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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Spoilers (Most likely) about WoK and Elantris
« on: January 08, 2011, 05:45:32 PM »
Coping doesn't necessarily mean coping *well.* Going mad might simply be the way your brain handles the pain, rather than dealing with it head-on and bearing the full force of it. The implication that I got from the part in Elantris where Raoden is Hoed was that whenever he tried to think coherently, the pain overwhelmed him and he couldn't deal with it. So rather than doing that, he just went into kind of a mindless state where he was divorced from the pain.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Roshar and the Ocean. (very minor spoilers)
« on: January 08, 2011, 05:37:55 PM »
It's an interesting thought. I don't think it's right, though, given that there's mention of having fires and such, and if it was all underwater you wouldn't expect there to be distinct mentions of water sources, like the Purelake or the streams in the king's feasting area.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Hopes/Predictions/Wild Theories for Book 2
« on: January 07, 2011, 04:57:35 PM »
Quote from: andygal on January 05, 2011, 01:23:13 AM
Quote from: happyman on January 04, 2011, 04:17:35 PM
Quote from: KhyEllie on January 03, 2011, 08:46:25 PM
I really want to see everybody intersect at the same time. Szeth shows up to fight Dalinar, but Kaladin gets in the way of that, and as their battling Jasnah and Shallan show up and offer the aid of their Soulcasting abilities. Oh, and maybe Amaram can show up just in time to watch it all :)

The only thing I can think in response to that is "The Wheel weaves as the Wheel wills."

The only thing I can think of is "You forgot about Talanel". To make it truly epic, he needs to walk into the middle of things.
The fact that, as of the end of TWoK, I have a mental picture of Talenel as just kind of wandering around Roshar in a bewildered, clueless haze, should give you some idea of just how hard I'm laughing at this thought.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WOK Cover Art Questions
« on: January 07, 2011, 04:55:02 PM »
Phaz, you are making me feel completely inadequate as a Sanderson fan. If you'll excuse me, I've got to go atone by painting the table of Allomantic symbols on my ceiling.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: TWOK Casting
« on: January 07, 2011, 04:48:19 PM »
I don't think we're trying to decide what the characters look like, we're just pondering over who would do a good job of portraying them. (At least I am.) For me the casting of a movie based on a book has never really had much bearing on how I picture the characters. For example, I've always had very clear pictures of what the characters in Lord of the Rings look like, and despite really enjoying the movies and thinking the actors did a great job I still picture the characters as being completely different. If there was a movie made of The Way of Kings, it likely wouldn't do much to affect my personal opinion of how the characters look.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: knights radient
« on: January 07, 2011, 04:41:51 PM »
Quote from: KhyEllie on January 06, 2011, 02:00:55 AM
Can I just throw out a random theory on the Knights Radiant here? I was reading the back of the book, and ended up just staring at the line, "before the Heralds abandoned us and the Knights Radiant turned against us." for ten minutes.
 
For no apparently reason it occurred to me that maybe the Radiants have somehow 'fallen from grace' for lack of a better term, and that maybe they got cursed, or something to that effect.

It's been a long time since I have had the book--I just barely got it back--and I'm too lazy to look it up, but I remember something about the Voidbringers being the parshmen, or at least that's what Jasnah thinks. Any chance the Radiants are Parshendi? or vise versa?

I just had to write it down before I started pulling apart the flaws :P

Any thoughts?

That's... an interesting theory. The only thing I can think of at the moment is, if that's the case, why did they give up their shards at all? The Parshendi quite clearly desire shardplate and shardblades and will throw a lot of effort after getting them.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The OATHSHARD Series-Hints at future Stormlight Archive books
« on: January 07, 2011, 04:19:37 PM »
Quote from: SamuelR on January 06, 2011, 03:59:33 AM

That's interesting about Shinri and Shallan. Both Davar though; evidently that's pretty important.


Not necessarily. It's pretty common for authors to recycle names and other chunks of character information from abandoned characters even when the new incarnation has almost nothing to do with the old version. (I've had about twenty completely different characters named Talon, for example...)

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Recommend a book
« on: December 30, 2010, 01:37:04 PM »
Writing Excuses was plugging John Brown's Servant of a Dark God for a while, and I'm going to go ahead and back them up on that. It's got fun, likable characters, an interesting and developed world, and a magic system that's evocative of Sanderson's style while still being unique. I enjoyed it a lot.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Spoilers (Most likely) about WoK and Elantris
« on: December 30, 2010, 01:11:59 PM »
It's one of those things that I don't think anyone would really be qualified to make a decision about unless they'd experienced it, and given the context of this particular dilemma I doubt anybody I know is going to be able to tell me about their first-hand experience. That being said, I'd rather exist than just cease to be. Pain is something you can learn to cope with, even if, like the Hoed, that coping mechanism is madness.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Bridge 4 Crew T-Shirts
« on: December 30, 2010, 12:38:26 PM »
Quote from: randomaximus on December 18, 2010, 10:02:46 AM
or a bumper sticker with "Keep honking for just 10 more heartbeats..."?

This made me laugh so hard. I agree that almost nobody would get it, but I'd stick it on my car anyway just because of how awesome it is.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: TWOK Casting
« on: December 30, 2010, 12:29:39 PM »
Huh, apparently I picture Hoid as being younger than everybody else does. Truth be told I actually picture him as a slightly more reserved Johnny Depp. Liam Neeson would be a FANTASTIC Dalinar. And how about Mark Strong taking a stab at Sadeas?

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Bridge 4 Crew T-Shirts
« on: October 18, 2010, 12:02:42 PM »
I had an idea this morning for a t-shirt advertising "Rock's Horneater Cafe." :D It could have a cartoonish picture of Rock with a pot of stew, and a list of some of his signature dishes. (Try our "Chull patty surprise!")

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Official Fan Art Thread **Don't create new threads**
« on: October 18, 2010, 10:47:14 AM »
Oh WOW.  :o

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: favorite sanderson book?
« on: October 17, 2010, 09:30:37 AM »
It's odd, but in a way, Way of Kings is my favourite because of Elantris. I've read Elantris three times now and I just can't put it down at any point. Raoden's arc is just fascinating - I adore watching him be thrown into this impossible, hopeless situation completely blind, and pull together what he finds around him to make something that's downright glorious. That's the same thing that enthralled me in Kaladin's chapters in WoK, and those were the best part of the entire book. :)

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WoK: Top 5 Villians That Really Really Need to Die (*Spoilers*)
« on: October 17, 2010, 09:17:49 AM »
I think the dynamic between Szeth and Taravangian is really interesting, and I hope we're going to get to see more of it. Taravangian actually reminds me a lot of Szeth in some ways - compelled by ways and reasons we don't yet understand to kill people that he doesn't want to kill. I almost wonder if he made Szeth kill all those innocents so that he'd have a closer understanding of what Taravangian was doing. Just a spur-of-the-moment impression. :)

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