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@Shardlet, not everyone is aware of Asmodean's fate. That's the issue.

There is guarantee that there will be anything between trilogy #2 and trilogy #3. The W&W series was a project Brandon did to relax, not something he had planned. Maybe he'll do another one in the same world. Maybe he won't. You'll probably have to wait another FOREVER for it... it's near the bottom of Brandon's to-do list.

/chuckle I've read most of the Eye of the World graphic novels and I could totally see The Stormlight Archive in the same format, with similar drawing... paradigm? style? quality? Jim Butcher's Dresden Files also have graphic novels, and they are not bad at all. So I guess this could work - but since I've never been a big fan of the genre (one of my big shortcomings as a geek), I would buy them as complementary materials, and only after I've read the respective books. This being said, I guess I didn't think my idea for a TV series through. I think I would prefer an animated series, similar to Legend of Korra or Fullmetal Alchemist.

Um... Are we reading the same version of Warbreaker? I've never seen anything about Vasher using his own blood for Awakening fuel. Are you, perhaps, referring to the scene where he draws Nightblood and turns everything in the vicinity into thick smoke?

As a mild aside, Brandon actually has an idea - maybe even a draft - for a book where becoming sick gives you superpowers, but only as long as you are sick. You get a cold, you start doing some lightweight magic. Cancer gets you, now you are heavy duty. And so on. For my idea? Weakness. The weaker you are... well. You know.

Soldiers out of favor are usually sent to the bridge crews - very few are executed. Lamaril even threatened him with this specifically, I think. So that's my leading theory, shabby as it is. I do, however, like the idea that he might have been seeing a spren. There is even less evidence for this than for the idea that he is now a bridgeman, but I like the subtlety.

You'll probably like them. They feel a little Martin-esque.

This makes all sorts of sense.

That's what I meant, more or less.

There was a very similar thread from a couple of weeks back, asking pretty much the same question. Even the title was similar. I just can't find it in the 2 minutes I have left until I leave work But cosmere in particular is mentioned in The Way of Kings. Jasnah uses the word once or twice, I think.

No, I am pretty sure he is trying to hold onto a little Stormlight at all times now. I imagine it's rather exhilarating, the feeling of power and energy, constantly flowing through your body. With enough spheres, Stormlight, and self-control, I fully expect Kaladin to try to Invest himself at least a little at all times. I wonder whether there are side effects to this...

I wouldn't say Honor, Cultivation, and Odium are at all complementary. Or opposite. In fact, I see in explicit relationship between the three - or even any two of them.

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It was a metaphor... = Sometimes things are as they seem. = Yes, but sometimes even if things are as they seem, those things are strange in nature.

I like. Here's a thought. I am not sure how much I believe in it, but it's at least possible. Maybe there is a difference between a "free" Surgebinder and a Knight Radiant. If Honor is pushing for the Radiants to be reinstated, and if the Heralds created the Ten Orders in the first place, then enlisted their help, and then quit their jobs, half-believing that the Knights will be able to hold the Desolations at bay... Well, it's starting to seem very unlikely that the Radiants are an issue when it comes to Desolations, as Darkness seems to suggest... So here are some options: Full Knights Radiant, due to the level of... completeness of their Nahel bond, are safe. But any "free" Surgebinder, anyone who hasn't accepted the Five Ideals, is potentially dangerous. In this context, Darkness is hunting those free Surgebinders, because he doesn't think they will ever become true Radiants, and thus will be a danger for as long as they live. Darkness is wrong. I don't think this is very likely, but Brandon has done something like this before - misleading his readers into believing something because a character who seems important and knowledgeable believes it. In this scenario, all Surgebinders can use their powers without advancing the progress of the next Desolation - but Darkness doesn't know that. Darkness is not a Herald, but one of the Unmade. The entirety of the "the Surgebinders and/or Radiants are advancing the Desolations" theory relies on whether Darkness knows what he is talking about. Which we often translate into "well, he sounds like he knows his business, and since this is all the stuff of legends, he must be super old; so he must be Herald." Except the Unmade, Odium's "Heralds" (if that speculation is right) are probably just as old and knowledgeable, so he could be one of those. In which case he is hunting Surgebinders to aid the coming of the Everstorm, not prevent it, and the justification he gives Lift is a flat lie. Which, in turn, brings me to something else I just thought of. It's possible (also not very likely, but interesting nonetheless) that the Heralds and the Unmade are all the same. During Desolations they fight for Honor - and Cultivation? - (as per the Oathpact), but between Desolations, they are Odium's creatures; with the caveat that they can't lay too much waste on the world, otherwise a Desolation would begin, and they would have to clean their own mess. The memories of fires and chains Kalak mentions could be interpreted as metaphorical (though it requires some mental gymnastics, which is why I don't think this a very likely theory). The idea plays nicely with the Heralds' belief that their abandonment of the Honorblades might just end the cycle of Desolations. If the Blades are what binds the Heralds to the Oathpact, and my out-of-the-blue theory is true, Odium might have lost 90% of his champions in the prelude. Which might have been a blow strong enough to cripple his ability to create Desolations.

Interesting. I now feel much better about my Fallen Heralds theory too.

This is a pretty small, not even side story, kind of deal. I'll have to wait for the quotes before I can picture everything.

If Shallan had been there (which, I guess, is possible due to the weird timeline the interludes seem to follow), then she'd be dead. Szeth had implied orders to kill everyone in sight, and of two-and-a-half Shardbearers couldn't stop, or even evade Szeth, she'd stand on chance.

I like that. It would also explain why the people of Roshar feel more betrayed than abandoned by the Radiants. Because they did betray them, sometimes quite violently.

The offtopic... it's strong...

No, I don't believe the beggar Hrathen met was Hoid. This beggar was accompanied by his son - or at least someone young enough to be his son - who apparently knew this man for either his entire life, or long enough to bond with him. No, Hoid was that pretend-beggar who helped Sarene smuggle food and weapons into Elantris.

I am not actually sure whether Aether will get published. Brandon wasn't very happy with it, from what I recall.

The informant was actually a different character Brandon wrote as a nod to Tolkien. Hoid was some shady dude Vin noticed on her to (from?) the informant, but decided not to talk to.

Firstborn and Defending Elysium, I believe.

Confounded by context. My apologies.