#stormlight spoilers
Well, I finished Edgedancer but I’ll have to get more into Oathbringer I think before I have a full opinion about it. I’m assuming the important plot point was Nalan coming to his realization but it was very …. Rushed? Like we all knew he was wrong but unless it’s somehow expanded on later it feels very Veins of Gold but worse. Brandon’s epilogue makes it sound like this moment was his main purpose in writing this, so. Yeah. It was also a little unfulfilling that nothing of Lift’s encounter with the Nightwatcher was shown or how she got Wyndle but maybe he’s saving Lift for a flashback character in a main book? But then why not write Nalan’s moment in greater detail there …. Idk. Anyways. RAFO I suppose. On to Oathbringer and my dude Dalinar!!
I suppose there is something in Wyndle wanting to have been with a gardener and instead “cultivating” Lyft into a Radiant
This is a half-formed thought, but Adolin is the anti-Gawyn
#he sure is #everyone in his family has a great Magical Destiny and is Plot Important #and he’s not and is just like… #chill about it @wafflelovingbatgirl EXACTLY!!!! Gawyn was fighting to be the Most Important still even when he was obsolete because of the power. Adolin on the other hand is really graceful about accepting hey, I’m not a magical god of legend or a Radiant. I’m just going to do the best that I can in any way that I can. And that WORKS for him most of the time, he has a perspective that Radiants don’t and he works it to his advantage. Gawyn’s downfall was never accepting that he isn’t the Most Important which caused him to get in the way
After a harrowing search I’ve finally got my books I’ll be starting with Edgedancer then moving to Oathbringer, then I picked up Dawnshard as well. Let’s have a check-in:
Predictions:
- I’m still holding on that Dalinar, despite being My Dude, is the infamous double wife killer I’ve heard rumour of. I think he must have killed his wife, wished for her back, and then was cursed to kill her again
- Zahel is a Herald. He’s a weird guy who talks funny that’s really about all I have.
- the Alethi light eyes are the descendants of those first people who took up the discarded Shardblades. Their eyes only went lighter, not the full glow of a Radiant, because the Blade was dead and they used the Blades to conquer others to rise in social standing. Eventually the eye colour passes on hereditarily.
Spoilers I am aware of:
- Well I have seen that Gavilar was trying to become a Herald, although I don’t even know how that’s possible so it’s kind of not much of a spoiler without more context
- Jasnah calls for the killing of all Parshendi - I figure this is different from what the Alethi were trying to do already so I’m assuming she means the parshmen too, before the storm transforms them so uh yeah that seems Problematic but so does the whole Parshendi race so far so need to find out more
Most excited for:
- Windrunners vs Skybreakers as it seems this could be the echoes of the rifts in the Radiants, one order devoted to “good” and one to “law” which of course don’t always overlap
- and speaking to that, finding out more about what Helarin was up to
- more Radiant powers as the Orders expand, like does Kaladin have his second Surge yet? I’m still a little lost on what’s actually a Surge or not. Or seeing what else Jasnah can do, or what Dalinar’s abilities will be as a Bondsmith, or anything about Renarin
- Dalinar and Stormfather’s “this is our get-along” bond
- hey where is that Collector guy from the first book! He was so cool!
- Shallan/Jasnah reunion I am desperate!!
- just more Shallan adventures in general
- and of course, the return of my one my only Jasnah and her own PoVs
Because I have so many questions about my best friend Shallan, like in TWoK it makes it sound like the liespren are attracted to the lies about her family but then in WoR it says her mom came after her BEFORE any of that happened because she showed signs of being a Radiant and Pattern was of course already with her so what in the good god was she up to that attracted the Spren in the first place??
Adolin at the start of Oathbringer
Trying to not caught for Sadeas’s murder: :|
Having an alibi in that he couldn’t have committed Vedekar’s murder: :)
Realizing there’s another murderer on the loose: :/
Being put in charge of his own crime’s investigation: :o
From Kaladin reuniting with his parents right into how Shallan killed hers hahahaha love this for us
“He couldn’t report back to Dalinar until he had the Stormlight to fly home”
When Kaladin is standing in Hearthstone but still refers to Urithiru/Dalinar’s war camp as home
“The Everstorm was so wrong, so unnatural - like a baby born with no face”
This metaphor is so weird I can’t help but think it’s important somehow
Well Oathbringer in just the prologue has gotten me actually interested in Szeth moreso than any other book. My previous impression was that he was sought out to do this specifically but it sounds like they already had him as a slave and another voice led the owner to him in the first place without knowing he was an assassin? So like what was the voice … and why do the Parshendi have slaves …
When in Alethkar do as the Alethi I suppose
Dalinar gets shot twice by an assassin and his first response when he finds him is to make him shoot another arrow so he can see how he does it, then recruits him into his company, showing us
1) Adolin comes by it honestly
And 2) Dalinar was already collecting uniquely skilled soldiers
Well Oathbringer in just the prologue has gotten me actually interested in Szeth moreso than any other book. My previous impression was that he was sought out to do this specifically but it sounds like they already had him as a slave and another voice led the owner to him in the first place without knowing he was an assassin? So like what was the voice … and why do the Parshendi have slaves …
Shallan reading at the Veil in Karbranth. I always felt identified by her way of relaxing with the drawing.
Wish I was as good as her though
Re-reading a third time The Way of Kings, getting ready for Rhythm of War
Odium (Taravangian’s Version)
