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Wayne?

Ok I have one. Clue: This place is liked by in-world people

Chiri chiri

So who is taking up the next clue?!

Agree with you there. So most disliked character of cosmere?

@Stormwalker I like this theory. Sibling is definitely related to Honor but not sure regarding the relationship there. Was he created by honor or co-opted by honor, we don’t know. May be he is of both honor and cultivation as many believe. May be Honor distributed his splinters to both stormfather and the sibling. That would be smarter actually than to put every egg in a single basket and a basket at that which is most visible, most obvious. It will make sense that Stormfather is there to divert everyone’s attention from the sibling. Who went into sleep mode to hide. Also explains why Stormfather does not want Dalinar discussing sibling at all.

Welcome to the shard! Lots of spoilers on the book discussion forums for you so be wary. And I would suggest you to not check fanart also. It is all about the journey after all.

Edgedancer fits him most, I think. Although I won’t be disappointed if he is a dustbringer or stoneward

I'm pretty sure it goes from Peter's birthday to Brandon's birthday Yes I thought so too. Thanks for confirming

I agree with this 100 % @Scout_Fox and @DiemWolf. It is one of my favourite things about Brandon’s writing. Mistborn is a perfect example of this. In era 2 also, something that starts as a simple crime ( theft ans kidnapping) solving story suddenly becomes big in scope what with the set and their plans that will take effect in 100 to 200 years later. Then BoM takes us on a wider scale where we learn of southerners and are in the end introduced to the threat of another god interfering in Scadrial. Hello cosmere level stuff. Same goes for SA.

Granted you got a beautiful looking waffle with your favourite toppings but when you ate it, it was rock hard and you got tooth pain and had to goto dentist who then had to take your teeth out. You spent entire weekend taking pain killers and eating soup. I wish for corona vaccine that has no side effect and is permanently effective against it.

Peter Brandon’s assistant used to have an account with name of ookla the ——- something, in secret to check fans activities on the shard and their opinions, a few years back. He ultimately got found out I think. since then around his birthday or Brandon’s birthday probably both of theirs birthdays , I think for two to three weeks sometime from November to December we have ookla season. A lot of sharders change their names to ookla this or ookla that. This is what I remember.

Because this is what Brandon has told us. Each book has one flashback character, who is essentially the major character of that book. 10 books and 10 orders, each order will be represented. So far, we have had a windrunner, lightweaver and bondsmith book. This one is willshapers and next will be skybreakers.

RoW is Venli’s book.

The next one, book 5 is going to be Szeth’s

Agreed. SA has talked about slavery and racial discrimination as much as it has talked about mental issues in its heroes. book 1 was about slavery and the crimes against darkeyes committed by lighteyes. Amaram, Roshone and Sadeas were shining examples of this bloody tradition. Book 3 then addresses in parts the parshmen side of things and how they were treated almost like beasts of burden. Racial discrimination at its heights. I am glad that Jasnah is willing to take a first step in the right direction. But it alone will not be sufficient. It is not well known as of now but eventually when it becomes public knowledge that Taln and others (Nale, Ishar etc) are heralds, Alethi gods, are darkeyes then that is going to erode what mythological support the lighteyes have for their superiority.

A hierarchical system does not become egalitarian overnight true but laws are passed overnight that attempt at changing that system. Mere declaration of abolition of slavery by Jasnah is not going to magically make the system egalitarian and slavery vanish. There will be resistance and there will be a lot of work afterwards to make it a reality. But it is a first step in that direction and a good one. Many such changes have happened in our world historically speaking by the passing of legislations first and then slow and reluctant acceptance by the society later. Take for example practice of untouchability in India, widow remarriage, women suffrage etc. I don’t know much about American history but did not one president with the declaration of his intention to remove slavery caused it to happen in all the country? Not earned how? Don’t you think that this issue has been addressed in twok and WoR. When a group of former slaves show extraordinary bravery, skill and character and save the prince and next in line to the throne of a kingdom and his army and earn freedom in doing so. When the same former slaves turn bodyguards to the king save his and family members lives number of times ( from assassin in white at that who no shardbearer had been able to stop as of then) when the same former slaves turn radiants and become unparalleled military power that humans have not seen in centuries and not only become instrumental in the humanity’s efforts against survival, but are the sole beacon of hope for winning if at all. It already, in-world, has put a big question mark and severely challenged the merits of the practice of slavery and underlying belief in the superiority of lighteyes over darkeyes that such system thrives on. Further, another major group of slaves, parshmen who were believed to be of sub human intelligence, have risen revolted against humanity in a war which for your average parshman is about slavery and their treatment thereof. They have also shown that they are not sub human, they are not unintelligent, they once belonged to a thriving civilisation in ways much more advanced than Rosharan civilisation of today. They have proved themselves to be military power again. Again challenging the belief that humans are superior to parshmen. All these events that have been happening in the books are about slavery and subjugation of one species by another ( not unlike racial discrimination of our world) and injustice of it and the fight against that Events have been happening but the dialogue that needs to happen due to these events has not happened yet. Or in-world amongst the scholars, the dialogue must be taking place but was not touched upon in OB. But now, one year later in RoW I am glad that this dialogue is going to be at the forefront with Jasnah spearheading the campaign against abolition of slavery.

I agree. Although I don’t think the idea is ridiculous. An oath based investiture is something that a shard Honor has, makes total sense. Cultivation is also seen in the system where they are required to be cultivated or steered in the desired direction by spren and that causes them to progress along. But odium is all about emotion, or rather giving up of all emotion for odium. And in this surrendering their self, they are chosen by odium. So different bands of fused are more like focusing on different emotions rather than swearing opposite oaths.

Rumours are rumours and we can not know for certain what is going on between the two till one of them outright says it. But friends, confidants or something more, what I wonder is if Jasnah knows that her Wit is a lightweaver. He has bonded a cryptic and not just any cryptic but the one that was meant for her brother! Wonder how trusting she is going to be of him then. Knowing that he knew the reason for Elhokar’s paranoia and did nothing besides waiting around for him to get killed to then bond with his spren. That is going to bring trouble and I can’t wait to see it happen.

Yes so far it appears we don’t have any stonewards. So how late is late? Sounds like later half of the series to me. Excited about Stonewards though : I also really want to know what an order led by Taln would be like!

It is yours then. I would love to see the surrounding platforms and I find it very interesting that the richer you are, deeper you live in those caves. Seems very contrarian to what we would assume

I really doubt it. Fwb may be but I find that very unlikely too.

Yea it is possible and probable that there were people from more than one ethnicity in Ashyn that came to Roshar. Shins might have stayed true to the original agreement while others might have decided to invade and expand.

More than Wit I have doubts that odium would cut a deal with Wit. Epigraph has already suggested that some are uncomfortable with his interference into their realms.