Elegy

Brandon confirmed in the livestream yesterday that he had started writing it some time before (he didn't specify when), so the WOB I quoted above might actually refer to it - although he also said that it's about 120,000 words, while he talked about 200,000 to 300,000 in that WOB. And we all know that Brandon books never turn out shorter than planned. So I'm on the fence but believe that it isn't what he was talking about there for that reason. Further information from the stream: It's not narrated by Hoid, it's the farthest in the Cosmere we've seen canonically, and it's something he'd wanted to write for a while.

It reminded me of this WOB from some time ago: But we'll see. I still see Grand Apparatus as a good possiblity, especially since he talked about almost becoming a scientist in the video without much of a reason to do so (I mean, it was about Words of Radiance, but it still seemed kinda random), and Grand Apparatus sounds like something connected to Invention. Would be cool, but part of me believes that Brandon's not going to let the chance pass by to have exactly half of the 16 Shards canonized in Stormlight books (the three Roshar Shards and the four name-dropped in ROW)

I've been listening to an immense amount of Tchaikovsky's orchestral music (not the ballets) the past few days, particularly the symphonies. Some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard, but also sometimes just extremely overwhelming. You just need something to come down after it at times ... Which is why at this moment, I'm not listening to Tchaikovsky but to Ichiko Aoba, who's perhaps my favorite folk musician of this day and age. Also some of the most beautiful music I've ever heard, but on the complete opposite end of the spectrum

If you're okay with horror films with a gothic vibe, The VVitch and Crimson Peak are great examples. Also both Nosferatu (the silent film) and its remake from the 80s. Also, in the realms of animation, Coraline and Corpse Bride. Although none of these are television.

Blackbird for sure

This was my thought was well! The payoff of the in-world ketek is basically nonexistent. Especially when the cost is a weak title. Also, hardly anyone who wanted the ketek actually seems to be happy with the in-world ketek situation, so it doesn't even work as a compromise. I really don't see why he doesn't just drop it instead of a title that he literally came up with by going "this is the less bad version of a title that doesn't work and that was only ever considered because of a gimmick that isn't intact in this less bad version anymore". (Especially considering how pragmatic and well-thought-out his decision-making usually tends to be.)

I agree with this and generally the idea that Survive can be the Dawnshard without it being directly important for Kelsier and Scadrial. One possibility: Leras held the Dawnshard once (he seems to be on good terms with Hoid) before he held the Shard, and the Command significantly influenced his spiritweb then and therefore his definition of the Shard - so him using the Command when talking to Kelsier could be a symptom of that. Whatever the case, I'm almost positive that Kelsier has never been a Dawnshard (for a notable amount of time), since there still are no significant changes to his spiritweb that can't be clearly traced back to another reason (him being a cognitive shadow, mostly). I also agree with the implication of Devotion and Dominion (and Honor) being part of Unity and Preservation being part of Survival - and the same I said about Leras could be true about Tanavast, the Command given to Dalinar not being the Dawnshard itself but influenced by it.

We have the answer now: I don't understand why he didn't just put it in the book though

Fresh out of the oven - a WOB that confirms we haven't seen her before:

Just reread Sigzil's chapter in Oathbringer (Chapter 35) ... Now it hits different when Kaladin says: And a bit later, Sigzil says: "First into the sky" is also the title of the chapter. And maybe this was something prophetic for him to say, who knows, maybe he really was "first in the sky" in the sense that he was the first of Bridge Four to walk the stars? Anyway, it's always amazing to go back after a character has become more important and see all the roots of what was to come in little hints. I had a similar experience with Lopen after reading Dawnshard.

I know that this is very nitpicky, but I specifically meant breaking the fourth Ideal in that comment. (If he really gave up being a Windrunner because of something terrible that happened, that would probably mean that he can't accept that there are those that he can't protect anymore - and he really doesn't accept that in Sunlit Man imo. That was the thought process.) If I said that he broke it in another comment, I meant he ended it, because I'm definitely not sure how it happened.

Hoid at the beginning seems to be a Lightweaving, since things go through him, so that could also be added to the list.

Interestingly, I noticed it through a detail in the preview chapters that was then edited out in the published version! At the end of chapter 9, it says: - at least in the preview chapters; in the published version, it's this instead: ... which of course makes sense, that his hair would be burned. Anyway, at first I thought he was maybe one of the Heralds (specifically Nale, Kalak or maybe Taln, but obviously in some form that we couldn't know of at this point), then after a while it became more obvious that it had to be a Bridge Four member, and then that detail with his hair (that isn't even part of the book anymore) made it all fall into place, because his curly hair was somehow a very distinctive thing about his appearance in my head. In the published version, I'm pretty sure that it would have been clear with the clarification of Hoid being his mentor, which happens just after that.

Thanks, I missed that! Wow, that means it's a half Skybreaker, half Windrunner plate, that's interesting. As far as we know, Sig has not reached the fourth Ideal as of ROW, so according to my timeline above, he'd have to reach it and then break it within SA5, perhaps even within the Final Ten Days. Completely forgot that WOB, good to have it confirmed! Makes his whole biography even more tragic somehow, the fact that he was thrown into all of this without even the basic warnings that were the first thing Rysn was told when she got her Dawnshard.