Invocation

So that's how Nightblood will get an actual sense of good vs evil.

Arcade with a wall themed like build-a-bear called Spike An Inquisitor. Also sells Soonie pups.

Oh for sure. Mainline cosmere is almost for sure going to stick directly to him. You know, I didn't even think about that option. Good call, that might be it.

Could be, but I'm not sure there'd be many people willing to pick up a series that long stagnant.

I'm pretty sure if he's cutting anything it'll start with the Rithmatist sequel, The Aztlanian, since it's been so long since movement there.

Yeah I got some of those vibes off of it as well. If it's cancellations, my money is on Nightblood and The Aztlanian officially not happening anymore. Hm...ominous. Co-authorship announcement?

I don't think anyone isn't hoping that, but this thread would get repetitive quick if it was just that over and over.

Yeah, he's looked very tired the last few update videos, and has mentioned having to try to find time to revise Skyward 4 somewhere between TLM and draft one of KOTW makes me think it'll be a delay on something. But I'm holding out hope it's something positive, like news about a progressing option on one of the adaptations. I definitely don't think it'll be that, with how long he's been dreaming about the cosmere and its storylines.

Cradle by Will Wight (I know it's already here but I'm seconding it). Piranesi by Susanna Clarke. Mage Errant series by John Bierce. Brandon Mull's Beyonders is good, if a little bit low-age compared to most. Art of the Adept series by Michael G. Manning. Naomi Novak's The Scholomance. Kingkiller Chronicles if you haven't already read that. Arc of a Scythe by Neil Shusterman.

True, but if anything that reinforces my point. If he thinks it isn't Soulcast he won't be able to eat it. If he thinks falling over and pushing someone would possibly hurt them, he'd get yoinked.

The guy can't eat meat. I think his inability to harm would end in him missing the shove more than anything.

It'd be fun having an Epic social war over claiming Antarctica. Or just doing some other things in a mostly uninhabited place like that to allow for unleashing of abilities.

Sazed

*looks at Doomslug name* *look at Doomslug pfp* There were absolutely no clues possible to use to help.

>:) But alright, for Dune specifically, it depends on how crazy you want to get. You could read the first book only and pretend the rest don't exist (which is my preferred method because some of the rest of that is uh...not normal) or you could go all the way through. I'd say read the first one and then dive into the sequel (Dune Messiah) and if that ends up heading in a direction you're okay with continuing for the rest of the series, head on down to the rest of the mainline series and make another choice at the end of it if you want to go the whole way into other territory.

I don't think you'd be able to do that and retain the spren as it was.

Patchwork mess is funnier, but I keep imagining a gradient layered out from the scalp. I figure it's some combination of a little bit of that, a little bit of worldhopper shenanigan genetics entering Roshar's gene shardpool, other side effects of Radiant ancestry that were more lowkey than eye color, all with a dash of high Investiture environment highlighting it.

My money is on there being something to explain the hair that just hasn't been revealed. There's no other reason for all the hair colors to breed true like that, or for the potential for a rainbow-haired child to exist.

Investiture. Radiant ancestry.

Except Stormlight's eye thing does have in-world justification.

He also is probably the only one with the knowledge to be able to whip out laser beams as a Lightweaver. Edit: wow, I really quoted the wrong thing here. You could strike my remaining brain cell against a flint and it would fail to spark.

Especially now that they know how to shut off their pain nerves. No need to invent kandra-specific anesthetic (which would probably otherwise be necessary).

I'm not sure if it would translate as directly to a cannibalism taboo, unlike killing a kandra and using their spikes directly a la OreSeur and TenSoon, but it would probably be the equivalent of mistreating the body instead of doing a proper funeral/burial/cremation.

I think it's either the color, or Brandon deliberately redacted the actual metal to keep us guessing.