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1. I think some people have a full recording with transcription to come, but I saw the reading pop up on youtube here: 2. I don't know. 3. I don't think it is, definitely not Silence Divine. I don't think he'd have changed the working title of something just after doing the State of the Sanderson. 4. There's no official word that I know of. I'm going to guess it's not, but who knows.

It's a rock, his name is boulder.

Why he fleed after encountering Kaladin would be because he finds out he was right, which would mean the foundation of his oaths was wrong giving them no weight. Edit: The hypothetical person who kills Szeth could take the blade and never use it or bury it under the seafloor or take it to another planet. There are plenty of people who might want to do that.

The Szeth compulsion is its own can of worms. Regardless, I doubt something that's a compound word of two magically important terms would be just a rock. As for the compulsion, it wouldn't be as overt as say WoT or that character in Mistborn. I don't have any of those scenes on hand. It would work through his sense of honor, it makes him not willing to break his oaths. I have one idea about what makes Szeth a truthless. Anyone who ever picks up a weapon has to be a soldier for the rest of their life. So, maybe Szeth picks up a honorblade, making him a truthless. Maybe he picks it up because he thinks that the radiants are returning.

It would be entirely possible for Szeth to die quietly, if he was taken out when he was owned by that minor gang in WoK or before the whole big assassin in white deal no one would have noticed. He'd have to be killed by someone really powerful, like a Herald or Worldhopper, but it could happen. As for the truthless oathstone, I would be really surprised if it was not magic. The regular oathstones for soldiers and stuff might just be less powerful versions, or just plain rocks. First stones are just mentioned so much, stone shamans, stone's unhallowed, stonewards, Talenel Stonesinew. The Shinovar religion is basically centered around stones, and in Sanderson's books religions and cultures are often heavily influenced by the magic. A place as important to the magical events as Shinovar, I would think would have culture and religion based around the magic. Also the other word in oathstone, oath, is important too, Oathpact, Oathgate. It's basically the whole idea behind one of the shards. The main magic system on Roshar we know about, is all about binding things. An oath is another form of binding, which is why the word occurs a lot. So maybe the oath stone binds Szeth to his position. A truthless has to give his all to ensure his survival when he wants to die. Maybe Szeth is that stone-willed, but I doubt the stone shamans would rely on that for all potential truthless. We saw a similar scenario in Mistborn, and there was certainly some compulsion going on there. When Szeth finds out that the stone shamans were wrong then there would nothing binding him to his oath anymore.

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My bet is it's something to do with his oathstone. Like maybe he's bound to it, and the Shaman's can tell when the bond is broken through his death or something. There's definitely something going on with magic rocks over there in Shinovar.

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The Rithmatist series length was just my personal prediction. The Rithmatist felt pretty open-ended about how much more could go on. I'd be totally down for four or five books or ten books. My prediction for two instead mainly comes from two factors. One, he's just in the middle of so many series, that even he has trouble keeping up with because he was finally able to let them out after WoT took up a lot of his time. So, he might try to cut down on the number of ongoing series soon, though in the end he'll do whatever the narrative demands of course. Two, you don't see a lot of two book series, and Brandon likes doing things we don't see a lot. But, if it is a trilogy I could totally see the Aztlanian focusing more on the Azteca empire (I know he said somewhere he had to do a lot of Aztec research for prewriting the book). Then three could maybe revolve around The Tower. Here's a video with the whole presentation: Here's just the reading: By the way, not sure if this is what you meant, but Ashyn isn't just in the same galaxy as Roshar, it's in the same solar system. Pretty sure all of the cosmere is in one galaxy.

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Maybe the state of the sanderson will clear some that up. As much as I really want Nightblood to come out asap, barring Stormlight it was what most excited about (even before that thing in WoR), I don't think it will be out for a while, at least after the second main mistborn is started, definitely before Elantris 2. Other predictions, I think the Rithmatist series will be two books. Also, at least one thing he mentions is going to come completely out of the blue, but will probably be a low priority. Is it bad that I'm get really excited anticipating his blog post?

For me it was Words of Radiance, no contest. It's my favorite novel in general. Runners up would maybe be Way of Kings, Hero of Ages, A Memory of Light, Towers of Midnight, maybe Warbreaker. I'm hoping Stones Unhallowed will top the list when it comes out.

Wait, is there actually any word that the reading was from Silence Divine. I always assumed that from what he said it was just a different experimental novella that was also set on Ashyn.

My crazy idea about this situation is that Vasher and Shashara (and maybe some others of the five scholars) are originally from Roshar and had to leave and stay in Nalthis for some reason, and they figured out how to make a version of a shardblade on Nalthis using Nalthian magic. But I do think Nightblood is native to Nalthis, we haven't seen any other type IV BioChromatic entities. Come to think of it type I (returned) and IV are both in the same column, things granted sentience. And they share some other similarities. Both need to be fed breaths, Returned are given them and Nightblood takes them. Nightblood has black smoke, retuned of the tenth hightening have color distortion. We know Vasher is a worldhopper, but we don't know if he was at the point of Warbreaker. But now that I think about it he does seem more cosmere aware. The whole BioChromatic entity typing system seems like something someone would come up who knew about other magic systems, so I think he, and possibly other of the scholars, originated from another planet, probably Roshar, then I think he was in some sort of exile on Nalthis. We see in WoR that he has trouble adjusting to Rosahran linguistic, he uses very Nalthian sayings involving color. This would imply he has basically stayed on Nalthis for a really long time. But I have no idea, I like wild speculation. I like Nalthis for theorizing, I feel like I have a pretty good grasp on the Warbreaker magic. With Stormlight magic though, I feel like we hardly know anything about it. It's like quantum physics, if you think you understand all about it that means you probably don't. I really have no idea what's up with that so I can't comment on the spren theories.

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Alright, I'll accept that this whole thing could have been more clear, from what I've heard this was a fairly common problem for a lot of people, which I take as proof that there is some level of problem with it. I still have no problems with it personally, though. I'd say Gandalf's scenario had a higher cost, with the whole fellowship basically falling to pieces, because he was solving a larger conflict. I think a lot of what was going on still remains to be seen. Maybe Stormlight Healing could only preserve her long enough to get her into Shadesmar. I don't know, wild speculation. But that's the only kind I can make. All we have right now is a non-canonical scene that shows the base concept of what went down and raised a lot more questions than answers. The context of where the scene is placed is probably also important. I'm pretty sure we'll see a lot of the reasons why all this happens in book 3 or book Jasnah. I'm sure there's a good in world reason for everything. I could come up with some reasons why Jasnah wouldn't foreshadow like that. She's not exactly one to dole out mounds of information. It's probably a lot harder to do anything with your weak surge before you have any practice in your strong one, and Jasnah did kind of tell Shallan about Soulcasting in book one. From the looks of it in the bonus scene Jasnah know next to nothing about how Elsecalling works. But, all that doesn't really matter because Jasnah could have at least said "All orders have two Surges, mine are Soulcasting and Transportation". Then, when Jasnah's body disappears you could have thought back to that. I'm pretty much a take things as they come kind of reader. So, when I don't have all the information I tend to give the benefit of the doubt. And if anyone's proven themselves worth of that it's Sanderson. So, my full judgement on this waits until Stones Unhallowed.

Argh, so much has happened while I've been trying to write this post I'm going to quote something from the Sanderson's First Law essay that kills a big portion of my argument: However, I still believe Jasnah's non-death was fair according to the first law. The readers understanding is directly proportional to the author's ability to solve conflicts. We don't know much about Jasnah's magic, so Brandon can't use it to solve major conflicts. The conflict which Jasnah uses her magic to solve is being attacked by a group of assassins. And I'm probably going to get a lot of disagreement here, her dying was not the conflict, that was a possible result of the conflict. Having a knife in your chest is also not a conflict, it's a circumstance, but there are no two forces in conflict. The conflict has consequences which reach out to the rest of the book, but the conflict itself is introduced in that chapter and it doesn't progress past that chapter. If you listed out all the major conflicts and antagonizing groups we've seen so far in the SA, this would be way down on that list. Jasnah's not a major character, we've hardly had anything from her viewpoint, the WoR prologue, I don't know of any others. It's not a deus ex machina because the characters wind up worse off than before the conflict. Jasnah's gone for who knows how long, and as mentioned before she would have made the rest of the book much easier. It's not like she killed Sadeas who's been plaguing us since book 1 or stop the everstorm or destroy the Ghostbloods or anything. In other words the magic isn't used to cheat at anything of importance to the overall plot. Take a look at this from the essay: In this case it's not a soft magic system, rather a yet to be revealed aspect of the magic system. Jasnah relies on her magic to save herself from a group of assassins, Result: Jasnah is gone for the rest of that book. Without having Gandalf the fellowship has a much harder time destroying the ring, without Jasnah the main cast have a much harder time dealing with the Everstorm. In fact she's even solving less of a problem since she's only saving herself. Also, in this case the whole event is spread out very weirdly chronologically. The conflict happens at the beginning of the book, we're shown the result at the end, and the actual solution itself has yet to be canonically introduced. So, when does foreshadowing count? I would propose that for the best results it should be foreshadowed that she could have survived before we're shown that she did. And we should be foreshadowed somewhat as to how she survived before it shows her doing that. So, I don't really concern myself much with the Surge of Transportation or Stormlight healing. I knew she would have some other Surge and I knew she could enter Shadesmar, that was about it. Here's the thing, at the beginning of a book OR series minor problems can be created as a way of introducing story elements, in this case the magic system, by having them be a solve the problem. We're only 20% through SA after all. At the beginning of the book/series the reader is trying to figure out what all the pieces are, at the end the characters and reader are using their wit to try and fit together all the pieces to solve a major conflict. That's when everything needs to be super tightly foreshadowed, when the main conflict(s) are being solved at the end of the sequence that the conflict is pertinent. SA has a lot of set up needed for the magic system, we probably won't have all the pieces of it we need until book 10. The reader is in a very similar position to the characters. The characters are just figuring out about the magic, it would make sense it would make sense that they would find out things about it when they're trying to solve minor problems or get out of sticky situations. They learn about the magic blindly when they need to - necessity is the mother of invention - and when the large problems role around they put together all the pieces, magical and otherwise, in order to solve the problem. And quick comment on the above Szeth conversation, a person is clinically dead if their heart is stopped, tons of people have revived from that.

The first law of magic doesn't specific that the reader has to understand the magic at the time is resolved. Since the magic conflict wasn't really a very plot important one. We will probably have been told a bunch about how that worked by the time that it becomes relevant to the things happening in the plot. Vin drawing on the mists solved a huge conflict, but we weren't told how that works until two books later. Lantern hanging lets people know that what's going on does make sense, and they'll find out how later. Brandon has said that there's a way to avert the law, since the point is not to solve problems too easy, if the use of the magic has a very high cost, it can solve conflicts. We don't know the workings of Gandalf's magic, but he uses it to defeat the Balrog, however it resulted in his disappearance until much later. A few assassins compared to all the other conflicts we've seen in the book are a relatively small threat. The result was Jasnah being gone for the whole book. Now she's who knows where dong who knows what. There's also something I heard him say on writing excuses where if you can get a character into a conflict at the beginning of a book, you can use an unknown element to get them out of it as a means of introducing or setting up that plot element.