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Dawnshard If Change is the knowledge expansion needed to wield four of the sixteen shards with Adonalisum's level of power, I bet you that investiture associated with Cultivation (definitely a Change shard) assisted in blowing up the Shin homeworld. Perhaps Cultivation herself wanted to get back with Tanavast because Tanavast originally felt he made an oath to stay separate from the other shards. I bet she pushed her Yolen-originated people to attempt to terraform their planet. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 15:56 on Dec 19, 2020 |
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Torrannor posted:Dawnshard/RoW So Dalinar sometimes sees a mysterious light, and hears "Unite them", even when the Stormfather is not sending him visions. Is he already in possession of a Unite Dawnshard, without knowing it? See, I love this because that warm feeling Ryan gets in her mind when she does well by her Command sounds very much like Dalinar's experience. I suspect that the Dawnshards are going to be related to the four fundamental things that Yolish Axi could do, and Unite and Change sound very much like two of those things. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 12:29 on Dec 21, 2020 |
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Calidus posted:Cosmere/Roshar/RoW question: Do we actually know the state of the Honor Shard? Odium killed the host but shards can’t be destroyed right. I guess you could break it into small shards but the conservation of energy applies in cosmere. GOD IS DEAAAAADDDD!!!!1 From my perspective, Dalinar commenting on Rayse looking so small is the huge clue that Dalinar is loving around with enough shard-stuff to rival one of the more knowledgeable and capable gods.
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egg tats posted:reread elantris Senile seons
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Ethiser posted:ACAB All 'Breakers Are Cremlings
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^ there is a WOB that contradicts Syl. I'll go find it, but it basically explains that Odium is locked onto Braize by Honor's shard. More, an entity would have to control the majority of Honor's shard to release Odium.
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Sixth of the Dusk 2 reading The shardbearer space marine who is speaking with a funny rhythm - is that a Singer? I for one wouldn't at all mind seeing Roshar returned to the Singers long term.
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Okay, so, Shallan RoW who did Formless end up being? was it just ... Shallan herself?
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Sanderson's pitch for Era 2 was apparently "you're checking in on your old buddy who became a god" harmony is supposed to be loving it up (mod edit: someone asked for spoiler tags) Somebody fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Jan 26, 2021 |
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my read is that the commands are Daddy Addy's expanded knowledge and will; the Shards provide expansiveness of mind and power It's clear, to me, that most of the post-Shattering Vessels are completely unfit for the task of truly wrangling their shardic intent; maybe Addy had a leg up because he had a gigantic advantage in willpower
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I'm big into how cosmere magic works, so I honestly loved those sciencey chapters because I feel like I got a loooot of answers
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Pennsylvanian posted:Maybe just once in a while, I'd like to experience a fantasy story where the protagonist can just be a ruthless power abuser in a practical way. Hmmmm...Kelseir?
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Mordiceius posted:Does Sanderson's writings ever get less... extremely hetero? interspecies poo poo is probably going to be happening
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Roshar WoB Renarin and Rlain
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"oh it's magical skype" is something that you can figure out from context in the Stormlight books when The Thing In Question comes up You really don't need to burn yourself out with Elantris if you have better things to read. Imo, If you want to become a cosmerenaut, reading a synopsis is adequate.
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Spoiler but really not actually a spoiler: Kaladin is going to keep saying  and you're going to get chills every time he tries.
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KKKLIP ART posted:Also Dawnshard is the best novella and you’ll have to fight me to change my mind. but, but Emperor's Soulllllll
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Sab669 posted:Gonna start reading Adolin dialog in my best GWB voice now He's far too sharp to have a slow drawl.
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dalinar strikes me as a Rogal Dorn type
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I don't think it would be smart for Sanderson to toe that line, especially as a Mormon.
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Professor Spatula posted:Toadium 
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I'd gander that indicators of corruption means there's corruption.
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Mistborn Era 2: Harmony is the Supreme Kai. They come across as extraordinarily enlightened and powerful at first -- and they legitimately are. As time goes on, however, we learn that they're relative newcomers to the divinity gang and that there's a lot of moving parts in ancient plots that they are furiously trying to figure out. Stormlight: Honor is Daikaioh. Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 14:23 on Mar 19, 2021 |
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I don't think we know for sure exactly where that comes from.
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Thyrork posted:Finally got back on the stormlight train, read edgedancer and rhythm of war, Good stuff. Kinda had the pileup at the end but eh. Now the wait resumes. Wit's pocket coin thing is such a staple of rogue powergaming against mind-affecting abilities that there's no way Wit is clueless about what just happened.
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BananaNutkins posted:6th of the Dusk is good, and isn't it the book that sorta explains Stormlight's weird use of chickens? birds are not native to Roshar, non Cosmerenauts think a chicken is representative of all birds imo the behavior of 6th birds is clearly coded as parrot like
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the way of kings, to me, was largely Sanderson saying "yes ok I'm genuinely listening, I can write about contemporary topics and get it right" like, TWoK and to a degree WoR are proof that Sanderson can engage deeply with people very unlike him, listen open minded, and represent them well
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I still think the way he represents Shallan makes no sense but I'm assured by an acquaintance that it really be like that some days, which I guess means that I'm the one who has more to learn
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Louisgod posted:Are the characters in Stormlight supposed to be progressive or something? I don’t really get that vibe outside the clear socialist themes of “listen to and empathize with the every day worker/person” concept but the whole sexy safehand thing is so loving funny and dumb. I don't think that the characters are supposed to be progressive or whatever - More like, the characters' challenges are made as true to life as Sanderson can swing it, and so long as he's soliciting genuine feedback and trying hard, it's pretty good so far he's doing a good enough job that the strikeouts really stand out also, seconded that Vorin Safe Hand Horniness™ is really fun in a dumb way. it's so on the nose, but this is the same author who made Wax & Wane the names of main characters in a story about rapid change
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socialsecurity posted:I do like how he threw in that line about Shallan talking to some Ardents and being like "what I have isn't like the actual disease some people have this is some magic poo poo" so I have an artist friend and sanderson nut who does legit shift in and out of a whole slew of masks, and their take is like if you take their very real, very fluid sense of self and make each mask more real through something like Forgery, that's what Shallan seems to have - in their opinion a very real problem, augmented by the reality-twisting effects of human perception projecting changes into the cognitive and spiritual planes it's a bit loving abstract and that makes it REALLY hard to see what's going on Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 17:52 on Aug 21, 2021 |
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Invalid Validation posted:Both Shallan and Kaladin have a problem of reverting most of their character growth between books. I really loved Kaladins growth in the first book and his origin story was genuinely great. You could tell he blew his load on it and needed to start over to give him something to work on again in subsequent books. You know what, I think I'm actually looking for excuses to give the author, but the idea that traumas and problems are a two steps forward, one step back kind of cycle is suddenly very very relatable and real to me that being said, I don't think Sanderson is writing it that way
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Serf posted:Just finished up Edgedancer, about to start up Oathbringer. All I'm going to say is that you better make sure that you read Dawnshard after Oathbringer, don't loving miss it.
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welcome, cosmerenaut
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what if they're all bad God is dead, hail Potato Salad fucked around with this message at 13:20 on Feb 3, 2022 |
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Evil Fluffy posted:Unless TOR's getting a cut I'm sure they're less than happy to see all this money that isn't going to them. tbqh Sanderson is likely a top performer, so idk how mad they could really be
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Imo there's almost certainly going to be a present-and-future or influence-and-observation tradeoff in the spiritual plane as a fantasy ripoff of Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle
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