Finding my way through the cosmere

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Might have connected some dots. Remember this Death Rattle?

He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!

—Collected on Vevahach 1173, 8 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a prostitute of unknown background.

It might go like this:

Fallen title = replacing Jezrien as Herald

Tower and Crown = the cloak

Spear = Honorspear

[chetney-pockopea]

WIP of the Oathpact reforged scene, I’m so unwell about it honestly.

[peachdoxie]

End of the Prelude:

End of the Postlude:

😭

[peachdoxie]

😭😭😭 I love Kaladin so much 😭😭😭

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W&T - Interlude 11

The 17th Shard gave up on Hoid for now.

Wherever he goes around Roshar, Hoid is considered the inworld version of Loki. Love that about him. First the Horneaters, now the Iriali.

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Might have connected some dots. Remember this Death Rattle?

He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!

—Collected on Vevahach 1173, 8 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a prostitute of unknown background.

It might go like this:

Fallen title = replacing Jezrien as Herald

Tower and Crown = the cloak

Spear = Honorspear

[stars-of-radiance]

Hey OP, guess what the title of that chapter is:

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W&T

REVIEW WITH SPOILERS

Kal.- Such a beatiful journey for my boy. Ever since leaving his hometown he unwittingly became a legend. Only a few actually got to see the mortal (Kaladin) behind that inmortal mask of determination (Stormblessed). His journey resounds in so many of us because beyond his inhuman abbilities he is a human just like us. The ultimate protector. The last remnant of Honor. Kaladin. Herald. Herald of Kings. Herald of the Wind. Herald of Second Chances.

Shallan.- Always wanted her to be a worldhopper but couldn't really see how that might happen once she married Adolin. Now she is trapped in Shadesmar among other worldhoppers. Yay. Also, she got on well with Thaidakar (whose motivations and needs don't disturbe Shallan's unlike Mraize and Iyatil's did). And- CHARANACH IS HER MOM.

Taln did NOT break. Ever. It was Shallan who triggered it all (poor thing has no fault really). Love the fact that Taln never broke, it always felt wrong. Reminds me of Dabbid a little -although his lack of words is trully caused by trauma not pretended-. Gotta make him tells us why he tried to kill Cultivation.

Jasnah.- Never liked her morality. It always felt wrong. Never liked her character because of it. That night at Karbranth, the assassins she hired, considering the extermination of the singers, stabbing a highprince... And then Brandon used the reverse card and actually confronted her about her actions and intentions. That is exactly what she needed. She will grow so much in the coming books! We still don't know why exactly she was confined as a kid but she kind of hinted that her mother was not okay with it, rescued her as soon as she got back from her travels. Hopefully, she will be the one to take Navani out of her self-induced coma.

Lift will finally let herself grow up and Vasher will help her about it! Will Cultivation's absence affect her powers? Since she never used Stormlight (or Towerlight) creating Lifelight out of food instead, will anything change for her now that Cultivation flee? Maybe Lift's presence lures her back to Roshar someday.

Sezth.- Never liked the idea of him becoming an Herald, even if it thematically worked since he won Jezrien's Shardblade. Glad how it turned out, he deserves a quiet life with the sheeps. Also, him being a Skybreaker finally clicked for me, it was about gainning agency and deciding for yourself. And we got to learn Aux's backstory as well!

Adolin not becoming a surgebinder was perfect. After how disappointing Wayne holding up a gun was, it was refreshing how Adolin stood by his decision not to become a Radiant. Really beautiful to see how despite the unoathed not being broken they can form an attachment to the spren. Now he is learning how to read which is fulfilling in itself, just like he was okay with women holding weapons he needs to be okay with men reading. Times are changing and they have to change as well, otherwise they will be left behind. Change can be good, both Lift and Adolin got to learn that finally.

Dalinar.- He understood Honor but didn't fit in. There was always something about him becoming the vessel of Honor that didn't work out for me. Now we have another vessel having trouble with the two Shards and their conflicting interests. Wished we could have seen a little bit more of what it meant to be the Stormfather's Bondsmith, now we will never get a chance unless we get new flashbacks. Syl, as the Ancient Daughter, is currently the oldest honorspren we have. Will she eventually take his place? The storm in her eyes... Also, really liked how Dalinar didn't have to fight Gav and found the answers where he always did, in Nohadon's pressence.

Rlain and Renarin paralleling Windrunner Garith and the Regal femalen singer was genius. Proof that both races can coexist and any conflict between them is each individual's fault, not the race they belong to. Both of them grow up a lot in this book and grow away from what their people want them to be, they become who THEY want to be. Agency. Individuality. Self-worth.

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Looking back at this post I definitely clocked some of the things way early on:

W&T SPOILERS WARNING

✅ Kaladin has no attachments to this world

✅ He is a legendary figure already to everyone alive (Kal is always complaining about Rock, Teft and Moash being the only ones who see him as a person and don't worship him)

✅ First SA arc tells us his story as a mortal, second SA arc as an inmortal

✅ He will be a secondary character in the coming books

✅ Became an Herald (although a part of me still hopes he could one day become Honor)

✅ Goes on vacation-ish (not for five books but for the time between those five books of each SA arc)

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Wind and Truth is published in 4 days. Time to sign off tumblr in case something slips through the filters and gets me spoiled. See you again in a weeks time.

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W&T #4

Wind and Truth

🚨 Spoiler Warning 🚨

Day Two: Chapter 33

Dalinar, Navani, Gav, Shallan and the Ghostbloods all in the Spiritual Realm. Great. What could go wrong?

What is The Wind? Can it be trusted? If they were to find another remnant of Honor, could Kaladin Ascend with it while Dalinar Ascends with another remnant? Like a Half-Ascension with a Half-Shard? This deserves more thought... Let me add that although all this plot seems to be coming from nowhere, a part of me likes it. Mostly because of my obsession with Kaladin beind called child of Tanavast and whether it means anything at all.

Ishar?! Near Kaladin? The very man who created the Oathpath? With access to Connection? Sounds promising.

Also, Kal here hints at the idea of swearing an Ideal at a specific moment so that it provides Ishar with a moment of clarity to be helpful.

END OF BOOK TWO!!

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W&T #3

Wind and Truth

🚨 Spoiler Warning 🚨

Day Two: Chapters 19-32

Dalinar sent Kaladin with Szeth in hopes that Kal would help him with his trauma but... how can he achieve it when his own spren doesn't allow him to show emotion?

Thank the Allmighty! Hoid has figured out quickly enough he was tricked by (T)Odium. Can't wait for everyone to find out about the Ascension!

Dalinar should stay as far away from those remnants of Honor as possible. I truly don't want him to be his vessel.

Domesticating spren? Let's see where that goes. It still feels wrong, lesser spren or not.

Szeth dancing?!

Shallan bested Iyatil? Go girl!

Lift being there for Gavinor is all that is good in life. Our own world needs more edgedancers, people who care about those nobody else does. One of my favourite orders of KR. We all love Lift but Ym was great too!! (WoR Interlude)

Renarin and Rlain! Are we getting more chapters about them in this book? Can we please have a little bit more about them in this first arc?

The Ghostbloods did WHAT?! Are Shallan, Renarin and Rlain going to follow Dalinar and Navani or will Lift do it?

Just an early theory... Lift could get in and out of Dalinar's (or rather the Stormfather's) visions without his intervention. Could she somehow slip in and out of the Spiritual Realm too?

We finally learned why the Shin worship rocks. If Szeth found out about it he would feel so betrayed! All of it for nothing! They did to him something way worse than killing him.

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W&T #2

Wind and Truth

🚨 Spoiler warning 🚨

Day Two: Chapters 14-18

Sanderson is trully fighting against himself. He is lately writing implied sex scenes, he even used the word 'sex' in a chapter. A few years ago, that would have been unthinkable.

Jasnah and Wit are hurting each other. 💔 They should split up asap. They tried, it didn't work. Time to move on.

Shallan is kind of happy. So was Kaladin. 🤨 How much should we worry? How much will you hurt me, Brandon?

Honor! HONOR! Honor is alive! Please, let Kaladin be his next vessel. 🙏🏻 Although that would mean Kal dies, not sure how to feel about that part. But him being called the son of Tanavast by the Stormfather must mean something.

Looks like Hoid will play a big role in this book. Interesting. 🤔

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every week we get closer…..

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Literally doing the same 😂😂 LMAO

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How to swear without swearing

🚨 W&T Spoilers 🚨

BEST! SWEARING! EVER!

“Oh, bollocks,” (...) “The darkest, hairiest, greasiest bollocks on the most unkempt nethers of the most wanton demon of the most obscure religion’s damnable hellscape.”

Hoid, Wind and Truth (The Stormlight Archive)

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W&T #1

Wind and Truth

🚨 Spoiler warning 🚨

Day One: Chapters 1-13

Reading the prologue through Navani's POV, it seemed impossible to hate Gavilar more. Then you read it through Gavilar's... Manipulating Dalinar? Alcoholising him? Would he even care if he ever did find out that Dalinar felt GUILTY for being drunk that night? All Dalinar wanted was to get along with the parshendi, instead he was muted and dare I say drugged. Blood of my fathers! I hate him even more.

Vasher and Gavilar working together? Vasher? Please, do tell me he was being bribbed. 😓😓

Gavilar was talking with the Stormfather! Not Szeth! 😨

Knights of Wind and Truth is a book! 📚 Did we know this already?

Who wrote it? 📜🖋️ My guess on who wrote it went from Kaladin to Sigzil to Syl to Kaladin again. And then I got confused because an excerpt said 'I was not with them [Kaladin and Sezth]. I did not know of their quest.'

Can we trust the Wind? 🌬️🍃

Kal being so hopeful terrifies me. And saying goodbye to everyone. What are you going to do to him Brandon??

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What everyone cannot stop thinking about: Zellion

What I cannot stop thinking about:

Khriss

Khriss

[maspers]

10 bucks says if you were to ask Khriss and Nazh about how this law was discovered/confirmed, each of them would give you a wildly different story on how it happened.