pyrrhical

I had a theory, and this was just a theory, that the Desolations -- the true Desolations -- ended when the Oathpact was shattered. Or that the Last Desolation was still raging. Because when the Knights Radiant left, there is no mention of the Voidbringers any further, correct? Just mention of armies marching upon one another? And a lot of jarbled facts that we only get through "flashbacks"? So how I interpreted it -- and this could be absolutely into left field, so stay with the cray-cray for a bit -- is that when the Oathpact shattered, it was the Last Desolation, and the Heralds knew that the Voidbringers were gone, or no more were coming, so the KR could take care of it. But the KR were for the people, and so they stayed past the end of the Last Desolation. Hence why the wars started to rage between kingdoms and people after that. And hence why the KR threw down their weapons, after that -- much like the Heralds did. And now, now that the Voidbringers are shown to have never left, maybe the KR never really left, they just migrated off somewhere else, too. That was the theory that I ended the book on. Since, to me, the KR were effectively human, only . . . amped up human? Like the Voidbringers were devastation, only amped up devastation, like the difference between parshmen and Parshendi -- KR and human. Those who can lash, and those who can't. And they migrated off somewhere, or became something else, because the "Last Desolation" was the ending of the Oathpact, and the leaving of the Heralds, but that wasn't the actual end of the Voidbringers, like the end of a battle isn't the end of the soldiers?

Honestly, book two not coming out this year is absolutely fine. Have you seen everything that's coming out this year? There's about 5K of good literature coming out this year, that's what. That's about 4K more than I've got time for. E-gads. Joking aside, whenever the book comes out, I'll be excited. And if it's Spring 2013, when I graduate, well, I'll just consider it a present to me, right alongside Star Trek 2. Because these things are obviously related. I'm just excited it's been put into the works, and is being written. Melanie Rawn ring any bells? She writes as many pages as Brandon Sanderson for years, and then starts not finishing things. My gratitude at the continuation of series is unending, right now. 2013 is certainly not too long to wait. Honestly, 2014 would be spiff, for 1K pages of brilliance.

Apparently this is where we introduce ourselves. It's been so long since I did anything that involved a forum that I'm nowhere near savvy on what, precisely, I ought to introduce about myself, but! I adore the work of Brandon Sanderson, and so I've wandered here. Specifically, well, all of it. I may have even been talked into reading Wheel of Time for the sake of his writing the last three volumes. I've always read the Campbell Nominees; it's a tradition. But rarely has one year produced so many brilliant authors. I have to say, 2006 was probably my year. Elantris was a work of genius, and I adored it. (The Temeraire series and Sarah Monette's Doctrine of Labyrinths were also brilliant, for reference.) That aside, I am in love with The Way of Kings. I am a law student; I have very little free time. In fact, as the president of two organizations, a member of two national competition teams, the head of a non-profit organization, and a member of a dozen committees, some of which are citywide and professional, time is something I sort of have a vague recollection of. I dropped a day from my schedule when I realized I simply couldn't put WoK down, and finished it then and there. It was brilliant, and breathtaking, and I'll likely re-read the blasted thing before the semester is out, regardless of how good an idea that is. (Yes, I do love the Mistborn series, and Alloy of Law, but I figure if I ramble about them all, I'm truly preaching to the choir.) I suppose that's why I'm here; to talk about my deep and abiding love of WoK, what I think (and hope) about the series, and perhaps some other things, and to meet some folks who loved it as much as I did. Lord knows I can't con anyone I know into reading a thousand pages in the midst of case law. If you dared to read this actually wanting to know a bit more about me, I am, like I said, a law student, and I'm attending law school in Iowa. (If you know anything about law schools, I've practically narrowed my existence down pat for you.) I'm a 2L, which means I'm not panicky, but I am being worked to death. I'm studying with a focus in children's rights, which means that while I'm going into a field where I could potentially make enough money to buy a small island, instead, I'm going to work for pittance and the smiles on children's faces (all right, no, that's not true, the little ungrateful bastards). Eventually, I would like to write foster care legislature in the hopes of reforming a devastating system of cyclical destruction, in which I have worked and striven for the last five years (if this topic actually interests you, I have a thesis on it). I'm trying to figure out a way to achieve my goals without ever becoming a politician, but seeing as however I say that, people laugh, I'm not sure how well it's going to work. I am not pompous when I say I am well-spoken and a powerful speaker (my competition team status seems to speak for that), but I would rather do the dirty than the glamorous work, since that means it'll get done right. (By which I mean, the way I want it done.) I also greatly enjoy music (hard rock, orchestral rock, and alternative), bad television, and nerdy board games. I would love to try the Mistborn RPG, but I could never manage the real time commitment, steadily, which stinks.