#Stormlight Archive spoilers

[flameshadowconjuring]

I love how the heralds were actually trying to come up with a way to keep the Oathpact by setting up a rotation, only 5 being in Damnation at a time.

Then Tanavast was just 'nah... I don't vibe with 5. Not symmetric enough. Why don't you guys just betray Taln to a life of eternal torture?'

[honuofhawaii]

Hey so you know how the ideals create this wave of mental clarity, that’s how Dalinar gets a few sane words out of Ishar in RoW and how Kaladin finally gets through to him at the end of WaT. There have been complaints that Kaladin is doing too well in WaT. I’ve seen the explanation that usually we don’t get to see Kaladin’s POV when things are going well mentally, but bc of the compressed timeline of WaT we actually get to see into Kal’s mind when it’s not actively sabotaging him, or at least not as bad as it was in RoW. I think that makes perfect sense. In addition I’m thinking the fourth ideal helped. Like why would it just be external people who get a boost of mental clarity from an ideal. I’m thinking it’s kinda a magical SSRI. Not fixing Kal’s brain, but giving him a boost that he was able to crawl out of the chasm and use his warrior thoughts coping strategies to keep from falling back in. Just a thought. What do you think?

I know I was so relieved not to have Kal in the deep pit of despair that haunted RoW, but I also understand the criticism that it seems like he is too well adjusted.

[honuofhawaii]

Well he’s lost the “still in the original body” part of his argument, though he still will win on regaining a physical body.

Kaladin and Kelsier having a Who Can Survive Harder competition and Kaladin is winning.

[taravangianlistenstothebeachboys]

On the one hand, yeah Adolin would absolutely agree with Colot about that type of shit. I love my boy but he sucks that way. On the other hand it’s not like the book’s interested in really interrogating that, so it does just seem like the books using him to help reinforce that yes, it IS sad when historically privileged people aren’t the beneficiaries of new equalizing modes of power. Plus it puts Adolin’s own angst about suddenly feeling useless in a shitty classed light.

[awesomepossumredux]

Gavilar assassination flashback at beginning of the series: this Totally Cool © guy is being brutally & unfairly murdered at a fun party, who tf would do this?

Gavilar assassination flashback by Wind and Truth: you guys wanna see this lame asshole get his shit rocked again?

[mysterythief]

I only read this much of chapter 14 of Wind and Truth and had to pause to make this meme 😂

[knight-of-skyloft]

LOOK AT THEM LOOK AT MY BOYS

[gallium-spoon]

I've reached the part of Rhythm of War where Kaladin invents group therapy but also refuses to go to group therapy

Kaladin: I think it would be helpful to get a group of people who have been through similar trauma together in a safe calm environment where they could talk to each other. They could support each other and won't feel judged because they've had similar experiences. I think this will work because I've been through some traumatic events and I would benefit from something like that

Kaladin's friends: so you'll be joining this group too right?

Kaladin: Oh. No.

[corvidpolyglot]

hyped to see gavilar die again in sa5! good riddance you fucker imagine how many toxic scientist yuri scenarios navani could've been in without you

[honuofhawaii]

See I suspected the fifth ideal for the Windrunner’s at least was going to be about self care/protection of oneself bc it’s so much easier for someone who is driven to protect others to keep giving until they burn out and then to learn how to pull back.

I also thought it would suck from a story standpoint to have Kaladin’s journey of learning to love himself run counter to his journey as a radiant, stoping him from progressing bc he couldn’t achieve the 5th ideal without destroying himself. While it might have been interesting, having his bond with Syl something that has been a guiding principle to him start to undermine his progress would have been bad.

The fifth ideal is supposed to be really hard to achieve ... almost no radiants ever achieve it from any order. It's been hinted for several books that we might not ever see anyone achieve it. And you know what it finally was when we got to see it happen? *Self-care.* Self-care is the highest virtue one can achieve, the most difficult step in the journey of self-actualization. Sanderson just put us all in blast. You have to take care of yourself if you want to keep taking care of others. It's that simple.

[luchibelle-throughthecosmere]

Might have connected some dots. Remember this Death Rattle?

He must pick it up, the fallen title! The tower, the crown, and the spear!

—Collected on Vevahach 1173, 8 seconds pre-death, by the Silent Gatherers. Subject was a prostitute of unknown background.

It might go like this:

Fallen title = replacing Jezrien as Herald

Tower and Crown = the cloak

Spear = Honorspear

[aplpaca]

yknow I feel like Hoid's claim that it's super uncommon for someone to be able to reject or let go of a shard is like. Actually not evidenced. Like it's based on a sample size of less than 20 people out of billions over 10,000 years, most of which were people who intentionally killed god and took the shards on purpose. Huge sampling bias. That p-value is Not statistically significant.

[aphroditesmoon]

I've been trying so hard to find an asian/wasian shallan fc since everyone took the "She's pale" and fancasts her as white even though she's confirmed to have epicanthic folds and is inspired by Mongols by brandon. So for your consideration; Havana Rose Liu as Shallan Davar

[honuofhawaii]

Especially since it probably took months to years for that information to get to them. Bc everyone important knew he was in Shinavar. Without Stormlight, no one would have any way to contact him. So they aren’t expecting to hear from him for months. After several months maybe Adolin and the Windrunners that were in Azamir (Drehe and squires I think) go looking for him since Azir is closest to Shinavar. They’d eventually track down Szeth and get his wrong story from him. If they have a Seon, and Wit’s Seon in Uritheru is still there, then Lirin and Hasina can get word. And it would be crushing. Yes I have thought a lot about this. I’m so glad the time jump isn’t supposed to be too long…so they will at least one day find out the truth, but oof I’m probably going to have to write and angst fic about it.

Also idk how Lirin’s going to react to basically every Windrunner in Uritheru adopting Oroden and like teaching him things bc if Kal’s not there to big brother, the Windrunners certainly are.

Sitting here trying not to think of how Hesina and Lirin were told their eldest son died.

And they won’t know for years that he is very much alive.

[hanavesinauttija]

I keep thinking about that one scene with Adolin and Sadeas. My man's like "Mwahahaha! You are powerless to stop me, Adolin! I will continue to undermine your father despite all that has happened! My plan is perfect! You and your bridgemen are nothing but dust under my boot! And the best part is I can gloat about it to you as much as I please in this here abandoned alleyway with absolutely no witnesses!"

And Adolin goes "No witnesses, you say?"

[sscaredssheep]

Nikli and Rysn This Nikli design was based off of @/worldwithinworld's? design (someone can correct me if they recognize the design). Anyways I sketched this scene loosely from what I remembered from Dawnshard. I really love these Swarm characters and I wish there was a little bit more about them. I get the passive feeling they work similarly to the Kondra which is interesting and more reason id love to explore these guys to see how they differ and interact within their own world of Rhoshar.