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Thanks for confirming what he said. I haven't had a chance to re-listen to it yet. Yeah I didn't think of Rlain but that is definitely a possibility. But it could still definitely be Adolin since he's not a flashback character and is going through some interesting things (potentially).

That was my assumption too, that WOK was the windrunner book because of Kaladin being the main character and flashback character. So this is probably the willshaper book or maybe the book of the order of the unknown main character. I don't know if this really helps work out who the main character is, but I am interested to know why this book would have been the windrunner book. It likely will still focus on windrunners to an extent if Kaladin is going to be dealing with his problems from OB and swearing the fourth ideal.

I've heard about Dalinar stepping back and Szeth being in jail, but what do you mean about this book originally being the Windrunner book?

Yeah I agree with all of that. We already know that Lirin has at least one pov chapter right? So it's possible he could turn out to be the main character and we'll see Kaladin and the situation with the singers (possibly including Venli?) through his eyes and see how his philosophy influences Kaladin's development and his swearing of the fourth ideal. Then again like you say Adolin is a likely choice and will probably also be in a good position to show us what's going on with other characters. Rysn seems unlikely but if it's her novella Brandon's working on at the moment then maybe that'll set things up in a way where it would make sense? Like I said, unlikely, but still, it's possible. I was thinking maybe Renarin because we know more about what's going on with him now, but we'll probably just get a few more chapters from him.

Hi, first of all, sorry if this has already been discussed and I've just missed it. I was watching Brandon's interview on the dusty wheel this morning and one of the questions he was asked was about the character groupings for Rythm of War. He obviously didn't give much away but he did say that unlike with previous stormlight books, the flashback character wouldn't be the main character. The flashbacks will be split between Venli and Eshonai and of course Eshonai can't be the main character, but apparently Venli won't be either. Brandon said it wouldn't be any of the characters receiving a flashback sequence in the series and then I think listed Kaladin, Shallan, Dalinar, Eshonai and Szeth. So my question is, who do you think the main character will be? Do you think Brandon meant that it isn't one of the five listed characters or that it isn't any of the ten flashback characters? Unfortunately I don't have the exact wording for what Brandon said. I think it was one of the first questions he was asked in the video so I might listen to it again later to refresh my memory. I'm just really interested to know who people think this character could be. Could it be someone like Adolin who's already a common pov character in other books (but not really a main character), or a more minor character we haven't seen much of before, or someone like Renarin who will get flashbacks in the back five?

Well I must have done a good job of picking underrated authors then. There's nothing more underrated than just not being known in the first place. Yeah it's been cool talking to you too!

The Traveller: Thanks. None of them unfortunately. Where are you travelling too? But seriously, I'm not sure what order I wd/want to be. Especially at this stage where we don't really know the ideals for lm of the orders. I like the idea of the lightweavers because I think the idea of really looking at yourself and going beyond the lies you tell yourself about who you are and just being honest to yourself as much as possible is a really important and powerful thing. I also have a habit of ignoring problems and distracting myself to avoid thinking about them rather than just dealing with them when they come up so I understand the temptation to convince yourself and everyone else that everything's fine. Obviously I'm definitely not as bad as Shallan though in any way. I'm interested in finding out what the elsecaller ideals are though because I do consider myself to be quite a logical person and have been accused of being too logical sometimes. But really I just like the concept of the radiants in general. The idea of in a way progressing as a person as well as in power and just the whole thing with the ideals and spren. Dreamer: Yeah I don't think I know any fantasy books with gay main characters now I think about it. I think in some YA fantasy there are some gay characters who aren't like 'the main character' but are at least fairly prominent because they're friends with the main character. I'm sure there's more than that out there, it's just not something I've really considered. Well Jonathan Stroud is a pretty good author I don't hear about much. The Bartimaeus series was one of my favourite series when I was younger and I still like it now. I don't think IVe ever heard anyone mention Tom Holt before and I think all his books are really good. Michelle Paver wrote The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness which is a cool series too. Also Jonathan Renshaw wrote a fantasy book which I thought was amazing, probably a few years ago now, I can't remember what it was called and I don't think the sequel is out yet but it's a great book. I don't know if Peter V Brett is underrated really but I don't think I've noticed people talking about him too much. That's probably enough now.

Well it seems like the second book of the book of dust was fairly polarising. I understand why and from what I remember there were one or two things I wasn't too sure about, but I really liked it. The first book is basically about getting baby Lyra to Jordan college. It was good but mostly about more minor characters from the main series or ones that weren't in the main series at all. The second one is quite different though. I remember it being very emotional, with some in-world philosophy stuff and something which I don't think we thought was possible in the original series. I think some people complained that there was too much politics in it, or I should say that they thought it had too much of Pullman's politics in it I suppose but really it's not like HDM didn't involve some strong views. That's an interesting question. Well I have very mixed feelings about Harry Potter and Rowling but I feel like that applies to basically everyone now. I haven't read ASOIAF so this doesn't really count, but it doesn't really appeal to me and whenever people hype it up or try to convince me to read it I just feel even less convinced. That's probably some kind of psychological thing though I guess. Oh, well I did listen to The Lost Symbol by Dan Brown recently and it was just so frustrating! I don't remember everything but basically there were two supposedly very intelligent people who were meant to be a scientist and a philosopher, but they seemed more interested in pseudoscience and religion/spirituality. The book even involved an experiment to prove that there was a soul by weighing bodies after death. But I'm sure it was proved some time ago that dead bodies do become slightly lighter but due to natural physical causes and not because of anything spiritual. Also if the soul is meant to be nonphysical then why would it weigh anything in the first place? Sorry for the rant. People obviously have the right to believe whatever they want. There are still dualist philosophers I think even if it's not as generally accepted, and there might even be dualist scientists, and that's fine, but if it's all going to rely on old experiments and pseudoscience then that's just too much. I mean I think there were other annoying things like this throughout the book that got on my nerves so it's not just this, but this is the bit I remember. Anyway that was probably a bit over the top. I just want to reiterate that I have no problem with any religious or spiritual beliefs, it was just how it was all handled in the book.

Dreamer: I would say that Terry Pratchett is tied with Brandon for my favourite author. I also really like Philip Pullman (His Dark Materials), Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy)... I'm going blank. But as you can see I have a range from big epic stuff to more surreal and funny stuff. Though Discworld does also include a lot of deep philosophical discussion and good characters. There are a lot of books which I own and plan to read but haven't yet because I find that it can distract quite a bit from my work for university, so I'm sure in the summer I'm sure I'll be able to add more names to the list. Though even now there are a lot more authors I like who I just can't think of at the moment. How about you? Maybe your list will trigger my memory.

Ah ok. I don't have much experience on forums in general so I was confused when it happened but it seems like a reasonable way to deter spammers.

Ah ok thanks. It's not that important but still it's nice to be able to avoid error messages if possible. Yeah those make sense. Well Elhokar would maybe be more controvercial but I get where you're coming from. Do you think you would still dislike him if he hadn't been killed and we actually saw him progress as a lightweaver and accept his flaws and become a better person? We have quite a lot of evidence that he wasn't a good king and made bad decisions, but then we also saw that he wanted to be better and was trying to be. I suppose it just depends on whether you think that's enough. Although you could just find him irritating either way I guess. So I can't remember now if I listened to the Wheel of Time first and found Brandon through that or if I listened to Mistborn first and found WOT through Brandon. I could probably find out by looking through my audible account. I think some time after that I must have listened to WOK because I remember being excited when WOR came out. I only read Elantris and Warbreaker in the last year or so though.

Dreamer: Yeah that makes sense. Any idea what my post count has to be for me to do it? Or is there somewhere I can find out? That's fair enough. Kaladin is definitely a cool character. I think it'll be interesting seeing him struggle with and finally swear the fourth ideal in the next book. So I think I'd have to do a full cosmere reread to be able to decide who my least favourite character is. I really don't know honestly. Who would you say is your least favourite character?

Nice to meet you! Yeah I'm not sure that I'm any good at thinking of theories myself and I listen to the audiobooks so it's harder to find quotes for evidence, but it's definitely fun to read what other people think. Dreamer, sorry, I tried quoting to reply to you too but I got an error message saying I'm not allowed to use links because I'm new or something like that? Hopefully this will work though. Anyway, thanks! Hmm... I'm not usually that great at picking favourites. I do really like Shallan. I was actually quite surprised when I found out so many people seem to strongly dislike her. Jasnah is also great. It's too bad that we don't get much from her pov right now but it makes sense. Who's yours?

Hi, I'm posting this topic to let you all know I exist as instructed. I've been a fan of Brandon's for a while but I think I only truly became obsessed after reading Oathbringer. I've been looking at stuff on the forum and listening to shardcast for a while, and then I just thought that I really should just make an account. So, here I am!