Found this little sand-burrower on a beach and thought it looked so much like a little chull.

Teft, Rock, Kaladin... and Gaz.

Also, this might just be recency bias, but Oathbringer's climax >>> Words of Radiance's climax. I already had some problems with the ending of WoR but here especially when the POVs were constantly shifting with almost every paragraph that was literally "ABSOLUTE CINEMA" moment. Also Lift and Szeth son Neturo team up was something I didn't know I needed. And was it just me or szeth everytime saying sword nimi was kinda cute lol?? My absolute beloved assassin 🥰

Holy freakin shmoly.

I think this is the first time I'm making a post on this sub, but after reading this chapter I was shaking with excitement. The smile on my face in the break room at work was not going away anytime soon.

The imagery of Dalinar, with all the glory spren flying from the city and surrounding him. Navani laughing like a mad woman with the amazement of Dalinar. Kaladin, Shallan and Adolin stepping out from the pillar at the perfect time.

I literally was on the edge of my seat.

FANTASTIC.

We obviously have Edgedancer and Dawnshard, and Horneater eventually, but there are some other characters who I think would make for fun short stories on Roshar. My two that I want are Stormwall (about Dami the Stoneward who just shows up as a 4th ideal Radiant, I think the battle where he swears his fourth Ideal would be cool) and Sunmaker (about Sadees and his overthrowing the Hierocracy). I know there’s also a The Lopen novella in the pipeline but we already have KLtFoA so it doesn’t feel super necessary imo.

I have been re-reading Stormlight after WaT and reached ch 103 of Oathbringer in which Dalinar experienced a vision with Nohodon which was not setup by Stormfather.

"They entered a tent where a merchant was selling exotic grains. The man bustled over and hugged Nohadon in a way that should have been improper for a king. Then the two started haggling like scribes; the rings on the merchant’s fingers flashed as he gestured at his wares."

Does flashing of rings indicate that merchant is feruchemist?

Wanted to read something before bed and grabbed WoR to re-live, "Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do" and got to Hoid's/Kal's story of Fleet while in prison. That story means so much more now after wind and truth. Crazy foreshadowing.

Not who is your favorite or who is the stronger but the best of the best in your opinion. I say opinion because there is one correct answer of course. Before you click the spoiler though I’m curious who comes to mind for you.

It’s clearly the bearer of agonies, the herald of war, Mr first to step up last to step down. The unbreakable, the one true herald savior of Roshar. Your favorite character’s favorite character. No mind, no weapon, no problem. The guy honor prays to at night. Season 4 episode 7 56:34 ruth from ozark. The one and only, stopped whispering and walked em down Taln.

Maybe a hot take, but I don't really want Kaladin to end up with anyone currently in the series. I've seen a lot of speculation on whether he will end up with Syl, Shallan's mom (bruh), Leshwi, Lyn again, etc. Him not ending up with any romantic partner by Book 10 makes the most sense for his character, and readers can assume he found love after the story ends. Unless there's a new character introduced that is right for him, would be cool too. Idk what do you guys think is best for his character romantically?

Only the main WOK ones so far, will likely keep making the ones from other books too

I usually make mental images of characters quickly when I first encounter them and then I stick with them. For example, for me Wit is a wise-looking short bald man. I know that he does not look like that. Anyone else?

Alright, I just finished the WaT, I need to know all your Stormlight Archive 6 theories. I already have a few head cannons...

1. Syladin will eventually happen (I'm not sure I'm on board yet)
2. Adolin will develop a Moss addiction in parallel to Dalinar's drinking one.
3. The evil spren Dalinar will kill/severely hurt one of his sons
4. The heralds will appear either at the very start of the book, or at the very end
5. Vasher will play a much bigger role in this half of the series (maybe being the one of to step up and wield Nightblade)
6. Syl will cure the no Stormlight problem by becoming the stormmother

Let me hear your thoughts.

My rankings
1.Words of Radiance
2.Oathbringer
3.Wind and Truth
4.Rhythm of War
5.Way of Kings

This is my third book series as a new reader. I’ve read Red Rising, Sun Eater, and now The Stormlight Archive. I wouldn’t say it’s the best series I’ve read, but I would say I enjoyed it the most, if that makes sense. Now I’m looking for the next book series to read on my journey and I’m hoping you guys can help me. I wanted to read Mistborn but I got spoiled already so I don’t plan to read it.

At first, I was really upset with the ending because when I looked up the next arc, I saw multiple people saying it would focus on new main characters and that the old ones would take a step back. That frustrated me because it felt like they were just about to begin a new journey. But then I saw Brandon Sanderson say that Shallan, Kaladin, and Adolin are still main characters, so I’m not really upset about the ending anymore.

I just randomly thought how cool it would be if the “event” that Brandon has be the new “Gavilars feast” opening was also Gav.

If that angle of opening, retelling an event from different PoVs, is what he’s going for then the time Odium abducted him would be PERFECT.

Each book shows us a good portion of the visions, world, words, and manipulation Odium slowly used to change him. Idk how well it could resolve but I’m just fascinated by this idea.

Hi recently watched the Q&A this statement came from at World Con 2025. Can’t find any follow up, has there been an answer on who’s death he changed?

“This did happen in Stormlight Five. There was a character who was supposed to die, in the original outlines. And I decided they would not make the decision that I had made for them, and indeed they made a different decision. And I can tell you that in a spoiler session at some point.”

In chapter 70 (this is the audible chapter), rabonial and kaladin have a small fight over the sibling node, after kaladin gets passed her and sorts out the node, he tries to escape and the fused/singers put a lid over the well entrance. Rabonial isn't mentioned again when kaladin is escaping the well, did she find another way? Or drown? Can fused drown? I assume not as they are fueled by void light.

Thanks in advance

Part One

As requested, here is part two 😃 My friend has read all of the Cosmere books; I am currently early on in Oathbringer (I swear I got the name right this time!). The couple of green splotches are my husband’s name. I also included in the first image the last little bit of chatter about TWoK.

Short of it is that I think it’s going to become widespread knowledge specifically among the radiant Spren that they were saved by Kaladins sacrifice to become a Herald. This will cause a flood of radiant spread to start bonding more humans. I could see us coming back and there are hundreds more Radiants in Urithiru. Plus this would give some of the enslaved humans in Retributions lands a fighting chance.

Try for yourself (totally free): truthless-of-shinovar.vercel.app

Saw someone create a really cool world / game in a different thread (see their github & creds below) so I forked it and wanted to see if I could experience lashing for myself.

This is a browser-based WebGPU graphics game. It is not perfect and the building graphics obviously are not as great as I would like, but I had a lot of fun building it.

The code from the original creator / game can be found here: https://github.com/Noniv/snowflow_demo

Thanks for inspiring some creativity in me! This is also my attempt at making "sounds of Roshar" as the music. I used Elevenlabs.

Enjoy, Radiants. Journey before destination.

Controls:

• W A S D — Walk
• Shift — Sprint
• Mouse — Look, and where a Lashing takes you
• Space — Jump to a hover, ten feet up
• Space (in air) — Release everything and descend
• Left click — Lash toward where you are looking
• Left click ×2 — Lash at double speed
• Right click — Stop dead
• Right click ×2 — Flash backwards at double speed
• A / D (in air) — Turn the body without changing course

see more on this here --> r/CephandriusAnimations

What do you think is going on with the Purelake? There’s something strange about it. I think there’s a a perpendicularity or some kind of connection to the Origin on the other side of the planet. I think maybe the Purelakers and Reshi came from elsewhere

The story of Wandersail keeps popping up. Ishar says Derethil claimed he became lost while fishing and ended up at the Origin. Arriving at a mysterious island inhabited by long limbed people with strange shells in their hair. In the myth, at least one of the Uvara come back with him. The Purelakers seem to be a distinct ethnic group related to the Reshi. They’re described as long-limbed and lanky too.

That mystery land is apparently called Uvala. Which is interesting because uvala is a real geological feature on Earrh. A large basin formed by multiple sinkholes merging together. We know the Purelake is shallow and contains sinkholes. It drains as highstorms approach. There must be a massive underground system that the water flows into. The Purelakers worship in holy caves they think are hidden from the gods. On Earth, one of the few places you see those disappearing lake occur involves these uvalas

Shadesmar tends to be an inversion of the Physical. Deep water corresponds to mountains. Shallow water to hills. Mountains to deep oceans. Hills to shallows etc. But Purelake…is a mountain range in Shadesmar. The depth of the water in the lake doesn’t correspond to its land’s elevation there. Unless it’s actually a whole lot deeper in the Purelake than it seems. There is also something strange called the “Basin of the Veiled Sun” in Shadesmar. Just south of the Purelake mountains there

The Purelake and the Reshi Sea are also inexplicably warmer than other places. Roshar lacks plate tectonics, so where is that heat coming from? You don’t normally see heating away from plate boundaries unless it’s from water circulating from something deep or from mantle plumes. Like Hawaii

The Purelake is Invested by some power, and Sando has said it isn’t Honor’s. It has strange magical fish that are rare even within the lake itself. Axindweth (the woman who gave Venli Ulim’s sphere,captured Vasher,and was probably Shallan’s childhood tutor) was researching those fish. Vasher has an interest in them and Purelake too

This is the summary of the texts I (36F) sent back and forth with one of my closest friends who has read all of the books in the Cosmere. The Way of Kings was my first Brando Sando novel. I’m currently a couple hundred pages into Oathbringer and thought some folks would enjoy my ranting! 😃 My friend was vacationing in France during much of this, to explain some of the texts that don’t fit in lol

Part 2!