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There’s a fairly common theory out there that our main characters are going to form a new Oathpact. I’d like to lay out explicitly the hints I see for this, identifying what I believe a lot of people are subconsciously picking up on. The Connotations of Oathpact But let’s start off with the word itself. Stormlight is a fantasy series, so we’re used to getting made-up words that are two real words mashed together. Storm-light. Void-bringer. Even Brandon’s other series, you get stuff like God King and Lord Ruler. They’re simple ways to make proper nouns without inventing a new word. (Obligatory xkcd link: https://xkcd.com/483/.) It’s not the only way to do it: the series Mistborn makes up new words to great effect, like Allomancer or Feruchmist, as opposed to Stormlight’s Surgebinders and Shardbearers. “Oathpact” fits the bill as one of those mashup words. But when you think about it, it’s an unnecessary amalgamation. We have a real-life word that is an oath and a pact; see if you can think of it. It’s not too commonly used outside of religious writings these days, but it perfectly captures both aspects of the word “Oathpact.” You need both the binding nature with a hint of divine flavoring to it (oath), and you need the two-party ramifications (pact). Did you figure it out? The word I’m thinking about is “covenant.” It’s a word with a lot of religious baggage, but I think that fits well with the broader religious parallels of the Stormlight Shards. In a Way of Kings letter, Frost refers to Odium as “God's own divine hatred, separated from the virtues that gave it context.” There are many Shards we don’t know at all, and even more we only know by name; but for those we know a bit more about, we see them encompass attributes of divinity with a particular leaning towards a real-world religion or philosophy. Ruin and Preservation have Buddhist parallels, Autonomy’s avatars are reminiscent of Hindu avatars. In Stormlight, I’m seeing big elements of the biblical, Judeo-Christian God in all three of its Shards. For Honor, specifically, I see the aspect of making and keeping covenants. There are many covenants in the Bible; perhaps some of the best-known ones are the Abrahamic Covenant (from Genesis, at the beginning of the Bible), the Mosaic Covenant (from the Deuteronomy, a little bit later) and the New Covenant (first introduced in Jeremiah, late in the Old Testament, and later referred to heavily by Jesus Christ). There are many more, of course (Adamic, Noahic, Davidic, or even the Eternal if you’re into that sort of thing), but these help illustrate two key points about biblical covenants. 1) Covenants have one or more parties involved with responsibilities. God is a party in all three of the major covenants I listed above. But the Mosaic is unique among the three in that it is also conditional on the behavior of Israel. Both sides in this agreement need to pull their part. (God, by definition, will handle his side of things, so that puts this on the back of humanity to hold up their end of the bargain.) The other covenants are called unconditional covenants; they are not dependent on human behavior, they are pure no-strings-attached promises from God. 2) Covenants have one or more parties as recipients. The Abrahamic has promises to Abraham (which is why it’s named after him), but it also promises all the nations of the earth would be blessed. Those parties don’t have to be limited to those involved in the covenant directly; “I will bless those who bless you, and curse those who curse you.” Those are two principles that I think we need to keep in mind when approaching Honor and how he distributes his power. Honor’s Covenants Each Shard can only use their powers in ways that align with their Shard’s nature (their name, their actual Shard of divine nature); this is something we see quite heavily in Mistborn but haven’t seen quite as explicitly from the Rosharan Shards yet. For Honor, I believe he can bring most of his power to bear when he does it through covenants with others. That’s what Odium was referring to in Oathbringer chapter 57: This statement does come with all the spin from the opposing political party, but we can see the kernel of truth as to what Honor means: keeping oaths and covenants. When we see the constructs Honor has set up to utilize and apply his power, we can look for three important questions: Who are the participants? Who are the recipients? And what are the conditions? The biggest example is, of course, the Oathpact proper. From Oathbringer chapter 38 (complain to the Stormfather about if the all-caps hurts your eyes): For the Oathpact, we see the participants were Honor (who provided the power) and the Heralds (who, at the very least, were responsible for their side of this conditional covenant, and I believe they received their Honorblades as a part of the deal as well). The recipients also included the Fused; they were bound on Damnation. They had no say in the covenant itself; they were merely on the receiving end of one of its parameters. And the conditions were the behavior of the Heralds; they would be sent to Braize, and as long as they didn’t break, the power of Honor was still in effect to shackle the Fused. But in the passage above, we see hints at another manifestation of Honor’s power: whatever covenant it is that holds Odium in place in the Rosharan system. The participants there are Honor and Cultivation. The recipient is Odium. The conditions, we don’t know much about yet. We can infer there’s something about Roshar in there, which is why Odium wants to destroy the planet; but that may also just be a side effect of annihilating the Shards involved. Also from Oathbringer Chapter 57: But elsewhere, Odium saw another way out: a formal retraction from the legal representative of Honor, a participant and mediator. From earlier in that chapter: Honor’s covenants, the way he expresses his power, cannot be overcome by direct opposition. Odium is bound until he can find some way to get around it. If you’re going to court (and you did it), you either need to find a legal loophole (breaking the conditions), or burn down the court building. (Editor’s note: please don’t take either of these as actual legal advice.) Radiancy as an expression of Honor This concept of covenants is also manifested in ten other ways on Roshar; through each Order of Knights Radiant. There is a conditional covenant between Honor and each individual Radiant; they are both participants. (The Stormfather eventually takes the place of Honor; that’s why he’s the one saying “THESE OATHS ARE ACCEPTED.”) The recipient in this case is the Radiant; they get Surgebinding, they get a spren, they get the ability to utilize Stormlight, they get the Shardplate, so on and so forth. But the conditions are laid out in each Order’s Ideals. And there are two ways that a Radiant has to break their covenant with Honor: they can either act against their Ideals (which is what Kaladin did in Words of Radiance and what Shallan did as a child), or they can formally renounce their participation in the Oath (which is what happened at the Recreance): This is why I refer to Surgebinding as Honor’s magic system. Sure, it uses spren of Honor and Cultivation; its ideals don’t necessarily have to align directly to something honorable. Just the mere act of making and following Oaths is Honor’s influence on the Initiation to the magic. (That, and the Radiants were in imitation of the Heralds and their Honorblades, which came about as a result of the Oathpact between them and Honor. No Cultivation in the original, no Cultivation in the copy.) The New Oathpact So, with all that groundwork, now we get to the meat of our prediction. Our ten main flashback characters are all going to be part of a new Oathpact of some sort. Lots of us, I’m sure, have felt it thematically, known it in our collective gut, but the passage that brings the most validation to the idea is from Oathbringer, Chapter 119: The most important phrase: “Something told him there should be one more.” What is that something? This is happening after Dalinar has summoned the perpendicularity, after he has Ascended to Unity. Right now, he is seeing into the Spiritual Realm. He’s getting a hint of the future – ten people who will be united in… something. Not this battle. The tenth isn’t present (more on her later), and the Heralds just skulk off. This is something further away. Something that involves Orders of Radiants, like how he identifies Szeth and Lift by their Orders. He and Jasnah count seven Radiants, each a unique Order, and Dalinar goes on to give them tasks. (Yes, there are ten total characters involved in that scene already; Adolin is also there, but you’ll notice the sentence structure for his appearance is different. It’s a side note in Renarin’s description. Every other character starts off the sentence as the subject, and they get some sort of action verb. The closest Adolin has is a question Dalinar asks; “Adolin was wounded?” But he’s not one of the Seven (since Jasnah specifies that’s seven Radiants), he gets excluded from Dalinar’s battle plan immediately following this excerpt, and he is the only character present not to be on the list for a flashback sequence in upcoming novels. So that’s why I’m leaving out of the New Oathpact.) Aside from the seven Radiants in that scene, I believe the other three Orders (Dustbringer, Willshaper, and Stoneward) are represented by Ash, Venli, and Taln, respectively, with Venli being the one who hadn’t been found yet. (She bonded Timbre later in the chapter). I go into more detail in another thread of mine on exactly how I see those Orders lining up: https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/64496-ob-the-five-pillars-of-the-stormlight-main-characters/ This lays out the participants in the New Oathpact. Our ten flashback characters, each acting as a representative of their particular Order (which could potentially tie in all Radiants as participants, or merely as recipients). That future formal covenant is what Dalinar glimpsed at Thaylen Field. What are the effects, and who are the recipients? Well, I’m gonna go big or go home and say this is the permanent solution (or at least long-term enough to last until the last Mistborn trilogy) to Odium. Maybe it’s a better way of trapping him; maybe it’s replacing Rayse as a Vessel with these ten individuals, somehow. I haven’t seen anything that would directly point me towards specifics, yet, but Odium as the recipient scratches the itch that so many of us have. Lastly, what are the conditions? Well, I think this gets us back to the biblical parallels. The Mosaic covenant, a conditional covenant dependent on the behavior of mankind, led into the New Covenant, which is an unconditional covenant where mankind are the only recipients. I think the New Oathpact has to close the fatal gap of the Heralds’ Oathpact; it relied on them being able to indefinitely hold up their part in the deal. Again, I don’t know what specifics would be, yet; we’ve got seven more books to go until the end of the series. But a lasting solution, in the vein of the biblical New Covenant, has to take the conditions out of the hands of the Heralds, the Radiants, and any other mortals. “SPREN AND GODS CANNOT BREAK THEIR OATHS”; maybe it has something to do with that, where it ties the spren population to the New Oathpact? A Final Aside As some of you may know, the working title for the Stormlight Archive series was the Oathshards. This has obvious connections with Honor, but we don’t know what the Oathshards actually were. Most of the specific terms from Way of Kings Prime (Honorblades, Shardblades, Shardplate, Surgebinding, Soulcasting) carried over unchanged. But what were the Oathshards? I haven’t seen the word appear anywhere in the released sample chapters from the original draft, and it hasn’t appeared in canon, either. I’m of two minds about it. On one hand, it could be referring to the Blades and the Plates; they existed in the 2003 version, but the spren weren’t incorporated until the 2010 rewrite, so Oathshards may have been the phenomenon that encompassed the Shardblades and Shardplates (which are both Shards that a Radiant would get through an Oath), and the term disappeared during the rewrite when those phenomena were combined with spren. But what if the Oathshards are still a thing? Something more like the Dawnshards (which, granted, we don’t know what they are yet) or the Honorblades, and these Oathshards are somehow what tie together the members of the New Oathpact? I’ll be keeping an eye out for this term as the series continues, for sure. In Conclusion Dalinar’s Thaylen Field “Avengers Assemble” moment was him looking through the Spiritual Realm at a future New Oathpact, comprised of our ten flashback characters, which will utilize Honor’s power in a new and more permanent way to bring resolution to the wars and conflicts plaguing the Roshar System. RAFO on the details.

It's an interesting idea to be sure. I'm not a fan of the first assumption, that ettmetal feruchemical effects will store in itself, but I'll let that slide for now. The Identity grenade does have interesting parallels with a Leeching grenade in terms of area of effect; I'd like to see an Internal metal's grenade, though, since I'd expect to have the most similarities. There's an older topic dealing with the potential function of ettmetal and priming functionality in medallions. If you haven't seen it, you may want to take a look at it. A few comments: The Malwish ship doesn't use weight-changing feruchemy. If ettmetal feruchemical effects are essential to creating medallions, than the Malwish should be able to utilize that phenomenon on their ships, too. But they don't - they give everybody individual weight-changing medallions. The lifeboat has the ability to take a primer cube with ettmetal powering a Metallic Art effect - but they only use it for a steelpush to drive its propulsion. All the individuals on the lifeboat needed to have medallions, and Allik even needs to change out medallions when he needs to use Connection, weight, and heat. Weight-changing ettmetal effects were on the Hunter ship. I get the impression that each of the different factions in Southern Scadrial have their own technological and magical tricks, and that mechanical feruchemy is one that the Malwish haven't figured out yet. You do tap nicrosil when using a medallion. Both in Wax's explanation in the text, and by Brandon in WoB, we are told that you do tap nicrosil. (Emphasis mine.) And this gets into the big reason I don't see ettmetal and its priming phenomenon as fitting with medallions. Think of a lawnmower. You need to prime it right before you use it. Then, it's good to go for however long you're using it. When you're finished mowing your lawn, you can't pre-prime it for when you're mowing your lawn next week. (Or in three days, if you live where I do.) The prime won't hold that long. So, if the priming phenomenon was driving nicrosil feruchemy, where is it getting its prime from? It can't hold it indefinitely - it needs to be actively in use, storing or tapping something, or else it will lose its prime. The weight-changing medallions were good to work long after the Malwish airship's Steelpushing mechanism had lost its prime (which is why Wax had to re-prime a cube for the lifeboat). It's too long for an external prime to be the initiating event, and medallions can be taken off and put back on and still function, so the impetus for this tapping has to be from the user, not from the device itself. You can have more than 3 powers in a medallion. The Bands of Mourning are a medallion with 32 powers. Hemalurgy, also, doesn't have a 3-power limit; that's where a human soul gets exposed to takeover by a Shard. Kandra, however, only need two. But Steel Inquisitors had much more than 3 powers; it made them susceptible to takeover, but it wasn't a limit on the powers. It's a limitation on the human soul. Magical items that aren't constructs of/in a human soul, like Soulcasters or medallions, inherently aren't susceptible to being taken over like that, since they don't have a mind to take over.

You'll notice that both of these are paraphrased. We don't have the audio of the actual interactions, just someone's summary of what went down. The questioner in the first one must have misinterpreted what Brandon said. The footnote will provide more info and links if a WoB has been contradicted; in this case, it already includes a link to one that clarifies it.

Another one tonight (!) At 7:30 MDT. https://twitter.com/BrandSanderson/status/1239650088424624128?s=20

Yes, officer, that one right there. That's the project that stole the writing time from The Lost Metal.

The latest Stormlight Four reading contains a bit of info to the Nightwatcher's nature: We learn she's fundamentally different from the other spren with regards to her personality, having been actively shaped by a Shard. This reminds me of the Obrodai avatar, the one who was instilled with a dislike of Hoid after being intentionally created by Autonomy. I do see a bit of conflict with the Cognitive Shadow aspect I had been developing. If the Nightwatcher had started out as a human and been turned into an avatar, that would seem to run counter to keeping her "separate from mankind." Maybe using an existing personality, copied over from a dead person, makes it easier to create an avatar; but you don't have to use one, as long as you're content taking a long time constructing an entire personality from scratch.

The reading was posted on YouTube: And the transcription, for those who don't have audio: It is just as bad as I expected another Lift interlude to be. Lolrandom gibberish, a poop joke, and telling-not-showing with Lift announcing how she feels. My only small hope is that she got an interlude this book because she's not going to be part of any of the main storylines... but since she's in Urithiru, I don't expect our viewpoints will completely abandon the tower, especially with the mysteries of Sibling still to be resolved. Hoid's flute "looked strange" to Wyndle. I suspect this is because it's an offworld flute; not anything Wyndle can put his finger on, but just that it looks different from Rosharan flutes, designed using principles that are foreign to Roshar. Like if you're not a musician, and you saw a drum set without cymbals, you might think "that looks weird," without necessarily being able to identify "oh, that drum set doesn't have cymbals." There are still a few WoBs left to be transcribed in the Arcanum event, including an Apocalypse Guard reading from Dan Wells. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/412-ltue-2020/

TWG 100%: Brandon 100% (116/116), Peter 100% (116/116), Isaac 100% (75/75), Ben 100% (38/38) 17S 100%: Brandon 100% (109/109), Peter 100% (115/115), Isaac 100% (115/115), Ben 100% (104/104) Reddit 100%: Brandon 100% (138/138), Peter 100% (111/111), Isaac 100% (29/29), Ben 100% (92/92), Adam 100% (20/20), Store 100% (10/10) Twitter 100%: Brandon 100% (131/131), Peter 100% (131/131), Isaac 100% (138/138), Kara 100% (119/119), Karen 100% (109/109), Adam 100% (62/62) Blog 100%: Brandon 100% (217/218) Social Media Total: 100% (2085/2090) Theoryland Review: 12% (137/1183) Events and Signings Review: 0% (0/397) Ladies and gentlemen, we have officially finished Social Media for the second time. (We'll see if I have to finish it a third time; I posted on the Facebook help forums if anyone knows how to stalk through a user's full comment history, but I haven't heard anything back yet. If I manage to turn anything up, I will reopen the ticket, of course. I'll keep on trucking through a Theoryland review. I don't expect there to be a lot; outside of maybe one event, this should have all been imported already. And unlike social media posts, I won't be skimming past if stuff isn't relevant; I'll be considering everything relevant, since I'm also quite interested in the Wheel of Time content. This will move slow; I don't think I'll be making monthly reports. I'll think about if there's anything different I'll want to do with this blog instead, and I'd be able to throw a progress percentage at the end of that. But for now, here's the last social media update backlog WoB: This is interesting, since we may be getting WoKP before Stormlight Six (or even Stormlight Four); in one of the recent YouTube AMAs, Brandon said they were looking to distribute it as a Kickstarter reward. Although on the most recent one, it sounded like it would be a print edition; they talked about including Brandon's original MSPaint maps (which I presume are the ones found here: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/255/#e7116 if they were at a good enough resolution to print out. So maybe it won't be delivered until after Book Four is out, anyways. But that's still before book Six, anyways.

Another one this Saturday at 1:00 MST.

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A summary has surfaced on Reddit, but no recording yet.

If you poke around through the other threads in the Events and Signing subforum, you'll often see coordination about who's going to be bringing a recorder to an event to record Brandon's speeches, panels, and signing lines. (Sometimes, the coordination happens through Discord or Reddit, or a lurker just does it without posting about it.) Some of us have actual recording devices; others just use their phone. It's not something official that Brandon's employees do; it's completely fan-organized, so it doesn't happen at every signing. But the next time you're at a signing, take a look at the table Brandon's signing at; you may see someone's recording device. Way back in the day, people who recorded would either transcribe the audio themselves, or they'd post it online via Google Drive or something similar, and others would transcribe in a thread or in a Google Doc. Arcanum (which is still a relatively new website, in the grand scheme of things) was designed to centralize all that; fans can upload their audio directly to the site, and there are pages that make it specifically easy to transcribe one WoB at a time. As to how to know when an event is coming up, someone usually posts a thread about an upcoming event in this subforum. But not always; there's no LTUE 2020 thread, which is the event you're asking about. I think this was a late announcement; at least, I didn't know anything about it until, like, a day before. Brandon has a page on his website where he lists upcoming events, which you can periodically check: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/upcoming-events/. But it's only as good as it's maintained; Brandon will be at a convention in April in California, but I don't see it on that page yet. You can sign up for Brandon's newsletter; you have an option to say where you live, and you'll get emails when Brandon is doing a signing near you. (But I don't live in Utah, so I don't know if one went out for LTUE or not.) But the best way I've found is to follow Brandon on Twitter. (Facebook and Instagram probably work well, too). That's how I eventually saw LTUE, and that's how I saw YALLFEST (which is the event in April). The only best option would be to hack his computer and find his schedule, but if you can do that, I've got a few other favors to ask you.

Brandon will be at YALLWEST, a young adult and middle grade book festival happening on April 24th-25th. It's in Santa Monica, California. I don't see a schedule or anything yet, but I presume there will be signing lines and panels and the like. Will anybody be able to make it to this who could record Brandon's events?

Stormlight Four is quickly approaching; it might feel like it's nine months away (because, technically, it is), but before you know it, it'll be October and you'll be frantically trying to cram in a reread. Tor will be doing their big marketing push, and the forums will be exploding with new members. In advance of this surge of popularity for Stormlight, I was thinking we should make a resource to help new members begin the deep dive into the lore that many of us take for granted. Arcanum can be intimidating; there are almost 13,000 WoBs so far, but most of them aren't Stormlight, many are old news that's since been revealed in the books, and others just aren't important. Let's put our heads together and build a list of the ones that will be the most essential or the most important for those looking at WoBs for the first time. Here are my three criteria: Impactful. These should be WoBs that all Stormlight readers will care about. Niche WoBs about linguistics might be some of my favorites, but most people won't care, so let's not include those on the list. Relevant. Stormlight only; no spoilers for the greater Cosmere or for other series. (Well, except maybe Warbreaker, but let's cross that bridge if we come to it.) Substantial. No RAFOs! Or at least, nothing that's just a RAFO; if Brandon says RAFO but gives info anyways, that could be fair game. Yes, it means the list won't have anything about Unity, one of the biggest outstanding questions from book three, since that's been all RAFOs. Oh, well; let's make sure we're getting WoBs with actual information in them. Here are a few to start us off: Flashback Characters The Hidden Ending Cultivationlight And with that, I turn it over to the rest of you. What WoBs do you think are the most impactful, relevant, and substantial for someone who's new to the deep end of Stormlight theories?

I'm hearing that Brandon read a new Lift interlude today. If anybody stumbles across a recording of it, please let me know.

The Pledge Manager for this Kickstarter will be going live soon. Even if you didn't back, you will be able to buy dice. (It just means you won't have any funds already deposited in there.) Again, if you missed the Kickstarter, it's not too late! In some of their other updates, Crafty said that the outbreak in China will affect the production timeline. Nothing for sure, yet, since the country is still dealing with the issue. But there will be some sort of delay.

Glyphpairs and glyphs are two different concepts. A family will utilize a glyphpair which are two glyphs using some components in the name (like khokh and linil for Kholin). The glyphpairs among different members of a highprince's family get stylized differently; Elhokar and Dalinar both have khokh and linil, but Elhokar uses sword/crown, while Dalinar uses tower/crown. That's a similar change that happened with Amaram and Sadeas; tower/hammer and tower/axe, the new glyphpair is visually distinct from the old one. Each glyph in the glyphpair can wind up looking however the individual wants; the name of the glyph determines what components can be used to construct it, but the artists who make the glyphs that form the glyphpair have freedom to make the overall image look like something distinctive. These glyphpairs wind up on banners and such, where it will make them easy to identify to people who don't need to be familiar with glyph components and how they're made. The highprince glyph, on the other hand, is a single glyph, and it is based on the family name. (The most complicated versions we see have every single letter, none excluded.) These are the ones I posted above. I don't think we see them described too often in the books, but they appear on maps; the camp map in Way of Kings, and the Battle of Narak map in Words of Radiance. They appear to be a more information-dense way of referring to highprinces. They're not as easy to distinguish; they all kind of look the same to me on first glance. But they'll take up less space than a glyphpair, so it seems scholars will use them to annotate maps. All that to say, there is only one glyph on the cape, so it's not a glyphpair. And it's not distinctively shaped like something else; the glyphpair we see in Dalinar's chapter heading is immediately recognizable as a tower and a crown. The spears themselves don't appear to be made out of glyph components, so I think they're an actual part of whatever this scene is that's being depicted. (It looks to me like a highprince has fallen, his cape is tied to a spear as a makeshift banner, it's inspiring the other spearmen, and the whole thing is happening during an eclipse.)

The glyph in question: The line down the center is something we've only seen with Highprince glyphs. (We do see simplified versions of these glyphs, where components are omitted, smoothed, merged while maintaining the same general shape.) Kholin would be the one I'd expect, but the KH symbol is inverted with respect to the centerline. We do see simplified versions of many of these glyphs, and Bethab is the one it looks the most like to me, oddly enough. Of course, it's always possible we get a new Highprince at some point who would need their own glyph...

The WoB you linked in Point 1 explicitly says that not all Splinters are self-aware, which contradicts your definition: We've seen Splinters like Divine Breath and the Honorblades which are not self-aware, they're just pieces of power.

The books are action books - basically every scene is either a fight, a party, or related to one of the two. It's still a long jump to describing the mists' behavior that way. But anyways, Brandon has said that Sazed is the one who sends the mists (emphasis mine):

Yeah, but being a mod is for chumps, and I'm no chump. (And there was less need for staff members after the rush of Oathbringer-inspired activity died down.)

It was released in the Hero of Ages leatherbound. There is a more in-depth poster version on the way. (If you compare the Allomancy and Feruchemy tables in the leatherbound to the poster versions, there's much less detail on the book versions, for space reasons.) Like most other artwork, it is an in-universe document. We're just not sure who made it, yet. It is susceptible to error, like the Hero of Ages Ars Arcanum says that atium's Hemalurgic power is stealing "Allomantic Temporal Powers." Which isn't wrong, per se, but now we're learning that it's much more expansive.

Third livestream is up for transcription on Arcanum. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/411-youtube-livestream-3/ Brandon mentioned that these may be a regular event, as he continues to sign these pages for upcoming leatherbound rereleases. One may be coming this month. He's also mentioned the possibility of spoiler streams for different series, but a Stormlight one wouldn't be until after November. Maybe we can hope for a Mistborn one? Or just cosmere-specific. Regardless, Brandon's social media will be the first place to find out about these, so make sure you're following him somewhere. (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, or maybe even on YouTube itself; he's got links to all of them on his website.) These livestreams may become the new normal.

TWG 100%: Brandon 100% (116/116), Peter 100% (116/116), Isaac 100% (75/75), Ben 100% (38/38) 17S 100%: Brandon 100% (108/108), Peter 100% (114/114), Isaac 100% (114/114), Ben 100% (103/103) Reddit 100%: Brandon 100% (137/137), Peter 100% (110/110), Isaac 100% (28/28), Ben 100% (91/91), Adam 100% (19/19), Store 100% (9/9) Twitter 67%: Brandon 100% (130/130), Peter 54% (70/130), Isaac 56% (77/137), Kara 69% (82/118), Karen 67% (72/108), Adam 41% (25/61) Blog 100%: Brandon 100% (217/217) Social Media Total: 89% (1842/2070) Theoryland Review: 10% (121/1183) Events and Signings Review: 0% (0/397) Still plugging away. I wasn't able to knock out a ton this month; the YouTube livestreams sucked up a lot of my time. I wound up listening to all of them twice, essentially; once live to experience them, and once to snip them in Arcanum. So that's over 20 hours of time sucked up by that this month. I've wound up working through all the Twitter backlog while I've had a movie playing on my other computer screen (which is a classic tactic of mine), and I've been doing about six months in a 2 hour movie. Looking at the stats above, I've got 60 months left to check, so I may very well have had it done if it weren't for these livestreams. I wanted to have this all done by the end of the calendar year, and it feels like that goal is moving back like it's Wax and Wayne 4. (Heyo.) Eventually, I'll be done, and get to my Theoryland and Events&Signings review, but there are known gaps. It was recently brought to my attention that there are some paraphrased reports from a thread that didn't make it into Arcanum. So feel free to help me out and do some reviews on your own, if you want. (I haven't had a chance to put this thread into Arcanum, for example.) I'll do it anyways, but it's not like I've called dibs and no one else can take a look and validate the content.

But they are still not not normal weather patterns in Era 1. WoA Chapter 1. "The mists continued to spin. They were thick and mysterious, even to Vin. More dense than a simple fog and more constant than any normal weather pattern, they churned and flowed, making rivulets around her." What? You made an assertion on the behavior of the mists. If I'm following the conversation correctly, you're suggesting that the mists in Era 2 are more attracted to fights and to parties than they were in Era 1 because they absorbed part of Vin's personality. That's a statement that requires evidence.