Green Hoodie Mistborn

I don't see the issue you're point towards? I think you're saying that Windrunner - Truthwatcher appear to have nature spren as their Plate spren vs Lightweaver - Bondsmith should have emotion spren? But to me that feels like a false dichotomy of the spren themselves

Well we know that she helped Szeth bury Kaladin the "day after Stormfall", so literally one day after the end of the book and her family lived near the Bondsmith monastery I'm sure we'll see them in the second half of the archive We also don't know that she's an Elsecaller, just that she is part of an order headed by Jasnah, which I think is honestly more likely personally.

Welcome to the Shard! I'm actually fascinated by this and would love if we could get a good survey of WaT readers, their enjoyment level of WaT, and "how long ago they started reading Sanderson", because I've started to notice (which could 100% just be my observational bias of comments on different platforms) that it seems those who came to Sanderson more recently and have binged SA in the last couple of years are enjoying WaT less than those who have been reading Sanderson longer. I wish I could get good data on that because I'd love to see if my observations are real or not As to WaT itself and how it ends... WaT is the Empire Strikes Back of the SA, the heroes are supposed to be at their low point right now in the 10 book narrative arc But it's not all gloom, there are many bright spots and there were wins had in almost every arena, even if they were relatively minor or unexpected ones.

I don't think he did shortchange the man ultimately, he got 50 from the man and ended up giving 50 back. What he really did with all the confusing sleight of hand was get the man to give him the wallet for a flower, thinking he was selling it for 10. Similar to how he got the boat ride for free just by changing his accent to imply there was something fishy going on. That was much more of a shortchange than the scene with the actual exchange of different denomination of coins/notes.

I'm 99% sure that Cultivation has multi-leveled plans in place here And I don't think that her FIRST plan was to keep TOdium on the right path. I think she told him and did things that were specifically designed to get the Contest to fail, because I think she wanted off of Roshar as her #1 priority, just like Odium did.

I mean, it's the bottom of my SA tier list personally, but I don't think it's a bad book by any stretch, it and WaT are just very different books from the first three SA books IMO. I'm honestly getting tired of "attacking Sanderson because he dominates the market" to be a popular position out there in the booktube/tok & r/fantasy land.

Don't give up now!

In the race with Elohkar up the rock formation, Dalinar starts with a standing vertical leap of 8 feet. Based on what we're discussing here, I have to assume that it's describing 8 ft from the bottom of his feet back down to the ground, which is about just over 2x more than NBA Max vert referenced in the 2024 Draft Combine (Top was 42", Avg was 35.3", Median was 35.5", and Mode was 32"; 77 people were tested). Their standing verticals were lower ranging between 24"-35". So depending on if you consider Dalinar was running when he leapt or it was a standing leap... regardless, it was >2x Max vert and closer to 3x a standing leap

I think she had multiple plans and plays happening at the same time If she was able to tame Odium through T, then great I think her ultimate goal was to leave Roshar though and she pushed Dalinar to Honor's power knowing/hoping through her better than average Fortune/Future reading that he'd do what he did and free her. I'm on my 1st re-read, but I remember a flashback scene where she says she wants to leave, but Honor says they can't. I think she's been as deparate to leave Roshar as Odium for a long time.

Are we talking vs normal troops or against Singers/Fused? Ultimately I think the smart move is to keep them together because a full bearer is a small army unto themselves and split up there is (to me) too much chance to lose the blade to overwhelming force. If against Singers/fused, definitely keep them together. If against another human army I'd be more inclined to split them up. Even if I do split them up though, the person wearing the plate is the one I'd have bonded to the blade, so that IF the blade's bearer goes down, the plate wearer can summon it back at any moment

the Ones Above in the readings are almost surely Scadrians or of the Scadrian side of the galactic conflict, so I don't think this interpretation of the description is correct.

I feel like whatever the related Retirement age might be for Nalthis (roughly) If many Nalthians retire in their 50s, then 50's. If it's later, then later. I think the breaths would be still strong enough at that point and the person going into retirement would be able to live a more subdued life in retirement anyway

It does seem like a task that he'd give to a team member to work on at some point though. Give them a pile of thoughts/notes or point them to an internal wiki link to start from, even if it's related to the RPG or something and then he'd review it to make sure it jives with his own thoughts. I can see it happening eventually, especially for something like Twinborns and maybe the Surges since they are both "somewhat" limited What probably won't happen is "what is the Resonance between 1000 Breaths and Division" or "Rosharan Lightweaving and Sandmastery" Like... those are the ones we'll probably never ever get because the # of combinations and permutations are just TOO vast. ....unless they built an internal Dragonsteel LLM and fed it some parameters and then just vetted the output. Then... maybe, but I'm not going to hold my breath for that.

I don't see them as "soft magic" so much as each combination of different powers yield different resonances. And there are so many different ones that he just hasn't gotten around to defining each and every one yet. And when he says they're areas of "fun" for him, that he likes coming up with the resonance when those power combinations come up. I don't think there is a hard and fast rule he could ever define for how the powers interact really. I don't know if that by definition makes it soft or not. I guess that depends on perspective. It would be neat to be able to guess or figure out how the twinborn resonances work for all the combos but I just don't see how he could ever define it in a meaningful way Maybe there will be something in the coming RPG related to it though?

That's an interesting take on it that I hadn't considered before! There is maybe a bit more textual support for the state of the Kholin house politically at the start of WoK that might support this idea generally. I'd never considered this side of it before, but it's certainly as plausible but still headcannon as anything else! Fair points and I agree about the second note about Sanderson trying to avoid those cliches and maybe failing. At the same time, I think some of this can be attributed to the fact that at the start of writing the series, Adolin was not planned to be a primary character like he became through the course of the first 5 books. It could well be that the failings in characterization of Adolin in WoK and how well his relationships of his are/not fleshed out has more to do with a lack of original plan than a failure to execute on Sanderson's behalf. Maybe a good question for Brandon if someone wants to ask that rather than a magic system interaction question some time!