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The gold surprised me as well. We've all been focusing on the red eyes, thinking that makes Rayse's color red. Now the reference to (Alloy of Law spoilers) Likewise! I'm trying to decide whether the order the events are mentioned indicates chronology. How long ago was this invasion? @Stark, yes, that first typo is just a missing line break.

Thanks for the amazing write up of the music. Your analysis of the songs makes me much more excited for the music than I was previously. Now I'm just trying to decide how much my budget can handle!

Glad to have you! I will guess that you are reading the sample chapters on Tor, but are you going to read Oathbringer when it comes out or listen to the audio? I haven't actually listened to any Cosmere books yet, but I've really loved the others I've listened to by Kate Reading (most recently the Lady Trent memoirs, starting with A Natural History of Dragons).

This is really exciting! I will definitely be sharing the campaign with as many friends as I can. EDIT: Are any of the producers here on 17S? I tagged @CaptainRyan initially because I thought he was posting as a creator, rather than copy/pasting to share the kickstarter cost info. I guess I'll post my questions on the kickstarter comments instead :-) I am especially excited for the art book! I know your focus is on the music, but I bet a lot of people would be interested in the art by itself. I'm sure you've thought of this, but if you have Botanica and your other artists publicize the art book specifically, they have a lot of fans who would jump at the product. Maybe enough to make an art-only tier? Out of curiosity, will the art book also contain the art from the CD insert, or are those separate pieces? And I am seriously considering the join-the-virtual-choir Wandersail reward level, but the next few months are going to be busy for me, and I'm not sure about my time commitments. When would you need our recording, and how long would we have to prepare? Can you tell us anything more about the piece, even just complexity/length?

I didn't even think of that! Zahel does appear to have been around the family long enough to make it plausible. Seems pretty out of character for him in this context, and I doubt the Nightwatcher is a red herring here, but as a long shot theory I really like it.

Regarding the Rhythms, @zebobes, @Pattern we do know from WoB (below) that they exist independently of the listeners, and that they are from the Spiritual realm. Non-listeners could potentially hear and understand them, and they aren't all emotive. The coppermind has a list of all the Rhythms mentioned so far. There are thirty-two, five of which are "new" rhythms associated with storm form. At a glance, Terror is the only one from the prologue that didn't already appear in WoR, but I may have missed some. I believe there are a large but finite number of rhythms. All of those should be the same for every listener, though some forms will be predisposed to hear/attune certain subsets of them. It would be interesting if the rhythms corresponded to surges or other phenomena, but I rather doubt it. If anything, I suspect they are analogous to the allomantic pulses that bronze can sense, with the idea that everything has some signature waveform in the Spiritual realm. So listeners have a particular affinity for emotive rhythms and bronze grants an affinity for rhythms of kinetic investiture. That is just speculation, though. WoBs spoilered for length:

Reddit user AugustDream posted this Q&A from GenCon:

On reflection, I've decided my objections aren't as substantial as I first thought. Blocking transformation for long-term enslavement (rather than immediate battlefield advantage) might actually match the epigraph after all. Reading it again, the epigraph makes it sound like Melishi wasn't making a strategy for battle. More like, "He was totally prepared to kill all those Voidbringers, but then he decided to try this crazy idea instead"--i.e. they had already won the war and just had a tedious day left of mopping up enemy resistance. At this point i still have some doubts about the accuracy of Gavilar's information, but I think he is definitely talking about what Melishi did.

Ah, I didn't think of that. Definitely plausible, and the most likely speaker to use the Rhythms. Her future sight could be allowing her to put all sorts of pieces into place. I wasn't considering her an actively involved participant, but that's only because we haven't seen her do anything on screen yet. I think so. No, the voice was "speaking to the Rhythms," which I think is the same way listeners will use the Rhythms when the speak.

Great question! Do you mind posting this again over on the GenCon thread in the events forum? More people will see it there. (I could quote your post there to share the WoB, but you ought to get the credit and upvotes.)

Good thought on Adrotagia. I agree that she's the best option at this point. As mentioned by @Extesian, we have confirmation of Venli's involvement. I'm wondering about that voice. My first suspicion was that Venli was already wearing an old form at that point and was manipulating things, but that doesn't actually make sense. If any of the Unmade did know of Gavilar's idiotic plan, I presume they would have been fully on board. Whoever was pulling strings (most likely the Heralds, given the Jasnah prologue) either knew about the Sons of Honor and wanted to stop the disaster they were planning, or had other goals entirely. (The conspiracist in me wants to point at Taravangian and say he was betraying Gavilar to further his own goals, but that idea has way too many holes in it, primarily the timing of the Diagram.) The Heralds are also more likely than anyone else to have access to and understanding of the Rhythms. As far as Venli is concerned, I now think it more likely that she acquired her first void form spren from Gavilar's sphere. Also, in addition to his apparent sensitivity to the Rhythms, this statement of Gavilar's betrays either dangerous ignorance and dangerous understanding: Note first that he says the Heralds are "in hiding," not that they are gone and need to return. How would he know that? Second, he knows about the listeners' ability to change forms, of which Dalinar et al had no knowledge in WoK or WoR. There are also pieces missing from his spren story. As seen in WoR, the Stormfather enables form changes, and he is very much not captured. Even if Gavilar is right about what happened, preventing transformation is a far cry from "ripping away spren" as proposed by @eveorjoy above. And while blocking transformations could very plausibly result in a population of slaveform listeners after a generation (assuming children are born without a bound spren), it certainly wouldn't do much in the middle of a war with Voidbringers. So (without further information to connect the dots) it can't be the same thing as Melishi's stratagem from the epigraphs, even though there is a connection just begging to made.

I recently re-read Slow Regard (along with both Day One and Day Two), and my opinion on this was a bit different after each reading. I'm not sure which way Rothfuss intended it to be read, but I think the ambiguity is at least partially intentional.

Are you going to read the sample chapters? (Almost everyone I've asked says yes, but there are a few brave souls waiting for release day.)

Welcome! I can sympathize with the sleep deprivation. Somehow all my self control disappears when there is the possibility of "one more chapter."

Welcome. So far I've only read the books, not listened to them. Do you have a favorite one to recommend the audio for?

Welcome! This site can definitely way up time that I ought to be spending on other things, but I absolutely love it here. Great people, great discussion, great books. It's hard to stay away.

Difficult to choose! When we just had WoK, my favorite character was Syl, but she got in my nerves a bit in WoR. I really love the Lift/Wyndle pairing now, so tentatively I'll go with that. For scenes, I'd have to say the Vin/Shan fight is probably my favorite action sequence, and I really enjoy the WoR scene where Veil meets Mraize outside the warcamps.

The replies so far could be right, but I interpret this as case where Brandon misheard the question. It looks to me like he's actually trying to say something about the Heralds, rather than the Radiants. Could you provide a link to the WoB so I can look at the context? The preceding questions might help shed some light.

The title for book 5 was announced today as "The Burning White" I have to say that I've found myself rereading lightbringer even more than the cosmere books. This may well be my most anticipated upcoming release after Oathbringer.

According to Brandon's Oathbringer updates on Reddit, the final version "clocks in at 122 chapters, with 14 interludes, plus a prologue, epilogue, and ketek." Those chapters are arranged into five parts. Brandon has said that each Stormlight book is plotted as a trilogy, with each "book"in the trilogy having self-contained character and plot arcs. In the case of Oathbringer, part one is the first "book," with each of the other "books" of the trilogy being 2 parts long. (Post and Image).

Per Peter's reply tweet and Reddit post the most recent agreement was to release all of part 1, which means up through ch 32, making a total of 322 pages. Wow.

To add another example, look at the scene where Zane dies (coppermind says it is in ch 47 but I don't have my book to find the exact quote). Zane thinks something like "She's the only person God never told me to kill." To which Ruin responds, "Of course you're not supposed to kill her." Unless I forgot something and he speaks out loud, it really makes it seem like Ruin understands his thoughts.

Welcome, glad to have you here!

Thanks for joining us! We're glad to have you here. Do you have a favorite of the ones you've read so far?