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As I have evidently displeased the questioner, this post contains the one I am referencing. (23 here not 24 sorry)

Pretty certain there is a WoB that Kaladins 19 is 24 in our time.

Red Herrings! Red (and Gold) Herrings left and right!! No I totally get you O_O

Has anyone found out more about this yet???

Someone in my apartment complex has "Alethkar" as their router. I have yet to identify them, but I know we are friends already.

On The copycat murder my immediate suspicion is Ialai. She was with Sadeas minutes before his death and I was really surprised to find no one found the body for 5 days. I suspect she was near enough to find out it was Adolin and has crafted this response to get at him somehow. Either set him up as a murderer or just psych him out so that he's vulnerable. More likely to set him up to fall BIG and shame Dalinar as well

Totally called Kaladin having a new brother and Dalinar relating the red eyes to parshendi voidbringers! At this point I'm inclined to hold back on a lot of the minute suspicious details being taken to allude to so much more. I'm sure a few will but my perception is that a lot of these details are amplified in significance by how brief our exposures to the book are. If I had the whole thing in my hand doubtless I'd be racing through it so quickly that a lot of these questions would be answered or fall back into obscurity too quickly for dramatic theorizing to take root. Aldo, really glad that Kaladin isn't backsliding this book

First thought when I read the title was titling the Cosmere arc "Game of Shards". Totally unhelpful but there you have it.

+1 for using the word to describe non magic users on Roshar. You have brought me great joy this day...

You know, throughout this discussion so far I've been firmly in the its Jasnah, come on it's just so obvious, I mean SHES the one on the cover of the book camp... but for whatever reason you have just made me doubt.... this may indeed be Dalinar...

I keep seeing people confused by Navanis red wedding dress as if it should be white. Is there any evidence that we have seen that Rosharans wear white for their weddings? This is a world where people have crab things for dogs, and cover their hands for the sake of modesty. Is a red wedding dress so unusual??

No one seems to have mentioned this, but a minor point in Sel's favor might be in giving us a better understanding of how Odium shattered TWO other shards when Preservation could only take Ruin down with it. Understanding what happened with Aona and Skai and their shards could have Cosmere wide significance. Additionally, I'm starting to wonder if the demise of Ambition wasn't related in some way to this, as ambition is a highly valued characteristic in Shu-Dereth and we know that Ambition wandered off somewhere else after being mortally wounded in the Threnodite system.

Hugo Weaving is my Dilaf for the moment.... and I don't have a good reason why... maybe receding hairlines and stern brows are how all my bad guys look

A girl I work with read the Mistborn trilogy and hated the ending so she hasn't read another Sanderson book since. She says she didn't like the way any of the major characters arcs concluded. Seems crazy to me but she's a likable and agreeable enough person. I keep trying to persuade her to read Stormlight anyways.

It's not fully an idea so much as a thought but could it have anything to do with end-negativity? Like these various things are more "greedy" with their power source in some regard? Or with energy in general? Maybe these things that suck in light actually suck in light somehow to supplement their own power, perhaps instead of consuming more investiture. And I would agree that given the similarity of skaze and voidspren and the difference between Nightblood and the others there must be a significant difference between the two phenomena observed (that I don't think is simple which shard their power is associated with)

The Wax and Wayne books are by far the most movie-adaptable. From the first few pages it felt so cinematic to me! But you can't make those movies without making the original series first and that one will be subject to a less serious version of the problem I just described with Way of Kings

My concern lies entirely with the length of the story. Way of Kings is WAY too long and dense to be crammed into a single movie. Even if its 3 hours long. Lord of the Rings only pulled it off because Tolkien was already filling pages with descriptions of scenery and birdsongs. Brandon Sanderson fills his with action, dialogue, and relevant character thoughts. A movie MUST cut a ton of that down to be viewable by general audiences. Goodbye favorite side characters and consistency with the book. I'd much much rather it become a big budget tv series but i think Brandon Sanderson needs to become more popular before that can be hoped for.

I like this idea best of those I've seen put forward. I think it's also quite possible that he sees... red eyes like the Stormform Parshendi. Honestly, I didn't attribute much to the passage

As annoying as it might be, its also... believable and realistic. Something people do all the time.

On a different note, the dialogue about trying to unite Roshar and getting the other nations to believe Dalinar makes me think Kaladin might be spending some time this book flying around showing off his Radiant-ness to convince people of what's going on.

It made me so happy to find this and know I wasn't the only person waiting up and freaking out that the chapters are "late"...

Man how to pick a favorite... Words of Radiance is a masterpiece practically from beginning to end, and Way of Kings is almost just as good Here's hoping Oathbringer lives up to the hype!!

I like it... I've seen talk that some of the orders are associated more with honor and some more with cultivation... How about the bondsmiths and the right side of the chart lead from honors side and the truthwatchers lead the left side from cultivations side of things. Truthwatchers might have some future sight and that definitely rings more of cultivation then honor.

I'd say chain them down underwater and wait it out...

I feel I will engender the wrath of all by claiming Warbreaker as my least favorite; the ending (post Lightsong) just fell really flat for me. Like that last few pages was just really underwhelming compared to other stories. Meanwhile Elantris is special to me as my first BS book. Hrathen was such an amazing character and Raodens optimism is inspiring All this being said Warbreaker is still better than most other books I've read the differences here are strictly relative.