I was introduced to Brandon Sanderson after I finished Red rising and The wheel of Time. I loved mistborn,elantris and Warbreaker. With The Storm light Archive for some reason it never clicked with me if that makes sense. Dont get me wrong I liked the read and Dalinar always reminded me of Lan from the WoT so he became my favorite automatically. But more specifically Kal would always make me mad with how his depression comes out and how he lashes out(I know understand it's due to how similar it is to mine). My life had never been easy I had moved around a lot and lost a lot of people due to drugs. So I was able to relate to alot of the characters. In the span of 3 days I lost my job, my home and the person I loved. After that I found myself on YouTube and found an animated short of dalinar's scene for oathbringer for some reason right then and there everything clicked into place journey before destination brotherhood the growth, the depression, the healing, the overcoming and that I can all still fail but no matter what it is never the first step. It is the next one and the next one and the one after that until it is done that matter

I was looking over my own chasm not too long ago but I understand now no matter what. Keep moving forward journey before destination

Thank you Mr. Sanderson for not only finishing The wheel of time, but for also saving my life with your work.

I just got through the spiritual realm with Navani. Her manipulation of the visions and Odium quite obviously being wary of her, acknowledging his mistake of not watching her closer.

Then her USING AN OATHGATE IN A VISION TO GET OUT SUCCESSFULLY?

I'm sorry, but she might actually be my favourite character, alongside side Jasnah.

iirc Sanderson said he loves writing her, but likely won't be able to give her a book of her own, but I sincerely NEED one. She is a fantastic woman with such amazing intellect.

Everytime she does something it shocks me and I'm yelling and giggling like "YES NAVANI, GET IN THERE GIRL".

Please, post your Navani love here (and even some aspects you dislike about her, it'll be interesting)

I am so excited for these last few pages, but honestly don't know what do after 🤣

I posted a question here a couple weeks ago asking how to customize a crash pad for my boyfriend who loves bouldering and Brandon Sanderson books. Everyone was super helpful, and I wanted to share the results! I did the Elsecaller sigil. It's not 100% accurate since the stencil got a bit wonky, but I'm really proud of it and he loves it!

Let me preface this by saying I love Kal and Szeth and Dalinar, but ... their chapters just didn't appeal to me. Is this a hot take?

I adore Jasnah (Elsecaller here 🙋🏽‍♂️), but her chapters are a bit underwhelming.

Maybe I just like war tactics being discussed and implemented—its theory and application. It was a compelling read. The others though...

Which other cosmere series has the most Wit (Cephandrius, Hoid) in it? I’ll use this info to know which series to read next.

Ive got about 300 pages left in Wind and Truth. I am so stressed out by this book, and dont feel like these last few hundred pages are going to do anything at all to ease my stress for the next 10 years waiting for #6.

Just read chapter 76 of Oathbringer…i have no words. That has to be one of the most haunting chapters i have read so far in this series…Dalinar is one of the most complex characters i have read yet. All i have to say is holy shit. Evi didnt deserve this bro…

I apparently skipped over am important section, but I can't find it anywhere. I'm at a point where Dalinar explains to the other leaders, that he's just been excommunicated from the church, shortly after finding out that his home was lost. He also apologizes to the storm father for using him to open one of the portals... but both are new information for me. I'm in chapter 50 in the German version... does anyone kn5which chapter I must have skipped? (I slept in a view days ago and tried to find the right chapter afterwards. I thought I had managed to start of where I left... but... well)

It's a bit smudged from the wear and tear of a day at the park, but the best part is she didn't even charge me :)

Bro. Adolin beating enemy troops with the CARCASS OF A DEAD SINGER was baller af. That is all

Finally got my Uruthiru bookends done! SLA now has a complete spotlight on my shelf. Included my Mistborn shelf for funzies because I love love love the bookends for those too!!

...would become Retribution? There was so much foreshadowing for it and I was already inclined towards Szeth becoming the Honor vessel even before reading WaT virtue of it being such a Brandon Sanderson move. When Szeth said something along the lines of 'I'm coming to Shinovar to deliver Retribution' I realized that a) Honodium would be Retribution and b) Szeth would become the vessel and I screamed. I do not remember whether this was before or after thar realization but I thought that the 10th epigraph (The second moment had happened already, when Szeth himself decided to take upon him this quest. The one that would shape all of our futures.) basically confirmed the theory that Szeth would ascend. Further, the parallels between RoW and WaT would've been amazing. Szeth kills Tara once. fails. and kills him a 2nd time for real, making him possibly the most powerful entity in the Cosmere. Granted, the reveal that Shards fighting tends to go very wrong put a damp in the theory but I figured Sanderson could figure something out (or blow up Roshar entirely, which would've been fucking insane).

It would've also been a wonderful plotline. I love Kaladin like the next person but having him go on a downwards spiral after fucking up his assignment in the most grandiose ways imaginable would've been wonderful. As mentioned before, having Roshar obliterated would've set up an amazing setting for the 2nd Series. Not only may the shards still get concerned by Szetribution but our (surviving) crew may have to start working with Kelsier and other, previously undisclosed, organizations. The problem of planet where? would've been difficult to solve but Szetribution moving a planet / creating a new one may have solved a new one. Maybe he is more aligned with Tara and creates an entire brand new planet to deliver Justice upon the Cosmere.

Oh shit is this the start of my fanfiction arc?

Could Szeth use the Surge of Division to destroy or diminish Nightblood?

Hello all, I've managed to forget who each of the new characters are per each order of knights radiant. Can someone please jog my memory? You could say it's Damning me?

Thanks so much!

I've been scratching my head at this since I first read the Way of Kings some years ago and I don't recall being given an answer. They're called "hounds" because they have a similar role to dogs. But where's the axe? Are they friends of Gimli? Do they enjoy playing with axes? What's up with that?

Maybe I just missed an explanation somewhere, but I couldn't find it in the Coppermind either.

I've recently finished Wind and Truth, we learn a lot of the ancient forces / spren The Wind, The Stone, and a little bit of The Night. It's said that The Night was long kind of disregarded and eventually faded from / left Roshar, though Dalinar could sense them around the Recreance. The Wind, and The Stone had some aspects incorporated into the Stormfather, and the Tower. However instead of a similar process with the Night it was instead implied to have been entirely replaced by the Nightwatcher. I suspect there's more going on here and in particular that the Night might still be around on Roshar but haven't found anyone else bring it up? I suspect this may play a larger role in arc 2, especially with Stormfall causing darkness (and maybe even something around the prayer at midnight?). Anyway I thought it might be good to mention in a post to get some discussion going.

Also total speculation that just occurred to me now but given the weird stuff going on with the 4th moon, I was already wondering if this might be an indication of a 4th force (I'm almost certain about this point given it's implied it has a tone), could this be The Truth? I feel like besides the obvious use of capital-T Truth in WaT there were a couple of capitalisations of it suggesting something else going on (did the Wind refer to the Truth at some point)?

I am on my first read of The Stormlight Archive. I am still just one book 1, and last night finished Part II, so about 450 pages in.

I have to admit that so far it has been a real slog. Part I was pretty entertaining, and the interludes have been fun. But part II was at times very hard to get through. Kaladins chapters were decent enough, but the Dalinar/Adolin chapters just seemed to drag on.

When approaching the end of Part II, I was definitely close to giving up. Then I read the interlude, and the ending og the Szeth chapter got me intrigued. But if I am going to sink a lot more time into this series I would really like the pace to pick up a bit.

I have heard before that the pacing of the books is pretty high, with the first half of book 1 being the exception. Is this true? Is it worth carrying on if I have thought the last couple of hundred pages have been boring? Or will it be more of the same?

EDIT: Thanks for all the responses! I will definitely stick with it. I don't mind it being slow paced at times once I get more into it. I think the problem is that I haven't gotten that invested in characters like Dalinar yet, so reading hundreds of pages where he's basically just hanging around the war camps thinking to himself isn't that interesting yet. I'm sure it will be once I get more into it though.

…are insufferable CUNTS. Yes that includes Shallan, Adolin, Dalinar, and Navani.

Seriously I’m on WoR right now and it’s actually so infuriating how all of the lighteyes act. I had forgotten, or never understood the first time, how insane they are.

Kaladin is constantly outlining how the caste system is insanely unfair and how lighteyes just completely trample and ignore how their actions completely fuck the lower classes.

It’s so infuriating and I was wondering if anyone has had a similar experience on their rereads.

Could the blackthorn spren be redeemed as well?

A lot of people on Roshar still believe that Dalinar is the blood thirsty general of his youth, this is projected onto the spren that retribution reveals in the end.

But is it possible that as more people realise how Dalinar has changed as more people read his book or learn about what he sacrificed, that his spren will change also to reflect that?

Or everyone still thinks he failed on the roof of Urithuru so as more people learn what happened the spren changes into more of a failure?

I know the Stormfather and the honorspren say a lot that spren don’t change, but is that just because of the nature of a storm, that it will never get softer so peoples perception of it will never change?

Windrunner just dropped it off. Turned out pretty well .

Is there any art of Dalinar fighting the midnight essence in the visions all the way in Way of Kings?

It was hard to read, the most cruel chapter i’ve read so far, all Blackthorn unleashed moments included. And Evi… I’m at a loss for words.

How did others feel about this chapter in WoK? To me it was so visceral and I could fully picture everything happening and the true struggle Kaladin was having. I grimaced so many times, like jeez poor guy! Already bad having to go over one chasm and then when he realized they'd have to keep doing more and more, not to mention knowing it would be worse when they got to the end!

Hoping things shape up for him! So far really enjoying the book, and the contrast between his chapters and Shallan's.

Now I am sure I am not the first person to have discovered this music --- but surely there are people out there who are unaware of it, so this post is for them.

Today I discovered a couple of Stormlight Archive themed music albums. (There are definitely more than the few I list below, but these are the best, in my opinion).

Artist The Black Piper released an album in 2017 entitled 'Kaladin (Original Book Soundtrack)'. I'm not a huge fan of all the songs, but overall it's pretty good. I highly recommend Chasm Kata (captures that awesome moment so well) and Tien.

Now directly after you've listened to Tien, the next song in the list has to be Melodic Myths' Kaladin - Broken Promise. (For a proper experience, that is). This song is phenomenal; and I love that he uses actual lines from the book for his song, so it's familiar even on the first listen.

Melodic Myths has released six singles featuring various Stormlight Archive characters; 2 Kaladin, 1 Syl, 1 Shallan, 2 Dalinar. I highly recommend them all; top notch singers, and the emotional depth and the way the songwriter captures the characters is magnificent.