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szeth backstory on the brain fr one of my fave characters in the series for how weird he is. i spent years of my life reading these books and speculating why szeth was named truthless like i assumed it was for an attempted assassination or just spreading the wrong kind of truth but actually getting to wind and truth and learning like. no he almost overthrew the entire system in shinovar. he led a genuine military revolution of the church. it was a doomed effort but it wasn't like he didn't get very close to actually doing it. i am so fascinated by characters whose main characteristic is pure conviction but learning that he's been like that for literally his entire life.....

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coming back online to remind people that it's HIS YEAR and then logging off again

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Rlain got Spiritual Realm internet and immediately knew what he had to google

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i'm reading wat and just got to the part where shallan sees her childhood again and she mentions helaran and how kaladin kills him in a few years which surprised me cause i don't remember kaladin ever telling her he did it?

oh kaladin didn't tell her, he found out helaran was her brother when they were marooned in the shattered plains together but it's adolin who puts it together from kaladin's story and tells her in oathbringer. it's a really quick moment especially because shallan immediately goes "okay im not thinking about that right now i can't think about that right now" and literally never thinks about it on page again

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how's your flight going king?

omg <3 thank you for asking. im extremely disoriented

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Sorta feel like the huge climax of the series is going to be that honor becomes the vessel for all the shards combined again. Or idk maybe something similar has been happening to aondor atm and a bunch of shards are gonna undergo this metamorphosis

all of the shards like. like honor becoming a new adonalsium? i dont know if i can get behind that exactly because honor was already one distinct facet of the former god but i do wonder if cosmere endgame is yeah like a full reintegration. not sure if i love that theory, the shattering to me feels like a no going back type thing (thematically not literally). but we've been seeing new aspects like harmony create themselves out of the old power so like there is something to the idea.

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obviously what really hurt about the way that adolin was injured during the siege of azimir was how similar it was to thaylen field (honestly a lot of what happened this book paralleled thaylen field on purpose) just adolin almost fondly remembering one of the top renarin moments of all time aka taking out that fucking thunderclast and saving his brother <3. but of course this time renarin isn't here and things get bad. but i really feel like adolin remembered that moment of his brother going like "i can do this i can fight this huge fucking monster because i am uniquely qualified for it. i have struggled with feeling useless my whole life but there are parts of me that were made for fighting these things" and went okay how can i use what i am uniquely qualified for to win like ten different unwinnable fights. oh right i can lovingly bully inactive spren into everlasting friendship. or rather until they make me a mobility aid

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can we talk about the fact that thinking of kaladin was what prevented adolin from giving up and letting nihilism take over in his darkest moments this book… kadolin may be uncanon but it lives in the hearts of men

oh my goddddd an insane fucking moment when you take into consideration the amount of times it's kaladin laughing and cursing adolin out for doing the exact same thing. every time he was like (extremely fond) "maybe adolin shouldve come to shinovar he'd actually know what to do. fuck that guy lol"

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yeah as much as i honestly don't know what to make of moash's appearances in this book i will say if you're reclaiming your hashtag evil era and the guy you're obsessed with killing just took on the title of Herald of Second Chances. well.

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kaladin having dark eyes as a herald…..like the class warfare plotline has predictably fallen apart but perhaps we got one (1) win

fully the biggest win of the entire book for me tbh. his big beautiful brown eyes.

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sooo why did tanner and rayse’s dynamic lowkey feel like toxic yaoi…..

bro i completely forgot his name was tanner. i remember getting to that part of the book like 😐 fucking tanner. but not posting anything because it was 1 am and i was like i cant even think about this right now. if he didnt come from a long line of leather workers or something im rioting

but to your point i think that's just rayse i think the inherent aura of rayse is one of toxicity in that way cause he fucking had it with hoid too

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thoughts on adolin and yanagawn bestieism?

i like yanagawn so hooray but my god watching adolin Happen to people. like everyone. with yanagawn it was more like ok, adolin's HAD a 15 yr old younger brother before, this is familiar territory for him, but what he did to may aladar was so unprecedented and scary ive never seen a HATER like her (a hater primed specifically towards him no less) change her tune so goddamn quickly

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in regards to the era 3 thing, as brandon has mentioned that the back half of stormlight is supposed to start after a ten year timeskip that passes as 70-80 years for scadrial and everyone else in the cosmere thanks to roshar’s time dilation, this means SA era 2 coincides with mistborn era 3 rather than era 2 😭 the general impression i got from theories seems to be that TLM is over by the time kelsier and shallan finish talking… i mean in the interim if retribution can truly leave roshar than smth COULD potentially happen in that gap between the stormlight eras but since era 3 of mistborn is the next planned set of stories… i think its lights out for the era 2 crew with the exception of melaan maybe, and it’ll be a new cast of characters who we see get impacted by this new interplanetary war 🥲

oh yeah i totally misinterpreted the kelsier + shallan convo. i just remember that really really really wax coded epigraph from rhythm of war (something about harmony's sword you know) and everyone's ears pricking up like. hold on a minute. but post alloy of law, yeah i feel like melaan is the only character who hasn't like. retired themselves.

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Brandon has said that he literally was not able to add a single extra page to this book, and had to edit a lot out. I feel for both Moash and El he had to go "I really want to focus on these two more but they will have their time in Era 2 and I need to cut SOMETHING". I think the book really could have used an extra 40 pages, insane as that is.

I really enjoyed the book, I liked how much of it was a almost a refute of Elend's mistborn and Dalinars early arcs. The idea of a people needing a tyrant being flawed, and with the entire Jasnah/Odium debate addressing how similar that attitude is to Odiums goals was refreshing.

Also Adolin dodging those death flags is insane I was SO tense with his scenes but he was so good this entire book. Im also so excited for the Jasnah second half arc I think she is set up so well to be a focal point.

.......hm. okay. this is interesting bc if im honest i felt like a lot of big military outfits sections of the book couldve been condensed. dont get me wrong i love a helm's deep type siege situation and sigzil's stuff on the shattered plains was important cause it did kinda foreshadow what happened in thaylen city but man idk. i mean it's cool if you have. i have to stop calling it this. shounen brain like i do like it's fun to read but holds less value than other sections of the book to me.

moash........i see where he could end up im kinda not worried about him as much as i was now that this series has emerged full force as Fantasy Series Of Second Chances but after all that hype and mystery last book yeah im still disappointed with the lack of el. like the teasers in rhythm of war were so insane but it felt like sanderson's priorities might have shifted after writing the ssps. im not complaining bc i love sigzil but if i was reading JUST the stormlight archive and not the greater cosmere id be like what the hell is happening. of course no one is doing this bc stormlight has been illegible without cosmere knowledge since oathbringer but still

the jasnah odium stuff was great, i feel like we really missed stuff like that last book so it was good to see it back in full force. adolin is always a highlight. and yeah boy that book broke jasnah down in a way that i didn't expect but makes for a very interesting second half 😬 haha.

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paying for inflight wifi tomorrow so i can go through my inbox/the wind and truth tag. i need to reprocess

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how I felt starting Wind and Truth:

how I feel nearly finishing Wind and Truth:

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how did you finish WAT in one night 😭?

im a pretty fast reader in general but i was really worried about it lol ive had crazy focus issues lately so i wasn't sure if i could do it. thankfully every time it looked like i was fading my beautiful roommates would cross the living room and pipette small amounts of diet pepsi into my mouth