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I like the writing style most of all. There aren't "bad" or "filler" paragraphs or chapters I find myself wanting to skip, but reading "because I have to". Other writers have more beautiful or eloquent language, but I think Brandon's is the best match for a huge fantasy epic. It can be torture to become frustrated in the middle of page 500 or book 7, or whatever. In Stormlight I feel pretty safe that that won't be a problem. I also like the more thoughtful characters, which so far is Szeth and Shallan.

It was a long time ago. There are people with "aethers" in Liar, and someone said the magic system was cannibalized from Aether of Night. It sounded reasonable to me because it had the word "Aether" in it, but I've never read it so I don't know. Also no one actually uses the aethers in Liar because it's so short, so it's probably impossible to confirm or deny that it's the same magic.

I haven't read Aether, but I heard the magic system got cannibalized into Liar of Partinel. Liar got scrapped so I don't know if that still applies for when Brandon rewrites it. But either way, it makes it sound like Brandon views Aether as something to cannibalize, not something to redo and finish.

I just had this idea. I don't know if I could actually do it, because it involves killing people. I could try to pick people "who deserve it", but if it was real and not just a forum post, it's hard to say. But anyway, I'd spend 100 or 200 years doing an Interivew With the Vampire ripoff, which I'd title Memoirs of a Supernatural Assassin, or something. I'd kill people and do sneaky things, and then publish 200 years of it as a "fiction" novel. At some point, my fandom would go fact-checking and realize that it's real, and it would be the scariest thing ever.

I got the idea that the main series is five books, and it becomes seven with Liar and its sequel.

edit: actually n/m, I'll try to finish it before asking this

Hemallurgy had better work, or else my plan to create Nyan Cats by giving Windrunning and Lightweaving to cats is in serious trouble. And without Nyan Cats to fight them, the Catquisitors will rule unopposed. I wouldn't want to live in that kind of world.

How does one use acquired souls anyway? I won one in a stupid bet once, but I couldn't think of anything to do with it so I gave it back.

For the Wheel of Time names mentioned there, TooWan should be "Tuon" and Shardale should be "Ishamael".

I think she's in Taravangian's death room. Her attributes would lead her to the greatest hospital in the world, but when Taravangian doesn't get enough terminally ill people for the death room, he resorts to taking "[T]he forgotten and the lowly. Those who will not be missed." So she can't actually help anyone, since that's just sending others to the death room in the place. The most she can do is comfort the dying. Her icon is actually on the Szeth / Taravangian chapter, but people recently noticed that Palah's is all over the Shallan chapters because they're in a library named after Palah. So the icon could be for the location not the Herald.

Icons for "location" would explain the Vedeledev in the Szeth / Taravangian chapter. No healing happens at all, just killing people to extract death visions, but it's in a hospital.

I tried to come up with a joke about Sodium Laureth Sulfate as a shampoo ingredient, but it's just not coming together... Welcome to the forums!

Does anyone recognize Ym's religious ideas? It's some kind of pantheism, and I know Brandon mentioned Spinoza as an influence once, but this doesn't sound like Spinoza. It reminds me more of Carl Sagan's quote that "We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

I think her mother visited the Nightwatcher during her pregnancy, and ended up with a boon for Shallan and a curse for herself. I agree that Shallan is too innocent and inexperienced leaving her home for someone who visited the Nightwatcher. My big problem with it being a Radiant ability is that Shallan is comfortable with it and takes it for granted. She never even credits her artistic talent to the power, instead thinking she learned it from books. If it were a Radiant thing, wouldn't it only have showed up in the last year?

Ym's cosmere info is interesting: If Roshar is the fourth land for them, what are the others? Vorinism considers Roshar a second land, after the Tranquiline Halls. Maybe the Iri remember Yolen. That's still only three lands, and he says four.

I like the idea that Adonalsium blew up on Roshar, but if it happened anywhere I figure it's at the Origin of Storms. It's a lot weirder than the Shattered Plains. It doesn't have to mean Yolen became Roshar either. They could've gone to Roshar to do the Adonalsium thing, because it was so dangerous. Maybe Roshar shows up as another planet in the Dragonsteel story. Hoid learned about worldhopping somehow.

Is this mostly about the first paragraph of the article? A compromise might be to write the first part in out-of-world language, like "Vin is the protagonist of the Mistborn Series. She doesn't appear in any other novels, but in Alloy of Law she's remembered as a mythological figure." I like past tense. I found it annoying on the Star Trek wiki, but I got used to it. And I'm willing to trust the Star Trek fandom, that if it is annoying, but they feel the need to do it anyway, that it's for a good reason. (Star Wars also seems to use 100% past tense, but I only spent 5 minutes there checking so I might've missed something.) They have hundreds of times our resources and experience.

I noticed this on Star Trek wikis also. I find it confusing, but it appears to be a widespread convention on fan wikis. It does solve real problems when deciding when the "present" is, especially when prequels get involved.

Does anyone remember which recording this is in? It's not in any of Argent's transcripts.

Ok, I agree that is different from the "forms" of Aons and Parshendi. It's not about shape. I think "type" works. I tried looking in a dictionary, but it didn't help me much There are so many meanings of "form" I never thought of before. Also I don't think dictionary writers consider Pokemon or werewolves "changing forms" when they write their entries, but that's what Parshendi are doing...

There's not much to see; apparently spambots discovered the downvote button and converged on a single post. In the name of science, I used an upvote on post, helping the -20 Rotting Chull Carcass evolve into a -19 Beheaded Inquisitor. Er... I mean, I did it out of compassion!

Plato's forms are unlike anything else. "Form" is translated from ancient Greek, and even in the original language Plato was using it as technical jargon, not as a normal word. I don't feel up to explaining Plato, but I'll try. You say you have a notion of a horse. Plato would say that the notion of a horse isn't only in your mind, that it exists in a higher dimension, and you've simply become aware of it. And that all horses in the universe are connected to this notion, and are imperfect copies of it. Plato would probably argue about "circles" or "justice" instead of a horse, but he thought there were forms for everything. I agree that with Aons and Parshendi, "form" means "shape". Do you have a quote that mentions "forms of Surgebinding"? I'd probably go with "type" for a synonym, but I can't think of an example.

Szeth pretty much has them backwards. Killing world leaders is the opposite of Leading/Protecting. In another thread, Miyabi noticed that Szeth's status as a slave is the opposite of Jezrien's as a king. So I agree Szeth doesn't have the Windrunner traits. But maybe he has them so completely backwards that it's a sign of something else.

I wonder if he has a list of changes or limitations he needed to make programming-based magic not completely broken. He says the drawing of the symbol is important, not just the information. But is there more? To me it looks like Sel magics have the engineering side of computer programming, but not the mathematical side. It's about building little machines out of symbols.

It could just be Seasonal Affective Disorder. I have no medical background and can't tell good research from bad, but one of the theories is that it's related to how daylight regulates our sleep cycles, and in winter some people don't get enough daylight for the process to work for them, and they become depressed. Also darker eye color makes the disorder worse, for people who have it. That could be really weird on Roshar.