1. Szeth has the Black Sphere from Gavilar and also has his Oathstone. Whoever holds this Stone is Szeths master and szeth will follow his orders. But those are 2 different things. And no, szeth is no parshman, he is a human from shinnovar (to the west on the map) 2. your guesses with Rayse and the storms are really good, keep going. 3. To the topic of Kaladin beeing a deserter: his slavemaster sold him saying he is a deserter, but he said towards kaladin, that he knows it is a lie. So whatever happenee between the Cenn flashback and kaladins first chapter, kaladin was marked as a deserter and forced into slavery.
Oh man, some of your predictions are freakishly close. Others are so ironically wrong!! It's crazy impressive you're making connections that I didn't make until later books. It's so fun to listen to these, keep it up!! As a long time Cosmere fan it's really fun watching you slowly unravel how everything is connected. The things you're getting wrong are mostly plot points. But you're doing a really impressive job piecing together the lore.
Brandon has said before he doesn’t care how people pronounce the characters and that every reader can create their own cannon as they read, so don’t worry too much about what everyone says about pronunciation. Love the videos! Also your videos convinced me to read the first law trilogy and I absolutely loved it! Great work man!
I just started my re-read of Stormlight before the first finale comes out in December. Found your channel and it is immensely entertaining to hear you do these predictions. I'll be reading alongside you, and I'd honestly love to see you go back and react to how storming right you are once you've finished the book.
I'm loving how you're loving it. Minor point of clarification: the armies are harvesting chasmfiend *chrysalises*. They're not generally hunting mobile, fully grown, eff-you kaiju crabs.
Love watching people early in the SA journey talking about the characters that we love so much. I'm only about a year ahead of you, but it in that time I've read Brandon's entire back catalogue twice. Once you've caught up do reread. You pick up so much that way.
I'm trying to talk around the spoilers here, but one of the things you said you hope will happen, is actually finally happening in the fifth book. Man this is a long series.
These are always so fun to watch! I’m going to reiterate another persons comment: Pay attention to how the 3 people looking for Hoid, grump, blunt, thinker, are described and what their physical descriptions are. Some of them might seem familiar…
Love the predictions! It's fun seeing someone else piecing things together. Don't feel bad about the Shen prediction, lol. I told my friend that I guessed this world was hell/some kind of messed up afterlife. I feel safe that I'm not spoiling anything by saying that I was incorrect lol
Plenty of little corrections in the comments already. Always glad you are enjoying it, interesting seeing the connections as always and I can't wait for you to realize how some of your hopes actually come to pass in the story.
Every other time I’ve been watching you react to books I’ve already read. This time you and I are reading together. I like your predictions so far! I start book 2 tomorrow. I can already tell this is going to be a re-readable series with lots of gems to unearth and plenty of tempestuous Sanderstorm reveals.
@@conorreads Probably not. Doing it as part of a book club with my family, so the pace is only 10k words/day, and these books are chonkers! Will probably start book 5 in late winter or in the spring. How about you?
Pay close attention to how Grump, Blunt and Thinker are described and what they say. Grump is particular has some very interesting dialogue right at the end of the chapter.
@@conorreads We know Hoid is a Worldhopper, doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest that we might have seen these three elsewhere under different names...
Roshar is basically an ocean ecology on land so the chasm fiends are sort of giant lobster thing. Any creature you don't immediately understand try thinking of them as a sea creature adapted to the land... Though with a bunch of fantasy thrown in too. When Kaladin was with the slaver that sold him to the bridge crews Kaladin noted that the slaver was aware of the 'real' reason that he was made a slave had nothing to do with desertion, the slaver agreed but was not going to get involved with the truth of the matter. Shallan is more of a larn or lahn than a lawn but is not really all that drawn out in either case, not usually as abrupt as rhyming with 'man' but that still works or lengthened slightly, but ultimately if you keep the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first you're doing fine (not a rule for all characters anyway). Most other character name pronunciations won't matter to most so long as you have the main ones right. On the other hand the term when you go back on your word is 'reneging' not 'renegading' very similar but without the 'ad' Of the three characters looking for Hoid you have met one of them in another series but the other two are from stories/worlds you've not read yet. To be honest they were only recognized as 'foreigners' so easily due to the distinct speech quirks of one of the two you don't yet know so you can't be expected to recognize them so easily. last time I said one of your predictions was ironic due to events in the next book, this time I'll say that some of your predictions are kinda hilarious based solely on the latest preview chapter (released just last week) for book 5 being released this year... The stones that Tien presented Kal to cheer him up were just that - stones. To hold a charge of stormlight they would have to be _gemstones._ Yeah uh, Jasnah is definitely _not_ Elhokar's brother, sorry
Man, why do I always get notifications like an hour later? Awesome video as always, always looking forward to your content :) a bit selfish too as I get to relive these moments ❤
I don’t think this is much to go on to make theories but the shards usually have something in common with the types of things you find on their worlds. Ruin has ash falling from the skies and volcanos everywhere etc. Same is true with roshar
Currency isn't coins. They are actually gems encased in glass, called spheres. Gems getting infused with Stormlight and spheres getting infused with Stormlight are the same thing.
The recipient of the first letter is a being named Frost, I wouldn't consider this a spoiler as i don't believe we learn this at any point in the books.
Tien giving Kaladin rocks is nothing magical. Kaladin's depression gets easier to deal with around Tien, and one of the things that Tien loves is rocks.
"Kaladin can absorb the energy in the same way Szeth can." Sort of. There's more there to keep digging into. There is a very important distinction there and it's related to Szeth's title as "Truthless".
Pronunciation of Shallan much closer to the audiobook than before, but it’s with the PALM vowel, not the THOUGHT vowel! I think sha-LARN should get you the right pronunciation
Oh no! Of course! "sha-LAWN" in a british accent is pronounced differently than in an american one! 😂 Honestly this one's on us, so just call her whatever you like at this point, lmao. You'll hear Brandon or someone say it at some point.
Pronunciation hints are always difficult. How about this: Shallan like in Cha-La Head Cha-la, the classic Dragonball Z Opening. Basically just pronounce both "a" sounds the same.
I kinda doubt his accent can do Shallan to most people's standards. If he knows enough Phonetics knowledge, both syllables are unstressed, the first is a schwa.
Elhokar = yellow car, minus the y
Clever way for doing that
Also another point of clarification the currency isn’t coins. They are more like marbles.
1. Szeth has the Black Sphere from Gavilar and also has his Oathstone. Whoever holds this Stone is Szeths master and szeth will follow his orders. But those are 2 different things.
And no, szeth is no parshman, he is a human from shinnovar (to the west on the map)
2. your guesses with Rayse and the storms are really good, keep going.
3. To the topic of Kaladin beeing a deserter: his slavemaster sold him saying he is a deserter, but he said towards kaladin, that he knows it is a lie. So whatever happenee between the Cenn flashback and kaladins first chapter, kaladin was marked as a deserter and forced into slavery.
Oh man, some of your predictions are freakishly close. Others are so ironically wrong!! It's crazy impressive you're making connections that I didn't make until later books. It's so fun to listen to these, keep it up!! As a long time Cosmere fan it's really fun watching you slowly unravel how everything is connected. The things you're getting wrong are mostly plot points. But you're doing a really impressive job piecing together the lore.
I’m glad you caught the Ati reference! That was spot on! (Atium was named for Ati, the Vessel of Ruin.)
Brandon has said before he doesn’t care how people pronounce the characters and that every reader can create their own cannon as they read, so don’t worry too much about what everyone says about pronunciation. Love the videos! Also your videos convinced me to read the first law trilogy and I absolutely loved it! Great work man!
How good is Abercrombie!? My favorite author to read for dialogue and poetic injustice
@@conorreads You are bloody well correct on that one.
I just started my re-read of Stormlight before the first finale comes out in December. Found your channel and it is immensely entertaining to hear you do these predictions. I'll be reading alongside you, and I'd honestly love to see you go back and react to how storming right you are once you've finished the book.
I'm loving how you're loving it.
Minor point of clarification: the armies are harvesting chasmfiend *chrysalises*. They're not generally hunting mobile, fully grown, eff-you kaiju crabs.
Got it
You love characters with dark history - you're at the right place. And you could speculate for Shallan's back storiest for 3 more books it's an onion.
Love watching people early in the SA journey talking about the characters that we love so much. I'm only about a year ahead of you, but it in that time I've read Brandon's entire back catalogue twice. Once you've caught up do reread. You pick up so much that way.
These are going to be really fun for you to revisit after you're farther ahead in the series, for sure.
Also "Ati". "Ati"-um. The body of Ruin :)
I'm trying to talk around the spoilers here, but one of the things you said you hope will happen, is actually finally happening in the fifth book. Man this is a long series.
The almighty Cenn returns to take his rightful place as the king or the Alethi? I knew it
@conorreads Hey, if Secret History's any suggestion, the dead don't have to stay dead.
These are always so fun to watch!
I’m going to reiterate another persons comment:
Pay attention to how the 3 people looking for Hoid, grump, blunt, thinker, are described and what their physical descriptions are. Some of them might seem familiar…
One of them for him. He hasn’t read the other two books that the other two come from
Love the predictions! It's fun seeing someone else piecing things together.
Don't feel bad about the Shen prediction, lol. I told my friend that I guessed this world was hell/some kind of messed up afterlife. I feel safe that I'm not spoiling anything by saying that I was incorrect lol
Dude your paying super awesome attention to all the stuffs, have fun with it!!!
Thanks bro
Plenty of little corrections in the comments already. Always glad you are enjoying it, interesting seeing the connections as always and I can't wait for you to realize how some of your hopes actually come to pass in the story.
Every other time I’ve been watching you react to books I’ve already read. This time you and I are reading together. I like your predictions so far! I start book 2 tomorrow. I can already tell this is going to be a re-readable series with lots of gems to unearth and plenty of tempestuous Sanderstorm reveals.
Thats awesome, do you think you'll get to the end of book 4 in time for the 5th?
@@conorreads Probably not. Doing it as part of a book club with my family, so the pace is only 10k words/day, and these books are chonkers! Will probably start book 5 in late winter or in the spring.
How about you?
@@mcina001at this pace I’ll read book 5 when book 6 comes out 😂
@@conorreads Lol. That means I can watch your insights as soon as they pop up, so good news for me!
Pay close attention to how Grump, Blunt and Thinker are described and what they say. Grump is particular has some very interesting dialogue right at the end of the chapter.
I’ll go back and take a look
@@conorreads We know Hoid is a Worldhopper, doesn't seem unreasonable to suggest that we might have seen these three elsewhere under different names...
Roshar is basically an ocean ecology on land so the chasm fiends are sort of giant lobster thing. Any creature you don't immediately understand try thinking of them as a sea creature adapted to the land... Though with a bunch of fantasy thrown in too.
When Kaladin was with the slaver that sold him to the bridge crews Kaladin noted that the slaver was aware of the 'real' reason that he was made a slave had nothing to do with desertion, the slaver agreed but was not going to get involved with the truth of the matter.
Shallan is more of a larn or lahn than a lawn but is not really all that drawn out in either case, not usually as abrupt as rhyming with 'man' but that still works or lengthened slightly, but ultimately if you keep the emphasis on the second syllable instead of the first you're doing fine (not a rule for all characters anyway). Most other character name pronunciations won't matter to most so long as you have the main ones right. On the other hand the term when you go back on your word is 'reneging' not 'renegading' very similar but without the 'ad'
Of the three characters looking for Hoid you have met one of them in another series but the other two are from stories/worlds you've not read yet. To be honest they were only recognized as 'foreigners' so easily due to the distinct speech quirks of one of the two you don't yet know so you can't be expected to recognize them so easily.
last time I said one of your predictions was ironic due to events in the next book, this time I'll say that some of your predictions are kinda hilarious based solely on the latest preview chapter (released just last week) for book 5 being released this year...
The stones that Tien presented Kal to cheer him up were just that - stones. To hold a charge of stormlight they would have to be _gemstones._
Yeah uh, Jasnah is definitely _not_ Elhokar's brother, sorry
Yeah I clocked I had said brother instead of sister but just let it go
yeah mate spot on, Ati was holding Ruin :-)
Man, why do I always get notifications like an hour later? Awesome video as always, always looking forward to your content :) a bit selfish too as I get to relive these moments ❤
Glad you are enjoying them
I don’t think this is much to go on to make theories but the shards usually have something in common with the types of things you find on their worlds. Ruin has ash falling from the skies and volcanos everywhere etc. Same is true with roshar
Love these! It'll be interesting to see what things you're talking about may still be relevant. It's a big series after all!
Kaladin is the best.
Currency isn't coins. They are actually gems encased in glass, called spheres. Gems getting infused with Stormlight and spheres getting infused with Stormlight are the same thing.
The recipient of the first letter is a being named Frost, I wouldn't consider this a spoiler as i don't believe we learn this at any point in the books.
agreed. I think that's only clarified with a WoB.
Blackthorn in action. Haha
Szeth isn't a parshman, hes from Shinovar in the far west.
Tien giving Kaladin rocks is nothing magical. Kaladin's depression gets easier to deal with around Tien, and one of the things that Tien loves is rocks.
Just to clarify szeth is a human
"Kaladin can absorb the energy in the same way Szeth can." Sort of. There's more there to keep digging into. There is a very important distinction there and it's related to Szeth's title as "Truthless".
Pronunciation of Shallan much closer to the audiobook than before, but it’s with the PALM vowel, not the THOUGHT vowel! I think sha-LARN should get you the right pronunciation
Szeth is not a parshiman.😂 He's a Shin.
Oh no! Of course! "sha-LAWN" in a british accent is pronounced differently than in an american one! 😂
Honestly this one's on us, so just call her whatever you like at this point, lmao. You'll hear Brandon or someone say it at some point.
He got it close enough lol
Hahahaha I tried
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Ahti was Ruin's name, yes.
It can be pronounced El-o-car. Or big jerk. Either way.
Strangely I knew that……
The audiobook narrator gives him a nasally, whiny voice, and I think it fits quite well lol
Pronunciation hints are always difficult. How about this: Shallan like in Cha-La Head Cha-la, the classic Dragonball Z Opening. Basically just pronounce both "a" sounds the same.
I kinda doubt his accent can do Shallan to most people's standards. If he knows enough Phonetics knowledge, both syllables are unstressed, the first is a schwa.
I've never watched Dragonball Z..... I was more of a pokemon/yu-gi-oh kid