Timewaster's Guide Archive

New American Standard longest by far, I've read it atleast 3 or 4 times in totality but certain sections (the Gospels etc.) up to 20 times. I haven't touched it in 5 years but we'll not get into that.

That's a detail you can't assume because there is zero evidence to support it. I'm the product of being raised around lawyers and engineers so I'm not against assumptions if they are probable, what you suggest is possible but not probable. That's a rather important piece of information don't you think it would have been at least implied that some spren was floating around somewhere? Oh, I just remembered! There are no spren where Szeth comes from, that was told to us, that isn't an assumption.

Besides that just being somewhat comical (mood swings that bad just don't happen to "normal people") it doesn't explain Szeth's surgebinding

Burglars have to stick together  also by Zelazny Creatures of Light and Darkness (Egyptian SF/ Fantasy)

Szeth has no spren. That detail is too important to leave out, spren are attracted to certain things based on their nature Kaladin had the power brought out by Syl but it was always there, that is the only logical explanation because there aren't spren where Szeth come from and yet some group still teaches surgebinding.


1.“Three of sixteen ruled, but now the Broken One reigns.”—Collected: Chachanan, 1173, 84 seconds pre-death. Subject: a cutpurse with the wasting sickness, of partial Iriali descent.

I interpreted this quote as evidence of 3 shards on Roshar and it is my opinion that the Broken One is Odium or whoever it was that killed the Almighty. It is further possible that this is the person that Hoid hates.

Minor characters aren't minor or they would be characters not minor characters. They are only minor in relation to major characters who are PoVs. However that argument is immaterial because everyone knows Rock is clearly superior .

Lord of Light was already mentioned and it is SF blended with Fantasy but it is Hindi and very well done. It won Zelazny his first Nebula and Hugo awards.

WoK was uber awesome! I'm reading Plato's Republic at work and Salute the Dark at home (Salute the Dark is as good as WoK!)