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I think Leshwi and possibly some of her fellow shanay-im are being setup narratively to switch sides. Some of the details that setup this arc are the Honorable way the shanay-im fight, Leshwi's fascination with Kaladin, Leshwi's being a leader of the shanay-im, Venli being the Voice of Leshwi, and Venli's explicit plan to tell Leshwi about her desire to create an independent splinter group of Listeners. In the last chapter we found out that Leshwi values compassion greatly: And then Venli's explicit statement of her plans, and Leshwi's role in her plan as the Litmus test to see whether the Fused will go along with the splintering off of a new group of Listeners. Kaladin is compassion incarnate. Leshwi's fascination with Kaladin really comes down to 3 things, his prowess with his powers, the honorable way that both he and his Windrunners fight, and Kaladin's compassion. Here are the Chapter 6 excerpts that show the above: I think this is more confirmation that Kaladin, and more specifically Kaladin's compassion, will be instrumental in bridging the gulf between the Singers and the humans.

Yeah we have friends that lived out on the McKenzie highway who have lost their houses, just sucks how quick these fires rolled in. Looking forward to it!

Hahaha, yeah, I live in Eugene Oregon, and with the world suddenly becoming a giant ashtray I thought about how depressing it would be to live in the Final Empire. Or Dickensian London for that matter. This is what the sun looked like last Tuesday (which was about the worst day for us) spoilered below. Your map is looking great, excited to see the updates!

Sorry, I know this is a double post, but this is freaking amazing! So I went to Office Depot, and printed out 3 of my favorite posters from the NASA Solar System and Beyond poster page, and they look ridiculously amazing! It was $1.18 for each of the 11x17 color prints and $.29 extra for the 11x17 card stock, so for $4.41 I got 3 of the prettiest posters of 3 of the coolest planets/moons in our solar system! Here are all 3 posters: And here is a better shot of the Mars poster, such amazing detail! And here's a better shot of arguably the coolest moon in our solar system, Saturn's moon Enceladus: And here's a better shot of the beautiful high resolution Moon poster: In other news, I'm also reading "The Discovery of Our Galaxy" by Charles Whitney (the Harvard professor of Astronomy who also made the Whitney's star finder). It covers the history of our evolving understanding of the Universe and our place in it from Copernicus through the early 1970's, and since it details the progress of knowledge about the components of the night sky, it's also a great resource for figuring out what interesting stellar objects are accessible to amateur astronomers with binoculars or small objective telescopes. You can pick it up at AbeBooks.com for as little as $3.70! It has great illustrations too, like this view of Tycho Brahe's observatory built on the Danish island Hven: And Kepler's garden sculpture that represented the orbital distances of the 6 innermost planets as the platonic solids circumscribed in spheres. By an extreme coincidence the ratios of the radiuses of the spheres corresponds pretty closely to the ratios of the radiuses of the planets' orbits around the sun. It's a great book!

Granted, you're now 2 mm taller. With your added height you get a very real yet imperceptible increase in the distance of your subjectively viewed horizon. Your bane is that you fart loudly and uncontrollably at the most inopportune times (you have to sit on special acoustic dampening cushions at church, on dates, etc). But over time you gain mastery over your gaseous emissions, and you can modulate the frequency and pitch. So in your later years you accompany the Church Organist on Handel's Messiah, and your rendition of Ode to Joy is known to make the sensitive members of your congregation weep from the sheer beauty of your performance. I wish someone would pull the Nightwatcher's finger (Answering the deep realmatic mystery, Does her gas glow with Cultivationlight?)

@Koloss17, so I had my daughter finish this up. Just as a refresher, spoilered below are PART THE FIRST and PART THE SECOND. And now, I proudly present the ridiculously amazing cartoon stylings of my daughter for: PART THE THIRD Wherein the enlivened Wig does perforce dispense a judgement most ironic (my daughter came up with the punchline too!) @The Awakened Salad turns out I had time to do your drawing after all. I proudly present to you a humble sketch of the Awakened Musical that is taking Nalthis by Storm, Spamilton. My daughter came up with "La Baguette" for Lafayette. So funny!

I think you can just pick a character and let Ghander know that you want to be in a later round, there are usually four preliminary rounds, and Ghander is super nice! If that doesn't work, let me know and I'll ping you next week.

I've got a pretty good idea on how to do this, I've got to get some work done now, but I'll ping you when it's ready.

Awesome! Just pick a character and ping Ghanderflaffle to let them know (Ghanderflaffle's running the tournament, and doing a smashing job of it too)!

The basic idea is ~16 people sign up to represent characters from Brandon's books, and in the voice of their selected character they roast the other characters represented in that round in verse, and when the round is over people vote for their favorite roast. The winner (and sometimes winners) go on to the next round and fun is had by all. The very first post in this thread explains it better than I have. As to being the Bard of the Shard, that is an honor that you have earned for your numerous brilliant parodies, and if all you had written was "Bye,Bye, Tanavast What a Guy" the appellation would still likewise be yours. Brilliant stuff!

Just when I think I'm out, they pull me back in... @Ghanderflaffle sign me up as Edgli, I feel some poetry Awakening in my soul. I'll see if we can't drum up some more Roasters. @Personification, the bard of the shard, do you want to participate in the Cosmere/Non-Cosmere Character Roast Tournament? It's a ton of fun. @Herowannabe, creator of Awesome Koloss emojis and prince of perspicacity, the Cosmere/Non-Cosmere Character Roast Tournament is on, wannabe a participant? @Zath, the possessor of the cutest profile picture on the shard, and poetic genius, the Cosmere/Non-Cosmere Character Roast Tournament, want to sign up? @Archer, creator of, in my humble opinion, the bests roasts ever (the annotated Allomancer Jak ones), the Cosmere/Non-Cosmere Character Roast Tournament is on, want to join up?

Rad brother! I liked this idea so much I did the most involved awakened cartoon yet, here it is the Tale of Two Puns. It was the worst of puns, it was the best of puns...

Rad idea, I love it! PART THE FIRST Wherein the honorable Lord Barriston Barrister doth preside with a fearsome mien of sombre solemnity, setting the stage for the hijinks to come. PART THE SECOND Wherin the honorable Judge, Lord Barriston Barrister be not privy to the fact that his stately wig hath been awakened with the command "Cause disorder in the court" Stay tuned for the exciting climax in PART THE THIRD, wherin the stately wig thus awakened will smite the gavel mightily.

Cultuvation appears and bids the Nightwatcher retire. "Perfect timing, your wish is granted! It turns out there is an opening to be the new Vessel of the Shard Caution, because, well, the last Vessel wasn't cautious enough. Congratulations, you get the job and now are the new custodian of the single most dangerous entity in the cosmere." You feel your corporeal form expand and you sense your very being mingling with the matter and substance of the dwarf galaxy known by book loving Terrans as the Cosmere. As your consciousness likewise expands, a sudden gnawing apprehension seizes you. "Oh no, did I leave the oven on?". Instantaneous vision across time and space reveals that no, you did not leave the oven on. Whew! Then as the cosmic journey of suffusing matter, will and motion with your divine essence continues you hear a voice in the back of your mind. "Would you like to destroy some Evil today?" Instinctively you shudder at the rash absurdity of such a notion, recklessly attacking something you don't even understand. Silly sword. In your staid, minimally furnished corner office in a high rise in the Spiritual Realm you smile to yourself. Yes, all the pencils in the pencil cup are perfectly sharpened to a 22° point, the papers communicating your divine wishes to the functionaries below you that ensure that your mandate is carried out are all tidily arranged, and atop the pile of papers that have been processed and reviewed sits Nightblood, sheathed and blessedly silent. With hands clasped behind your back, and your tongue absent-mindedly picking a piece of spinach from your teeth, you think back upon how reckless your wish had been, why if you hadn't become the Cautiously divine entity that you now are you might have used Nightblood as something other than a paperweight. I wish for a magical paperweight (that can't communicate telepathically.

Hahahaha! Nice extended metaphor, quit playing your music at 2 am Hero's Journey . Like @ftl mentioned, in SLA we're seeing a recursive playing out of the Hero's Journey. I think like you highlighted in your breakdown, Kal goes through one full iteration of the Journey in WoK (which makes sense because it's his book), and each ideal (excluding the 1st) is it's own cycle of the Hero's Journey, with a subsequent regression to an earlier stage to begin the struggle that is attaining the next ideal. And the thing that is so painful about Kal's journey right now is, like @Oltux72 mentioned, Kaladin has basically been stuck on the stage of Dying since he was unable to protect the Singers he had befriended and Elhokar. Kal has been hanging at this moment of choice for so long, and he's so tired from the protracted metaphorical death of his self image as the protecting Hero. The SLA narrative structure is basically setup for each main POV character to experience the Hero's Journey in their own book, but with the flashbacks it can happen asynchronously. Whenever I think about The Hero's Journey, I invariably think of the lexical ambiguity of the phrase. Is that a possessive apostrophe s, or a contraction. Sometimes I like to think it's a contraction.

Hahaha, good stuff! Wow, Google translate figured out Hoid was a worldhopper, smart algorithm indeed!

The famous Mistborn epigraph Pretty much the same thing, right?

Great roasts @DramaQueen and @Sorana! Spook came out swinging hard but Goatona, in his quiet, edifying, yet sanctimoious way laid low all comers. Excited for the next tournament!

Granted. Using run of the mill swimming techniques you can very slowly and painfully make forward progress while laying on your stomach and "swimming" on the ground. Anyone could do this really, but the Nightwatcher has given you an edge, you've been given the tenacity of Michael Phelps, and the sweet mustache of Mark "the shark" Spitz (sorry about this if your a girl). Your bane is that you become the world's most famous ground swimming tic tok star. I wish for a magic chamois.

Looking over at Cultivation who nods her head in approval the Nightwatcher says, "Sure thing boss, I'll T this one up." "On certain days you have the capacity to eat a copious quantity of cookies, but alas no desire to do so. On other days you lack the capacity but are filled with the desire to eat cookies, lets say on those days your teeth are soft and squishy like fruit snacks. So technically you could eat a bunch of cookies, but it's just not in the cards for you to actually get to eat them." "I appreciate ya coming all the way out here though, I really do, so as a consolation prize you get this snappy t-shirt". You look down at the lime green t-shirt you are now wearing and see that it says in dark forest green Cooper Black letters "I've Boon to the Valley. It could have Bane worse." I wish Billy Joel was my guardian angel.

And Pure poetry, the golden promise of knowledge indeed!

Awaken a teacher's classroom chair with the somewhat complicated command "Make farting noises when sat upon". A super covert awakened whoopee cushion.

Wait...which one's Hoid? Now I've got to rewatch the California Raisins Christmas special. There's always another secret...

Thanks @Necessary Eagle, youve got a great username too! What does your username mean? I understand both of those words, yet I'm at a loss to figure out what they mean in conjunction. The thing that comes to mind, is a break in case of emergency kind of box in the oval office housing an attack eagle. Putin is being unreasonably bellicose, it's time to deploy the Necessary Eagle. My favorite username (and profile pic ) on the shard is @Toaster Retribution, and he's a great guy too! I also really like @The Awakened Salad (who's also super nice), @Butt Ad Venture (Hilarious), and @Blightsong (Lightsong was my least favorite part of Warbreaker, and probably my least favorite cosmere character, I always read this as a comment on his character, but if this wasn't your intent it's still a very clever name) I think the coolest usernames (and profile pics) on the Shard are @Calderis (the name sounds great, and his super abstract profile picture is awesome), @The One Who Connects (this is a good explanation of what he does exceptionally well), @Extesian (sounds like a high level theoretical and technical term (like extending the Cartesian coordinate system) and is completely in line with his high level technical posts, and his profile pic of the Mandelbrot set is just nice to look at), and of course like @Lunamor said @Chaos (the name is great, and he has the coolest profile pic ever).

Now to answer the age old question, What awakening command would a hipster that likes to make gourmet muffins use? The request line is open, submit your awakening cartoon ideas here or better yet draw an awakened cartoon!