#ketek

[navanis-scholarly-ass]

Ketek found in my desk drawer. Almighty, what did that girl get up to?

Take a fast break. Where is my bread roll? It was right here. Right? ...Was it? Bread roll mine. Where is breakfast? Take.

[ketiakawek]

[shreekofjoy]

Ketek inspired by Dalinar Kholin

For Context, a Ketek is a kind of poem from Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archives, which has this element of symmetry to it

Blackthorn O merciful one become

Honour bear with grace, your banner

Men Unite.

Unite Men

Banner yours with grace

Honor become One

Merciful Blackthorn.

[lord-of-hollows]

REALLY bad Keteks inspired by Dalinar Kholin

Blade swings silent, fierce

Fire burns proud.

Deprived of Thrill,

Deprived of pride

Fire fierce silenced a swinging blade.

Oathbound, Honour lights the path

White Assassin strides to the king

Passes to the Brother,

A Kings striding Assassin in White

Pathing in light, honour bound by oaths

A proud voice calls strong, defiant

Its strength finds purpose

Bonds forge unity

Forged bonds find purpose

Defiant strength cries out, voicing pride

General thoughts on Keteks:

Els Ketek in RoW is noted as being strange for placing the weight on the final line whereas a typical ketek places weight on the middle line. After attempting to write several I'm coming to the conclusion that perhaps I am just bad at it but I find it much easier to place the weight on any line with the exception of the middle.

Id be very interested in hearing Sandersons opinion on why it's considered typical for the middle line to carry weight.

[theswandragon]

Daily Poem 11/6/24

Standing, so tall. Are we remembered together? Remember, we are tall. So stand.

~Swan

[cosmereplay]

Honour Guard

(A ketek from the fic Lies Illuminating Truths, 4200 words, rated General)

Me and mine are not honoured, lighteyes, to protect you.

Dark eyes visibly in uniform makes you uncomfortable.

You hear me, Your Majesty? I hear you.

Your discomfort makes the uniform invisible, eye darkly.

You protect lighteyes honour, not mine and me.

[onlycosmere]

Do you think it’s intentional that book two is Words of Radiance, or WoR, and book four is Rhythms of War, or RoW?

You are correct to notice that; it absolutely is intentional! Questioner: So far, the Stormlight Archive's book titles have the abbreviations: WoK, WoR, O, and RoW. Will Book Five's abbreviation be KoW, making the complete ketek?

Brandon Sanderson: Great question. Way back when I started working on the Stormlight Archive, I wanted to do this. And then I just didn't think it would work out, for various reasons, and I backed away from it, coming up with my kind of working titles that were not a ketek. After I changed Book Two to Words of Radiance, I realized I might have a chance to do this, and it started to kind of get in my head, that maybe I do it, maybe I wouldn't. I waited to see if Book Three would work as a single-word title, which it did. And so I am intending to do this.

The question we have internally is where we put the "T." Because Way of Kings actually has a "the" in it, where Words of Radiance and Oathbringer do not, and neither does Rhythm of War. So, is it going to have a T at the end, or not? That is subject to debate, even internally, right now.

[themelodyofspring]

Shelf-Confidence Book Photo Challenge

January 9, 2022 - Motifs

Keteks from The Stormlight Archive #1 - #4

A ketek is a form of holy Vorin poetry which reads the same forward and backward (allowing for changes in verb form), and is also divisible into five sections, each of which also expresses a complete thought.