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"A whore joke, Wit? Is that the best you can manage?"
"I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts."

Somewhere a 12 year old laughed at this.

Jeez, does everyone need to be racist in this book?

Lighteyes hate anyone non-lighteye.
Darkeyes hate lighteyes and Parsh people.
Parshendi hate everyone, including themselves.
And since everyone hate Parsh people it only fits to make them main villains, right?

Can't find logic even if I'm crazy enough to try and argue with it.

Act 1:
Two heroes talking:

"See that sinister looking fellow? The only ugly guy in our story. The one who said he hates us and wants to kill us. Yeah, I bet he's the main villain."
"Nooo! How do you know that?"
"Hunch."

Act 2:
First big battle:

"Ugly sinister fellow! You saved us! You're clearly a good guy!"

Act 3:
Second big battle. Heroes dying:

"But... ugly fellow... why betraying us... such cliche..."

End.

"Sadeas's hand had gone to his sword. Not a Shardblade, for Sadeas didn't have one."

Yes. I needed a reminder, since I wasn't careful enough not a chapter ago when you mentioned it for the first time:

"The highprince hated that Adolin had a blade while Sadeas had none"

Or the second time:

<>"Sadeas was calling for his grandbow."<>

Let me guess. Since he didn't have a Shardblade, right?

"A whore joke, Wit? Is that the best you can manage?"
"I point out truths when I see them, Brightlord Sadeas. Each man has his place. Mine is to make insults. Yours is to be in-sluts."

Somewhere a 12 year old laughed at this.

“I can see you are a woman of discriminating taste.”
“I am. I do like my meals prepared very carefully, as my palate is quite delicate.”
“Pardon. I meant that you have discriminating taste in books.”
“I’ve never eaten one, actually.”

It's really not your fault, Shallan. You deserve better dialogue. And wit. And character. And story. And book. But most of all...

I've just now realized why so many people complained about movie Batman v Superman setting up the Justice League. Movie within a movie.
Here, these interludes do just that.

Anyway - Dalinar and Adolin!!! <33

Waaaaait a sec. Grump? Thick-skinned? Bald? Friend!? Understand!!?



What! Are! You! Doing! Here!?

Huh, Brandon's Expendables mashup is still possible then... I dig it...

Today I went fishing and I caught one. Very lucky fish other fisherman said.
Cures aching joints for a good month after you eat it, and sometimes let you see when friends were going to visit by letting you read the shapes of the sound.

If I actually done that and wrote it here, people would call me crazy.
But if I put that in-between these "" things, people will say: stellar worldbuilding Mr Sanderson! Ahhh...

Well hello there, Teft. You blindly devoted, desperate in need of worshiping someone, Galladon's knock-off.

Now, we only need someone who'll, like Galladon in Elantris, constantly repeat nonsense in a local dialect... something like sule or kolo...
Ah, Lopen, there you are! Yes, gancho, you, get over here, gon!

Ahh, I'm having way too much fun with this book...