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

On 8/23/2014 at 8:48 AM, cem said:

...True enough Full Lashing is effective against muggles, but I'm really skeptica...

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

5 minutes ago, Jess said:

Is it just me, or is this a really weird thing for Jasnah to say? People don't claim she's a heretic; they know she is. She's a professed atheist. She's not shy about it. But the language here is almost defensive, like the author doesn't consider themself a heretic and doesn't like being considered one by others.

I just can't shake the feeling that the hints toward Jasnah being the epigraph author are red herrings. The details are incongruous. Seeing "beyond" Shadesmar, "I thought that I was surely dead"... if that is Jasnah I think it is referring to an event we haven't seen yet, and not anything in WoR.

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)

On 8/29/2017 at 8:12 PM, ILuvHats said:

Mistborn is the only way to go with films.  Wayne needs his camera time.

 

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.

47 minutes ago, OrangeJedi said:

 @Nathrangking and @Spicker, I had not though of that, but that is really good explanation, that Dalinar saw the same emotion in the eyes of Odium's champion as he had when he was in battle. It will be interesting to see if/how the Dalinar flashbacks support this.

 

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

11 minutes ago, Nathrangking said:

Yes it is annoying though I think that it became so entrenched in him that even if he wanted to he would find it a tall order to change his ways.

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.

Tom Hiddleston can't be anyone but Hoid.

On 7/14/2017 at 8:53 AM, Toaster Retribution said:

Autonomy is a popular theory for the identity of Trell, and I really like it. There is just one thing: how could Autonomy go to Scadrial? She is invested in the Taldain system as far as I know. So she shouldnt really be able to go anywhere.

Well, going along with Autonomy's intent... It may be a characteristic of Autonomy that it is not as easily tied down as other shards. Especially given that what we know about Autonomy suggests that that intent seems to concern mostly the shards own autonomy and not necessarily everyone else's

On 8/8/2017 at 10:42 AM, Calderis said:

@Oversleepa lot of what you're getting hung up on is probably information we get from Brandon answering questions though. When it comes to the deeper workings of the Cosmere, we probably know more from the things Brandon has deigned to tell us than we do from the source material. 

The main issue with that is that until something is published in a book, he can change his mind. The books are Canon, WoBs are our next best source. There's other tidbits that we get from Peter... 

Another problem is that Brandon has said a LOT of things over server years and there isn't really an easy way to comb through it all. I find the coppermind wiki to be quite lacking in some areas. It's a work in progress

WoK:

A one armed man overcomes his handicap and the adversities of life threatening slave labor through his positive attitude

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My wife had read Elantris in High School and read the Mistborn trilogy about a year ago. She was freaking out while she read it and I, being way too busy with school, was amused but didn't read it myself. This summer she nudged me to read it again so we went to the library... where there wasnt a single copy, only Elantris. She urged me to read that but I was stubborn that I only wanted to read Mistborn. She grabbed Way of Kings followed by more freaking out and yelling at the book. On our next visit it was the same story: only Elantris, so I caved. Best book I'd ever read. In the two months that followed I read every published Cosmere story, Brandon's annotations, the released chapters of Liars of Partinel and I now own Elantris, the Wax and Wayne Series, and Arcanum Unbounded with plans to get the rest ASAP.

EDIT: Have since bought Way of Kings and I'm picking up Words of Radiance this week

1. Words of Radiance (Kaladin flying and fighting Szeth is one of the most epic things ever)

2. Final Empire (It's just so good)

3. Way of Kings

4. Hero of Ages

5. Elantris (My first Brandon Sanderson book about 2 months ago. Great characters, great writing style. Just so darn fresh.)

6. Alloy of Law

7. Bands of Mourning (that epilogue though O_O)

8. Shadows of Self

9. Well of Ascension

10. Warbreaker (a very good book all the way through... until the last few pages. So meh. Brandon even says in the annotations that he thinks it might be anticlimactic and I just nod my head and say "yes, very much". Love Lightsong and his climax a lot though)

This is really hard to do! It's like when people say they don't like a particular Pixar movie and what they really mean is "I still like it better than any non-Pixar animated movie". These books are all well above any other fantasy or sci-fi I've ever read so saying "I don't like Warbreaker much" just means I absolutely love it slighty less than another Sanderson book.