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In the Way of Kings, it is from Hoid to a character named Frost, who appears in the unpublished book Dragonsteel. (If you look on Brandon's website, you can find some chapters from that book that were recently posted.) There is a letter in Words of Radiance, which is from Frost back to Hoid. Now, Frost hasn't appeared anywhere else in the canon, and we only got the chapters released this month. But some of Brandon's early readers, from before he was published, have read it. And there is a single copy in the BYU library. So, some people figured who had read that book had figured out who it was (Frost is a dragon, and Hoid's letter calls the recipient an 'old reptile'), and they asked Brandon about it at signings. Which is how this character came to be public knowledge. But it's not something you'd be able to figure out just from reading the published stories.

For some reason, I can't follow your link, but I can find it anyways and I'll post it here in case anyone else can't find it: I agree that the "Short Story Collection" includes the prologue, but I don't think it means it's focused on Eshonai. She was basically in the "Novelette One" slot for last book, as Szeth was for the first book. The Short Story Collection is mostly the standalone Interludes, like the Soulcaster and Ardent interludes that Brandon read at various events. I'm not sure who will be our main Novelette character, except it definitely won't be Szeth (since he won't have chapters until the end of the book), and I don't think it will be Eshonai (for the reasons I stated above, that her Prologue POV is not counted as part of the Novelette). I think the blue/pink indicates that Kaladin is our SMC2 and Shallan is our SMC1. I'm not sure Adolin is a TC at all, in this outline, since there are no boxes at all for any of the TMCs in Part 1. If I were to speculate wildly, I could see Shallan disappearing, and Novelette Two being Adolin investigating. That would explain why she's not present in Part Two, but the thread of her story could basically be continued from Adolin's POV. But other than that, I think the absence of a TC in Part 1 does not bode well for him. I'm very hesitant to speculate on what the various climaxes will be. Going into WoR, who would have thought that Kaladin being thrown in prison was one? There definitely are expectations that we have about the narrative, but considering the total curveball that has been coming our way with Kaladin's chapters, I don't think you'll be able to guess the important twists of the book at this point. (But you are free to attempt it, of course!)

Moved to Oathbringer Spoilers. Oathbringer content is not currently allowed outside the spoiler board, no matter how minor. It's an interesting question, and one that would make sense to address further along in the flashback sequence. A couple of points: The Alethi won a number of Shards from the Parshendi while fighting for the Vengeance Pact. So that will inflate the modern numbers a bit. If I recall correctly, the Shardbearer we just saw in our most recent flashback was a highlord in control of a city, not a highprince with an entire princedom. So even if a single princedom was wealthy with Shards, that might not mean they'd bring them all to bear at the same time. Gavilar's conquests were not all through military might. Highprince Yenev was defeated in a duel with Sadeas, and Aladar took over his princedom. It might be an interesting project to track the Alethi Shards we know about, and who has them. See if we can figure out where these Shards have been over the course of recent history.

The image itself is high enough quality that you can zoom in and read it. There has been some discussion of it over in the Oathbringer board ever since Brandon tweeted the picture of the ARCs (which had the blurb, even if it took some image contrast manipulation to make it clear enough to read), but, as with everything else released regarding Oathbringer, it cannot be discussed in this subforum at this time.

Reddit: 100% Twitter: 100% Blog: 100% TWG: Brandon 20% (49/249 pages), Peter 0% (0/326 pages) The review of the blog is done. And now I slog through the TWG. It's a little weird, going through Brandon's musings about music and movies and lingerie (really). Most of it isn't relevant in the slightest, but there are some rare gems. I posted the Aether stuff I found a couple months ago; those are the sort of things I'm looking for. Even though it's a couple thousand posts between Brandon and Peter (who I know has posted stuff about Dragonsteel in there), I don't expect to find very many new pieces of information at all. But this is the last place to check, so check it I will. I expect that I will only have one final update, next month. I'll have finished up my review and inputted everything I found into the new archive (which is on track to go live by the time Oathbringer is released). For now, an interesting WoB that was never transcribed for some reason, only summarized, during the Seattle signing on the Calamity tour. But in the process of moving stuff from Theoryland to the new system, I found it and transcribed it:

Yes, it is indeed Wit. You'll see him appear in chapters with that icon.

An interesting idea, but that line is almost certainly referring to Taln, called Stonesinew, who has been trapped alone in Braize for the 4500 years since the Prelude.

Do you mean on the main page? Or in the Recent Activity? If it's the latter, you can create your own stream that includes only the forums you want to view, so you can exclude the Wheel of Time forum.

I haven't seen anything on the subject, but I'm watching Twitter in case Brandon slips up again!

That's two dust jackets already in the original picture. The bottom part is flipped around so you can see the interior; if you look closely, you'll see there are only 8 Radiant glyphs, and the top of the Reshi islands have been cut off. Whoever is holding the jackets has overlapped the two by a few inches. (You can also see the glyphs showing through Brandon's blurb on the left, except for the bottom one where the jackets are overlapping.)

Yeah, we need more data points. More glyphs would be good, but the best would be the Alethi names for the glyphs on the Surgebinding chart. The Surges, especially, have some very clear lines, but we just don't know what words they are!

A very well-considered request, and an absolutely cool piece of Stormlight that's all your own!

So, Argent bribed Isaac to making him glyphs out of his name. Let's see if we can crack the code with this extra info! (You may need to zoom in to see some of the detail on the Highprince glyphs.) I'll some up some of what Jofwu, Argent, and I discussed on Discord. I did some thinking about it, trying to work from scratch, not from Harakeke's guide. (No offense!) It looks like you can include vowels, but you don't have to. That explains why we have so many crazy "screw you" lines in that one Kholin verison, and in our Radiant order glyphs. It's because they include vowels, not just the consonants. Unfortunately, that means most of our glyphs don't have any vowels to compare with Argent's glyphs. The biggest obstacle is that Argent has repeated vowels in both his first name and his last name. But we have six unique characters in the first glyph, and seven in the second. No duplication. (Except for the grey glyph in the more elaborate version, of course. But that wasn't present in both.) This made me wonder if there were multiple symbols for vowels, depending on how many there are or in what syllable they fall. So, a "first e" is different than a "second e", or a "first syllable e" is different than a "third syllable e." But, since so many Alethi glyphs appear to only include consonants, we're a little sunk on trying to go anywhere on the vowel front. But there's some good stuff in consonants. First of all, the three consonants I'm sure of. Using gesheh (bridge), we could find the G, the yellow letter. (The other letter in the gesheh glyph matches with the shash glyph, so it's our sh.) Roion gives us our R (which also matches the Roshar and Urithiru glyphs, which I haven't included here, but which Harakeke has already deciphered.) N, the only other letter in Roion, fits very well with Roion, Kholin, and Evgeni, but not with the nahn glyph. But we've had that problem for a while. Second, there are two characters in common between the two glyphs: light green, and dark blue. One of them is definitely V; I'm leaning towards blue for no particular reason. The other one must be some sort of I... but it's not one of the new letters in the expanded Kholin glyph, so I don't see where to go from there. And if pink and orange are actually the same character, which is "first I," then I still have an extra character that's in both glyphs. That leaves only vowels in Evgeni that I'm having a hard time with. Moving to Kirilov, there's not much more I can narrow down on consonants, either. V is one of our repeated characters. L... has been giving me trouble just from the Highprince glyphs. I can see the dark pink in Sebarial and Aladar, but not in Kholin. I can see something kind of like dark blue in Kholin, Sebarial, and even Aladar if I squint, but there's one of those in Evgeni, which doesn't have an L. And the K... well, we don't actually have a K in any other glyphs. We have a KH, which is a different letter in Alethi. So, K could be anything else I've not seen. I'm leaning towards pink, since the duplication of grey makes me think of those I's. So, at the end of the day, I've got a really good idea for the G, but aside from that, I'm about where I was from just the Highprince glyphs again. I tried to put Argent's letters on Navani's ketek glyph. Doesn't mean much, since we don't know the Alethi version of the ketek, just the English one. (I'm assuming that Isaac worked from an Alethi phrase, but maybe it was English.)

Source.

That really is kind of bizarre. I don't recall anyone pointing that out before. What's more noticeable to me is the "last clap" on the left, which wasn't introduced in the text until Words of Radiance.

Brandon typically waits a year until he puts hardcover books for sale on his site, so as not to compete with the sorts of booksellers who do things like host his signings. (You may notice that Arcanum Unbounded isn't available there, either.) Weller's normally does the signed and numbered copies, and they are experiencing issues with their website at the moment. No one knows when it will be back up, but Brandon's twitter account will probably be the first place they'll announce it once it's fixed. The BYU store page for Oathbringer looks like they will ship it, although I'm not sure if that comes with a number or even a signature. You'd be best off contacting the store directly for those questions.

No news from Team Sanderson: Keep an eye on Brandon's Twitter account. When it's fixed, that will probably be the first place they announce it.

He's spoken about it on Reddit before, when people were discussing his sales figures. I couldn't track down the link, though, but maybe that will help you in your searching.

Great observation! I've long wondered about why he was called that; this line may be a hint.

Moved to the Oathbringer spoiler board. There are a lot of formatting errors that are showing up in the Tor posts that aren't there in the actual book. That one was a missing line break. The ones that have jumped out at me have been the dashes in the middle of words; but those are just because of the way everything is getting copies and pasted, so they will be appropriately at the ends of lines in the actual book. What did you find? An actual typo? Or a formatting issue?

If you're comfortable with less literal interpretations of the Surges, Dalianr's use of Adhesion could be preventing his wife's name from "slipping away" as it has in the past. I'd find that to be quite a hermeneutical crime, though...

I really hope this theory isn't true, but I do have to admit that it's well-construed and probably makes the most sense out of the options I've heard so far. Stormlight healing, painrial, Everstorm restoration, all of them have their issues, but there's nothing outstanding that needs to be overcome for the curse transfer, since we don't know exactly what Dalinar asked for. My concern is more from a narrative point of view. Stormlight books are big and getting bigger, and these sorts of plots are exactly the sort of thing that can drag down long book series. Like Perrin and the Shaido in Wheel of Time - it was a very natural outgrowth of the world, it provided some tremendous character growth for one of the main characters, but when the whole plotline was resolved, it didn't further the overarching narrative at all, it was merely an obstacle that a character had to overcome. Dalinar is trying to unite the world; having to deal with supernatural interference with his marriage would be tragic and interesting, but it's still page count, and this book ran so long it has pushed back some of Brandon's other projects, like Rithmatist 2 and Alcatraz 6. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm not going to judge a story that might happen before I've even read any of it. Brandon may very be able to make it an integral part of Dalinar's path, like maybe one of the Bondsmith oaths involves giving up your personal life to be married to your Radiancy. But my eyebrow indeed has been raised. But as to the mechanics, I don't think the time delay is a problem. We don't know the timetable of how Dalinar lost his memories of Evi in the first place, do we? It very well might have been a gradual thing, and now the process has begun again and he will gradually begin to lose memories of Navani. It was a moment between hearing her name and seeing her face, so an ongoing thing makes sense.

Some good stuff in this chapter: Looks to me like Honorblades are a part of the Oathpact, between Honor and his Heralds. Also, this is a point against the Shardplate-as-spren theory. Like Honorblades, it's looking like that Shardplate is crafted directly from Investiture, not from spren manifesting as metal. Hold up. Time's not a Surge. Why list it with two other Surges? Those forces are definitely other Shards. I'm quite surprised by how Stormfather describes the champion approach... all it does is drag things out, it's not an actual way to defeat Odium. The Honorblade is in the toilet. Did not see that one coming. What else do the Heralds get from Honorblades? This throws some fuel back on the Dalinar-as-Oathbringer-author idea. Coupled with the focus on experience in the latter two epigraphs this week (Jasnah isn't a heretic because of experience, but because of reason), it's now back to a tossup in my mind. So, why? This was the first time we've seen him Surgebind; maybe drawing in that much Stormlight healed damage in his mind? I thought maybe the painrial could have played a role, but he had it on over his uniform, which he took off to spar, so I don't think he was wearing it anymore. I'm a little concerned that it might be connected to what happens in the next chapter - Odium's influence restoring the Listeners' lost minds. What the Nightwatcher removed, Odium may have brought back. That would be quite disturbing, since it would show Odium's influence in Urithiru. Listeners attract spren. I guess those were the red lights that were seen when they raided the village a few chapters back - some sort of spren they were attracting. (Angerspren, maybe?) I'm still a little wary, but I Syl has had a good chance to study this spren, so if she says it's a Voidspren, it must be a Voidspren. I wonder how it's intelligent in this realm. It doesn't seem to have bonded with any of these parshmen like the stormspren had with the Parshendi. Where is its intelligence from? And where is it leading them? Realmatic words, quite meaningful, although I'm having a hard time grasping all the implications. Gavilar says they trapped a spren, but here Syl says that their souls had al been damaged. Is this a singular spren that was a part of every Listener's soul? Does that mean one of Odium's spren has taken that place, or has the healing power of the Everstorm (even Odium's Investiture can heal, it looks like) caused a jumper around the part of the soul that is normally filled by the Ancient Spren? Can these Listeners even take forms, or has that part of their soul been bypassed? I'm also not sure what's going on with Connection and Identity here. What are they Connected to? The planet? One of the Shards? The loss and restoration of Identity is also very different from the way we've seen Identity function in Mistborn, where it is a personal key to magic. What does it have to do with their personalities? Lots of deep Realmatics, here, that I'll need to mull over for a bit. No one got stabbed. Is this an honest mistake? Or is this a setup of some kind? Looks like this copycat isn't targeting Adolin in particular, but copying all kinds of murders. Why? Is it some sort of spren? Are these "bubbles of evil" of a sort, Odium's influence manifesting? Something ancient in Urithiru (Since that's where the copycat murders started to happen), like a fabrial or a spren?

What does Hoid do? Let you play a card from a different game entirely?

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