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Completely slipped my mind, haven't reached that part on reread and I went through about all other Cosmere writing in between. But yeah, I stand corrected.

Fair point. I think common lack of interest towards listener/singer storyline quite possibly stems from the fact they are too unrelatable. They are on a quest for basic human need freedom, but other than that we don't really know enough about what "makes them tick". What was the ultimate goal of a common singer before humans arrived? How much hierarchy is natural for them etc.

Everything consentual is fine by me. A bit stupid part is that I don't remember any other listener relationships being explored in not-mateform. Have warform straight listeners explored with humans or each other off camera? Kandra-human relationships seem more interesting, and one must ask what different skeletons did MeLaan use while intimate with Wayne, and were all bipedal? Bit boring if they were...

WAT, according to kindle search only had the word "storms" in different forms 708 times, would have guessed more. Now the word has appeared 252 + 681 + 865 + 584 + 708 = 3090 times in the main books and few more in others. This includes forms like "storming" and "storm" because kindle search wants to include them. In comparison, word "damn" appeared one time in WAT and there was also one instance of "storming damned" when Adolin really lost it with Dalinar. edit: What I mean is that I'd really like to see a wilder range of utterances, expressions like "dun sphere of a man" "chull lover" "son of an axehound" or even "desolations" are just waiting to be used.

I think healing really is the biggest thing for Roshar's side if all surges and enough investiture is available. As soon as you can do anything with Stormlight, you can regrow about anything and really need to be about sliced in two or blown to pieces to die. And of course with enough investiture Abrasion can be used by one person to heal hundreds per day. Goldminds are just about useless in comparison, and compounding gold without any other abilities (as is usually the case) really isn't at all impressive against surgebinders that all have essentially that same ability but also the actual surges. With enough available investiture, one coud say that every surgebinder, even lowest squire, is more invested than Miles Hundredlives. 99,9(9)% of Scadrias, including Mistborns, have no access to investiture healing. If there is no available investiture, the situation is of course quite different, modern weapons give a significant edge and surgebinding isn't a thing at all.

My first read was after a too quick reread of the whole series, and again getting quite bored with ROW, so I wasn't too happy with WAT at first. But after that I decided to read all other Cosmere (original Mistborn was the only thing I had read before) and having done that in 3 weeks (I liked Lost Metal btw) I started a slower read of WAT. I'll write a longer review when I'm through, but am still quite sure that discussing stupid imaginary laws at length is stupid, and getting a conflicted utilitarian old guy to become about absolute evil in 2 weeks is strange. "I became god last week and so instead of doing some of that stuff that Sazed or Rashek did, I destroyed my hometown and spent 15 years in relative time corrupting your evil brothers useless sons son just to mess with you" And 180 turn on "cant have Odium free at any cost" vs "odium + honor + cultivation gifted genius free is a magnificent idea (by a guy who has only a slight understanding about anything outside Roshnar)" Seems a bit lazy. one thing that seemed interesting: Szeth's first kill was the Molly killing soldier that had "eyes glowing deep within with a red light". Was that soldier controlled/influenced by Rayse, Ishar or someone else? This makes me thing that Szeth's whole "origin story" starting even from the finding of the stone is completely a setup for one reason or another. Might be just Ishar stuff that got resolved already.