TheSprengineer

Journey before destination, friend. Plenty of people name their kids after lost heroes. I’m not saying you’re wrong or that I’m dying on this hill, of course, but naming a kid after a badass is not a guarantee of the badasses’ safety. I do see Dalinar as more plot-expendable though now that Navani is a Bondsmith that can keep their key fallback point entirely secure.

My first evil thought when running Willshaper through this exercise was, (depending on the hostage of course lol), “My oaths say I’m not allowed to take you hostage...so I’m just going to kill you instead.” *shrug emoji*

The Epigraphs of Part 5 of RoW are all from the perspective of El, a Fused who I am already happy to be freaking scared of for Book 5. Rereading them all, I noticed a couple of things that make me really concerned for how the challenge will end up. His thoughts are spread over 19 chapters, but it isn't anything he himself actually says that set me off. It's the notation at the bottom of each. "Musings of El, on the first of the Final Ten Days." History is written by the victors. These are obviously thoughts collected by a historian AFTER the Challenge, calling the ten days agreed upon, the Final Ten Days. This in itself isn't concerning, an Alethi scholar could call it that just as easily. But the attribution is simply to El. Not, "Odium's General," not, "Ancient Fused," not "El, defeated at the Battle of Ral Ellorim" or whatever. Just. El. And just his idle musings. El has his rhythms and title removed, and he is well-known for this in Fused society. Titles are very important and used as honorifics regularly. NOT having a title would be glaring, and just as telling, and it stands to reason that Singers would note El as simply El, because that is what he is, and all THEY need to know. El, the titleless, who is ubiquitous for a very good, likely very depressing reason. Usually, a winning force wouldn't carefully collect the idle musings of an enemy combatant on the nature and virtues of subjugating humanity, but a Singer historian, recording the Final Ten Days of the war they'd been forced to fight for thousands of years? Yeah, that could happen. Dalinar will lose. Odium Reins.

Dance With Me Tonight - Olly Murs Adolin to Shallan in Shadesmar ~uWu My name is Adolin nice to see you baby Look, you can make a whole lot of pretty ladies But the real you, you shine so bright, yeah I was wondering if you and me could spend a minute Climbing up this rise in the night getting lost in it I won't give up without a fight I just wanna, oh baby I just want you to draw with me tonight So come on, oh baby I just want you to draw with me tonight We're getting higher, don't get shyer, see the sky now Loosen up and let your chalk go down, down Scribble it girl, just let me see your eyes, yeah I see the starspren posing for your work now, Looking at you I can tell I love you Don't stop keep sketching till the morning light, yeah When I saw you there Hiding all alone in your mind Acting like you had the hardest cares I knew right then, to treat you right So we could be hanging the whole damn night, like Ooooh baby, I just want you to draw with me tonight So come on, oh baby I just want you to draw with me tonight Take it down now (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) Scribble like that (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) Now get my good side And draw with me tonight One more time, one more time, come on now (Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) Do your thing (yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah) Make me wanna sing I just want you to draw with me tonight (come on) I just wanna, oh baby I just want you to draw with me tonight Everybody, everybody buzz of now Pretty girl let me see your eyes We can hang all through the night I just want you to draw with me tonight And I wanna sing Pretty girl let me see your eyes We can hang all through the night I just want you to draw with me tonight So come on Pretty girl let me see your eyes We can hang all through the night I just want you to draw with me tonight Youtube: Dance With Me Tonight - Olly Murs

He’ll find someone to accept his rose someday! Happy Valentine’s Day!

The sequel is going to be killer, Jewels was taking Clod to Yesteel for some upgrades so we have definitely not seen everything they’ve got yet. With Yesteel making better ichors, I’m almost seeing a Frankenstein’s monster kind of storyline happening

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Does anyone think Vasher may have given Nightblood to Nale directly? He’s been on Roshar for a while now, considering Adolin has known him for years when he’s first introduced.

What are you fighting for, soldier?

New shards taking the wheel Put your trust in a higher power

Could logicspren be cousins to both Inkspren and Mistspren? Cousins everywhere, gancho.

Since spren being vulnerable is new, and they’re destroyed, I wonder if they won’t end up following the same rules as atium on Scadrial from Era 1: It eventually collects and coalesces again. May not be Phendorana anymore at the end, but I wonder if her stuff won’t eventually recollect and be able to be made into a new spren.

He learned his passion from the good old fashioned School of Loverbois

It’d be super cool if the stone itself remembered being human, but then would it become a theoretical question about Soulcasting and Awakening combined? Do the things turned to stone remember being human after they are told to be stone? The human shape is achieved of course, but stone alone cannot be awakened by pretty much anyone on Roshar OR Nalthis except for one person. That changes if the soul of the item remembers after it is soulcast, what it used to be.

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The Alethi, IIRC, were targeted specifically by The Thrill for generations because Odium was looking to breed a champion. If all the wars they conducted were spurred on and encouraged by the Unmade, establishing a code of conduct like that would have just been in the way, and they adopted a more Might Is Right mindset as a result. The Way of Kings, inworld, is also a book of wartime conduct, and one Sadeas dismissed as sissy stuff right away after having it read to him. These more honorable conducts were seen as weakness not just by Sadeas, who definitely enjoyed The Thrill, but the other Highprinces as well. With The Thrill hidden for now, it’s likely Dalinar’s and true Honor’s conduct can take hold, but it still has a ways to go because of how generationally engrained their mindset is. (If you were to go to Azir, it’s very likely you’d find some code of war conduct like this buried under mountains of paperwork.)

And new Shards are supposed to have a certain freedom, even if it results in them flailing and misplacing, maybe, a whole continent in the process. Perhaps the Intent still hadn’t blocked him entirely off from being able to do wild stuff yet, hence the clumsiness the WoB mentioned in Teravangian’s excising.

My top was Willshaper, and my bottom is Skybreaker. Love it. Shut up mom, I don’t need your lame rules, I gots my freedom *dab* -Teenage Willshaper, probably

I get being weirded out by it because of the age and craziness reasons, but I totally agree with you here. He has to carry millennia of worries and plans, and if he doesn’t screw around, have fun, and get truly involved with people, he’d likely go just as crazy as every Cognitive Shadow that tries to live above humanity instead.

Odium is an interesting case, considering he’s the first Shard vessel who has died from a “physical” attack. The others have been ripped up by other Shards. *cough RayseYouJerk cough* Pocket God dimension is cool, and I wonder what Nightblood screwball stuff is involved in all that, reaching physically but stabbing interdimensionally.

Ah, that’s what's meant. Good to know

Eep, did something post twice? I refreshed and I didn’t see a double-up, I’ll clean it up once it shows

I accept there will be uncles I cannot protect Apologies for the length but Stefon had a lot to say about Rosharan nightlife Transcript for size considerations: