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On 17/11/2020 at 5:49 PM, Zedseayou said:

So honestly I'm confused about who the fifth Group 1 character was meant to be. Szeth was not in the tower, which does leave Navani, Kaladin, Venli and Lift there. Was Teft meant to be number 5?

Group 1 was Venli, Kaladin and Navani as the main POVs

Rlain was the minor POV

And Dabbid was some kind of tertiary POV

Lift, as far as I read, was an interlude character and they don't count on characters grouping, same goes for Szeth excluded from group 3

He's so annoying. By far my least favorite character in this book 

The Sibling is so much more funny than other Godspren with his delightful pessimism and cute despise of humanity 

I'm really enjoying its dynamics with Navani so far

Have just started it. But I'm really excited to read a Renarin POV, I've been waiting for half a decade now for a chapter of him 

Finished it just now

The Epigraph just revealed brand new shards WTF, never expected that 

Also loving the Spren pictures, thanks Shallan for your efforts 

Really enjoyed part 2, both groups had a very pleasant storyline. Shadesmar journey was so much more enjoying than in Oathbriger 

And Pattern lying to Shallan, who would saw it coming ? Can't wait until part 4 when the truths about her past are finally uncovered 

This book so far was very dynamic and fast paced the invasion plot in part 2 was great! I'm upset Kaladin haven't tried to hide himself among common humans, but guess it's just against his nature 

Navani interactions with Sibling was awesome. I'm not sure if they will bond just yet. I have to say that so far Sibling is the only Godspren I've liked, he/she have some kind of naive way of talking that is refreshing, naive but not silly

I'm really looking forward more Venli POVs. It doesn't quite look like her book so far, she have probably the least amount of chapters and we still not getting her flashbacks yet. Hope it changes in part 3

2 hours ago, Child of Hodor said:

That is really smart ... precisely how do you change your account to be Australian? Change the address or something else?

2 hours ago, Master Silver said:

wait that works? Monday is my day off soo....

Yes. You can easily change that

Just click on Account & Lists in the top right of the screen, just on the right of search bar

It will reveal a modal, click on "Your Content and Devices",  it will lead you to another page

In that page, click on Preferences in the menu bar and then look for "Country/Region settings". Choose any australian address you please and confirm 

This must automatically redirect you to an australian domain

In the australian store just buy the book normally, just keep in mind you need an international credit card to complete your purchase 

You maybe need to restart your kindle, mine only detected my book once I restarted it 

I couldn't wait so I've changed my Amazon account to an Australian one. I'm reading the book now about 9 hours before the release, guess I won't do anything other than read after I finish working

The first thing I've done was to look at the POV character of each part, I do this every book since Words of Radiance l. Then I started Syl interlude 

Where in the cosmere is Thaidakar from & have we seen him in any books before?
R- Roshar I guess. Pretty sure we saw him already in Stormlight, we just don't know yet lol

Using an unsealed metalmind keyed to Connection, would it be possible for heavily-Invested individuals native to Roshar to worldhop? (excluding Willshapers and Elsecallers)- asking this because of what Mraize said to Shallan in Chapter 13:
R- I actually think not even Willshapers nor Elsecallers can use transportation to worldhop, atleast according to Mraize words. Their surgebinding is too tied to Rosharan system to work outside it, which is a shame. About the metalminds, remember only people from Scadrial have acess to Feruchemy, so unless we use some kind of Hemalurgic spike I can't see any native surgebinder of Roshar worldhopping

What power does Mraize's Aviar have?
R- No clue

Are the holes in Shallan's memory entirely self-inflicted or do they have something to do with the Ghostbloods?
R- I'm going for self-inflicted, or at least unrelated to Ghostbloods, they only know about her and are using this knowledge to manipulate her

What "brand" is missing from the Fused? (since there's only 9 varieties and the Radiants have 10)
R- Some Bondsmith surge, I'll bet on Adhesion

Why is Alethkar called the "Land of the Second Advance" in the Fuseds' language?
R- Some reference of from the first Desolation I guess

Is Nale the only Radiant that has sworn the Fourth Ideal?
R- He sworn the fifth actually

What specifically enables Worldhoppers to worldhop?
R- I'm guess they have a diverse set of magic that make them able to worldhop. Most of them use shardpools as a way to enter in cognitive helm. As cognitive helm is closely tied to sapient life, hence galatic spaces without intelligent life are shortened enough to make the travel possible

How do the drums that the ardents use in agriculture direct Stormlight?
R- Something related with the rosharan rhythms singers can listen

Why is the Stormfather prejudiced against the listeners?
R- Is he? Against the listeners specifically? Not singers in general?

Is Zahel's shell fossil from Yolen? If so, how did he get it?
R- Nope, it's from  Roshar. Roshar predate  the shattering, it was designed by Adolnasium 

Can Nightblood be used to permanently kill the Fused? Is Nightblood in any way connected to Moash's knife that he used to kill Jezrien?

R- Yes, it can, Nightblood is able to interrupt the  connection that makes the singers coming back to Roshar. As Zahal explained, both Returned and Singers are dead bodies tied to souls, Nightblood can someway "cut" trough this. Not sure about Moash's knife though

ARE JASNAH AND HOID ACTUALLY TOGETHER? I see them more as an intellectual partnership/having mutual respect for one another. Plus, I think having Hoid be a romantic interest would probably make him too much of a "major player" in the series, when his whole schtick is operating behind-the-scenes
R- I hope so, really like the idea of this couple

How does the tower (and to an extent, the Sibling) specifically interact with the Investiture in the highstorm? 
R- I  don't understand the  question 

34 minutes ago, Jaywalk said:

I loved it!

Potentially controversial/unpopular opinion: The Dawnshard was the least interesting part of Dawnshard. The character moments were what made the book for me.

I agree, but not because I find Dawnshards uninteresting, it's just like it's a plot the isn't likely to be well developed until back 5, so I can't get hyped for anything that will take over 10 years to be uncovered 

10 minutes ago, Rainier said:

. Venli has nothing so obvious except a full change of sides, or speaking the Second Oath. 

I think a third is more likely. I can see her secretly swearing the second ideal while still on singer side, as the intent of freedom is what already is moving her to refund Willshapers among the group of singers she lead. Before the third ideal she can't get any official squires either, at least not squires who can manifest surgebinding

20 minutes ago, Rainier said:

Single viewpoint of Dalinar, Jasnah's POV still being withheld until the back 5. Least amount of information going in, least amount of speculation to do. What we learn is going to be the primary setup, the A story, of book 5.

Sanderson confirmed she has some viewpoints. In Oathbringer she had 2 chapters in part 2 and some viewpoints in part 5 of Sanderlanche, I think she will at least get 5 this time, and some good information about her radiant path, I hope she's on the 4th oath already. On my mind she has swear 2nd ideal long before The Way of Kings and was stuck on it until she get into shadesmar on Words of Radiance, there she discovered or did something that made her progress to her 3rd ideal and finally be back to physical realm (she's confirmed on 3rd ideal as she had a shardblade that I think she'd never beared before).  On her WoR chapter (and I think it's cannon) she never used Transportation before,  which further intensify my guess she was still on her 2nd ideal. 

Renarin scene really looked like a 4th ideal scene, although I can be wrong 

18 minutes ago, DeployParachute said:

Awesome. Thanks for the quick response. Honestly, that doesn't read like it deflates my point, that Shallan/Adolin arc will probably not play a significant role in resolving the Urithiru battle in the dramatic fashion described above. Not to mention that the reviewer states that the arc itself has its conclusion in one scene in part five, and is careful to avoid detailing who may be involved. It reads more like there is a quick denouement scene for one of the viewpoints, likely Shallan. I'd put my money on it involving Mraize. She needs to deliver to him the information and receive her reward, do she can decide if it was worth the price she paid. My point, I think, still stands that the emotional climax of that arc will be contained within part 4.

 

Yup, I know and I agree with you. I just wanted to point their arc will be finished in part 5, not in part 4

Just now, DeployParachute said:

Got some sauce for that?

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Unlike some reviews, I’m not going to tell you what they are; I don’t see any way to talk about them without spoilers. To manage expectations, though, I’ll say this much: There are three major plot arcs which logically follow from the prior events of the series, up through the end of Part One. One of those arcs continues to weave through the remaining four parts. A second arc mostly takes place in Parts Two and Four with a final scene in Part Five, while the third is seen in Parts Three and Five. If you have a Special Darling Character who happens to be involved in either the second or third arc, resign yourself to this knowledge now.

https://www.tor.com/2020/11/12/brandon-sandersons-rhythm-of-war-a-non-spoiler-review/

So unless Adolin and Shallan are in the third arc (which I doubt), that's confirmed their final scene is somewhere in Part 5

13 minutes ago, Lemiltock said:

Still the two character POV for group 2/3 does line up with shallan and adolin being in a group with relative nobodies, they could be part of group 3, but shallan also showed up in part 1. Or they could be group 2 with a close out ti their arc but not a POV in part 5.

Shallan/Adolin were confirmed as then POV characters of group 2 and will be present in parts 2 and 4, having only a final chapter in part 5 to close their arc on this book

Dalinar and Jasnah are the POV characters of group 3, with Jasnah having only a few viewpoints but more than what she had on Book 3. Their arc start on part 3 and finish in part 5 as well

30 minutes ago, DeployParachute said:

Given the story structure visualization that Brandon revealed here, I think it is much more likely that Adolin and Shallan's story ends for this book at the conclusion of part 4

There is a confirmed conclusion POV for Shallan-Adolin arc at part 5 according to a non-spoiler review from Tor

On 11/11/2020 at 4:37 AM, Gilphon said:

Actually about the Stonewards. Or more, precisely, about the Truthwatchers. The idea was to send Radiants whose spren haven't broken with the rest of their kind- and hence Why Shallan and Godeke, because the Cryptics and Cultivationspren are board with the whole 'bring back the Radiants' idea, whereas the Inkspren and Honorspren largely aren't. 

But then why a Truthwatcher and a Stoneward? Are their spren also largely on board with the Radiants? If so, why do they only have three Truthwatchers? And given the way they haven't been mentioned at all before now, there don't seem to be a large number of Stonewards either. 

I'm under impression Truthwatcher spren are just picky choosing their Radiants. So far all them seem to cater people who look forward others. They also looks more lonely Wolf type, not getting many squires and not attracting many other of their kind, so they are far more split in the world compared to Windrunners and Edgedancers

Be it doesn't imply their kind are against forming nahel bond, not as strong as Inkspren at least

Agreed about Stonewards though, but we know close to nothing about them 

Edit: we also don't know the population of each True Spren, there are hints Radiants orders were never even in numbers of members, although Dalinar visions gave us hints of an Stoneward army 

Rysn was always one of my favorite interlude characters, and Aimia (western Roshar in general like Iri and Shinovar) are the places I want to know the most on Roshar, so when heard about an expedition to Aimia lead by Rysn was announced I don't need to say there I wasn't anything but hyped 

As usual, Sanderson promised and delivered an awesome short story 

It doesn't sound like a minor unimportant secondary plot, rather a very significant one that was just too much a side story to get into the main book 

Sanderson is really sensitive to human diversity even in physical condition, his portrait of disabled people remains unpaired as far as fantasy literature goes. Glad he didn't give Rysn her leg movements back in a cheap way, she's much more interesting as a person destined to greatest besides her disability, rather than a person who need to overcome a disability in order to be important 

Thr cast is just perfect. Sleepless remains fantastic, same goes to Larkins and Cord really grewn on me. Lopen stands as one of my favorite bridge four members, and Rua is just adorable and matches his nature perfectly. 

The only bad thing I can think about it's how short it was and fast I read it. It could be a bit lengthier, I wouldn't bother 

1 hour ago, Crylorenzo said:

This is what I thought. There's going to be something I'm sure about training Aimians in the art of disguising like humans, while at the same time having oblique references to protecting Rysn because of what she's become, but without referencing what she's become. If Brandon said outright that it was an Aimian interlude or a Nikli interlude, that would provide spoilers for Dawnshard and take away some of the tension of that book so he avoided talking about it. I can't see any reason why Brandon would be cagey about decalring a Chiri-Chiri interlude since that sounds whimsical, not spoilery (unless you've already read Dawnshard and know more. That being said, if it is a Chiri-Chiri viewpoint, that'd be fun.

Btw, is there any thread to talk about Dawnshard? I was planning to read it in the course of the week so I could distract myself from the anxiety of waiting for ROW... but ended reading it all in one night...

After reading Dawnshard, I thought on a Nikli interlude 

Currently at chapter 7 of Dawnshard and storming loving it. Clear shot to surpassing Emperor's Soul as my favorite Sanderson novella 

This is my last week commenting here for several days. English is not my native language and I'm not a fast reader. I don't think I can finish the whole novel in less than 3 weeks 

I'm really loving part 1 so far, and the plot looks fantastic so far. All things are align for this to become my favorite book, or at least my favorite along with Words of Radiance 

I will listen to it, even though I prefer reading 

Edit: It's gone lol

6 hours ago, Chaos said:

Here's my spoiler-free review: 

There's also a written version: 

 

I was Avoiding every other review, but I'll watch yours. Please don't spoiler me that much D: 

Ok so people are getting the book weeks before the release  

I'm now considering the possibility of becoming an Youtuber dedicated to books. I will work hard for the next 3 years to become sufessful and get many subscribers. After that I will finally get a copy of SA5 for myself 20 days before anyone else and shut down my channel right after that 

24 minutes ago, robardin said:

Oh, and about Laral becoming "citylady" after the passing of Roshone: that doesn't seem like it'd be high ranking enough to warrant meeting with Jasnah, Queen of Alethkar. Something else going on there?

I mean, think about this: who and what had been the "chain of command" between Hearthstone, a backwater town fit for exiling a disgraced lighteyes "where he couldn't do any more harm", and where Kaladin only realized how unimportant Roshone's position was in the big picture after he returned as a Radiant? Up the line was Highmarshal Amaram, and ultimately, Highprince Torol Sadeas. Both of who are now disgraced and out of the picture (dead, in fact). Ialai had taken up the title of highprince (highprincess?) but she, too is dead.

Hearthstone was deemed worth a special evacuation, one personally attended by Dalinar and Navani in their one and only flying barge, accompanied by a slew of Radiants. Yes, in part that was because of wanting to extract The Mink, but also because it was special to Kaladin, it would seem. And maybe more than that?

I'm not suggesting Laral is about to become highprincess Sadeas or something - for one, that would mean they'd been thinking of bestowing that on Roshone before he was killed, and that seems very unlikely - but there is a vacuum that will need filling, and I suspect Laral has it in her to impress people with her will and determination in short order.

Laral is a Citylady of Sadeas Princedom, as we don't know the exactly state of house Sadeas after Ialai's death it makes sense for me to Jasnah take care of this minor succession issue. I think you are overthinking this

3 minutes ago, Inky said:

I disagree, Kaladin's pretty clearly part of the A plot involving Urithiru. Shallan and Adolin in Shadesmar are the B plot, and Dalinar and Jasnah in Emul will probably be the C plot. After the last chapter I think Kaladin/Navani/Venli/Renarin/(Rlain or Moash) is a pretty solid prediction for the major A plot POVs.

Agreed with this one

Although I can't see Renarin as a POV character yet, maybe a minor POV