Been reading through the Stormlight Archive (just finished Words of Radiance) and playing a lot of Crimson Desert. Tried to create look inspired by big AK's shardfit in CD. (screenshots in-game)

So i just finished WAT for the first time and by the storms this was such an amazing ride. The sadness for finishing these books and the anticipation for the next ones! Ugh im.going right into mistborn now

The rules of engagement are quite simple

A. Perpendicularity opens up allowing passage between Cyberpunk Earth and Roshar.

B.Investiture works perfectly fine on the other side BUT shard holders can only view and not directly do anything to the other universe unless they have their own "gods".

C. Be creative!

Scenario 1: How do our beloved characters and POVS react to the opening of this portal and what they find on the other side

Scenario 2: On a general basis what are people amazed by or horrified by on a cultural, social, technological basis

On my 3rd reread. This book is absolutely the wildest ride of the series. I love this story and world so much, but this book in particular is so much fun!

Of the entire series, this is the PAGE TURNER! I can't stop. I know what happens. I've read it twice before. I'm still giddy, and laughing, and scared, and crying, and exultant, and hopeful, and all of it with this book!!

I’m currently on WoR and I’ve shipped Kaladin and Syl since WoK… I can’t exactly explain it since I haven’t read the rest of the books, and it’s supposed to be a 10- book series, but my gut tells me that they’re endgame! I just hope that once they become romantically involved in the later books, that it doesn’t take away from the plot of the books because I love the series. And I would hate for Kaladin to end up alone, anyways, for me it’s him and Syl I just feel it…. I hope we get this relationship in the later books.

I know how these first 5 books end!

So i have like a good question, a sharblade can modify its form. So... it can maybe become a knife or a spear... How big can it be? is it limited to its original design, and if someone wanted could it be like bullet size. Maybe to be shot out of a bow like an arrow? I have read so far till oathbringer and i dont have a clear answer...

I swore the First Ideal yesterday. This is my spren Reflection (drawn by me). Any other Lightweavers here? If so, how do y'all make your illusions? I'd love to hear about y'all!

Overall, loved the book, but it took me a lot longer to get through compared to Words of Radiance and Oathbringer. Like Way of Kings and the other preceding books, things started picking up by parts 3 and 4 and by part 5 I was zooming through it not wanting to put it down.

Personal highlight of mine was Navani’s storyline. It’s rare to see a middle-aged (? Older?) female character with grown children get to be a lead protagonist in fantasy and action stories, and I found hers to be compelling. Navani and Raboniel’s interactions were my favorite, and I enjoyed their almost cat-and-mouse-like games with one another. They had a great dynamic. Power vs powerless, slaver and captive, scholar and scholar.

Raboniel quickly became my favorite antagonist of the series so far, possibly even my favorite character. I liked how much depth she had and she was so well written. She’s an occupier and oppressor of the tower, but not stereotypically ruthless or mean like you would expect. She surprised me a lot throughout the book! Halfway through reading RoW I switched to the audiobook and Kate Reading really brings her to life. I do like this recurring theme of how everyone in this series is “human” in some way or another even if they are not in fact human, from the honor spren, to the gods and heralds, and the Fused. Theres a great equalizer in that not a single character is inherently perfect.

RIP Teft 🪦🥀🕊️ My poor guy and Lirin had death flags written all over them, and with Kaladin’s character arc this book of not being able to save everyone I knew one of the two would likely be leaving.

I dont really have any negatives to say about the book, other than Shallan and Adolin’s Shadesmar trip being a personal low point. The trial was a bit cheesy, and Shallan’s big reveal and merging with Veil felt a little melodramatic compared to the other dramas unfolding in the Physical Realm. After being spoiled by lots of Dalinar in Oathbringer I was sad to have him take a back seat in the narrative this book, though I expected it.

Enjoyed the epilogue with Wit and how he’s being pulled into the narrative more. Loved the ambiguity at the end with him saying everything “went exactly as he planned”.

On to Wind and Truth!!

I work in a frozen foods warehouse. It is loud, so I use the time to listen to yt or audio books.

My biggest surprise about the series so far is finding out how the character names are spelled.

I've been wanting to start The Way of Kings for ages, and now I'm facing a decision that shouldn't be so hard: should I read it or listen to it? I commute about an hour a day and I do a lot of chores at home, so audiobooks fit my life well. But I also love physical books, and I've heard this series has maps and illustrations that add to the experience.

I've also heard people praise the narration, saying that the voices bring the characters to life in a way that is hard to match on paper. At the same time, the story is long and layered, and I'm worried that I might miss details while driving or cooking. I tend to zone out during slower sections.

Maybe the answer is to do both, reading at night and listening during the day, but I don't know if that's silly. For those who've done it either way, which gave you the best experience? Did you regret your choice? Please keep answers spoiler-free, I'd like to go in blind. I'd like to enjoy the world the right way from the start, since i've been looking forward to this for a long time.

I’ve already read all of Mistborn.

Regarding Stormlight Archives, I’m now up to about 200 pages in to Rhythm of War.

Do I need to stop and read Warbreaker? I don’t really want to pivot if I don’t truly need to.

**EDIT: okay I won’t 😁 thanks

The last chapters of RoW are making me so emotional in so many ways.

Now reading about the stormfather allowing Eshonar to see all of Roshar upon her death broke meeee. An older lady that was sitting next to me asked me if I was alright.

The listeners have such tragic backstories, Eshonai had such pure dreams (being an adventurer!) and got horribly manipulated. I'm so happy she got such a beautiful send off. Thank you Brandon

Signed, a listener apologist

For a while, I've been reading most of the Stormlight Archive with music from my earpieces. It's mainly to help focus and ignore noises from the train, which is where I normally do more reading.

I have a few playlists to go with different moods, like more generic tracks that can fit a wide variety of scenes, dark music for when things are going wrong and a uplifting battle music playlist when things are going well for the main characters. Normally it's stuff without lyrics so I don't get thrown off.

At the climax where Kaladin swears the Fourth Ideal, this new track got shuffled in by Spotify and it fit so well that I wanted to share it. The song is Everflow from Ace Combat 8, and even with lyrics, it was mostly in a very flow-ly English or Latin so it made the scene feel incredibly dramatic. Plus the lyrics felt so fitting ("Riding the endless sky" and "Fi ventus (Become the wind)"), after I went to find the lyrics/translations on Youtube.

I never thought of how music from the fighter jet video game would fit so well with Kaladin. He's basically a fantasy jet plane too.

Just wanted to know if anyone else does this and if you have any song recommendations for the next books

Just got through chapter 24 of the audio book and I’m really liking this book. All the rankings I find online have this the lowest so I was tempering my expectations but I’m loving this book. All the lore, details about the magic system, spren, and now we are headed to the Honor Spren stronghold (and I have been dying to know more about them). And all this before the damn sanderlanche. Yeah this series is peak

I'm halfway through Oathbringer, and thought itd be fun to make a bunch of half-informed predictions for people to tell me, on a scale of 1-10, how wrong they are. No explanations, just the numbers

1. Kaladin and Veil have a fling, with Kaladin feeling horrible after realizing he got with Adolin's bride.

2. Adolin will be left as King of Alethkar by the end of the arc

3. Kaladin will act as Honor's champion, with Moash as Odium's.

4. Moash will bond to a unique kind of spren called an Odiumspren or Hatespren.

5. Dalinar will take the Stormfather's place and become a spren of some kind.

6. The Ghostbloods, the serious members at least, are all literally ghosts that have either bonded with spren after death, or been bound by a past Bondsmith or even via a Rosharan version of Hemalurgy.

7. Most of Bridge 4 will die, including Renarin

8. The Unmade are created using the corpses of the vessels of Shards that Odium has killed.

9. Odium wants to kill Cultivation because she facilitates the existence of spren bonds with humans.

10. Shallan will somehow manage to split her alter egos from herself and make them their own independent entities, probably unintentionally.

11. Hoid, if he hasn't already, will bind several kinds of spren and become a multi-ordered Radiant.

12. Kaladin'll end up with the parshwoman who hated him.

13. Adolin will become a Dustbringer.

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Does anyone know if Sanderson has read the Divine Comedy? Picture taken by me today.

Wow this book is an absolute roller coaster.

Shallan killed Tyn with a Shardblade, who turns out to have organized the hit on Jasnah. Dalinar caught a Shardblade with his palms and Kaladin fought off Szeth.

Absolute banger so far

I started the way of kings and I am I think on chapter 7 but I am lost. I do not understand everything that is happening because many words are new. I have bought the book in English which is not my first language. Is it because of the language that I do not understand or because noone understands at the start the new world? I have read many books in English, so I am used to reading in English and never had a problem.

Update: Thank you all so much for your responses!! You were all very helpful and welcoming!!

Rhythm of war is my favorite Cosmere book ❤️ and this concept has lived in my brain for months!

Art by me: TheLastFairry ✨

I'd like to preface this by saying that I was a die hard Dalinar fan throughout the entire series, like a lot of you I'm sure. Yeah, that turned out well.

He died with only his grandchild that wanted to kill him as company, because of course the Stormfather had to get vaporised right before his eyes just before he died. I don't even know how to feel or what to say. Yes, his move was smart and all, but I can't help feeling a little like his death was in vain. Roshar is still in imminent danger, Retribution is more powerful than ever, and the evident clash of him and another God is bound to destroy Roshar or at least heavily damage it soon enough, unless that rat Taravangian finds a way to wriggle out of it.

All in all, feeling a little deflated and disappointed. And depressed, especially knowing that the sixth book is gonna take awhile to come out. What were your reactions after finishing, or who were your favourite characters?

At the beginning of WaT, she was at the 4th ideal level with her truths. Now, at the end of WaT, did admitting who her mother was and meeting with her in the Spiritual Realm count as a truth for her oaths with Pattern?

Question is this: at the end of WaT, is Shallan a 5th Ideal radiant?