my sister's reading the stormglith archive series, which i've already finished for a bit. she's on rhythm of war, in which kaladin goes through some ummMMmmm mEntAL inStaBilitY (well more than the usual😊) and the other day she announced to me, "kaladin is definitely going to die. he's too honorable to live. he's going to sacrifice himself for some great noble cause or something." (er. paraphrased.)

and then i was just like-

weLLLLLL i mEANNnnnnNnn you're not toTaLLy wRong abOut thAt-

let me know, do you think kaladin choosing to give up his mortal life and becoming a herald counts as sacrificing his life? cuz uh i'm pretty sure YES-

There's some fun overlap between the themes Stormlight and KPDH. So I figured, hey, why not experiment with them a little bit.

It's short, just 4k words, and follows Zoey the (extremely gay) edgedancer medic who meets and helps a wounded lightweaver—and gets saved by the second coolest fourth-ideal windrunner on the planet—during a fight on the shattered plains.

Figured I'd share here, in case I'm not the only one on this subreddit who loves both fandoms lol. Definitely let me know what you think if you give it a read!

Edit: I FORGOT THE LINK! https://archiveofourown.org/works/88976891

I first read Way of Kings then Words of Radiance. I was then introduced into the cosmere and have read mistborn era 1 & 2 elantris, Warbreaker and Yumi &the nightmare painter plus some short stories. Should I re read Words of Radiance before reading edge dancer then Oathbringer?

(Please dont be rude if my critique is unfounded, just correct me) I dont like the way Brandon handles the oppression of darkeyes. Brandon Sanderson does not allow his light eyed characters to take accountability for their oppression of dark eyes or even acknowledge the oppression of dark eyes. sometimes also excusing it by saying "its just some light eyed people that do it", as if its not an entire system that light eyes in general set up. And i feel like light eyed authority also isnt questioned enough. Its often more like: “Lighteyes are the natural rulers of society; the problem is when individual lighteyes are cruel or when the system is applied too harshly.” I totally understand why alot of characters may not acknowledge their privilege or acknowledge their class' authority, because lighteyed superiority is deeply entrenched into society, but if even one character said something about it, it'd please me. It'd nice if even one dark eyed or light eyed character explicitly articulated that light eyes as a class benefit from and maintain the oppression of dark eyes. Its especially odd that such critical characters like jasnah havent even articulated this yet (correct me if im wrong about that). It feels like Brandon doesnt seek to abolish the hierarchy that clearly exists for bad reasons, but that he seeks to create a kinder hierarchy. Sanderson has created a system of racialized/class-based domination, but his characters rarely seem capable of articulating the system in systemic terms, which makes his critiques about light eyes feel politically underdeveloped. Feel free to correct me. And if there is nothing to correct, please do tell me whether or not this will eventually resolve itself.

So I wanted to know what people think about this idea. Ba Ado Mishram as a new Bonds mithelfen spren? She would provide voidlight or warlight but she kinda feels like more of a storm father figure to me. Just for the singers.

As such my idea was that because of that it might make sense that during the timeskip or afterwards more likely, Ba Ado Mishram might bond a singer to create a bondsmith for the singers. As some radiant spren bond singers and with corrupted spren also existing, it would further remove the human vs singer devide between radiants.

Not to mention I think Mishram and the sibling or at least sajanat have similar opinions on spren and freedom so an alliance seems more likely. Though the issue is of course she would be completely under retribution possible control (or maybe honor would hold back retribution who knows honestly), so maybe its not a bad theory from that angle but what does the rets of you think?

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I posted an earlier version of this piece but I made some improvements and wanted to share its final form. Digital, made on Procreate.

This is the scene from Oathbringer when Dalinar first opens Honor's perpendicularity (Chapter 119: Unity) It's such an epic moment that I had to draw it.

"YOU CANNOT HAVE MY PAIN!"

Im on a 3rd read and to this day I cannot understand why dalinar chose to name amaram as a knight radiant. I do understand that dalinar conducted a thorough investigation, interviewed witnesses, whole 9 yards to attest that amaram won his shards honorably. But, maybe im missing something here, by this point dalinar has collected taln and was using his shardblade to bait amaram into lying to him. I remember distinctly in talns interlude, dalinar said he already knew how he would use talns shard blade in this way, which was before the menagerie and after kaladin told dalinat about amarams crimes. It feels like a wild step to make a huge public statement about him trusting amaram with such a title earn he clearly still had suspicions of him, enough to create a trap, even if he believed the suspicions to be incorrect.

I've just picked up the series and I am really ejoying the book, but I was curious, can anyone recall what it was like when the first book came out? Got any interesting stories to tell?

Honorspear.

He has Syl, but he has the honorspear now too? What good is two spears? Is he going to go spear and shield, or dual wield?

Which is stronger?

What’s sandersons plan, giving Kaladin two weapons?

Designed it myself. Glyph of death split by glyph of stormlight with the sash as the cross guard. And Of course my favourite assassin :3

Here’s my 3d model of an Ink Spren

Do we know who Cultivation's minions were when she took over Kharbranth? Does she have a secret order of fighters that answer to her and are maybe invested by her?

I’m about halfway through book two and loving it so far. I love to 3D print cool light boxes and stuff for my bookshelf and came up with this, hoping it’s still relevant as the series goes on (no spoilers though lol)