u/Killerchoy

In interlude 10 of WaT Axindweth is using conventional torture methods on Vasher before she gets her hands on a painriel. Since a man's testicles are his most sensitive spot, it's likely that she employed a bit of CBT to achieve her goal. Vasher also implies to her that he's outlasted entire mortal lifespans of people torturing him, and not every society has access to Painriels. that means that there's a good chance that Vasher has had to deal with anywhere from years to decades of cock and ball torture, depending on the time spent focusing on that area. I wonder if he likes it?

Michael Kramer and Kate Reading are the audiobook narrators for the Stormlight archive. Their performance when reading the stormlight archive deserves acclaim and praise. Brandon's team was wise to lock them down. The experience of listening to the Stormlight Archive audiobooks is so incredible because not only is it the same narrators for each book, they are like the best narrators from any audiobook I've ever listened to.

I love how inconsistent her internal world is. It was a little frustrating in my first time reading through the stormlight archive, but during my reread it's been a delight. it really ramps up during rhythm of war, the girl cannot keep her own story straight.

When dalinar speaks to the nightwatcher, before cultivation intervenes, a line caught my attention.

When the nightwatcher lists off potential boons she could grant Dalinar, she offers regular things like wealth, power, beauty, and fame. She then asks Dalinar if he wants "a blade that bleeds darkness and can never be defeated".

Huh? Was the nightwatcher somehow in possesion of Nightblood? Or, if not, could she steal it away from the one who held it at that moment, and give it to Dalinar? What would have happened if Dalinar said "yeah, I want that blade"? What would the logistics of the fulfillment of that boon entail? I can't imagine that Vivenna or Vasher would be pleased.

Title says it all. Brandon has confirmed that hemalurgy works on animals. Yeah I GUESS there's the whole "killing people is bad" thing, but I'm sure he could gain the consent of allomancers and feruchemists who are elderly and near death. The only hard part would be making the bear immortal, after that you could stack on a new power like once a decade. And by the end you'd have a grizzly bear with the powers of the lord ruler, fully controllable by harmony which would be pretty strong and fun I think.

at the VERY end of chapter 53 of Tress of The Emerald Sea, which is cheekily titled "the survivor" Tress is about to go to bed, and comments "don't wake me up unless death himself has showed up, nails in his eyes".

Huh?!?!

Has the lore surrounding Ironeyes propagated across planets? if you don't know what this is referencing, Marsh is commonly referred to as "death" during era 2 of mistborn. And "nails in his eyes" feels far too direct a reference to marsh's hemalurgic spikes to be a coincidence. It's slightly off- nails instead of spikes- but why does Tress's planet have lore of "death" that's even midly adjacent to Scadrials? it's my understanding that world hoppers are often relatively silent observers- so why/how does tress have an image of "death" having spikes (or nails) in his eyes?

The fact that this chapter is titled "the survivor", and that the remark about death is in the closing sentence from the chapter confirms this was an intentional reference to Scadrial in my mind.