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What would you call this metal… “adonalsiumium” ?

In my mind, Harmony and Discord are two possible states of the combination of Ruin + Preservation. Harmony being an unstable equilibrium, like a ball at the apex of a hill - if Sazed moves too much or too suddenly, the ball tips off and rolls down. Discord being a stable equilibrium, like a ball sitting in a valley - it will take a lot of work and energy to return to Harmony. This of course is just my interpretation. Excited to learn more in Era 3.

Discovering them drained fuels the conflict between the north and south. Stoking the Cold War could lead to great leaps forward militarily and technologically for Scadrial. Perhaps Harmony is gambling - told his Kandra to drain the bands to hopefully force Scadrial into arming against Autonomy’s attack.

TenSoon’s reaction when the Bands are empty Wayne fighting his doppelgänger

p. 121 Allik refers to Wax as “Adjective Waxillium” Assuming this is a typo, but maybe it’s supposed to be a translation medallion failing at a specific word? At this point I’d expect Allik to have learned Northern though…

Knife of Wet-dreams... sorry Knights of the Words Ketek of Worlds/Words/Winds Kata of Worlds/Words/Winds Keys of Worlds/Words/Winds Khakis or Wranglers

(sorry)

Kelek:

Culti’s big plan...

Somehow Navani’s bond with the Sibling generates Towerlight. It’s end-positive. I’d say Stormlight surgebinding is more like Feruchemy or Hemalurgy. It’s at best end-neutral. You take in Stormlight and use it for effect. You might even describe it as end-negative because Surgebinders aren’t very efficient at holding in Stormlight whereas the Fused are very efficient at holding in Voidlight. On the other hand, in Allomancy, the metals aren’t the source of Invenstiture, just a focus. The tower fabrial is the focus that Navani and the Sibling use to create and direct Towerlight. Lift is a weird case, but it seems to be the closest thing we see to Allomancy on Roshar considering she metabolizes food to generate Lifelight to power Surgebinding kind of like burning metals. I think there are issues with drawing direct parallels but to me it seems more like Towerlight and Lifelight ~ Allomancy, Stormlight ~ Hemalurgy, Voidlight ~ Feruchemy. This is only when they are powering Surgebinding (unless you count the Towerlight stuff as fabrial Magic separate from surgebinding). I’m not sure where Warlight and the theoretical Cultivation/Odium Light or TripleLight would land. And I don’t know how this would change for Voidbinding or Old Magic.

Anyone else have a printing error in their copy? Chapters 12 and 13 have been replaced with duplicates of chapters 16 and 17. It goes 11-16-17-14-15-16-17...

As an engineer in the energy industry, my reaction was the complete opposite. The fabrial wind turbines had me smiling from ear to ear. But to each their own of course

My eyes are bright green. Bow before me, cremlings!

IMO this is one of the big points of Oathbringer. It would have been very easy for Dalinar to place the blame for all his past mistakes and brutality upon external sources. It would be logical. It would be understandable. Despite this, he denies Odium his pain and takes ownership for these actions. Oathbringer is about failing, accepting that failure, and then taking the next step even if it’s the more difficult path.

Tacos Árabes, the progenitors of Tacos al Pastor, come to mind. Created by Lebanese immigrants to Puebla. https://eatmexico.com/2017/11/the-story-behind-the-first-tacos-arabes-in-puebla/

My biggest takeaway is that we have confirmed that Naln likes Herdazian custard deserts called “flan”. Seriously, though: great work! Can’t wait to see further translations.

We have WoB that the Heralds (before they were Heralds) made the exodus from Ashyn to Roshar. Unless they were extremely long-lived even before they became Heralds, this seems to imply that the cycle of Desolations began rather quickly after the human migration. Willshaper Wallar[PENDING REVIEW] ...Were the Heralds alive for the human exodus from Ashyn? Brandon Sanderson[PENDING REVIEW] Yes. They were not Heralds then, but they all made that trip. I believe. My timeline-- You can't nail me down on that one, because it's possible that Ash was born after, but I don't think so. Skyward Denver signing (Nov. 15, 2018)

Cory Booker would love this (if he were an avid Sanderson reader like us)

Like some have said here, I think the cause of the Recreance is a combination of things. There was some turmoil between the Orders, worsened by the revelation of human origins and what they did to their home planet as well as increasingly strange behavior from Honor. It might have been obvious to the Radiants that he was dying. My theory is that this was punctuated by two events: the severing of the parsh from the Rhythms (creating the modern parshmen) and whatever cataclysmic event created the Shattered Plains. I also think that Honor's checks on Radiant powers were weakening along with him, and these 2 displays of awesome strength (the destruction of a people and the destruction of a nation) felt like moving down the path towards destroying another world. The sum of all this became too much for the Radiants, and they abandoned their oaths.