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despondentnuzzy · 3 months
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Last few weeks I've been thinking a lot about bridges in the Stormlight Archives. What they meant, what their role is and I just wanna ramble analyze again so here we go.
Bridges ARE forces of Unity and conduits of Honor. In the series I argue there is no tighter knit group, no greater camaraderie than Bridge 4. And speaking of, my mind is going to start there and with Kaladin in TWOK.
Kaladin, in his first perspective chapter, internally monologues "Honor is Dead". In the part 1 the place Kaladin and the bridgemen before him go to end their lives is called "The Honor Chasm", and when Kaladin goes right after the end of a highstorm, a fall to ones death into a large body of water invokes a lot of jumping off of bridges imagery to me.
The souls of the bridgemen, like Honor, are shattered. But we see Kaladin reforge them anew in the Chasms. It is there that they really begin to feel unity, to have shared purpose and goals. Honor is their shield, literally so with the bridge and their Side Carry. Together the broken men of Bridge 4 return from despair and helplessness to become something greater.
Their bridge, saving their lives, acting as their shield and bond then becomes the lone piece that connects Kaladin and Dalinar. In his visions the almighty tells Dalinar "Act with Honor and Honor will aid you." AND WOW THAT BRIDGE SURE DOES SAVE HIM.
Not to mention the fact that Dalinar is a living bridge between the realms, consistently "bridges the gap" between peoples and cultures in founding the coalition of Kings in Oathbringer. That bridges themselves so easily can be interpreted as THE Journey BETWEEN Destinations. But if you want one piece of lore that I think shows this as well. The shared sure of Bondsmiths and Windrunners is that of "Adhesion". Dubbed Honors truest surge, the one only of him. The surge that CONNECTS TOGETHER.
I swear I am struggling to properly convey how much this makes my brain tingle but so many elements of both how the Honor and Unity are represented in this book have such strong ties to the way bridges and those who tend to them are showcased. Please tell me I am not the only one seeing this or I will go insane. I feel like I need to make a dozen more posts about this for it to stop rotating in my skull
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jemmayoung · 1 year
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Shallan Davar as Radiant from Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive.
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faendan · 1 month
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The most realistic thing about the Stormlight Archive is that the city where bits of gods reside, and what are essentially messiahs live, is a walkable city.
Only a walkable city could be that holy.
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Life before death, Radiants!
Not sure? Official quiz here:
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varalgus · 8 months
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Dalinar Kholin. Big Ol’ WIP of my favorite bondsmith. I’d argue that his character arc and development is on par with Prince Zuko, one of the most well written characters I’ve read.
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just-cosmere-fan · 7 months
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itsnotmika · 3 months
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losing dalinar on 6 dec 2024
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onlycosmere · 4 months
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Questioner: So, suppression fabrials. They don't work above the Fourth Ideal for Radiants, but they work on all Fused. Why?
Brandon Sanderson: Fused have in general a smaller amount of Investiture—or access to a smaller amount of Investiture—than a Radiant of those oaths. That's the dividing line that you can use to figure that out.
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I am **this close** to writing a modern day stormlight fanfic called Serve and Protect about a winddrunner and Skybreaker buddy cop duo cuz those two orders are like the cops/if the united nations had soldiers of Roshar. I assume this is the plan for modern Roshar cuz like... SERVE THE LAW, PROTECT THE PEOPLE.
I imagine statues of Kaladin and Szeth on their shinovar journey being erected in the police sector of Urithiru.
And like they'd be fighting an evil bondsmith and stuff but I need stormlight 5 to come out first.
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thebfg37 · 1 year
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Radiants first meeting their spren:
Windrunners: Oh hello little blue friend. Aren’t you just adorable.
Skybreakers: OH MY GOD A HOLE IN THE VERY FABRIC OF REALITY THE WORLD IS ENDING!!!!!!
Dustbringers: Ah! Why is my desk smoldering? Why can’t I put it out? Why is the fire following me?!?!?!?!
Edgedancers: oh weird, how are those vines growing so fast? Ew… Oh that’s so weird they have a face
Truthwatchers: huh that’s pretty, but where is the light coming from and what is it refracting through?
Lightweavers: AHHHH!!! DEMONS FROM ANOTHER DIMENSION!!!! IM GOING INSANE I KNEW IT!!!!
Elsecallers: That’s a weird shadow. Wait that’s a weird ink person. WTF WTF WTF
Willshapers: Hello little ball of light, would you like to come with me on an adventure?
Stonewards: Wait did that rock just give birth to a tiny person?
Bondsmiths: God?
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nerd-in-distress · 11 months
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Genius of my buddy reading cosmere friends had to be shared with the world
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piano-hoarder · 6 months
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I saw this today and it made me happy because Stormlight. But also it made me appreciate even more how applicable and true so much of Brandon Sanderson's made up theology and philosophy are. It's so important to remember the difference between the quests, adventures, and journeys in your life. Don't let yourself become so focused on accomplishing something that you forget to enjoy what's happening, and don't become so lost in your circumstances that you lose sight of your goals. Each day is a quest to accomplish something, but you must take a journey to get there. However, you might have an adventure on the way, so it's okay if it takes a while.
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Also this technically means that Bilbo was not going on an adventure, he was going on a quest. However, I believe it became a journey by the end.
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aemecericart · 12 days
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I already posted the sad boy, so here are some sketches of the sad girl, Shallan Davar herself, truly noone can beat Sanderson in writing good characters, e s p e c i a l l y the traumatised ones
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wanderingchanneler · 9 months
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I think it’s interesting that the Skybreakers are the only order of Radiant that we know all five Ideals for. It seems like most, if not all of the other orders have to discover things as they go, but the Skybreakers have it mostly worked out, with *some* room for individual choice
The First Ideal for Skybreakers is the generic “Life before death, strength before weakness, journey before destination.” They call it the Ideal of Radiance
The Second Ideal is the Ideal of Justice. In Szeth’s words, it’s “I swear to seek justice, to let it guide me, until I find a more perfect Ideal.”
The Third Ideal is the Ideal of Law. This is the one Skybreakers have to follow until and unless they swear the Fifth Ideal. I’m not sure what happens if the thing a Skybreaker chooses as their Third Ideal fails before they swear the Fifth, but something Szeth says in RoW makes me think that they’d have to find something else to follow so their Nahel bond isn’t broken. Then again, Szeth’s interpretation might not be accurate, especially since he holds so strongly to rules/codes/Ideals he’s latched onto. Either way, the Skybreaker Third Ideal according to Szeth is “I swear to follow the will of Dalinar Kholin. This is my oath.” We see him grapple with that more in his RoW interlude
The Skybreaker Fourth Ideal is the Ideal of Crusade. This is where they pick a larger goal to attain, and they can only accomplish it if their spren is satisfied. For Szeth, the Fourth Ideal is “I will cleanse the Shin of their false leaders, so long as Dalinar Kholin agrees.”
Again, this is where Skybreakers are different than other Radiants we’ve seen so far. For example, Windrunners don’t know the gist of their Fourth Ideal until they’re forced against it, if Kaladin is a fairly accurate example. Skybreakers know the *idea* of what their Fourth Ideal will be, even if the *details* take form over time. I also think it’s super interesting that they can state what their Fourth Ideal will be in advance, even if it takes months, years, or even decades to accomplish whatever goal they set for themselves. In OB chapter 90, a Skybreaker Master says that they were at the Third Ideal for two decades before attaining the Fourth.
And the Fifth Ideal for the Skybreakers is the Ideal of Law. This is where the Skybreaker becomes law and Truth. Nale is the only example we have in modern times of a Skybreaker who has sworn that Ideal, and his situation is complicated, since he’s a Herald. Even in OB chapter 90, though, a Skybreaker master says that it’s been centuries since a member of their order reached the Fifth Ideal. I don’t know if Nale was the last, or if there have been a few since he reached the Fifth Ideal.
Szeth hasn’t sworn the Fifth Ideal as a Skybreaker. I theorize that he will swear it at some point, partially because it fits so well with a previous headcanon of mine. I also think it’d be super meaningful/impactful for Szeth to swear an Ideal that allows him to make his own decisions/enforce his own will. In OB chapter 106, Nale tells Szeth that he’s the first in a new order of Skybreakers. There has to be some kind of significance to that, but we don’t have all the pieces yet. Nale didn’t prevent Szeth from joining Dalinar and the Coalition after the Battle of Thaylen Field, and I wonder if that was intentional.
If one Radiant swears the Fifth Ideal in KoWT, it *might* be Szeth. I do want him to reach that point eventually, but I also worry that it could feel rushed in KoWT, especially since he said the first Three Ideals so quickly (he said the first two Ideals on the same day, and the Third like a month later lol)
I think I got off track from my original point. This post definitely ended up being longer than I thought it would.
Tl,dr. Skybreakers are unique as far as I can tell/remember, and the fact that their Ideals are broadly laid out ahead of time makes for some interesting possibilities. And I also included Szethposting, because of course I did
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nauti-ca · 7 months
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doodle dump of my stormlight oc Lore (low-rei lol)… shes Iriali and a Truthwatcher and she looooves her girlfriend Hoshi so much (hoshi belongs to @stormlight-archive xoxo)
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ishdaj · 2 years
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Some old commissioned wallpapers of The Immortal Words from The Stormlight Archive.
Click to see full images.
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