The Way of Kings posted:

Shallan fished in the safepouch inside her sleeve, bringing out her father’s broken Soulcaster. It had been sheared in two places: across one of the chains and through the setting that held one of the stones. She inspected it in the light, looking— not for the first time—for signs of that damage. The link in the chain had been replaced perfectly and the setting reforged equally well. Even knowing exactly where the cuts had been, she couldn’t find any flaw. Unfortunately, repairing only the outward defects hadn’t made it functional.

Rhythm of War posted:

For years, they’d assumed no spren were trapped in Soulcasting devices. But with the Oathgates, Navani could travel into Shadesmar—and everything in the Physical Realm reflected there.

...

Soulcasters manifested as small unresponsive spren, hovering with their eyes closed. So the Soulcasters did have a captured spren. A Radiant spren, judging by their shape. Intelligent, rather than the more animal-like spren captured to power normal fabrials.

These spren were held captive in Shadesmar, and made to power Soulcasters.

Leng posted:

That, plus all the epigraphs from Navani's lecture on fabrials makes me think that Shallan's Soulcaster didn't work because when she sliced through the setting, it released the captive spren.

VanSandman posted:

I got the audiobook version of Way of Kings recently. Jesus Christ, I haven't read something this interesting in years. How does Sanderson do it? This is one of the best crafted narratives I've ever read.

Keetron posted:

Did you get the unabridged one from audible or the GrapicAudio one with all the sound effects?

Kaiser Mazoku posted:

How do you even abridge a book where every minute detail is important

Keetron posted:

I sometimes wonder to what extend little things are plot point when writing them and at what point does a writer need a plot point and think, hey, that thing I described in chapter 3, that could be fun for this?

Leng posted:

Even so, the end is apparently contained somewhere across The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance. So many rereads since Oathbringer came out and I still have no idea. I hope I'll have a better idea after Rhythm of War.

Space Butler posted:

My money is on it being a death rattle. Coppermind has a good list, there's half a dozen or more it could wind up being.

https://coppermind.net/wiki/Death_Rattle

quote:

A man stood on a cliffside and watched his homeland fall into dust. The waters surged beneath, so far beneath. And he heard a child crying. They were his own tears.

eke out posted:

Evil Fluffy posted:

It's probably this one:
Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.

Have fun thinking about how many different ways that can be interpreted with regards to the state of Roshar and the Cosmere by the end of the Stormlight books.

ManSedan posted:

I’m about 2/3 of the way through my first re-read of Way of Kings and have been picking up things here and there, but is there a collected list of things that have been hinted at so far? Like, page 300 Shallan stubs her toe on a cremling this was actually a cremling spy dude.

Evil Fluffy posted:

It's probably this one:
Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.

Have fun thinking about how many different ways that can be interpreted with regards to the state of Roshar and the Cosmere by the end of the Stormlight books.

e: It could be anything from a reformed Honor ruling after Odium's defeat, an entity that's some mix of the three shards, or even the current Odium who I'm 100% certain contains fragments of Honor (hence why things like oaths and the champion challenge can bind him so strongly, because he's honor bound to abide by them).

Space Butler posted:

Didn't he say in a livestream recently that after RoW we'll have canon names for all sixteen shards? That tracks rather well too.

TheMadMilkman posted:

Casual boob chat from a Mormon writer? What will the elders think?

Seriously, though. I laughed hard at that bit. And he will absolutely get complaints about it, which also makes me laugh.

eke out posted:

also shallan's alter is gay lol

M_Gargantua posted:

Veil can appreciate five chull worth of cleavage without being gay, she's bi if anything since she's attracted to Kaladin and Adolin and likely a few other of the cool kids

Proteus Jones posted:

This was a good chapter.

Adolin, of course, is still the best behind Lopen.

Sab669 posted:

What does "acting like an Edgedancer" even mean? I don't feel like I have even an inkling of what their personalities might be like, beyond what we've seen with Lift.

I guess I can sort of see the second/third ideals embodied by him forcing depressed-rear end Kaladin out to the party and getting him to talk, but I definitely agree Maya's gonna come back though

Sab669 posted:

What does "acting like an Edgedancer" even mean? I don't feel like I have even an inkling of what their personalities might be like, beyond what we've seen with Lift.

quote:

That was the sort of thing Adolin did. Nobody bowed when he entered; instead they cheered and raised cups. Adolin Kholin wasn’t some distant brightlord or general who sat in his keep and pronounced edicts, tyrannical or wise. He was the type of general who drank with his men and learned the names of every soldier.

Dalinar disapproved. In most cases Kaladin would have as well. But… this was Adolin.

Sab669 posted:

I suppose; wasn't it also said Dalinar's the same way though?

Adding to what you said about him in the bar today, there was also that scene in WoK where Kaladin sees Adolin help/rescue a woman in Sadeas warcamp, so yea maybe