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I'm firmly in the camp that listening too much to fans is a terrible idea and that stories tend to suffer for it. In this particular case it was something small that doesn't matter in the larger stormlight picture, but him saying he considered changing something out of respect for fan theories isn't what I want to hear from an author. He was a fan before an author though, so I think he has a decent grasp of when to listen and when to keep his ideas.

I was referring to the part where Brandon said he tried to make her gay this book out of respect for the fans who argued she was gay. I was going to quote but my phone is working up.

Trying to make Jasnah gay out of respect to the fans who wanted her to be gay feels weird to me.

Isn't Venli roughly the same age as Kaladin? I believe she's the older of the two sisters

Coming from OB I was very convinced Kal and Veli were going to be an item, since it always seemed fitting to me for Kal to get together with a singer and Venli was the most prominent one. When RoW chapters came out I'm sure we all noticed him and Leshwi having a very close relationship though, which made a lot of us pair them together. I wanted to make this thread to hear everyone's opinion on Kaladin and Leshwi/Venli being together and what everyone hopes will come out of this. I should also mention tomorrow is the chapter where Venli meets Leshwi, so things might clear up more then.

All I want to say is that everyone in this thread is a storming genius and I'm proud of you all.

Doing my poor boi Kal a disrespect here T_T

To be fair we got some small crumps of Amaram feeling guilty deep down. I think that Brandon is making him take more and more steps downward and I can definitely see him going even deeper. I wouldn't mind him getting a redemption arc at all, maybe in the back 5, but I don't think that's where his story is going. I see him as a parallel to Kaladin way too much.

Yeah, she wasn't the one who sent his brother to his death or enslaved him, why should she care about it?

Laral didn't give a single crap about Tien dying or Kal having slave marks when Kal got to see her again in OB. Instead she whined about her floor. Hard pass for me.

I'm honestly a bit scared that he changed his original vision of Shallan to better or more accurately portray DID.

Tell Thaidakar he's too late...

Lirin understands some people need to fight, he just doesn't want Kaladin to be one of them.

Just wait until we meet Balat with little Evi

All that wob says is that the unmade aren't Odium heralds but are spren instead, while what I'm saying is that the unmade and their effect are a parallel to the heralds and their quirks.