GreyPilgrim

I do not think Kaladin, Dalinar, Shallan, or Szeth will be dying any time soon. My evidence is the document on the back of the hardcover, which points out all four of them, the "four whom we watch". I don't have it on hand now, but I believe it indicates that one of them will be a savior and another a bringer of doom. I doubt that anyone will be dying before we have sufficient character development. Maybe we will have a WoA-type ending to book 5, someone releases something bad (probably Odium) and that one is the bad one. Then they would die in the process of that. A release like that might be taking too much from Mistborn, though. That's sort of how I see the two 5-book arcs being separated: some not-yet-known issue will be resolved in book 5, but in the process something terrible happens to set up for the second cycle (release of Odium, return of Voidbringers, etc). Then we will all be rabid for more books, and Brandon will laugh and give us the second Mistborn trilogy instead. That trilogy will be great, but while we're happy with that, we will be theorizing like crazy over what will happen in the second Stormlight cycle. Adolin is going to die at some point. He has the perfect place in the story: not too important on his own, only significant relative to Dalinar. Plus, it would be a great set-up for placing Renarin in a state of significance, which I believe will happen over the series. Elhokar's death would be very interesting to see, as he has no heir. I don't know who would succeed him, probably Dalinar or one of his sons. I would love to see a succession conflict concurrent with the Desolation. I feel like Bridge Four is going to get slaughtered at some point and send Kaladin on a rampage. Just a point, I don't see people becoming Shards happening in this series; it would be too close to Mistborn, as much as I would love to see it.

You cannot spike the GreyPilgrim! I am a Maia, and I shall always watch and protect mankind! I will not be taken over by these mundane tactics!

I will definitely get into Emperor's Soul soon. I hear it has a lot of cosmere stuff. I've only been waiting because I prefer to read authors' works in publication order, and I just finished Alloy of Law. It's kind of weird for me--I already know the (online) personalities of many of the site's users since I've been reading the forums for so long. I feel as if I have some sort of edge over many of you.

I'm really excited to be joining you guys here at 17th Shard! I am (obviously) a huge Brandon Sanderson fan, and have been stalking around on this site for about 9 months or so, reading all of your theories and the interviews. I found Brandon through WoT (surprise, surprise) and came to love his works just as much. I've read all his published works, excluding Alcatraz and any novellas(Emperor's Soul is high up on my reading list, though). I LOVE the cosmere. I think it's one of the coolest things ever created, and I eagerly anticipate many many years of reading it in the future! Of the books, Stormlight is my favorite, with Mistborn a very close second. Warbreaker follows that, though I read Elantris about half a year before the other ones, with no knowledge of the cosmere, so I'm not so sure where to rate it. I plan to reread it soon and reevaluate. I wasn't a huge fan of The Rithmatist, I thought Rithmatics was really cool but the book itself didn't really work for me. Can't wait to dig deeper into the cosmere with y'all!