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@mdross81 "Though I will point out that the particular example you gave about Ishar comes directly from RoW chapter 111" So it is! Just found and re-read it. I guess those words from the Stormfather went over my head. @Aspiring Writer yep and that would be consistent with things in general that you take a deep interest in. I consider myself a capable learner (if I do say do myself) and one of the reasons for that is I try to utilize resources of experts and absorb as much advise as I can in order to get on the right path Thank you guys I had no idea about "Words of Brandon" and will check it out presently!

This may be the wrong place to post this, but I couldn't find a more suitable one and I just found/signed up for this website. Please move as appropriate if that's ok. I just finished reading the SA books so far, completing RoW last night. I picked up WoK just before RoW came out so I've been on a steady SA diet and, as I'm sure is not unique, was quite sad at finishing the last available book. One of the things I figured I could look forward to, which I have been vehemently staying away from to date, is forums/discussions/spoilers for SA; thus I was at least excited to be able to read the discussions now that I was done with reading the books. From a quick glance through a few threads, I have been confronted with a bunch of "extra" information that people seem to have, or at least stuff that I wasn't able to glean from reading the books myself. Just one example (which is the latest I happened to scan over, may not be the best) is someone talking about the Herald Ishar being the first to be tempted by Odium to Surgebind on Ashyn which led to the human's destroying it etc. I had no idea about almost any of that (apart from the basic fact that Surgebinding destroyed the human's home planet and they "switched gods"). So the question is how have you guys filled in all this extra information about the universe and the happenings in it? I suppose I could buy that it's all able to be inferred from the books if you look deeply enough but I'm not convinced and for now it feels like going from having read the SA books to reading these forums isn't a smooth transition. Please advise.