#Shallan x Syl

[khrossbow]

Borrowed Muse, Cosmere Fanfiction

Rated Teen, Shallan Davar/Sylphrena

Shallan wants to make sketches of the other orders of Radiant spren, while Syl is looking to find a romantic interest for Kaladin. Their interests align for one perfect evening, until the Windrunner leaves abruptly, leaving the unlikely duo with only each other for company, and a sketchbook waiting to be filled. Still, the night is young, and the conversation flows like new colors mixing, creating something neither of them expected.

[cosmerelists]

Stormlight Characters! Adolin and Kaladin are dating! How do you react?

Previously, we imagined how characters would react if Kaladin & Shallan were dating. But what if it were instead Adolin & Kaladin? (And don’t worry, poly shippers, the full trio will eventually come!)

Shallan: ...

Shallan: Well, my ex may be dating my crush.

Shallan: But neither of them are secretly an assassin who poisoned me!

Shallan: I think my dating game is getting better!

Dalinar: I knew what I was risking when I hired a hot bodyguard for my sons.

Dalinar: ..to be honest, I thought it would be Renarin.

Syl: Well...Adolin may be a shardbearer...but he can also bully Kaladin into going out...

Syl: Yeah! I’m on board!

Maya: [slowly gives a thumbs up]

Renarin: I’m so happy that you’ll be part of Bridge Four now too, brother!

Jakamav: A highlord? Dating a darkeyes??

Jakamav: Er...a darkeyed Knight Radiant, I guess? Or does that make him a lighteyes? Sometimes?

Jakamav: THE SOCIAL SYSTEM IS IN SHAMBLES

Moash: I can’t believe Kaladin is dating a lighteyes!

Moash: [deep breath] Unchained...unchained...unchained...

Amaram: I have to take credit for this.

Amaram: If I hadn’t forged Kaladin, he never would have become the sort of man who could stand beside Adolin.

Amaram: Why is everyone looking at me like that?

Sadeas: Sure, if Adolin wants to date my former bridgeman slave, I guess it’s his reputation to ruin.

Ialai: (murmuring) That line would play better before the youth became a Knight Radiant and saved everyone.

Sadeas: I know! I know!

Hesina: Our son is practically a highlord now! And to think we thought Laral was his only chance!

Lirin: (muttering) Still a waste of surgery skills.

Sigzil: Kaladin leaping into an arena to fight off four other men to get Adolin suddenly feels...symbolic.

Skar: Nice, Captain! Now you’re extra manly like Drehy!

Zahel: Well, maybe they’ll BOTH bother me less, now.

Zahel: ...or will they bother me TOGETHER?

Zahel: Did I just become homophobic?

Lewshi: A Windrunner? Dating someone who cannot fly?

Lewshi: I suppose Kaladin could carry him. In some sort of harness.

Navani: I could make that!

Adolin: AUNT NAVANI NO

[turttastic]

Ranking potential Kaladin fates from best to worst in my opinion. Obviously this is just my personal feelings:

Desirable Outcomes:

1: My Ideal World:

Kaladin stays romantically uninvolved, but ends up in a position where he is responsible for kids. Maybe he's a teacher, maybe he raises Shadolin's kids if something happens to them, maybe he raises Oradin. He would be great with kids, he's such a protector and I think the unconditional love of a kid would be good for him personally. He is ideal for a found family setup, honestly, and I don't particularly want to see him get paired off with a woman just to create a nuclear family.

2: Impossible but beautiful world:

Kaladin, Adolin, and Shallan polycule. They understand him, they love him, they are both capable of providing him with different types of support and won't be intimidated by his personality. Adolin is an absolutely crucial part of the puzzle here, though. To me, Adolin x Kaladin can work without Shallan, Adolin x Shallan works without Kaladin, but Kaladin x Shallan cannot exist without Adolin because it would be catastrophic.

3. Monster fucker win:

Kaladin ends up in a partnership with Leshwi that is probably somewhat ambiguous but has a distinct romantic undertone to it. They already have a warriors bond and respect/have a vested interest in each others continued survival. There's a deep relationship there for sure. I don't personally see it as romantic but I think it'd work fine if it was. Wouldn't detract from either character.

Neutral Outcomes:

4. The Easy Way Out:

Kaladin finds Tarah again and ends up with her. This feels like the most obvious and perhaps most likely possibility. It's boring, it's uninventive, I don't want to see it happen, but I guess it's fine? It's a nice conclusion to Kaladin learning to live in the present, but it just feels too easy.

5. Windrunner bloodline:

Kaladin gets back together with Lyn. She can do better tbh. I love Kaladin but hes a lot. He also is kind of a traditional type of guy when it comes to gender and relationships I think, and Lyn is the type of woman who wants to break away from tradition. They just don't fit to me. Only reason this happens is because they specifically want Kaladin to marry a Windrunner and have kids that seem destined to be Windrunners also until they're not.

6. Blaze of Glory:

Kaladin dies in book 5 saving someone else. It would be so so so upsetting for this to happen and unfair to Kaladin personally but it wouldn't butcher his character at least. Like it would suck, I would go catatonic, but it'd be like Vin and Elend dying. It seems like a believable fate for him to meet, as heartbreaking as it is.

Bad Outcomes:

7. White Woman Jumpscare:

Kaladin ends up with Laral. What can i even say about this. Childhood friends to enemies to strangers to Kaladin pitying Laral in a way that really pissed her off because of how condescending and patronizing it was. I don't want them together.

8. Chrom's fate:

Kaladin gets married to a random, unimportant woman between books 5 and 6 solely for the purpose of creating plot relevant children that will likely ultimately be used to hurt him.

9. Depressed together:

Adolin dies and Shallan ends up with Kaladin. Any outcome where Adolin dies is unacceptable to me but thus one especially. I love Kaladin. I love Shallan. I love them both in a relationship with Adolin, mutually or separately. But they cannot under any circumstances be allowed to date just each other. They understand each other's trauma and are drawn to each other, but neither of them is capable of helping the other process their trauma while also dealing with their own feelings. It's a relationship destined to crash and burn from my perspective.

10. Hell and hate on planet Roshar

Syl takes a physical form and gets romantically involved with Kaladin. Literally the worst possible thing I can imagine happening to either of them. Their souls are bound together, they are vital to one another, and they love each other, but not Like That. It's closer to a sibling relationship than anything. This particular situation could only arise from a gross misunderstanding of their relationship as its been developed thus far.

[blankensnappeas]

Miraculous Ladybug x Stormlight Archive AU - Still figuring out how I want to draw Kaladin period but I had the epiphany- I needed this AU. I dont have any grand ideas outside of who's who Ive only finished pt1 of book 2 so i may change some of these later but was thinking Shallan as Ladybug, Pattern as Tikki, Dalinar as the snake holder and Adolin as the tiger holder

Dialogue for readability- Syl: "What's wrong, Kal?" Kaladin: "I'm nothing, but bad luck..." Syl: "Oh, that's not true." Kaladin: "But it is! I'm literally the holder of the Black Cat Miraculous." Syl: "Yes, and by that logic, wouldn't that make me the source of all your troubles?" Kaladin: "WAIT NO-!"

@ascetic-orange For you since you asked! Reference used by @adorkastock

[lamaery]

Third Wheel

More Shallan and Adolin dating. Also I have been painting so many happy versions of Kaladin lately (and yes, he can use and always deserves more), but thought it not wrong to add an appropriately grouchy one...

[call-me-oluss]

[luchibelle-throughthecosmere]

Shallan and Adolin's wedding night, the party is over and they retreat to their new room, Pattern follows behind at some distance unnoticed.

Adolin: *enters the room after his wife and closes it*

Shallan: *kissed Adolin loudly*

Pattern: *is about to say NO MATING*

Syl, appears out of thin air: *wishpers* Shhh, keep quite!

Pattern: *starts* But...

Syl, grinning: *whispers* This is our chance to figure out how mating works!

Pattern: Hmmm

[worldwithinworld]

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#5

Possible Cover Art for Dalinar's Book

Oathbringer: My Glory...

and My Shame

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55 notes - Posted June 11, 2022

#4

Oathbringer, Chapter 6 “Four Lifetimes”

66 notes - Posted March 9, 2022

#3

dalinar’s like, “why is adolin acting like this? it must be shallan’s fault.” my brother in honor, you killed his mom

152 notes - Posted March 14, 2022

#2

I think it’s so funny that Hesina scandalized her family by marrying a surgeon. Oh, the shame!

181 notes - Posted March 19, 2022

My #1 post of 2022

Just after the last of the Stormlight minis ship out to the backers, Sanderson will discover that the KOWT draft simply doesn't work and a drastic rewrite is necessary. The biggest casualty of this rewrite will be Zellion who will wind up completely cut from the Cosmere except for the mysterious minis. Forever after, the only explanations for who the character is will come from tumblr lore.

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[obsessedwithallthingsbooks]

The Stormlight Archive rated by Kaladin x Happiness

The Way of Kings: are you kidding me? a disgusting, DISGUSTING display of Kaladin x Happiness. this book is the reason why we NEED Kaladin x Happiness. if i have to give it a rating higher than 0, it gets a 1, and that is ONLY because Kaladin gets to close his eyes and smile for two seconds in the very last CHAPTER of the book (out of over 1,000 pages!!). 1/10. 0.5/10. an atrocity.

Words of Radiance: here, we see a lot of angry Kaladin. which is only fair. the guy’s been through a lot; he has every right to be bitter about it. cut him some slack, he’s learning. he’s out of bridge four, so he’s not facing death every day. unfortunately, light-eyed society makes Kaladin want to kill himself almost more than book 1 did. branderson!! let!!! him!!! sleep!!! he hasn’t closed his eyes since The Way of Kings ended, and it took him 1,000 pages to get him to that point! back to Kaladin Having a Shit Time, as Usual: Kaladin’s enemy has been embraced by his new-found ally, and dare I say dad hero? Dalinar isn’t great at decisions. I would also say he’s learning, but *looks at Oathbringer* he’s not. the ending is great for character development, but is it great for Kaladin x Happiness? let’s see: imprisonment? No. Syl almost dying, with it being Kaladin’s fault? N O. Kaladin getting his rib’s broken by a Certain Bitch? N O! However, the very, very end is good. Kaladin gets to save everybody, kill a bald bitch, learn some new lessons and some new vocab, sLEEP, AND SMILE? 2.5/10. 

Oathbringer: I’m conflicted. What I have to say here is that Brandon Sanderson, though I love him, is mean. The beginning is great. Kaladin going home? getting his third hug in the entire series and aCTUAL COMFORT? Learning he has a brother? man. oh man. i tear up thinking about it. what a good boy. pUNCHED ROSHONE IN THE FACE AND BOSSED HIM AROUND (side note, but Kaladin giving out orders he isn’t supposed to is my FAVORITE). the beginning is the most beautiful display of Kaladin x Happiness we’ll ever see. then, Kaladin makes more friends! i didn’t touch on this much in Words of Radiance because let’s be real, Kaladin was not buddy buddy with Shallan and Adolin for a good while. he’s adjusted in this book. anyway, Kaladin’s meeting parshmen and getting their perspective, flying around with Syl and listening to her discover what sex is, flying the king and co. to kholinar, befriending lighteyes (he’s come so far), and . . . see, i remember reading this book. and i remember vividly thinking, ‘he’s realized he’s been so mean to Kaladin. he’s giving Kaladin a break.’ lITTLE DID I KNOW. LITTLE DID I FUCKING KNOW. tHAT “BREAK” WAS JUST BUILD-UP TO BREAK (get it, a break for a break) KALADIN FURTHER. i-- i-- am still. to this Day. Upset. how fucking dare you, brandon. i don’t even have to say what happened. we all know. the very end is good, Kaladin gets comfort by not having to save anyone (”Maybe it’s time for someone to save you” yOU BET YOUR ASS IT IS--), though his PTSD from watching his friends kill each other and Moash pull a Moash is pretty ignored. i don’t necessarily mean ignored as in ‘no one fucking noticed’ because adolin was supportive, there’s just no consolation. like, does the dude even get a hug from anyone but Syl? No. Kaladin x Happiness exists in this book: the beginning is sweet while the end’s bittersweet. Kaladin can close his eyes, Bitcharam’s dead (though the matter regarding Rock is another problem), Kaladin’s fully embraced Bridge Four, a certain Bald Bitch is Back (but we like him now). the problem is that Kaladin x Happiness in this book feels like a betrayal since we know it’s serving the purpose of leading towards breakage. However, with the resolution, and the fact that Kaladin x Happiness actually existed in this book (even though it was wickedly used as a plot device for the inevitable NOTP of Kaladin x Misery), I’m going to give this book a 4/10 in terms of Kaladin x Happiness, though it’s a tentative answer. 

[dreamerinsilico]

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The first character I first fell in love with: Syl!

The character I never expected to love as much as I do now: Definitely Adolin. He originally just kind of read as a boring dudebro to me, but when he starts interacting more with people who aren’t his father (especially Kaladin and Shallan), his kindness and sense of justice really start showing and it’s Great.

The character everyone else loves that I don’t: Dalinar, sorta, probably?  I definitely like him less than the average seems to be.

The character I love that everyone else hates: Jasnah is my Favorite, and while she is some others’ Favorite as well, we seem to be a very small minority.  I’ve seen more hate for her than any other PoV character besides Moash (but there’s no controversy about #fuckmoash).

The character I used to love but don’t any longer: Can’t think of any; while love for characters can grow on me, I seldom lose it once I have it.

The character I would totally smooch: Jasnah

The character I’d want to be like: also Jasnah,  And Eshonai, probably?  Eshonai’s pretty awesome.

The character I’d slap: Oh, probably Dalinar.  Ooh, or Szeth.  Definitely Szeth. I feel bad for him frequently, but it seems like he kinda needs it.  Also, Taravangian.

A pairing that I love: I’m not super into shipping in Stormlight, but I’m definitely here for Shadolin and Shakalodin.  I kinda want Jasnah to have a girlfriend, but don’t presently see any options that make sense there.  And I ship all the Radiants x Mental Health and Stability, because reasons.

A pairing that I despise: I don’t know of any ship people actually have that I despise, but I don’t like Jasnah/Shallan past Shallan maybe having a crush (which I totally buy, but I almost always dislike mentor/pupil shipping in general).

[cosmerelists]

Stormlight Characters! Kaladin & Shallan are dating! How do you react?

Syl: WOO-HOO!!!

Pattern: Mmmm…twice as many spren chaperones to prevent mating now…

Adolin: …

Adolin: I mean, it only makes sense.

Adolin: He can fly.

Radiant: I cannot fault the choice of a Windrunner as a partner. But isn’t he a bit, you know…raggedy?

Veil: So, uh, is the ‘only date one personality at a time’ a hard rule or….?

Radiant: Veil!!

Tyn: Weird. This is the third time that ‘Horneater Princess’ con has turned out that way.

Rock: Horneaters are irresistible.

Tyn: ...Gotta remember that.

Lirin: Excellent. An artist like Shallan may help turn my son away from the path of violence and death.

Hesina: [whispering]

Lirin: She’s killed HOW MANY PEOPLE?!

Teft: You know, I wondered why it took Kaladin so long to get back from falling into the chasms…with Shallan…

Balat: Well done, Small One. He seems like a...good man.

Jushu: Kinda odd, though. He keeps trying to introduce us three to something called “therapy.”

Lopen: Lemme know if you need to impress her, gon! My cousins can hook you up with the BEST gifts for ANY occasion!

Moash: Somehow…I am even less unchained…

Jasnah: Well, it was only a casual with Adolin, but I still can’t help but feel this is some sort of rebellion. Against me.

Navani: Not everything Shallan does is about you, Jasnah.

Jasnah: I know, I know.

Navani: …just the bisexuality.

Jasnah: The what now?

Hoid: Really?? But that would mean that an arranged marriage….failed? In a Sanderson book? Impossible!

Sigzil: …Um, Hoid, what are you talking about?

Hoid: Don’t worry about it! <3

Sigzil: How did you pronounce that?!

[botanicaxu]

Stormlight Archive x Harry Potter parody poster

Oh my... I did this! One dream fulfilled! Characters and elements are from The Way of Kings, as a parody to the movie poster of Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone.

Yer a Radiant, Kaladin. — Teft

Parallels (Not necessarily):

Harry - Kaladin, Dumbledore - Dalinar, Hermione - Shallan, Ron - Adolin, Snape - Sadeas, McGonagoll - Jasnah, Hagrid - Teft, Hedwig - Syl, Hogwarts - Shattered Plains, Hogwarts Express - Chull wagon, Floating candles - Lifespren & Windspren

[dreamingofstrangerworlds]

Kaladin x Happiness

After finishing Oathbringer I was pretty bummed that Kal didn’t end up with Shallan. I tend to favor the angsty ship. But Adolin is just such a sweet little bean I can’t even be mad! I’m with Syl where I really just want Kaladin to be happy, and to have some companionship. 

[nightblink]

Blink Reads Oathbringer - Chapters 94-99

In which I yell about many things, from Dalinar to worldhoppers, and go on a semi-long rant about how Syl is severely misunderstanding Kaladin’s need for emotional intimacy.

Also, fyi, this Best of Dark Souls Series Soundtrack mix is A+ atmosphere for the whole of Part Four thus far.

Chapter Ninety-Four – A Small Bottle

Another sketch-page before the chapter, this time detailing Types of Vorin Wines. Thank you Sanderson for giving us these little worldbuilding tidbits~

[winces] Seven years ago, and Dalinar was an angry stumbling mess of an addicted, alcoholic drunkard. He's not even functional.

They discovered the Parshendi on that hunting trip and Dalinar still hasn't been to see the Nightwatcher? Daaamn, that trip was a lot later after Evi died than I'd previously imagined. Dalinar's trying to suppress an absurd amount of self-loathing under all that drinking and it's tearing him apart – he was psuedo-functional on the trip but it just reminded him of being the Blackthorn so much that he's basically trying to drown out all memory of that now too

!!! Adolin and Renarin were both on the trip where the Alethi came across the Parshendi!

'Her hair. Her judgmental eyes.' How much of your anger and guilt and self-hatred have you been taking out on your sons, Dalinar.

...you did not just fucking refer to Renarin, your own son, as 'the invalid'. You… ooooo, but I want to STRANGLE you right about now. And then you scream at them on top of that?

Oh, Renarin. First coming back, facing him, giving him the bottle, and then pulling him in for a hug. Dalinar, you think 'timid', but what the hell is braver than what your son is doing right now, huh?

Dalinar… Dalinar practically hated his sons - for how much they reminded him of Evi, for how much they cared - during the worst stages of his grief and alcoholism. Good god. It’s no wonder that this entire family is broken right through to the core.

'Why hadn't the boys learned to hate him back? They should hate him. He deserved to be hated.' This is the realization, isn't it. This is the turning point that finally tipped you over the edge into deciding to visit the Nightwatcher – the love of your sons, the way that Renarin (brave, unshaken Renarin) holds you as you cry.

Chapter Ninety-Five – Inescapable Void

Well that's not an ominous chapter title at all. :|

“the powers of all Surges compounded in one” sounds like one of the most terrifying concepts in the Cosmere. There's a reason that there's no Radiants with all the Surges like there are Mistborn with the ability to burn all metals – they're already too disgustingly OP. To think that there might be an Unmade with all the Surges compounded? Uhhhhh, wh a t. Also what's this about swallowing a gemstone to- wait. Wait. Yelig-nar was the one that Aesudan said “serves me”. Fuuuuck fuck fuckity fuck-

Kaladin is a seething pot of barely-contained emotion right now, even moreso than usual, which is saying something. It's no wonder he's attracting angerspren – he feels that he's abandoning people that he should be protecting, down to the last breath, if need be, and that feeling's only heightened by the fact that they fled from a scene where he couldn't save anyone.

Shallan's too mentally and emotionally exhausted to devote energy to feeling much right about now, and Adolin's in full 'Grieve later. Keep moving. Reach the next goal.' mode. To Kaladin, it doesn't look like they care because they're not outwardly showing any hurt, and that just makes him angrier-

And he's holding onto that even if he knows he's wrong. Because his depression is coming back with a forceful vengeance, and The Wretch is a looming grey fog in the back of his mind just waiting to consume him. 'Life going well? The darkness would whisper that he was only setting himself up for a bigger fall. Shallan glances at Adolin? They must be whispering about him. Dalinar sends him to protect Elhokar? The highprince must want to get rid of Kaladin.' I… shit. Those two lines are a punch in the gut, that is e x a c t l y what it feels like; no matter how much you try to logically convince yourself otherwise, it doesn't matter, because the numbness and the grey and the loneliness are all too overwhelming… damn, I need a moment.

Kaladin, it wasn't your fault. His death wasn't your fault.

'There was an insufferable spring to his step, like he was actually excited by this terrible place.' Oh, Kaladin, how utterly and absolutely wrong you are…

'Awful, terrifying perspective. He could see too many sides.' How to protect people when they're all intent on killing each other, goals diametrically opposed? No good answer. I'll bet his agony over this is going to feed into his next Oath as a Radiant, like his realization over Elhokar did in the last book.

Huh. Shadesmar has Actual Plant Life. Why, and how?

This place, with its eternally dark sky, is far too like the feel of his depression for Kaladin to fight back against the Wretch of his depression right now.

I'm trying to decide whether the continual referral to the spren of Adolin's sword as Adolin's spren is for sheer convenience and writing flow, red herring, or if it's actually hinting at something. Knowing Sanderson, it could be any of those.

Note: the city of the Honorspren was/is “far to the west”

!!! Syl was bonded before?! So, she was 'born' just before the Recreance, and barely had time to really know her bonded before he died. She 'wasn't ready' for the bond – too young, perhaps, even as spren measure these things (however they measure it).

“Spren normally weather the death of their Radiant...” ORLY.

So Syl was asleep for about a thousand years, then lived in the city of the Honorspren for aroud three thousand before she “heard” the call of Kaladin's emotions and left to find him – and it was specifically him that she left (snuck away from) Shadesmar for.

“I suppose the wind is always there somewhere, so they don't fade like passions do.” ….that's important. She's referring to 'passions' like 'emotions', but the fact that that specific word was used is significant in its choice.

Chapter Ninety-Six – Pieces of a Fabrial

That's not a POV-indicator-symbol that we've seen before.

“Yelig-nar is said to consume souls” uhhhhh, that's not good, even if it turns out to be inaccurate in the details

NAVANI IT'S A NAVANI CHAPTER oh yes good this is good, we'll get a perspective on Urithiru right now that's not Dalinar's, and maybe even a peek from the outside at Dalinar himself

Cultural note: 'On the day of the first meeting of monarchs at Urithiru, Navani made each person – no matter how important – carry their own chair. The old Alethi tradition symbolized each chief bringing important wisdom to a gathering.”

Of course Dalinar just tried to bring a stool. That's quintessential Dalinar right there.

Oh shit oh shiiiiit – she'd once been told that Jasnah was dead, but then Jasnah returned… there's not going to be the same conclusion for Elhokar. He's very definitely dead, and even if Navani hears of it, she'll still probably hold out hope. She'll keep on hoping for longer than healthy, I'll bet, because if she was proven wrong once then why can't her denial be right this time as well…

LOPEN. LOPEN OH MY GOD I'M CACKLING.

Bridge Four is convinced that Kaladin's disappearance is nothing more than a minor setback, and what reason do they have to believe otherwise? He's never really shared his breakdowns or deeper insecurities with the rest of them – or ever intentionally shared them at all – and he's always come back after getting knocked down. There's no reason they shouldn't be optimistic, for all they know.

Poor Gawx, having to sit in a meeting like this before all the heads of state; he's at least gotten a bit of experience under his belt, but he's still woefully outclassed.

Renarin. Oh man, you don't look like you're taking Adolin's disappearance well. HAH JASNAH BROUGHT A STOOL WHEN DALINAR COULDN'T. It is padded though; she at least gives more thought to comfort than he does. But where are Sebarial and Palona?

Ooooo, Ialai. Deliberately thumbing her nose at both Navani's order – Kholin orders – and the chair-tradition itself. Is she planning something specific at the moment, or just subtly displaying her refusal of respect?

[hums] So Navani realizes that she and everyone else still think of Malata as Taravangian's; that's good. We haven't seen any indication of her working as “Dalinar's” Radiant at all. Though she's sometimes worked the Oathgate, she hasn't actually worked her way in amongst the rest of the Radiants, and all we've seen of her is a small glimpse when she spoke to Shallan. Otherwise, she's still an enigma.

Lift is beating Rock in an eating contest. You go girl; show him how it's done.

Navani, Dalinar is probably not capable of leading the meeting at this point in time. It's terrible timing, but that can't be helped. You're the Dowager Queen, you can do this.

Ffffffft, Sebarial and Palona-

SEBARIAL PLZ

Note: Navani is fluent in Azish.

Hoooo boy, and we're immediately knee-deep in Politics. Emul wants the threat from Tukar gone and the awakened Parshmen back under their control, Gawx/Azir is in over his head, Tashikk wants to discuss regulation of the Oathgates, Natan would like the Gate on the Shattered Plains now please and the Alethi out, Thaylenah wants “free” (favorable for them) trade, Yezier wants- wait what do you mean Iri and Rira “seem to have fallen in with the enemy”? Do you mean the Tukari God-King, or Odium? I can only imagine it's the former.

Who knows where the tech for half-Shards is at right now or how/how quickly they can make them – they'd give an enormous edge against the Unmade, but production is probably not viable at the moment for use in the armies.

Yeaaaah, you have way better tech now, since you've actually have the time after Aharietiam to settle down and invent things without being plunged into Desolation after Desolation.

…. “Abandoned.” He's not wrong. The Radiants did abandon them all, their duty, and their bonded spren. Dalinar swears it won't be the same, but precedent tells them otherwise, and what reason have they to trust these Radiants and the awesome powers that they now wield?

IALAI. GODDAMN IT. [drags hands down face] YOU COMPLETELY AND EFFORTLESSLY NUDGED THE CONVERSATION IN SUCH A WAY AS TO DISCREDIT WHAT DALINAR AND NAVANI ARE ACTUALLY TRYING TO DO.

She's very, very good at what she does, you have to admit.

And now the whole thing is degrading down into arguments and thrown barbs. Thankfully, Navani's got this. Years as Queen and negotiating/maneuvering through social situations has prepared her, and she's got the sort of analytic mind that can turn such a gathering into a Problem To Be Solved.

A Problem To Be Solved by each nation playing to their strengths: Azish organization – she's right, they'll all need a common set of laws to work under if they're all going to work together in this sort of unity; international trade to the Thaylen government (no matter how much Sebarial may choke on his snacks over that decision); and the Alethi… “Well, we do excel at one thing.” Very true. Generals and armies it is.

So it's the Fused that have Iri, as well as bases of power in Marat and Alethkar.

So they've locked the Kholinar Oathgate from Urithiru – no chance of the four lost in Shadesmar to get through to Urithiru using the Kholinar Gate somehow, then, even if they did manage to un-Corrupt the Gatespren.

[breaths out] Azir agreeing to send help is a huge show of solidarity as well as perhaps even a burgeoning trust – or, at the very least, respect. This alliance between the major nations might actually have a chance of working. I'm still leery, as this has the chance to go very, very badly, but… there's a chance.

You… you don't need the Blackthorn, Navani. Nobody needs the Blackthorn (and you really shouldn't want him either) – you need Dalinar Kholin. Problem is, he's… broken. Like the rest of the Radiants. He'll never be ““fixed””, but he can take a step forward again. He's just not there yet, not with what he's newly remembered.

Chapter Ninety-Seven – Riino

“Of the Unmade, Sja-Anat was most feared by the Radiants.” Um, fuck? F u ck? And the entry says that she can only corrupt 'lesser' spren, but considering the fact that she's corrupted the Oathgate-spren, she's very likely grown stronger in the intervening years.

Psuedo-flashback for Kaladin again – '[He] remembered holding a dying woman's hand.” Who had gotten caught in what's essentially a bear trap as he tried to lead a slave escape. This is not boding well for his state of mind.

'What other simple, stable parts of his life were complete lies?' It's not that it's technically a lie, it's just that people didn't know enough about spren to be informed, but of course with the way Kaladin's thinking right now, when everything is turned to the negative and he's feeling trapped and along, of course it feels like lies, or the world mocking him.

Ooop, he's been found out. But… it doesn't look bad? Not really? (YET. NO GUARANTEE. SUSPICION AT ALL TIMES RIGHT NOW.)

Even if you were able to wear your Veil-personality right now, Shallan, you and therefore she still know nothing about actual scouting, and Veil's “streetwise-ness” and confidence won't help anything in that regard.

Unlike Kaladin, she might actually have the potential for some measure of healing while they're stuck here in Shadesmar…

“Yeah. Weird stuff.” Syl please. At least you and Pattern seem to be getting along fairly well, as far as things go? From Syl's past descriptions of Cryptics, I'd have thought there'd be more friction between you two.

Mmm, and here's Adolin, making sure she's all right and helping how he feels he can. (The physical contact is probably as much for him as for her, admittedly.)

“He's got battle fatigue, and an objective will help with that.” Mmmmm, yes and no – depression and heavy PTSD are the main factors here, but giving him an 'objective' will at least help a little; not as much as it would someone whose mind works like Adolin's does, though, as we see that Kaladin's scouting just brought up more memories of pain, rather than narrowing to focus on a goal. Either way, keeping an eye on him right now is necessary. The last thing he needs is to be alone on top of feeling alone.

Clothing says a lot about people indeed, and knowing that that's Vivenna… she's Nalthian and probably still has Heightenings, and they go for more saturated shades as a rule. 'Trying to prove something' is spot-on if she hasn't changed too much from how she was in Warbreaker. It's a really good assessment on Adolin's part.

“It didn't fit me anymore.” ….oh. Oh. That's… you're not being literal in the slightest. Damn.

OOOP, CORRUPTED APPROACHING, TIME TO LEAVE

omg the old man's a fortuneteller, and he reads the future from the highstorms. What do those even look like in the Cognitive Realm; does it infuse gems with Investiture like in the Physical Realm? The destructive winds must not be an issue if Azure/Vivenna told them not to worry…

...that old man should really have a “No Touchie” sign on that thing if he doesn't want people to get their fingerprints all over it. Or sucked away into a storm-vision.

A few things in Very Short Order: A) Sja-Anat can speak through her corrupted spren; B) she calls her corruption Enlightening, which is disturbing in and of itself (though really, it sounds like just another instance of The Bad Guys thinking they're In The Right, which, fair); C) there's an informant in Urithiru, but they're not part of Dalinar's inner circle since they passed on the lie that Shallan was an Elsecaller – I can't remember, do Taravangian and Malata know that Shallan's a Lightweaver and not an Elsecaller?; and D) Sja-Anat is still “helping” them, which is weird and I am still very suspicious.

FUUUUUCK, KALADIN'S SEEING A VISION OF THE FUTURE AND IT'S DALINAR IN TROUBLE. At… I think that must be Thaylen City? That'd probably be the only city that fits the description given. GUYS, GUYS YOU'VE GOTTA GET BACK ASAP

[chokes] “Unless...you're Invested. What Heightening are you? No. Something else. Merciful Domi… A Surgebinder? Has it begun again?” uM. UM UM UM. YOU'RE FROM SEL, AND YOU KNOW INVESTED NALTHIANS. AND YOU'RE AWARE THAT ROSHARAN SURGEBINDERS ARE A SIGN THAT SHIT'S ABOUT TO HIT THE FAN.

Haaaaaah, that man's not Shin, Kaladin, even if that's the closest analogue you can think of.

Regarding Wit, nobody's sure what he is.

[SNORTS] Looks like Roshar has yet to invent canning, of all things. That seems like something that would originate from Scadrial.

This time the spren of Adolin's Blade was referred to in that exact manner. Any referral to her as 'Adolin's spren' is probably just for flow of writing, then.

….why didn't you want to come into the lighthouse, Syl? Old memories, a bad feeling?

[winces] Rathalas. The Rift. And Adolin doesn't know the truth of what really happened to his mother there. I'm… I'm actually frightened to see what's going to happen when he does learn the true story.

I was right, it is Thaylen City he saw, and yeah, theoretically they should be able to transfer back via the Oathgate (if they can figure out how) – better to go there than to the Peaks if the danger Kaladin foresaw is slated to happen sooner rather than later. There's also been the insinuation that something weird, even wrong, is happening on the Peaks, so going there might not be the best idea anyway.

And right afterwards Shallan seconds that suspicion about the Peaks. Yeaaaaah. Try for Thaylen City.

[hums] Well, there's a good distraction for him to try to focus on. Protect Dalinar. It won't do much to quell his depression, but it's helping, and he needs all the help he can get right about now.

!!! Those ship-pullers sound REALLY COOL – like giant winged eels, almost! 'Traveling in style' indeed.

Chapter Ninety-Eight – Loopholes

“Abandon a city if the spren start acting weird.' YEAH, WELL, FAILED STEP ONE. Okay, so 'Sja-Anat was often regarded as an individual, when others – like Moelach or Ashertmarn – were seen as forces.' More along the lines of proper sentience rather than the personification/embodiment of a particular force or feeling, like Ashertmarn's Revel.

[sighs] The Desolation is definitely on its way, if not already here, Skybreakers. Gotta wait for that Heraldic Confirmation, though.

SURGEBINDER PAINTBALL. Oh this is gonna be fun

So. Shinovar trains people (warriors?) with the Honorblades – and they have all the rest save for Taln's and Jezrien's? And Szeth was one of them, flying the winds since he was young. Damn, that makes it all the more impressive that Kaladin bested him! Hmm, looks like Honorblades also use more stormlight for the Surges they give than a Radiant of that order would utilise for the same.

For once, in all the time we've seen him, Szeth is enjoying himself. That's nearly a miracle all it's own.

...and then immediately feels guilty for feeling happy.

[amused] Denth was better than Vasher at swordsmanship, sure, but “isn't any good with the sword” is just hilarious when they both had a few thousand(?) years both to hone their skill.

“And nobody should ever let him get too close.” No kidding. Whatever experience these older squires have, they're still up against the man who is/was The Assassin in White.

That's a funny sight right there, though – the graceful arc in front of the last glimmer of sunset, and POOFPOOFPOOF he gets nailed by all those who have dust pouches left. Almost there!…but not quite.

um. UM. Is that.. are those highspren? Slashes in the air, gaps into the void of space?

HAH. Loopholes indeed.

!!! Heyyyy, Nale is back! Where's you go on your retreat away after the craziness in Edgedancer, Nale? And did you find what you were looking for?

“It is time for you to learn the two greatest secrets that I know.” WH A T. TELL US TELL US TELL US-

Chapter Ninety-Nine – Reachers

Sketchpage at the beginning of the chapter is excellent. GIANT FLYING EEL-DRAGON-SPREN FTW – called “mandras” in Shallan's side notes

This 'Nergaoul' sounds like The Thrill, save that it's only the Alethi that are affected,rather than both sides of a single battlefield. Did the Unmade somehow figure out how to transfer its power through human genetics, rather than needing to be in the general area to spread/activate its power?

Back to Shadesmar, and to Kaladin struggling with the suffocating blanket of darkness that his depression is strangling him with.

Lightspren = called Reachers, look like “humans with strange bronze skin”, “metallic, as if they were living statues”. I'm wondering if these spren might have any connection with the Iri(-Riran?) genetic weirdness of metallics

...what the hell is up with Syl? Did she have Shallan Lightweave her? Can she change colour at will as well as shape? Is she trying to make the other spren believe that she's human?

And what's up with the vibrating copper plating on the ship? Some sort of guideline?

“Foreign technology.” I'm betting that orb that the lighthouse-keeper had is some sort of Selish device.

The 'Stone of Ten Dawns'. Kaladin, you mention that like it's supposed to be common knowledge, or at least common mythology. Is this another one of those like the 'Honor's Drop' or whatever-it-was that was mentioned in a chapter header some time ago?

Kaladin apparently doesn't know what condensation is…? Or at least how you can utilize temperature to make it happen. Using such a method to get water is probably a foreign concept on Roshar, considering the highstorms – they don't have any deserts on the planet so far as we can tell.

I'm with Syl on this one, Kaladin, riding one of those flying spren sounds awesome.

“Where's your sense of adventure?” “I dragged it out back and clubbed it senseless for getting me into the army.” KALADIN PLZ (at least he's feeling better enough to snark without much rancor?)

So Syl is under a Lightweaving. Are honorspren really so rare as to attract that much attention – and bad attention at that?

[throws hands into the air] He doesn't need a girlfriend/boyfriend, Syl, he needs a FRIEND. I- you've been sort of getting the hang of human arrangements and emotions but you don't have a good enough grasp on them to understand what your human really needs right about now. Would it be great if he could go and talk to Shallan and start to get to actually know her? YES. That'd be GREAT. But shoving him into a romance that you think he needs, especially as he still has an idealized version of her in his head right now? Bad idea. You're encouraging some of the right things – talking to her – for the wrong reasons/goals.

I love Syl, I really do, but I have issues with how she's been acting throughout much of this book when it comes to Kaladin and interpersonal relationships – not even just with Shallan, but like that time back in Alethkar when she was suggesting he get laid. Kaladin and Syl need to sit down and have a long talk about human relationships/emotions/everything.

[drags hands down face] HE NEEDS A CLOSE FRIENDSHIP WITH SOMEONE WHO ISN'T A SUBORDINATE, SYL. EQUALS. HE DOESN'T HAVE TO BE ROMATICALLY OR PHYSICALLY INTERESTED FOR THAT TO HAPPEN AND FOR HIM TO GET THE EMOTIONAL CLOSENESS HE NEEDS.

Ooo, another mention of the mysterious Tarah – who we still know next to nothing about.

Looks like Shallan knows what condensation is! Makes sense. That must have just been something beyond the scope of Kaladin's learning – though making water that way would be very useful for surgeons, as it's probably the cleanest water they can manage on Roshar, untouched by crem.

Oh noooo, poor seasick Azure-Vivenna…

!!!!! These mandras – the 'luckspren' – they're what allow greatshells to grow to immense size, beyond what even the lower gravity and higher atmospheric oxygen ratio allow? (It's good to see Shallan getting all excited about biology and… spren-ology or whatever it may be called… like she used to, back before she started distinctly splitting personalities to cope with her remembered trauma.)

“I'm mysterious.” “I used to think you were. Then I found out you don't like good puns – it's truly possible to know too much about somebody.” See? See? This banter? You two can become friends, you'd both probably even have fun together – any sort of romantic entanglements need to come far after that though.

Two-ish more days to the city on the Sea (Island) of Spears, then some several more down to Thaylen City – not only is it a longer distance on the map, but they'll have to cross over river-land to get there unless they go around, which makes the journey much, much longer. And there's also the fact that not everyone's on board with the vision he saw and their destination...

That feeling, Kaladin? It's called f r i e n d s h i p. That's why it feels different from your previous, purely-romantic crushes.

I- Kaladin, Kaladin, no. [groans and buries face in hands] I know it might sound nice, especially when the depression is weighing on you like a dark monster on your back, but repression like that is not a good thing. And it's not actually working.

[esseastri]

Megan Reads Oathbringer (part 2)

Onwards and onwards, my friends

Part two encompasses pages 90-144 (previous parts)

Alyx: How did you STOP??? And go to slEEP??? Me: Well, I hit a Shallan chapter, so it actually wasn’t that hard...

Here we go

I’m actually hoping that this book will maybe?? make me like Shallan more?? again? I mean. I’ve had a lot of time to ruminate on the reasons I dislike her, but maybe she’ll get better. maybe she’ll grow. Maybe she’ll realize she‘s been a prejudiced berk and recognize her privilege and I WON’T have to write that essay on why it bothers me when people in fandom pedestal her.

ANYWAY HERE WE GO

I realize the epigraphs are, like...some dude who wrote a book in-universe about the sword, but I can’t help reading it as Brandon talking about this book, in a meta kind of way.

“You can hate me. I understand.” NOOOOOO I WANNA HUG HIM LET ME HUG THIS HUMMING, INCORPOREAL SPREN BOY

BRIGHTLORD BROODING-EYES

PLS CHILD

Me: WTH THEY KNOW SHE’S A LIGHTWEAVER???? WHY IS SHE CALLING HERSELF AN ELSECALL--oh. oh, that makes sense.

Just read the next sentence, Megan, usually, stuff works out.

okay, here’s the thing. We know the Recreance happened. We know the Radiants all gave up their Shards and killed their spren and it’s called the betrayal of humankind, but I’m just curious... if...how do I word this. If the Desolations are connected to there being Radiants around--if the two things are causal and reactionary--then...wouldn’t the Recreance have been a good thing? A thing to stop the Desolations?

I’m just curious how much of their history is revisionist or, you know, lies. Or misinterpretations, at the very least. A lot of their records got wiped out. Repeatedly. I’m just wondering if the record of the Radiants being the good guys was one of those.

Shallan: “It is quite possible to remain properly feminine while fulfilling my duties as a night.” Scout lady: butbutbut...I wanna be butch

Renarin still wearing his Bridge Four uniform makes me haaappyyyyy

THE BOY IS GOOD

“If anyone would be able to go about intimidating forces of nature, it would be you.” I mean. He outdaded the Stormfather by doing exactly this, so.

Radiants working together to do cool things!!!!! AAHH!!!!

I’m genuinely concerned by who we’re going to appoint OUR champion, when Odium’s arrives and we have to do one-on-one combat with it. ‘Cause like....you know Dalinar wants to do that himself. But Adolin is the Dueling Boy. That’s what he does?? And I’m... CONCERN

ooooooooh has Renarin seen the bad champion? nine-shadows man? he seems familiar with the concept at least...

PHEW the Aimian Oathgate was destroyed. Listen, it’s not that I don’t want Aimia to be protected or helped, I just. Don’t. want. 2000-cremlings-in-a-trench-coat just...hanging around.

oh no

oooohhhh noooooo

another?? murder?

I DID NOT SIGN UP FOR MURDER MYSTERY PLOT IN MY EPIC FANTASY

ADOLIN HOLDING SHALLAN’S HAND IS A LOT I’M HERE FOR IT THE MUTUAL COMFORT IS A GOOD

but also: Adolin. my boy. please, it’ll be okay. you will be okay.

“This has to be the same killer” DOES IT THOUGH? What possible reason would Adolin have for continuing a murderspree.

I’m

this is. what, framing? Trying to make it seem like Adolin is doing more bad? Copycat trying to pin their crimes on whoever got Sadeas so it’s rolling into one investigation instead of kept separate?

I’M CONCERN

ABOUT

MY BOY

“She had forgotten he was with them.” Full offense, but how do you just. forget. Renarin exists. Shallan, please.

NO I DON’T WANT THIS

I DON’T

HOW DID I PREDICT THIS I WROTE THIS BECAUSE IT WAS SAD NOT BECAUSE I WANTED IT I DON”T WANT THIS

“You want me...to investigate Sadeas’ murder?” I WANT TO HUG ADOLIN A LOT

I DON’T

DALINAR TRUSTS HIM SO MUCH SO SO MUCH AND I’M

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH

Renarin knows, doesn’t he? He can see the lie...

I’M

Kaladin is smiling and I’m emotional about it.

Kaladin is chuckling and I’m EMOTIONAL ABOUT IT.

The Sylblade!!!! I love it

I also really love the idea of him using the sword as a symbol and then suDDENLY getting into a fight and like...as he swings the sword it turns into a spear. I want this in my life very much.

why would the stormforms steal grain though?

I mean, I get that they need to eat, but like... they’ve been deliberately NOT attacking any of the towns and when the did “attack” it was just to steal grain. Not to hurt people.

tHIS is exactly why I ain’t calling them Voidbringers. Not yet. These are just stormform. Something much worse is coming.

That black sphere is too ominous.

“She must be desperate living out here. I mean, look at you. Hair that hasn’t been combed since you flew across the continent, uniform stained with crem, and that beard.” I REALLY LOVE SYL BUT ALSO: SCRUFFY KALADIN IS HOT AND YOU CAN PRY SCRUFFY KALADIN FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS.

SYL PLEASE

oh no, Syl, don’t ship Shalladin, we all know that’s a bad idea on sooo many levels.

“Yes, well, let’s have somone swing around the corpse of your sisters by the feet, and we’ll see whether you consider it a ‘mark of bad character’ or not.” AAAHHHHHHH OWW

I’m still SO MAD THAT BRANDON KILLED OFF SUREBLOOD. WHAT DID THE BIG ROCK HORSE EVER DO TO YOU, BRANDON

Let Adolin be happy 2k17!

AAHH THE BROS

I LOVE THE BROS IT’S SUCH A POSITIVE SIBLING RELATIONSHIP THEY’RES SO SUPPORTIVE OF EACH OTHER AND SO REASSURING AND AAAHH

I love them

eeyyyyyyyy, Glysblade! EEEYYY REGROWTH!!!!!

YOU GOT THIS, REN, AAHHH

eeyy, punk!Dalinar

omg

he got his Plate by.......kicking. a guy. off a cliff. I’m. DALINAR, PLS.

I MEAN WHEN YOUR GENERAL STRATEGY IS “MORE BRUTALITY SO THAT PEOPLE FALL IN LINE BECAUSE THEY DON’T WANT TO GET PILLAGED” YOU GOT PROBLEMS

no wonder the Alethi aren’t very united. rule by fear is never very successful in the long run.

also, Sadeas can fuck right the hell off oh my god

Admiral Akbar voice: It’s a trap!

oh, hey, I was right

honestly, how the heck did Dalinar survive his wild and misspent youth?

This asshole they’re fighting diDN’T TELL HIS CITIZENS HE WAS GOING TO DROP A CANYON WALL ON THEM?? ?DIDN”T EVACUATE THEM??? WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT KIND OF RULER

I

WHAT A FUCK

AAHH THE ARCHER GUY HE RECRUITED IN THE FIRST FALSHBACK IS TELEB!!!! I’M!!!! EMOTIONAL!!!!!!

“He wouldn’t put it past them to attack him once he was distracted with the duel. It was what he himself would have done.” PUNK!DALINAR WAS KINDA OF A JERK OMG???

um

he didn’t... murder the small child

did he?

what the fuck

Dalinar. what the.

fuck

I’m mad at Dalinar. I’m really mad at him. oh my god. just. THAT’S A BAD YOU DID A BAD AND I REALIZE THAT HE HAD DONE BAD STUFF BUT LIKE. THE KID WAS VERY SMALL, DALINAR. AND I’M DISAPPOINTED IN YOU.

I’m telling you guys, stormform isn’t the final evolution. You gotta level up your parshman to Voidbringer, okay? and to do that, you need to lose x-number of battles with wild voidspren.

I never even played Pokemon, but I sure do know how to make a reference.

The constant theme in this book--at least in Kaladin and Dalinar’s chapters so far--has been “Do better/Be better” and I just...they’re both so good already, in the present, they’re both such genuinely Good human beings, and I just. That they want to be better is just. so. inspiring.

Theylenah has a queen and I have literally just met her and I love her.

I love hheeerrrrr

swearing and being direct and writing things bigger and underlining them to get he tone across, WHAT A DELIGHT I LOVE HER

THEY STOLE THE SHIPS??? whyyyyy

what are they doing where are they going what is the plan here

poor Dalinar. having to do politics.

Elhokar is being a dramatic baby.

Like, he sort of has the right to it, but also: buddy. my dude. my guy. you gotta grow up. I’m sorry. But you really do.

HIGH KING DALINAR THE MAGNIFICENT

I...listen, this is probs a good thing? because Dalinar should be in charge. But also... kiidddooooooo.

OH SNAP This is actually not a bad idea...send Elhokar to go do something useful for his actual kingdom in his actual home... and get a bonus Oathgate out of the deal? This is actually a really sound idea.

tho what radiant r u sending with him

or will we finally admit that he is a radiant.

come ooonnnnn

“Aesudan is there; if the rioting is still happening, she’s fighting against it.” IS SHE THOUGH? ARE YOU ABSOLUTELY SURE SHE’S NOT THE CAUSE??

omg.

Elhokar requesting Kaladin like “he can save the city after I fail” BBY 1. you will not fail!! 2. god, that hero crush. pls.

SEE, just give him purpose and the opportunity to prove himself and he’s actually a very eager puppy of a king.

NOOOOO

NO NO NO NONOOOO OO

THAT ‘S THE WORST IDEA

DON’T BRING HIM HERE

HE’S EEVIIILLLL

NOOOOOO

NOT TARAVANGIAN

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

NO NO

no

less stuff needs to be happening. this was only, like, 50 pages, and I’ve got enough liveblog to post this?? there IS SO MUCH GOING ON IN THIS BOOK OH MY GOSH I LOVE IT

[asongofstarkandtargaryen]

It seems that Syl is a Kaladin x Shallan shipper.