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[paintweaver-art]

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This started off as a test because I wanted to figure out how I could paint stormlight and stained glass for another piece for them…

I spent so much time on it by now, it feels like a waste not to post it.

[onlycosmere]

[lamaery]

In the need for temporary escape from all the madness? Sandra got you covered. Why not throw yourself into the tempest of anguish, bravery and passion that is Rhythm of War (part 1)? 

Since the volumes are way too thick for just one cover we follow Orion's example and just allow us double the fun for each book with these Sealed with a Kiss Editions. 

typography as always by the immaculate @priscellie and illustration by me.

[inolienkiki]

By far the best and funniest introduction to an immortal character I’ve ever read was in Warbreaker, where Vasher is consistently presented for the first 400 pages as a grumpy, disheveled, ambiguously moral vigilante, who is competent enough at everything that it’s clear he’s an experienced guy, but has no social graces and barely any reputation except among a few people. He wears rags and ties his pants up with a piece of rope and his closest personal relationship is being a dad slash cleanup crew for a very cursed talking sword with memory issues.

Then, more than 2/3 of the way through the book, he finally has a conversation with another one of the main characters, who asks him about how the magic works. He proceeds to spend the next four pages giving a highly technical explanation of how all of the previously mentioned elements of the magic system function and fit together into a larger whole, explaining what is not known about the magic and detailing numerous edge cases and theoretical situations. His audience is understandably confused about where and when and *why* he got a PhD??

Later he explains how he is also three other apparently unrelated historical figures and a zombie. Of course he has a PhD, he’s old enough to be five different people.

[khaedart]

”You make our religion all about you”

Combining the best things from Mistborn Era 1 (Ati, Leras, and stained glass)

[uinferno]

I've often theorized that the reason why Taln never broke in Braize is because he held out for so long that his nature as a cognitive shadow eventually calcified as someone who was incapable of it. As Vasher discussed in Rhythm of War, as a Cognitive Shadow, bit by bit the fluidity of your soul stiffens to weather the passage of time, solidifying traits you had in life as eternal. Immutable.

The most notable traits for Taln was his dependenability and his iron will. The more he suffered, the stronger he became until something snapped in him and he ceased to be a person and became a sapient seal. He didn't break, so he could not break. It was too late. His humanity was replaced by his mythology as the Bearer of Agonies.

To some extent, Taln did die on Braize. Even if he does recover from his stupor, he will probably forever be a thing whose existence is defined by suffering and his magical nature to withstand it. You cannot break Taln because Taln is unbreakable. Ontologically.

[sweetestoday]

I love Kaladin in that one scene in Oathbringer where he returns to Heartstone.

Kaladin gets to Roshone's manor, escorted by a guard, looking like a runaway slave. He discards the guard, finds his parents, starts sobbing on the floor. Decided that that was enough crying, punches Roshone and starts ordering everyone around. Demands spheres and horses and men etc, flexes his Shardblade and proves to be friendly with the king and Dalinar Kholin. Goes outside, starts levitating and leaves.

What an ICON.

[lightweaver-naeuri]

Imagine if the Voidlight Archive's prologues are different PoVs of Kaladin returning instead of Gavilar dying.

Kaladin is everything Gavilar wanted to be but never could. The first five books opened on the death of a man who wished to herald the return of the Radiants to Roshar, and the back five could open on the revival of the man who will.

The flaws of the Son of Honor are clear as day when he stands in the shadow of the Child of Tanavast.