Brandon Sanderson's The Stormlight Archive

I believe WOB is that she has little experience Elsecalling, and spent all that tinme trying to get back. Hey, nobody's perfect.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

True, and sorry if I spoiled anyone; I corrected my previous post.

You wouldn't care what people thought about you if you knew how seldom they did.

I love the fact that even though she was stuck in Shadesmar, she still found time to make a makeshift glove for her safehand.

Does anyone else think the whole safehand thing is pretty odd? I suppose it's just one of those religious customs that you can't hope to understand from the outside.

"Steel wins battles. Gold wins wars."

Not really. Is it weirder than asking women to bind their feet, cover their faces or wear a bustle?

"Doctor Who means never having to say you're kidding." - Bocaj

Kind of, yeah. That's kind of the point, though.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

I suppose the weird part is that they're only required to cover one hand. You don't hear about women only having to cover one of their breasts, or only binding one of their feet, or only wearing a veil over the right half of their face.

Maybe, at some point in the past, Roshar had an extreme version of anti-left-handed sentiment, and the safe hand was a way to force women to become right-handed.

edited 30th May '14 11:59:33 AM by RavenWilder

"It takes an idiot to do cool things, that's why it's cool" - Haruhara Haruko

Yeah, that's it. All the other ones listed obey some understandable standard of beauty or prudishness. Safehands are just weird.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

It will turn out that Voidbringers can only infect the left hands of women!

Random question. Someone added a line on the Stormlight Archive page saying that Roshar "has a gravity level of .7" (presumably meaning that it has 70% of Earth's surface gravity). Does anyone know where that idea comes from? Is it a Word of God thing, or what?

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

Sanderson interview. Here. Search for 'gravity.'

New side story. Brief, not sure if it's gonna be part of the next book or not. MAJOR SPOILERS for Words of Radiance.

Maybe that joke about Jasnah ordering a person to become fire wasn't so far off.

Now, why couldn't he have just included that it Words of Radiance? Maybe as one of the mini-side-story things between sections? That would have let them retain a lot of the tension without making the reveal at the end of the book feel like a complete asspull.

Really from Jupiter, but not an alien.

Considering that the book was already one page away from being too big to publish, I have a feeling that this isn't the only thing that got cut.

That reveal never felt like an asspull to me. Anyway, damn Jasnah is awesome. Interesting that even when she loses control of the situation, her first thought is to help people. And I had no clue you could Soulcast from the other side.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

I hope that becomes part of 3.

Q&A session.

Some interesting answers. I've been re-reading WoR and Taravingian and the hints the Diagram give seem particularly intriguing. The Death Rattles seem to be dying off in Kharbranth and Moelach is moving west, his intentions unknown. These great individual spren are definitely something I'd like to learn more about, like the sea-monster one in Axies' interlude in WoK.

Shards turning into pretty much anything is also good news. So the variable-length chain weapons mentioned earlier in the thread could totally be a thing.

These questions about Nightblood and Zahel remind me that I really need to get around to reading Warbreaker.

Also, does anyone else think that the Purelake might be a Shardpool?

edited 23rd Aug '14 8:52:03 AM by JimmyTMalice

"Steel wins battles. Gold wins wars."

Huh? Where did that come from? Also, what are Shardpools, exactly?

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

It's mentioned on the back cover of Words of Radiance: "It is the nature of the magic. A broken soul has cracks into which something else can be fit. Surgebindings, the powers of creation themselves. They can brace a broken soul; but they can also widen its fissures." I don't remember if it was discussed anywhere else in the book...

A Shardpool is the liquid essence of a Shard, such as the Well of Ascension for Preservation, and the pool outside of Elantris for Devotion.

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I don't think the Purelake is a Shardpool. Not only is it too big, but it feels like a perfectly normal lake that just happens to be in a nice sheltered area, not really supernatural enough to hold the essence of a Shard. On the other hand, maybe that's related; it's so big that the power is diluted.

Or maybe the shardpool is at the bottom of it or something.

Ah. I read WOR as an ebook, so figures. And I thought as much re: Shardpools, but what do they mean by Hoid using Cultivation's?

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.

I was confused about that at first as well, but I recall in WOR Rock talks about a magic lake in the Horneater peaks and how he talked to a guy who appeared out of there. It seems that person was Hoid and the lake is Cultivation's Shardpool.

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Yeah, remember that long ramble Rock went on about how the only thing that can live in the Peaks (because the elevation is so high) is around these special pools he claims are gifts from the gods? And then he describes meeting a god who came out of one, who sounds quite a bit like Hoid, and Sigzil (who was Hoid's apprentice as a Worldsinger) clearly recognizes the description.

Makes sense. I love how the Cosmere books constantly reference each other, especially the Stormlight Archive.

Dopants: He meant what he said and he said what he meant, a Ninety is faithful 100%.