Elegy

Easily my favorite of the four, although I'm not a fan of the pseudo photo realistic art style when it comes to book covers. (That said, it does fit the pulpy style of the stories.) The characters definitely look like themselves though, and Wayne doesn't have a gun this time around, which is also worth something 

The fact that there's sparks in the sky makes me a bit concerned for Elendel though!

They look fantastic! I'm actually surprised how much I like them because it's also hard for me to get used to new layouts on sites that I visit often.

The only thing I'm a bit skeptical about is the new color scheme for the Arcanum. The traditional dark blue + white combination is much easier on the eye, in my opinion.

Great job altogether though!

A lot of great points in here, great work! One thing though, there is a dark-eyed female main character, and that's Lift.

Not sure if this directly disproves anything, but we have confirmation that Shallan's red hair is because of her Horneater heritage:

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These changes, of course, had a domino effect that resulted in the Veden people gaining their occasional red hair and fair skin from Horneater relation, which means Shallan is part parshman--though the relation is distant at this point.

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If Shallan's mother is the one who she inherited the hair color from, her mother got Horneater heritage, which means that she can't be Chana, since she's from Ashyn.

12 hours ago, thejopen27 said:

The Elendel basin needs to change. Brandon has very conveniently written all the people trying to change things to have nasty motives and nasty means, but that doesn't mean the basin doesn't need to change... they left the nobility in charge for god's sake. The SAME noble families from the time before the cadascendre are STILL in charge after. The society in the basin is stagnant and corrupt and Wax spends the entire time propping it up.

That's a rude oversimplification. First off, Wax himself does not like the nobles, like, at all. He liked being in the Roughs, away from the Elendel Basin. A huge part of his character in Alloy of Law is based on his comtempt for society and politics there. You make it sound like Wax thinks the Basin as good and righteous, when that is explicitly not the case, at all.

And there is change in the society over the course in the story, partly because of Wax' actions. Claude Aradel is the first non-noble leader in Northern Scadrial since over 1300 years, and that happens at the end of Shadows of Self. Things are changing, and the story makes sure that the reader understands that these changes are good and necessary.

So I think it's unfair to make it seem like Wax fights for the status quo and we should cheer for that. It's evidently not the case. I have a lot of problems with Era 2, and that's not one of them.

11 hours ago, Use the Falchion said:

I noticed the novella/novel thing too, but admittedly didn't think much of it. While I think the more likely scenario is that the novellas were combined into one novel, there's also the possibility that the novellas ran long, and became novels in their own right. So instead of calling them novellas, Sanderson & Bohls made the executive decision to retitle them as official novels. 

Here's what Steven Michael Bohls said in one of the comment boxes on YouTube (spoilered for pic size):

That doesn't really answer the question, but the second option (novellas ran long) seems more likely that way.

I'm sure he'll talk about it on the next Weekly Update though.

This is amazing! Thank you for being as awesome as you are, guys!

Nazh would be proud.