Aleksiel
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I noticed it as well, but I'm still too distracted how pale he is. Ash's skin is faintly glowing with stormlight, her hair radiating as if she's about to put on the mask and surgebind. Why does Jezrien look so different from her? Did she get her look from her mother? I don't see similar depth and symbolism in her father's portrait, Ash remains my favorite by a large margin.
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The pictures are gorgeous on their own, but my first impression as depictions of Jezrien and Vedel is more... being underwhelmed, honestly.
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Why aren't Vedel's keys golden?
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I think her hair was stylized to mirror a background like the other heralds have. Battar's hair has the same manner of drawing and it makes it look almost like a hood decorated with a ribbon. Kalak's hair is also drawn as locks, so I think it's just the style of the paintings.
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She looks bald to you? To me it seems her hair is as of blown by a breeze and is all around her. Otherwise the top of her ears looks strangely cut off.
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Is there any thing in Stormlight you don't like?
Aleksiel replied to ICanDream's topic in Stormlight Archive
I didn't like how the Kholins barely acknowledged Jasnah's death. -
It wasn't, it was supposed to be light-hearted. Apologies for the confusion.
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Because it was established the Sunmaker had a sword called Oathbringer and no one referenced a book being the inspiration, which would have been logical. At that time men didn't read and write, so it seems unlikely he would have named his sword after a book.
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I think Dalinar would describe normal dust as crem, too. The tower has been abandoned for centuries, I'm curious why there isn't dust inside or may be we were just spared the cleaning rooms details.
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It wasn't intended as such, more like agreeing to disagree on how to interpret the passage. Realizing you were blaming the wrong person is an emotional turn that takes some time to process. I see how want and view it as hinting hidden romantic feelings, may be you'll also see why I don't.
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I know you ship them It may not be the best way of putting it, but she did trust him with a secret - that Amaram killed her favorite brother and Kaladin refused to correct her. She could take it badly or she could process it before Kaladin is back and not blame him. It's easy to imagine she would be angry he allowed her to mislead herself on such an important topic.
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Above the clouds, but there's still wind and wind brings dust and crem. I'm skeptical towards the idea of someone trying to seal the door, because it would be a rather lame attempt as all Dalinar needed were a few pushes. After all, Urithiru was inhibited by surgebinders who have much more efficient ways if they wanted a door to stay closed.
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I don't know what else was Adolin supposed to say in the moment, I think leaving her alone to gather her thoughts was acceptable reaction and he wasn't in a good emotional state either. Shallan clearly didn't want to talk about it and all she said about Helaran was that he left when she was young and she didn't know him well, not even a name. Apparently Adolin doesn't even know she had a dearly beloved brother and he has no reason to think she'd hide the existence of such a figure from him, so Adolin needs some time to process the implications of such a revelation, too. To reference some relevant things from earlier in the thread, I don't think Shallan's rejection of her emotions and crushing them down was about Kaladin. She has a history of not wanting to deal with anything that hurts her and I think what @maxal meant as Kaladin betraying Shallan's trust is not telling her he killed Helaran when they were sharing their stories in the chasms. Kaladin clearly wished she didn't realize he killed her beloved brother, so we know he didn't want to share it just like he wasn't ready to come out as surgebinder. Will Shallan blame him for that? May be. You could argue it isn't logical, but logic seldom influences emotions. Plus Shallan already established she hates logic
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I mostly agree with you, however I think it's a stretch to call it 'modern' considering it became the social norm soon after the Recreanse, thus it's centuries old dogma, so there is no reason to narrow it down to contemporary authors only:
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It's most likely not entirely factual, but metaphorical like Fleet's story mirrored what happened to Tanavast. A perfect place with stormlight sure sounds like the SR and the wall could be symbolic barrier between realms. Of course, the story has many different interpretations and I think more than one are valid. In one way it relates to Shallan and in another - to something ancient.
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Vargo claimed to have met her in Jah Keved, so she's probably veden like Shallan. Trading is acceptable for both genders, so she could have been a thaylen merchant apprentice like Rysn.
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Could it be due to similarities with the one Kaladin told to Hoid? As if Fleet and the white haired girl were on the opposite sites of the wall/mountain where the storms die. It made me wonder if it could be related to Culltivation somehow.
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Yeah, sorry for not being clearer - the hair due to use of surge (she is about to put or has just taken off the mask) and the place for metaphoric purposes. Well, at least that's my interpretation.
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The way I interpret it, it's not necessarily connected to surges, but a way to present her beauty as out of their world and show it as if eclipsing Roshar itself.
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No, I don't think so. Evi is of the religion of the long Trail like Ym, isn't she? I think she's referencing The One eventually all would become again, though it leaves something to be desired as an explanation, I admit. But I don't think she was talking about SF.
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@The One Who Connects Ash's hair looks glowing to me, like it's about to change via illumination. I think the pieces look like they are falling upwards due to the weak gravity, because she is on one of the moons and it's Roshar behind her.
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[OB] We need to talk about Shallans drawings...
Aleksiel replied to Toaster Retribution's topic in Stormlight Archive
It reminded me how she didn't understand why she was drawing figures with symbol heads in WoK. -
Thanks, I couldn't remember what it was called. Only that is was something like Nazgul, but not really It still doesn't feel like an Unmade, though you make some good points. It feels like a corrupted version of TW surges - the look alike victim from illumination and the wound mimicking like reversed re-Growth.
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Or it was part of Urithiru even before it was abandoned and is connected to the reason KR left the city even before Recreance.
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Yeah, I mentioned a post above you that's probably what will happen. Still, it feels like Brandon didn't want to give us almost anything in the first part, so instead of not doing epigraphs, he chose to include about 20 mostly irrelevant on a large scale. The thrill one seems to move around, at least the way I read it. Yelig-nar and Moelach also move around, so in my opinion all should be moving and not stationary. Why waste an Unmade to have it stand by for centuries there?
