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21 minutes ago, LadyLameness said:

 

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I don't mind that there was the love triangle story line - after WoR it was kind of expected. 

But I think that having Kaladin and Shallan as a couple would be problematic. From their interactions, I think they would end up feeding into each other's mental illness and I don't want that to happen. I want them to both get better and I see them being together as a situation where they both end up getting worse. Where as I think Adolin is going to be able to help Shallan get her mental health more under control. I want Shallan and Kaladin to be friends but not in a relationship. 

 

 

36 minutes ago, LadyLameness said:

I don't know if it was intentional or not but when I first read WoA, in the back of my mind was the question of whether Brandon chose Zane to make a joke on just how close it was to the word 'sane'. 

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My biggest beef is Shallan and Kaladin. Not the love triangle plot line, just the potential of them being together. I have strong feelings on it and absolutely hate it. 

 

And was there any doubt that Vin would Win? ;-)

With regards to the spoilered section, I think we'll have to see how that line is handled in the fourth book, to see if maybe there is more to it than what appeared to happen in Oathbringer - maybe what happens there will add some perspective as to why it was done. What part of it makes you hate it though?

Just to note on Zane's name not fitting, and on Zane filling a role.

Zane is a mirror for both Eland and Vin. V and Z are near the end of the alphabet, and E on the other. E is the most commonly used letter in English, Z the least. Vin and Zane are short sounding, Eland long sounding. Vin is choosing between two polar opposites, and one of them is closer to how she thinks she is while the other is everything good she sees in the world.

It also could be that - because Zane was raised apart from the rest of the family - it could be explained to anyone who paid attention to him that he was ostensibly a servant or child of a servant from a distant dominance, which might have a different naming system.

Interesting to consider that when Hoid was talking to Frost Hoid told him about Ati and Leras, and Frost knew, but in the letter he later told him that Aona and Skai were dead, which he would have known earlier than the event of Hero of Ages, and which he would probably suspect Frost already knew if he had been watching.