Lord Spirit

Winters plan for surviving the games Gamemakers

Winter gets in the boat and sits down quietly. He wanted to minimize the risks he was taking, but the gamemakers seemed to be taking an interest in his group.

Noooooooo! Sam is the best!

"It's a shieding aviar, it's not going to help find people. Plus, birds and water do not mix." Winter is quietly hopes that Squall will end up dead, as it will eliminate another tribute and move him a step closer to winning. "There's not anything we can do to help him right now. Fawn will hopefully prevent other monsters from sensing us, but our boat is gone and this tree is not very mobile. Maybe we could make a raft out of the branches."

This is not good. Winter thought as he analyzed their surroundings. He has made canoes out of trees before, but it was going to be very difficult to maneuver the entire tree. They didn’t have anything to paddle with either. But his biggest was concern was what supplies they had and where their aviars were. @Ancient Elantrian

Winter starts to panic as he feels his grip on the tree slipping. He had made sure that he was high enough to avoid the wave, but no, his teammate couldn't help but taunt it. Now he was probably going to fall to his death, drown or both.

Yes! So far there’s been twinborn, Stormlight, threnody, cytoverse, smedry and cosmere. Right now we’re doing a drominad one.

If we wanted ensure things go faster, we could maybe add a rule that someone will every few days, if not by the tributes then by the GM’s. But I also don’t want make this an RP that requires aggressive activity. Also, if your looking for new GMs, I’m willing to.

Fair enough. I do think that it was pretty blunt, but I think Sanderson might have intentionally been trying to make it awkward to serve as comic relief (which is not Kaladin’s strong point).

After reading this thread, I think I would summarize the complaint as “the therapy breaks stormlight continuity and is too successful for ten days of its discovery and use.” 1. Kaladin has (slightly) more experience that he’s getting credit for. At the start of RoW, when he retires, he creates a therapy group with some of the patients the ardents are “helping”. I’m not entirely sure how long this lasts before the occupation, but Kaladin had a bit of to figure out some rules and ways to help others. Not to mention his own journey of battling depression. 2. Combat is not the best place for therapy. Yes, talking to an insane assassin about their mental health during a war doesn’t sound normal. But Kaladin’s purpose isn’t to be cool or even to fight in this book. It’s to help others who have had traumatic experiences, which is a change of pace for him. 3. Szeth, Nale and Ishar barely get cured at all. Kaladin helps Szeth come to confront his past and to not kill himself. For Nale, it’s more the flute that reminds him of why he became a herald. For Ishar, it’s literally just his fifth ideal severing his connection to Odium. The heralds still need help. Kaladin plans on spending their time on Braize giving them therapy for 10 years (based on the gap to book 6). I’m not a therapist, but that seems like a more reasonable time frame. also for those complaining that therapy ruined some epic moments, it kinda makes sense, if you pause and consider the difference between the setting of normal therapy vs. the situation Roshar is in. Therapy isn’t going to be epic and dramatic most of the time. Sorry you only got it being so for four books.

Didn’t feel like YA to me, aside from a few modern terms that were thrown in. I was more suprised by the amount of philosophy. After the science of RoW, it felt like a book written for older readers.

I believe he is referring to the nightwatcher, and then he made the stormfather.

You know, it feels like oathbringer was the wrong sword to use. Odium had control of Sunraiser, which was Elhokars blade. It feels like that would have been more appropriate.

I could be wrong, but the way I see it, vin killed ati, whereas honor was trying to destroy the shard of odium. The vessel is far less durable than the shard, so there was less destruction. It does seem odd to me though, because Nohadon’s line heavily implies that Honor didn’t care about preserving Roshar when fighting Odium, which he clearly does. Tanavast dies trying to make peace. The only thing I could think is that his desire to protect didn’t align with Honor’s intent enough to save Roshar.

Yes, the in world books were written by very different people, but the actual books were both written by Brandon Sanderson. I don’t know if there is going to be an in world author of the Stormlight archive, but I doubt it.

The quote you put seems to indicate that Lift is special because she can use lightlife and because she can’t use Stormlight. We haven’t seen any other radiants use lifelight, but I It’s possible that they only used Stormlight because it was way more common. I’m pretty sure the only known getting lifelight is Lift, so nobody has had the chance to try.

Yep! Fixed it

The difference between releasing Odium and retribution is that the other shards would have ignored Odium, where they are now forced to confront retribution because he’s too powerful. Also, unlike ruin, Taravangien does not want to destroy Roshar. While he still was influence, he can’t take too much action without revealing himself and exposing himself to the other shards.

There already are several factions 1. Skybreakers, will probably split once they learn about Nale between supporting the singers and helping the humans. 2. Willshapers, which is currently only singers 3. Enlightened spren radiants, who seem to want general peace 4. Those who follow Odium/Retribution, including most of the dustbringers 5. loyal radiants, including almost everyone else 6. Other radiants, such the ghostbloods, those avioiding conflict like Ym’s daughter or other worldhoppers like sigzil or Hoid

The way I see it, Dalinar forced Taravangian to keep his end of the contract (because he had honor) without putting any restrictions on humanity. The biggest downside is the end of Stormlight, which is pretty bad, but if radiant can use towerlight, then maybe they can use warlight too. Things were going to be bad either way, but Dalinar essentially freed Roshar from Odium, which is good for their world. plus, shard plans are often very complicated and hard to understand until far in the future. I doubt many people would have been happy with preservation setting up the lord ruler, but we see how that went.

Kaladin: I’m very happy with how Kaladin ended. He had a very rough time in RoW, and I’m glad that he doesn’t die, even if it would have been really cool. It did feel a bit too easy, he’s learning the flute while Adolin and Sigzil are fighting for their lives, but I’m perfectly happy for Kal to finally get a break. I wonder if his fingers regrew. Shallan: eh, about as expected. She got set up to go explore the cosmere, although it seems like she’s more focused on getting to Adolin. I was a bit surprised that Mraize and Iyatil died, I have lost some respect for the Ghostbloods. Turns out Chana Davar was right. I feel like that didn’t get very much attention, aside from one or two sentences of “oops, guess Shallan is (partly) responsible for the return of the voidbringers.” Dalinar: Dalinar’s ending was a lot more complex than anyone else’s. I feel like he didn’t really grow in this book, his plot was just “history of Roshar” and then ascension and contest of champions. Overall I did like it, although I am very interested at the implication that someone else has his soul. It also feels cheap that Taravangien can just borrow a spiritual realm clone. Szeth: for how cool he started out in WoK, I was pleasantly surprised by his backstory. Aside from slightly reminding me of buzz lightyear in Toy Story 4, it was really good. It annoys me that he got to the fifth ideal and then goes “I don’t like you” and releases his spren (also, the high spren need better names). I want to know what a fifth ideal radiant can do. I’m also suprised that he got to go back to his old life and got married, (although he has Nightblood, so he probably is still relevant). Adolin: Adolin has been a great character, but this book, I just found him frustrating. He learned his father wasn’t perfect and refused to forgive him. Furthermore, he tries to avoid acting anything like his father, which I think might be part of why he doesn’t become radiant (although it might just be plot convenience because he’s bonded to Maya). He rejects oaths, but the way I read it, the only difference he saw was that oaths are absolutes, whereas promises are ok with failure as long as you tried. It doesn’t feel like the different matters (unless you’re holding Honor). I liked the external part of his story, with the siege and Talns rampage and Yamagawns past turning out to be useful. I like him, but he needs to just grow up, like all the radiants did. Venli: still boring to read, but hey, the singers get some land and we have Retribution’s perpendicularity. overall, I think it’s very well written, even if some of the characters frustrated me. It sets up a lot for the future and is definitely not the end of the series. Can’t wait (at least six years) for book six. EDIT: Moash: How did Brandon make me hate this guy even more? He needs to die. Also, he’s destined to kill Sig? Or did that death rattle get messed up by him renouncing his oaths.

I need to find a SE with less luck involved. You’re the only person who targeted me, and you had illumination and Araris was the only villager to target Volo. Cillian got killed in a 1/3 chance. Maybe next game will go better.