#tress of the emerald sea spoiler
Explore tagged Tumblr posts
Text
More Tress art, more concept-ish. I want to focus more on practicing composition at the moment and the Lumar spore seas with their giant moons and vibrant monochrome colours are very enticing for that.
#tress of the emerald sea spoiler#tress spoilers#tress of the emerald sea#tress#emerald sea#huck#vines#fanart#concept art#digital sketches#procreate#cosmere#brandon sanderson#undescribed
831 notes
·
View notes
Text
I started Tress of the emerald sea and i dont know if is the spanish translation but it says that Tress has most of the time the hair in a braid but all the illustrations i saw until this moment have her hair free so im not sure about that. Also in spanish her name is "Trenza" that means "Braid" so ??? Not sure
7 notes
·
View notes
Text
So is TwinSoul from Lumar then? He has to be, right? Is he a spore eater for roseite? If so why isn't it killing him? And he has great control over it, so maybe I'm way off base, but it takes water to use, and just seems really similar!
#to be fair i also thought White Sand was connected because it was a magical sand and took water to use#maybe just a lot of things in the Cosmere require water#tress of the emerald sea spoiler#the lost metal#TwinSoul#cosmere
3 notes
·
View notes
Text
#actual lost metal spoilers i guess???? lmao#branderson#brandon sanderson#cosmere#the cosmere#hoid#hoid cosmere#mistborn#mistborn era 2#the way of kings#the stormlight archive#stormlight archive#stormlight#elantris#warbreaker#tress of the emerald sea#yumi and the nightmare painter#cosmere meme#cosmere memes#wit
2K notes
·
View notes
Text
I love this. I had the exact same reaction when Charlie showed up at the end. Like here i am expecting Huck to be Charlie, then we get this little emotional roller coaster, but its the same emotional roller coaster that Tress is on, and it's followed with this huge payoff that the book has been promising all along.
I finally finished reading Tress of the Emerald Sea. A little late, I know, but hey, this has been the first book I've physically (ebook) read myself and not listened to as an audiobook in years.
Anyways, I just wanted to sing my praise for Brandon Sanderson writing a predictable book.
More under the cut cuz spoilers and rambling
Lately, I feel like a lot of media has gotten this hate train for predicability. Marvel, for one, is an easy example. But there's also things like movies and shows made with an already popular IP that is another example. Directors, authors, writers, everyone seems so obsessed with shocking the consumer. They want endings that come out of nowhere, leaving the consumer feeling nothing but awe struck whiplash. And quite frankly, I've gotten real tired of that years ago.
Anyways, I'm rambling.
When I first started reading Tress, the first thing I predicted was "Tress is going to be a knight in shining armor, Charlie will be the damsel in distress". I knew this, because when Tress and Charlie were talking about damels and knights, they talked about it specifying how Tress wouldn't be a very good damsel, and Charlie wouldn't be a very good knight. It's an easy conclusion for a reader to come to for there to be a role reversal, so when it actually happened, all I could feel was relief. Thank GOD the story went along my prediction. I got very excited thinking that Tress would be doing the rescuing, and if that didn't happen, I would have been disappointed, not shocked by how unpredictable it turned out to be. I didn't want a "Tress is the damsel, but wait, there's a twist!" Situation. The way they talked suggested a role reversal, and that conversation would have meant nothing if it went any other way. It would have just been a rude gesture of "hah! You thought you could predict the story by just this conversation! You fool! I tricked you! I purposely put in this conversation to trick you!"
Lemme get it clear that I don't expect Brandon Sanderson to write like that. Admittedly, when I pledged to the Kickstarter, I hadn't actually read a single book from Brandon Sanderson. I had NO CLUE what I was getting into, but it seemed like the perfect deadline to actually sit down and go through the Cosmere stories before the books started getting sent. Trust me, if I didn't spend money on the Kickstarter, I never would have picked up The Way of Kings. I've been frightened of that book since Junior High. It's been haunting the corners of my mind every time I visit the library. It looks like a good book! It's just so fucking long! So yeah, I spent money on a Kickstarter for an author I've never read a book from before. And I'm glad I did. I got through Stormlight, in getting through Mistborn, I love these books so much.
ANYWAYS. I just want to stress because of how much I loved Stormlight and Mistborn, I truly didn't expect Brandon to do a "HAH! FOOLED YOU WITH MY FALSE LEAD!". In fact, going into Tress, when I saw that foreshadowing, I knew I could trust it. And it still felt so rewarding for that little, easy to come to prediction, to actually come into reality.
So, when I met Huck, I knew the moment we learnt about the Sorceress's curses, that Huck was Charlie. This prediction was a little harder to stick to, but the subtle inconsistencies of Huck's story and goals kept me firm on it, but it was also done with such care that I knew if I was wrong, then there's surely something that makes sense and will wow me anyways. I wouldn't be disappointed that Huck wasn't Charlie, the book didn't lead you on to focus on that.
And then, this is where Brandon Sanderson does throw you in for a loop. It's so subtly obvious that Huck is Charlie, but then Tress gets to the Sorceress and suddenly, just for a page, you're confronted with a human Charlie who is so so Charlie and you're stopped there thinking "wait, where's the catch? How are Charlie and Huck not the same?" And you're suddenly confronted that not only did Tress change, but you as the reader changed too. At the beginning of the book, you know they're perfect for each other, you want to rescue Charlie too, you want them together and happy, but Charlie didn't change. He's the same. The same old Charlie... just doesn't seem right for Tress anymore. She doesn't seem happy. You don't feel happy. All the Sorceress wanted were her cups? But what about Huck?
What about Huck.
And then, Tress realizes, and you nearly jump out of your chair screaming when she realizes YOU were right all along. Huck is Charlie! This human Charlie is a fake!! Tress goes back to the Sorceress to demand her real Charlie back.
It was so exciting. So so so enjoyable.
Anyways, this isn't to say I think the story was purposely predictable, or that it was meant to be guessed ahead of time, but man, it was so so nice to see a story just. Happen. There's so many things Tress of the Emerald Sea could be complimented about, but I haven't seen anyone talk about the predicability of the story itself, and how it's done so well, and proves that shock factor doesn't make a good story, a good story makes a good story, and sometimes good stories are oh so delightfully predicable.
275 notes
·
View notes
Text
Sometimes you learn something that makes you so happy. I recently learned two things:
1. Hoid not having a mullet in the art of Tress of the Emerald Sea depicting his confrontation with the sorceress was a mistake, an oversight that Howard Lyon, Brandon Sanderson, and the art continuity team all managed to miss.
2. Howard Lyon decided, in either a great move or a terrible one, to demonstrate what would have happened had they not made that mistake.
Together, these led to learning something that makes me so so happy: the existence of Hoid, mullet edition!
#tress of the emerald sea#i cant belive this is the clown that helped kill God#ssp1#ssp1 spoilers#howard lyon#brandon sanderson#cosmere
450 notes
·
View notes
Text
I love
690 notes
·
View notes
Text
I just want a whole legion of stories where hoid is in a Situation and two teenagers have to Get Him Out (and also be in love at the same time)
483 notes
·
View notes
Text
hoid, the character ever.
#sorry i hoard screenshots of excerpts like a squirrel with acorns and these have been burning a hole in my gallery for like three months#hoid#wit#cosmere#tress of the emerald sea#secret project 1#ssp1 spoilers#brandon sanderson#cephandrius#i dont think these count as spoilers actually but. yk. just in case#cosmere hoard#original
636 notes
·
View notes
Text
Everyday I scroll through the cosmere tags after finishing the books and KEEP finding information through obscure jokes that make me lose my shit. Like. GALLADON is a WORLDHOPPER? TIEN was becoming a LIGHTWEAVER? CULTIVATION is a fucking DRAGON? The IRALI are NOT from roshar? That lighthouse keeper in shadesmar was actually that HOED from elantris? Rlain x Renarin is ACTUALLY happening? Someday I'll read something like HAHA remember that time- and that's it I'll go deranged.
766 notes
·
View notes
Text
If we plot Tress of the Emerald Sea to the Princess Bride (it’s very obvious inspiration) then we can see that the Dragon Xisis plays the same role in the story as Miracle Max does.
My point is that if there was ever to be an animated adaptation of Tress Billy Crystal should voice Xisis
127 notes
·
View notes
Text
Here is my take on the most of the non-Doug characters for Tress of the Emerald Sea. It was really fun to try a more shape based approach again and I am very happy with how everyone turned out.
Which side-character did you like the most in the books. I really enjoyed Ann.
#tress of the emerald sea spoiler#tress spoilers#ssp1 spoilers#ssp1#character design#character lineup#hoid#tress#charlie#fort#salay#ann#captain crow#Ulaam#elantrian#pirate crew#brandon sanderson#fanart#cosmere fanart#Rain isn't quite were I want her to be yet#but she's getting there#if you're sitting in your tower all day playing solitaire and scheming with your cat leggings and fluffy slippers feel appropriate#undescribed
487 notes
·
View notes
Text
I know everyone is laughing at Hoid wearing a Hawaiian shirt to defeat Riina, but I feel like the actual shirt implications are lost on a lot of people. (Spoilers for a lot of Stormlight and Mistborn!)
Those are the Marewill flowers. The Ghostblood symbol. Hoid has a shirt of those flowers purely to mock Kelsier. Mare's flowers. I have a feeling Kel has no idea, but once he finds out there may be a small war on a planet that has no idea what is happening.
#spoilers#mistborn spoilers#cosmere spoilers#stormlight spoilers#ghostbloods#tress of the emerald sea#hoid#riina#kelsier#hoid cosmere#cosmere#brandon sanderson
255 notes
·
View notes
Text
Tress scratched the best itch for me, I’ve been craving a good fairy tale and it was just perfect. I kept slipping so hard into the fairy tale aspects that I kept getting caught by surprise whenever a cosmere thing stopped beating around the bush and revealed itself, actually. While I’m sure that wasn’t fully the intention, it was a really fun way to read some brandermansanderman coming fresh off of sunlit man and how intensely locked in I was with the Connections. Genuinely Tress is such a fun little romp. I love girls who sail in fucked up seas and this is a genre I want more of please thank you.
#it was so much fun I did have my suspicions about a few things because of fairy tale tropes but I didn’t get all of them!#I was taken by surprise by many things!#not...not the glowing woman being elantrian I did get that one especially with the floor map#I wonder if that changes actually#like does her cockship make aon-Connecting maps of the places she goes to so she can fuck around with locals?#what’s with space travel resulting in callus dicks manipulating the local planetary populations?#is this related to one of the many groups fucking about with the cosmere or is it just the nature of the people funding these excursions?#will zellion ever have sex?#all these questions and more to be added next year in bransandermanderson strikes again part five of ten alphabet assemble#I want to see the other seas now though ): the worlds are so cool that I’m never quite ready to say goodbye#I want to linger between the pages and sift the words between my fingers like sun-warmed sand#it feels too soon to say goodbye#cosmere#tress of the emerald sea#tress of the emerald sea spoilers
148 notes
·
View notes
Text
What do you MEAN there's dragons in the cosmere Brandon? What?
26 notes
·
View notes
Text
Every time a new Brandon Sanderson book is released everyone updates their suggested reading order but all you need is the patience to be uninformed and enjoy the book!
But depending on your preference the best story to start with will be different.
If you want a crash course on the basics of The Cosmere's magic physics (Aka Investiture) so you can hypothesize on how other magic works I suggest the short story "The Emperor's Soul" as a starting point, it gives a solid overview of Realmic theory and covers Identity (a rather difficult idea to communicate) very effectively. (this is the start of the PhD route)
If you want something that's more like a traditional fairy tale as an intro I suggest Tress Of the Emerald Sea, which doesn't require a PhD in the shattering to understand. (though if you're going the PhD route I suggest reading this one later because if you're questioning the magic it's a far more confusing one)
Warbreaker is a good middle ground, if you're going the PhD route I suggest this second (it covers Intention which "The Emperor's Soul" doesn't), It's not a bad starting place either, it was my first book in The Cosmere and it's up for free on The Sand-Man's website. It's also all-around an excellent book.
I'm going to be (a tad) controversial and say I enjoy Elantris, it's certainly not Brando-Sando's best work but it was his first, and it's not a bad book to start with! just keep in mind that many of the issues in the book are things he improves on in later books.
Mistborn is two (soon to be 3) series, we distinguish them by 'Era' and they should be read in order if you want to make sense of what's going on.
Mistborn Era 1 (3 books) is also an excellent place to start, it's a YA-style series so you follow a teenager in a Post-(more like perpetual)-Apocalypse, but it's also an Epic high fantasy so if you like those and don't mind romance It's a good one.
"Mistborn Secret History": read this after Mistborn Era 1 if you're going the PHD route read anytime before The Lost Metal (Era 2 Book 4) for everyone else. (PhD track: if you want the most out of it I suggest also reading White Sand first)
Mistborn Era 2 (4 books) is a high fantasy Western set in the same world much later in time, 10/10 no notes, it's excellent.
The Stormlight Archive, TheBigOne™ It is planned to be a 10-book series with accompanying Novellas. I suggest reading in chronological order including the short stories, published so far that would be:
The Way of Kings
Words of Radiance
"Edgedancer" (novella)
Oathbringer
"Dawnshard" (novella)
Rhythm of War
Start with this series if you thirst for sprawling high-fantasy novels with page counts that would make grown men weep (the Audiobook for RoW was like 48 hours long)
The entirety of Arcanum Unbounded is not required reading, (unless you're on the PhD track) but it contains both "The Emperor's Soul" and "Edgedancer", you should probably read Elantris, Mistborn Era 1, Alloy Of Law (MB Era 2 Book 1), and Stormlight (up to Words of Radiance). If you enjoy Graphic Novels and dislike spoilers/rereading stuff when you haven't finished it yet I suggest skipping the White Sand excerpt.
White Sand is also not a terrible intro, it covers a theme in B-Sandy's work that isn't directly related to the cosmere but will give you a good insight into whether you'll like his work or not: the idea that skill is developed, not just inherent. if you're like me and dislike graphic novels GraphicAudio™ (actually a company not a joke) Has an Audio rendition that has some narrative differences from the Graphic novels (iirc at least one character is a different gender) But the Graphic novels also have a random boombox on a planet with no electricity so either should be fine.
Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is in a similar situation to Tress of The Emerald Sea except instead of a classic European Folktale Vibe it's got a Western Interpretation of Anime Vibe, ofc it's high fantasy like all Sandon Branderson's work so it's world is inspired by Japanese culture rather than just being Japanese.
The Sunlit Man read Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell (Arcanum Unbounded), and at least Oathbringer (Stormlight Archive 3) before this one, unless you like being thrown into the deep end, Mistborn Era 1 & 2 would also help.
There are other routes than Ph.D., there's also the Galactic Politics route, The Secret Society route, The Worldhopper Watcher route, The Ancient History route (Aka The Shattering route) ect
if you want specific reading route recs just tell me what you're looking for I can help!
#brandon sanderson#cosmere#reading order#cosmere reading order#technically I'd call this spoiler free#unless you consider overarching themes spoilers#which is dumb you shouldn't do that#stormlight#mistborn#sixth of dusk#tress of the emerald sea#yumi and the nightmare painter#elantris#B-sandy
62 notes
·
View notes