Andrew the Great

When Eerongal stabbed (This is a rather violent story, isn't it? Not that that's particularly surprising, given who's writing it...)

True Enough. Kaladin had absolutely nothing to do with the Way of Kings plotline. However, where none of us really knew anything about what the Way of Kings was going in, it wasn't so much of a big deal. If Brandon titled book 2 Highprince of War and then had it be mostly about Shallan, that'd kind of be a bigger deal, as it's sort of breaking a promise to readers in a way.

You know, this is an interesting thought. Just to run with it for a bit, would you say it's more likely that the visions are genuine, and the Hierocracy was just a bad group to make unity a reality, or the visions are essentially a manipulation from Odium or some other similar source?

Or he just was always corrupt and pretended to embrace ideals and values that he knew people would go along with.....

Well, believe your argument. Not necessarily your authority.....

Aether of Night, White Sand, Re-read of Way of Kings, Re-read of Gathering Storm, and The Darkness that Comes Before by R. Scott Bakker. All at once. It hasn't gotten too confusing yet.... Curse me for starting so many interesting books......Servant of a Dark God Granted it probably helps that Way of Kings is currently for information purposes, so I'm not as heavily invested, and I know the Wheel of Time so well by now that I don't really have to think much to keep track of things. Aether, White Sand, and Darkness are all being quite good so far. In my extremely limited free time, I'm having difficulty deciding what to read.....

I'll second the Malazan books, though with a couple of words of caution. First of all, it has a steep learning curve, and it is difficult to care about the characters at first. I've heard a lot of people complain that they didn't like the ending of the first one. I thought it was fairly good, and listened to the urgent promptings of a couple of my friends to continue through at least book 3. About halfway through book 2, I was very suddenly hooked. I finished the rest of the book in one sitting, and it was intensely awesome. Memories of Ice, book 3, is still my favorite book I've read to date. The other books are sometimes a little difficult to get into. Some aren't. Just casually read through them until you get to what interests you. Depending on your tastes, different books in the series will grab you more than others. Personally, I loved books 5, 8, and 9, but I've heard others say they felt these were particularly weak volumes. When you get to something that you really do like, though, chances are that it's done better than you've seen most anyone do it before. Erikson is very good at what he does. I will also strongly endorse Scott Lynch, though personally I feel Lies of Lock Lamora is better than Red Seas Under Red Skies. If you don't like when characters swear, this is not the series for you. I felt like it wasn't excessive, but I've had friends try to read them and tell me they couldn't get through more than a couple of chapters before the swearing was too much for them. As mentioned, Name of the Wind is the awesome. I've read that one five times since it's release, the most of any one book I own. The first three Sword of Truth books were good, but everything after that degenerates into Goodkind's ramblings about life and philosophy while essentially repeating the same story. That's without the remarkable number of similarities that start showing up to the Wheel of Time. He even does this a bit with the first couple books. Of his books, Wizard's First Rule is without question the best, and is definitely worth reading. I just won't ever recommend this series as a whole to anyone. Wheel of Time is, of course, awesome, and probably takes top honor for most time invested into reading it for me (though admittedly, only because I started WoT about three years before I started Malazan). Now for stuff that other people haven't mentioned...... Servant of a Dark God by John Brown was a little difficult to get into, but I really enjoyed it once I did. When I say a little difficult, I mean it took a good 70 pages or so before I cared what was happening at all. Anything and everything by Jim Butcher. Though come to think of it, this has been mentioned. Codex Alera is better in the early books than later on, and Dresden Files can sometimes seem a little repetitive, but most if not all of Butcher's stuff is worth reading. The Psalm of Isaak series by Ken Scholes. The first book, Lamentation, was a little slow for me (though I have a friend who says it had him from page 3), but was interesting, so I kept going. Canticle was a fantastic read, and sold me on Scholes. Just recently finished Antiphon, and I'm liking Scholes better all the time. There are still a few random quirks within the books that occasionally annoy me, but overall I like the story and the writing is good. I've also really enjoyed the stuff by Guy Gavriel Kay that I've read, some more than others. Tigana is my favorite of his so far. Abercrombie is good if you like dark fantasy. If not, probably not for you. I personally really enjoyed the First Law trilogy, though I haven't yet gotten around to Best Served Cold. That's pretty much it from me, for the moment. Mostly I'm just throwing names around that all of you have heard before. EDIT: I'm ashamed of me! I forgot to even mention Ian C. Esselmont, who also writes in the Malazan world. I like his stuff better than most of Erikson's, though I doubt I would if I hadn't read Erikson's stuff first. Also sadly lacking a presence here is Terry Pratchett, whose books are so full of win it's amazing.....

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So edit it.... If you're sure that something is inaccurate (as in know where it states otherwise in the book), go ahead and change it. You don't need to run everything by us. Only consult everyone here if you're not sure about something. In this case, I seem to recall that you're right. I don't have references or anything, so unless you're sure, look it up.

Not necessarily.... I might continue replying and therefore make you feel as though you need to close the topic, but I highly doubt that at any point in the near future I'll be standing near you using my awesome mind powers to actually force you......

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Ummm..... good question. It was fun?

All I saw was him saying that he had perceptive fans, then refusing to either confirm or deny that the Tears of Edgli were in any way related to Endowment. I'd appreciate a link if you have it..... And recall, Chaos, that I was gone for an extensive period of time from various forums and didn't actually see every Q&A in existence. I just started using the term Splintered cuz everyone else was and it sounded cool. I feel so behind the times.....

Besides, it was a remarkably nice spambot. And they are useful for keeping post count up. Which is pretty much the sole reason for the existance of this post, as the rest of it just repeats Eric.

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And I just don't have a scanner at the moment, being in a dorm room as I am. I agree that we should probably put the chapter headings in there. They add quite a bit, and they look pretty.....yes, I'm a little ADD..... However, I'm wondering if this is a copyright issue? Using some of the text of the book falls under Fair Use, I know, and if we were commenting on the graphics extensively and/or analyzing them, I know that that falls under Fair Use as well, but I'm not sure if posting them in the summary pages would. I think it'd look great, but I don't want to break copyright law....

We decided a while ago that there's no avoiding spoilers with the wiki. There's a general spoiler warning at the beginning, and I thought it followed you through and was on every page too, so it's probably not even necessary to put a spoiler warning in.

I'm already doing summaries for Way of Kings, though you're welcome to edit them or add new ones that I haven't done yet. I don't know of anyone doing summaries on any of the others, though I know that there were plans for these to happen eventually. Look around. Go to the main page of the wiki (link can be found in the thread "For your Convenience" in the wiki subforum - I recommend bookmarking it. Alternatively, you could just click the wiki tab at the top of any page....). Click the books link on the main page, and see if there are summaries for any given book you want to write them on. Look at the Summary page for Way of Kings for formatting if you want. To create a link in a wiki, you put whatever you want to link to in two sets of brackets. So, for example, if I wanted to link to the page called The Stormlight Archive, when I was editing the page, I would put [[The Stormlight Archive]]. If you want to create a new page, there are a couple of ways to do it, but the easiest way is by clicking on a red link. Red links refer to pages that haven't been created yet, and when you click them, it takes you straight to an editing page to create them. Formatting isn't terrible difficult. You use equals signs for headers. ==Section Header (Includes line - Use Sparingly)== ===Smaller Header=== ====Smaller Header==== Etc. : is an indentation, though it's not a very big one, and you won't need it often. Use * for bullets in lists, and if you need any of these symbols in your text you just surround them with nowiki tags. <nowiki>*******</nowiki> I think I did that right. If you're wondering what needs created, there's links on the front page where you can find wanted pages and stub articles. These need to either be created or have content added. You can also categorize articles by adding [[Category:(Insert Category Here)]] at the bottom of the page. For example, on Odium's page, you might have [[Category:Cosmere]] [[Category:The Stormlight Archive]]. Tracking down citations for the various confirmed facts is appreciated as well. Add references to these right after the statement that refers to them. The format for this is <ref>Short Summary of What source is</ref>, and then you have to add <references /> to the bottom of the page. For example, the citation of Brandon confirming that Endowment is indeed the name of the Shard on Nalthis: Nalthis (Text of article here). Brandon has confirmed that there is at least one Shard, Endowment, present on Nalthis. <ref>Barnes and Noble Q&A with Brandon</ref> (Rest of Article Here) <references /> (Categories Here) That should be enough to get you going. Note that all of the information that I've just given you is available on the wiki, and that if you get lost, it's pretty easy to find a page that uses the formatting you're looking for, hit the edit button, and see how it's done. I should also probably mention that it's very important that you either don't include speculation in your articles, or you separate it from the known facts and clearly label it as speculation. Several of the current pages have Speculation sections for the purpose of discussing common theories. I only mention this because I have a tendency to include my speculations, and then I have to go back and fix them. Happy editing! Feel free to ask any questions you may have, though I may or may not know the answers.

IF the Tears of Edgli are indeed the embodiment of Endowment. That's completely speculation, though, with no real foundation in fact.

Looking very much better, Zas!

Man, I need to reread Elantris....

It would probably help if they weren't all so similar. Wait... a sliver? How does one meet those conditions without being dead? Is it possible to relinquish a Shard? And actually, the Returned holding Splinters is strong support for Elantrians also holding Splinters. Brandon even compares the two directly several times in the Warbreaker annotations. And I'm still really liking the comment I made earlier about the Splinters they hold being absorbed into the whole when they go into the pool. Also, in that same q&a, someone mentioned that they believed that the Pool for Endowment is located where the Tears of Edgli (spelling?) grow. Brandon wouldn't confirm or deny it, but this is the only location on Nalthis that we've seen so far that makes a lot of sense. It would make sense that plants with a lot of color would grow near the pool of a Shard on a world where color is used to fuel magic. Kind of like, say, Atium forming in the Pits of Hathsin.

I like it as long as it's referencing sacrificing others. Sacrificing oneself seems a bit too noble from what we've seen. Though I suppose it might actually be possible.... I do quite like it, though.

I kind of wondered the same thing. The one at Stormblessed revolves exclusively around the Stormlight Archive, so if they merge, they'd need to either change their focus or merge with us. Plus "The Coppermind" is just such a fitting name for a wiki on Brandon's stuff. I agree, though, we'd be better off having everyone contribute to one common wiki. We'd probably need to approach them about this if we wanted to do it.

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