The Kaladin/Szeth chapters of Wind and Truth are so fucking funny.
We've got Kaladin and Syl going to therapy, picking up hobbies while doing their best impression of a dead spouse montage
And then on the next perspective over we've got Szeth playing the world's most terrifying game of Mega Man
Marsh: Sees Moash with crystal spikes in his eyes
Pulls out his iron eye spikes.
Cleans them on his shirt.
Pops them back in.
“So my eyes aren’t deceiving me! we’re just doing knock off brands of everything now, huh?”
The best part about reading a Brandon Sanderson book is that every time you read it around someone else they are obligated to say some form of “wow! Big book!” and it brings back gifted kid™ emotions i haven’t felt since the accident
Momokarun dump
I am manifesting with all my soul that Kaladin gets something cool to do in the (presumed?) 10 years before the Heralds need to return for the Odium showdown again. Therapy is great and all, but after 2-3 years I think most of Kaladin's work will be done and it will be up to the Heralds themselves to put into practice what they had learned/discovered.
I need Kaladin to be conveniently summoned/manifested offworld and save a planet from inevitable doom. I need a Kaladin training arc with Taln and Nale from which he will emerge an absolute menace to the larger Cosmere.
I need it so that when he finally gets his dramatic return in the second arc of Stormlight he will single-handedly turn the tide of the war.
I am Kaladin fanboy trash and I am not ashamed to admit it.
Wind and Truth theory fact. Gavinor did not grow to hate Dalinar for the atrocities he had committed, but rather as a natural consequence of having to watch your grand-uncle tell your dad that he's banging your grandmother 10000 times back-to-back.
Kaladin Stormface in the Way of Kings: Ain't no way this little wind spren is capable of human speech
Kaladin in Wind and Truth: So when I played the flute I got from the immortal trickster, I got to talk to The Wind™️ and she told me that the whole gaddamn pantheon of eternal saints needs therapy which I only invented less than a week ago. Hope the world doesn't end before I can get around to that.
Current theory is that "Knights of Wind and Truth" is the book Kaladin and Szeth write while bored out of their minds on the Shinovar trip. That title has all the vibes of a group project with horrible compromises
ishar: behold the power of my Mega Depression!! you cannot possibly--
kaladin: yeah, yeah. the Mega Depression. we've all felt it. anyway, here's wandersail
WIP of the Oathpact reforged scene, I’m so unwell about it honestly.
EDIT - Finished artwork here.