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Taln is the only herald that actually lives up to his duty.
i mean, the oaths are to stand where others fall, and this man, originally just a commoner, outlasted his fellow heralds who had betrayed him, to hold off the end of the world single handedly for 4,500 years. i could go ON and ON about Taln and how he's like the only true noble herald/surgebinder.
and when he returned, this man did not show an ounce of contempt to the people who left him to get brutally tortured for thousands of years. he instead was so incredibly grateful and happy that humanity had progressed.
this man is a true hero.
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Drift in Braize
If you know the devastation of the song Drift Away from Steven Universe, but you thought, "Why can't this heartrending song be applied to Taln, Bearer of Agonies?" do not fear, my friend. I come with a gift:
art by the indomitable @lamaery [ID: A closeup sketch of Taln, a man with dark brown skin, large dark eyes, a wide nose, and long, unkempt, tightly curled hair. He's shown from the chest up, looking ragged and sad. End ID.]
#stormlight music#stormlight filk#filk music#ukulele#sad ukulele#taln stormlight#talenelat#my music#SoundCloud#image description#described
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I often think
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“I’m going to insert my rod.”
“I’ll help Carter insert his rod!”
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If Dalinar does become a herald or something I wanna see how they make his name symmetrical
#dalinaranilad? sounds dumb#dalinilad isn't better and too close to talenelat#DALNLAD??? horrible#no matter what it comes out looking like a keysmash#stormlight archive#dalinar kholin
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you can't tell me that whoever came up with the vorin ideal of symmetrical names wasn't neurodivergent
#stimming by humming talenelat vedeledev and jezerezeh over and over to myself#its si satisfying#stormlight archive#vorinism
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Obligatory Spoiler Warning for Oathbringer through Chapter 80-something (You know the one):
STORMFATHER MOASH! STORM YOU STORM YOU HAVE YOU NO SHAME, NO HONOR, NO COMPASSION? YOU'RE A STORMING COWARD AND A TRAITOR! YOU CAN'T- YOU DIDN'T EVEN LET HIM FINISH THE OATH! YOU KILLED HIM IN FRONT OF HIS KID, AFTER HE HAD MADE SUBSTANTIAL PROGRESS TOWARDS BECOMING A BETTER PERSON! YOU CLAIM YOU CAN'T BE BLAMED BECAUSE YOU'RE A PRODUCT OF YOUR CULTURE, AND THEN SAY THAT THE KING DESERVES DEATH DESPITE HIS ACTIONS BEING PREDICATED ON HIS BEING UNABLE TO PROPERLY RESIST THE INFLUENCE OF HIS CORRUPT ESCHELON OF SOCIETY? STORM YOU I WOULD REFORGE THE OATHPACT AND LAST TWICE AS LONG AS TALENELAT IF I KNEW THAT YOU WERE TRAPPED IN THERE WITH ME YOU STORMING MOASH!
#I saw someone say that the ship they're most looking forward to in KoWT was Moash x blunt force trauma#and yes me too#storm moash#moash#cosmere#stormlight archive#oathbringer#oathbringer spoilers#brandon sanderson#brando sando
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Brandon Sanderson truly loves writing about cool rocks in The Stormlight Archive. You've got:
Tien who shows Kaladin all the cool rocks he finds.
Lunamor whose dad named him after a cool wet rock he found
Rock who is a cool Rock
Venli who speaks with the Stones
The Shin who worship The Stones
Szeth whose story properly begins when he discovers a new rock emerging
Szeth who is bound by honor to obey the master of the oathstone
Gems are just fancy rocks
The Alethi soulcast their leaders into human-shaped rocks
FeverSTONE Keep?
Talenelat, also known as STONEsinew
Really putting my ralkalest lined hat on for this one folks
#cosmere#stormlight archive#wind and truth theory#the image of the 9 Honorblades driven into the rock??#thunderclasts is just a big bad rock
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ok first.... did they change the heralds' names to make them more symmetrical? like talenel->talenelat or even maybe jezrien->jezerezeh?
then on a different note, if that is the case, what does it mean that dalinar is part of the order of talenelat??
ALSO on that note, everyone talks about the radiants and their betrayal, but no one has anything bad to say about the heralds, so does that mean that nobody knows that they abandoned talenel? and WHAT were the consequences of that????
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🪬-tell me of gods
I cannot tell you of every god of Roshar. By some beliefs, there are too many to count.
I can tell you of Vorin belief, however.
The Ardents declare there is one God, the Almighty of ten Names, and His ten Heralds. Ten… Saints.
Jezerezeh, of Kings. Nalan, of Justice. Chanaranach, of Guards. Vedeledev, of the common folk and Medicine. Pailiah, of Scientists. Shalash, of Beauty. Battah, of Counsel. Kelek, of Builders. Talenelat, of War. Ishi, of Luck.
Of course, this is myth. The truth is that there are three gods.
Tanavast, Honor, who inspired the Almighty. Honor is dead. Splintered. The Stormfather is his Cognitive Shadow—his ghost-by-recording—and the Sibling is his child with Cultivation. All spren are his Splinters. His way is oaths and their honouring.
Koravellium Avast. Cultivation. She oversees her daughter the Nightwatcher, and her Old Magic. Her way is growth and change.
Rayse. Taravangian. Odium. He is the Enemy. His spawn are the nine Unmade. His way is conquering and slaughter. His way is to give into Hate. His way is to unchain from guilt and pain.
Sky Father. Earth Mother. And hate itself.
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started playing palie today teehee
im elias talenelat if u wanna add me (idk how the friend system works)
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Taln, from the Stormlight Archive, by Brandon Sanderson
#stormlight#stormlight archive#way of kings#words of radiance#oathbringer#cosmere#taln#talenel#talenelat#stormlight fanart#cosmere fan art#cosmere fanart#rose's art
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Check out this commission I got from @isdalinarhot! It's for my fic Sometimes You Have To Be Stronger Than Talenelat Himself. Check out the fic, rated Mature, 500 words, starring transman!Sadeas, and then go commish a fun and very reasonably priced piece of cosmere fanart from @isdalinarhot!
[ID: A digital illustration of Torol Sadeas riding his horse, shown from the front. Sadeas wears a green uniform with a white shirt underneath. He has bright light green eyes, brown skin, and long wavy black hair partially pulled up in a bun at the top of his head. He's riding a brown horse with a white stripe down the centre of its face. Sadeas holds the reins with one hand while his other hand reaches towards his lap, though any detail of what he might be doing is hidden behind the horse's head. He looks away discreetly with a bit of a grimace. End ID.]
#stormlight fanart#isdalinarhot#torol sadeas#stormlight fanfic#my fic#fic rec#trans!sadeas#image description#described
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I’ve started rereading The Way of Kings and am noticing a few things.
First, the risk that Sanderson took starting it the way he did. Three different time periods and viewpoint characters before the fourth chapter finally gives us a current-time, main character viewpoint. If I was Sanderson’s editor when he was pitching this, I’d be finding the Cenn viewpoint the hardest sell.
The Kelek one is short, hints at vastly powerful forces, ends with the creation of a great mythic lie, and the “4,500 years later” gives things a properly epic feel.
The Szeth one is fantastic - it starts with an iconic line, has an engaging magic battle scene, and sets up a central mystery: why did the Parshendi betray the alliance and have Gavilar assassinated. It explains enough but not too much of the context (mechanics of Szeth’s ‘magic’ powers: yes; details of the concept of Truthless and reasons behind Shin veneration of stone: no).
But the Cenn one has the combined challenges that this isn’t a main character, dies (though we don’t yet know it) at the end of the scene, and isn’t an interesting person in and of himself. If I was the editor, I’d be asking “Why can’t we have the Kaladin POV here?” But the more we see of Kaladin, the clearer it becomes why his introduction had to be done this way. The contrast between Kaladin in the Cenn-POV chapter and the despairing Kaladin in the slave wagon in the next chapter gains its power and drama from two things: the contrast between who Kaladin was then and now, and the contrast between how others see Kaladin and how he sees himself. Kaladin in that battle wouldn’t have seen himself as the heroic, nearly-miraculous figure his soldiers see him as: rescuing Cenn by fighting six-on-one and killing all his enemies in a matter of seconds, then turning into a healer and bandaging his wounds; training his men to operate as a unit unlike anyone else on the battlefield; spending most of his pay on bribing the support staff to evacuate his wounded; bribing other commanders to give him recruits who seemed militarily useless. He’d have taken that for granted. Kaladin (later) reacts to being pretty much miraculously resurrected by despairing and thinking he’s a failure. The switch of perspective at the start is necessary for us to realize early on that the way Kaladin percieves himself does not line up with objective reality or with other people’s perceptions, and necessary for us to realize how impressive he was, and how others reacted to him, before his enslavement. It’s the essential backdrop for all the horrible early chapters in the slave wagons and Bridge 4. But the necessity of that only becomes apparent once the reader has spent a while with Kaladin.
The second thing I’m noticing is that, while on my first read-through I was overwhelmed and not picking up on this, Sanderson does leave us a trail of breadcrumbs to follow. In the first chapter, four people are named: Kalak, Jezrien, Talenel, and Ishar. Then, only a few pages later, Szeth passes the states “depicting the Ten Heralds from ancient Vorin theology”, naming four: “Jezerezah, Ishi, Kelek, Talenelat.” The names are similar enough that it’s possible to put the pieces together. Even in Kaladin’s first chaptet, the mention of windspren stucking things to other things can recall Szeth’s Full Lashings.
Another thing that jumped out at me: in the first chapter, Kelek mentions “red, orange, and violet” blood on the battlefield. Parshendi blood is orange, but who on Roshar has violet blood?
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TalenelaT
Oh, poor Atlas / the world's a beast of a burden / you've been holding up a long time - F+TM
#sanderson#im gonna have to leave it like this#there's something that still feels unfinished but i cant put my finger on it#my art#the way of kings#talenelat'elin#stormlight archive
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taln!?!? you think you’re gonna replace talenelat!?!? buddy sit ALL THE WAY down if you want to clown. also his actions prolly broke the pact cause he did a different thing. AND you’re dumb? on TOP of rude?? smh.
dalinar’s in an open vest i’m hysterical.
“and then...there was Thaidakar” YEAH THERE WAS!!!!
“[evi] would want you…” hey will smith can i borrow you for a second i think this man needs to hear something you in particular have said recently
“When he turned around, Thaidakar was there. The Lord of Scars himself, a figure in an enveloping hooded cloak. Storms. How did he do things like that? He couldn’t be an ordinary man.” ok ok here we go ok omg i screamed ok we’re calm breathe tina breathe
OFC he sees right through him you can’t play a player!!! ….why am i shaking
“this time i didn’t even have to make a grand plan this woulda happened anyway so yknow im chill i’m relaxing, turning the brain wheels, but you’re reeeeeally arrogant maybe you should look at that” and that’s HIM saying that
he’s a glowing seon in a dramatic cloak good GOD i missed him… welcome back my sweet cheese :’)
“[gavilar] found himself trembling” yeah thaidakar has that effect on most everyone don’t be sad it’ll be … well. not ok but you’ll survive this.
“Secrets,” Restares whispered. “The man...can’t abide...someone having more secrets than him.” that’s it that’s why i latched on to him (among the other thousand reasons). cause bitch neither can i let’s goooooooooo
ohhh my god you really did have to die you can’t even trust your own fellow schemers when they’re HANDING you the answers
“your legacy” OOOMPH there it is!
#kowt#cosmere#cosmere spoilers#this is just me live-blogging the stormlight 5 prequel pls ignore me as always#kowt spoilers
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