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This is theoretically possible.

Every reader I've spoken with develops this theory around book 5/6

PLOT TWIST! Asmodean was an alien cyborg all along!

Heretic. One cannot enjoy The Wheel of Time properly without suffering in one's ignorance of Asmodean's killer.

Nobody ever trusts poor Verin It does. Kind of. Jordan believed he left hints enough in the books after The Fires of Heaven. There was apparently one obvious one, but most readers (myself included) couldn't figure it out. To quite R.J. " I don't know why people have a hard time figuring [who killed Asmodean] out. To me it seems intuitively obvious even to the most casual observer." Brandon eventually included it in one of the glossaries, I think in Towers of Midnight or in A Memory of Light. Once you've finished the eighth book (Path of Daggers), you can read Sherlock Holmes Examines the Death of Asmodean. It's essentially a piece of fanfic written by a fan back in the year 2000, I believe, and holds much truth. The conclusion Sherlock reaches there is the correct one (i.e. the essay will reveal Asmodean's killer), so read at your own peril. Just be mindful of spoilers from books 6, 7, and 8.

We don't actually know that the Dor is this. It's a very popular theory that makes a lot of sense, but I can't think of a WoB that confirms it.

The Blinding Knife is probably best because of The Broken Eye's release in a week. Then The Crimson Campaign (and the Powder Mage short stories, if you haven't read them), because it will be a while before a new book comes out in that series. And then Jordan.

I feel that Brandon would be hesitant to play the same card again, since he already pulled the main-character-takes-a-Shard rabbit out of the hat once.

The Everstorm absolutely desolated the power lines in my area.

Shardbikini.

Just saw that too myself. At least now we have video confirmation that the bots are real, we know what they are called (Sander-bots), we know they going through really rigorous, and that they are really focused on the task given to them by the Overmind.

Done with Goblin Hero, onto Goblin War. It's definitely a good idea to read some lighter / shorter works between big novels.

Uh, right. Had a derp moment there.

I always assumed people in the humanities would either not read (as has been my experience with most of them), or read the "classics" - in which category I throw all the real classics, as well as non-SFF books that become famous for some odd reason. In other words, books in the sub-700 page range.

Here is good enough. It also lends some credence to the theory that Damnation is (on) Braize.

Much more dangerous than Fruitochemy or Seedomancy.

From Reddit, with love: Credit: /u/Aethy (post)

You don't need to understand the actual math behind it, just the concept. Cross product is one of the two ways of multiplying vectors (the other one being dot-product). One of its effects is that by computing it, you get a vector perpendicular to both of the original ones - so multiple a vector point straight ahead/behind by one pointing straight to the left/right, and you get a vector pointing straight down/up.

Scadrial does seem the most likely one here: The non-intervention policy could be interpreted as something Harmony would dictate - or it could be the complete opposite, interpretation is a big thing The maybe-not-quite-dead ambassador could be a Feruchemist, or he could be a kandra We know Scadrians will eventually fly through the stars; we don't know such thing about the other worlds This being said, I have to wonder whether the ambassador could've been a Lifeless from Nalthis...

Any other interesting questions and answers you can share with us? There is a London thread somewhere..

You might have problems if you won't read anything worse than Words of Radiance. It's the last book Brandon has released, and he has been getting better ever since his first book - so anything else you read by him will likely feel (slightly?) less polished.

Spook is, in my opinion, no more main character than Vasher is, so I think we shouldn't focus on the... mainness of the potential worldhoppers. As for Honor's Perpendicularity, it makes me think of the cross product of two vectors, which is perpendicular to both of them (e.g. the cross product of a vector along the x-axis and a vector along the y-axis would give you a vector along the z-axis). So, if we are going there, it suggests a change of direction, a transcendence of planes - a path away from the Cognitive Realm.

You can take a look at my (pretty much) spoiler-free review on Goodreads if you want. It's not very specific or detailed, but I guess the important thing about it is that I read The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms very soon after I finished Words of Radiance, so my expectations may have been a little on the high end. I don't remember much of what I disliked about it, but I think I mostly had problems with the Jemisin's style; it just wouldn't click with me. The gods were also kind of underwhelming, I think - the reasons for that made sense in-world, but I had hoped for more. Thinking some more about it, I guess my main issue was with expectations - I thought the book would be better than it was. Not that it was bad, but I had hoped for more than merely decent. Also, obviously, we could simply prefer different things. EDIT Finished Jim C. Hines' Goblin Quest and have moved on to Goblin Hero. Entertaining books and quick reads. I wish I had read Orcs by I-don't-know-who, since that one was the first, I think, famous book that merged humor with the stereotypical evil fantasy races.

I read the article and there might be some merit to this, but both the title and the conclusions drawn by the reporting party (Daily Mail) are misleading and oversimplified. The scientists who conducted the actual study (warning flag: no citation in the article!) seem to know what they are doing, reporting potential links between eye color and certain traits, but the Daily Mail blows them out of proportion. If there is about a dozen genes responsible for eye color, and if one of them (e.g. NCX-4) is also related to (but not solely responsible for) a certain physiological trait (e.g. pain tolerance), you can't really claim that causation - not fully, at least. To save you the time, if you haven't read the article or are not terribly knowledgeable in genetics, here's one of the things the Daily Mail suggests - in simpler words: "Dark eyes are determined by certain combinations of a dozen genes, but one of the forms of one of those genes is one of the many deciding factors for pain tolerance, therefore people with dark eyes have higher pain tolerance." That's like claiming that people who did well on their chemistry midterms during high school get paid more after college - there is some precedence for this to be true, but it's not a good conclusion to make.