The Way of Kings : pre-release

[firstRainbowRose]

Ooo, that sounds promising.  Now I'm all excited.  Any news on WHEN he'll start releasing things?

[Ehran]

2010 is looking like it'll turn out to be a great year for fantasy,  hopefully G.R.R.M. will also be releasing "A Dance with Dragons".

Wow, eternal optimist are you?   

[Plasman]

i am turning 19 and plan on leaving on my mission before Kings comes out

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Ah! Well then, you'll hopefully have a couple books waiting for you when you get home, plus another one coming out very soon!

Nothing that I knew was coming before my mission bothered me very much, and I enjoyed catching up once I got back. I was seriously annoyed at not getting to see The Postman though, since I loved the book and the first time I knew it was being made into a movie was when I saw a poster at a bus stop. But that turned out all right too because the movie wasn't that great. (Well, there was a good movie in there, but there was also an extra hour of film.)

[Plasman]

yeah it'll be ok. it was just kind of a bummer when i first realized it. but i  guess this way i won't have to stop for two years in between books.

[Ari54]

Come back safely! That way you can tell us what you thought of Way of Kings

[Andrew the Great]

Now that I think about it, I turn 19 in 2 years, so there's a good chance that I could just barely miss the last wheel of time book. That would be thoroughly dissappointing, though I have been waiting so long already it really wouldn't make much of a difference. And I'll have a Way of Kings "gap," but oh well. I'll live.

[zas678]

Hey lookee what I found! Anyways, I think that Way of Kings will have a guy who just 'happens' to stumble onto a shard sword (mystical shard-powered things) and he will struggle what to do with it. Does he try to take power with it , because he's a good person and would rule better? Or does he give it to someone else who he feels is more 'worthy' to have it? Or does he not take power because he feels it would corrupt him?

Any who, I think that we will also have a fairly scholarly figure, since Brandon seems to like them (Sazed, Elend, Raoden, Vasher?). I also think he will have a fairly strong female leader, but not another Vin.  I think that part of the magic, as some people seem to already know (curse you Dragonsteel!), Will be the ability to change from the Physical to the Cognitive, and maybe even to the Spiritual? I doubt that last one, or it will be such a rare (or impossible) occurance that it is a huge deal when a character gets it.

[firstRainbowRose]

I'm almost postivie you're right about the female lead and scolar, who if the snipit I listened do is any idication, will be the same character.

Another cool aspect of the magic that I've gotten from talking to DS readers is that if you can do one magic, you can do them all, which would be really cool.  It will definatly be an intresting change from MB where that was something they tried to keep secret until the end-ish.

[Miyabi]

The magic system in DS if you used one you didn't have it was REALLY hard to do.

[Troubadour]

Will be the ability to change from the Physical to the Cognitive, and maybe even to the Spiritual?

Hopefully this is true. It fits right in with the whole duality of Roshar vs. Shadesmar, and my multi-planar planet theory.

[Inkthinker]

hahaha... I see what Brandon means when he says it's equal parts fun and frustration to watch people speculate. 

[Miyabi]

Ink!  Your art is truly missed!

[firstRainbowRose]

I second that your art is missed, although I must add that from what I've been allowed to see of your concept art, I can't wait to see what all you've done.  And I must tell you that the stuff I have seen is amazing!

[Vatdoro]

Ink!  Your art is truly missed!

When I heard the signing in Salt Lake last week had some concept art for TWoK I was ecstatic because I assumed it would be Ink's artwork. I have to admit I was a little disappointed when I learned it was Isaac's maps and symbols. (Nothing against Isaac's work. I think he's done an outstanding job on Brandon's books.)

Anyway, I'm just saying I've REALLY been looking forward to seeing the artwork Ink has done for TWoK for a long time. Too bad it's so top secret you can't share it on here.