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Didn't someone get gifted (dead) shards and become a lighteyes, and then have his eyes turn dark again when he gave away the blade? Or did I make that up?
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Infinite Karma posted:Didn't someone get gifted (dead) shards and become a lighteyes, and then have his eyes turn dark again when he gave away the blade? Or did I make that up? That was OB Moash. And it did happen the way you described.
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May 6, 2019 02:38
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Leng posted:That was OB Moash. And it did happen the way you described.
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May 6, 2019 02:49
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I like that he's literally just Kelsier but seen from the corrupt nobles' POV
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May 6, 2019 02:51
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Kaladin's eyes turn back to dark when he runs out of Stormlight. It is either said outright or implied that once you have been bonded to a dead shardblade for long enough that the lightening is permanent.
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May 6, 2019 06:26
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It's kind of interesting that sanderson considered that his magic driven class system would also be affected by "random mutation." I feel like in a lot of stories the magical caste system would just always follow magic rules.
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May 6, 2019 08:19
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pile of brown posted:It's kind of interesting that sanderson considered that his magic driven class system would also be affected by "random mutation." I feel like in a lot of stories the magical caste system would just always follow magic rules. Genetics still exist. It's just like in Wheel of Time, the seanchan use length and position of hair to indicate social status. Bald people wear hats, instead of pretending that no one ever goes bald.
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May 6, 2019 13:55
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Fezz posted:Kaladin's eyes turn back to dark when he runs out of Stormlight. It is either said outright or implied that once you have been bonded to a dead shardblade for long enough that the lightening is permanent. Right. Bonding a live spren is probably more akin to a partnership, while a dead blade spren is more like grafting it onto yourself, which makes the change more dramatic/permanent. Something-something-spiritweb.
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May 6, 2019 16:52
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Dang, no posts for 2 weeks? I almost thought the thread got closed or something. Just finished Skyward finally. I enjoyed it; it was certainly young adult-ish, but I had faith that he wouldn't let it get out of hand, and my faith was rewarded. I found the characters deep enough (again given the target audience) most of the time and, as someone without ovaries but with two younger sisters, Spensa felt pretty well written for a teenage girl with her particular personality & background. Slug spoilers: I am on team "the slug that seems to move without moving obviously goes in the empty hyperdrive box, or at least we're supposed to think so", though I also don't get why that's even required given Spensa's bloodline is capable of being human hyperdrives. Cytonic meaning hyperdrives for pilots who don't have hyperspace genes? Also, that whole SPACE GENETICS thing makes me think of Newtypes from Gundam. If-you've-also-read-the-most-recent-Expanse-books-and-if-not-why-not thematic rumination spoilers: I find it really interesting that both works ended up with a similar feeling "you can move faster than light via another dimension BUUUUUT that other dimension is home to extremely hostile beings that will probably eventually gently caress your poo poo up" situation.
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May 19, 2019 19:04
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That kind of travel where you move into another dimension but that dimension is extremely dangerous is something that shows up a lot. The Malazan series had it and hell, even Stormlight has it.
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May 19, 2019 20:15
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Daric posted:(Might want to spoiler? If someone hasn't read Skyward it might still be an annoying hint, idk
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bitprophet posted:Fair point, WoT has it too in the form of the Ways. Stood out to me more given it's scifi, maybe? I'm sure there's other examples out there even within scifi too, but none spring to my mind immediately; most of the time it's just the science handwaving to allow FTL. I mean the Warp in 40k?
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May 19, 2019 23:56
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Daric posted:That kind of travel where you move into another dimension but that dimension is extremely dangerous is something that shows up a lot. The Malazan series had it and hell, even Stormlight has it. If you accept "each attempt at travel has a nonzero chance of death" Dune had it too, and that Kevin Sorbo vehicle Andromeda had it as well I think. It's a pretty common mechanism to explain why people aren't just teleporting for every dang trip, no matter how short.
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May 20, 2019 01:22
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Arrath posted:I mean the Warp in 40k?
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May 20, 2019 01:55
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Game of Thrones finale minor spoiler I guess: I thought having a book titled 'A Song of Ice and Fire' in the show felt shoe-horned in, did not like it at all - despite loving that each book in Stormlight is named after an in-world book - what did you goons think of that? (Don't want to derail the thread into discussing the show too much, but it seemed relevant) On a related note, it's been too long since I read Stormlight and I can't recall: Do we know who wrote Words of Radiance? Also what were they hoping was inside that book for that matter? Once I finish Wheel of Time I think I need to re-read Stormlight.
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May 20, 2019 13:41
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Lord of the Rings did it too, it didn't bug me too much
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Sab669 posted:Game of Thrones finale minor spoiler I guess: I thought having a book titled 'A Song of Ice and Fire' in the show felt shoe-horned in, did not like it at all - despite loving that each book in Stormlight is named after an in-world book - what did you goons think of that? (Don't want to derail the thread into discussing the show too much, but it seemed relevant) I haven't watched a single GoT episode, and only finished the first ASOIAF book before abandoning the series, so I can't speak about the incident you mention. But in Stormlight Archive, the in-world writings the books are named after are important plot points for each of them, so it doesn't feel cheap. Dalinar's character change was clearly heavily impacted by the teaching of The Way of Kings, which led to a host of conflicts with both his family, and the wider Alethi society at large. Shallan searched for Way of Radiance, which describes the different orders of the Knights Radiants in some detail, right as the orders get refounded in WoR. And of course, both Oathbringers were all about Dalinar. It's an established pattern that just works, imho. Especially since his other books, whether they are Cosmere works or not, don't follow the same pattern.
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May 20, 2019 20:03
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I had been putting off Stormlight for a long time but now here I am halfway through Words of Radiance and I'm so mad at a certain character right now, holy poo poo
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May 23, 2019 23:27
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Fenrir posted:I had been putting off Stormlight for a long time but now here I am halfway through Words of Radiance and I'm so mad at a certain character right now, holy poo poo Is it the one suffering from crippling depression?
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May 24, 2019 02:43
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Subvisual Haze posted:Is it the one suffering from crippling depression?
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May 24, 2019 21:17
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2/3 of the way through Towers of Midnight Perrin vs Slayer / Gawyn vs the Bloodnouns whose names I'm blanking on was pretty fuckin badass (RIP Hopper :'( ) I haven't been reading anything Sanderson since finishing The Reckoners a few weeks ago. Not sure what I want to pick up next? I think I'd prefer Cosmere. I've read everything Mistborn, Stormlight, Arcanum Unbounded, Warbreaker, Skyward, Reckoners... I think that's it? Any suggestions on what to jump into next? Sab669 fucked around with this message at 12:37 on May 28, 2019 |
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May 28, 2019 12:33
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There's not a lot of Cosmere left. I think there are only Elantris, the White Sand comics, Sixth of the Dusk, and Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell? I believe everything else that you didn't list was in Arcanum Unbounded. I have no knowledge about his non-Cosmere works, so I don't know which of these you are still missing, or if Skyward and Reckoners were all his non-Cosmere books/series. By the way, those XXXnouns were Bloodknives
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May 28, 2019 13:18
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Oh, right, I did read Elantris. Sixth & Silence were both in AU (and I'd LOVE more from the Sixth of Dusk world). I guess I'll have to finally check out White Sands 
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May 28, 2019 13:36
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Sab669 posted:Oh, right, I did read Elantris. Sixth & Silence were both in AU (and I'd LOVE more from the Sixth of Dusk world). I guess I'll have to finally check out White Sands white sands comic... not so good 
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May 28, 2019 15:18
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Join the 17th Shard, they have permission to distribute the prose version of White Sand, which has some flaws and less polished writing, but still very readable. If you sign up for the Sanderson newsletter, you can also get Aether of Night. The only thing that's still canon about that is the magic system, and again some things in the novel just don't work hence why it's unpublished, but still a fun read.
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May 28, 2019 23:46
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Sab669 posted:Oh, right, I did read Elantris. Sixth & Silence were both in AU (and I'd LOVE more from the Sixth of Dusk world). I guess I'll have to finally check out White Sands Sixth of Dusk was so good, I really want more from that world (and character). It was probably my favorite piece out of AU, short, but so well done. Of course it has a hard time competing with the giant info-dump that was Kelsier's trip into the cognitive realm, but it was definitely more exciting and well-written, IMO. How much more is there to White Sands than what showed up in AU? All that was there was the basic intro to the world and following a characters journey through that series of trials.
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May 29, 2019 00:08
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Taffer posted:Sixth of Dusk was so good, I really want more from that world (and character). It was probably my favorite piece out of AU, short, but so well done. Of course it has a hard time competing with the giant info-dump that was Kelsier's trip into the cognitive realm, but it was definitely more exciting and well-written, IMO. Good news: https://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/brandon-begins-sixth-sequel/ Brandon has started writing a sequel on his plane rides. quote:How much more is there to White Sands than what showed up in AU? All that was there was the basic intro to the world and following a characters journey through that series of trials.
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May 29, 2019 00:41
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Taffer posted:How much more is there to White Sands than what showed up in AU? All that was there was the basic intro to the world and following a characters journey through that series of trials. It's like this. You know how Mistborn is "what if we did a heist movie but in a fantasy world"? White Sand is "what if we did a save our school from being shut down movie but in a fantasy world"? It's got more to it than that, just like Mistborn, but the stakes are lower in a lot of ways. It's also got the peak-to-the-point-of-parody Sanderson climax of someone being really clever with a bit of magic in order to beat someone with brute strength in that magic.
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May 29, 2019 04:19
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And it's not published as a written novel? I'm not really interested in graphic novels
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May 29, 2019 04:27
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Taffer posted:And it's not published as a written novel? I'm not really interested in graphic novels not published, no. What's circulating is basically the first rewrite draft
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May 29, 2019 04:45
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The graphic novels follow the prose version pretty closely, including the exact dialogue. Some of the changes, like a gender switch for one of the viewpoint characters, don't really influence much of the plot. It's not really until the end of Volume 2 that there's a significant change to how events unfold Khriss showing up to demand entrance to the Diem as an acolyte does not happen in the prose version.
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May 29, 2019 06:12
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Just got an e-mail from amazon, looks like the release date for Starsight (the 2nd Skyward book) is November 26. Really looking forward to that, it's no Stormlight archive but at least it's some Sanderson to read.
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May 29, 2019 06:12
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Leng posted:The graphic novels follow the prose version pretty closely, including the exact dialogue. Some of the changes, like a gender switch for one of the viewpoint characters, don't really influence much of the plot. It's not really until the end of Volume 2 that there's a significant change to how events unfold Khriss showing up to demand entrance to the Diem as an acolyte does not happen in the prose version. The graphic novel also has some big mistakes, like dialog bubbles getting assigned to the wrong people, and the art is generally not great
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May 29, 2019 06:24
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I'm not super keen on any "officially unofficial" materials, so I might just go with the White Sands graphic novel. It's not my favorite medium, but I read/enjoyed Frank Miller's stuff in highschool. Although I suppose it'll be a pain to read on my phone so I guess I need to go find the dead-tree version.
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Tunicate posted:The graphic novel also has some big mistakes, like dialog bubbles getting assigned to the wrong people, and the art is generally not great the funniest part to me is still the home in the sandbender village that just happens to have a radio and an electric lamp in it there was apparently some Serious Problems with the art and they hired a new person going forward
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May 29, 2019 13:46
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Brandon has done some more AMAs on reddit. Here are some of the things he wrote: First on the topic that basically everybody but Szeth, (Mistborn/Warbreaker spoilers!) Vasher, Vivienna, Felt, and perhaps some of the Heralds should look Asian, but that Shallan for example looks like a stereotypical Irish redhead on the Words of Radiance cover: Brandon Sanderson posted:Yeah, I've had a tough time pushing to get the images to work like I want. (Oathbringer's cover was more successful here.) The problem is that a lot of artists work from models, and it's hard to find appropriate models. Then we have some light spoilers for an eventual Threnody (Shadows for Silence) novel: quote:Brandon Sanderson: Silverlight novella probably needs to wait until I've done the Threnody novel, for some connective tissue reasons, but we'll see. Spoilers for the PoV characters of Stormlight 4 and 5: quote:
Spoilers for Stormlight and Sixth of the Dust sequel(s)/Space Era Mistborn: quote:BS: The Iriali story is one you should expect to be continued during the space age of the cosmere, not in current storylines. Finally, he replied to some questions about changes for the TV adaptation for Wheel of Time. The gist is basically that those changes are mostly good, still in flux, and a natural consequence of adapting a story from one medium to another: https://www.tor.com/2019/05/28/brandon-sanderson-wheel-of-time-tv-show-changes/ quote:I found the mast [sic] majority of these decisions to be excellent choices–things that will give the show its own soul, but still in line with the feel and tone of the books. I can’t say for certain, but my instincts say the fanbase will in general respond to them positively. There are a few I offered suggestions on, and we’ll see.
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Brandon's collaboration on Dark One has been turned in and will be out next year: https://twitter.com/JacksonLanzing/status/1133433753756348416
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May 29, 2019 20:06
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Torrannor posted:Brandon has done some more AMAs on reddit. Here are some of the things he wrote: If a Hollywood studio makes these movies Kaladin, Dalinar, and most everyone else will be Caucasian actors with Shin being albino and Rock either being someone like Michael Clarke Duncan or someone with makeup similar to Drax in the MCU because Hollywood is real bad with whitewashing Black Panther's success might've helped against that lovely trend but if Stormlight movies get made in the US and actually have a mostly non-white cast I'll be stunned.
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May 30, 2019 00:28
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Current licensing rights are owned by DMG, which is a Chinese company.
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Also Hollywood would just have Rock be played by The Rock
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