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On a more general note, I think Brandon's prose has improved (for me at least). One problem I had with his prose initially (in earlier books) is that it tended to feel at times like something a Hollywood scriptwriter would produce. To me, this tended to "break the spell". From this point of view, "The Gathering Storm" was a big improvement and it feels like Brandon has recycled his efforts there into "Way of Kings", and quite possibly improved again.

Don't forget that Brandon has been working on Way of Kings for a lot longer then he was with The Gathering Storm. I don't doubt that he learned a lot from working on the epic TGS but there wasn't such a long time between him finishing TGS and WoK that i'd make the assumption that that's the reason for the change in writing style. Style is hard to change when you're set in a certain way. Ask any artist.

Man, you guys are gonna like this book. You're just scraping the surface.   :D

I'll take that as confirmation that something in somebodies post is relatively close to some form of truth! BWAHAH.

C'mon guys, there's one thing Brandon is pretty good about NOT doing, and that creating a world that relies on "magic does it" as an excuse for new and cool things. I'm not saying the man's a hard scientist, but he thinks stuff out better than that.

Oh trust me, I've come to trust Brandon when it comes to his uses of magic systems. The guy is a genius.

There's a lot of plant life that has evolved to survive the highstorms, and some of it is edible and cultivated. That too will make more sense as more is revealed.

I've yet to see any reason why the plants can't be cultivated regularly. Just because they hide underground doesn't make them impossible to get to. Just.. difficult. Nice to know these people don't live off of just meat, fish and spren soup.

Thanks for the info Ink. Yay for more people to spoil things for us!

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let's see... It looks like that prophecy was made in 1171, 4500 years after the prelude. Or maybe it happened in the year 1171, a long time before the prologue. By a pregnant lighteyed lady.
It seems these prophets die almost immediately after prophesying. Perhaps they have to be dying to prophesy. Agh! I wish I knew when these chapters took place.

To me, they feel like achieves of some major world-wide catastrophe... though personally, I'm rather curious as to just who is doing this and why... and how do they have second accurate precision on time of death.

I would not be surprised if this is some recording of "the enemy".

I don't think it's the result of the world-wide catastrophe, but a precursor to it. The Everstorm is the catastrophe, I'm pretty confident of that. Which is what is mentioned in the quotes.

Getting the accuracy down to the second is easy. If you are a higher power looking down on the scene of the world and recording everything. I believe whoever is recording these is looking for somebody specific, or that fits a specific criteria maybe.

This line out of Chapter I's quote slightly supports that theory:

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Sample is considered questionable.

Sample of the recording of history? Sample of the person being looked at doesn't quite fit what he/they/it are looking for?

While on the subject of the quotes.. The number 10 is coming up way too frequently to be nothing. Ten orders. Ten gods mentioned in the prologue (which correspondes to the 10 beings in the prelude).

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The calendar is not insane. It's very straightforward actually.

Now I'm sad. I wanted a really complex calendar that involved time travel.

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Prologue:
“The love of men is a frigid thing, a mountain stream only three steps from the ice. We are his. Oh Stormfather… we are his. It is but a thousand days, and the Everstorm comes.” 
- Collected on the first day of the week Palah of the month Shash of the year 1171, thirty-one seconds before death. Subject was a darkeyed pregnant woman of middle years. The child did not survive.

1000 days until the everstorm... I just want to know how far away it is at any given time in the book.

I was under the impression that the Everstorm had already happened. Isn't that what caused the Spren to appear when the connection wasn't completely closed to the spirit realm? Which had made me assume that all these quotes were from way in the past... maybe near the time of the prelude. But then that would make the current year somewhere around 5676 (as of chapter 1).

We could take that same theory and reverse it. Say it's currently 1171.. the prelude happened in -3334 (can't really call it BC now can I? Lol) which means we're looking at a 1000 days until the Everstorm comes, which means that the woman who died was in someway seeing the future. "Who was she?" is now the biggest question in this theory in my opinion. Such a claim isn't just speculative, she knew.

I want to see the calendar system laid out. I'm hoping it's pretty insane.

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Brandon did that on purpose. I know, I marked it as a mistake too. And so did the copyeditor.

Aww fudge I thought I was helpful. Everything else I had found was already reported. Any significance behind the purposeful inconsistency? Is 4th of Tanates a holiday or major event? Lol

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Do you have to read the prolouge to read the prelude, the prolouge as in the one in the Warbreaker papperback? I'm a bit strapped for cash, as the expression goes (And I already have the Hardcover).

The prelude, prologue and chapters 1-3 are all included in the preview on tor.com.

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Very nice. I like these... prophecies... but I wish I had access to the ars arcanum, so I could tell when the world is going to end. And look forward to it as I read.

I think that would ruin the book. Knowing exactly when the world ends. Lol

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First thing I gotta say to spark conversation would be that Spren are awesome. I want one to follow me around wherever I go. Besides the one encounter of a Spren being intelligent which we currently don't know if it was real or just his imagination. I'm more inclined to assume it was real. Anybody think we will see more intelligent Spren throughout the book? I want to see a Spren that is considered a scholar with it's knowledge that it doesn't know how it got it.

Quick write up of the descriptions of Spren because I want to keep a log of all of them mentioned in the book.

  • Fearspren: Blobs of purple goo. Violet.
  • Painspren: Small orange hands with overly long fingers.
  • Windspren: Amorphous, vaguely translucent.
  • Hungerspren: Brown flies almost too small to see.
  • Rotspren: Tiny & red.

List of all the quotes of each chapter. I like to keep these together so that I can quickly find any similarities. You know Brandon and his love of secret information in the top of each chapter.

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Prologue:

“The love of men is a frigid thing, a mountain stream only three steps from the ice. We are his. Oh Stormfather… we are his. It is but a thousand days, and the Everstorm comes.” 
- Collected on the first day of the week Palah of the month Shash of the year 1171, thirty-one seconds before death. Subject was a darkeyed pregnant woman of middle years. The child did not survive.

Chapter I:

“You’ve killed me. Bastards, you’ve killed me! While the sun is still hot, I die!” 
- Collected on the fifth day of the week Chach, Month Betab of the year 1171, ten seconds before death. Subject was a darkeyed soldier thirty-one years of age. Sample is considered questionable.

Chapter II:

“Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone?” 
- Collected on the second day of Kakash, year 1171, five seconds before death. Subject was a lighteved woman in her third decade.

Chapter III:

“A man stood on a Cliffside and watched his homeland fall into dust. The waters surged beneat, so far beneath. And he heard a child crying. They were his own tears.” 
- Collected on the 4th of Tanates, year 1171, thirty seconds before death. Subject was a cobbler of some renown.


Thank you Brandon for making a character that is an artist. For me as an artist it brings me even more into the story to connect with something I know to be real right off the bat.

My first big assumption of the book: Kalak is Kaladin. I know, basing it off name is ridiculous but it just feels like the same character at the beginning. That's assuming that the 10 are immortal still after they give up their Oath-pact.

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At the beginning of chapter 3 in the quoted section of Way of Kings. Brandon used 4th. In chapter 1 and 2 he used fifth and second. The consistency between abbreviation is off.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Spren
« on: June 11, 2010, 12:03:53 AM »
I almost read that last post, which might have explained what Sprens are: I thought that's what the Way of Kings thread was for, a place to keep all the spoilers together.
At least put 'Way of Kings' spoilers in the title please!

That's exactly why I made the Way of Kings thread. 

:D WHERE ARE THE FORUM COPS WHEN YOU NEED 'EM!?  :D

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Spren
« on: June 10, 2010, 11:34:38 PM »
I think the plural of spren is spren.

You sir just blew mah mind.  ;D

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Spren
« on: June 10, 2010, 11:30:41 PM »
could be considered bad Netiquette.

I'd agree but I think he was bored because nobody would reply to his post in the Way of Kings discussion about Sprens... Spran?... Whats the plural of Spren?

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I'm actually starting my notes of all cultures characteristics and countries and list of questions I want answered. Plus i'm doing it at work so I get like 1-2min at a time every hour. LOL Slow process is slow.

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Now that the prelude and chapters 1-3 have been released, this thread is open to discussion of them.

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THIS IS A WARNING THAT SPOILERS OF CHAPTERS 1 THROUGH 3 & PRELUDE AWAIT BEHIND THIS POST

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: One divine thread?
« on: June 10, 2010, 12:21:13 AM »
He is mentioned by name in all the books except for Well of Ascension.

I've been mind farting lately too much. I'ma go back to lurking now. T__T

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