OrangeCat

Nope, my orange tabby just happened to be sitting in my lap when I needed to think of a name. Eventually I'll get around to using a picture of him as my avatar. Hmm, I wouldn't normally cosplay....I guess Dalinar is probably my favorite character at the moment so maybe him? Although, a few years ago my wife suggested we make a paired Syl/Kaladin costume for Halloween, we never actually did that, but that's probably the closest I've actually gotten.

Usually whichever one I reread most recently . Mostly the cosmere stories, but I also enjoyed Skyward, Rithmatist and some non-cosmere novellas.

Been reading the forums for a while, but glad to finally join. My friends have been reading RoW too slowly, so I needed to go somewhere else to discuss things.

I don't know what the GB goal is right now, but the first place my mind went after finding out that worldhoppers had some hand in bringing the Everstorm to Roshar and then finding out Kelsier was the leader of the Ghostbloods was that Kelsier (or rather, people working for him) might have been part of the plot to bring the Everstorm to Roshar. (There might be info that contradicts that in RoW, I’ll have to pay more attention on my next read.) But I think it would be 100% on-brand for Kelsier to see a parallel between the Skaa and Parshmen and have done something like that to free the Parshmen from slavery, regardless of the potential for collateral damage (and maybe there is some other goal he’s going for that was furthered by this as well :shrug:). Not necessarily the actions of a "villain" from his point of view, but definitely him doing a thing that PoV of the stormlight archive sets up as very bad.

I'm wondering if anyone else read this passage from Syl's interlude in RoW where she is reflecting on her last radiant, Relador, and thought to themselves "huh, that sounds way more like an Edgedancer thing to do than a Windrunner thing to do"? I realize this is at a point in the book where Kaladin is dealing with the idea of stepping away from the battlefield and could be read as showing "hey, you can be a Windrunner even if you don't fight", but I think it's interesting that it sounds sort of like Relador might have spent his whole life doing this and only fought in battles towards the end of his life when he died in battle, rather than bonding Syl while he was a soldier doing stereotypical Windrunner things and then retiring after the bond had already been established. The knights radiant quiz summaries describe the stereotypical radiant order behaviors I'm thinking of here (but the books push similar ideas for each order, just not as well summarized). For Windrunners it says: For Edgedancers it says: I kind of want this to be a thing because it would imply that (for some unknown reason, probably related to being the "Ancient Daughter") Syl might be able to give Kaladin access to the surges of Gravitation and Abrasion at the same time, which seems like it would be such an amazing combo. I'm curious if other people have seen hints at similar Edgedancer/Windrunner weirdness with Syl? Or reasons this is probably just my wishful thinking?