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Kramer is so fantastic for Mistborn. I want him to read to me forever. Like, it completely shaped how I view those characters (ie Dockson is Irish. Breeze is British)
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Did Kramer do the Wheel of Time audiobooks too? Those are a really easy listen
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Evil Fluffy posted:I might've agreed with you up until a few weeks ago. Yea the cube being powered by a ... Seon? was curious. But I think that's the only thing, right? And there is at least one Selish person on Roshar, that Purelake interlude but I forget where / if else they've appeared.
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Dec 11, 2020 01:04
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Sab669 posted:Yea the cube being powered by a ... Seon? was curious. But I think that's the only thing, right? And there is at least one Selish person on Roshar, that Purelake interlude but I forget where / if else they've appeared. yeah elantris basically doesn't matter until, i'm guessing, elantris 2 comes out in like a decade from now
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Dec 11, 2020 02:57
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Zaggitz posted:If you like how much the Kramer narration feels like audio plays then you will love Stormlight because it's him and his wife swapping narration based on PoV gender and it fully rules. I do not like audiobooks generally but this I need to know. For RoW who did the Sibling's narration, considering that the Sibling doesn't identify as either male or female? Sab669 posted:Yea the cube being powered by a ... Seon? was curious. But I think that's the only thing, right? And there is at least one Selish person on Roshar, that Purelake interlude but I forget where / if else they've appeared. We have not seen Galladon anywhere else again. What I'm wondering is Hoid said "unbound" Seons were really rare and that begs the question: Seons are cognitive entities, how the hell did they get it OFF Sel and onto Roshar? Veil found it in Shallan's drawer!
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Dec 11, 2020 03:00
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Leng posted:I do not like audiobooks generally but this I need to know. For RoW who did the Sibling's narration, considering that the Sibling doesn't identify as either male or female? So far it's only interacted with Navani who was the POV character at the time, so the narration was female. The voice used by the narrator was pretty neutral though, if a bit fearful for obvious reasons.
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Dec 11, 2020 05:57
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Leng posted:What I'm wondering is Hoid said "unbound" Seons were really rare and that begs the question: Seons are cognitive entities, how the hell did they get it OFF Sel and onto Roshar? Veil found it in Shallan's drawer! Oh my I hadn't realized that.
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Dec 11, 2020 06:12
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Leng posted:I do not like audiobooks generally but this I need to know. For RoW who did the Sibling's narration, considering that the Sibling doesn't identify as either male or female? Was the cube aluminium or something? I'm assuming it's going to turn out to be the kind of thing you need a specialised vessel to do. And The Sibling will probably be voiced by both of them, depending on who's PoV the chapter is from
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Dec 11, 2020 19:19
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Space Butler posted:Was the cube aluminium or something? I'm assuming it's going to turn out to be the kind of thing you need a specialised vessel to do. I'm guessing it's not because aluminum usually interferes with / stops forms of investiture doing whatever they do.
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Dec 11, 2020 19:23
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Sab669 posted:I'm guessing it's not because aluminum usually interferes with / stops forms of investiture doing whatever they do. Correct. That would likely prohibit the Seon from communicating at all. That it functions is not a surprise, how they got something so Connected to that planet (especially that planet, given the location/identity-based magic system it uses) off-world is really a critically interesting question. ...and of course Hoid has one.
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Dec 12, 2020 06:10
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Following on from this RoW chat a few pages back:mewse posted:IDK if Brandon spoke to a scientist about audio frequencies and noise cancelling. He probably did and decided the story wins out. It took me out of the story a little bit because the characters didn't have the tech to do destructive interference of sound waves, just messing around with wave frequency (tuning forks, trimming resonant plates). His out is probably that it's not a sine wave, he describes a rhythm to the tones, but bleh Tunzie posted:This WoB talks a little bit about this - https://wob.coppermind.net/events/451/#e14471 mewse posted:Thanks for this, I'm glad he considered it but I wish he hadn't brought destructive interference into the story. He's facing the same mechanics going on with stormlight/voidlight/lifelight because light frequencies determine colour where sound frequencies determine tone, but he's not going to introduce destructive interference with light because there aren't light cancelling sunglasses for him to drag in from the real world. The prism experiment that Navani performs didn't irk me like the way he dealt with sound. A Reddit fan wrote a scientific paper on designing a new and improved spanreed: https://pdfhost.io/v/ARg7Wd9Su_NewSpanreedpdf.pdf In the Reddit thread itself Sanderson posted this apology: quote:My apologies for the ways I have to bend real science at times. (Such as adding intent to destructive interference the way I did to make it work in the narrative.)
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Dec 14, 2020 13:49
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After being almost a week removed from finishing the Mistborn trilogy, I’ve still been thinking about it a lot. Some random things I’ve been thinking: - I think it’s kind of fascinating how much Elend sucks throughout the trilogy. Don’t get me wrong, I love Elend, but he fails at pretty much everything he does. I wish he would have had at least one or two more victories, however minor. “Here lies Elend. He failed at everything and then got decapitated - I wish there was just a LITTLE more closure on Marsh/the Koloss/the Kandra. I know a lot of this is addressed in Era 2, but like there were literally Koloss rampaging through the caverns when Sazed ascended. Did he do anything about that? I would have just loved even a single line to address it immediately. Even if it was about Marsh walking away or something. - I feel like at some point, the amount of death in the story started almost becoming like background noise since it was just endless without much context. Exactly how much of the world’s population was wiped out? Sanderson is so concrete in the magic systems but I feel like the actual world building was very soft. It feels like, by the end, maybe a couple hundred thousand people survived? If that? - it was bold as hell to kill off the main couple and I’m sad they didn’t get much time to just live a happy life. Vin had a hard life and only a few years that contained fleeting moments of happiness. She’s an incredibly tragic character and I wish she would have been able to have at least a little peace. Overall, I think that I’m just surprised at how much this series was different from what I expected. Very few happy endings. A lot of misery. But I am very happy to have read this trilogy and they have become some of my favorite books of all time. So much so that I went out and bought the box set and started reading it to my wife. We are only a few chapters into the first book and she is already loving it. And it’s fun to immediately dive back in since I have (almost) the full context for everything going on.
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Dec 15, 2020 20:54
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Mordiceius posted:After being almost a week removed from finishing the Mistborn trilogy, I’ve still been thinking about it a lot. I'll post a small thing about your questions. Read them if you wish. RC Edit: I'll trim some off the spoilers. Again read at your own risk Marsh He is alive in era 2 Kandra Survive as a race. They lost some of their memories from the time when they reverted to Mistwraiths. Koloss Sazed makes them a true breeding race. There are Koloss/Human offspring in era 2. [mod edit: I've been told these are actually significant spoilers for the overall series] RC Cola fucked around with this message at 03:50 on Dec 16, 2020 |
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Dec 15, 2020 21:04
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Emperor's Soul was my introduction to the Cosmere, and I think that my early attention to the cognitive and spiritual aspects of Cosmere magic has been a huge boon.
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Dec 15, 2020 21:34
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Potato Salad posted:Emperor's Soul was my introduction to the Cosmere, and I think that my early attention to the cognitive and spiritual aspects of Cosmere magic has been a huge boon. That's good to hear, since I've been recommending it to everyone lol
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Dec 15, 2020 22:26
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Potato Salad posted:Emperor's Soul was my introduction to the Cosmere, and I think that my early attention to the cognitive and spiritual aspects of Cosmere magic has been a huge boon. Emperor's Soul is also how I got a friend of mine started on Sanderson; I'm still convinced it's his best, single work.
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Dec 16, 2020 00:24
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Mord, just get to reading era 2.
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Full Stormlight Archive spoiler livestream announced for Dec 17: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdf5qvA7AWk Gonna be on his YouTube channel if anyone has burning questions they wanna ask. Me, I'll probably wait until some 17th shard person transcribes all of them and devour all the questions on Arcanum later. Mainly because I'm more excited about the State of Sanderson coming out this week than anything!
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I think Warbreaker is a good changeup in between the two Mistborn eras to give a bit of a feel of 'time passes'. As far as Elantris, Hrathen is fun, Raoden is an interesting take on a fantasy hero even if he's very goody-goody. But Sarene's POV suffers and it feels like she was written by someone who's seen more female characters in media than actually interacted with women in real life. Suggestion: at some point after reading an entry in one of the longer series and wanting a change-up, read Elantris. Then have Emperor's Soul. As a treat.
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So I had no idea this Q&A existed, but I’m happy it does because it actually answered a lot of my questions and gave me a lot more peace with the ending to the trilogy. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/243-hero-of-ages-qa-time-wasters-guide/ I don’t know who this Hoid fellow is who is mentioned or his role in the Cosmere but, I assume that in the book he was the begged informant in Fadrex City that Vin was about to meet after Slowswift but then got a bad vibe and bounced instead. I always thought that moment was a little weird.
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Mordiceius posted:So I had no idea this Q&A existed, but I’m happy it does because it actually answered a lot of my questions and gave me a lot more peace with the ending to the trilogy. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/243-hero-of-ages-qa-time-wasters-guide/ You are correct 
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Dec 16, 2020 20:14
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Democratic Pirate posted:You are correct When will I learn who Hoid is? Which series is he part of? Stormlight?
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Dec 16, 2020 20:33
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Mordiceius posted:When will I learn who Hoid is? Which series is he part of? Stormlight? at the moment he's basically gilgamesh from final fantasy
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Dec 16, 2020 20:37
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Mordiceius posted:When will I learn who Hoid is? Which series is he part of? Stormlight? He has the most appearances in Stormlight, but you’ll spot him in other places if you keep an eye out.
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He is most prominent in Stormlight, but there's still a pretty big amount of mystery around him.
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Dec 16, 2020 20:40
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Mordiceius posted:When will I learn who Hoid is? Which series is he part of? Stormlight? hes you, the reader,
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Dec 16, 2020 20:46
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Hoid is an easter egg who isn't an actual character until Stormlight. Except when he is.
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Dec 16, 2020 21:04
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Tunicate posted:at the moment he's basically gilgamesh from final fantasy This is the best description someone could give. I immediately understand everything about him without knowing anything about him. lol
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Dec 16, 2020 21:23
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Knowing nothing about Hoid is kind of Hoid’s deal.
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Dec 16, 2020 22:29
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Mordiceius posted:This is the best description someone could give. I immediately understand everything about him without knowing anything about him. lol More specifically, he's Gilgamesh but Final Fantasy V hasn't been released yet and instead we just know him as Greg, a wandering warrior searching for powerful swords who also makes cameos in other games.
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Dec 16, 2020 23:07
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Bruceski posted:Hoid is an easter egg who isn't an actual character until Stormlight. Except when he is. It's actually kind of cool that Hoid is becoming a real fleshed-out character as the scope of the stormlight archive expands, rather than just cameos
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Dec 16, 2020 23:21
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Leng posted:Full Stormlight Archive spoiler livestream announced for Dec 17: State of Sanderson should be out this afternoon per the stream. Not too many big spoilers in the stream, lots of "Read and Find Out". Brandon did answer a question about a tone issue that came up during beta reading readers felt Kaladin's sections were too depressing. Brandon thought our current pandemic setting may have had an effect on reader reception, which I would tend to agree with, especially with Kaladin not only fighting depression but doing so frequently isolated from others. In response he tried to lighten up the tone in several of the Shallan and Adolin chapters. He also mentioned that Kaladin has "turned a corner" at this point, which makes me pleased. Even as someone who personally appreciates the accurate representation of chronic depression in Kaladin, it's starting to feel wearisome to read him repeatedly being put through sadness hell.
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Dec 18, 2020 14:33
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Subvisual Haze posted:State of Sanderson should be out this afternoon per the stream. I feel like we were pretty much promised that with RoW anyways. 2 Most notable details being Wit telling Kaladin he will feel warm again, and the 4th ideal to "counteract" a major trigger of his (feeling guilty/bad for not being able to do everything he thinks he should)
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Subvisual Haze posted:Not too many big spoilers in the stream, lots of "Read and Find Out". the whole beginning is him fighting with his huge parrot lmao (who keeps trying to steal his lav mic) in retrospect, it's increasingly obvious why aviars exist in the cosmere Sab669 posted:I feel like we were pretty much promised that with RoW anyways. 2 Most notable details being Wit telling Kaladin he will feel warm again, and the 4th ideal to "counteract" a major trigger of his (feeling guilty/bad for not being able to do everything he thinks he should) notable for me is that "odium did excise and remove a little bit of Wit's breaths, so it would be noticeable" -- seems to rule out "he stole all/a huge portion of his breaths" theorizing also Odium "removed them, he did not gain them" like we've seen Vasher do once -- given the reference to it being a very small amount, it might just be referring to removing the memory of the first encounter where Hoid realizes that it's not Rayse imo this would be consistent with my theory that Taravangian is Smart and would not be dumb enough to remove a bunch of important memories, since he's aware that Hoid is also smart and doesn't want to incur his suspicion (but T isn't good enough to do it in a totally undetectable way) eke out fucked around with this message at 17:42 on Dec 18, 2020 |
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more ROW spoilers from the stream: also confirmed that the suspected Terrisman house steward that owned the "red chicken" that Lift finds was a feruchemist keeping an eye on Dalinar and his household we pretty much guessed this since his outfit and the apparent changing of age were big red flags that some Feruchemy was going on
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eke out posted:
Spoilers for Mistborn and RoW. I kind of wonder if Hoid stored his memories elsewhere as well. We know that he has mistborn powers and knows about unattuned Copperminds, so who is to say that he doesn't have multiple backups for his memories. With how paranoid he seems to be, it would not surprise me if that is something he had done, especially if he suspected that people could remove / destroy his memories. I do think that it takes a bit from Odium removing his memories but I also think that it shows that beating him is possible.
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Dec 18, 2020 17:49
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eke out posted:the whole beginning is him fighting with his huge parrot lmao (who keeps trying to steal his lav mic) Yes it sounds like Odium merely removed the last couple minutes of memory from Hoid. Most likely just to keep intact the secret that he's not Rayse, which he gave away during the first time through their dialogue by asking a question that Rayse wouldn't have. Even if Hoid notices the last few minutes of his memory are tampered with, he wouldn't be capable of guessing why Odium specifically would mess with his memory. Hoid will be suspicious, but Odium keeps his secret safe for now. The most significant reveal on stream was an accidental one Someone asked who Renarin had a crush on, and then some miscommunication between Brandon and his assistant and chat accidentally confirmed that Renarin likes Rlain.
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https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2020/
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Dec 18, 2020 20:13
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quote:That means I’ll start writing Stormlight 5 on January 1st, 2022 for a fall 2023 release. God that sounds so far away. At least I guess I'm confident he'll hit that date, unlike many other authors 
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Would have liked to see another Rithmatist instead of Alcatraz or Reckoners, especially the latter. I bought each of the Reckoners but just didn't care about them. Really enjoyed Rithmatist a lot more.
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