgiveness but not even trying to do that makes you a terrible person.

I think it's because she still has a story to tell, her weird split personality comes to mind, and Sanderson isn't like Martin where he kills characters off for shock value whether their story is done or not. I think Brandon has also said he likes Shallan so I think it would be harder on him to kill her than the others.

Mistborn Era 1 spoilers:

The Power Rangers comic is almost to the end of their big crossover event and I started thinking of when each season takes place before the Grid got shattered. Most are very easy but others are a mess to figure out. MMPR: We follow them in the comic so we know when it happens Alien Rangers: It was a 10 episode miniseries so anywhere between episodes 2-9 Zeo: Takes place after the final episode because in the annual Drakkon attacks during Jason's going away party and Jason is the Gold Ranger until the final episode before giving it back to Trey Turbo: Here's the first hard one because the only confirmed survivor is Phantom Ranger who first shows up in episode 23 so it could be anywhere since we don't see which team is there Space: The annual shows the attack and Silver Ranger isn't there and the characterization of the Rangers matches the pre-Silver episodes so it's before episode 20 but two of the Psycho Rangers are part of Drakkon's army so it's after 31 so it's hard to pinpoint the exact time it happens Lost Galaxy: Karone is the Pink Ranger so it's after 32 but it's before the Lost Galaxy arc so before 35 Lightspeed Rescue: Titanium Ranger isn't mentioned but he barely appeared in the season so it's difficult to pinpoint the time Time Force: Quantum Ranger is alive but Pink is on good terms with him and he doesn't become friendly to the other Rangers until the finale so this could be post-season Wild Force: Sometime after 16 since Silver is there Ninja Storm: Sometime after 18 since Cam is the Green Samurai Ranger Dino Thunder: This ones tricky since the only rangers seen are Red, Blue and Yellow and nothing on Black and White so this could be anywhere SPD: Somewhere between 12 and 21 because Doggie is Shadow Ranger and Omega Ranger hasn't arrived yet Mystic Force: This ones crazy to figure out. Koragg is here so it's before 21 when he starts his redemption back into Leanbow... but Udonna has her White Ranger powers which she lost after episode 2 and didn't reclaim them until 29 and Solaris Knight isn't here yet so it's before 13. Using those clues the only time this could take place is the first episode... except the main five aren't assembled until after Udonna lost her powers so this season is impossible to place Operation Overdrive: Could be anywhere since the only survivor is Blue Jungle Fury: Sometime after 19 since White Rhino has to be there for Drakkon to take morpher to make a White Rhino Ranger Sentry RPM: Sometime after 14 because Gold and Silver are there Samurai: Post-season since Jayden is off investigating something so Lauren is the Red Ranger again. Interestingly Clash of the Red Rangers seems to have not occurred in either Samurai or RPM's universes Megaforce: Sometime during the Super season since Yellow and Blue use those powers Dino Charge: Post-season because Heckyl is the Dark Ranger, something that was supposed to happen but didn't so this is after the season. How he becomes Dark Ranger will be revealed during Beyond the Grid Ninja Steel: Sometime during the gap between NS and Super Hyperforce: They accidentally end up in Drakkon's world in episodes 19 & 20 and are back in their timeline in 21 Beast Morphers:... I'm not even going to bother since the season airs next year so anywhere after episode 1/2 Its interesting that the Morphing Grid cut off some seasons/teams towards the beginning, after the Sixth Rangers appear or once their season is over while now having all the seasons happening in 2018 (makes Alien-Space interesting since they are in their own years in the show meaning there's 2 Jason's on different teams and with Tommy on so many that means he's a teen and an adult in 2018)

Mistborn Era 1 spoilers:

If only I lived closer

I think @Invocation was talking about present tense not flashback POV since Brandon has talked about Lift having to grow up before she becomes a KR in the second half. Unless Brandon's misleading us, that confirms she's safe until then unless he goes with the twist of disguising her flashbacks as present day (he can get around that through mid-chapter POV changes like with Kaladin's final flashback being mid-chapter) and in her final one it's revealed she's been dead since before the book takes place. It could work with her since she's supposed to be the opening to the back half and if the Kholins would be too far after to work properly without a convoluted reason for them not being seen or someone impersonating them.

As we all know Brandon says that some main characters will die over the course of the series. So my question is who do you think will die by the end of cycle 1 and by the end of cycle 2? For cycle 1 I could see Szeth being dead by the end of his book. It could almost be a full circle where he was 'exiled' by the Shin to become Truthless but dying to save them as a KR. Oddly I'm thinking Dalinar might be someone who is going to die by the end of either cycle. I'm also thinking one of the two Heralds we're getting will be killed off as well. It would be an interesting twist if Renarin, Lift or Jasnah were killed off during the gap years and shown as a twist for the flashback like was done in the one episode of Lost where Sun was giving birth. It would be a mean twist if Kaladin was killed off during the second cycle. As for non-flashback characters if Dalinar does die then Navani should go with him or have her death be the reason he goes out, similar to Vin and Elend. Roshone deserves a good death, preferably at the end of a Whitespine attack. Odium for sure should be dead by the end of 10 so I'll be shocked if he's still alive after that.

@Pagerunner It might be more than 6 since he wants to include the east coast since he didn't for Oathbringer so it might go up to 9 depending on the other locations in the works but I doubt it'll go over that unless he includes an international leg, which I doubt he will since it's not Cosmere and thus considered minor. Luckily I'm on thanksgiving break that week so I'll be able to go for my second Sandersign. Are non-Cosmere signings usually less crowded or just as crowded? It's also fun since it's the day before my birthday so it's almost a birthday book for me.

Random House has posted some dates for the Skyward Book Tour. The dates and stops included were: Orem, UT Barnes & Noble Nov. 6 @7:00PM San Diego, CA Mysterious Galaxy Nov. 7 @7:00PM El Cerrito, CA Barnes & Noble Nov. 8 @7:00PM Seattle, WA University Bookstore Nov. 10 @2:00PM Anchorage, AK Barnes & Noble Nov. 12 @6:00PM Denver, CO Tattered Cover Nov. 15 @7:00PM Naperville, IL Anderson's Bookshop Nov. 16 @7:00PM (will be done at Community Christian Church) Houston, TX Murder By the Book Nov. 19 @6:30PM On the Reddit Anchorage was mentioned as well but Brandon said the details were still being worked on Note: Both Anderson's and Murder By the Book require you to purchase the book from them or you can't get anything signed. No one else has him listed yet.

@Sorana It helps a lot since before I encountered her online I didn't have anyone to really talk to about this stuff. Well it's more him who discussed that, she doesn't even suspect he feels that way. We both personally feel she would never agree to one because she needs his paycheck too much (he's a trucker so most of that goes towards his gas) But I do agree, it's his problem and he should resolve it his way. It won't really be resolved until I'm away from her permanently since one of the ways toxic parents keep control is to make it pretty hard for their adult children to leave at all. In other news I've been working on dates for my sabbatical and need a second opinion to make sure I've got the date right on one. Pretty much I want to arrive in California on 9/30 and departing from Tokyo. Would the departure date be 9/30? I just want to make sure because of the whole international date line confusion.

@Sorana I have but the one time (it involved having full control of my bank account which I got back in high school and she had to be on it because I was a minor) I did try with a semi-neutral party she turned it against me. Her attitude is what's making me want to do a sabbatical so I can get away from her on my own terms (you have no idea how many times I've tried to do something on my own while she was doing her own thing and she tagged along anyway because she doesn't trust me to be on my own at all. Heck the first time I went to a fan convention, it was for Doctor Who, and I stayed a little late at the video room and she was rushing trying to find me because I 'might've been kidnapped' instead of, you know, having a little fun with other fans over a video?) My dad's even talked with me of him possibly divorcing her because of her attitude and wanted me to mention it but I wasn't going to be in the middle of that since that's his business with her. He's always telling me to get through it and things will get better but I'm just at the end of my rope. Heck for Christmas vacation I was looking at doing this one shore excursion for myself while she goes to this one place she wants to go and she's thinking of joining me for it. It's like she doesn't get the hint that I wanted to do it for me (hint as in "I was thinking of this for myself"), not all of us. I pretty much do my venting to my girlfriend, and sometimes to my sister via text, since she's understanding and makes me feel better.

@Sorana Well it's not just me who has a difficult relationship with her, my sister, and at times my dad, have trouble with her. When my sister was young it was typical 'that woman's driving me crazy' but as she got older she started noticing it was more than that. When both my grandparents died she just got worse to the point that she's pretty much an obvious toxic parent at this point. I had looked up toxic parenting recently on YouTube and it just clicked with her behavior but to check I shared it with my sister and she agreed with me. There's stuff now that I recognize in the toxic parenting I remember her doing to me. 1. She's always doing stuff to make me feel like I'm an idiot, she finds fault in everything I do (like last night I brought our leftovers in but then she had me get her purse from the car and then I go change into my pjs. She's on the phone paying bills by this point so I'm thinking she put the food away but apparently she thought I'd be able to put it away while I was running to the garage and changing out of my work clothes but it apparently wasn't important enough to put away before doing bills. It would've been different if I set the food in the kitchen then went off to do my own thing but she sent me to get something for her so you'd think she'd be doing the courtesy of putting the food away) 2. When in public she treats me like I'm retarded, forgive me for the term since I know many find it offensive but it's the most appropriate, but in private she doesn't (she'll do it with me in earshot of her!) edit: Forgot to mention this: She didn't start doing this until it became 'trendy' to be a parent of a disabled person, before that it was just lying about my age so she could get tickets and stuff cheaper so that grew to me hating people thinking I'm younger than I am, even as a compliment. I know that's petty of me but when someone continuously lies about their child's age just to save a couple bucks that's just wrong to me. 3. Her reactions to everything has made me too afraid to talk to her about anything that isn't frivolous 4. She's always going on about how I don't assign myself stuff at work but when I do she finds what she's doing is more important (the other day I was trying to get an inventory count update going but she took me away from that to help her grab a few books off the shelf that were well within her limits to do alone and over a year ago I was putting some shelves together and I needed an extra hand to keep things balanced so it didn't fall apart and when I asked her for help she refused to even listen to me and tried to control the entire process even though I only needed her to hold two pieces together while I hammered a third into place so I just up and left to get some stuff done in the inventory system) 5. She never listens to me when I tell her I don't need help with something and ignores me to help me when I don't need or want it (to put in context it'd be like ignoring a handicap person after they've said they don't need help grabbing something off the shelf at the store and proceeding to help anyway) 6. I always have to accommodate her but she doesn't give me the same courtesy, pretty much it means if she wants something I have to go to her but if I want something I have to go to her even if I'm in a position where I can't go to her right then 7. If I want to try something new she somehow thinks it's a conspiracy against her and tries to talk me out of it or she thinks this one thing I'm not interested in interests me (I like history but not war stories so whenever a WWII film comes out she thinks I'd rather see that than the new Disney movie despite me telling her multiple times I hate those type of movies unless there's an interesting angle like Wonder Woman in WW1 or Captain America/Indiana Jones in WWII) 8. Playing the victim card is another thing she does. Like I'll be doing something like opening a box and she'll just reach in 'to help' and get a cut just to make me the bad guy. Heck the other day I was opening one of her boxes of Atkins shakes for her and just as I was getting the one flap up she just reaches in and cuts herself on purpose on the cardboard and then expects an apology for it. She does this so many times I refuse to give her the satisfaction unlike it really is my fault. She even does this to my sister, like a few years ago for Christmas my mom was apparently trying to make the holiday miserable since she refused to stay at my sister's house and thus wasted money on a hotel that was pretty far from her house. Then she invited us over to meet her boyfriends family for Christmas Eve and my mom refused because 'she'd been sick the whole trip' which I know wasn't true because I'd been with her the whole trip, including a visit to Disneyland, and she didn't show any signs of being sick at all, so I went to be polite while my mom stayed at the hotel by herself. Then on Christmas Day itself she really showed she'd rather not be around at my sister's place to meet her boyfriends family because we arrived in the morning and the only person there from his family was his mom, she's a lovely woman, and she barely stayed an hour before announcing she wanted to go to grandpas grave. I had already gone the day we arrived so I didn't want to go and my sister offered to go just to make sure she didn't spend the entire day there and be back for dinner and presents. My mom refused because my sister's offer was 'rude and insensitive' so she drove off. Didn't see her again until after we all had eaten dinner and only came by to say she was heading back to the hotel. I stayed for a few more hours and my sister drove me back to the hotel and she wanted to spend some time with mom even if it was to open one present. Oh no, she was so cranky and took the whole thing as 'she cares so little she only wants to spend one minute with her poor sick mother'. Oh and because she spent the whole day at the grave she really did get sick. She told her side of the events to my dad later on and when he and I were alone I told him what really happened and she didn't tell him the whole story and told the grave part like that was the first chance we had to go there, which opened his eyes on the situation. Oh and one of the presents my sister got for her? She exchanged it for the exact same item as soon as we got back! Now that's rude! Because of her whole attitude my sister doesn't talk to her much anymore and I try to keep in contact because she'd not know our plans when we come home for Christmas so that she can figure out when to see us based off her schedule since she has her own life and makes plans to meet friends for Christmas stuff and my mom sees it as my sister not caring enough because she doesn't cancel everything to spend every minute with us. 9. This is minor compared to the others but it's being deprived of food sometimes. It's one thing to skip lunch of your own accord because you're busy but it's another when someone else makes that choice for you. I've also had a few weekends where she wants to go out and do stuff and I don't get to eat anything until dinner, anywhere between 5pm-8pm, so you can imagine how hungry and cranky I'd be getting by then and yet she acts like I'm being cranky for no reason. And those are just the points I remember that indicated a toxic parent and the video had about 12 indicators. Heck the way she's treated me has put me into suicidal moments and a mild case of depression since I wasn't in the position to have any other people to support me but I've since found a great girl, it's long distance at this point since we're on different continents, and I know if I get together I'm severing ties with my mother since there are some relationships that can't be fixed. If someone tries to say 'blood is thicker than water' then they should know the full quote is 'blood of the covenant is thicker than the water of the womb' meaning the people you choose to be with who make you happy are better for you than your family who makes you miserable.

Whenever my mom gets an email from Disney Cruise giving an update on the reservation status she automatically assumes it's telling her it's time to start booking excursions and stuff even though it's not available until October! And when I tell her she refuses to believe me until she logs in and sees it's not available yet. Why would I even lie about something like that???

I'm thinking that as well but it'd be fun if he mixed it up for the back half. If I did have to go the alternate way and starting with Lift maybe it'd go Renarin, Jasnah, Taln, Ash since it would make more sense for the Heralds to be Last in this version, though it breaks the theme I had of having the final book be the beginning and the end timeline wise since I'm sure Taln will be the focus of the pre-Prelude era and Ash will focus on the moment she was picked and how she came to be by the time of WOK.

@goody153 It'd be almost poetic if Taln was the focus in the final book, meaning getting the beginning at the end of the story since I think Ash would be showing a little of her pre-Prelude life but mostly on how she came to be destroying her own image. Also it almost seems obvious that his stuff will be on how he became a Herald and everything before the Prelude with a final flashback on Braize but I'm almost wondering if there's more here than we're seeing, especially on the Braize side. When the back half comes here the order that I think would be interesting: Ash, Renarin, Lift, Jasnah, Taln. This is my pick because it would be go Herald, Kholin, random, Kholin, Herald as a pattern and the information would be spaced good since we can see what the post-Prelude world was like with Ash, what was going on during the gap period and more on the KR with Renarin and Lift, learn about some unknown stuff through Jasnah that would then be confirmed through Taln. I mean what other reason could there be to pick these 5 specifically for the end?

I kind of figure the gap period will be covered but then it's figuring out if Lift, Renarin and Jasnah will be covering just the gap years or if it'll cover stuff from 1-5 or earlier as well.

Not exactly the best day for me: A pallet of stuff came in for work and it was so dirty I needed to wash my hands twice while unloading, the boxes were pretty smashed and 4 had to thrown away because they were too damaged or had gotten wet recently. Needed to get the pallet behind the building where we keep pallets and I couldn't get back there because the maintenance man had his truck parked in the way. I went to ask him if he could please move the white truck so that I could get the pallet back there, I don't have permission to drive company vehicles, and he was so belligerent about it like I had asked in the rudest way possible. One of the campuses called and they decided to rearrange the prek rooms... and I'd already done the inventory work for those rooms so I had to redo them so they had the right stuff assigned to them. These people don't seem to realize that this is how mistakes in the count happen since it's trying to figure out what goes where now. Oh and they do this every year, I do the tickets and they change the rooms. Then me and my mom went to Panera Bread for lunch before going to the campus and she was rude to the manager taking our order. She was trying to take my mom's order but she wouldn't listen to the girl at all. The girl kept asking her for the base of the sandwich so that she'd know which sandwich to click on but my mom kept going 'no, you listen to me!' and the girl would reply 'ma'am I need to know what your base is first before I can do the toppings' I mean how hard is it to say 'turkey w/ (insert toppings)' instead of saying bread, sauce, cheese, veggie, meat, especially since the meat is how the employees know what sandwich you want. So because she refused to listen to the girl my mom chose to punish herself by not ordering anything, wait for me to finish eating and then she picked something up from McDonald's. Then she started telling everyone that it was the girl who was rude! She does this all the time and yet she wonders why her food is messed up 90% of the time.

Which flashbacks are you most looking forward to versus ones you don't care about? You can list your reasons if you want: 1. Ash and Taln, because of seeing what the ancient Roshar was like 3. Jasnah, she's one of my favorites so I want to know more about her life before the books 4. Szeth, just seeing what he was like before being made Truthless and what brought him to being used by the listeners to kill the king 5. Renarin/Adolin, I'm very curious on what could possibly be told from them 6. Eshonai, I'm not against learning more about her, I'm interested in fact and like learning about listener society in WOR, but I'm more interested in what the others bring to the table 7. Lift, would honestly pick anyone before her. You just know her flashbacks are going to feature her before she met Wyndle and stealing lots of food since she's a glutton, and not a lovable glutton like Jughead and Shaggy.

@HeyLookItz I hate that man as well. That man was just hateful and full of spite. Even when he had no proof of Lirin's crime he still acted like he was in the right. That man deserves a good death involving a whitespine.

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My answer might change after I finish reading everything but I'm going to break this into my favorite Cosmere book and my favorite non-Cosmere since they are in two different categories and it's not fair to put the YA stuff up against the epics. My favorite Cosmere, so far since this may change, is Words of Radiance. I loved reading Shallan's flashbacks, the interludes are great to get a break from the Shattered Plains, the bigger story with Odium starting to surface, that epic battle and sequence at the end. My only complaints would be not enough Jasnah (definitely one of my favorite characters), a little too much Lift (I know I'm going to regret reading Edgedancer when I get there because her good side is way overshadowed by her being annoying and always going on about food) and Kaladin's lighteyes bigotry/hate (though it was satisfying when that got 'resolved' at the end with Dalinar proving he was a trustworthy man) As for non-Cosmere it is easily Rithmatist because thinking about the story not told by the story is fun, like why the United Isles are so dangerous in the first place, the battle against the chalklings in Nebraska, what the world outside the Isles is like, why David doesn't become a Rithmatist during the ceremony.

I'm not sure I've full on cried while reading but I have shed a tear or two and felt terrible after these ones: Shallan's flashbacks in WOR, don't need to say more but it did hit a little close to home for me because I was still trying to figure out what my moms deal was and the psychological abuse was similar to what I've experienced Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows, because of all the characters we all grew up loving in the past 6 books dying Nasuada's torture in the Eragon books shook me but also made me proud of her not giving in I think the Percy Jackson series got me at one point or two The Kingdom Keepers and the Peter Pan prequel stories from Ridley Pearson made me want to cry at some points and came close at some (like Disneyland being hit by an earthquake in the final book since imagining someplace that was practically my childhood ruined was hard to imagine without getting sad)