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blacksalander · 1 year

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#honorblades #cosmere #stormlightarchive #stormlight #brandonsanderson

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wanderingchanneler · 1 year

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I’ve seen some people say that Szeth pre-exile was in a respected position for training with the Honorblades, and eventually bonding Jezrien’s Blade. They seem to think that learning how to wield the Honorblades and learn the Surges is, well, an honor. I think this is inaccurate for at least two reasons.

First, they’re called Honorblades because they were made directly by Honor, using his own essence/Investiture. There’s no inherent honor in using one, any more than there is in carrying a regular Shardblade.

Second, something I think people forget/overlook is that warriors and anyone who uses a weapon are at the bottom of Shin social structure. The only people who are lower than fighters are Truthless.

I imagine that those who train with the Honorblades also have low social rank. The Shin might view it as a necessary evil (there’s a passing line in Oathbringer that seems to imply that they watched for the return of the Voidbringers) but it is still bad. Killing is the worst sin in the Shin religion, and anyone who learns how to use the Honorblades is also trained to kill. There would be no honor in that.

Even before Szeth was named Truthless and exiled from Shinovar, he was of one of the lowest social ranks to his people. He might have used the Honorblades, but he found no honor in it.

#this isn’t referencing anything in particular #I just found myself thinking about it #Cosmere #Stormlight Archive #Honorblades #Shin #Shinovar #Szeth-son-son-Vallano #Szethposting #but not like I usually do #Oathbringer spoilers

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virtualtear00 · 28 days

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Some more honorblades

#artists on tumblr #stormlight archive #honorblades #sword design

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lamaery · 11 months

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Vyre He is unchained. Or is he?

I know fans are in two minds about him. Personally, I just want him to be an interesting character. So I wish, we would have gotten a bit more of him, more of the bond he had with Kaladin. I find him difficult to grasp, especially his whole reasoning about how ending his misery would be the best solution for his former friend and bridge leader in RoW. And so I sketched them a bit more, to see what I could get from that, trying to understand him a little bit better (and how I want his face structured for my version of him; I have drawn Moash only a few times so far). The biggest conclusion was, that he should have never cut his hair, since it seems his man-bun contained all his honor.

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thebfg37 · 1 year

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What I think is interesting about a stormlight adaptation is that instead of szeth’s blade and powers being a mystery, viewers will be able to tell immediately that he wields Jesriens honorblade.

#aren’t differences in medium fun?#cosmere #brandon sanderson #stormlight #twok #the way of kings #szeth #szeth son son vallano #Jesrien #honorblade

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to-shards-you-say · 11 months

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good morning everyone the existence of a bondsmith honorblade makes me go sicko mode and you will all inevitably hear about it

#stormfather divorce court posting #'how could ishar. wielder of the bondsmith honorblade. become like this'#boy have i got a hot take for you about the direct correlation between those two things

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koravelliumavast · 2 years

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An absolute masterpiece (lie) of Kaladin and Moash stick figures.

#disclaimer: i am not an art person #also this is incredibly stupid #why is kaladins neck so long? idk because it is #stormlight archive #horrible stick figure art with maggie #Why is the honorblade so small? the same reason Kaladins neck is long #kaladin is all blue because of the bridge four uniform being blue.. and because i can #moash is all black because of his not at all emo bridge four uniform and with the red for some dramatic flair. also because i can #we even have some accenting colors going on with the syl spear

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thatguyjim · 9 months

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Recently started rereading stormlight, shalash was totally at the feast. I mean restares (I forget his herald name) mentioned seeing the work of another herald using she/her, her statue was missing (she defaces depictions of herself), AND there was an unusual person jasnah met with (who had a shardblade)

#like im 90% sure there were at least three heralds at the feast that night #i should try to count the honorblades bc szeth had one and presumably shalash's shardblade is an honorblade #idk about restares and law guy tho #stormlight spoilers #i forget which book but i think #Oathbringer spoilers #maybe? im gonna be safe and tag it #rythm of war spoilers #too #stormlight archives #way of kings #(the statue was described as missing in the way of kings)#cosmere #brandon sanderson #heralds

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cosmerelists · 1 year

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What Happens When You Read Stormlight Archive first...

Personally, I ignored all of the “reading order” advice and chose Way of Kings as my very first Sanderson book. No regrets, to be honest! But from personal experience, here is what happens when your first stop in the Cosmere is the Stormlight Archive.

[Spoilers for Mistborn & Stormlight Archive & Warbreaker]

1. You don’t know who Hoid is

At first, Wit was just another character to me. Then the hints that he was, like, immortal or super old or some sort of god kept piling up. When Dalinar asked Wit if he was a Herald, I thought, “Ah ha! I was right!”

I was not right.

2. You don’t recognize any Worldhoppers

Zahel was just a grumpy guy who could do weird things with laundry. Azure was cool but I didn’t understand why she just sort of left the plot at one point. When people were called “oddly short” by Roshar standards, it meant nothing to me.

3. You don’t recognize non-Roshar magic

Seriously, that laundry scene with Zahel made NO SENSE to me. And when Hoid used non-Roshar powers, I just figured it was, like, some sort of bard thing.

4. You get very impatient with the interludes

I didn’t want my world to be expanded or to understand the nuances of spren or fabrials. I just wanted to get back to Kaladin! I remember being completely baffled by that one interlude where three men I didn’t know where looking for some dude with white hair and a narrow face.

It was definitely only on a reread that I appreciated them.

5. The big reveals are lost on you at first

When Szeth’s sword asked if he wanted to destroy some evil today, I thought, “Huh! Neat!” When Ialai namedropped Scadrial, I thought it was probably a person. And when Thaidakar was revealed as the Lord of Scars, I don’t think I even noticed really? I was too busy weeping as I tried to remember the difference between Thaidakar and Restares.

6. You buy into the Shallan-Adolin-Kaladin love triangle

Honestly, I wasn’t sure which way it would turn out! Would Shallan leave Adolin for Kaladin? It felt so plausible! I had not yet learned the ironclad rule that all arranged marriages in a Sanderson book will be successful. By the time I got to Warbreaker, I was like, “Oh, Siri is being married against her will to the evil, tyrannical god-king? I guess they’ll get along!” And I was right.

7. The magic system feels like so much

I was hanging on by a thread trying to keep straight Surgebinding and Honorblades and Shardblades and whatever Hoid had going on. Not to mention fabrials. By the time I got to Mistborn, it was like, “Three completely independent magic systems that depend on their own rules and can interact? Yeah! I can handle that!”

8. You want to read them all

For me, starting with Stormlight Archive was best! I loved it so much that I was suddenly wanting to read everything Sanderson wrote. Plus, the backwards reveals were pretty fun. Oh, you’re dead, are you, Kelsier? That’s not what Book 4 of Stormlight says...

And hey! Crazy how the King’s Wit keeps showing up!

#cosmerelists #Stormlight Archive #Mistborn #cosmere #Hoid #Kaladin #Shallan #Adolin #Zahel #Azure #warbreaker #Siri

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onlycosmere · 26 days

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Honorblade: On a scale of one to ten, how much terror would a Scadrian feel upon seeing one of Roshar's moons?

Brandon Sanderson: It's gonna depend on the individual. I think some will get a sense of immediate dread by having that thing looming over them. That would probably be the consistent feeling. But there's probably people who are just like, "Oh, look at the thing in the sky. That's cool." So, depends on the individual.

#the stormlight archive #the way of kings #mistborn #the final empire #cosmere #cfsbf #wob #root #brandon sanderson

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cosmermaid · 7 months

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One of the reasons I'm looking forward to Stormlight 5 is because I really want to find out what the leaders of Shinovar were thinking. Okay, you think this guy is lying about the radiants coming back, so you bind him to an oathstone and make him be the slave of anyone who holds it, no matter who they happen to be.

Alright. Kind of a fucked punishment if you ask me but hey. People do fucked up things. I can buy that, even if I don't like it.

But you inflict this punishment on a guy who is a hyper-competent assassin and make him keep the honorblade that gives him supernatural powers. An artifact that SUPPOSEDLY your culture was supposed to keep hold of.

Um?

Either whoever was in charge of punishing Szeth was incredibly stupid and lacked foresight, or they knew exactly what would happen if they let the outside world enslave Szeth while he had that honorblade.

Either way, the tea's going to be hot and I'm looking forward to it.

#stormlight #szeth #also we're at the point in the story where Kaladin is on the mend but Szeth is probably even more self-loathing than Kaladin has ever been #so their road trip is going to be fun #I can tell

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blacksalander · 1 year

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Honorblades

I'm working on a a print with all 10 blades now that they are ready

#the stormlight archive #art #fantasy #honorblades #cosmere

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wanderingchanneler · 2 years

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I have a half-baked thought about the similarities and contrasts between Kaladin and Szeth, and how that’s reflected in the way they use and think of their powers.

On one hand, Kaladin comes into his powers without really understanding what’s going on. He learns his abilities largely by instinct, and doesn’t make significant progress with fully using them consciously until he sees what Szeth can do.

On the other hand, Szeth spent years training with the Honorblades and gaining (presumably) at least a passing familiarity with all ten Surges. I headcanon that he was given Jezrien’s Honorblade (the Blade of the Windrunners) because that was one of the ones he wielded the best.

While Kaladin learned his abilities almost entirely through instinct, trial and error, and Syl’s extremely fragmented memories, Szeth learned his through diligent training and years of instruction.

I think that difference in background is shown a lot through each character’s narration. Each of them have moments of technical explanation, which are really ways of showing how the magic system actually works. What I find interesting is that most of that explanation is done through Szeth’s point of view, while Kaladin is left to figure it out more organically.

I think both methods are good and each have their strengths and weaknesses. It’s just fascinating that they’re explored in such different ways and through the eyes of very different characters and in such contrasted settings/situations.

Even after Kaladin figures out his abilities more and becomes more confident with them, Szeth’s internal relation to and explanation of his own are still generally more technical. Kaladin tends to rely on instinct (especially early on), while Szeth consistently relies on his training.

Keep in mind that I’m focusing on their approaches to Surgebinding, not the other aspects of fighting each of them were trained in in the past.

Again, I think a large part of this is related to their different backgrounds, but it might also be related to their personalities/how they relate to their powers overall, backgrounds aside.

I want to expand on this more at some point, but I think that’ll have to be done at another time.

Tldr: Szeth tends to think of his Surgebinding more technically, while Kaladin tends to think of his more instinctively. There are exceptions in both cases, but going into that here would take more effort than I wanted to put into this post

#Stormlight Archive #Kaladin #Szeth #Surgebinding #Honorblade #Windrunner #I wrote this at 1 in the morning #sorry if it doesn’t make sense #I promise it was a great thought before I tried putting into words #Character comparison and contrast

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virtualtear00 · 25 days

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First pass for Jezrien's honorblades. Still more to sketch because I'm not 100% happy with these

#artists on tumblr #stormlight archive #prop design #honorblades #sword design #Not happy because I want them to look more ancient

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shakesthewizard · 1 month

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Are y'all ready for my niche content

Deltarune characters as Knights Radiant from the Stormlight Archive let's go

Susie - "I will seek self-mastery." The Order of the Dustbringers. Susie is brash and self-destructive, and learns early on that her potential for harm won't keep her safe - it might just get the people she cares about killed. In the latter half of chapter 1 and the entirety of Chapter 2, we see Susie not only learning how to harness her great capacity for good, but we also see her defy the will of the narrative. Dragging ralsei away from time with Kris, and in the snowgrave route she even demonstrates the power to avoid a cutscene. The theme of self control (narratively and literally) is abundant for her.

As a Dustbringer, Susie controls the surges of Division and Abrasion, which are perfect to the point of redundancy. Do I even need to explain how they fit her character and themes?

Ralsei - Ralsei is tricky. You might say that Ralsei is a spren of some kind - maybe an honorspren, or even a highspren? This makes sense for a Darkner, being a kind of spirit that exists on behalf of human/monsterkind. If you go down that route you may even go so far as to call him a voidspren, or corrupted spren of some type. Maybe a corrupted Highspren? Serving the law of a malicious power against his will.

Ralsei has associations with both Knowledge and Healing, making him a good candidate for a Truthwatcher. He's even a lonely, bespectacled Prince! He fits the Renarin-alike bill pretty nicely - which would also make sense, given that his game-knowledge and apparent desire to tell secrets to Kris, but not Us, reminds me a lot of Renarin's future sight and its effects on Odium. Ralsei is undecided, largely because of how little we actually know about him.

Kris - "I will speak my truth." The Order of the Lightweavers. Kris has a LOT going on in terms of their identity, secrets, and fiction. Like Shallan, I think Kris is very close to a lot of powerful forces in the story that they're not showing us, and they know a lot more than we let them tell. Kris literally spends most of their time nowadays pretending to be someone else, even if they don't want to.

Here's the thing, though - I think Kris is possessed by a cognitive shadow, with Bondsmith powers. Whether through Ishi's honorblade or something else, Kris demonstrates the ability to bring people together for a common cause - but only while we control them. Otherwise, they're a weird, lonely kid who has historically struggled to make and keep friends.

As a Lightweaver, Kris commands the surges of Illumination and Transformation. This makes sense, given that they are our window into this world, and they shape our understanding of it. They also literally perform transformation on a number of occasions - opening at least one dark fountain, and seriously squishing their own identity around with all the stuff they pull with our SOUL.

Noelle - "I will reach my potential." The Order of the Elsecallers. Or at least, she will be at some point. I'm really tempted to assign her corrupted Truthwatcher, given her propensity to stumble backwards into knowledge and secrets, and her possible connections with HIM. But I don't think this resonates with her character very strongly. Rather, I think Noelle has a lot of potential stored within her, and she needs to learn how to access it and command it for herself. Right now, she's being controlled by a host of powers; her mother, Us, Queen, and the aforementioned HIM. Many of whom are in agreement - this kid is going places. They all want to harness her for their own gain, and Noelle will swear the second ideal when she finally musters up the courage to ask Susie out.

As an Elsecaller, Noelle will command the surges of Transformation and Transportation. Truth be told, I don't see these as especially relevant to her character, besides their enormous breadth of utility. Ignoring everything else, I'd probably give her Edgedancer surges, but ces la vie.

Berdly - "I will seek justice." Order of the Skybreakers.

Okay, hear me out. He's a lot like Szeth.

I swear I'm serious, just bear with me, okay? He begins his journey by blindly following the strange laws of a strange land. Eventually, after doing nominal bad guy shit for half the story, he realizes that the law he was following sucked ass, and that he has no excuse for his behavior. As a first step towards growing, he pledges his service to the goals of a more protagonisty leader type while he figures himself out. Do you see my vision?

Berdly cares a LOT about the metrics of those in power. Grades, IQ, the law. His fatal flaw, in fact, is that he uses them as a tool for measuring his worth. His arc will be about reconsidering those things, and finding an attitude towards power that seeks justice instead of order.

As a Skybreaker, Berdly commands the surges of Gravitation and Division. He's a bird who people tend to avoid. What do you want from me?

Lancer - Lancer is Susie's Dustspren. Fight me.

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casualatienjoyer · 3 months

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Ishars Honorblade could probably break Moash’s last chain

#the possibilities oooo #cosmere #stormlight archive #moash #kaladin

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