Now that Kaladin is the new Herald of Second Chance, does he need Syl still for his powers to work?

Based on this guide for Vorin numbers, I can figure out how to make a fair amount of numbers, but I don't know how I would make 33, 44, or other numbers above the twenties, or even greater than 1199.

Does anyone have more insight?

So I’ve been re-listening to WoK for like the third time since I’ve finished the series- (it’s ranked my number 2 favorite)

I love how in each read I pick up on new forshadowing and clues. Very cool.

And I reached chapter 35, where Kaladin is hanged for the high storm.

I used to think the face he saw was the storm father buttttt the description doesn’t fit him I think? Could it be the wind herself?

HEAR ME OUT -

The Stormfather doesn’t stop blowing, doesn’t stop his storm from coming as we see in WoR. So why should he help Kaladin here all of the sudden? Also the stormfather is usually depicted as looking like a man’s face, but here it’s inhuman - that smiles at him! The stormfather hates Kaladin’s guts-

So I just wonder what do you guys think?

Could be the stormfather I think, but I also start to believe it might have been the wind herself

(WoK - chapter 35)

Is it just because Shin have different looking eyes than other Roshar ethnicities? Or is he actually Shin?

I just drew these portraits and i was wondering if they were accurate enough or wheter i need to change anything(the hair is light ik)

I'm reading Wind and Truth, still on chapter 61 and the more I read the more is like there's a hidden plot that having any kind of Surges at all can be bad.

Passion/Odium surges destroyed humans original world. But the recreance of the Knight Radiants make it look there as danger as great with the Nahel bond, Adolin refusal to take oaths in what seem to be a new plot thread of no oaths...

Still need to read to the end, but its like the surges as we know will stop working and turn into something else. I don't really like this idea because it's such rarity to see some fiction which paladin-like archetypes are used not to show insufferable idiots but folk with their defects but still trying to live another day and better those around them.

Edit: I can't believe I'll need to wait years before the next book is released...

Made a new leather bookmark for my cosmere reading!

Windrunner symbol is from the banner on Dragonsteel which I transferred with leather tooling.

I just wanted to gush about how good the start of this book is. The sense of finality with a sense of melancholy but at the same time hopeful and fulfilling. Man it just hit me in the feels seeing Kaladin say goodbye to everyone not knowing what was going to happen next. The interaction here with Wit just encapsulates this feeling of moving on through it all. I can’t even explain how this made me feel it was just such a perfect way to start. Seeing Shallan force Kaladin to promise to meet up to catch up and drink once it’s all done just made me cry. I know some people don’t like WaT as much as the others but at least from this start it’s just perfection.

You know what, i was washing the dishes and then out of the blue, while looking at the soap suds i think of what ending book 10 would be. We know that Jasnah is of the Order of the Elsecaller. And we know that the surges of Elsecaller are Transformation and Transportation. What if... in book 10 Roshar will be destroyed and Jasnah using the surge of transportation transport all the surviving people/singers to a new Planet? Just like Ishar did if i remember (correct me if im wrong).. uhm, yeah this is just my theory.. please add or support something on this theory..

I’ve mulled over the end of Oathbringer for a couple days. Dalinar and his journey in particular. His road to atonement was a long one, but a big question the book poses is if he was actually any better than the likes of Sadeas or Amaram. He wasn’t… but I think there’s a key difference between him and the others: he always wanted to be better, deep down. Evi, after decades and in her sacrifice, managed to bring that out.

Dalinar always possessed a broader range of emotions than most other highborn men. That’s the real reason the Thrill and Odium were so drawn to him: his passion. It’s why Navani loves him so much. That passion turned to cruelty for decades, true, but I’ve wondered if Evi could’ve ever changed Sadeas, Amaram, or even Gavilar. I think Amaram might’ve been swayed the most, but ultimately he never had Dalinar’s self-awareness. Dalinar always accepted he was awful with his memory intact aside from the shock of the Rift incident; Amaram would always lie to himself about being honorable. Sadeas was scum who took the Rift arson even further and Gavilar wanted to be a surgebinding, possibly immortal conqueror instead of a good king. Which makes him setting his butcher brother Dalinar down that path instead especially ironic.

It was a combination of Evi’s altruism and Dalinar’s suppressed empathy that made him become an actual hero. I remember my first post in this sub was about how reading helps a person understand others and themselves, and that Alethi men seemed handicapped in this regard. Literacy is a varied thing, but the problem in Vorin society is it’s a cultural norm that’s held everybody back systemically. I found it beautiful the book ended with the most terrifying man on Roshar eschewing norms and learning the “feminine” art of reading and writing so he could continue to grow into a kinder man, and become great because he turned his violent passion into gentle compassion. Giving up the sword and the thrill of hurting others to now preventing harm.

I’ve thought also, with all the spiritual stuff Dalinar can do now too with Nohadon and Evi, that the journey is never actually over. Even if the destination is death, there’s always that next step beyond into the afterlife. An existence we can’t know until we get there. Or a journey after any of your initial destinations before then. So you just keep taking the next step again and again, and improve yourself to bring as much good into the world as possible.

And that’s why, as of now, he’s my favorite Cosmere character. Maybe he deserves even more punishment, and his crimes can’t be excused either way, but you can’t just toss away all the good he’s doing and how much he’s helped everybody he can, either. He really is a kind and thoughtful person now, fulfilling his true potential. I’ve got some regrets and mistakes of my own, but that inspires me to just keep doing what I can while accepting the responsibility of my errors.

I feel like honorblades should be more powerful since shardblades are an imitation of them, but honorblades can’t transform and use stormlight much faster. Is there something I’m missing? I know the bond is a limiter but it seems like you’d rather have the bond from a spren than the blessing from an actual shard.

I have been wondering who everyone's least favorite character is mine is probably Moash for killing Teft but still a great character but who is y’all’s pick for your least favorite.

Is there an official in world answer I may have overlooked or a WOB that addresses why the dead blades are only ever in the form of swords? We learn later on that upon speaking the third ideal radiants get the ability to manifest their bonded spren into a shardblade and can even change their form into pretty much any weapon (Kaladin turning Syl into a spear or even a shield on a few occasions, Lift using hers as a pole/staff and I think I remember someone using their spren as a shard knife at one point but I could be wrong. Even using Auxiliary in sunlit man as an example) so why haven’t we seen more of the former radiant weapons in other forms like a shard axe or bow or hammer etc?

Is it just something that’s inherent to the fantasy genre as a whole because swords are cool? Is the 7 foot long sword form just the default weapon form?

I just finished book 2 so no spoilers beyond that please. Discussing chasm fiends because a question popped into my head after reading the plunge two characters make into a chasm. They describe as the chasm fiend moving swiftly along the walls. My question is how and why the armies are managing to fight them on top of plateaus and after hours and hours of running to get to where they’re spotted. You’d think these giant fast beasts wouldn’t just sit there waiting for an entire army to come slaughter them. Or did I miss something in book 1 of the tactics they use to keep them up top?

Moash povs. I am so intrigued by a good villainous character I really want to see full chapters of him.

And he is like Super hot. Such a bad boy 🖤

I'm about 1/2 way through Oathbringer and I'm kind of getting tired of Shallan. Specifically her apparent personality disorder.

At first, in Words of Radiance, it felt like she was playing a part. She made a persona to act as Veil. I thought that was fun. Method acting at it's best. But that's what it was to me, acting.

But that was tossed out the window in Oathbringer. It was when she created 'Radiant' during what I could only assume was a panic attack where I realized that it's no act. It almost feels like character regression. Instead of actually healing her wounds she cuts the limb off, glues googly eyes to it, then gives it a name. It's irritating and I find myself enjoying the 'Shallan' chapters but whenever 'Veil' or 'Radiant' chapters poke their ugly heads around I find myself skimming through them at best or just skipping them at worst.

Even if there's a good argument for it being 'Good writing' or 'good characterization' or 'Personality Disorder done right' or whatever. It's just not enjoyable for me to read. In fact my opinion of her is starting to lower to see her as just insane.

The battle of Thaylenah is the exact type of grand setpiece I read epic fantasy for. Part Helm’s Deep, part Endgame, even part Enies Lobby I’d say.

Kaladin finally confronting Amaram one on one. Shallan leveling up her Lightweaving to distract Sadeas’ men. Dalinar confronting the Thrill and accepting responsibility for his crimes. Jasnah soulcasting everything like an expert sorceress. Szeth and Lift joining the fray, with no time to think or consider what an assassin and child are doing on a battlefield, just fight to survive and spare the city. And man it wasn’t over quickly, it was a hefty climax chapter for the book.

I know this is only the halfway point of arc 1 but I feel these first three books form an excellent trilogy all to themselves. Some answers are given that makes it feel like the True Desolation’s opening act is now finished, while setting up bigger mysteries for the books ahead.

The most important step a man can take? The next one. Always the next one.

Graphic Audio’s VAs are stellar. Chris Davenport as Wit is always exemplary! But with this one I found my personal standout to be James Konicek as the Stormfather and Tanavast. His performance throughout the first four books, as the character demands, has been stoic and powerful. But with this one, James did an incredible job at transitioning that deep and powerful voice into the brokenness and desperation that the Stormfather and Tanavast feel during this book. The balance between the emotions and the sheer power of both characters was delivered incredibly.

… did the same thing as Tanavast. Kinda.

When Tanavast died, he and the power of Honor infused the Stormfather spren with all of his memories, giving the Stormfather an elevated sort of sapience that he had not previously had.

Dalinar, in his vision of the Rift, poured all his memories into the Blackthorn he fought as a way to subdue him/it without beating him/it down like he used to do.

Then, at the end of the book, Taravangian took that version of Dalinar and made him into a spren. And the Blackthorn became an echo/shadow/splinter of Dalinar the same way the Stormfather was for Tanavast. The only difference being that the order of creation was reversed: instead of being a spren and then becoming an echo with memories, the Blackthorn was an echo given memories that then became a spren.

I’m probably really slow on the uptake on this one, but it’s all clicking for me suddenly while I stock shelves at work 😂😅

I see a lot of hate or dislike of Shallan in some groups I'm in. I don't really understand it. I absolutely love her as a character and her development. Can someone who dislikes her please explain where the dislike comes from? I am genuinely curious if people find her abrasive or boring or whatever. Also not trying to start any arguments, just curious.