GreyPilgrim

I would go with Elantris personally. I think WoK is better, so Elantris may seem not as good as it really is in comparison. Also, there are some little Elantris Easter eggs in WoK, and you don't want to miss them!

I agree that it is significantly better. The old one was not as visually attractive and was not very convenient on mobile. I always felt the old site kind of degraded Brandon, like "He's this great author, but his site is kind of terrible." It feels much more appropriate and deserving now.

Ah, King of Carrot Flowers! Is that a Neutral Milk Hotel reference I detect?

It is a little sad how true this is.

I, for one, am glad for The Mistborn Adventures' brevity. While all of the characters, as well as the story, are fun, I don't feel they would translate well to something the length of the other Mistborn books. AoL, and I expect Shadows of Self and beyond, is a short story (meaning it doesn't cover much time) and is very focused on a small group of people and situations. For Brandon to try to fit them or expand them into something as intricate as his other works would ruin the characters (IMHO, of course). Even though the end of AoL introduces some greater significance of the story to the world as a whole, I don't expect, nor do I hope, that the later stories will focus on these things too greatly. I actually see the Mistborn Adventures as sort of a prequel to the Second Trilogy. Brandon has said that AoL grew out of his world building for later novels, which suggests to me that the Wax/Wayne books will establish some backstory, maybe set up some threads for the Second Trilogy. I don't mean this as criticism for wanting the books to be bigger, just posting some opinions.

Well, take into account that most novels fall into the 100-120K word category, so AoL is not really that short by most standards. Further, it started as a "breather" for Brandon before digging into AMoL revisions. That "breather" turned into a good chunk of material that is now spawning a potential ongoing series. Just saying...

Galladon is Grump in the Ishikk interlude in WoK. He says kolo, IIRC, which was the little Easter egg that led people to figure it out. If you didn't know, Gamma Fiend, one of the other guys in that interlude is Demoux from Mistborn, and the third is someone from White Sand. I also love Galladon as a character, though I will have to jump in the Hrathen wagon. He had the most realistic and interesting character arc of the three protagonists, plus I love all the mystery surrounding Shu-Dereth and the Fjorden Empire. Of all the characters, I am most excited to see Galladon's activity in the sequels, if only to see how he develops further, and (hopefully, fingers crossed) how he ends up in the Seventeenth Shard. I know that the sequels will not focus on the same protagonists, but I am sure they will all play some part in them.

I shall now proceed to go and upvote every post Windrunner has ever made.

Gardens of the Moon, book one of the Malazan Book of the Fallen. About 1/3 of the way in. Takes a heck of a lot of concentration, I'll read four pages and be like "Wait what the hell just happened?" but it's fun. I needed something else to really dig my teeth in to, and this seems to be about the most epic thing ever written, from what others have said. Edit: Just looked at the last 20 posts or so, and I'm surprised so many people are reading Malazan too. I had the impression that it was still pretty obscure. Maybe that's just because it hasn't spread beyond the sf/f community, like WoT, Brandon, ASoIaF, etc have.

This could have been influenced by all of the time that TenSoon spent emulating OreSeur. For several months, maybe even close to a year (sorry its been a while since I read WoA) he had to spend a huge portion of his time acting as OreSeur would and listening to people who had resisted the Lord Ruler. I don't think that can be attributed in any way to his having OreSeur's Blessing. It was simply the ideological evolution of a sentient being.

That Hoid may have left a false trail is supported by the somewhat cryptic language he used ("the element" to refer to his lerasium, "essentially immortal", "I protect its safety like I protect my own skin"). Also, as far as we cam tell, it was not signed and he did not address it to anyone by name. He could have left it like this so that someone could look at it and not glean amy compromising information.

hoser: Thank you for the feedback. It is really just an idea that came to me randomly at one point, and I've tried to flesh it out a bit. I'm still really new here, so I'm not quite accustomed to backing up my ideas beyond general evidence. What you've provided seems to debunk my a bit, but I'll reconsider it with that. (I've still yet to reread the book, so I have never really looked for those specific details before.) That is basically it. It could be that they can rebond to make different types of Radiants later, though. I don't remember that particular bit, and don't have access to it now, but it sounds like you're right. That's possible about there being two types of binding spren, Syl and Crytics. I have never really been able to see the Cryptics as binding spren though. I think we should wait for Shallan to Soulcast again, to see if she needs to provide some other truth. When she did so, to me, seemed to be like the great bond that was made, and she may not have to do that again. I will take a closer look at some point. ( I really do need to switch to an ebooks, it will make things so much easier, but I love physical books too much. Until then, I can't access the books readily 100% of the time.) You're probably closer on all this than I am. On Syl being related to windspren, this could be because, as my idea goes, she literally has changed to become something like a windspren. It might go no deeper than that. My theory kind of falls apart here. There is still hope, though. I will dig more deeply when I can and try to come up with more substantial evidence, maybe post it as a thread.

Maybe it has to do with what Gloom said before about bonds. Maybe Honor and things of Honor (i.e. honorspren, see my post above) are attracted to people who act to some ideal or form of honor and honor that honor by creating a bond.

I will probably do the same for that very reason. Glad to see I'm not the only one who prefers physical books in this day and age.

Kaladin will find one of the Ten Fools and trap him, forcing him to teach him about Windrunning. Kaladin will come to trust the Fool, who will then be killed mysteriously. We will all rabidly theorize over who the killer is, until it is randomly given to us in the Ars Arcanum. Jasnah will constantly think about how men are totally stupid and lacking of brains, then become 100%besotted with the most attractive one she finds, who happens to be a king and kind of a ripoff of Aragorn. Adolin will marry the Empress of an evil empire that hates Surgebinders, and by extension all of the other main characters. No one will ever shut up about Kaladin being a surgeon's son. Ever. Finally, when everything is set and done, it will be decided that Odium was never the enemy.

Just remember that none of that stuff is canon or game for discussion (at least not on the boards).

I stated in another thread my idea that different types of honorspren make one of a particular Order of the Knights Radiant. We know that Syl resembled a windspren. Her Nahel bond with Kaladin made him a Windrunner. Coincidence? I think not. By this logic, an honorspren that looks like a stonespren (not sure this exists) could make one a Stoneward, etc. I am not saying that Kaladin became a Windrunner because he thought Syl was a windspren. Rather, I think Syl resembles a windspren because she was attracted to his ideal of honor. We know that one of the Windrunner ideals is "I will help those who cannot help themselves." This is perfectly in line with Kaladin's practices and idea of honor. Syl passes by, thinks "Wow this guy is totally a Windrunner", she shifts to look like a windspren, Kaladin goes "Wow this windspren is creepily attracted to me" then comes to like her and bang he's a Windrunner. So are there ten different ideals or ways to perceive honor in the cosmere, stemming from ten different aspects of Honor?

There are a few Brandon will give out if you email him and ask for them (White Sand, Aether of Night, as well as [maybe?] Mistborn Prime and Final Empire Prime). His email address can be found on his site. Dragonsteel was Brandon's Masters thesis. The BYU library has one copy which is always out, but can be reserved.

I've always assumed that Brandon would follow the ketek pattern for naming the parts. He is a huge fan of patterns and structure in his works, so I feel that he will stick to that. He did a similar thing with the Mistborn part names, with the first of every book relating to the Survivor. Despite the pattern, I kind of hope Brandon doesn't limit himself to names of in-world books for the Stormlight titles. I generally don't like when book titles relate directly to an object in the story; I believe that the title of a novel should be extremely thematically important, related to the work as a whole. When the title is strictly an element in the story, it often doesn't have that extreme thematic significance that I prefer. I would rather read a book with a fitting title than a cool title. Luckily, The Way of Kings worked: the book was important to the plot for Dalinar, but also very important for his character and the themes his arc developed. Those themes also extend to Kaladin's character and arc, not so much to Shallan, but overall it worked, and sounds beautiful. I don't know about Words of Radiance yet. I adore this title: it sounds wonderful, and it could easily become a great thematic element. I detested The Book of Endless Pages as a title, but the book will have great thematic significance. For now, I am glad for the change. As I said before, I love Stones Unhallowed, so if it is not a book, I hope Brandon breaks the pattern for it. I am glad Highprince of War will never be a title, even if it is thematically crucial. It is too bland for me. I have pretty high standards.

So anyone can fill a, sazedium metalmind, but the person is not a Feruchemist until they tap it? I guess that does make more sense than what I was saying, with the storage creating the Feruchemist.

Kadrok: Didn't even really see it as a jab, just wanted to apologize out of respect. Well, hopefully the idea will take off a little more now.

Kadrok: I'm new here, and hadn't seen that in my previous lurking. I didn't mean to cannibalize your idea. Shardlet: I suspected you pronounced it that way. Sazedium doesn't sound very good that way. I used to say Sazed that way too. I can't remember why I changed, but I now pronounce it say-ZED, which flows better in sazedium. Re how Ati and Leras ended up in the metal names: I always figured Ruin and Preservation entrenched their names into the language somehow. Harmony probably wouldn't be able to force sazedium.

On your preference of sazium over sazedium, may I ask how you pronounce Sazed?

The issue with burning sazedium (I will call it that because I can) to gain Feruchemy is that it just doesn't make sense. Why would one magic system be required to obtain access to another? As I said before, the parallels between Allomancy and Feruchemy seem to indicate that Feruchemy would be gained in a parallel to Allomancy. About there being two mists in Alloy, is it just that they come out together? I thought they were described in a way to indicate they were darker than Preservation's mists and thus a mix of his and Ruin's?

This has probably been discussed before, but now that Harmony is basically one Shard, and the Preservation and Ruin mists mixed to make a gray mist, why don't we have sazedium, the god metal of Harmony?