Child of Hodor

His acting was much better in the first video he genuinely seemed down. This one at the start almost instantly I could tell he was pretending to feel bad. Here https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-four-secret-novels-by-brandon-sanderson

Yeah, in the past he's mentioned touring getting to be a lot. I think it was around ROW he said something about how there are so many people at the signing he has to limit the number of people he talks to going forward. I wouldn't be surprised if after 2 years of minimal travel while still selling a lot of books he is not interested in doing much of it.

Ominous was what came to mind when I heard it as well. I wondered what was going on with him, he's been quieter than usual on Twitter and his site hadn't been updated for a while. He sounds sick, tired or sad in the video, he says his health is OK in the follow up tweet. I imagine he's planning to offload, delay and cancel things. Hopefully nothing more serious than that.

We don't. I just assume the Honor vessel would present a non-deceptive version of himself in the visions. Then again he appears with golden pants, golden vest and golden boots. Maybe I shouldn't trust the Vessel Goldmember.

Oh lawd no! "Have you have heard the tragedy of Thaylen Field?"

I partially agree. Most lights don't make good Intent names, but I could see War fit Honor + Odium because it is a kind of organized hate with armies that have ranks, chain of command, rules of engagement and treaties all in service of killing their enemies. It doesn't have to be called War, but some kind of Hate & other passionate emotions + a Code people agree to abide by. Like Justice (if you follow the rules you're fine, but if you break the rules you'll be punished by a system with rules) or maybe Vengeance if the balance is different. (like how Harmony could have been Discord). Cultivation + Honor = Science or Experimentation which sounds more like an Intent. Valor + Preservation = Endurance, Perseverance. Being brave enough to hang in there despite adversity. Joke Ones Cultivation + Odium = Winning The Break Up (getting mad and working out a lot to show up your ex). Self-improvement driven by anger. Invention + Whimsy = Prop Comedy i.e. Carrot Top Devotion + Dominion + Honor = Family Court. Love with legal contracts and control over the kids around whose treatment there are lots of laws. Ruin + Endowment = Inheritance. Specifically where you have to spend a night in a haunted house to get it. Mercy + Ruin = Euthanasia / Nihilism

Yeah, for the ones that show up on the page in the books we are assuming their humanoid appearance is what they actually looked like before becoming Shard Vessels. With Cultivation (Koravellium) she's really a dragon who preferrred to appear as a human and married a human (Tanavast), but we assume her human appearance seen by Dalinar and Taravangian is how she appeared when shape-shifted to a human pre-Shattering. With Leras (Preservation) and Ati (Ruin) Sazed sees their corpses before he picks up their powers, it's likely those are their real bodies since their are dead and unable to disguise themselves. Rayse we really don't know. He appears as a kindly old grandfather figure most of the time, but when he shows up for the battle at Thaylen Field he looks like a Singer which we know he wasn't. So both forms could be a disguise and Nightblood destroyed most of his corpse so we can't go by that. Sazed (Harmony) is the only current Vessel who we know for sure what they looked like as a mortal.

I still think the We in “We Killed You” is Rayse & Odium given what we learned in RoW. We see the power trying to break free from Rayse with the light moving inside him, Harmony says the shard isn’t controlled well and has developed its own mind. The Power talks to Taravangian after Rayse died. There two minds at work. With the Small Emerald that said they foresaw this I think Truthwatchers could occasionally see the future and that’s why they were so secretive about what they can do. Seeing the future is of the enemy according to lore and cultural superstition so they had to hide what they could occasionally do.

No one is saying Warlight is not related to the combination of Honor + Odium. I'm saying the NAME of the SHARD doesn't HAVE to be WAR. Who called it the Rhythm of War in the first place? Was it a god or was it Navani and Rabonial's interpretation of the Rhythm they were feeling? They gave it the name War. I've seen you flame every one you encounter on here including yelling at people about how your real world religion is the only one so I'll concede you are correct in all things as always mighty one.

I wasn't saying Stormlight wasn't of Honor or Honor's investiture I'm saying the names aren't 1 to 1. so the name of the combined Shard doesn't have to be War just because Navani decided to call it that. It could be, it will be something in the same spirit as that, but that's more up to the vessel's interpretation of the Shard Intent. What Navani calls the light doesn't matter unless Navani ascends to that combo.

You're right that the H + O light is already called Warlight, so H + C can't be War. I'd also say the lights don't correspond to the Shard name, Stormlight isn't the light for Storm or Weather or whatever. Voidlight, Lifelight also don't have the Shard name in them. They are in the same vein, connected in some way to the Shard name, but if all we knew was a shard's investiture was called Voidlight I don't think many people would infer Odium, Hatred, Passion is the Shard name. I think Unity is another interpretation of Honor. Honor is bonds, contracts, laws both natural and manmade etc. Bonds are what allow molecules to form, marriage contracts unite two people, contracts ally nations together and so on. I think this is Tanavast's idea of how to beat Odium. Connect a future Bondsmith to the remnants of the Shard through via the Stormfather and give the Bondsmith visions that all say "Unite Them". My pet theory is Odium gets splintered in two with both H&C absorbing a piece of it. Dalinar is deeply connected to Odium, Cultivation took a piece of Dalinar and could have connection to Odium via that.

I'm dying at the Hoboken WOB. Brandon: (inaudible) but there's an asterisk to that. Questioner: OK (inaudible), but ... Brandon: (cuts him off) However (inaudible). You're making assumptions (inaudible) (20 minutes later) Brandon: Wait! (inaudible)

Yeah, the Light names don't correspond to the Shard names very well. Stormlight isn't from the Shard named Storm, Cloud or Weather. That's what I voted for. Survival of the fittest feels like the ethos for a C+O combo.

Since Sixth of the Dusk takes place long after the Stormlight Archive back 5. I would expect the "Odium is trying to splinter all other Shards" plot to be resolved. I wouldn't be surprised if Odium is merged with Honor or Cultivation. If something like that happened I would expect voidbinding to be more common than it is now and for Radiants to be able to use voidlight. "Armor of a futuristic cast, smooth and bright with a soft violet-blue glowing at the joints." This could be warlight or a Radiant whose plate naturally glows blue using voidlight. That's a good point, it would be useful on a long trip to other planets.

Szeth son son Vallano wore white on the day he got a flashback. Well he probably won't be wearing white in the flashbacks themselves. Excited to learn about Shinovar's bizarre, insular society.

I had that theory. I really don't want Syl to become a siah aimian or other physical realm being. I suppose it would be fine as long as she doesn't become Kaladin's wife. Too many issues with it like how she bonded him initially without his knowledge and they are stuck with each other unless Kaladin breaks the bond. With the bond they are functionally the same person at the spiritual level. It's romantic in a way they are "soulmates", but in another way Kaladin is kind of marrying himself. I don't like it.

It's not clear to me that we've seen voidbinding yet. If the Fused don't do it and Renarin isn't doing it then I don't think anyone is. I do agree with the OP that the power of future sight that Renarin displays is a voidbinding power, but he isn't voidbinding to do it according to the first WoB . The Shardcast briefly mentioned a theory a while ago that the Voidbinding chart is actually from back 5 events. Like voidbinding doesn't fully exist in the front 5. Brandon is messing with us by putting that chart in the second book. Perhaps the end of book 5 will see a change in the Shard makeup like Odium merges with a Shard or is split in half and both Honor and Cultivation each take half. I think Odium needs to be fully integrated in the KR / Surgebinding magic system to alter it to voidbinding. Renarin is the closest to a voidbinder that we've seen and what's unique about him is he has KR that's been infused with Odium investiture. I think that needs to happen on a grander scale to the Surgebinding magic system. To be clear I don't think all the existing Spren will all become "enlightened" in the way Glys was, but if one or both of the Shards that power the KR magic system incorporate Odium into themselves it will fundamentally change the magic system.

Glad you hit on the connection between the Set and The Village. They are both too obsessed with magic genealogy for there to be a relationship. My question is are there any other members of the Set/Trellism that are relatives of Wax we thought were dead? At the start of the series we thought Wax's uncle, sister and wife were all dead. None of them were, 2 were working for the Set and 1 was working for Trell. I hope not, but that seems like a trend. I don't think the grandma is even though she ran what seems to be ground zero for the Set. Wax's mom or dad?

Is there some kind of weird publishing rights issue going on with the Kickstarter audiobooks? Way of Kings Prime audiobook ended up being released on Youtube for free, but not available any other way and they still don't have the Dawnshard audiobook release figured out. We've got Tor and the company they use to make audiobooks, Macmillan audio. Brandon set up his own audiobook company, Mainframe. Neither of which were used for Way of Kings Prime audiobook. I wonder if the contract between Dragonsteel LLC and Tor clearly allows him to publish books and ebooks of things in the Stormlight world that Tor hasn't explicitly bought. They get the 10 novels but Dragonsteel LLC is allowed to publish novellas and earlier versions of novels they never purchased. But the contract between Tor - Dragonsteel - Macmillan (however that arrangement is set up) muddies the water on audiobooks.

Moraine and Suian were "pillow friends" in the books when they were younger. They pretend to hate each other publicly after they dedicate themselves to finding the Dragon Reborn. I don't think they continued their relationship in present day in the books. I thought the 6th episode in judging it as a TV show goes. I put aside whether it adheres strictly to the books. Even judged as a TV show it's not that good. Watchable but nothing special. I did think Moraine making them go through the Ways just because it's quicker is a bit ridiculous. It's so ****ing dangerous in there and they didn't really establish an urgent desperation.

Way of Kings: Some primacy bias here I was blown away by the world building. I connect with Kaladin's depression journey a lot. Arguably it's biggest weakness (aside from Lirin being in it ) is that Shallan's story is barely connected to the rest, but she's studying the deep lore in a giant library and hanging out with Jasnah which I loved. Kaladin deciding to go back for Dalinar and "For the bridgemen. All of them." is still the best ending sequence in the series for me. It's such an earned happy ending. Oathbringer: Best flashbacks, great ending sequence. Loved Shadesmar. The Moash stuff drags for me, Amaram becoming a literal monster after being a more nuanced villain didn't work for me. Shallan, a noblewoman from a foreign land delivering food to poor people in a closed off city and unintentionally setting off gang violence is recycled from Elantris without any meaningful changes. It's like she needed to fail at something so Hoid could give her a speech. Jarring missing scenes like Navani and Jasnah reuniting after Navani spent all last book grieving, Shallan getting married and Szeth becoming Navani agreeing to have as a bodyguard the guy who killed her first husband and tried to kill her second husband twice. Words of Radiance: Better flashbacks than WoK and RoW, not as good as OB. Ghostblood stuff is cool. Too many fake deaths for me and it's the only one Brandon felt he needed to "fix" post-publication. Rhythm of War: It's a setup for the big finale of the front 5. Loved Raboniel and some individual moments. My issue is more with the structure of the novel as a whole. It feels less focused than the others. The POVs are too fragmented including the flashbacks which don't work as well in part because they are split and because one of them has been dead for 2 books. Navani is the main character, kind of, but because she doesn't have flashbacks the book lacks the past-present resonance the others had. Venli chapters sometimes feel like they are to show us more Raboniel rather than show us more Venli. I think part of the problem may also be that I had a major surgery earlier in 2020 and read the entire series again in a month or so. Then there was a reread thread on here and I followed along for the first two books. Then Dawnshard and the sample chapters for RoW. I may have Stormlighted myself out. I am taking a break from reading Brandon this year because of that.

Yeah it's entirely possible Autonomy and Odium are allied more overtly. The thing is the questioner said "in any way" and that gives Brandon a ton of wriggle room. There is another WoB I can't find, unfortunately, where he basically says Odium strategy for those two was pitting them against each other, so in a way they Devotion and Dominion helped kill each other. You'd think Autonomy would have tried to help a bit more overtly with Odium trapped. Autonomy being, in part, about freedom they would want to free their ally. Mercy was the third participant in the Odium-Ambition fight. Brandon also says Odium may have worked with other Shards in the past.

This WoB was recently posted to Arcanum. This heavily, heavily implies Odium and Autonomy have at least an understanding between them that they won't go after each other, if they aren't outright allied. The two shardholders were lumped together by Hoid in the Way of Kings letter to Frost. I wonder if Bavadin / Autonomy will send someone to send an Avatar to Roshar as they might be upset that someone killed Rayse if they had a pre-ascension relationship and a post-ascension alliance. Not all the Avatars do, but Bavadin might. Autonomy can mold their Avatars in OB Ch. 50 epigraph they mention instilling a new Avatar with an intense dislike of Hoid. Bavadin might make one that's really not happy about what happened to Rayse.

My head canon for her "lunacy" is that she heard or saw things that other people could not (radiant spren, shadesmar, unmade etc.) and told people about it. This led to her parents locking her in a dark room for an extended period of time, presumably under the care of ardents. This taught her at an early age she has to be extremely careful with what she says, even to her family, or she'll get locked in the dark room again. That's where a lot of her guarded, fiercely independent personality traits come from or at least they were reinforced to an extreme by this experience.

I watched the 3 they put up. It's pretty good. The cast is good. Pike is great as Moraine. Zoe Robins as Nynaeve is the other standout, she has a strong presence. The costumes, sets and FX are a mixed bag. Some gorgeous vistas and the Trollocs look good for the most part. Some of the CGI looks bad. Aes Sedai, Nynaeve and Whitecloak costumes look great, everyone else's are bland. I get that they are peasants, they shouldn't have nice things like Aes Sedai, but they aren't distinctive and don't look lived in either. At the end of the third episode after being chased for days and sleeping outdoors Rand's coat looks fresh off the rack. The pacing feels rushed at times which isn't surprising given the massive amount of source material they are trying to adapt. Adaptation quibbles with significant spoilers: