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Soundcloud first, transcript later would be great. We could even make the transcribing a community project. Thanks.

eBooks. Though not just for Brandon's books. The last hard copy I bought was A Dance with Dragons.

I can't give the page number because I have the e-book but I'm guessing the italic is supposed to be "We run."

Few thoughts What kind of curses are "sparks" and "slontze"? I wish Brandon had gone with real world curses. They annoyed me. I had the same thoughts about Steelheart being similar to Mistborn but honestly it didn't bother me much. Yeah, Brandon have few ideas that pop up in multiple books but I don't think there is too much repetition. Still I understand the concern. I was 100% sure Megan was an Epic at the elevator scene. I don't think Brandon tried to hide it much or he didn't do a very good job to be honest. I didn't call the double agent and Firefight thing until too late though. I figured she'd joined because she was afraid her powers would make her like other Epics. I also called the resurrection thing. I didn't see Prof being an Epic. I thought the "inventions" that come from Epics affected regular people like normal Epic powers. David have a few grandeur delusions when using the tensor too. The ending. On one side there are 4 people on the field, on of them an Epic, and Tia providing support. On the other side 2 demigods plus whatever Enforcement personnel they brought with them. There is also Megan as a wildcard doing minor damage for both sides. Steelheart also had access to all the communications of the Reckoners. In the end Stealheart and Nightwielder are dead while all the Reckoners escape alive. That felt like cheating to me. Brandon absolutely aced the first-person narrative. I haven't read his novellas or the Alcatraz so I'm not sure if he did first-person before but I thought it was amazing. Overall, I loved Steelheart. Can't wait for the sequel. I hope we get better villains in the next book though.

I don't think those cracks are the result of Kaladin landing (for that matter I don't know how a man can fall hard enough to crack stones ). If you look at it there are plenty of mini cracks all over that plateau.

I'd prefer an amazing one Right Now. Alas, the world is not a perfect place. Which sucks. Yeah, that's how I read it too.

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Five bucks says at the end of the chapter titled "Kaladin 1-2 first half" Amaram comes to the Shattered Plains and Kaladin sees him. Edit: The 32th book is called Firefight. Anyone know what that is about?

Darn. Someone needs to upload a video of the Q&A and the reading as soon as possible. I want that Jasnah POV!

See the scene where Jasnah Soulcasts stone into smoke to free Taravangian's granddaughter. She uses the stormlight stored in the gems on her fake Soulcast fabrial. For all we know, the gizmo that Lady Knight carries is the Heraldic Ephoc Roshar equivalent of a fancy purse for gems (I don't think that's the case, I'm just mentioning the possibility.) Whatever it is, it is certainly up for discussion. I don't think it's a coincidence either. The body focuses (foci?) of topaz and heliodor are respectively the bone and the flesh. Perfectly consistent with a healing ability.

Huh, good memory Windrunner. This is the only place I can find Dalinar thinking about Purelake.

It also parallels the modern Vorin Kingdoms. Or at least Alethkar. Tanavast is dead, Honor is Splintered and the Heralds are deserters, if you will. But we see a lot of "you become soldiers so you can help the Heralds claim the Tranquilline Halls when you die" stuff thrown around to justify the constant infighting. Plus the whole lighteyes-darkeyes class system. Vorin people are doing an awful lot of bad stuff in the name of their dead god and absent Heralds.

Anyone ever took a look at the background of the images that separates parts? The ones that go like this: Part One Above Silence Kaladin - Shallan Parts 1 and 5 have the same background, as are 2 and 4. 3 is unique. I swear those symbols look like the symbols of Radiants to me. 1-5 > Windrunners 2-4 > Second Order 3 > Third Order

Sorry, I meant to say Learned=Jasnah. Still Jasnah being Battar's Order works just as well. It may even make more sense. I think Jasnah says somewhere she's bad with Soulcasting organics which is Pulp. You'd think she'd be good at her own Order's Essence. Thank you. Yeah, knowing Brandon's magic systems they won't be able to jump around as they will. But since everywhere outside Shinovar is pretty much rocky ground, I have to disagree that standing on stone would be enough. Something else to do with stones maybe. This also means there are six Orders who can travel from one place to another with great speed. Windfinders and Skybreakers with Basic Lashing, Jasnah's and Shallan's Orders by entering Shadesmar and making their way there and Stonewards and Kalak's Order by using the Travel surge. Heh. Interesting. I guess we'll see what we see. I know what you mean.

You've probably heard the arguments against that so I'm not going to repeat them. I'll just say from the way Kalak speaks it seems more likely to me that they were allies, thus Radiants. Looking at the glyphs make me think like I am taking an inkblot test I didn't pay much attention to them. Though, I thought about making light-heat the same surge, but I think it works better this way.

Okay, first whether or not Regrowth is a fabrial: Honestly, one is as likely as the other. We have what 3 sentences about the thing to speculate. That said, Soulcasters obviously don't fit with this little argument since modern fabrial makers don't seem to know anything about them. So I acknowledge the possibilitiy Regrowth could be a fabrial but I like Radiant ability better. For Lightweavers, illusion-creating fits with Loving-Healing just as well as altering gravity and binding things together with magical-superglue fit with Protecting-Leading. I don't think the Divine Attributes have anything to do with surges. I think they determine what kind of people attract the respective spren to form a Nahel bond and the Ideals of the Order. On the other hand Lucentia and Lightweaving fit like a glove. So. Yes, I read both threads plus two others including Isomere's Tanavallah. The reason I made this is because none of them were exactly the way I liked. Teft saying they melted stones is probably hyperbole. They didn't melt the stone in the Prelude, they just scorched it. He also says they could command the sunlight which, I think, is another hyperbole for Lightweaving.

Navani, perhaps? Loving fits her well enough, Healing not so much though. She's a viewpoint character and will get her backstory book in the future. It's not much of a stretch for her to become a KR. Problem with fitting people into orders is pretty much all we have to go on is the Divine Attributes and it's really, really not much. I mean I can put Dalinar in at least 5 Orders (though I think he'll go to the 8th Order).

Hey guys. I've been a lurker for sometime here. I've been thinking about the surges and how they correspond to the orders of KR. The attached table (what is that table called anyway?) is what I've come up with and I wanted to see what you guys make of it. I also have my own categorization system. It's a very simple one. Surges on the right side of the x-axis are physical and the left are cognitive. Seems the best to me since you can have either two or five categories because there are ten surges. Assuming, of course, there is no intersection and all categories have equal number of surges in them, which I do. You'll also see Honor and Cultivation there. The idea behind that is they made the Oathpact to defend against Odium. Each selected five men and women, respectively, to be the Heralds. Seems to be a fine historical basis for the Alethi tradition of masculine/feminine arts. I haven't actually figured out how the Orders tie into that, but I suspect they do, in some way. Though, I have to say I haven't put much thought behinds this and there is a lot of wild-guessery. Feel free to ignore this division. So, the surges and their orders. As you can see I used several colors designate the surges and the orders. Here's their meanings and why I placed what I placed where I placed: White: Things we know for certain. OrdersSkybreakers: Their place is Word of Brandon, as many of you probably know.Blue: Things I'm pretty certain of. OrdersJasnah's and Shallan's Orders: They are 5 and 6, respectively, because of the Divine Attributes. Learned and Creative fit just too damnation well. Lightweavers: Light = Lucentia. That's it really. Stonewards:The coloring. In Dalinar's vision, the armors of the Stonewards glow amber. The color of the 9th symbol is amber. SurgesLight: I feel strongly about this. It's a pretty good bet Lightweavers create illusions. Typically, there are two ways of doing it: a) you project it into your subject's mind, you manipulate light to create an image. I highly doubt it's the former. Yellow: Things I feel are likely OrdersDustbringers: Needless to say I think they are an Order, yes. They burn stuff so to Spark, they go. They have Heat and Light as their surges so in my mind they shoot beams of fire and the like. SurgesHeat: Well, if the Dustbringers ignite things, it seems to me they would need Heat as their surge. Somewhat tenuous, yeah. But I like it. Perception: This is obviously Shallan's Memory. Another obvious things is that her ability is more than a nice aid for an artist who paints portraits since using her ability, Shallan is able to "see" spren that are normally invisible. "Perception" is the name I like for this surge. Regrowth: This is somewhat tricky as we don't know whether the Stormward in Dalinar's vision used a fabrial or a KR ability. I think it's the latter because Dalinar doesn't think those people were pretty primitive and likely had no fabrials. I'd like to note, however, I think Regrowth is the name of the ability rather than the surge, like Basic Lashing and Gravity. Green: My wild-chull guesses. SurgesTravel: The surge exists according to Brandon. But why does it get the 9th spot? Honestly, simply because in Dalinar's vision Stormwards and Windrunners arrived together. The Windrunner simply fell out of the sky but the Stormward female Knight just seemed to appear out of nowhere. That's pretty much it. Time: Well, Travel and Time, time-space. I have no idea what that Order would be able to do. Sound: I dunno. Seems like the thing. It's what I'm least confident of. Well, that's it. I apologize for the poor presentation. My excuse is that it's 3 am local time and I'm kinda sleepy. I'll fix the text up a bit if need be but I hope everything is clear enough.