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libralita · 7 years ago

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Reread Review

Title: Oathbringer

Author: Brandon Sanderson

Summary: Dalinar Kholin's Alethi armies won a fleeting victory at a terrible cost: The enemy Parshendi summoned the violent Everstorm, which now sweeps the world with destruction, and in its passing awakens the once peaceful and subservient parshmen to the horror of their millennia-long enslavement by humans. While on a desperate flight to warn his family of the threat, Kaladin Stormblessed must come to grips with the fact that the newly kindled anger of the parshmen may be wholly justified.

Nestled in the mountains high above the storms, in the tower city of Urithiru, Shallan Davar investigates the wonders of the ancient stronghold of the Knights Radiant and unearths dark secrets lurking in its depths. And Dalinar realizes that his holy mission to unite his homeland of Alethkar was too narrow in scope. Unless all the nations of Roshar can put aside Dalinar's blood-soaked past and stand together--and unless Dalinar himself can confront that past--even the restoration of the Knights Radiant will not prevent the end of civilization.

Rating: ★★★★★

Original Review

Review:

I am not ready for this.

“You’re close to them, and I’m being watched.”—Gavilar, Page 23

Wait, who’s watching Gavilar?

Gavilar, I think you have a bad interpretation of what “Unite them” means. Who was stupid enough to pick him?

Did we ever find those Listeners who ran away in Words of Radiance?

“Instead, Dalinar had only a handful of new Radiants, and there was no sign of help from the Heralds. And beyond that, the Almighty—God himself—was dead.”—Page 31

We are so screwed.

“Looking for him? You lost your highprince?”—Dalinar, Page 37

Hey, now. You lost a Herald.

SEBARIAL AND PALONA!!

“Along the way they’d picked up Highprince Aladar, a distinguished bald Alethi with dark tan skin. He was accompanied by May, his daughter: a short, pretty woman in her twenties with tan eyes and a round face, her jet-black Alethi hair worn short and curving around her face.”—Page 40

This reminds me: WHO THE FUCK IS MAY ALADAR? In this reread I count and she shows up nine times in the book. I think she barely has a line but Brandon bothered to give her a physical description (that sounds strangely like Vin with her being short with short black hair). Plus she has a weird name. WHO IS SHE???

“Thakka nodded, shouting the ordered. Dalinar reached for some water. He’d beed to meet up with Sadeas and— Something slammed into Dalinar’s shoulder. He caught only a brief sight of it, a black blur that hit with the force of a roundhouse kick. It threw him down, and pain flared up from his side.”—Page 48

Honestly I could watch Young-Dalinar get shot with an arrow all day.

“He glanced to the side, where Sadeas’s soldiers had rounded up some weeping women for Sadeas to pick from. ‘I was looking forward to tonight,’”—Page 52

Now I remember why I feel no pity for his death.

“Storms, Dalinar, at this point I’m not certain a rockslide could kill you.”—Page 52

…True.

“He’s a sliver of the Almighty himself.”—Page 59

Just like the Lord Ruler was a sliver of divinity.

DALINAR, HE JUST WANTS YOUR APPROVAL!

“YOU HAVE BROKEN OATHS BEFORE.”—Stormfather talking to Navani, Page 62

What oaths?

“‘It is you,’ Lirin said. Then he scrambled over and caught Kaladin in an embrace. ‘Oh, Kal. My boy. My little boy. Hesina! HESINA!’”—Page 74

Well…at least one father didn’t die.

“‘That,’ Kaladin said, ‘was for my friend Moash.’”—Page 78

Roshone getting punch is significantly less satisfying. Also FUCK MOASH.

“‘So…some of my spears have been women, then? Kaladin asked. ‘Female, at least,’ Syl said. ‘Roughly half as these things tend to go.’ She flitted up into the air in front of him. ‘It’s your fault for personifying us, so no complaining. Of course, some of the old spren have four genders instead of two.’”—Page 83

Wait, what?

"The way she spoke, she expected to be there when Kaladin...Well, he'd never considered that before, though she went with him everywhere else. Could he convince her to wait outside? She'd still listen, if not sneak in to watch. Stormfather. His life just kept getting stranger. He tried--unsuccessfully--to banish the imagine of lying in bed with a woman, Syl sitting on the headboard and shouting out encouragement and advice..."—Page 111

Oh, Lord….

“Fen’s reply came. ‘‘I will admit that my merchants are intrigued by these Oathgates. We have lore surrounding them here, that the one most Passionate could cause the portal of worlds to open again. I think every girl in Thaylenah dreams of being the one to invoke it.’’”—Page 136

Important.

“‘Why do they refuse you, Uncle?’ Elhokar asked, ignoring the question. ‘Do they think perhaps you will try to usurp their thrones?’

Dalinar drew in his breath sharply, and his guards looked embarrassed to be standing nearby. They backed up to give him and the king privacy. ‘Elhokar…’ Dalinar said. ‘You likely think I say this in spite,’ the king said, poking his head into the room, nothing his mother then looking back at Dalinar. ‘I don’t. You are batter than I am. A better soldier, a better person, and certainly a better king.’”—Page 139

YOU COULD HAVE BEEN A GOOD KING DAMMIT!

“Elhokar shook his head. ‘Perhaps…perhaps I’m a fine king. Not extraordinary, but no an abject failure. But in the face of these events, the world needs better than fine.’”—Page 140

SOBS!!

“‘We all must accept the consequences of our actions, Uncle,’ Elhokar said. ‘I’ve been learning this very slowly, as I can be as dense as a stone.’”—Page 140

This section is going to make me sob.

“Elhokar perked up. ‘Yes! I’ll do it, Uncle. I’ll take a team and reclaim our home. Aesudan is there; if the rioting is still happening, she’s fighting against it.’”—Pages 141-142

OH MY SWEET CHILD JUST WANTS TO BE USEFUL.

“‘It is fitting,’ Dalinar said, ‘that their king should be the one who saves them. I will see that you have whatever resources you need, Elhokar.’ Glowing gloryspren orbs burst around Elhokar. He grinned at them. ‘I only seem to see those when I’m around you, Uncle. Funny. For all that I should resent you, I don’t. It’s hard to resent a man who is doing his best. I’ll do it. I’ll save Alethkar. I need one of your Radiants. The hero, preferably.’ ‘They hero?’ ‘The bridgeman,’ Elhokar said. ‘The soldier. He needs to go with me, so if I screw up and fail, someone will be there to save the city anyway.’”—Page 142

Brandon Sanderson is a cruel man who needs stop doing this to me.

“Dalinar blinked. ‘That’s very…um…’ ‘I’ve had ample chances to reflect lately, Uncle,’ Elhokar said. ‘The Almighty has preserved me, despite my stupidity. I’ll bring the bridgeman with me, and I’ll observe him. Figure out why he’s so special. See if he’ll teach me to be like him. And if I fail…’ He shrugged. ‘Well, Alethkar is in safe hands regardless, right?’”—Page 142

Fuck, now I’m just imagining when Elhokar is in the Cognitive Realm, before he goes into the Beyond he’s just like “I failed…but the Hero will save Alethkar…it’s in good hands”. Fuck, noooooo.

“He beamed.”—Page 142

Oh Elhokar….

“‘Shallan?’ Adolin asked. ‘Are you well?’ No.”—Page 149

And here we begin “Shallan, I’m concerned about you”.

“‘Inappropriate?’ Pattern said. ‘Such as…dividing by zero?’”—Page 150

Pattern is the best.

NO MATING!

“Shallan did spend quite a lot of time drawing you all.”—Page 162

Adolin doesn’t question that Shallan is talking in the third person.

“I’m offended by everyone’s presence. You’re no more revolting than the rest, Mister Highprince.”—Page 171

Oh, Zahel….

“Don’t be melodramatic,”—Page 176

I’m sorry, Dalinar, have you read your book? From the prefaces I’m pretty sure you hold the melodramatic shard.

I wonder if Kal’s captor’s daughter is going to be an Arc 2 character.

“No. We’re nice. We’ve always been nice. I never hit anyone, even when I was mad.”—Page 188

I would love to watch Jasnah try to ram an Ivoryblade down this little Listener’s throat.

“‘My brothers. Pattern, I didn’t kill them, right?’ ‘What?’ he said. ‘I talked to Balat over spanreed,’ Shallan said, hand to her forehead. ‘But…I had Lightweaving then…even if I didn’t fully know it. I could have fabricated that. Every message from him. My own memories…’”—Page 199

Much concern.

“An explosive burst of wind drove him against the wall, and he stumbled, then stepped backward, driven by instincts he couldn’t define. A large boulder slammed into the wall, then bounched away. Dalinar glanced and saw something luminous in the distance: a gargantuan figure that moved on spindly glowing legs. Dalinar stepped back up to the feast hall, gave the whatever-it-was a rude gesture, then pushed open the door”—Page 209

You’re so edgy, young Dalinar.

“‘We’ve been assessing the sister,’ Ialai said, leaning in from Gavilar’s other side. ‘She’s a touch vapid—’ ‘A touch?’ Navani asked. ‘—but I’m reasonably sure she’s being honest.’”—Page 211

FIGHT ME.

“I could literally survive being stabbed with a sword through the chest. I think I’ll be fine with some ruffians in the market.”—Shallan, Page 222

HOW. DID. JASNAH. DIE?! Oh my god, Shallan is so bad at putting two and two together in this book.

“[Ialai] and her husband were too wild a variable for us to invite. Their motives are their own; I don’t think they align to those of anyone else, human or listener.”—Mraize, Page 231

So the Ghostbloods are interested in the human-listener war.

CREEPY YELLOW SPREN!

“None could stand before [Dalinar]; all were tinder and he the flame.”—Page 265

Especially Evi.

The Midnight Mother is still so weird.

Sah’s daughter’s name is Vai. Need to remember that.

So does Ellista’s smutty romance novel contain the secret to the cosmere universe or…?

“Sequels always have to be bigger.”—Page 335

BRANDON SANDERSON!

When you realize that Rock is basically SA’s Sazed.

“‘In short, everyone who might have been able to help us is crazy, dead, a traitor, or some combination of the three,’ [Kaladin] folded his arms. ‘Figures.’”—Page 412

That’s usually how it works.

“‘The Stormfather said their pact was weakened, but did not say it was destroyed,’ Jasnah said. ‘I suggest they we are least see if one of them is willing to return to Damnation. Perhaps they can still prevent the spirits of the enemy from being reborn. It’s either that, or we completely exterminate the parshmen so that the enemy has no hosts.’ She met Kaladin’s eyes. ‘In the face of such an atrocity, I would consider the sacrifice of one or more Heralds to be a small price.’”—Page 415

Jasnah’s plan B is genocide.

“‘Jasnah?’ Pattern asked. ‘I do not think you are paying attention, Shallan. She is not very empathetic.’”—Page 453

Whaaaaaat? Nooooo.

“‘It’s your daughter,’ Dalinar guessed. ‘Her lunacy.’”—Page 493

I’m sure this is absolutely nothing.

Every time there’s a Moash chapter I write ‘FUCK’ above his name. Because FUCK MOASH.

Like one who was born unto himself. A beautiful name! You are who you are!

Isn’t it interesting that Elhokar and Jasnah are both extremely paranoid people? Was it because of something Gavilar did?

Does the idea of fighting in the Tranquiline Halls come from Listeners? Because the best are reborn to fight against the humans and reclaim their land….

“Storm it, Kaladin had been protecting a murderer.”—Page 534

No….

“‘Your Majesty, you’re going to be a woman.’ ‘Fine,’ Elhokar said. Kaladin started. He’d have expected an objection. Judging by the way that Shallan seemed to stifle a quip, she’d been expecting one too. ‘You see,’ she said instead, ‘I don’t think you can keep from carrying yourself like a king, so I figure that if you look like a highborn lighteyed woman, it’s less likely that you’ll be memorable to the guards who—’ ‘I said it was fine, Lightweaver,’ Elhokar said. ‘We mustn’t waste time. My city and nation are in peril.’”—Page 609

Look at that! Look at that character development!

“This is a time to be realistic. A king must do whatever he can for the good of his people, and my judgment has proven…deficient. Anything I have ‘accomplished’ in my life has been handed to my by my father or my uncle. You are here, Captain, to succeed when I fail. Remember that. Open the Oathhgate, see that my wife and child are ushered through it to safety, and return with an army to reinforce this city.”—Elhokar, Page 610

FUCKING END ME.

“The king let Kaladin pull him away, and a good thing too. Elhokar had been fishing in his pocket, perhaps for a sphere to give the exhausted woman. Storms! In the middle of the crowd!”—Page 616

HE CARES DAMMIT!

“‘Your Majesty, it might be best to catch the next highstorm, return to the tower, and report back to Dalinar. He can’t reach us with his visions here, and one of the Unmade could very well be beyond our mission’s parameters.’ ‘We don’t need Dalinar’s permission to act,’ Elhokar said.”—Page 625

Nooooooo.

“‘It’s a good plan, Elhokar,’ Adolin said. ‘Nice work.’ A simple compliment probably should not have made a king beam like it did. Elhokar even drew a gloryspren.”—Page 667

Sweet child is trying.

“[Elhokar] took a drink of his wine. ‘There are few people remaining to whom I can still be a hero, Radiant. This city. My son. Storms. He was a baby when I last saw him. He’d be three now. Locked in the place…’”—Page 734

YOU’RE A HERO TO ME, ELHOKAR!

“Elhokar watched silently as she filled in the shading and finished the picture. Once she lifted her pencil, Elhokar reached past her and rested his fingers on the page. It depicted Elhokar kneeling on the ground, beaten down, clothing ragged. But he looked upward, outward, chin raised. He wasn’t beaten. No, this man was noble, regal. ‘Is that what I look like?’ he whispered. ‘Yes.’ It’s what you could be, at least. ‘May I…may I have it?’ She lacquered the page, then handed it to him. ‘Thank you.’ Storms. He was almost in tears!”—Page 735

HE COULD HAVE BEEN GREAT!!

Oh, Evi dying is even worse the second time.

“Chapter 84: The One You Can Save”—Page 809

Nopenopenopenopenope.

“Kaladin joined Syl and glanced behind the dressing screen, which had been pushed back against the wall to section off a small cubby. Here a child—two or three years old—huddled and trembled, clutching a stuffed soldier. Several spren with soft red glows were picking at him like cremlings at a corpse. The boy tried to turn his head, and the spren pulled on the back of his hair until he looked up, while others hovered in front of his face and took horrific shapes, like horses with melting faces.”—Pages 812-813

And here we have the youngest new Radiant in our crew.

“Elhokar had fallen to his knees. In one arm he held his terrified son, in the other hand he held…a sheet of paper? A sketch? Kaladin could almost hear Elhokar stuttering the words. Life…life before death… The hair on Kaladin’s neck rose. Elhokar started to glow softly. Strength…before weakness… ‘Do it, Elhokar,’ Kaladin whispered. Journey. Journey before… A figure emerged from the battle. A tall, lean man—so, so familiar. Gloom seemed to cling to Moash, who wore a brown uniform like the parshmen.”—Page 819

Please…no….

“Moash pulled the spear free and glanced at the Shardblade. Then he kicked it aside. He looked at Kaladin, then quietly made the Bridge Four salute, wrist tapped together.”—Page 819

Fuck you, Moash. Go fuck yourself. God, I fucking hate you.

I hope Venli is the main character in the next book.

“Ahu giggled at Dalinar. ‘Have you seen me?’”—Page 852

Nothing like drinking with god.

Dalinar can’t even remember Renarin’s age….

“‘I know,’ she whispered. ‘I’m crazy.’”—Page 933

Yep.

Aluminum falling from the sky?

Maaaaaaan shit really hits the fan in this book.

I’m excited to see Rlain and Venli interact.

“A Blade that bleeds darkness and cannot be defeated.”—Page 1078

WAIT DOES THE NIGHTWATCHER HAVE NIGHTBLOOD AT THIS POINT???

“She prompted them, and their leader looked down, the spoke to Anxiety. ‘It’s just that…Thaylen City? This is our home. We’re expected to attack it?’”—Page 1087

UNITE THEM!

So if the world’s ending hold onto Way of Kings for dear life. Got it.

Lift is our lord and savior.

Taln is such a fucking champ.

“I will protect those I hate. Even…even if the one I hate most…is…myself.”—Page 1138

Dead.

So the Dustbringer spren are probably going to be bonding with Listeners so that’ll help with the whole Unite Them thing.

“Elhokar’s son.”—Page 1212

My poor dear!

“‘So you’ll break rocks?” Moash asked. ‘We heard something. Made us want to be near you.’”—Page 1222

By heard do you mean like Moash killed a god? Or do you me like Listener business? Because if it’s Listener business and Moash becomes a Knight then FUCK THAT NOISE! I will never forgive him!!

I’m so mad at Wit for taking Elhokar’s spren.

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preservationandruin · 7 years ago

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Oathbringer Liveblog, Interludes 1

Our spread here is Puuli, Ellista, and Venli. This will be interesting. Also, I’d just like to specify--any question I ask in these liveblogs is meant to be rhetorical, more me musing than actually looking for an answer. I want to accurately chart the questions I have, but I also want to discover the answers as the book goes, not get the answers handed to me. I realize that might have been confusing.

I also want to note that I don’t read ahead of these liveblogs, so please don’t tell me anything that happens after the point I’m at. You’re getting my first reactions to everything and I want to keep it that way, for my own enjoyment and for the posterity of these records.

With that housekeeping out of the way, onward to the interludes! We talk about some local legends, romance novels show up, we get some interesting linguistic history, Brandon Pokes Fun At The Massive Size Of This Book, and then he chucks my heart down into a chasm where it shatters into a million tiny fragments because of course we can’t have nice things now can we.

Puuli is a lighthouse keeper, looking forward to the coming highstorm. We get a nice local legend:

Puuli’s grandfather had been able to remember when those cliffs hadn’t been there. Kelek himself had broken apart the land in the middle of a storm, making a new prime spot for homes.

Of course, given that the Radiants are real, this could have happened--but it also reminds me of how every colonial-era house is a house George Washington slept in, or all the places King Arthur was supposed to have sat/slept in England. I love local legends like that. My town’s version of one was that Dairy Queen got the idea for the Blizzard from the Blizzards that one of the local ice cream shops, the Chocolate Moose, made. True? Probably not, but does it matter?

They’re in Natanatan, I think--Puuli is mentioned as having blue skin, thinking that tan skin is strange. Puuli is apparently excited for the storm because of another thing from his grandfather:

Had the time finally come, that his grandfather had warned of? The time of changes, when the men from the hidden island of the Origin at last came to reclaim Natanatan?

So that’s an interesting snippet. In any case, he agrees externally with everyone else that the storm was a tragedy, but internally doesn’t really believe it. He named his lighthouse Defiance, and he sacrifices fruit to Kelek for the storm. And one last bit about the men from the Origin:

They’ll come with Light in their pockets, Grandfather had said. They’ll come to destroy, but you should watch for them anyway. Because they’ll come from the Origin. The sailors lost on an infinite sea. You keep that fire high at night, Puuli. You burn it bright until the day they come. They’ll arrive when the night is darkest.

One might say they’ll come during the night of sorrows, something we’re still waiting for a fuller explanation of. It seems like it’s just another name for the Final Desolation, but that’s what it seemed the Everstorm was, too. Also, Light in their pockets seems to imply that they’re Radiants--but Radiants, ideally, are not coming to destroy things.

Over to Ellista, an ardent. I think I’ve heard this interlude, too--it was another one that a reading was done of. She’s just trying to find somewhere to read, but everyone has to keep arguing about what this new storm means!

And, of course, what she’s reading isn’t a scholarly text but a romance novel. Also, props to Sanderson for taking what is a fairly stock romance-novel scene and giving it enough Rosharisms to be hilarious (not that romance novels aren’t well-written; honestly, good romance novel writers have mastered the art of reworking a genre to make it both new and what readers are looking for and I deeply respect that). And, in the grand tradition of any book you’re reading, Ellista is angrily critiquing the characters’ actions.

I love that this bit so accurately captures what reading a book is like when the characters are doing something so in-character...but so stupid. So far Ellista has yelled at the main character for turning down a guy, cursed at her, said “damn right you better wait” (basically) at another character, gets really into the characters about to kiss aaaand--

Gets interrupted by Ardent Urv, another of the Ardents.

The young Siln ardent was tall, gangly, and obnoxiously loud at times. Except, apparently, when sneaking up on colleagues in the forest. “What was that you were studying?” he asked. “Important works,” Ellista said, then sat on the book.

Anyway, what she was supposed to be doing was working on the Dawnchant, now that Navani--in the last book--cracked it. She doesn’t believe Navani’s story about how, of course. We get some interesting notes about language:

-The Dawnchant wasn’t a primarily spoken language, it was a primarily written one that spread across Roshar as a unified scholarly language -A desolation hit, wiping out knowledge of where/how the Dawnchant had spread -People tried to use it to phonetically transcribe their languages; didn’t work well -Glyphs and modern writing developed

So the reason the Dawnchant was lost was because it was mostly written--there were no native speakers. It would be like if the Catholic mass was still said in Latin, then all the priests got wiped out, or something. People would be like how did they forget the words to their own mass but it would be because those words were in a dead language.

And then Urv notices the book she’s reading, admits he’s read it too (it’s an “Alethi epic,” and I love the possible implication here that the Alethi just are huge suckers for romance novels. I’m not even surprised you cannot tell me that like, Adolin hasn’t gotten emotional over dramatic romance novels. Alethkar is Extra; Romance novels are dramatic. it’s a match made in the tranquiline halls). But...Urv disagrees which guy in the love triangle the main heroine should go with.

Bugs Bunny voice: of course you realize, this means war.

“She really should have picked Vadam though. Sterling was a flatterer and a cadger.” “Sterling is a noble and upright officer!” She narrowed her eyes. “And you are just trying to get a rise out of me, ardent Urv.” “Maybe.”

And, of course, he’s got the sequel--with three love interests this time--and offers it to her in return for her help translating the Dawnchant. Also, Brandon is making fun of himself:

“Sequels always have to be bigger,” he said.

I’m looking directly at the page count of this book. I’m glaring at it. I see you, Sanderson. I know what your game is.

And now to Venli, in stormform. We get more of the changed rhythms--the Rhythm of Craving is mentioned here, and the Rhythm of Command. Venli is confirmed to no longer even hear the normal rhythms. She’s descending into a chasm with some of her fellow Voidbringer soldiers.

There’s a real difference between the Voidbringers--the Fused--and the ordinary Parshmen now returned to autonomy. Every Voidbringer perspective reinforces that. Venli’s spren, which looks like rolilng lightning, is named Ulim, but he takes a humanoid form sometimes, “with odd eyes” and long hair. Venli notes that it’s weird that a spren of Odium would look human--but Odium wasn’t ever really of the Parshendi, was he? He used them, but do we know what Rayse actually was?

Given that his spren look human, probably human. Although the unmade sure didn’t look human.

Anyway, Venli is starting to get irritated at having to obey Ulim. It also seems like even Venli--in the moments where Odium and the new rhythms are less present--has doubts and regrets about what she did, how many of the Listeners were lost to summon the Everstorm and how little they’ve gotten in return.

Anyway, it’s confirmed that Ulim isn’t a spren she’s bonded; instead, “lesser spren” are used for changing forms.

They...they find Eshonai. And she’s dead. Venli thought that when Ulim said they needed to find her sister, he meant find her alive--but he was only ever looking for the Plate and the Blade. Eshonai probably drowned in the floodwaters.

Eshonai can’t be dead. She can’t be.

Well, if anyone would recognize her, it would be Venli. Venli manages--somehow--to go back to one of the old rhythms. The Rhythm of the Lost. And she touches Eshonai’s body.

Venli stared into Eshonai’s dead eyes. You were the voice of reason, Venli thought. You were the one who argued with me. You...you were supposed to keep me grounded. What do I do without you? “Well, let’s get that Plate off, kids,” Ulim said. “Show respect!” Venli snapped. “Respect for what? It’s for the best that this one died.” “For the best?” Venli said. “For the best?” She stood, confronting the little spren on Demid’s outstretched palm. “That is my sister. She is one of our greatest warriors. An inspiration, and a martyr.”

And Ulim brushes her off, pointing out that Eshonai never really transformed properly, that she resisted. God, I can’t believe Eshonai’s dead. Ulim and Venli get in a full argument--Ulim calls himself “the one who escaped, the spren of redemption” and reveals that he still blames Eshonai for trying to prevent them from returning--and the Parshendi as a whole for being traitors. And then an alarming line:

“We must be away and see what your ancestors need us to do.” “Our ancestors?” Demid said. “What do the dead have to do with this?” “Everything,” Ulim replied, “seeing as they’re the ones in charge.”

And it’s noted that the small, cometlike spren is still with Eshonai. Eshonai’s body.

She can’t be dead. She can’t be. I don’t care that we’ve seen the body. Eshonai can’t be dead.

I’m going to be in denial for the next 48 hours at least. Eshonai is fine and that’s a convincing body double. Or she learned lightweaving. Or something. Anything.

#oathbringer spoilers #stormlight archive liveblog #interesting myths #i love eshonai

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