#stormlight timeskip

[mushimallo]

Some timeskip Gavinor and Oroden doodles …

Something about Oroden “Child of peace” and an unhinged Gav really makes me think they’d be a fun duo lmao 🥲

[sweatersexual]

Maybe the Horneater ability to see spren isn't actually hereditary. Rock describes it as a gift only given to a select few, and these Sighted seem to overlap with those who guard Cultivation's well of power. What if Unkalaki of a certain social standing are allowed to cross Cultivation's perpendicularity in order to give birth in Shadesmar? Maybe that's how they ensure that the guardians are able to see all beings that go in or out of the pool. Yes, you have to be born to it, but you have more control over it than you would get with selective breeding.

So if Shallan is pregnant and she gives birth in Shadesmar, maybe her child will be able to see all spren

[kingjasnah]

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.

[simonshepherd]

Random Stormlight/Cosmere thoughts

My sadistic mind think Moash should make it post-timeskip character along with Gavinor.

Moash will no longer be Vyre and try to make amends to people like Kaladin and bridge 4, but never regret his decision with Elhokar.

Why? I just want to see the fuck Moash crowd's brains melt. Should they be pro-Gavinor revenge plot or not? Like what if Moash is no longer a convenient target for revenge like Amaram who turned out to be the cartoon villain and Kaladin can get his sweet resolution.

[dienothemink]

kaladin for the ask meme :)

KALADIN!!!!

First impression: truly immediately got attached. suffire way to make me love a guy is to make him sad and put him in Situations against his will. kaladin <3

Impression now:

Favorite moment: omg. k so the obvious answer is literally any of the moments people usually list (honor is dead but i’ll see what i can do, the skies are mine, any hoid story scene, any scene where he swears an ideal, etc.) and truly i love those HOWEVER the top contender for me having just read words of radiance is the first time he’s flying through the chasms and just feels. so much joy. other favorites have to be when he’s with sah and the singers or his die hard moments in row <3

Idea for a story: i say this all the time but kaladin med school dropout modern au <3 there’s no like equivalent to the bridge crews irl but i want kaladin to be a barista maybe. this doesn’t have to be a romantic coffeeshop au i just want kaladin to hang out with his friends and make fun of obnoxious customers. he has big retail energy.

OH additionally this isn’t a story but more a set of scenes. i need kaladin to have Conversations. i know the bridgeboy thing is a silly joke thing now but i need him to talk to adolin about the bridgecrews. I want him to talk to the mink my bestie the mink. kaladin and rlain discuss what happened in the chasms extended cut 10K words. etc.

Unpopular opinion: i think kaladin had several points to make in words of radiance but people are often misinterpreting him to either say he’s Discriminating Against Lighteyes (EL OH EL) or to say he saved elhokar because his moral framework is too simplistic or something. wrong! for a guy from the protect and be good squad of magic people kal is one of the most morally complex characters in the series and his wor struggle is infinitely more understandable on a reread.

Favorite relationship: you know I really don’t know because kaladin exists in a quantum state of being all sexualities at once until observed. i like shakadolin i like kalmoash i like kaladinxhappiness i think kal should get a little kiss from SEVERAL members of bridge four and at least one kholin and maybe the concept of healing however kaladin doesn’t want any of these things. sad! wellthere are other windrunners

Favorite headcanon: when kaladin doesn’t die in stormlight five after the timeskip in stormlight six we will see him get a nice cold drink from a little cafe shop. kal you would love boba…..

[boilingheart]

Oh! I started Stormlight Archive this year. It did take me a solid 3 or 4 months to get past like the first three chapters bc the worldbuilding does not let you breathe and was pretty dense but then I had time on a trip to just read without pause and got really into it! I feel like it's a good year to get into it since book 5 comes out in December and will wrap up the first half of the series (books 6-10 will be after a timeskip and start publishing in like 2030s RIP). After I finish these 5 I'll probably give myself a breather and then get into the rest of cosmere universe. My one gripe is that I'm not always the biggest "sanderlanche" fan. He builds up a lot and then the last fifth is a whole lot of stuff going on but it can make some of the build up feel slow (for me) and I've been bad and skimmed forward more than I should since the books are loonngg. It's also really easy to spoil yourself with fandom stuff but even when that happens I've been having a good time. There's more to say but that can be found in non spoiler summaries I think- I thought I'd give you my two cents about the reading experience lol

Great to hear, thank you for your thoughts!! I've heard a lot about how *long* Sanderson's works are, which is a little daunting to me, who's just barely getting back into reading for the first time in years, but I'm looking forward to the journey! Haven't decided if I'm starting at Mistborn or Stormlight Archives since both seem really really good, but I'd like to see what all the hype is about. I'm here for that worldbuilding bro I've gotta see it for myself. So cool that this is an active project that's going on, I've heard a lot of good things!

[therealsoulking]

Alright, this is how I understand it:

There was a pretty notable timeskip in between Bands of Mourning and The Lost Metal, and it was during this period that Hoid became the Ladrian coachman (iirc he wasn't name-dropped earlier), as a means of making sure Harmony's Sword doesn't get thrown away after being used.

At T-0 months, for Scadriel and Roshar, Retribution forms, and the time dilation bubble opens around Roshar, causing time to pass there about 8 times slower than in the rest of the Cosmere. So Hoid gives up the Dawnshard at say T+1 hour, which would be T+8 hours for the rest of the Cosmere, and he gets eviscerated soon afterwards, reforming from his cell culture on Scadriel.

With the merge of Stormlight and Voidlight, the remaining Ghostblood agents aren't able to get into contact with Mraize and Iyatil via conventional (non-Seon) means, and Shallan doesn't explicitly inform Thaidakar about his agents dying until T+2-4 months (her section of the chapter says "months" and she's started to notice her pregnancy), that being T+16-32 months Scadriel time, long enough for the events of The Lost Metal to happen, with the Scadrian branch of the Ghostbloods assuming that they've just lost contact with Iyatil, not finding out until Shallan contacts them after a few months or so.

Wind and Truth spoilers bc the ending has me confused about the chronology of the Cosmere

Also Lost Metal spoilers

Where does Wind and Truth fall?

Bc Hoid wakes up on Scadriel and goes to get his coachman position from Wax at the end of Wind and Truth. I thought the Lost Medal took place btw Oathbringer and RoW. Hoid is already there in Bands of Morning. I thought he was world hopping back and forth btw the two.

Kelsier also tells Shallan that the Ghost Bloods are dealing with problems on Scadriel and Roshar has become less important to them. I assume he’s talking about the stuff in Lost Medal…But maybe he’s like yeah there’s shit going to go down soon. Also on the Lost Medal there’s a reference to Iyatle still running amuck on Roshar.

Just someone help me with the timeline…

Also why is time moving slower for the heralds that means they’re only getting a few months of therapy while Roshar passes years. That’s just mean Brandon!

[catboyloghain]

im a firm believer in that moash is going to be redeemed and live for the back half of stormlight and that it’s gonna be a plot point that gavinor hates him and wants him dead even though he’s like a good person now, like mostly i just think it would be interesting, brandon sanderson do not interact

[irithyllians]

Moash would hate Del’s pun so much he wouldn’t even realise it’s actually double entendre.

In honour of @moash and I shipping their squires together in the timeskip story we’re developing 🥰

[aterabyte]

I love how when Sanderson and Co accidentally confirmed Rlainarin in a stream like three years before the book in which it will be confirmed is released he danced around saying the actual name so people who aren't reading the chat have the option to not spoil themselves, but everyone who uses tumblr is going to find out in the next like day at most because we're all losing our shit

[thekinglemingle]

I know Brandon is good at world building and there's going to be a timeskip, but I genuinely don't understand how Roshar and Scadriel are meant to be at technological parity in the late Cosmere given that Scadriel is moving into the Edwardian era while Roshar is bumbling into the very early stages of the Renaissance and is almost certainly going to undergo another global catastrophe before Stormlight 5 is out

Telsin: Scadriel is decades behind the rest of the cosmere in technological advances! We need progress!

Meanwhile, Roshar:

[mushimallo]

timeskip Gavinor and Aunt Lift adventures

Lift tries to cheer Gav up by swiping him his favorite meal

Gav finally grew taller than her >.<

[kingjasnah]

(im wyrmjazz btw url changed) DID HE.....DID HE CREATE GHOSTBLODS BEOFRE HIS DEATG¿?? or did he pull some fuckery in death...,.......either way. i wanna see kel in stormligjt. i wanna see wit lose his marbles. i want the jester to snap and the ringmaster slapped. dalinars shock at seeing wit not smiling in shadesmar? i wanna see him fear wit. i want everyone to realise Oh Shit He Can Fuck Around I Guess. FEAR THE COURT JESTER, URITHUIRI, FOR HE NOT ONLT TICKLES YOUR MIND WITJ MAGIC WORDS BIT HE CAN RUIN YOUR LIFE . anyway hiii hows ur day going

afsvshshd omg hiiii im great i just had an iced coffee and im obsessed with how u worded all of this

but yeah he couldn't have done it while he was alive like there's no way he would've had the time, it had to be smth that happened between secret history and mistborn era 2, which is this massive ???? in terms of what we know about the period....i agree tho i think he's still stuck on scadrial rn so we may have to be content with increasingly bitchy seon texts between them (unless HOID got himself back over there for round two sometime in era 2) but the two of them are so fucking funny in their absolute and immediate loathing for each other. imagine meeting someone and then within three seconds you start squaring up

[thaumasilva]

i am actually very scared for adolin in stormlight 5 because if he dies everyone else's sanity gets tossed out the window like a bucket of ice and that's like, the perfect pillar to knock out before the finale rush where Everything Goes Wrong before the timeskip

[koravelliumavast]

Maggie please give me headcanons ideas theories memes anything kdjsks i nees help i need stormlight archive stuff with the brainrot please

Just saying something bad is going to happen in stormlight 5 isn’t enough???

Uhhhh something something Adolin and Maya. I want to see her restored to not being a deadeye but not being a full spren either. Like enough that she can come as a Shardblade instantly but Adolin doesn’t have the full range of Edgedancer abilities that he would get.

On Adolin I think that in the timeskip him and Shallan will have kids. We saw it in the hope of elantris and again with Steris and Wax. Brandon likes it when couples have kids. Plus I think it’ll be interesting to see the different hair colors and whatnot.

Also on that note I feel that Adolin would be a great parent as his weren’t the best. Especially for Renarin. And since his parents weren’t the best parents and Shallans are dead he’s probably end up going to Hesina for parental advice. I think she’d be quite excited to help him out.

Also Kaladin and Aesudan are related through Hesina and I want to know more on that. (One of her parents is a lighteyes or something?)

Additionally. I think that Szeth and Kaladins road trip is going to get cut short by the 10 days timeline thing. I keep going back and forth on this. With all that there is that we know will happen in stormlight 5, will the book just be occurring within those 10 days? Because with the lost metal that was like less than 48 hours. But like idk it’ll make the relationship feel very rushed.

Also I think Dalinar is going to lose the contest of champions thingy. There’s no good ways of putting it.

Renarin!!! I love him so much. I really hope that he gets more povs in kowt. I’d love to see more inside his brain. The little bit in Oathbringer during the battle of Thaylen field wasn’t enough for me. Because hes like way too relatable it’s almost scary.

I just want aspec Kaladin confirmed because at this point it’s driving me insane. Hes gotta be on the aroace spectrum. Because there is ZERO explanation for all that he’s got going on.

It would be really super cool if we saw some more worldhoppers too. Maybe Khriss and Nazh(?) and also maybe Kelsier(???) especially after the kowt prologue absolutely.

I think this book is going to have more with the Heralds too. Idk what or why but I think so. I actually really REALLY want to know about Chana (the only herald we haven’t seen yet.) Mostly because of the Chana is Shallans mom theory. I love that one and also it’s been like triple(?) RAFO’d now so… hmmmmm

Dustbringer Moash!!! There’s just something about that that makes me go insane and someone somewhere had like a great theory about that and also just dustbringers in general because we haven’t really seen much of them but I dont know where that theory is right now or anything.

I hope we see Azure again. Specifically with Vasher. Some point they both see Szeth wielding Nightblood and they both go like Woah woah woah holy shit no dude. How are you not dead? And Szeth goes oh I’ve already died once so…

Speaking of Szeth. My beloved white boy Szeth. Idk if he’s still wearing white or not but if he is give him some color to his wardrobe. He deserves it. Also I think this death rattle is talking about him and going back to Shinovar because his house was kind of by the ocean and the everstorm most likely destroyed Shinovar as they’re not used to highstorms being that powerful and then it came from the other direction and yeah.

Also it would be super cool for Shallan to reach another ideal. I’d love to see what the shardplate made out of creationspren looks like.