king of nowhere

we haven't seen anything like spiders on roshar, no reason for them to be there (except in shinovar). there are probably some similar cremlings, though. No webs, however, at least not in the east. webs are for catching flying things, and there aren't any in the east. creatures build thick carapace to protect them for storms, and that make them too heavy to flight

public schools are quite a recent development. Preindustrial society couldn't afford them, and it was generally left in the hands of the church, the nobles, or the effort of individuals. While some places in the cosmere are advanced enough for schooling (great post by weltall) I'd guess most of them just don't have them, or they have very simple institutions that barely teach to read and write

Oh, right. One of the finest moments in the whole saga

I have very rarely witnessed such behaviors. I have only seen women treated condescendingly by a few old people. I've never seen a man beat a woman, while I've seen the opposite on occasions. In my academic career, I've never seen any discrimination - in fact, I've seen discrimination towards men, as policies to increase the number of women in academia mandate that one has to pick a woman over a man all else being equal. then i went to work in the industry, and my boss was a woman, and I've never seen her treated disrespectfully. Then I became a teacher, and both the principal and her second are women, as well as most of my coworkers. I've never seen a girl being told she shouldn't study math because it's unfeminine, or stuff like that. All in all, I never really got the hang of the whole gender business that seem to have exploded in the last few years, because while I am aware that somewhere, someone has to face those issues, they are as remote from my perception as the problem of flooding for a desert-dweller. I have a strong instinct to dismiss the whole problem as relegated to a small backwards minority and a few deranged individuals, greatly exaggerated at best. I have a hard time believing that many men behave like women in the wheel of time do. If at least a significant minority does, however, I can understand what the fuss is about. Is there really that many real people behaving like that?

And this is exactly why I don't like to bring gender (or race, or whatever) arguments into the mixture. Suddenly EVERYTHING has to be about gender. A strong woman is kicking chulls? clealry this is a gross exploitation of women, you are writing to pander to a feminist audience and get their money. A woman needs rescue from some kind of situation? clearly you are enforcing traditional role models with weak females, you should be ashamed, you mysoginist. A woman decide to put her family before her career? OMG, that's so wrong, let's tell everyone to not read this thing. A woman decide to put her career before her family? Now you are teaching young girls to neglect their children, or to pursue a stressful lifestyle that may not be of their liking just to fuel somebody's ego. Shame on you. There is literally nothing you can do that is not controversial (and incidentally, Vin was 15 when she started fighting. at that age she should be in a school. Shame on brandon for giving teenagers strange ideas) I have a simple test for those kind of matters: do men and women behave, roughly and statistically, the same? If the answer isn't clearly no, then there is no problem. If every woman depicted was a bully and every men was reasonable, then there would be a gender problem. But if some men are bullies and some women are bullies, then there is no problem, it's just those characters that are that way. If all women support their men and all men got to be in charge, then there would be a problem. But we have men who rule (mostly in later books, rand isn't the dragon reborn yet) and men who choose to support somebody else, possibly a woman (Lan is the foremost example here). And there are also some women who let others have their way (I think you haven't met them yet, though; or rather, you've seen one briefly, but that's spoileriffic). And incidentally, I always admired followers more than leaders. Everyone can tell others to do what he says; they would go nowhere without those people who choose to follow them without bashing egos at every step. Leaders would go nowhere if there weren't enough people willing to step down; it's those quiet people who carry on the world. Even then, different gender roles could be perfectly justified by the setting; a hystorical novel set in the middle age with a prevalence of strong women would just be irrealistic, for example. And in the wheel of time, women are generally in charge, as an indirect result of the power having different effects on men and women; there is a prevalence of bullies among them, but that's absolutely in tone with the setting. It is prevalent enough to be fitting, not to be a real problem. Really, i think a lot of strife could be avoided if people were less prone to looking for hidden meanings, or at least more likely to dismiss them when not strongly backed by statistics.

I think you are putting too many gender considerations here. As I pointed out, the men are no better (let's go visit baerlon and get in troubles despite the aes sedai best advice, let's go poke around in this place where the very shadowspawn is too afraid to enter, let's pick this obviously cursed dagger and not tell it to the knowledgeable people, just to stay with the first book). Everyone in those books think he knows better than everyone else, especially in matters where they have zero actual experience. try to think of them as characters, and not as women. and especially not as role models

this was discussed a lot, either for women in general, or for egwene specifically (sshe get really bad around book 5-7). Yes, women main characters in wot are bullies. they are not alone; men are too, with the sole exception of perrin. On the other hand, they are also fascinating concepts. they are genuinely heroic (you still have to see their best moments), and you can't help admire them. they are also genuinely bullies, and you can't help hate them. Nowadays flawed heroes are in fashion, but rarely you see heroes with flaws that make them unlikable for the public.

We don't. people fade to beyond, and even shards do not know what happens to them. as far as we know, there could be nothing at all.

Aslydin sounds pretty terris to me. Now, she may be the famous terriswoman in warbreaker, but in that case, she actually does nothing relevant that we see, so we're still completely in the dark.

so, frost said that hoid is not the type who blends? he must be out of touch. or maybe he knows hoid and his quirk enough to spot him, even though anyone else would not recognize him. Not sure if the place is yolen. White may look like that stranage plant infection mentioned in (was it the liar of partinel?) but white meant death in that case. white meaning nothing... unless the skullmoss was changed to no longer be poisonous? That hoid has lost someone nad has a personal vendetta is new, relevant information. That he's still seeing frost in person is less relevant, but still new-

I have never seen anyone do that. I've only seen downvotes used for rude, offensive posts. If some people started to use it as an impromptu flame war, I can see why they were suppressed.

the only regular thing is the cycle of the moon, as far as i know. maybe a lunar orbit is one day?

on the other hand, can't be much, as kenton only has two weeks to revert the vote. but this brings the question, how do they measure days if the sun is always standing still? I am sure the prose version must have the answer, but I don't.

oh, right, i forgot about that

If I was your daughter, or (worse) her boyfriend, I would be extremely annoyied by it. Especially if wasn't a fan of the book myself. In the best case I'd see it as a joke being stretched well past the breaking point. In the worst, I'd see it as lack of trust. I don't want to intrude into your family life, but I have to remind you, be aware that people who are not sanderfans rarely react positively to someone throwing sanderson quotes around all the time.

how about the opposite case? kelsier bonding a spren and getting radiant abilities?

After a second read, I appreciated the book a bit more. I consciously choose to use the graphic part merely to support the story and ignore it otherwise, and that way the book is fine. Though I noticed another problem, unavoidable when turning politics into comic form: the negotiations between kenton and other leaders feel very wrong. "I will die rather than vote for you" "I'll give you some cookies" "ok, you have my vote". Sure, I can accept that kenton presented the argument and was able, with time, to sway an opinion. Just not so fast.

there is an error in your calculation: a stormlight book takes one year from brandon. he releases one every three years because he alternates with other projects. So you have to cut some 10 years from the estimate. It would be perfectly feasible if brandon didn't seek too many side projects, but we know he will.

Several times through all the books kaladin recalls his old sergeant tukks, of whom he had a very high opinion. Tukks was, of course, in amaram army, and so likely he was in taylen city (assuming he wasn't left behind in alethkar, of course). However, many of sadeas forces survived and were freed from the possession when odium fled. tukks may be among them. Do you think he will make an appearance in the future? Maybe being recognized by kaladin among the prisoners? or maybe we'll never hear of him outside of flashbacks?

sorry if you thought you uncovered something deep, but it was widespread knowledge. I cannot say more about the topic of azure or what hoid does in oathbringer, however, because everything concerning oathbringer goes in the specific subforum. no, not even under spoiler it is allowed outside, for another couple of months. that said, most of sanderson's books take place in the same universe (the cosmere), and some characters can go from one planet to the other. There are several organizations of those "worldhoppers", which are hinted in the books, and they all pursue all kinds of obscure plots, generally centered on investiture (generic term for cosmere magic power, sort of like energy source in our world) or the shards of adonalsium - an ancient deific being that was shattered in 16 pieces, among whom honor, odium and cultivation. This story-behind-the-story will be gradually unfolded as more book are published, and it is one of the main sources of activity in the forums. Hoid is one of the key players in all of it. He is not from nalthis (the planet of warbreaker) but from yolen, the original planet from which humanity originated, and he was there when adonalsium was shattered, some 10 thousand years before the current timeline. yolen is currently closed to worldhopping, and we have no idea what's happening on it. You can learn more on the coppermind wiki: https://coppermind.net/wiki/Coppermind:Welcome

thought dragonsteel was it, but i wasn't sure. Anyway the math does not change, as all those books are to be written in sequence

but you are going to fall back onto the planet, so you'll be back where you started. Unless, as I said, you could propel you enough to reach escape velocity. Or unless changing your mass while moving in an energy field lets you cheat energy conservation, which may be the case. In that case, make yourself heavier than the planet, push, the planet will move one meter away, then become light and stop pushing, you will fall back on the planet and the planet will have effectively moved. I'm sure we have wob about that, but I'm too lazy to search right now

You CANNOT move the planet by pushing on it, no matter how much allomantic power you have, because you are standing on that very same planet. It's a similar reason why you cannot pick yourself up from the ground. The law of conservation of the center of mass says that you pushing on the planet will never change the center of mass of the you+planet system. Just like astronauts can't move their spaceships by pushing on them (though at least mercury capsules were light enough for it) You need to push something external to get motion. So, if you could propel yourself outside of orbit, that would actually move the planet - it would be the same principle of a roket, with the twinborn being the fuel. Or you could stand on another planet and push on scadrial, thus moving the two planets relative to each other. those are the only way.

I believe we'll never see the end of it. Brandon has to make 7 more stormlight books (with a hiatus in the middle for the mistborn contemporary era), and the mistborn future era will be written after the end of stormlight, and after that there should be a saga about the origin taking 7 more big books. So assuming brandon takes 3 years between large books and 1 year between medium books, it's 7*3 + 3 + 3 + 7*3 = 48 years. That's if brandon sticks to his schedule. Of course there will be a lot of side projects between those main ones. Brandon may manage to trim it down to his natural lifespan if he wrote as side projects books that are due at a later date. So in the year he passes between working on two stomrlight books, he may write a mistborn future age book, which won't be published until later. Well, he certainly has the money to afford writing a book and keeping it in the closet for a decade, but I don't think it will happen; it's against any kind of editorial policy. And he seems to be taking more side projects as time goes on.

I liked it more than 5, but 4 remains my favourite. Some really annoying things that eventually led me to quit it: first, the cost of everything is progressive,, i.e. it becomes more expensive the more of it you make. They did it for balance, but I damnation hate that just because I made many workers, subsequent workers are more expensive. The game is trying to stop me from focusing, and it does so in an unnatural, nonsensical punitive way. Plus, because of that mechanism AI suck even worse in late game, because every time you kill a unit, replacing that unit becomes more expensive Second, the best strategy to focus on one victory is to make a lot of small cities and build only the district you want: scientific for science, theater for cultural, military for conquest. Making a few big cities just results in less production overall. I always liked going tall rather than wide, and the game forcing you to go wide did not sit well with me. And the AI is still very dumb. I once killed a modern armor army with two crossbows because it kept going round and round instead of attacking. I tried internet gaming once, but in half an hour I could never get past 5th turn before someone quit or the game disconnected. And there is no option to rejoin a game. So, I had some fun single player, but after not too long I exhausted the options and I never felt anything compelling me to come back to play it.