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  1. Honorless
    It has been discussed a few times and most people think that it does, probably mostly into subterranean caverns, like we see under Urithiru, Aimia, wherever the water from the Purelake retreats. Rock is porous too, water can seep through. Lack of a water table wouldn't have affected them much with the regular Highstorms and the reservoirs & non-perennial? (okay, Earth terminology kind of breaks here. They wouldn't have monsoon rivers but they should definitely have rivers fuelled only by the regular Highstorms) streams it fills up. I wouldn't look at the tenses as descriptive of time in this instance. Skin aflame, bringing the darkness sounds very much like Ashynites.
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    This one could refer to Dalinar's story up to now. Remembering the burning of Rathalas perhaps or the battle on the Shattered Plains. Could be the fall of Alethkar or perhaps Herdaz. Could be multiple events conflated. Mentions child, might be related to the suckling babe Death Rattle? Sounds like the Weeping? Or hearing a Rhythm that sounds similar to rain maybe? Could refer to the Everstorm We know from Raboniel that this refers to the Voidbringers or the human refugees from Ashyn This might also refer to the taking of Urithiru. The failing of Lights could also refer to the anti-Surge fabrial or the Anti-Lights, I think. People swear by the Stormfather often on Roshar. The True Desolation is here, the Everstorm is here, but what is the Night of Sorrows? No idea on this one, though I definitely do not like the child Champion theory. Could be metaphorical for killing innocents, Taravangian's actions perhaps? It could refer to the Godspren who're not necessarily good but innocent in a way. If Dalinar fails, he might choose to not give Odium a Bondsmith Narratively, asking the Stormfather to be merciful has happened twice: with Kaladin & Dalinar. One could also, sort of, count the instance of the Highstorm & Everstorm clashing over the Shattered Plains as a similar portend. This does feel like it's leading up to something.
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    Soulcasters are a fair bit more esoteric than almost all other fabrials we've seen so far, aside from the Regrowth fabrial perhaps and whatever fabrial made Aimia inhabitable. Ancient fabrials were all spren manifesting but even the complex fabrials of the Tower manifested by the Sibling were more mechanical in nature, from Navani's impressions near the end of RoW. I'll say there's definitely a Command involved to Change the mind or spren of the object being Soulcast. It might be that the Dawnshard itself was not involved in the creation of the Soulcasters but served as inspiration, like how the spren copied the powers of the Heralds' Honorblades.
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    They mean in the Sanderson context, I think. I don't think it's quite so dire. A lot of people didn't find Ranette being lesbian a bit on the nose, with her being a gun girl, I did a bit. But it's fine, it's not disrespectful or anything, a bit of a trope but that's it. It was done well enough, especially interactions with Wayne. Did she have a girlfriend? I forgot. If she did, would've loved to see her with her lucky girl. If she's single, that's greatly handled then. I stand by what I said about Drehy & LGBT in Roshar. We see zero background gay couples, no idea how they deal with Vorin system, everything we know about LGBT comes from WoBs so far. We do meet a lot of background straight couples & hear or get a bit about them dating, we also see another Bridge 4 member getting together, for Drehy, it's just skipped over. Hopefully that changes going forwards with Renarin & Rlain. Hopefully we don't skip over everything between books 5 & 6.
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    @king of nowhere, don't sweat it. I didn't stop arguing with you just to simmer the topic down, but because I looked through all your replies again and your prev LGBT topic and realized this was simply unfamiliar ground for you. As for special treatment and male victims of violence, yeah, I think I told you I picked up on that, and that I agreed with you on that. The older folks tell you to man up and the younger folks tell you that your victimhood threatens other victims on the basis of your gender. And then your story is nothing but fuel for politics and absolutely no one to support you. A lot of legislature goes out of its way to frame only one group as the aggressor and one as the victim and ties the whole thing together as the only possible narrative, societal attitudes are complicit in that. I get how that came to be, I do, but that doesn't stop it from being messed up. @Kingsdaughter613, thank you, the sentiment is appreciated but I'm not entirely sure seeing myself as normal is the right or practical thing to do. I'm not and I'm going to have to be okay with that, I can't pretend everything's fine. @mdross81 appreciate it. Oh, I'll miss Veil.
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    What is the Ton? A publishing house? Oh, you have a published work out? You said "as long as you were discrete": are they still like that or was that a decade ago? Oh wow, I didn't even know you were LGBT after all this time on the thread, did you mention it? I don't remember, you did mention Jewish... I think the term would be sects and how they handle gay believers In my experience, being LGBT is very much a big thing, and way beyond a simple case of visibility (which I'd say may not be as big of a deal but still pretty important). Being a gay guy specially and in my part of the world means being specifically targeted by legislature, danger of being physically accosted and the usual "not a real man" spiel that society is ready to drop on any man's head at a moment's notice becoming a guided missile. And even with people who're not like that, it's a "don't ask, don't tell" which I'm very much against because I've no interest in hiding in the woodwork because my existence makes people feel uncomfortable when I haven't done anything to them except exist, which apparently tickles their sensitivities. I'm not interested in pretending to be straight or "normal", I'm not straight or as I'm constantly reminded, "normal". And very often, it feels like I'm not even allowed to be angry about it, because if I am, that colours people's perception of all gay people. It's friggin stressful. Yeah, I think that works for minor or recurring characters
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    If they're a PoV, major or even a supporting character, there's no way being gay won't affect their life: their perception of the society, religion, politics, gender will show it. It's not really an unremarkable tag on people either. Like, if you point to a gay person who's out, them being gay is going to be one of the first descriptive characteristics that's going to pop up in people's minds when they're mentioned, so you can just go ahead and say they're gay, this goes for minor characters too. Even if their sexuality doesn't affect the plot, it does affect the character, show that, it's a major part of their identity and how people perceive them. Also, we all know that people look, and because in this case looking might not be considered normal, you can make such an occurrence more noticeable. Don't shy away from showing overt homophobia. Like, it's a thing that happens, writing about it isn't disrespectful and not acknowledging that it exists doesn't make it go away. If it's a fantasy world that's more accepting of LGBT folks, show it. Show some gay couples among the recurring or minor characters, show some trans folks or people who's gender you can't tell, show it in the sexual jokes and innuendo which would become less mocking of non-straight behaviour, show it in the lore or religion.
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    Huh, things fall neatly into place with this theory. I think you might be onto something here.
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    My condolences, that happened to me once. The shame...
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    I think our universe just has more forces that accelerate entropy, Investiture being part of the equation means it would slow down entropy but not eliminate it, I think.
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    The Stormlight Archive TV series opening sequence
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    Correct! Hmm... I was hoping the prev clues would make the last clue more confusing.
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    To the first, that's exactly what I'm trying to do. I'm sorry, I know it's a little annoying when people complain regardless of the validity of their complaints but like I have to live in a society. Can't exactly become a hermit. These are things that are still ostracized and not understood. Case in point, you, you literally can't relate and have no reference point for what exactly I'm asking for. I have already talked about why I think current mainstream authors doing better representation matters in my initial response to your first comment. Also last I checked, Brandon wants to do this better himself.
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    afraid not Time for the unveiling of the final clue! 1) This character often acted as a confidant to important people 2) This character has caused considerable grief to a Point-of-View character 3) This character lost a close family member 4) This character was in a love triangle 5) The character is a Lighteyes
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    Wow, I'm just a little in awe at the oversimplification and removal of literally all context up there. Y'know if people thought like that, a heck of a lot of people wouldn't have rights at all. It's nice to have no idea what that feels like, but it's not nice to continually have to live like that. You are literally saying no criticism is ever valid. You are literally complaining about the fact that I'm complaining, then when I explain why I'm complaining, you're saying, okay I see you have reasons to complain but the answer is no, so you should just stop complaining. If that is indeed what you're doing and that is indeed what you believe in, then I suggest you start practicing what you supposedly believe in and stop complaining about other people's complaining and just accept that they're gonna say no when you try to tell them that they shouldn't complain.
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    Nope, it's not Shallan
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    I'm responding to this: Talking about me or a group that includes me with a third party does give me the right to defend myself Two yes, Yes I would. Hmm... I think I've already stated why I find such a response problematic, specifically in the context of LGBT representation, in my previous comment. As for the rest, we've both participated in topics that have brushed those issues, so you know my stance on it. This kind of response just increases segregation, groupism, partisan politics.
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    And that counters which of my points that I've made in the topic? To begin with the point was more acceptance of queer people, less othering, that means more portrayal in mainstream literature & media rather than being relegated to a niche or hyperspecialized subgenre. Being LGBT is not like being an ethnic minority group, they don't have their own communities that they grow up in, they have to realize that they're different and then find/create their own. More accessible representation makes that just a little bit easier. Another point was that within the bodies of work that do have representation, including the Cosmere, there be something better than tokenism, characters that don't have anything to do with the plot but are just set pieces that are there or invisible representation that apparently exists in the mind of the author but never penned down and minority identities as nothing more than flavour text that don't affect the characters' experiences in-world. Would you consider "go make your own thing" a good counter-argument to problematic racial, gender or religious representation?
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    Nalthian Cognitive Anomaly
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    No to all of the above, Dilaf is a particularly good guess tho 1) This character often acted as a confidant to important people 2) This character has caused considerable grief to a Point-of-View character 3) This character lost a close family member 4) This character was in a love triangle
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    This. Also, not devaluing people who fit those characteristics! In fact I'd say considering these characteristics "the default" devalues people who fit those characteristics and makes them cardboard cutouts. Also it's not very nice to assume any characters who don't fill the default characteristics are only there for political cred. Those people exist. And it is true that they are underrepresented.
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    Make a "oh no" face, then make a "excuse me, what the-, why am I even surprised anymore" face at Elhokar's reaction. Adolin and Dalinar did well there but that does nothing to address the underlying issue there. As for why people didn't like Shallan or Adolin, there are old topics here and on Reddit, they are easy to find via google as they were rather hot topics.
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    Yeah, I loved the interludes, I think the Stormlight books are where I saw them done the best. They took us around Roshar & showed us things not directly connected to the main plot. It was a nice change of pace. I actually felt like I needed them in the books and that they were perfectly placed right where I needed a break. I hope we go back to the old style in future books.
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    I think it fits the second combo (a-copper, f-bronze) better because I don't think Spiritual Identity quite works that way. Same goes for a-copper, f-aluminium, their name's metal tho but Metalbreaker sounds even more metal. A few combinations are missing, they're hard to conceptualize & some of them might not work but I'd still have liked to see them on the list. Oh god a duralumin Compounder would be terrifying. "oh no somebody just attacked you, who was it, definitely not that guy/girl, they seem like such a good guy/girl" According to Brandon, these def aren't canon Hope we get the canonical list in era 3!
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    *Four more people 1094
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