when i was young and thought that being a pessimist made you smart i relished in atheism as a way of calling myself rational and superior. but even though i cannot find myself at home with traditional religion i think i understand the concept now. i look to stories and books that show me a better way to be. maybe that person is jesus, or maybe its aragorn or maybe its dalinar. but also maybe its sam, maybe its kaladin, maybe its lopen. this is the human condition, to tell stories about someone who had it harder than us, but they made it through anyway because they were good and brave and they loved each other. or maybe they didn't make it through but they left the world better than they found it, which is all we can really aspire to

Dalinar meeting the Nightwatcher I don't find much time lately for fanart, but this one just fitted my mood that day. It is based on an old sketch from 2021 which I never fully rendered.

Took these from my shit posting TikTok, maybe they'll be better appreciated here

The Stormlight Archive by Josh Corpuz

Shallan, Dalinar, Kaladin, Jasnah, Szeth

Pattern, Moash, Adolin, Syl, Rock, Gaz

Hoid, Lopen, Eshonai, Navani, Zahel

Sadeas, Lift, Veil, Teft, Rlain

Ben McSweeney: Pretty excellent, I like a lot of these!

The artist is from the Phillipines, and they do superb animation work as well. I think they're tied up in videogames, working on JRPGs.

My dumbass brain visualizing The Stormfather whenever he talks to Dalinar in Oathbringer

Please take my random Stormlight memes while I wait for KOWT

Dalinar writing Oathbringer

Jasnah: Uncle, a good scholar always cites their sources, for the benefit of the reader and other scholars.

Dalinar:

Dalinar:

everyone at dalinar: ewww you feel *negative emotions* at the thought of killing? you get nauseous when you end a life?? what an absolute loser lol the dementia is getting to him

source: vine

i can't imagine this hasn't been done before but nightblood beloved i had to do my own version

*edit: sorry i forgot to correct the captions to "souls of the evil" or equivalent lol

hes so tired

A scene from the chapter "A Small Bottle" in Oathbringer. (Which has firmly imprinted on my mind.) Renarin is such a precious boy ;_;

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Sometimes a family can be you, your wife that you forgot, your girlfriend who is also your dead brother's wife, her heretic daughter, your two sons, the one son's betrothed who's dad(not apart of the family) may or may not have been part of a plot to kill your heretic niece(now daughter????), your nephew(now son???????) Who just happens to be king of a nation, your honorary son who's kinship was bound by the blood of the battlefield, and his family of 20-1000 ex-bridgemen.

speak again the ancient oaths

Dalinar at the kid’s table practicing baby’s first glyphs with his grandson great-nephew / adopted grandson.

Actually this came from torithedormouse on instagram, prompting me to sketch Dalinar stuck in chairs too small for his big frame, after a bit in chapter 44 of Oathbringer, which describes him sitting on a small stool and looking entirely too big for it. 

So yeah 😁

After promising to be present on both a romantic date with Adolin as well as an important meeting with her fellow Radiants, Shallan must use her Lightweaving to appear in two places at once. While practicing Surgebinding with Szeth, Kaladin misuses Cohesion and the two have to learn to get through the day literally stuck together. Dalinar is banned from the tower's book club after his suggestion every week is always the way of kings.