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So, do y'all remember a while back I made a post about a Stormlight AU where Kaladin becomes an Edgedancer instead of a Windrunner? So that idea was bouncing around in my head, and @catcas22 and I wanted to put down some bullet points of how this would actually change the story:

Kaladin goes off to study as a surgeon in Kharbranth before Amaram comes recruiting

Roshone drafts Tien, but Lirin elects not to send word to Kaladin, as he fears that Kaladin would quit his training and return if he knew

Kaladin gains a reputation as one of the more promising surgeons in Kharbranth

Eventually, one of his patients gets transferred to Taravingian's secret Diagram project (so they can drain their blood for a Death Rattle)

Kaladin, naturally, wants to stay with them and make sure they recover

He's told to "forget about them and move on to the next patient"

He can't accept that, so he starts digging into where the patients are being transferred to (with the help of an unusually talkative spren)

He is interrupted from his investigations by a request to help heal an important foreign dignitary from a strange form of poison

His path intersects with Jasnah and Shallan while he helps Shallan recover from Kabsal's attempted assassination

Over the course of her recovery, Kaladin confides in Jasnah his worries about Taravingian, and enlists the two of them in helping him get to the bottom of it

The three of them use Jasnah's Soulcasting to break into the underground facility

Kaladin freezes when he realizes what Taravingian has been doing and desperately starts trying to heal the people who are having their blood drawn

Kaladin swears his Second Ideal in attempting to escape Kharbranth with the captives

Kaladin, Jasnah, and Shallan depart for the Shattered Plains with as many of the captives as their ship can carry

Meanwhile, in northern Alethkar:

Tien breaks in battle and tries to run away using Lightweaving (Sanderson has confirmed that Tien was some level of Lightweaver)

Tien is captured, then sold into slavery on the Shattered Plains because Amaram decides he's too much trouble

Without Kaladin there to save him, Amaram is killed by nascent Skybreaker Helaran

Helaran gets word that the Surgebinder in Amaram's army is still at large, and heads for the Shattered Plains

Now, on the Shattered Plains:

Tien ends up in the Bridge Crews on Bridge Four (because you gotta have Bridge Four)

While returning from the greatshell hunt, Bridge Four is sent to help the Kholins return to camp

Adolin strikes up a conversation with Tien, as he reminds him of Renarin in a way

Moash arrives on the bridge crews and decides he's going to organize the crews so that they can have a chance at escaping slavery

Adolin notices that an oddly intelligent windspren with a mischievous streak has begun following him around

His conversation with Tien and the rest of Bridge Four has him realize just how bad the situation is under Sadeas for the bridgemen

While considering what to do, he discovers that Tien died on one of the bridge runs

At the urging of his windspren friend, Adolin defies Dalinar's wishes and takes up dueling again, seeking to gain a chance to challenge Sadeas for the freedom of the Bridge Crews

Dalinar is furious and strips Adolin of Plate and Blade, effectively benching him for the rest of the book

When Dalinar leaves for the Tower with Sadeas, he leaves Adolin behind

Adolin refuses to stand by and takes his personal guards to follow after Dalinar, recruiting an off-duty Bridge Four to help him get there

Moash agrees, as he figures that eluding one lighteyes would be far easier than escaping the whole army

Adolin encounters Sadeas's forces on their way back and orders a double-time march to try and save the Kholinar forces if he can

He arrives at the Tower in time to see the Kholinar forces routed and swears the Second Ideal of the Windrunners in a desperate bid to save his army and his father

Moash rethinks his plan after seeing a lighteyes leap, essentially unarmed, across a canyon to try and save his men

Bridge Four establishes an escape route, but the Kholinar forces are decimated by the Parshendi

Adolin fails to find his father, who has been captured and brought back to Narak by Eshonai

Suddenly finding himself to be highprince of Kholinar, Adolin surrenders his Shardblade, which has begun to scream whenever he touches it, in exchange for the bridge crews's freedom

And that's everything that changes for the Way of Kings! I'll go more into Words of Radiance/Oathbringer later, but that's what I have for now!

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WIP!!!

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@zeawesomebirdie @tnc-n3cl

Smaug loves to beg for showers. Most times he fluffs up and goes nuts, then other times he sits there and acts like he's just 'enduring' the shower, but if I dare stop spraying he will immediately flip his shit.

Become damp is his one goal

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@zeawesomebirdie @tnc-n3cl

Love is stored in the hawk 🤎

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Queen Saosri fully colored~ She was a peace-keeper. But dont let her softness fool you. If you threaten her kingdom she wont go down without a fight. She passed when Lenoni was young, having sent her own daughter away with many others to keep her safe from the Fade, a disease that swept through their kingdom decades ago, killing off many of the denizens and the reef itself.

She did what she could to safe guard her only daughter.

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Vio! ✨🍇🪶

Ref for my partner @sweetboysonly !!

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-my commissions are open-

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Don't ask, but a minor incident at the flight range may have happened and my beautiful beak has a small chip in it.

I need you to fix it at once. I cannot possibly go around looking so shoddy. Ugh it whistles when I breathe.

Do you still repair them by welding hot pieces of metal into the crack like they did back in my day or is there a more elegant way tp fix it in this day and age? Either way don't bother with anesthesia I can take the pain, just get it over with quickly before someone sees me like this. Godess forbid.

Revali.....

How did you even chip your beak?

Nevermind, we use a special filling than will take the place of the chip, after an hour or two it will be hard as a rock. Smoothing and shaping it will be uncomfortable and it will take getting used to.

We stopped using the metal mending fifty years ago Revali

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Szeth-Son-Son-Vallano, Brutally Honest of Shinovar, was a real Dick to his therapist.

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Do you ever run into any trouble being trans as a knight of the kingdom? I know Revali has lowkey mentioned before that Rito Village isn't the safest place to be trans, is the castle any better? Has 100 years changed anything? (If not, just send the signal and I will come beat up anyone who pisses you off - just turn a blind eye and pretend you didn't see to help)

It isn’t exactly, easy.

I became a knight before I started to develop, most the boys I trained with knew me before then and the one’s who didn’t like me already had their reasons. My, being a girl didn’t change anything for them, just gave them another outlet. Although by that time I could already outclass them in any hand-to-hand combat or swordplay so nobody bothers trying to fight me. I’m not exactly welcomed with open arms either. I get looks from men & women alike. Nobles & knights. I’m in a position where my status affords me some safety, but as for what comes after….. I’m unsure.

I will say, the common folk don’t particularly care. Which is a blessing. They have more important things to focus on than what’s between my legs or how I dress. I appreciate your eagerness to have my back should a situation arise; I’ve handled bully’s before efficiently, but if I need a hand I’ll let you know.

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So, Jules, where's your favorite place to spend time in Nox Domain?

"Oh what an amazing question, very amazing!

I love my domain, love it, and there are a lot of places I spend my time in. Let me show you some on our map.

The throne room is where me, Mama, and Papa live. The building is in the shape of the Great Light and is very elegant.

Even after flooding has made many of our roads become rivers, our Town Square is so lively. I love conversing with the people there! Love it!

This, though... I think this is my favorite. It's a very large cave lake with the ceiling covered in glow-worms. We call it the heart of great light. We believe this is where our deity began his journey.

Hope that answers your question!

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Jules. Would you like to spar with Sulane. She's holding me at bowpoint to send this please help /j /silly

". . . . ."

"Please point me in the direction of this individual, please..."

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hey aren’t you dating thag “pretty little dunce” as you said

Tch. We are NOT 'dating'. How utterly repugnant that sounds. I would never stoop so low.

We are experimenting with the concept of training collaboratively in the art of courtship.

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Ask Jules Anything!

Jules is ready to ask any question you might have.It could be about herself, her parents, her friends, her home, or whatever question she might be able to answer.

You can send an ask through my blog. Just make sure it’s structure as a question directed towards Jules, not me.

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@tnc-n3cl @zeawesomebirdie

Do you have any soft or pastel colored birds?

Oh have I got a bird for you!

White-browed Tit-warbler (Leptopoecile sophiae), male, family Aegithalidae, order Passeriformes, Ladakh, India

photograph by Pradeep Purushothaman Pradeep (@pradeep.wildlens)

White-browed Tit-warbler (Leptopoecile sophiae), male, family Aegithalidae, order Passeriformes, Qinghai, China

photograph by David Irving

White-browed Tit-Warbler (Leptopoecile sophiae), family Aegithalidae, order Passeriformes, Ladakh, India

photograph by Kamlesh Mirkale

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Sometimes you don't know what you need until you get it, which in my case is Adolin Kholin having the first shower of his life.

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Does Revali have childhood photos that he is embarrassed about?

Capturing 'photo-graphs' is still a modern concept to me, something that was really only discovered when the Princess unearthed that Sheika Slate.

Back in my youth we didn't have anything like that, so there are very few physical records of my appearence. However, I did find this hatchling painting in the Village records which potentially could have been me. All new hatchlings were painted back then and added to the directory - though the writing is obscured in the book and frankly all hatchlings sort of look the same before their feathers grow in.

Nothing to be embaressed about though. If this is me, I was a rather adorable young chick.

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War weary.

It’s rough, leaving on a mission as part of a unit, and coming back solo, though the mission was accomplished in the process, can that even be considered a victory anymore? She didn’t feel like a Victor…Rylei may not have been born a part of Rito village, but she’s already come to consider everyone there her brothers and sisters. How many more will the calamity take from her..? From everyone?

My tablet hated that I made this and it’s now in the process of restoring my photo album because of how badly it crashed 🤗