I'm honestly just happy to get my Shardcast fix back

What is C2E2?

​@@juliegoggans8303it was a convention where Brandon read two Shallan chapters. Check it out dude they're great!

Excited to listen to this! Love the prediction podcast episodes. Just curious, why is there a length delay in the release? Just to pace videos out with others having a higher priority?

@@blakemcgill880 I obviously don't know, but my prediction: they are beta readers, so they wanted to predict before they knew anything (for ethical and legal reasons) but also release it now when we're all stoked for December? Just my 0.02. What do you reckon?

HAHAHAHAHA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I would hate this narratively, but it would be worth it just to watch Eric erupt with the fury of 1000 suns

Syl and Night blood both being relentlessly optimistic for very different reasons

And hopefully we get to know szeth's spren

@@ToxicVale Not gonna lie, I kinda forgot about Szeth's Highspren. Traveling with a Honor and High spren is going to be interesting.

@@BinarySecond Oh no... the debate about what is 'Evil'. This is going to be perfect.

Yeah! Honorspren, Highspren and Nightblood delinerating "What is Evil" 😉

And then they kiss

@@obviousalias132 *Resigned sigh*

and then they marry and live happily together till the end of their days

Honestly, the Syl shippers vs the anti shippers is among the best/funniest split in fandom these last few years.

Thank you! Once I break her from her gemstone I'm sure my wife and I will have a long life together with her! -Eric

If SA#5 is indeed only 10 days or so, I don't really see them going for Ba-Ado-Mishram. When would they do so? And how? The Lost Radiants rather broke their oaths than return her. So either they could not retrieve and release her, or the alternative was still preferable. Hence it would seem odd to me if Shallan and Adolin just raced off and solve her in little time. That should take years.

Hell yeah!

Grace out here tapping Fortune

I literally don’t even know what to expect here. But I can’t wait to find out.

A place without space, but containing all of existence, by definition incomprehensible to mortals. Im so excited

So like they were saying in the video, it seems weird all of what needs to happen occurs in 10 days...well, all of time is also at once in the Spiritual, right? Also, BAM being in the Spiritual Realm allows her to effect change everywhere, perhaps most whens, assuming she can do so within a gemstone. I don't know...exciting stuff for sure. Wish I could go into a coma until Dragonsteel, honestly!

@@warlord733 I'm very excited to see how Brandon depicts the Spiritual Realm.

This makes sense as to how Dalinar and Shallan narratives will be connected too

When were we told he couldn't appear indoors? The storm can't infuse spheres indoors but I feel that's a different thing. Also, he can definitely lie.

@@nassan1599 discussing using the Stormfather to spy on enemy forces pretty sure he says he can’t view in doors. Dalinar’s wedding to Navani also had to be on a balcony for the Stormfather to officiate.

@@obviousalias132 It could have something to do with having a proto-bond with Gavilar. Maybe only he can see the stormfather, that's why they did the wedding on the roof so that others could see him. Doesn't explain why he couldn't spy though, unless the stormfather can't turn invisible and would be seen maybe? Idk.

NOOOOOO! Not Maya... 😥

I swear to god I'll throw the book across the room

How is it worded? Maybe one side needs to affirmatively win whereäs the other side just needs to not lose? Or maybe the condition for Odium is open enough that a draw can be counted as his victory.

@@curtiswfranks they require their champions to win. There is no condition set for a draw apart from that the boarders will be locked (which was a precondition to the champion fighting starting).

If I remeber corrextly there is also no time limit to contest. So if Odium will be able to catch Dalinar in ethernal fight...

So glad to hear it! -Eric

I dunno about Nightblood dying, it's such an insane exploit of investiture it'll probably be really hard to actually destroy, but I do hope it gets removed from the story somehow or completely stopped from getting anywhere near a Shard

@@prestonc9059 Yeah definately a return to home situation with Nightblood.

Whoever his champion ends up being, one thing I'm betting on is that they will lose. Dalinar will be forced to become Odium's vanguard that he sends out to start conquering the cosmere. Stormfather will die as a result, but will use up the last of his power to create a new herald to replace Jezrien, who will be Kaladin, who will have lost his powers after Ishar manages to make Syl physical, nearly killing her if not for Kaladin swearing the fifth ideal, which allows her to fully manifest as a physical spren, but at the cost of her magical connection to Kaladin. My reasoning is that things are going too well for the heroes, and new Odium needs a major win to cement himself as the new big bad for the second half of the series. Dalinar losing and being forced to become what Odium always wanted him to be would be the cruelest thing for Brandon to do in this moment. And since we already know the second half is supposed to focus more on the heralds, it makes sense to have our primary antagonist act as a through line for the series, becoming a herald, taking on their burden in order to truly understand them enough to help them with their mental health.

I was there 6 years ago friend. It gets better, I promise.

That’s the ideal way to listen to the podcast. They record it specifically with that in mind

Shardcast helps with broken hands

How about two broken legs?

@@curtiswfranks sir, SIR. We don’t like your kind around here

Eric point abouts oaths not always being good was the exact point Rayse was making to Dalinar in Oathbringer. Honor cared nothing but for the keeping of oaths

It is interesting that the rewrite of the SotD sequel chapters changed violet tinted investiture to blue.

@@obviousalias132 was it the black blue of warlight or just changed from an inference of voidlight to stormlight?

I think Dalinars true purpose was revealed in Rythmn of War. We learn that Odium and Honors light is known as "Warlight" which means if a shard takes up both pieces they will be the literally God of War. and who has "cultivated" potential gods? Why the same one who bestowed a boon on both Taravangium and Dalinar. She is Literally growing Gods. Maybe she intends for Lift to replace her, and keep Dalinar in Check .

I like your theory, I'm just not understanding what the point of Cultivation shattering herself would be? *Spoilers for the end of Mistborn and Secret History* Vessels can just give up their Shard without shattering it, as shown when Kelsier gives up Preservation so Vin can pick it up. It just seems to me that Cultivation would be much better served by keeping her Shard, continuing to influence events using that power, and giving up her Shard if/when the time is right

@@ryanmcniff2245 yeah, this is just a stupid theory of mine to keep distracted until storm light 5 comes out.

@@nicknackpattywhack3485 hey man, I never said it was stupid. I think it has a lot of merit and would actually be really intriguing. Imagine if we started seeing more big moves from Cultivation, which draws the eye of Odium who ultimately shatters her. It'd be interesting to watch our gang then try to figure out what she had planned and how they could still make it work. Maybe someone has to try to bond the nightwatcher (I think that's the name of her creepy spider spren who does the boons and curses).

@@ryanmcniff2245 Stupid was the wrong word. What I meant was unlikely.

Brandon has said some of them do feel romantic and/or sexual feelings.

Kal would most likely be dead from natural causes by then...

Nah Syl as Stormother MAYBE.

You can’t protect by killing. It is literally spelled out in the very first flashback with Kal in Way of Kings. If this isn’t the 5th ideal I will be so shocked. Also in RoW Kal was limited to using crowd control powers. Which opens up a way for him to be effective in combat without being lethal. Excited to see this play out

@dad2thebone same. Yeah I was definitely thinking about Lirin. He kinda is Honor personified in all its best and worst ways

I’m partial to the opposite as well. Sometimes the best way to protect is through nonviolent methods also ties really well into his therapy ark

The gemstone is in the spiritual real

The idea of the gemstone being in shadesmar, would potentially place the gemstone in the middle of the sea of lost lights. If it's being protected by Skybreakers there then that would explain Channah working with and meeting them and makes it make even more sense that she fell in love with one of them And that explains why the ghost bloods weren't able to find the gem. They were looking in the wrong realm. And with the gem in the middle of the "Sea of Lost Lights", it could be named that because Ba-Ado-Mishram means something to do with light due to the Ado in her name and she was lost there.

I really like this theory. Smart catch on Adoda meaning light.

i disagree, first because of the way death has been shown to work in the Cosmere, i think Gavilar's is permanent, and second, i don't think that Gavilar is anywhere near the warrior that Dalinar was/is and i think Gavilar himself has always known that and any kind of martial clash between the two would almost always result in Dalinar's victory, and third, there's still no indication that the contest of champions itself will be a martial one, and i think that's going to ultimately be a major factor in Dalinar's defeat (yes i also ascribe to the theory that Dalinar is going to lose this and become the Fused Blackthorn rampaging the Cosmere in service of TaravOdium even though that's the last thing i want to happen to him) as for who Odium's champion will be, i can't really commit to any particular possibility, it could be El who we've only gotten a brief glimpse of making him all intriguing and mysterious as a candidate, after his blinding and the way the story has played out for him i don't really see Moash fitting well as a champion, the baby champion Gavinor has been advanced as a possibility but i find the arguments for that fanciful and lacking, Adolin and Shallan have also been posited but i kind of view those candidacies in the same light as Gavinor just not enough to be even mildly convincing to me with what we know, another suggestion has been Taravangian himself in his own guise pretending to have been saved by Odium but i'm not sure if he'd really be allowed to with Shardic Intent shenanigans, but the most interesting suggestion that i've actually seen honestly, is the Herald Ishar, given the nature of his insanity i think it would be very easy to manipulate him into the role and would make for an Unchained Bondsmith v Bondsmith matchup, which if this is the route Sando goes, makes me think that Kal and Szeth's attempts to help the Herald will either not be sufficient, or possibly directly contribute to him becoming Odium's champion all that said, i'm absolutely salivating to get my hands on the book as soon as humanly possible and devour it whole

The only way Gavilar returns is as a Warbreaker Style, Animated statue of himself. Compelled using breaths. He is literally entombed the same way as Kalads Phantoms. So its the only viable possibility. We know there is no cognitive shadow of him because he wasnt invested enough on his death.

This could be easily explained by cutting to Poe Dameron, and he says: "Somehow Gavilar Returned"

I agree with you! I wouldn't mind if Syladin happened, but I honestly don't think Brandon would do them together. But I agree with your arguments. We have one book left from the first arc. If a new love interest appears, I sincerely don’t understand when it will be possible to create an adequate relationship. Kaladin has a mission and many problems. I don't think every main character needs a love interest anyway too. "Some seeds would have already needed to be planted throughout the previous books" - In a kind of defense of Syladin, I’ll just say that in RoW Kaladin and Syl have many common scenes, Syl develops and learns more like independent character, and most importantly, she does not raise the issue of relationships, does not try to set Kaladin up with a new girl (unlike Adolin). Lyn is an ex-girlfriend, that's all. And about other hints, if you read the first Wind and Truth (Kals pov) chapter, there are hints and seeds there that may hint at Syladin. But this is only one chapter, and later in the book everything may come to naught between them. We need more chapters to see if Brandon does anything with them or not.

@@valentinasheludko7498 Hi! I appreciate your reply :) I think you make some good points, something definitely shifted in Kaladin and Syl's relationship since Syl went through her own personal crisis in Rhythm of War. Like some sort of mutual understanding that wasn't there previously. It does seem like Syl is becoming her own person more, and not just Kaladin's spren who's kind of just there to support him and act as a tool for him to use. And yes, I have read the first Kaladin pov chapters of Wind and Truth and I did note that Kaladin takes notice of Syl a lot, like commenting on her appearance (her smile, her hair, her clothing etc.) and her behavior (how she doesn't really understand physical touch and that she might have offered a hug if she was a human, which kind of gave me the impression that that was something he desired from her, being able to hug her). Kaladin seems to be more aware of her presence and treats her like more of a person, by inquiring about her thoughts and feelings for example. I also think it's the first time that Syl is referred to as Kaladin's friend. I can see how these things could be viewed as hints for a potential romance, but just like you I also sincerely doubt that Brandon would pair these two together, so maybe that's partially why I'm having a hard time looking at their interactions as anything other than platonic. I guess we'll just have to wait and see ;)

@@lotte1973 You are absolutely right. I love Brandon's work for its unpredictability and am looking forward to the book!

Well Dalinar dying wouldn’t make the stormfather a deadeye right? Dalinar would have to break his oath

I read comments like this and think that I'm reading these books wrong, by Ado these are thoughts I've never seen or contemplated, but all are possible even probable

Hiding the heralds in kharbranth is actually genius

@@BinarySeconddidn’t odium say he’d only spare people who are born or married to someone from kharbranth? Why would the heralds hide there? Am I missing something?

@@carterblomster741 “Kharbranth,” Odium said. “The city itself, and any humans who have been born into it, along with their spouses. This is whom I will spare. Do you agree to this?” So, it sounds like anyone in the city is safe. And this deal just has become relevant somehow. The dramatic irony!

Jasnah is spending a lot of time with Hoid, there is no way she joins Odium's side. Hoid must have explained to her the danger of Odium for the whole Cosmere, Jasnah is smart and she is the character that is least guided by the passions, she has always been on the rational sight and critical evaluation. I highly doubt your number 3 here.

Grace's audio quality is a symptom of a lot of factors and positioning, and I am also unhappy with it and am working on fixes. I think since then she has a new microphone which has different idiosyncrasies... -Eric

@@17thShard it wasnt a real criticism, I feel awful now. I'm from across the pond so part of it may just be my fault for not being familiar with her accent 😔

No no, it's all good. I do agree it can be improved. I'm just trying to figure out how, haha. -Eric