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I never once believed she was really dead, so it worked for me. Since we didn't know much about her powers and since she's pretty boss I wouldn't assume she would let herself be killed so easily. I thought for sure she used some magic trick we didn't know about to get herself out of that. And since the prologue made her even more mysterious and WoR taught us about everyone having two Surges and Jasnah's not a Lightweaver she had to be able to do something Else - turns out that was calling. So that was enough foreshadowing for me, though a vaguer foreshadowing; I was pretty sure survived, but I had no clue how she did it. That's the thing about SA even us 17th sharders with who know all the hidden details still know very little about how things work on Roshar. Since it's drawn out over more words than say Mistborn, and since it's in a "magical renaissance", sometimes things seem deus ex machina-y to some people. It requires a sort of temporary suspension of disbelief based on the understanding that you'll know how things work later, this fits with the series' steeper learning curve. At the end I was more concerned about if Hoid was going to tell a cool story again for the epilogue and what the ketek would be. I also like it at the epilogue since then there's the symmetry with the book starting and ending with Jasnah, and SA plays with structure and symmetry a lot. I'm interested to see where things go with Jasnah, she's definitely set to do more cool things, everything's probably going to get crazy by the time the characters realize she's alive.
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What order did you read the books?
Purelake Earthquake replied to Incheoul's topic in General Brandon Discussion
Mistborn Trilogy, Elantris, Alloy, Warbreaker, Emperor's Soul, Way of Kings, Shadows for Silence, Words of Radiance, Sixth of the Dusk. I also read all the non-cosmere books mixed in there and like half of WoT and tons of other books, since I almost never read entire series back to back this was over a few years. I bought Emperor's Soul and Shadows for Silence on amazon when they came out. Words of Radiance was the first book I was caught up enough to buy on release day and start reading later that day (I had to finish up my WoK reread first). Sixth of the Dusk I ordered the limited edition and read shortly after receiving it. The only other books I've read more than once are tFE and WoA this summer, I'll do HoA again sometime this year. -
early Lightsong, What
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Shards of Adonalsium as they are called, are not Shardplate and Sharblades. They basically are the basis by which magic systems are created on planets. Ruin and Preservation on Scadrial, as well as Honor, Cultivation and Odium from Stormlight Archive. You can learn more about them on the coppermind wiki.
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I got something today
Purelake Earthquake replied to Purelake Earthquake's topic in General Brandon Discussion
I could tell your post was obviously joking. Cats were mentioned once in relation to a place called U Poni Sho Del, only they'd have six-legged albino lizard cats there. Half the fun of reading this book is that hardly anyone else has read it. My favorite part was when Hoid was talking to Kaladin's mom. Unfortunately I will have to return it sometime. -
I got something today
Purelake Earthquake replied to Purelake Earthquake's topic in General Brandon Discussion
Sorry, it took me a couple days to respond to this, but some of us have better things to do now. So, my location is purelake, but I Worldhop on over to BYU for classes, that's how I was able to get this. There is a Shardpool at the bottom of the salt lake after all, just ask the great salty one. You have to put yourself on a waiting list because people always want it. I think there's another copy in the library special collections where people can go there and read it, but not check it out. I hope Quiver doesn't try to Spike my book and burn it with magical teleporting fire and send it to the Crystal Palace, I'm pretty sure the evil librarians wouldn't like that. Well my mouspad has maps, three of them. Also, I'm sure there are plenty of really adorable kittens in No Poni Sho Del. Ha, everyone loves Cosmere jokes amirite? -
tiny ewes see
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massive flocks of
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the Aons which
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knowing it was
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Returned whale army
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I think Amaram, and a lot of other villains, like Taravangian especially, are supposed to be examples of putting destination before journey,
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thread necromancers who
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I feel like it's too early to think we can understand all about the exact motives of Sons of Honor. It seems a bit preemptive to throw them in that pile. If anything we can expect from Sanderson it's that we don't know squat about what's actually going on and anything can happen. That said, I only read it once, back when it came out, so maybe it was a lot clearer than I remembered.
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two years later
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Knock knock Who's there Bridgeman Bridgeman who? Knock knock Who's there Bridgeman Bridgeman who? Knock knock Who's there Ardent Ardent who? Ardent you glad I didn't say bridgeman?
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Fun with Anagrams
Purelake Earthquake replied to Purelake Earthquake's topic in General Brandon Discussion
Here's another hidden political message: Vasher fought Recreance: Never Forget. Uh, car chase. -
I had a dream that John Wayne Cleaver joined Monster Hunter International, and he was a Feruchemist. Jim Butcher's Codex Alera started off of Pokemon + lost Roman legion.
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Why was the Lifeless pulled over? His BAC was 100%
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Would you like some eclairs?
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BLASPHEMY! ...haven't read it.
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I mostly use Howard Tayler's movie review to see what movies were this year.He was just talking about going to see The Maze Windrunner once it comes out. Don't forget Sharkeverstorm Two: The Second One. There were some good movies earlier this year too, like Captain Alethkar: Winter Bridgeman and The Soulstamp Movie.
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What's currently in the works
Purelake Earthquake replied to yahas's topic in General Brandon Discussion
I asked Brandon about Calamity on the progress bar on Twitter and he said that it is planned to be the next after Shadows of Self with Stormlight 3 after that. That's all I know for sure. I'm guessing Rithmatist 2 will be sometime after Stormlight 3. I would doubt Mistborn trilogy 2 would move, since that and the stormlight arc are bigger projects I think they'd be more concrete. This gets more complicated when you throw in Alcatraz 5. I think he's maybe already written it and is just waiting on publishing. That'll probably get thrown in the mix sometime soon. -
But you broke the left/center/right/center/left alignment pattern