Karger

No bingo for me.

Thought it was today?

You don't need to drill holes.  Doing so is ideal but touching it is all that is required. 

Why is Adolin dying his hair?  Is he a Hoid cosplayer?  In disguise?  Trying a new color?

Fantastic deduction on Odium

Every shardcast is a bonus shardcast.

YES!  LET IT BEGIN.

Called it!  I wondered what would happen on the one hundred and sixteenth day before SA four came out!

Brandon before speed!

I will never get over Vin. 

Can anyone summarize the major things that happened for those of us that did not make it to the livestream?

I feel like am watching the flash in one of his mid 90s comics.  Yeah he is the fastest man alive but he is still not going fast enough.

Fanboy SCREAMING!

15 hours ago, Gilphon said:

I wonder what happened to the Rock novella. Like surely Brandon doesn't still intend to write and release it before Rhythm of War, right? So surely either he's folded that content into Rhythm of War, or things have been rewritten such that it no longer 'needs' to happen before RoW. 

It is still a possibility.  The shorter the writing the faster it can be produced.  It is kind of like an inverse square law in terms of time. 

A few things

The King of the Horneaters being permitted to lead people into battle and being responsible for wining a shardblade reminds me of Arthurian kings who are always responsible for personally fixing problems.  This says to me that if Rock does show up with a shardblade people will not just declare him king out of a sense of him earning it but also because they want to have someone who they can make solve their problems.

Shallan mentions that red hair is classically a Vorin hair color but that they do know that this is because of horneater blood.  This implies a date of intermixing that is after the final desolation.

During his chapter Rock and Kaladin talk about fighting a war and Rock states pretty flatly that people are going to die regardless or the power that bridge four wields.  This is a lesson that Kaladin can't except yet.  No matter how good you are you can loose.  It seems like Rock learned this one the hard way.

3 hours ago, Govir said:

I didn't understand the debt explanation either, but your talking about it made me think of a possible explanation that makes sense to me.

They call it a "debt", but if you think about it more like a savings account (because it does earn interest) then the in book explanation makes sense. So the merchants are keeping an account for the Sand Masters, which the Sand Masters can call upon whenever. However the merchants don't actually have that much money (or it's a sizable amount of their wealth). So when Vey is giving his personal money to the Sand Masters, they're turning around and depositing it the account, which raises how much interest needs to be paid (thus making the "debt" ever increasing).

Vey at the start of his tenure as Lord Merchant found out about a private account the Lord Mastrel keeps with his office.  Should this ever become public Vey would have to pay the debt in full.  The debt is too large for Vey to ever pay it.  Given the way the Lord Merchant is chosen this would also mean that he looses his position.  However their is a solution.  If he pays 2000 lark to the Sand Masters every month they keep the account private.  Because they are depositing the money in the account Vey is not loosing any money.  However lets look at things from Vey's perspective.  Each month he is "willingly" loosing 2000 as a "gift."  He is simultaneously regaining that money in the account but it is no longer his money he just has custody of it.  So in practice his debt to the Deim is increasing by 2000 each month. 

On 12/18/2017 at 10:54 PM, Lump-wing said:

I have been thinking exactly the same thing! What Shallan has sounds more like an extreme coping mechanism - like a stage actor "getting lost" in a role to deal with things they can't deal with in real life. Everyone does this to some extent, and it's not unhealthy - remember the song "Whenever I Feel Afraid" from The King and I, or the business saying, "Fake it till you make it." Sometimes we act confident, then confidence springs up within us because we've made a space for it. Shallan's behavior is much more extreme, but IMO it's along these lines, not MPD. (I really hope Brandon didn't think he was writing about MPD; he's usually better informed than that about things that are way more obscure ... re: the map of Roshar, cymatics, etc.)

Weather of not a behavior is healthy or not is subjective.

On 7/23/2019 at 5:54 PM, King of Herdaz said:

But why? I mean if you are releasing it, clearly you want it to spread (presumably to hype up the book). And so why would you then ask people not to transcribe it since anyways anyone can go ahead and watch/listen to it (if you regretted posting it then just take it down)?

To make it more exclusive.  It adds value to the experience if it is somehow (even arbitrarily) special.  Also this will help prevent spoilers for those who do not like to know anything about a work before reading it.

6 hours ago, Overlord Jebus said:

I had headcanon'd it to them both being used to mold the stone from a distance (Micro tensions and softenings to cause movements, like how a worm or a snake moves) but Dragonsteel confirmed it to be a mistake so yeah, it's a mistake.

I meant as an in world solution.  Such clumsiness was pretty obviously a mistake.

As to the entire which surge debate.  Why could the Stoneward not have been using both when making the stairs?