Nitpicking

@CoderDrag0n8, consider that Hebrew "adonai" is "lord", used (as in English) as a term for the One God. Adonalsium would be a Hebrew/Latin word for "the lord's metal".

SPOILERS FOR The Sunlit Man, Isles of the Emberdark, Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, etc.:

I don't think that's a typo. I also couldn't figure out why Adolin called for nine sets of Plate for eight people, but ... the real reason is probably (as mentioned over in the Echo ... echo thread) that the Unoathed had to be an echo of the Heralds, with ten members.

IoTE was ... OK. Among the secret projects, I'd put it above Yumi and Frugal Wizard (both lean on the fish out of water trope,which I hate). What everyone said: lore was great, plot not so much.

Usually? How many planets have you checked that on?

But the Scadrians we meet are specifically Malwish. All of them.

I tend to agree. I suspect that Crow still resents Xisis and is covertly sabotaging him.

But what if you become a duralumin savant? You could eat a bunch of the metal, then use half of it to zap-burn the other half and get a super-surge of power ....

No, it won't, barring a literal miracle. Dragonsteel is meant to be released after the Stormlight Archive is finished. Brandon won't even start writing Book 6 of the SA for something like five years, and it seems to take him 3 years to write one. He won't even start Dragonsteel for 20 years or so, if he sticks to his plans. Back in 2017, he thought (as he says in that WoB) that he could write Stormlight Archive books in one year each. He expected to have the Stormlight Archive finished by 2031, not half-done. That's why there's laughter in the subject line here.

There are lots of spoilers in Sunlit Man, but you've got many of them by reading 40% (notably "Sigzil is alive after the Stormlight Archive"). I think either reading order is great, honestly. I enjoyed SM more, personally, but having said that I have no idea whether you would want to read the better or worse book first, so ....

I can't tell if you're kidding, but he was referring to the Dragonsteel series, the origin story of Hoid.

I still find the Sanderlanches very impactful. It's the first 2/3 of the books that I find to drag. Emberdark (which I haven't finished yet) does not do that to me, only Stormlight books. I think, honestly, that he is a bit self-indulgent, just stuffing everything in and not wanting to cut. It happened to Stephen Donaldson, for one.

I just happened to run across this WoB: Optimism!

Yes. That's what I was implying with my rhetorical question. Obviously, Frost wouldn't waste his time asking Hoid to do something he had already done.

In his letter, Frost actually asks Hoid to join him and his Seventeenth Shard in an oath of non-intervention. Why would he plead with Hoid to do something Hoid already did?

Granted, but making a Herald hold still to be spiked would kind of imply they're already helpless. I can't think of a time anyone used hemalurgy in combat. You have to get the victim perfectly motionless.

Didn't Zahel also train Dalinar?

If you're doing Era 1-style hemalurgy, you're killing them anyway, so removing their connection to the Honorblade would be moot. (Heralds get reborn, but I'm assuming that destroying the soul with a spike would be as effective as sucking them into a gem a la Vyre.)

I forgot about the "Rosharan sunheart" thing. I only read Sunlit Man once, very fast. Thanks. So Hoid could sacrifice Foil, or a Sho Del? Hmm ... anyone he had a personal grudge against when he lived on Yolen who isn't a dragon or Shard is presumably long dead. Has anyone asked Brandon whether Hoid has returned to Yolen since he left at the time of the Shattering?

Why can't Hoid use a Sunheart? Sigzil isn't from Canticle any more than Cephandrius?

Brandon commented on this idea in 2017: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/116/#e8879 The Royal Locks are only inherited by the children of the actual monarch. Not descendants, only his/her children. Vivenna's children won't have the Royal Locks, because she isn't the monarch of Idris. Shashara's children (and theirs) wouldn't either, because she wasn't queen. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/250/#e6805

Also, the Royal Locks are only inherited by the heir and the heir's children. Lift wasn't the heir to a kingdom. Unless you mean Kalad's kingdom on Nalthis somehow. It would also be weird for Edgli's gift of Breath-related magic to work for a native-born Rosharan. Also her appearance doesn't match. Vasher seems to appear caucasian. Lift is darker-skinned and has the classic Reshi round face.

Who says that Vasher foresaw this? Brandon doesn't say it.

From the Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/31/#e1719 I think we've reached "a long time" since the Arcanum Unbounded release party, because Brandon has to be referring to Vasher no longer being able to live on Stormlight. He can't get Warlight, because Retribution limits it. Does he have to consume his Breaths to stay alive? Roshar's calendar is 100 weeks per year. Assume that he needs one Breath per week, the way he did on Nalthis, and Vasher will have to eat 1000 or more Breaths to stay alive through the time jump. One of Vasher's many names is "Warbreaker". Will he break the Rhythm of War, and Retribution (source of Warlight)?

If Quick-Eats really worked as implied, with someone using bendalloy all day 6 days a week, you'd be making savants out of your cooks. That's a serious OSHA violation, I would think.