GreyPilgrim

The working title for SA 3 is Stones Unhallowed.

I think Yalb is safe. I have this feeling that he will turn into one of those recurring characters who never actually have much bearing on the story.

The series is divided into two arcs. We know that there will be a time jump between the two (between books 5 and 6), though how long the jump will be is unknown. Brandon has said many times that the waits between books should be much shorter. He estimates 18 months to 2 years between each from here on out, IIRC. The longest wait should be between the two arcs, during which time Brandon intends to write the second Mistborn trilogy (the modern technology one). I would bet around a 4-5 year wait there. So overall, maybe 20 years until it is done. A long time.

Well to what could a dead gemstone refer?

Nope:

I assume the pun was intended on the note about this being cryptic. I don't see how this doesn't have to be interior monologue. If it is Taln then it is him thinking to himself. You will he pleased that there will be a Taln interlude in WoR.

So I guess it bears noting in this thread that today broke the record for most online, increasing it by nearly 200.

Except for the fact that you are already enrolled in a class taught by Brandon. That alone would glue me to my seat. That and the shock.

I'm going to go Szeth. It feels top much like someone in the midst of other people experiencing something by themselves. Taln as many have said, I feel would have felt very alone in his pain, but not so for Szeth.

Let me just note that by no means was I saying that the following books will not be good. I was merely conjecturing that they will not necessarily be as, like I said, long or as fan-pleasing. Frankly, I think that some shorter books may be good. As much as I like huge doorstoppers, 300,000 words is not much different than 400,000, and of course the longer the books are the more potential problems may arise. But I wholeheartedly agree that Brandon has grown significantly in his writing skills. One thing I love about reading him is seeing how his technical ability increases with every new book.

These are amazing. A word of caution for all students of foreign languages: do not use google translate. Ever.

I stand corrected, I hadn't made that connection.

I agree that they are a great idea--I'm loving them so far, and they are smart on Tor's part. I was surprised because the only tome they had done something like this was for the release of A Memory of Light. To add my answer to one of my own questions, I think that Words of Radiance is likely to be a particularly fan-pleasing book, also because of the long wait. I suspect that this may be part of why it ended up so long, so Brandon could add lots of cool scenes.

I agree that the Glimpses are likely not to happen again, at least not until book 6 and the last ones. They are in part what prompted me to write this, as they surprised me so much.

All the hype that has been going on around the WoR release has had me thinking: will it be like this for the rest of the Stormlight books? Step back for a moment and think. Way back in late July Tor released the initial cover, which garnered a lot of excitement. Soon after, they released the (albeit short) excerpt from the Taravangian interlude. When Tor received the manuscript for WoR, they put out the picture of it with the now-(in?)famous dinosaur for scale. The Lift interlude was released to the public. Then the Shallan endpaper. Then they started releasing chapters, in four separate bouts that, when counted with Lift, total to 14 chapters. Then came the pictures of the book all printed and bound when they received it, once again with the dinosaur. Finally, the Glimpses of Radiance. That is a heck of a lot of hype for the second book of a series. Possibly more hype than ever before for the second installment of any series. It is quite possible this is all due to the 3 and a half year wait for the book. Maybe The Stormlight Archive will truly be the most popular fantasy series ever. But if I understand correctly, Brandon does not want any more than two years (Adonalsium let there be less than that!) to pass between SA books ever again, excluding the wait between the two arcs. That considered, do you think that the same type of hype will become a regular trait of a Stormlight release? Will we get glimpses of every book and 14 whole chapters? On a similar note, do you think that Words of Radiance will be a particularly exciting and fan-pleasing book in the series because of the long wait for it? Will Words of Radiance be a lastingly awesome book, possible even the most awesome of the series, because of this?

Who said the reps had to be cosmere? Because I think Steelheart, Epic or Ruthmatist could make for cool reps. This is a Brandon Sanderson fan site, not just a cosmere one.

Sell, because (I don't know if this counts as a spoiler or not, but I'll hide it anyways) Since we're on deaths right now, Eshonai will die within the first Stormlight arc.

It should be noted that, at least from what we have seen before, one of the defining characteristics of spren is that they are attracted to a certain phenomenon. If Cucicesh is indeed a spren, then what is it attracted to? Could it be attracted to the time 7:46 and the Origin? That seems oddly strange to me. It would be odd if Cucicesh were a 7:46spren. Could it be that spren's definitions are formed by what humans expect them to occur? Meaning, when a human sees a fire and expects a flamespren to appear, one does because of that expectation. Flamespren are only flamespren because humans expect them to be? That seems a little off to me. I agree that Cucicesh has many characteristics of spren, but I think he may be something else, albeit something not entirely different. I sort of agree with the OP's idea that people saw Cucicesh and were like "That must be a spren!" It makes me think of the Malazan series, in which a common idea is that when a culture/species comes in contact with something it has never seen before it automatically labels it a demon, whether it is an actual demon or not. Spren are the most mysterious things Rosharans come into contact with on a regular basis, so they seem similarly likely to label something strange a spren despite what it might actually be. For example, if a Rosharan saw something like the Midnight Essence (I forget exactly how Dalinar defined them to himself when he saw them), they would likely label it a spren as well, even though we know it is not.

If we want to find out the names of ranks between 1024 and 1336 as well as 1337, just upvote me. I won't mind.

I imagine Auri's past must hold numerous secrets. Rothfuss has mentioned it a few times on his blog recently, and it sounds exciting. He actually gave away a beta reading of it as part of his charity, Worldbuilders.

So is everyone excited for the Auri novella Rothfuss has been working on recently? I'm not nearly as excited for it as I am for Day 3, but it should help in the meantime.

Well the end of Kvothe's past is definitely a tragedy. That goes without saying. But I do not believe that Kote's story is going to be such a tragedy. It is true that the fact that he is waiting to die sounds tragic, but not necessarily. Something has to happen for him to be able to die. He is waiting for something, be it old age or whatever. But he is not ready yet. Even if Kote dies at the end, it is not necessarily tragic. At least not in the classical sense. As I say above, I want it to end with him still waiting to die. I want to see him save the world and still want to die.

I don't know about that... Mistborn could really mean a lot of things...

All true. Maybe we will just get a true sequel series--à la Stormlight cycle 2, or at least how I envision it being. It could also end in an extremely literary way, in which Kvothe basically says he will save the world and we never find out how. No matter what happens, Day 3 must end with a Silence of Three Parts epilogue, and the line, "It was the patient, cut-flower sound of a man who is waiting to die." I will cry if that is not the last line, and I will cry if it is. That is one of the best lines ever written in a piece of fiction. Hands-down.

That would be cool... Never though of that before. Chronicler definitely has the potential to do a lot more than his character does. I mostly wonder how in the world Rothfuss is going to give us any closure in The Doors of Stone. There is so much left to do. I am kind of confused as to where he is going with it all. He has said on several occasions that he will write more books in the world, but will they star Kvothe? The present world seems so screwed up that it could hold its own series to fix. And, with so much to tie up in Kvothe's past, there is no way Day 3 can tie up the present as well.