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)

Here’s my 3d model of an Ink Spren

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.

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?

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!"

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?

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

(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.

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

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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?

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?

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?

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-

Marked WaT spoilers just in case but hearing Wyndle talk about the “nice cobbler” he was looking at bonding every now and then broke my heart. I remember listening to WoK first and being overwhelmed with so many things but feeling so bad for him being killed. Then relistening again, understanding more, and feeling even worse for him.

Then I listened to Edge Dancer and hearing how much Wyndle looked forward to bonding Ym. I love this universe so much.

I'm a bit confused by what Szeth means here. I know he understands lightweaving to an extent. So what does he mean by "how she brought them to life, he did not know." Is he specifically asking how the illusions remind him of the voices of guilt in his mind? Or is Shallan doing something even in this moment that she is only able to do as a double bonded Radiant?

Honor really doesn't care that much about most aspects of being honorable. Someone insults your wife? Honor doesn't demand you defend her good name unless you swore to. Lie to everyone you know? Totally cool, unless you swore an oath you wouldn't. Sopmeone does you a good turn? No need to pay them back, unless (say it with me) you swore to.

why didn’t the singers just transport the azimir defenders into kholinar or the other oathgates they had there? am I missing somethin? could they not do that? also im on page 500 of the book so please dont spoil me!

All the dramatized Secret Projects on Audible, but not Stormlight Archive. Why is that the case?

Kaladin and Chana.

Now that Kaladin is going to be spending the next 10+ years being a therapist for the heralds, there’s a possibility he could end up in a relationship with one of them. Chana was a soldier type, which could synergize with Kaladin.

How would Shallan react?

Is it a cursed combo?

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So I was talking to a jeweler friend of mine after replacing a watch battery, and he mentioned doing a custom engraving of the one ring from LOTR. We started talking about fantasy books, and Stormlight came up, and I had the idea of getting the First Ideal on the watch back. We discussed price but I let him have artistic license as an artist and a nerd to really make it shine. This is what I got back. I absolutely love it.

Teft's Third Ideal: "I will protect those I hate. Even...even if the one I hate most is... myself."

Kaladin's Fifth Ideal: "I will protect myself, so that I may continue to protect others."

I had assumed that Radiants usually had a bit of personal flavor that went along with their Ideals. Brandon shows us explicitly with Lopen, Teft, and Kaladin's Third Ideals.

Teft's Third Ideal is essentially that he has to protect himself too even if he hates himself. That checks the box of that particular oath and protecting someone despite how you feel about them. But protecting oneself is key in Kaladin's Fifth Ideal too. These two swore oaths to look after themselves, albeit for different reasons.

What would Teft's Fifth Ideal have been if we assume he made it there?

Should I add color?