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June 19 - July 17, 2024
Ten Heralds from ancient Vorin theology. Jezerezeh, Ishi, Kelek, Talenelat.
Oathpacted. The spelling of the names seems to have been corrupted over the millenia.
For if you were going to assassinate a man, he was entitled to see you coming.
Voidbringers
Precursor to Shad Brooks' Lightbringers in Shadow of the Conqueror?
This was a Basic Lashing, first of his three kinds of Lashings.
Light Binding? Shadow of the Conqueror
Truthless, there was only one life he was forbidden to take. And that was his own.
Kill the king, but be seen doing it.
gemstones that powered Shardplate,
Darkstone Drivers- Shadow of the Conqueror
No, Kaladin thought. Honor died eight months ago.
Kaladin's story thus far reminds me of Andovier Helm from Kingfall Histories.
Brightness.”
Light vs Dark dichotomy like Shadow of the Conqueror
“Past failure does not prove that there is not chance in the future, yes?”
bivouacked
Why do fantasy writers love this word?! Just say, "camped."
Jasnah’s hand sank into the rock.
Like Relg- Belgariad
It was true; Jasnah really did have a functioning Soulcaster. And a powerful one too. Nine out of ten Soulcasters were capable of a few limited transformations: creating water or grain from stone; forming bland, single-roomed rock buildings out of air or cloth. A greater one, like Jasnah’s, could effectuate any transformation. Literally turn any substance into any other one.
Powered by stormlight? Can just anyone harness stormlight?
Creationspren
Im getting exhausted with the Spren.
The man who had killed Jasnah’s father nearly six years before—prompting the war against the Parshendi in Natanatan—had been Shin. The Assassin in White, they called him.
Finally a call back to the prologue!
The Radiants were the orders of knights they founded.”
Archknights? Shadow of the conqueror.
darkeyed commoners
Is the difference between Lighteyed and Darkeyed socioeconomic status?
Surgebinder?
Again, like a Lightbinder from Shadow of the Conqueror?
As always, it didn’t cut living flesh, though it killed the leg as surely as if it had been cut free. The large limb slipped, falling numb and useless.
What is the point of these swords if they don't cut flesh?
and sections of flesh blackened and died when the Shardblade struck.
Nevermind... I get it now...
Dalinar himself remembered nothing of the woman. She had been excised from his memory,
Hmmm... Interesting…
He couldn’t even remember her name. When others spoke it, it slipped from his mind, like a pat of butter sliding off a too-hot knife.
Memory blocking spell?
Vorinism taught that the finest warriors would have the holy privilege of joining the Heralds after death, fighting to reclaim the Tranquiline Halls from the Voidbringers.
Valhalla
Men didn’t write.
So, women are the scholars. Refreshing!
all spren are, in a sense, virtually the same individual.
Interesting...
“Spren appear when something changes—when fear appears, or when it begins to rain. They are the heart of change, and therefore the heart of all things.”
FINALLY!
Stories of instantaneous travel and the Oathgates pervade these tales.
"Traveling" - WOT
