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August 22 - September 7, 2025
A Shardblade did not cut living flesh; it severed the soul itself.
Cool
but he was taller by several fingers than even Dallet.
Intersting measurements in fingers
Words aren’t meant to be kept inside, you see. They are free creatures, and if locked away will unsettle the stomach.”
“All right. First, find a cliff.” “That, it will give you a vantage to see the area?” “No,” Kaladin said. “It will give me something to throw you off of.”
Lol
“Ignorance is hardly unusual, Miss Davar. The longer I live, the more I come to realize that it is the natural state of the human mind.
“Chronic competence, I should guess. She’s been so successful in life that she has unrealistic expectations of others.”
Thats me!
When the king had been given the initial estimate, he had brushed aside the deaths,
Twat
“Everybody knows it. Even a slave could become a lighteyes if he won a Shardblade.”
Easteregg?
A spear butt to the gut knocked him to the ground, and he gasped as the soldiers began to kick. One booted foot tore open his belt pouch. His spheres—too precious to leave in the barrack—scattered across the stones. They had somehow lost their Stormlight, and were now dun, their life run out.
Is kaladin draining the stormlight from the spheres unknowingly?
As if the lack of storms left him without strength.
Interesting. Something to do with his 'powers'?
Jasnah wore the black glove that hid the fake.
What if shallan's soulcaster wasnt broken?
“I am not a foolish jester or storyteller,” Sigzil said, yanking off a boot. “I do not ‘give tales.’ I spread knowledge of cultures, peoples, thoughts, and dreams. I bring peace through understanding. It is the holy charge my order received from the Heralds themselves.”
Like Sazed
Few men dared assault a Shardbearer directly—at least not without the entire weight of their army forcing them forward, almost against their will.
Kalladin dared
So why commit fewer troops than their all?
Are they mirroring the Alethi?
A story doesn’t live until it is imagined in someone’s mind.”
Love this
“The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon. Too often, we forget that.”
And sanderson definitely makes me question
no good can be achieved of false means.
Agreed
Waiting. I see their faces in mirrors. Symbols, twisted, inhuman …”
Like Shallen?
Strength does not make one capable of rule; it makes one capable of service.”
“I should see you strung up anyway.” “It’s been tried,” Kaladin said. “Didn’t work.
Lol
Sadeas was abandoning Dalinar and his troops, leaving them surrounded on three sides by Parshendi, alone on the Shattered Plains. And he was taking all of his bridges with him.
Wtaf?
