Nothing important to see here. Just a man at the checkout buying some aluminium and hard cheese.  (Did you never wonder where he got all those aluminium sheets from in Oathbringer?) Anyway, nothing wrong with being prepared. What would you pack for a journey to Roshar?

Currently re-reading the Stormlight Archive by audiobook.

Just listened to the part in Oathbringer when Elhokar tries to abdicate to Dalinar, and I would like to give my eternal gratitude to Michael Kramer for his amazing voice. Never have I been so in love with this poor conflicted king. I just want to wrap him in a little blankie and tell him it's okay, just keep trying my little baby.

Go listen to it. You will cry.

Reblog if you agree Michael Kramer is amazing.

It’s actually so legendary of Dalinar to learn to read and write for the purpose of putting to paper all the times he fucked up bad

The Nightwatcher

Damn that chapter in Oathbringer was painful

The argument that Moash was the only one in Bridge Four that didn't see Kaladin as some kind of deity or hero really falls apart once you get to the Bridge Four POV chapters in Oathbringer. They're like "yeah, Kaladin is great, but sometimes he can be an idiot, you know" and things of the sort.

Meanwhile, in Oathbringer and Rhythm of War Moash's POVs actually show that he paints Kaladin as this perfect man and soldier.

canonically, in the cosmere, Invested individuals persist in the cognitive realm for a short time after end of life in the physical. Considering Elhokar was in the midst of swearing the First Ideal, and was highly likely to have had numerous infused gems on his person, I think it's not only plausible but probable that he survived in the cognitive realm for at least a couple minutes after his death.

all that is to say, Elhokar got to see his son be rescued by Drehy and Skar. and also got to watch Kaladin Stormblessed crawl emotionally devastated towards his unmoving body. So you know. It's not all bad.

my dealer: got some straight gas. this strain is called “Sja-Anat's Influence” youll be zonked out of your gourd

Me: yeah whatever. i dont feel shit.

5 minutes later: dude i swear that painspren just had claws

my friend Renarin, pacing: the everstorm approaches..

moash killed elhokar so design could get a boob job and open her own business btw. he did that for the girlies

Never mind if the other option is as handsome as sun, kind to everyone he meets regardless of thier station, passionate about his art, and genuinely humble in the weirdest, most confident way. Never mind if he actually seems to get you, and remarkably listens to your problems, encouraging you to be you - not hide yourself away. Never mind if being near him makes you want to rip his shirt off and push him into the nearest alleyway, then kiss him until he can’t breathe anymore. If he can’t fly, then well, you just have to call it off!

Brandon Sanderson, Oathbringer

Raise your standards friends. Adolin Kholin is the bar.

Y'all ever make something stupid? This is what Sanderson meant when he said ryshadiums had sapience right?

9 - shield

Kaladin (and Syl) shielding human prisoners from the storm winds through sheer, albeit magically infused willpower. More of a colour sketch really. But I wanted to make something for this scene in Oathbringer for a while now. Especially since I haven’t seen many depictions of it. But what can we do? Kaladin has heroic moments of awesomeness like other people have breakfast.

Shallan: gets distracted by Kaladin's brooding hero vibes during an important meeting, sketches him instead of taking notes

Jasnah: calls her out on it, reminds her she's already got a fiance (who is also Jasnah's cousin), asks her to please do her job and actually take some fucking notes

Shallan: apologizes, then spends the rest of the meeting getting distracted by how hot Jasnah is in a kind of masculine but also feminine way, covers her lapse in attention by literally writing "Dalinar said something important here, you remember it right?" and then actually. Showing that. To Jasnah.

I know that they have definitely already met but it would be so ideal to me if adolin met hesina in urithiru just bc she is like someone to sew with or just bc she is basically the coolest guy around and one day adolin is like “kal there is this woman you have to meet. you would love her” and kal is like “my MOM???”

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