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Hello everyone, today is an episode, or it's another fireside for all you lovely listeners

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out there. And it's a little bit of a deviation today because we're talking about something

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I have been begging to cover since I've even really done like law in general. Today we'll

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be following the massive, massive universe of the Stormlight archive series for people

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who are a fan of Stormlight. They probably know that these are these books written by

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Brandon Sanderson who's done some he finished the Wheel of Time if I remember correctly,

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like because the other guy Kaput, you know, if everyone likes Wheel of Time is sort of

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similar. This is truly an epic that is like bigger than Lord of the Rings. But I think

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as Eli as you said earlier to us, it's kind of like understandable Lord of the Rings a

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little bit, didn't you? Yeah, it's like Lord of the Rings. But for for anybody, you don't

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have to be super I don't know, autistic. You don't have to be an artist to like appreciate

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it. And today I'm joined by Colin and Eli. Eli is familiar with the story, I think, probably

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as much as I am. So this is very much a we're gonna make sure Colin is suffering and cooking

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through this entire episode. I am here. Just a slight preface before we start. This one

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is like in tone. It's not quite as dark as like, sort of the grim dark universe or the

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one of fancy universe. But there is a genuine sense of like realism towards a lot of things

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that happen within the Stormlight archive. And then I don't know if Eli will agree with

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me on this as a general theme of like each character that this series focuses on genuinely

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has like a mental health struggle that they go through a lot of the characters are not

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like that. There's no one who is like perfectly written and in terms of like, they don't have

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a you know, he was like, there's no Aragorn equivalent really in the story, which is quite

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I guess it's Lord of the Rings, but it's a lot less like biblical and not as near nearly

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as many like allegories or not as it's not quite like light and dark and stuff like that.

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It's like, it's got the in it's got the in depth in the in depthness of Lord of the Rings,

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but it's more modern and less metaphorical, I guess.

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Yeah. But this for this far, so I don't want to hold in one's hand and make them wait for

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the good stuff. So we're gonna get straight into it.

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You've given me you've given me a map. So I'm already imagining the EU for mod for this

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that I'm sure exists.

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Well, funny enough, man, one here has played Crusader Kings three, there's a great I actually

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using one of the maps, which will probably be on screen in a bit for the it's one of

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the maps that someone's made for one the mods of it. And I cannot wait to play this mod

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because this are generally I love Stormlight Archive so much and Brandon Sansom, by the

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way, he's the opposite of George RR Martin. This guy is pumping out books and he has his

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own website where he says on his website, I'm working on three books at the moment.

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Here's a date in which it will be here. It's insane guy has to have like guy has to have

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the tism. He has to have the tism, dude. He's the op like he is work ethic. This guy produces

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great like he hasn't produced a dog. Yeah, like he mass produces things, but they're

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actually good. It's crazy. So we're going to get into it. So this Stormlight Archive

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is a fantasy universe and it takes place on the planet. Yes, you heard the right a planet

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called Rochar. And you basically see it here on the map. I'll describe it for the audio

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listeners Rochars like a super continent. There's not really many islands nations are

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a few that do come up within the story, but most of the story takes place on this enormous

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continent. And what's very kind of different about Rochard other fantasy universes. It

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has something called high storms. Now from going from sit West to East across the entire

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planet. There's a massive wall of storm that is raiders essentially across the land and

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it hits on the very like Western point. And this high storm has completely shaped Rochard.

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So endemic life on each side of the entire continent is very different because by the

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time the high storm essentially rolls over the continent the storms of loses its power

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and loses its strength. So creatures that live on the Western side are like very much

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like shelled crustaceans. They're things that learn to hide from this massive like

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lightning and white wind pelting storm. Like to illustrate to the people listening this

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storm is like basically like a wooden house would just have would have no chance. So often

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thing about constructs in a way so like they can survive these massive storms. So in the

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most sort of Western point near I'll just iterate for the audio listeners. There are

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some kingdoms that will go into a bit later and these ones are very nice. Like it's like

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dry Baron at times the place like all life and things that grow there. They really have

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to like to be able to survive a storm like all things like hiding caves or things that

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you know you wouldn't catch many roaming animals. The idea of like horses as well in these regions

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is quite rare because they actually have something called like Choles I believe it is and it's

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like armored little like tortoisey weird reptilian things. But by the time you get to the other

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side of the map of Rochard it's a lot more peaceful and there's much more things like

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typically like what we'd see in our life. They grow like much like grasslands and flourishing

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and vibrant areas. But essentially that these massive high storms are a huge part of like

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what affects the entire world and even in a more different way that I'll have to get

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to in a bit. And as I was just mentioning a little bit briefly earlier the high storms

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very much affect human civilization. So all cities all places where people live Western

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parts are designed to take that brunt of the high storm. So you wouldn't as you wouldn't

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catch any wooden buildings or things that go down quickly. A lot of things are made

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of like stone. People often have bunkers when high storms are rolling across and they do

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actually have like a system of kind of judging when high storms do appear. So they they do

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somewhat know that when a high storm is going to hit so people are like prepared and no

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one sits outside and wears a high storm because it's like stones and rocks and lightning like

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pelts like honestly you'd get stripped of your flesh if you were in the Western side

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of it. And there are some like particularly a very important point. This is obviously

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a fantasy world so there is some elements of magic here. Brandon Sanderson the author

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is known for creating interesting magic systems which I'll go over briefly in this introduction

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episode at the end. When these high storms roll across like across Roshar the high storm

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itself produces something called storm light. Now storm light is basically just magic. I

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won't lie. It's basically like infinite energy magic and people often collect them through

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little gemstones and these things can be somewhat used to power and fuel like other things like

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storm light itself is just like power and magic and a lot of civilizations often use

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storm light like spheres as different lights. They're also actually their currency as well

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and it's a very weird idea like their currency basically refills and it gets like you had

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like a few pennies or just like you know you had like a one pence if it's like a UK thing.

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coin. Dude I wish that was how real life works. Yeah so your money like basically recharges

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and the more valuable something is the more storm light it can hold and just a slight

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tangent as well. Humans believe like there's some religions that say like this great figure

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called the storm father is the one who creates the storms and he is responsible for the massive

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high storms that roll across all of Rochar and another brief setting up point here there

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are some very ancient cities in Rochar that are like possibly built thousands and thousands

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of years ago possibly be by human hands it's unsure and these cities have been they're

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so old and they're so well constructed they can survive high storms pretty much like without

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any trouble and they are often like the capitals of many of the kingdoms that are like placed

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over Rochar and this is where we get into the cool part which is some of the kingdoms.

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Now if anyone here is like a fan of Warhammer fantasy there is some link to like a similarity

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of like oh there's some historical like link like how the Empire Colony is basically the

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Holy Roman Empire. Yeah the HRE. And like some of them like Tillya and the Astalia. Astalia.

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With their equivalent again it's the Italy and Spain. Yeah some of them in Warhammer

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fantasy if you're coming from a Warhammer perspective they are very much historically

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inspired and that's very much true for the kingdom of Rochar but they do have a little

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bit of their own flavor and they have a bit of like sort of different traditions that

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sort of separate them a bit more from like a historical like it's not as like Warhammer

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as a problem doesn't it where like it very much quickly rips off something and it's like

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yeah we're not even going to acknowledge that whereas this one is like yeah it's that thing

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but it's a bit more of a twist on it. Now we're going to start for the people who are

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just audio listeners I'll go from west to east in terms of kingdom so this is the ones

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who are closest to the high storms and pretty much like life there is difficult and it kind

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of slowly gets easier as it gets more from like west to east. The first one we have to

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talk about is the kingdom of Alath'kar. This one is essentially where most of the story

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takes place and Alath'kar itself is I will go over a bit more later in terms like who

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the people of that kingdom are but Alath'kar is very much like a dry not quite a desert

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but like dry lands level like kingdom and Alath'kar is pretty much embodied by the

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word of war. They very much I don't know what historical thing I could link it to but they

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often are filled with high princes who essentially they constantly war within themselves over

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the land. Alath'kar's people are very much just embodied by war they like fighting they're

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very tall and a lot of the characters that are the main characters of the Stormlight

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Archive are from Alath'kar. The kingdom to the left of Alath'kar if anyone can see on

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the map is called Jakavet and Jakavet is a mess in all of the Stormlight Archive. Jakavet

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is constantly embroiled in civil wars and problems and the land here is a little bit

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more greener like there are some mountainous areas in it and just give people a scale this

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is like they are huge these kingdoms and continent like Roshar itself is like a super continent

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sized but the kingdom in itself imagine like it's only things like has anyone been on that

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website like true size of and they go oh yeah yeah you grab like a country and then pull

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it down you're like oh wow the UK is tiny like this is one of those things where like

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oh these are quite big land masters and Jakavet is quite a big kingdom quite populous as well

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a little bit greener but it's sort of it's Alath'kar is like the military might of Roshar

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and Jakavet is like a sort of second into that like power there's a country to the north

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called Hordaz or Hordazians they are the people from there I can't wait to talk about them

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because they are so funny in the book because the book has got like a good sense of like

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it's really hard to describe how well like character interactions happen in a Stormlight

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Archive because some of the characters are just they just blurt out what they're thinking

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like in real life it's not written as I was saying like the Lord of the Rings where it's

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like oh such beautiful language you know oh Aragorn it's nothing like that it's very much

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like yo you want to like build an army brother it's like oh god I literally had a bit of

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tissue on my side like oh so embarrassing you know I mean just come off the loo or something

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you know it's very much like they have a sense of humor and and seriousness as well but Hordaz

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like a smaller nation towards the top there Hordaz is quite a bit drier.

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They're kind of like our Australians I do have a bit about each people later but I just

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want to like Hordaz is one I want to I'm very much looking forward to talking about there's

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a few smaller nations on the sort of southern western point they're called the Frostlands

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essentially no one really lives there they're like minor kingdoms that don't really come

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up much in the story although there is one of the smaller ones called Cabrante which

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is like a city they're like some city states in there there's actually an interesting part

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where Cabrante itself is an entire city that hides in like a cliff that faces towards the

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east so like the entire city is covered and it doesn't get hit by a high storm like that

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but like just mention as well like all doors most doors face east because of the high storms

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like that's how much it like affects the world yeah sorry I can't wait to watch the Hordaz

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it's so funny but yeah a lot of these areas down under south they are very much like melting

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pots a lot of people from other kingdoms will come to these areas they've they're not quite

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like the Alethi they're not very war focused and there's a lot more like scholarship and

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practices like that to the sort of central east part of it there is one here I have two

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maps of Roshar this is one where it will appear on the map on screen called the Azish Empire

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but this whole region because it's sort of almost cut off from the rest of it is called

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the Makka Baki kingdoms there's like numerous small principalities that sort of look up or

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they're they're sort of under the control of the Azish Empire the Azish Empire are sort of an

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equivalent to the medieval like golden age of Islam I don't know if you maybe thought like that

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Eli but there's like many links like their architecture and their way of life and would

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you like to go ahead now you go ahead you I'll say what I thought of when you're done you may

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finish explaining before I ruin everything yeah they have an extreme focus on like scholarships

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and they have like just I will get into them like in a bit but the funny thing about the Azish

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Empire is a fact that the way they choose their emperors is by people writing dissertations so

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anyone can actually be the ages Empire as Emperor so long as you make like a good enough argument

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as long as your college capstone paper is good enough you can be the Emperor and so long as I've

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listened to these books it's all coming back to me now that is nice yes places which which nation

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is net from because I remember that one is very neat which one is net against I like there's so

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many characters the assassin Oh Seth oh no I'll get in so sorry he's a like don't step on stones

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and stuff because stones are sacred yeah like funny enough the natural next nation was gonna

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talk about here which is on the left western and sorry kingdoms it's not quite the Amir

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island but this is one called Shinovah this is probably on the higher map for you guys in the

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chat here the Shinovah is basically China essentially the yes it's very like it's very

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like fertile it's peaceful land they despite war in Shinovah they despite it so much the point

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that if you're a soldier you are disgusting and you're basically you're basically a slave and they

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hold farmers in high regard so farmers own soldiers as slaves and in Shinovah there's like a thing

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about you should always be honest like they don't like lies at all to the point where like if you

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are overly honest they actually reward it which is quite strange there are some northern eastern

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kingdoms called Rira and Eri they're kind of the equivalent of what is the Europeans in the land

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of Roshar but they're very much not as integral to the story they're quite isolated they have like

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some strange parts of their culture which is a bit more like witchcraft Ian sort of it more like

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okay so I'm picturing like Europe basically from the fall of Rome to the like the Renaissance was

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basically just not much outward contact with the world very often like you know Crusades happened

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and then otherwise Europe was then very no one was really leaving Europe aside from some traders

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and such around that time that's what I'm imagining to give a equivalent in terms of like warmer fantasy

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they would be probably more of like the more northeastern empires provinces like it's not

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terrible but like it's a bit like they're not as rich as the other lands and they very much have

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Erikan isolationist sort of ideals to them and then the last one which is right old this is a

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much smaller area but this is in the bottom right hand corner just between Adethkar and the frost

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lands it's much easier to see on map too you guys can see that here just it's very hard to see it

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this is it's almost like this round area that's in red and it's called the shattered plain I do

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see where this is where a lot of the story of the storm our archive takes place because the

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shattered plains is strange but I can't the shutter planes essentially is like an area filled

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with intensely deep gorges I love for Shandy yeah it cut into the earth and it's inhabited by a

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group called the Parshendi who we'll be getting into in this next section which is the races I

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have one question one one horrible comment to make what is you might have seen in the in that

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image I sent in what's uh what happened what's in that bottom region because it looks like a map of

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former Yugoslavia with the 500 different micro nations yeah they're pretty much just principalities

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like it's a very economically poor area like not much grows there the reason is called the frost

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land is because it's basically just bitterly cold and yeah it's almost like it doesn't really come

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up in terms of the story because no one really they're not one of the worthy kingdoms like the

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Thalyn and Thalyn are Alath-Kal or Yakaved or the Azis the Azis and Alath-Kal probably like them

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the wealthiest Azis the Azis Empire is probably the wealthiest kingdom but Alath-Kal is probably

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like the strongest in terms of military might but what's the second comment my second thing is I saw

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the Azis Empire and my mind immediately conjured up the horrid words of Azish Ansari

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uh what does this mean what did he mean by the comedian Aziz Ansari oh I don't know why I made

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that connection but I did god I didn't like that was out uh what's the show I don't know uh

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Pops and Wreck oh yeah he was sometimes funny though I don't I don't know before you said

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anything about it I saw on the map and that came to my mind so my apologies to everyone who

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knows they look well they just going to the races next they look nothing like him so we're not

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100% but I mean it wasn't an assumption based on anything you said about it I just saw Azish

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and I was like Azish Ansari yeah that's funny oh man so next we're going to go quickly into the

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races of um Groschar starting with the island nation right at the bottom which is the uh

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Thalynars or the Thalyns they call themselves uh I've done a little small representation like

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this is the best one I could find is an image of like different races here and the Thalyn is the

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one that's like in the middle bottom right so the right hand side uh bottom area you know what I mean

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now the Thalyns themselves like as a race they're very much a merchant and trader nation they are

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obviously in islands they are like their main capital is like a massive port and the strange

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thing about them is they possess really long eyebrows that are often like white and they sort

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of curl them or like droop them behind their ears Thalyns aren't like the tallest but they are

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some of them can be like pretty big obviously some of the other races on here will be much taller

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but they pretty much are like wealth scholars they're about their own thing like Thalyns are

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often seen traveling around a lot like they're often um people who will go to different nations

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as traders so people will encounter Thalyns and they very much like their long eyebrows I don't

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know why it's a thing but it's like there are a few Thalyn carrots that you meet in more later

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books there are like a few in like some of the earlier ones the now the big the big group here

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the big ones was like on the very if you're the audio listeners I will describe it for the visual

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listeners there so right on the bottom middle here is the Alethi of Alethkar now the Alethi

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I had to describe the Alethi they're very much like of tan skin and they are one of the members

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of the so-called foreign nations which are foreigns are basically people who's kind of followed the

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same like the same religion in a way like it basically be like the equivalent like these are

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like all the christian nations you know and then all the ones like all follow like offshoots of it

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or like their own sort of thing so the people who are of the foreign nations have stuff in common

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and the Alethi are basically like as I said earlier they love they love a good war love a good cheeky

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war they are of tan skin they have a lot of them mostly have a very dark hair don't not sure if

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it's like to level like black but like very dark like brown hair and the interesting about the

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the Alethi you'll love me even more because they have a caste system of course they do

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why wouldn't they and in the Alethi culture their caste system is based off of your eye color

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and they have like a ruling caste who are called the light eyes and then the lower castes are

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called dark. I've seen this one before. Yeah have you guys ever seen that eye chart uh

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yeah that's certain groups of people use to determine your worth? Yeah it's pretty much

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but the they have a slight variation on it so light eyes doesn't just mean like it could be blue

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like more of a gray tone to even greens and like light like yellows so it's not quite

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what we think of like a european sense of it because the Alethi do not look european like at all

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i don't know what the equivalent of them kind of would be like maybe like very very like southern

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european to like northern african if you know i mean like they have like that kind of general

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look to them they do have like quite sharp features and they have like very weird traditions

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in alethcar so uh one of them this is also in some of the other varan kingdoms because

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their religion also affects like their culture as it would they have a thing where basically

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like the quirk is like people women have something called a safe hand which is like i think it's their

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left hand if i remember eli it's the one where essentially showing like they always have their

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left hand gloved and if they can only show like their ungloved left hand to um like and then like

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close close members of their family it's considered like i think one character comments on it later

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who's not from alethcar or anywhere near there he says like he doesn't know why men like staring

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at women in the bar who have like their left hand out and they're like blushing and it's so bizarre

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but um they essentially like most like when children get to a certain age and they're like

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also young girls are coming to certain age they basically then put a glove on their hand and then

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they call their safe hand they don't touch anything with their safe hand so most of the

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things they do is like always right-handed and it would be like it would be a very like big thing if

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a woman would like show you her hand ungloved for some reason but you can imagine why in like a

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kind of culture like this it's very very gendered and to the point where it's almost to the extreme

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where in alethcar and many of the other like kingdoms like yaka ved and even in like thalin

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and i don't think not quite to the asish asish but some of the other ones like even like her

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dad's like surrounding it they are very very gendered and they believe like certain roles

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are only taken up by the men and certain things are only taken up by women so one of them is like

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basically men are good for like doing military and might and the women are the only ones who

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are allowed to sort of read and write which is very bizarre and it's the point where like basically

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men if a man if a man knows how to read it's considered like oh that's like creepy and it's

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like all feminine and in a way it's because it's in their like religion it's meant to form like

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the men and women like two halves and when they join together it's the men join like you base like

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the right arm is like the fist and then the women is like the administrative arm and like you know

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the brains behind it maybe there are more metaphors in this than i thought i think brian is mormon

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actually and i'm pretty sure mistborn is has a lot of influence from that but i'm not entirely

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right because a lot of the even when they have that background a lot of the characters that are

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within it do often like reject this sort of like they play around these sort of roles and they very

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much are like constraining it to the boundaries of these obviously like stupid ideas like even

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other characters that point out like this is so dumb um there is like cool world building though

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it is cool world building there's a there's a slight say i wouldn't call it stupid

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no isn't like it's it's stupid in the point like they are the characters comment from other

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different nations like how they view it as like stupid yeah which is but to the like alethi like

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it's normal to them yeah they also just there's a slight fun fact to them which is uh not just

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for them but other foreign nations which is there is another formal communication which is like

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basically runes and men you can it's almost like kanji uh for like japanese it's very much you can

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interpret the word from it and a lot of people that there's like a bit of like a debate on like

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is runes like actually like writing and if you know because obviously men can often understand

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what a rune means so it's like oh you know maybe he understands too much about runes he's kind of

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a bit effeminate very kind of funky little part there uh now to the veiden people who are of the

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nation of yakov ed which is the one which is uh just on the top of the left hand side of alethkar

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remember alethkar was on the right on the western edge of roshah the akavadians are essentially

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uh a bit more of a european nation uh compared to the uh alethi they have paler skin most of them

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have like black hair some of them do actually have red hair which is one of the characters who's like

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one of the main people in the stormlight archive and there's an interesting about red hair in it

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which i will get to later which is the one the other groups which like red hair basically descends

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like a very specific group in the world and i'll get to that in a second yeah the veiden obviously

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are quite similar like they have these their language is similar enough to the alethi and

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some of the other surrounding nations that they can kind of understand each other but it's still

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a bit different because a lot of these nations have been like set in stone for like a very long time

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if anyone said like i think the quote is to even enter into yaka bed land it's almost built like a

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fortress because there's so many like tall mountains and but then like surrounded by dense

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dense forests in some areas which is very very very different from um alethi the natan people

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which are that there's another group people who like they're this one like hasn't come up too much

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in my reading of the stormlight archive but there's one called the natan which are they're the ones

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who are in like a smaller nation called new natan which they basically have like a faint bluish skin

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not really much is known about them but now onto my favorite my absolute chads my boys there's a

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smaller smaller semi nation that lies within the yaka bed still which is called the horn eater

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ever cause them the horn eaters but they call themselves the unka lucky if elie remembers these

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people uh rock if you know the character basically the unka lucky people are like really tall like

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gingers most of them like tall gingers and they're called horn eaters because they are they're free

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suck a little bit more they kind of like they are humans kind of there's a there's a very like

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opposite to them where like they're often a bit taller more muscly they speak in like a very strange

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way like because their language just does not translate into like alethi or yaka bedian very

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well and they have like really really strong teeth and they often eat like animal horns and shells

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and claws they like put it in their soups there's a funny bit in some of the stories where like

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some of the characters are eating like the soup and it's like literally there's like horns in it

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and he's like it's horn eater soup it's good for you i promise you and it does taste really good

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they're all really good cooks and they have very very strange traditions in the fact that they

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have like a system of like they have loads of children the unka lucky and they're like mountain

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is home and like some of them if they're like high up on the like the first born or like even

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to the third born brother some of them are like oh you're too valuable you can't like the younger

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brothers are allowed to fight the other brothers are not allowed to fight and some of them have to

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be like cooks or something like that they're very different like very defensive they live in like a

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sacred land they're very much in tune with the world but they sometimes are like they they're

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technically part of yaka bed but they don't really see themselves as part of it but they sometimes

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like will like send people to their cell phone like they're like i guess like they're like sophisticated

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i don't know they're like orcs but they're smart and like religious and sophisticated maybe yeah

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it would it would be like the smartest orc as a human yeah not like 40k orcs just like like

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fantasy orcs i means yeah they're pretty uh like whenever like there's a cat interaction with them

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it's always like really enjoyable just because they're so funny because people don't know how

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to interact with them but they are one is very important they are very tall and people who live

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in yaka bed if they have like red hair they often say like oh you probably have like horn eater or

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unka lucky ancestry another race is the from the land of shin of art which is like right on the

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western edge and they are the shin race which is they're essentially like the world's equivalent

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of what are like asian people but i don't know how to put this in a nice way but they're like

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i don't know how to put this in a nice way but they kind of like animate up if you know what i mean

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like they very much have like they're shortened down people and their eyes are like the size like

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anime eyes i don't know how like colin feels about that did you i'm picturing did you guys see the

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movie uh like what is it like elita battle angel or whatever it was yeah that's there's with me a

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movie by the way really yeah i didn't see it i have to admit i just saw the trailers like damn

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she got big eyes wasn't anything special but it was kind of fun movie was cool nothing wrong with

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being sold seven out of ten yeah they the people of shin are like as a data they're quite peaceful

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they are quite short as well like someone that they know talk you just like they are they are not

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six foot there are no six foot kings they are the five eleven nation um they very much they like as

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you like i mentioned earlier they have a quirk where they think walking on stone is like the

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equivalent to like a really grand scene yeah they can't walk on stone and if you walk on stone

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yeah they they pretty much like oh that's disgusting can't believe you step on stone

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huh yeah they they have a they they just hate stone they call them stone walkers people who

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live in like the uh they don't they don't hate stones the stones are too sacred to step on i

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thought isn't that what it is yeah so like people who live in the east are stone walkers to them and

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then they're like are great simmers so if there were dwarves they would just hate them with a

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passion i'm assuming yeah yeah they all live in like above ground you know like fertile farmland

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so they're they're shing up very much they're quite isolated they even like they're as you see

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from the map on they're very much like cut off from the rest of roshar and anytime people ever

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go in is like as traders most time people don't even desire to fight wars over them because they're

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just like well they don't even want to fight back it's just a bit you feel a bit bad almost

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you won't later because there are some interesting characters of them uh the next ones are the

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maki baki people which are the asian empire and those smaller nations that fall underneath them

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the maki the maka baki are very much like they're they're the darkest skin of all of the

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nations i don't know if you can still see the equivalent on the image i have put up there

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they they're very much a sort of i would say central like west african like there's probably

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the equivalent in our real world uh yeah they pretty much have dark hair dark skin they don't

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they don't put as much focus onto the light eye dark eye system because again like for them like

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they've even had like emperors and much of their admin like their huge administrative arm is filled

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with people who are just basically the brightest of them so it doesn't it doesn't really matter

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where they come from but obviously like it helps you get a massive head start if your education

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is probably paid for by someone wealthy so you know obviously they still have a ruling elite in

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in some regards but basically the dumb ones just don't get a chance there are some other

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smaller races that do appear um but i think some of them might have to skip because they don't

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really come up there is a weird interesting one which is called the seer amiens which are like a

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non-human one and they are like these they're slightly human but they have like white blue skin

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and they said that their shadows point the wrong way no explanation for why that happens uh they

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can also change their bodies that their boys like adapt and they basically like tattoos appear on

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their bodies and what they want to remember remember something and they also have no sense

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of smell like you can't smell them don't know why anyone thought to smell them but like that's a

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cool thanks thanks brandon cheers cheers brandon um the now there's some cool ones here which are

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i'm gonna start with the parshman first the parshman are a humanoid race of like deep and

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dark marbled skin often in shades of black gray uh orange and red and they're essentially like

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a slave race that they are everywhere on roshar and the strange thing about parshman is that

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they're very dull isn't like they don't seem like they're quite all there and they are extremely

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like compliant they're essentially like the most perfect servitors but yeah they don't but they're

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born like that they don't have like a it's almost their mind is not fully there and when the people

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talk to them they can you can have a conversation with parshman but they it wouldn't have any depth

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it's a puddle there's no depth to it um and they're very much are just they're like they're

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actually worth quite a lot because they're valuable slaves and they are literally everywhere in every

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single kingdom all over roshar because it's been like that for thousands of years but the next ones

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this is probably elias cool like favorite here is cause the parshad definitely they're they're

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they're an eli faction they're my favorite group and this is a proud they call themselves the proud

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non-human race and they live in the shattered plane planes and they are sort of like a tribalistic

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warrior culture and they very much look exactly like the parshman but a lot of them are like

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there's some slight differences they still have the same marbled like red white or like black skin

389
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they have like little patterns to them but a lot of them are very different in appearance compared

390
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to the parshman they are said to like basically when they talk they are very much like a fully

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sentient creature and they have a weird way like speaking with like they sing in rhythms it's called

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so like the way like we feel emotions they very much can express them in terms of like different

393
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like almost like vibrations and melodies in their words so if someone's being like annoying to you

394
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you'd be like oh it's so like you'd say in your tone whereas they will like sing it in a sort of

395
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strange way so they sing their emotions like most of the time and it's quite like when characters

396
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like having conversations with parshendi they often find it quite strange because they're like

397
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it's like hello how are you like they're all like singing the entire time they're kind of

398
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no they're like aren't they like kind of constantly emitting uh like a like a hum of some sort yeah

399
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like a hum they're like it's like they they're very much implied like in tune with the world itself

400
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yeah and things like affect them and change them they also they also can sing in a way that changes

401
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their physical form so some of them so compared to a lot of the parshman that we see they look like a

402
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regular human the parshendi there is actually a art piece i put in the chat so a little bit of a way

403
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down uh towards sort of middle and this basically the parshendi are able to sing and then they assume

404
00:39:25,880 --> 00:39:31,160
different like physical forms so this they have like one called mating form and one of them is

405
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like scholar form and they have one most of the time you see him is called war form and they

406
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basically grow from like their own bone like a chitinous outer armor that's attached to their

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own skin and they're very much like if you can see the artwork uh there boys in like i think it's in

408
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the middle of the collection i'll put on the screen for the uh listeners here they very much just like

409
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they most of the time you see parshendi they are in uh war form and they have like a cool thing

410
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like when they fight they don't fight like you know how like a phalanx like is colin and like

411
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you know they're all tightly packed and like a tiny back and they basically work at like one big group

412
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uh so like you know obviously no one here knows i hear like they like massive just

413
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square blocks of men all working together um parshendi do not do that they actually often fight

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and they often live and work in pairs they they literally will fight in long lines of just like

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duos and it's often implied some of them like male some of them are like the female you basically

416
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you basically fight with your wife right like that's yeah mostly you basically like you as a

417
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company you're the parsh and they are taller and stronger than humans but there's there's

418
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something like their disadvantage is the fact they don't necessarily fight like as cohesively

419
00:40:49,320 --> 00:40:56,680
but when they obviously taking on a parshendi is like a big like tall tale because like ridiculously

420
00:40:56,680 --> 00:41:01,400
strong um but yeah they they essentially can transform their body to adapt to what they need

421
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to do so some of them like well so they always go build a new home today we're going to take

422
00:41:06,120 --> 00:41:10,680
on work form or like you know oh we need to you know we want to have more children we'll take on

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00:41:10,680 --> 00:41:18,120
mate form or something like that so yeah and then it's a vibe like yeah it's this way it may mate

424
00:41:18,120 --> 00:41:27,640
form is like yeah it's like they're softer and they're dull and stuff and like you don't want

425
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to be in mate form if you're doing anything else other than mating fucking yeah and they don't

426
00:41:35,320 --> 00:41:39,880
this is i guess this is for later in the video but they have no shards that's one of their is that

427
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one of their things they have no shard blades or is that no they do they well i'll have to go into

428
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what that is in actually that's coming up right uh next but a while just to finish on the uh parshendi

429
00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:58,200
themselves there's a funny part i do remember one of the books where like one of the people like her

430
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she transforms into like warrior form and her partner's still in mate form and she's like he's

431
00:42:03,800 --> 00:42:09,080
literally like sitting there in the corner being horny the entire time and she's like oh my god it's

432
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exhausting and when they interact with humans they literally they're almost the parshendi have not

433
00:42:15,400 --> 00:42:21,320
interacted with parshman or humans for a long time and when they interact with humans they're like oh

434
00:42:21,320 --> 00:42:28,200
my god you're telling me humans are in war form mate form and work form the entire time so they

435
00:42:28,200 --> 00:42:33,560
don't even see the ball yeah the idea like you couldn't switch off like a part of your brain is

436
00:42:33,560 --> 00:42:41,720
completely strange to them and now is the actual more fun part which is the world building of

437
00:42:41,720 --> 00:42:46,280
rochar this is stuff like colin you will desperately need to understand what's going on going on

438
00:42:47,000 --> 00:42:52,680
so as we say this is like the current map of rochar and there are some things that like fill

439
00:42:52,680 --> 00:42:58,840
in the gaps of like the world building which is a big one is called the spren it's a very unique

440
00:42:58,840 --> 00:43:04,040
thing to like it's not seen in maybe other fancies as much but spren are essentially

441
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:09,960
i would describe like fairies almost if it's like that's like the closest thing i could describe

442
00:43:09,960 --> 00:43:17,000
them to and they essentially represent things from elements to even to concepts and they're

443
00:43:17,000 --> 00:43:24,760
just like darting little creatures like that somewhat look like magic and but so a lot of

444
00:43:24,760 --> 00:43:28,600
the time like for example there's something called like wind spren and you sometimes in like the

445
00:43:28,600 --> 00:43:33,000
world of rochar people will see the spren like these little creatures that will interact and

446
00:43:33,000 --> 00:43:37,560
like fly in the air it's like oh it's like a little sort of wind fairy but then there are things where

447
00:43:37,560 --> 00:43:44,760
spren appear where emotions are strong so say if someone absolutely i don't even know if this is

448
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:48,920
even like what this really means but if someone blew up the bathroom in a dave and busters or

449
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:56,280
something they would have oh no they would sprout something called like shame spren so shit so if

450
00:43:56,280 --> 00:44:02,040
you just say like you this like really embarrassing sometimes shame spren will like appear next to you

451
00:44:02,040 --> 00:44:07,400
and people can see it and they're like no you're ashamed so like these truly these guys like truly

452
00:44:07,400 --> 00:44:13,320
like you know and they are showing receipts and they're all like they're all unique and like appear

453
00:44:13,320 --> 00:44:18,680
in different ways and stuff and look different and very cool this world sounds like hell now

454
00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:25,240
no it's not it's not too i mean there's not like it's like if you're really angry a little red

455
00:44:25,240 --> 00:44:31,000
wisps might pop up or like stuff like that yeah it's very much like a it's like a physical

456
00:44:31,000 --> 00:44:37,320
indicator of certain things and then the world itself so like some examples like i said like

457
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wind and shame spren there's one called like rot spren so people like say soldiers are injured in

458
00:44:42,040 --> 00:44:45,800
battle they're like a little rot spren would appear near the wound and that's when people are

459
00:44:45,800 --> 00:44:50,760
like oh i know it's like bad so there are like some kind of indicators there's like glory spren

460
00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:55,720
which i pay like gold lights above people's head and then they're like lying spren which is like

461
00:44:55,720 --> 00:45:03,720
some of the more they're like more complex spren and um really wacky big ones and nobody

462
00:45:03,720 --> 00:45:07,960
understands type of thing too right you can't really like talk to them they kind of like

463
00:45:07,960 --> 00:45:13,240
sometimes they do like they've been described like they do take on form and shape at this point in

464
00:45:13,240 --> 00:45:17,720
the story but but people they don't like interact with people people just like see it and it's been

465
00:45:17,720 --> 00:45:22,200
around for like the entire time so people just it's like background like it wouldn't shock someone

466
00:45:22,200 --> 00:45:26,280
if they saw a spren they just like oh it's a spren like seeing like a bird or like you know

467
00:45:26,280 --> 00:45:33,080
butterfly or something like that and the next cool part which i so glad i get to get to uh there's a

468
00:45:33,080 --> 00:45:40,680
visual uh representative of this one here somewhere in the middle it's called a shard blade now this

469
00:45:40,680 --> 00:45:48,040
is the stuff that makes um the stormlight archive kind of go hard shard blades are massive but

470
00:45:48,040 --> 00:45:54,840
lightweight ancient weapons that can literally cut through anything except another shard or

471
00:45:54,840 --> 00:46:02,840
other shard things they are incredibly valuable incredibly rare and shard blades they're not like

472
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a traditional saw where like they'd like sit in a sheath or anything like that they pretty much

473
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temporarily bind to your soul and only release when you willingly release the blade or you

474
00:46:14,520 --> 00:46:20,120
basically die and then the blade sort of like pops out and they can sort of like be they can evaporate

475
00:46:20,120 --> 00:46:26,760
and then appear like some characters have ones like that appear as like in mist some of them appear

476
00:46:26,760 --> 00:46:33,160
like as like it like shapes like water out of their hands some of them are fire and when you are cut

477
00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:39,000
by a like by shard blades are like really comically large like if you see some of the artworks i put

478
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here colin like some of the like some characters like holding uh shard blades they are really big

479
00:46:44,840 --> 00:46:50,200
but they are not heavy like at all like when characters like who pick them up they describe

480
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:54,120
them as like this like half the weight of like a normal blade even though it hits hard

481
00:46:54,680 --> 00:47:02,440
they're they're designed to be wielded by anime protagonists with a sword five times the size of

482
00:47:02,440 --> 00:47:10,280
their body pretty much they um but the thing is shard blades like when you're like when your body

483
00:47:10,280 --> 00:47:15,960
is cut by a shard blade essentially the limb and like all the surrounding tissue turns black and

484
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:22,680
like your eyes like fizzle out like it somehow destroys your very being and it just goes right

485
00:47:22,680 --> 00:47:27,800
through you it's not like say it doesn't like savor your arm or anything yeah it lets you like

486
00:47:28,760 --> 00:47:34,120
pretty much like a ghost blade almost um but the thing is shard blades are so incredibly rare

487
00:47:34,120 --> 00:47:40,920
that they can elevate your social status so when someone who say like a dark eyes in alice car

488
00:47:40,920 --> 00:47:45,400
and they acquire a shard blade it basically puts them up to like oh you're basically like a noble

489
00:47:45,400 --> 00:47:53,400
now your eyes turn to light don't they yeah your eyes do turn like a lighter color as well due to

490
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the fact like i mentioned earlier like storm light somehow interacts with the weapon respawn that

491
00:47:58,760 --> 00:48:04,280
comes from more like the big high storm i said at the beginning um shard blades are very like some

492
00:48:04,280 --> 00:48:09,480
of the designs are really really cool and most kingdoms have like a set a few sets like alice

493
00:48:09,480 --> 00:48:14,280
car has quite a lot of shard blades but when i say a lot i mean like i think they have like 20

494
00:48:15,000 --> 00:48:20,840
in like the massive kingdom and uh some of them like some of them are used by like very powerful

495
00:48:20,840 --> 00:48:26,120
noble sometimes the noble has like a champion who uses the shard blade like because they're so

496
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:32,440
they're very much like oh like one shard bearer on the battlefield is worth more than like a thousand

497
00:48:32,440 --> 00:48:38,680
men like a shard blade is worth like an entire fife pretty much it's worth it yeah more than a

498
00:48:38,680 --> 00:48:44,440
city like um and then there's something that does pair with it which is called shard plate which is

499
00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:51,000
equally rare i think there's a few more shard plates than there are shard blades but shard

500
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:56,200
plate is pretty much what you think it is it's sort of a similar construction to the magnificence of

501
00:48:56,200 --> 00:49:01,720
shard blades they're very much described like as almost like a ceramic like material rather than

502
00:49:01,720 --> 00:49:07,400
you know like modern body armor like shatters if it's hit rather than like snaps or like bends or

503
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,640
anything like that some of them like you know like the big plates they put in front of um like modern

504
00:49:12,280 --> 00:49:19,000
i obviously paired with kevlar and things like that and shard plate is big like some if you see

505
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:25,080
some of like the artwork depictions here like some of the people are wearing uh shard plate it's a

506
00:49:25,080 --> 00:49:30,760
very bulky armor set but weirdly enough it does like when you put it on it does conform to your

507
00:49:30,760 --> 00:49:38,360
own shape it's very much powered by storm light and shard plate can like break off in sections so

508
00:49:38,360 --> 00:49:43,000
when people like fighting with other even just shard blades it kind of like bounces off it and

509
00:49:43,000 --> 00:49:47,640
then it like it breaks it it's the only thing that can actually stop a shard blade if you get

510
00:49:47,640 --> 00:49:52,120
enough people and you can swarm someone in shard plate you could possibly like get them out of it

511
00:49:52,120 --> 00:49:59,080
but again it's like people wearing shard plate is very much like the human tank and like space

512
00:49:59,080 --> 00:50:05,560
marine power armor against yeah it's sticks and stones although different to shard blades it's

513
00:50:05,560 --> 00:50:10,760
incredibly heavy shard plate and the only thing that makes it like people able to use it is the

514
00:50:10,760 --> 00:50:16,120
fact like it's powered by storm lights that people use like certain gems in it and that gives it like

515
00:50:16,120 --> 00:50:22,600
basically like they give it an electrical circuit and pretty much one shot like person with a shard

516
00:50:22,600 --> 00:50:30,840
plate and a shard um blade like most people just run because it is very much the space marine like

517
00:50:30,840 --> 00:50:37,080
you are very much walking death on any field and then most people wait they don't risk their

518
00:50:37,640 --> 00:50:42,120
like a lot of times when like kingdoms are fighting between themselves they'll like the

519
00:50:42,120 --> 00:50:46,920
the armies will start fighting and then they'll be like okay now the shard bearers like appear and

520
00:50:46,920 --> 00:50:52,120
then the shard bearers just go to battle because they basically the most battles are one-off if the

521
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:56,840
shard bearers dead or not which is incredibly rare and obviously people there's like big stories

522
00:50:56,840 --> 00:51:03,880
about people winning shard blades and shard plate and things like that the just like what do you do

523
00:51:03,880 --> 00:51:08,920
feel i don't know if they some of them do have names for shard blades but i don't think i have a

524
00:51:08,920 --> 00:51:14,840
list in here but they are a very cool like i guess not like gimmick but like a mechanical like the

525
00:51:14,840 --> 00:51:20,680
world in terms of like how much power is very much in the idea of like is it you know what's that

526
00:51:20,680 --> 00:51:24,600
thing is it in game of thrones they said like who's the most powerful person in the room is it the

527
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:29,480
priest the king or the um or like the merchant or something like that and then so basically the most

528
00:51:29,480 --> 00:51:33,000
powerful person is the person wielding the sword and the one where he believes where the power is

529
00:51:33,000 --> 00:51:39,320
and like there's a big analogy about shard bearers the next sort of world building part here is

530
00:51:39,320 --> 00:51:43,800
something called the heralds uh let me know colin if this is like already too much because there's

531
00:51:43,800 --> 00:51:50,920
quite a lot coming i'm sort of keeping track i'm sort of staying along yeah so you should definitely

532
00:51:50,920 --> 00:51:55,560
listen or read to these books if you get the chance there's like an amazing audio drama i know that

533
00:51:56,440 --> 00:52:02,120
yeah it's long but it's very it's worth it it's very much worth it and just like a last bit on

534
00:52:02,120 --> 00:52:07,160
like shard plate and shard bearers there are quite a few dotted throughout kingdoms but it's like

535
00:52:07,160 --> 00:52:13,240
alif khar being the strongest has the most amount and often kingdoms will like trade things for

536
00:52:13,240 --> 00:52:17,640
shard plate and shard bearers and most it's kind of like a space bring thing like when most people

537
00:52:17,640 --> 00:52:23,080
just won't like in their lifetime see a shard bearer so when they do like see them they're very

538
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:31,560
much like oh my god so it's they're pretty uh they're pretty special and the most important thing

539
00:52:31,560 --> 00:52:37,400
now is to about the heralds which is uh as we go back so what we're looking at now is like the

540
00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:46,360
modern map of roshar and most of this story it kind of takes place with the beginning with the

541
00:52:46,360 --> 00:52:51,480
heralds which are essentially like it set thousands of years ago and this is the point where it

542
00:52:51,480 --> 00:52:57,400
explains like this this is like the beginning of what is like recorded history for roshar the

543
00:52:57,400 --> 00:53:03,400
heralds are essentially something first about it is called the desolation that's a bit more important

544
00:53:03,400 --> 00:53:10,520
but the heralds and the desolations are linked the desolation is basically the apocalypse and

545
00:53:10,520 --> 00:53:16,200
throughout roshar's history they basically over thousands of years they keep having like apocalypse

546
00:53:16,200 --> 00:53:23,880
level events where this great enemy called the quote void bringers basically wipe out most of

547
00:53:23,880 --> 00:53:28,920
the kingdom so the current kingdoms that you're looking at on the roshar map are not really that

548
00:53:28,920 --> 00:53:34,520
old but and they have as i said earlier they've been like some cities which are like clearly made

549
00:53:34,520 --> 00:53:38,760
in a different age it's very much the same thing you know in like a moorhammer way like they had

550
00:53:38,760 --> 00:53:43,800
the age of strife and like sort of things collapse they basically have that but they have it like

551
00:53:43,800 --> 00:53:52,760
three or four times every like thousand years i think and the desolate yeah so they it's a lot

552
00:53:52,760 --> 00:53:57,560
of it is lost to history like what really happens during desolations because it hasn't been one for

553
00:53:57,560 --> 00:54:04,280
quite a while at the start of the books this great enemy called the void bringers essentially wipe

554
00:54:04,280 --> 00:54:10,200
out most of human civilization until this group called the heralds which i think basically is like

555
00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:17,160
the avengers they're like 10 humans that appear during the desolations and they mostly rally

556
00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:23,800
humanity against what the void bringers and they fight back and they most like every time so far

557
00:54:23,800 --> 00:54:29,720
they've managed to beat a desolation how many desolations there has been we really do not know

558
00:54:30,440 --> 00:54:35,720
essentially every single time it's happened though it's implied like humanity got white it just did

559
00:54:35,720 --> 00:54:41,400
worse and worse like more of like you know like literally our golden age just disappeared at some

560
00:54:41,400 --> 00:54:49,560
point and just vanished just things suck now it's just so old i mean it's like uh i know like in

561
00:54:49,560 --> 00:54:53,480
warhammer it was like always like the distant past i think it is like it's an equivalent like

562
00:54:53,480 --> 00:55:01,800
four or five thousand years like that's how far back it goes and these 10 like humans the heralds

563
00:55:01,800 --> 00:55:07,560
are very much they are the center of what is a voron church as i mentioned earlier earlier sorry

564
00:55:07,560 --> 00:55:13,720
they are pretty much worshiped in most countries at some point the heralds themselves are just 10

565
00:55:13,720 --> 00:55:19,240
human beings there are like things like five men five women i was list off their names very quickly

566
00:55:19,240 --> 00:55:26,360
but they're not they are very like when the book opens you start on the heralds at one of the

567
00:55:26,360 --> 00:55:32,360
desolations so just um like they are very much a recurring thing that happens in the story and

568
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:37,240
the more you learn about what happens to them it reveals more about what the characters are like

569
00:55:37,240 --> 00:55:44,440
the main story are going to be facing and doing so the heralds are yezerin nalan chanarach again

570
00:55:44,440 --> 00:55:48,360
this is like laming off of like any that warhammer thing it's like yeah that's the character name for

571
00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:59,720
sure uh yedel paliyah shalash bata kalak talanel and ishar and the very much like in the voron

572
00:55:59,720 --> 00:56:08,120
church but actually in real life the heralds represent an aspect of human humanity and civilization

573
00:56:08,120 --> 00:56:15,400
so some of like them are aslo yezerin was aspects of war like also yezerin is not war sorry but

574
00:56:15,400 --> 00:56:24,040
the they have ideas such as like war justice piety love like they embody those things not just in

575
00:56:24,040 --> 00:56:29,160
the sense like they are those things but like each of the 10 heralds became a herald because

576
00:56:29,160 --> 00:56:35,240
of something within them that was like particularly strongly linked to it so the herald of war was

577
00:56:35,240 --> 00:56:41,720
obviously very war like the herald of justice had a strong sense of justice and what makes the herald

578
00:56:41,720 --> 00:56:47,400
so special is they have access to the power called surge bindings which i don't know why it gets me

579
00:56:47,400 --> 00:56:53,320
so hype whenever i hear about surge bindings because surge binding is essentially like the magic of

580
00:56:53,320 --> 00:57:01,000
uh the stormlight archive and it essentially allows a person to draw in stormlight if you

581
00:57:01,000 --> 00:57:05,560
remember i mentioned that earlier it's like the sort of the magic that washes over roshar kite

582
00:57:05,560 --> 00:57:11,480
constantly through like the massive storms and it essentially increases your strength your speed

583
00:57:11,480 --> 00:57:16,200
and your healing and they even have this power called lashing that we'll get into just a little

584
00:57:16,200 --> 00:57:23,160
bit more but lashing essentially is when they use stormlight to invert gravity and they can

585
00:57:23,160 --> 00:57:29,080
and they can do it on themselves and they can also do it to objects as well and they can use it they

586
00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:34,600
do it using stormlight so say if you wanted to run up like the wall you just in you basically take

587
00:57:34,600 --> 00:57:39,400
in some stormlight and you basically lash yourself so you basically like gravity shifts you and so

588
00:57:39,400 --> 00:57:46,360
you basically turn you can jump on walls and stuff so people get pretty hype so the even the most

589
00:57:46,360 --> 00:57:51,720
extreme level where like some people are able to like fly yeah like that level of like it gets

590
00:57:51,720 --> 00:57:55,960
some people would like have there's a full-on i can't spoil it too much but like there's a fight

591
00:57:55,960 --> 00:58:02,120
scene that happens in the sky at one point in the middle of a storm and it gets like crazy just

592
00:58:02,120 --> 00:58:07,480
because the amount of like power surging through them um but there are surge firing doesn't just

593
00:58:07,480 --> 00:58:12,760
end there though and even though the heralds are known for it and they use these powers they

594
00:58:12,760 --> 00:58:18,600
use these powers like fight off the desolations and these void bringers there are variations to

595
00:58:18,600 --> 00:58:23,560
surge binding powers which i'll go into now uh there's any questions that we've gone so far

596
00:58:23,560 --> 00:58:29,480
like because i'm obviously i'm getting a lot of information uh into your head at the moment um

597
00:58:32,680 --> 00:58:43,320
is it spoilers to say uh like what happens to the heralds in between desolations that's yeah i

598
00:58:43,320 --> 00:58:49,560
kind of i won't finish off at some part of that but i was gonna just like there's been there's a

599
00:58:49,560 --> 00:58:55,720
bit of context about soish bindings out of i guess it's more of a general setting curiosity question

600
00:58:56,360 --> 00:59:05,880
is there uh i know you like uh aleth kar uh they they uh they're like a very warlike culture is

601
00:59:05,880 --> 00:59:11,880
there frequently like massive engagements between all these people and all this shit or is it yeah

602
00:59:11,880 --> 00:59:18,600
i mean there's constant like war between the aleth kar states and stuff the alethi often fight

603
00:59:18,600 --> 00:59:24,680
between themselves the herdazians and i was gonna mention it earlier something cool i liked about

604
00:59:24,680 --> 00:59:31,560
the herdazians um the i missed this section right how didn't it as well yeah the the people who live

605
00:59:31,560 --> 00:59:39,720
in herdazia uh they have the best sense of humor like they are like seem like dark skinned and they

606
00:59:39,720 --> 00:59:44,520
have like something like curly hair and other features like a bit more like the asia slightly

607
00:59:45,160 --> 00:59:49,640
the herdazians have like a weird sense of like a sort of like a trickster element to their culture

608
00:59:49,640 --> 00:59:55,480
where like things they often like to sweat like some of them do like to swindle people and it's

609
00:59:55,480 --> 01:00:00,280
like funny ones like their justice is and their laws are written in a way in which like someone

610
01:00:00,280 --> 01:00:05,000
could miss into like i think one of them was i wish for a trial by combat and he goes like sure

611
01:00:05,000 --> 01:00:13,080
but they choose like a really like oiled up sweaty hippo so they're like a funny sense of like

612
01:00:14,120 --> 01:00:19,240
talking when people like when herdazians are like like near people people often groan because

613
01:00:19,240 --> 01:00:23,640
they're like oh my god i was gonna try to swim them out my money or you know i mean and they

614
01:00:23,640 --> 01:00:30,360
often have like a there's one character who's herdazian and this guy like honestly like herdazians

615
01:00:30,360 --> 01:00:37,720
are very much like just like always on your case they are as deep as light as that's a thing

616
01:00:38,280 --> 01:00:43,960
what's that sorry they refer to the to everyone as cousins yeah like they if they see another

617
01:00:43,960 --> 01:00:47,960
herdazian he's immediately your cousin you've known him for 20 years like he's close family

618
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:54,680
very much like look out for the like each other and they pretty much like the funny thing about

619
01:00:54,680 --> 01:00:58,520
a lot of times in the story people are like wait why is it more of you like where did you come from

620
01:00:58,520 --> 01:01:05,560
they're like what do you mean he's my cousin like they constantly keep popping up but they are i

621
01:01:05,560 --> 01:01:10,280
have a particular love of herdazians there's a funny part where like there's a certain king

622
01:01:10,280 --> 01:01:16,360
in this one of the stories who's like accidentally finds himself in a herdazian house and like he

623
01:01:16,360 --> 01:01:20,680
thinks he's the king but the herdazian mother is the is the queen of that house she's like you're

624
01:01:20,680 --> 01:01:24,760
gonna eat your soup and she just smacks him on the head and stuff like that because like herdazians

625
01:01:24,760 --> 01:01:31,320
don't take you from anybody so sorry finishing off with surge binding powers which is a group

626
01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:36,280
called then this is probably one more important things which is like an offshoot of the heralds

627
01:01:36,280 --> 01:01:42,840
as i mentioned earlier which is called the knight's radiant this is an order that was founded after and

628
01:01:42,840 --> 01:01:48,120
during some of the ancient desolations and essentially their ranks are filled with people

629
01:01:48,120 --> 01:01:54,920
who are surge binders these people who are from all over roshar and they were said to fight in this

630
01:01:54,920 --> 01:02:01,160
like great they were housed in this great fortress called urethiru which is like kind of lost at the

631
01:02:01,160 --> 01:02:05,320
like beginning of the story like that it's like this ancient fortress which is like made of stone

632
01:02:05,320 --> 01:02:10,200
which is like completely resistant to any high storm it's like it's so high up it's above the

633
01:02:10,200 --> 01:02:18,600
storms it's crazy and the knight's radiant were composed of 10 orders that essentially mimic

634
01:02:19,160 --> 01:02:24,440
they weren't made by the heralds but they were inspired by the heralds and what the heralds

635
01:02:24,440 --> 01:02:30,280
embodied so like there's some there's a slight spoiler here but it's very much obvious by the

636
01:02:30,280 --> 01:02:38,360
end of the first book which is what makes surge binding possible is when a spren actually links

637
01:02:38,360 --> 01:02:44,920
with a person so a spren can become more sentient and then it will like when you essentially join

638
01:02:44,920 --> 01:02:51,800
with it and it like accepts you that allows you to draw in stormlight and each of the different

639
01:02:51,800 --> 01:02:58,680
knight's radiance are able to sort of you know they basically join with a spren and it allows

640
01:02:58,680 --> 01:03:04,040
them to do all the cool things like you know surge binding and you know lashings and they fight and

641
01:03:04,040 --> 01:03:11,080
they often would go and fight the void bringers during desolations it does specialize a little

642
01:03:11,080 --> 01:03:15,400
bit their powers they're not just like oh it's just a boost and that's it but to explain how

643
01:03:15,400 --> 01:03:20,440
this happens as well like it's not quite like like how does one like join with a spren it's

644
01:03:20,440 --> 01:03:27,560
actually entirely based off like based off of who you are as a person so like spren won't join to

645
01:03:27,560 --> 01:03:32,760
you if you are not of the right temperament that's why like the heralds i said embody such

646
01:03:32,760 --> 01:03:38,600
uh like a specific ideal it's because it's those spren are only able to join with people who like

647
01:03:38,600 --> 01:03:44,040
feel that calling within them and the way that the knight's radiance are like able to enact their

648
01:03:44,040 --> 01:03:49,880
power is they have to speak something called the ideals we're not i'm not entirely sure why it's

649
01:03:49,880 --> 01:03:56,920
done in some like it's it's a verbal form but it's the only actual way to essentially enact surge

650
01:03:56,920 --> 01:04:02,040
binding and to draw in stormlight and the way they do that is they so the first ideal which is

651
01:04:02,040 --> 01:04:07,960
true for all of the radiance of all the different orders they have to say these words which is life

652
01:04:07,960 --> 01:04:15,560
before death strength before weakness journey before destination this is the first ideal and

653
01:04:15,560 --> 01:04:21,000
they must all do it to be able to start drawing in stormlight and be or they'll be able to bond

654
01:04:21,000 --> 01:04:27,560
it with a spren and that allows them to like gain access to their powers the next ideals so they can

655
01:04:27,560 --> 01:04:35,400
go up to five ideals like each like a different sort of um calling and each of them specializes

656
01:04:35,400 --> 01:04:44,440
depending on who you are and which sort of order you belong to so wind runners they're often ones

657
01:04:44,440 --> 01:04:49,320
who are like quite closely linked to wind spren they very much their power comes from their sense

658
01:04:49,320 --> 01:04:55,320
of like just like doing the right thing and being honorable so the wind runners themselves were often

659
01:04:55,320 --> 01:05:01,080
like the frontline combatants they very much like have good access to like lashing and then

660
01:05:01,560 --> 01:05:05,400
they would be often be the ones like flying around so like when desolations were happening

661
01:05:05,400 --> 01:05:10,680
they would like be groups of like radiance like flying like literally like like was like this like

662
01:05:11,160 --> 01:05:14,600
uh groups like jets like just flying over battlefields but like yeah we're coming boys

663
01:05:14,600 --> 01:05:20,200
like we're going where are we dropping sort of thing and other examples like orders are ones

664
01:05:20,200 --> 01:05:25,720
are ones who are called skybreakers who they are like similar to the herald of justice where in

665
01:05:25,720 --> 01:05:31,320
their heart they are obsessed with doing the right thing and so they grant them they haven't gone

666
01:05:31,320 --> 01:05:35,960
quite as far in the books with some of their unique powers but they essentially have things that adapt

667
01:05:35,960 --> 01:05:41,400
to that they're ones called light weavers who there are people who are obsessed with the truth

668
01:05:41,400 --> 01:05:48,360
and lies and so they're able to create illusions with stormlight there's one called bombsmiths who

669
01:05:48,360 --> 01:05:53,880
essentially say they do what they say on the tin they seem to create bombs and they wish to forge

670
01:05:53,880 --> 01:06:00,680
o's with people like o's themselves have a power in the world and so they gain more strength and

671
01:06:00,680 --> 01:06:07,720
power when they form connections with people and also important thing to remember all night's

672
01:06:07,720 --> 01:06:15,880
radiant possessed a shard and so a shard plate and a shard blade they were pretty much like a

673
01:06:15,880 --> 01:06:22,120
much like a literally like an elite they were essentially a space marine chapter who lived on

674
01:06:23,160 --> 01:06:30,200
rochar for like many many many hundreds of years on throughout rochars older history

675
01:06:31,000 --> 01:06:36,680
and that's kind of this like this is all like the background context of it like it sounds like this

676
01:06:36,680 --> 01:06:41,800
is like oh you need all this before you can like when you go through the book it it reveals all

677
01:06:41,800 --> 01:06:46,360
this stuff so slowly like you don't feel like loss any point obviously it's quite a lot in one go now

678
01:06:47,000 --> 01:06:53,640
but this is i'm going to start that's like kind of the background info and i'm going to go on to

679
01:06:53,640 --> 01:06:59,960
the context you for the first book which is way of kings and then just some like a basic

680
01:06:59,960 --> 01:07:04,280
rendition of like the characters you're going to start following obviously if we do more episodes

681
01:07:04,280 --> 01:07:09,080
of this uh fireside we'll go into all those characters because some of them are so well

682
01:07:09,080 --> 01:07:15,240
written and it's so enjoyable um i'm just gonna go into like a slight uh bit of context for the

683
01:07:15,240 --> 01:07:21,080
uh story yeah could i have two questions about like those i the ideals and yeah sure so pretty

684
01:07:21,080 --> 01:07:26,600
quick um i guess one is that so like since it's like based on personality as well like let's say

685
01:07:26,600 --> 01:07:32,200
there's some just i met he like he's just the biggest dickhead on the planet he can't force

686
01:07:32,200 --> 01:07:37,800
his way and like i like that i just hype like idea of kindness or anything like that like he can't

687
01:07:37,800 --> 01:07:45,080
get power from that he can't fake it basically like you you can't bs your way into it the spren

688
01:07:45,080 --> 01:07:52,120
that bonds with you if you start to fall away from your ideal and your behavior then you lose

689
01:07:52,120 --> 01:07:58,120
the connections and you actually lose the power so if you were a like a member of like you know you

690
01:07:58,120 --> 01:08:05,240
had to be a skybreaker and you're obsessed with justice if you knowingly acted unjust you would

691
01:08:05,240 --> 01:08:14,040
lose your powers uh and is there a way to like force it basically like let's say you have the

692
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:18,200
can you like capture it or something like bind it to you so like even if you fall away it's like no

693
01:08:18,200 --> 01:08:25,080
you're stuck with me little spren i don't think so no it's like dnd paladin pretty much yeah the

694
01:08:25,080 --> 01:08:32,840
power very much is entitled like what it certainly like it can be what you believe so if someone's

695
01:08:32,840 --> 01:08:38,280
form of justice is not someone else's it doesn't matter so long as the person is in control they

696
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:43,880
believe it's just you have to have the conviction gosh yeah you have to but they don't just like

697
01:08:43,880 --> 01:08:48,040
oh they don't give it to like us it doesn't bond with like a psychopath who thinks he's doing the

698
01:08:48,040 --> 01:08:55,240
right thing yeah it's very much like the spren choose the person who is like the right person

699
01:08:55,240 --> 01:09:01,240
for it rather than and and there are examples like some people do lose their powers in this series

700
01:09:01,240 --> 01:09:09,240
at some point just because they very much um lose like their strength or their will so there's some

701
01:09:09,240 --> 01:09:14,840
wiggle room like of what like constitutes like justice for to use that example but you can't

702
01:09:14,840 --> 01:09:22,040
like there's arabis isn't rocking up with the justice spren yeah like arabis wouldn't get no

703
01:09:22,040 --> 01:09:28,680
matter how what he thinks no he wouldn't i mean there are some things like i could go into uh

704
01:09:28,680 --> 01:09:32,920
there's an offshoot of spren but that's like a thing for another episode because it's just too big

705
01:09:32,920 --> 01:09:38,760
yeah um but very much like spren pretty it's like a it's almost like a foolproof way of like having

706
01:09:39,400 --> 01:09:43,720
the power be in the right hands if you know i mean because the spren just once you are like

707
01:09:43,720 --> 01:09:51,080
no longer fulfilling the ideal they basically go like ah we're out see a fan i'm out but they

708
01:09:51,080 --> 01:09:56,680
basically just disappear and or she's fair they can they can die if you are too if you try and

709
01:09:56,680 --> 01:10:03,800
force it they actually the spren dies ah well there you go and uh my other little question is

710
01:10:03,800 --> 01:10:10,120
have there been anything like a mute person like you said they have to speak it so like is like if

711
01:10:10,120 --> 01:10:15,960
you're mute is it just like sorry champ you are perfect in all ways but uh you can't talk so you

712
01:10:15,960 --> 01:10:22,280
can't call that power forth i don't know is that ever been addressed is that a curiosity no but i

713
01:10:22,280 --> 01:10:29,480
assume like you can maybe sign it do you feel like there's also like a thing where sucking in

714
01:10:29,480 --> 01:10:35,960
stormlight also heals you so people who have had injuries like they permanent like someone's able to

715
01:10:36,680 --> 01:10:42,760
like regrow a limb like it's possible to do that like stormlight is like the ultimate healer so if

716
01:10:42,760 --> 01:10:47,800
you were obviously mute if you're mute by choice it probably would it would it would find another

717
01:10:47,800 --> 01:10:52,520
way like it wouldn't it would know you have to like say it with your heart in a way not like

718
01:10:52,520 --> 01:10:58,280
speaking the words is part of verbalizing the truth of it you know it's life before death strength

719
01:10:58,280 --> 01:11:03,640
before weakness journey for destination you have to believe that in order to the strange part as

720
01:11:03,640 --> 01:11:09,720
well like when the spren chooses you as well you feel the words like come from your soul like a

721
01:11:09,720 --> 01:11:16,200
lot of them they don't they don't tell you as a surge binder what the ideals are you you discover

722
01:11:16,200 --> 01:11:25,000
them by following like you know falling deeper into the your unique path so you cannot be told

723
01:11:25,000 --> 01:11:31,800
what the um you but only the first ideal is simply told to most of the nice radiant or like surge

724
01:11:31,800 --> 01:11:35,720
binders the other ones you have to discover for yourself because you're feeling your like soul

725
01:11:37,320 --> 01:11:41,880
is any any other smaller questions it's quite there's a lot of like background stuff but this

726
01:11:41,880 --> 01:11:47,000
is like i'm just gonna start the recap of like this is where the series starts and like sets you

727
01:11:47,000 --> 01:11:53,800
up like properly like this is the beginning of the book i uh i think i'm ready to hear it also so

728
01:11:55,000 --> 01:12:00,200
the beginning again i won't go in too deep just in case people want to like go in further for

729
01:12:00,200 --> 01:12:04,520
themselves or again like we might do a future episode based off of each character because

730
01:12:05,080 --> 01:12:10,680
each book of each book is essentially like a trilogy in itself so it's they're very long but

731
01:12:10,680 --> 01:12:14,040
you do follow the point of view of many like interesting characters and they're also much

732
01:12:14,040 --> 01:12:21,960
smaller side characters but the series essentially starts with the first scene is with the heralds

733
01:12:21,960 --> 01:12:27,960
and it's right after a desolation has happened and the heralds themselves are looking to each other

734
01:12:28,600 --> 01:12:33,880
and they essentially look each other in the eye and they're completely like broken as human beings

735
01:12:33,880 --> 01:12:39,240
they don't know how many desolations they fought they essentially have like the the age they're

736
01:12:39,240 --> 01:12:46,280
from is like no longer exists and they notice that only one of their rank is missing and when the

737
01:12:46,280 --> 01:12:52,040
heralds are looking through each other they all see all embody different things but they all agree

738
01:12:52,040 --> 01:12:58,680
the nine who are still here but they just can't do it again they cannot go back and obviously what

739
01:12:58,680 --> 01:13:03,960
that really means is something you have to discover way later and there are nine swords the artwork i've

740
01:13:03,960 --> 01:13:08,200
put um in the chat for you guys and i'll put on the screen for the rest of them there are nine

741
01:13:08,200 --> 01:13:16,840
swords that are like put in a circle and they look very much like shard blades and they are essentially

742
01:13:16,840 --> 01:13:24,680
a rejection of what their duty is and from this point on the story complex a completely different

743
01:13:24,680 --> 01:13:31,800
shift slightly later in the timeline this is this is supposedly set quite at a time we don't even

744
01:13:31,800 --> 01:13:39,640
remember possibly a thousand two thousand years ago we're not really sure and what happens possibly

745
01:13:39,640 --> 01:13:45,640
even centuries or decades we're not sure later the night's radiant by the time of the start the first

746
01:13:45,640 --> 01:13:53,240
book the first book called way of kings there's an event called the recreants the night's radiant so

747
01:13:53,240 --> 01:14:00,440
300 nights in their shard blade and shard plates stand before an unnamed city's walls the guards

748
01:14:00,440 --> 01:14:04,440
are all looking out at them like they're very like what's going on why are the nights radiant here

749
01:14:05,160 --> 01:14:12,680
and the night's radiant take off their shard plates and disband their blade and sever their

750
01:14:12,680 --> 01:14:19,000
connection to them and women of every women men of every color creed and everything they essentially

751
01:14:19,000 --> 01:14:24,040
leave them there and it's like a blood bath as people go over to clamber to them and the night's

752
01:14:24,040 --> 01:14:30,600
radiant disband and they're basically forever on the night's radiant the name night's radiant is

753
01:14:30,600 --> 01:14:36,040
considered like a like a slugger stain it's like oh they abandoned their duty to the world and they

754
01:14:36,040 --> 01:14:40,360
have basically those shards i mentioned earlier the shards and shard plate the ones that like

755
01:14:40,360 --> 01:14:46,200
spread over multiple different kingdoms that's where they all came from this like shattering of

756
01:14:46,200 --> 01:14:53,240
the night's radiant and essentially over the next few centuries those blades and those plates will

757
01:14:53,240 --> 01:14:59,640
be fought over in massive blood baths until they settled into the current kingdoms of the start of

758
01:14:59,640 --> 01:15:05,800
the way of kings alice car itself has been it was once united in its previous history

759
01:15:06,520 --> 01:15:11,240
only once and then very briefly like disbanded very much like an alyzander the great sort of thing

760
01:15:11,960 --> 01:15:18,840
and it is once again for the first time in many many centuries it is united under what a king

761
01:15:18,840 --> 01:15:24,120
who unites all the different high princes of the very like all the different lands are the people

762
01:15:24,120 --> 01:15:31,000
who are the people who are the alethi by a king called gavilar and his brother called high prince

763
01:15:31,000 --> 01:15:37,080
dalinar dalinar and gavilar are very important to the books but particularly dalinar who's one of

764
01:15:37,080 --> 01:15:44,600
the pov characters eventually king gavilar and his brother dalinar discover to the south this area

765
01:15:44,600 --> 01:15:50,360
this area called the shattered plains and as i said earlier the shattered plains are quite

766
01:15:50,360 --> 01:15:59,640
close to the high storms and the shattered plains itself is incredibly like i said earlier like they

767
01:15:59,640 --> 01:16:04,680
have like filled with crevasses and deep chasms that are like super super deep to the point where

768
01:16:04,680 --> 01:16:09,720
like the light almost doesn't touch and it's like an entire region filled with them and to actually

769
01:16:09,720 --> 01:16:16,280
cross over different chasms people have to build things like bridges and ladders and the idea of

770
01:16:16,280 --> 01:16:21,960
being bridges as well bridges are very important to anything that happens on the shattered plains

771
01:16:21,960 --> 01:16:27,320
and that will come up a lot later if elai knows what i'm talking about bridge four bridge four

772
01:16:27,320 --> 01:16:35,160
um bridge four bridge four is like shark bake like that quick reset with uh with our chest

773
01:16:35,160 --> 01:16:40,920
the king gavilar and prince dalinar so high prince dalinar they discover the parshendi people which

774
01:16:40,920 --> 01:16:47,080
are the ones that like similar to like the parshman earlier and they but they look like the war form

775
01:16:47,080 --> 01:16:52,440
they're like filled like they're like chitinous like bone growths over their head their shoulders

776
01:16:52,440 --> 01:16:56,680
and their chests they're very different they obviously speak in a very very different way

777
01:16:56,680 --> 01:17:04,440
a very like interesting time for um the alethi who have been at this point they've been fighting like

778
01:17:04,440 --> 01:17:11,640
border wars with like yaka bed like the region to their left and the hadassians who the little silly

779
01:17:11,640 --> 01:17:15,640
goose hadassians have been testing the uh the border because why not because there's a king might

780
01:17:15,640 --> 01:17:23,240
also be any good lovely hadassians um and at the time the discovery the parshendi which is to the

781
01:17:23,240 --> 01:17:27,960
south of alethkar which is like almost like a new like right on their border but they've never quite

782
01:17:27,960 --> 01:17:32,360
ventured in there because it's near like the frost land which is again like nobody thinks of anything

783
01:17:32,360 --> 01:17:38,840
there there is a treaty to be signed between these like two nations alethkar is much larger

784
01:17:38,840 --> 01:17:45,480
and bigger than the shattered plains but there are lots of parshendi who live here and they

785
01:17:45,480 --> 01:17:52,840
essentially uh the parshendi have a group that travel up to the palace at the city called kolonar

786
01:17:52,840 --> 01:17:58,440
which is the capital of um alethkar and is very much like one of those older cities as i mentioned

787
01:17:58,440 --> 01:18:02,200
there like one like it's a city that's been around for a very long time probably before

788
01:18:02,200 --> 01:18:10,120
the alethi were even there and this is when this fateful night happens when an assassin in white

789
01:18:10,120 --> 01:18:17,720
shows up this assassin is a short figure filled with like with flowing rose there's probably an

790
01:18:17,720 --> 01:18:24,920
artistic rendition i put in the chat down here and he starts to walk on the walls of the palace he

791
01:18:24,920 --> 01:18:29,800
starts all of the sphere lanterns that like surround it like and mostly use like the light

792
01:18:29,800 --> 01:18:35,720
sources in most of like kolonar they start to drain as he goes near them and he's like slightly

793
01:18:35,720 --> 01:18:43,880
glowing as he is essentially starts carving up loads of guards and the assassin is also wielding

794
01:18:43,880 --> 01:18:49,320
a shard blade and there are very few of those obviously in the world eventually the assassin

795
01:18:49,880 --> 01:18:56,520
manages to chase king gavilar all the way up into this like outside area where the king who has his

796
01:18:56,520 --> 01:19:01,560
own shard blade is like fighting against him in his own shard plate but eventually the assassin

797
01:19:01,560 --> 01:19:07,640
moves in such a way like no one has seen surge binding for a very very long time and so they

798
01:19:07,640 --> 01:19:12,840
don't even know what's happening and the assassin manages to kill the king so king the the book

799
01:19:12,840 --> 01:19:20,360
opens with king gavilar king of alethi the war nation being assassinated but with his dying breath

800
01:19:20,920 --> 01:19:27,160
gavilar asks the assassin to tell his brother something important and for some reason the

801
01:19:27,160 --> 01:19:33,000
assassin agrees and he writes a message in king gavilar's blood and it's a quote from a book

802
01:19:33,000 --> 01:19:39,960
called the way of kings and obviously remember when they just got just a side note when they

803
01:19:39,960 --> 01:19:45,080
discover his body remember i said earlier men are not supposed to be able to read or write so the

804
01:19:45,080 --> 01:19:50,600
fact when they found his body like i don't tell anyone like he wrote something down like the

805
01:19:50,600 --> 01:19:54,280
fact that he could read it was like oh man that'll be embarrassing don't tell me that's not

806
01:19:54,280 --> 01:19:58,840
that he could read it was like oh man i'll be embarrassing don't tell anyone you know i mean

807
01:19:58,840 --> 01:20:07,560
like truly post gavilar's death his son alokar becomes king and enacts something called the

808
01:20:07,560 --> 01:20:13,720
vengeance pact he calls all the high princes of the various like different mini kingdoms within alakar

809
01:20:13,720 --> 01:20:21,880
to declare war on the parshendi who have taken credit for gavilar's death and essentially most

810
01:20:21,880 --> 01:20:29,800
of the military might of alakar moves on to the shattered plains and a massive war over the

811
01:20:29,800 --> 01:20:35,800
shattered plains begins now that's most of like the background stuff any like i'm about to go into

812
01:20:35,800 --> 01:20:40,280
characters is there any like smaller questions you have possibly about any of that section

813
01:20:42,360 --> 01:20:49,960
uh not at the moment no no no like this just to give it like a scale of it like the high princes

814
01:20:49,960 --> 01:20:55,560
almost do act like their own mini kingdoms a lot of the time and even when they there's this massive

815
01:20:55,560 --> 01:21:02,440
like ho which is probably like 100 000 strong plus they go to fight these parshmen a lot like

816
01:21:02,440 --> 01:21:06,840
their own home territories when they leave them they still like war between themselves because

817
01:21:06,840 --> 01:21:12,120
they're just like why not and we begin now with like some of the characters that which like the

818
01:21:12,120 --> 01:21:16,280
pov characters i'm just going to end on this uh part here which are some of the characters we're

819
01:21:16,280 --> 01:21:20,600
going to follow throughout most of the stormlight archive this again this is like this is just the

820
01:21:20,600 --> 01:21:26,200
beginning part of their stories and it takes a massive amount of time i can't express how good

821
01:21:26,200 --> 01:21:31,560
like the dialogue and world building is um with a lot of these stuff so the first character is

822
01:21:31,560 --> 01:21:39,880
called zeth son son velano uh in brackets he's called the truthless now seth is a shin man so

823
01:21:39,880 --> 01:21:42,760
he's one of the shin of all he's one of those ones who look like anime girls you know i mean

824
01:21:42,760 --> 01:21:50,600
he said earlier so he's he's my five foot king um very big eyes but he's also 30 years old um at

825
01:21:50,600 --> 01:21:56,680
the start of the series but when people is it like when people see people who are shin they often

826
01:21:56,680 --> 01:22:00,280
like mistake them for children until they get close like oh he's a shin because he's got huge

827
01:22:00,280 --> 01:22:10,520
eyes they like a little bit awkward uh yeah so seth is the assassin in white and he essentially was

828
01:22:10,520 --> 01:22:17,080
sold into slavery by his homeland for the crime of being truthless which means that he basically

829
01:22:17,080 --> 01:22:24,680
told a lie to his society which was the fact that he thought the next desolation and the return of

830
01:22:24,680 --> 01:22:28,680
their knight's radiant was coming he had seen something which made him believe that and he said

831
01:22:28,680 --> 01:22:37,000
it and essentially they punished him and sold him into slavery and seth is a miserable character

832
01:22:37,000 --> 01:22:43,800
like the the dude is totally like ready to go at any point and he is held captive by this thing

833
01:22:43,800 --> 01:22:48,680
called his oath stone which essentially like in shin about like the the way they believe it with

834
01:22:48,680 --> 01:22:53,960
like their slavery is like when they give them oath stones it's essentially a stone which inhabits

835
01:22:53,960 --> 01:23:00,760
like his the will and his sense of being and whoever holds the oath stone is like his mask and

836
01:23:00,760 --> 01:23:05,320
has complete control over him so if someone's like oh i bought him but someone else owns the

837
01:23:05,320 --> 01:23:12,440
oath stone that person like whoever has the oath stone he will do whatever they say and for many

838
01:23:12,440 --> 01:23:18,440
years seth was tossed around as like a slave he couldn't bring himself to commit the gravest sin

839
01:23:18,440 --> 01:23:23,240
in all of shinnevarian like society which was to take his own life if you know what i mean like he

840
01:23:23,240 --> 01:23:31,240
couldn't do it so but essentially seth is very much trained and special in some way and he also has

841
01:23:31,240 --> 01:23:37,960
a shard blade and he the interesting thing about his character like he blames other people mostly

842
01:23:37,960 --> 01:23:46,360
for what happens to him so he is instructed at some points to kill the king gavilar and just as

843
01:23:46,360 --> 01:23:52,360
he just goes and does it and he basically is like he's constantly in denial about the fact like oh

844
01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:58,040
i'm doing this he's very much like he thinks if only people had tried harder to kill me then it

845
01:23:58,040 --> 01:24:04,040
would all be fine like they just needed to kill me what's wrong with them seth is a very unfortunate

846
01:24:04,040 --> 01:24:12,360
and very tragic character and after king gavilar's death his oath stone is picked up by a mysterious

847
01:24:12,360 --> 01:24:20,840
figure who tells him he has a new instruction for him and he is to kill all monarchs so that's where

848
01:24:20,840 --> 01:24:27,160
like his story sort of begins the next character is called shalan devar i should mention that i've

849
01:24:27,160 --> 01:24:33,160
had some artwork there is the artwork i've got of like shin i'm sorry shin shin shin which one is it

850
01:24:33,160 --> 01:24:39,560
he's no seth he's a shin he's uh he's the one who's like dancing like the wall and like he's holding

851
01:24:39,560 --> 01:24:45,400
like the shard blade the combat by the way in the books way to describe it is super like well done

852
01:24:45,400 --> 01:24:50,280
just because it's like the particular the way he like lashes himself in combat and like when my

853
01:24:50,280 --> 01:24:54,920
soldiers are fighting him and then he just like inverts like like say like he touches someone's

854
01:24:54,920 --> 01:25:00,440
shield and then suddenly the shield like just sticks at the floor so combat's like very dynamic

855
01:25:00,440 --> 01:25:07,400
in terms like with surge binding there's another character called shalan devar who in the artistic

856
01:25:07,400 --> 01:25:16,520
renditions example is the redheaded female if you see down there uh shalan is like a late teenager

857
01:25:16,520 --> 01:25:22,120
at the start of the series right maybe 17 18 and she is from the kingdom of yaka bed so she's not

858
01:25:22,120 --> 01:25:28,120
an alethi um but she also has red hair so people often joke like she's also got some of the uh

859
01:25:28,120 --> 01:25:35,080
unka lucky or like the horn eater uh jeans in her um just an example i like horn eaters they talk

860
01:25:35,080 --> 01:25:39,880
really funny so when people are redheads sometimes they impersonate being horn eaters because

861
01:25:39,880 --> 01:25:45,080
because the people get like basically horn eaters have like a thousand different kings queens and

862
01:25:45,080 --> 01:25:51,000
princesses and like oh my god i have to talk to this annoying person shalan at the start of the

863
01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:58,920
series is on her way to the port city of karbrant which is below alethkar and above the island state

864
01:25:58,920 --> 01:26:06,760
of um which one is it called again so could you guys saw on my map it is the oh yeah

865
01:26:06,760 --> 01:26:12,520
thaila thailanar karbrant and it's actually very easy to see on the first map i always put out for

866
01:26:12,520 --> 01:26:20,600
the uh visual lookers here karbrant is between alethkar and thailanar just on the uh western

867
01:26:20,600 --> 01:26:25,560
side of the frost land karbrant is like one that is the city state i've described earlier where

868
01:26:25,560 --> 01:26:31,560
like it's entirely kept in like a cove like cliff area so it's completely protected and

869
01:26:32,600 --> 01:26:39,480
it's like a very like wealthy like merchant city and shalan is on her way she's left

870
01:26:39,480 --> 01:26:44,120
she's left her first time of um she's also a lighthouse by the way as i mentioned like she's

871
01:26:44,120 --> 01:26:51,400
a she's of the nobility and she's leaving her home to go ask to be a ward to the late king's

872
01:26:51,400 --> 01:26:59,480
daughter yasna kolin now it's not all sunshine and rainbows unfortunately for her because

873
01:26:59,480 --> 01:27:08,040
her family back home are relying on her to save them because the entire dvar family is basically

874
01:27:08,040 --> 01:27:13,320
pretending that their father is still alive uh because they're trying to basically play with

875
01:27:13,320 --> 01:27:18,120
the fact that their father had acquired a lot of debt pretending like oh he's still alive

876
01:27:18,760 --> 01:27:25,960
and shalan has a plan to sort of help save their family uh shalan's like unique thing about her is

877
01:27:25,960 --> 01:27:32,280
like the fact that her memory is photographic so she has the idea like she can recall things from

878
01:27:32,280 --> 01:27:37,480
like obviously like how photographing means work and she can draw things from memory almost like a

879
01:27:37,480 --> 01:27:43,160
perfect level she's a very very good artist but she has as like said at the very beginning of this

880
01:27:43,160 --> 01:27:49,320
uh mental health is the key here brothers um she has a strong problem with like dissociation i

881
01:27:49,320 --> 01:27:54,440
don't know if that's like the right way to phrase it but essentially when she thinks like a terrible

882
01:27:54,440 --> 01:27:58,520
memory she just dissociates and then it stops thinking about like she pushed it to the side

883
01:27:58,520 --> 01:28:04,200
this is all from like her father cruelty when she was growing up and the reason she is traveling

884
01:28:04,200 --> 01:28:11,880
towards particularly yasna kolin who's the daughter of the late king who is in uh carbrant city is she

885
01:28:11,880 --> 01:28:17,240
doesn't want to learn or be her ward but she's there to steal something from her called a fabrial

886
01:28:17,800 --> 01:28:24,360
fabrials are basically like the stormlight gemstones that are like turned into a small

887
01:28:24,920 --> 01:28:28,840
they're very like incredibly rare devices probably should have mentioned it earlier but

888
01:28:28,840 --> 01:28:35,320
essentially when you want to produce something a fabrial can like recreate and like an object or

889
01:28:35,320 --> 01:28:40,920
a piece of a thing and it just uses stormlight to do it so often armies have like loads of people

890
01:28:40,920 --> 01:28:46,200
who use fabrials to recreate food but it doesn't taste very good so people who live in like alif

891
01:28:46,200 --> 01:28:51,480
car they often say like they have really spicy food because they have to import spices to put

892
01:28:51,480 --> 01:28:57,000
on all that fabrials made food kind of like the like like really wonka fake food or something like

893
01:28:57,000 --> 01:29:03,400
very crappy so fabulous are because right is it like an imperfect copy then or is it just in the

894
01:29:03,400 --> 01:29:10,360
case of food it's not good like if they recreate like a sword right is it yeah it's not very it's

895
01:29:10,360 --> 01:29:18,600
not perfect it's okay it's like it'll dull quicker or shatter it's like if you made all food like all

896
01:29:18,600 --> 01:29:26,360
like if you've seen tofu versions of food so it looks like steak but it's actually just tofu and

897
01:29:26,360 --> 01:29:31,240
it all tastes kind of the same if i remember correctly i think that's kind of how it is

898
01:29:31,240 --> 01:29:37,000
it's pretty like is a it's always like a slight blander copy of whatever you're doing and it

899
01:29:37,000 --> 01:29:42,280
requires a lot of stormite to make it but they can be used for things like say if you wanted to

900
01:29:43,160 --> 01:29:49,480
think one example was her father was using a fabrial to recreate um they had like a disused

901
01:29:49,480 --> 01:29:55,800
mine for like marble and he would use the fabrial to create marble so then they have like it's like

902
01:29:55,800 --> 01:29:59,960
a money-making process but most fabrials are pretty like tight locked obviously because of how

903
01:30:01,080 --> 01:30:05,880
overpowered they are they don't they're not perfect though they can't do like loads of stuff at one

904
01:30:05,880 --> 01:30:12,120
go but they're pretty useful obviously but uh she is essentially traveling by ship she's been

905
01:30:12,120 --> 01:30:19,880
chasing yasna across the world because she wants to steal yasna's the through the colin family

906
01:30:19,880 --> 01:30:27,080
yasna's colin's very famous fabrial in order to replace replace the broken one uh that is with

907
01:30:27,080 --> 01:30:34,680
her family in yaka bed which because her father got that one from shady people and basically they

908
01:30:34,680 --> 01:30:40,280
want them to pay up and give them back a fabrial and they're like oh we're in deep crap um but

909
01:30:40,280 --> 01:30:45,960
shalan is essentially a young girl who's like out on a journey to essentially try and save her like

910
01:30:45,960 --> 01:30:50,600
the entire family is like relying on her and she's just like she's the only girl of all these

911
01:30:50,600 --> 01:30:56,280
brothers and she's got a lot of problems but she's just going for it uh another character who's one

912
01:30:56,280 --> 01:31:01,800
the pb character's court is uh yasna colin not as much in the first book but i think they um

913
01:31:01,800 --> 01:31:08,440
expand a lot on her later she is the daughter of former king uh well now dead king gavilar and her

914
01:31:08,440 --> 01:31:17,080
brother is the now king of alethkar she is the older sibling uh yasna is perhaps one of the most

915
01:31:17,080 --> 01:31:22,200
smart like the one of the smartest people probably in the world definitely the smartest person in the

916
01:31:22,200 --> 01:31:30,760
room by far a lot of time she's an extreme scholar like her mother and she is a pretty unique case

917
01:31:30,760 --> 01:31:36,920
where like she's actually the only person who's probably an atheist in she's the only open like

918
01:31:36,920 --> 01:31:41,320
atheist in all of like any society because she generally like she's like i haven't made a

919
01:31:41,320 --> 01:31:45,000
conclusion on it and people like oh my god what do you mean you don't believe in like the divinity

920
01:31:45,000 --> 01:31:50,280
of like the heralds and all that stuff like what's wrong with you and after her father's death

921
01:31:51,080 --> 01:31:57,480
she is on a mission to discover the reason like why her father was killed by the pashendi who they

922
01:31:57,480 --> 01:32:02,840
just met and it was seemingly going really well with but what reason did the pashendi have to

923
01:32:02,840 --> 01:32:10,360
enact this war and this research is leading her to look into the desolations and the void bringers

924
01:32:10,360 --> 01:32:16,280
yasna is a very interesting character just because i think she pretty much is like she's always like

925
01:32:16,280 --> 01:32:22,040
the most competent person ever but for a lot of people like she often appears like shut off and

926
01:32:22,040 --> 01:32:28,360
cold a lot of times she does do that just because she's trying to protect herself from like many

927
01:32:29,080 --> 01:32:33,800
parts like pain and things like that she and a lot of people like particularly like being like

928
01:32:33,800 --> 01:32:39,160
obviously a woman of like nobility people have often had plans on her and she refuses to live

929
01:32:39,160 --> 01:32:44,600
by that and she wants to be like a scholar to the point of like that's what she cares about and she

930
01:32:44,600 --> 01:32:50,280
doesn't really want to do the things like other you know noble she'll be chasing boys or doing

931
01:32:50,280 --> 01:32:56,120
any stupid stuff like other you know highborn ladies there's a funny point like her she's so

932
01:32:56,120 --> 01:33:00,280
good with her like witty dialogue like some of the male characters who have tried to like

933
01:33:00,840 --> 01:33:04,920
you know like just talk to her she very much is like leave them crying at the end of it because

934
01:33:04,920 --> 01:33:11,480
it just can't keep up with her she's very very cool almost done there boys and there is the

935
01:33:11,480 --> 01:33:20,600
next one so a quick sip of water there yeah hydrate after all that yeah i'm hammering it in

936
01:33:20,600 --> 01:33:26,920
um hopefully the fire's crackling and people still able to stay with it um the next character is

937
01:33:26,920 --> 01:33:33,640
called high prince dalinar who is yasna's uncle and he was the brother to king gavilar dalinar if

938
01:33:33,640 --> 01:33:39,160
you see in the art so certainly i was i've done underneath where the redhead shalan was there was

939
01:33:39,160 --> 01:33:46,040
a picture of what yasna looks like and underneath that that is what high prince dalinar looks like

940
01:33:46,040 --> 01:33:53,480
dalinar is a boy um he's a been a lifelong warrior he helped his brother unite all the princes

941
01:33:53,480 --> 01:34:01,000
into one kingdom he was nicknamed the black thorn due to his like reputation of being utterly

942
01:34:01,000 --> 01:34:07,400
ruthless as a warrior and sort of fighter obviously where they grew up and out of the car war is

943
01:34:07,400 --> 01:34:14,440
basically their blood um after his brother's death well he he feels a lot of guilt for his brother's

944
01:34:14,440 --> 01:34:19,960
death because he wasn't there because on the night the assassin in white appeared he was drinking

945
01:34:19,960 --> 01:34:26,360
and there will be an expansion on that a lot in some of the later books but post his brother's

946
01:34:26,360 --> 01:34:31,880
death dalinar is one of the other high princes and he joins the vengeance pact with his nephew

947
01:34:31,880 --> 01:34:39,560
who is the king and he starts to look into what gavilar meant by the quote written in his blood

948
01:34:39,560 --> 01:34:43,960
which is from a book called the way of kings which is obviously what the first book is named after

949
01:34:44,840 --> 01:34:52,840
the way of kings itself is it's kind of like a scholarly uh book of wisdom that was written by

950
01:34:53,400 --> 01:34:59,080
a long dead king at the end of his life long ago and it's a sort of code of conduct for how kings

951
01:34:59,080 --> 01:35:04,040
should operate like how kings are very much like you know it's like that creed of like you know if

952
01:35:04,040 --> 01:35:10,200
you want power are you willing to lower yourself to you know pick up you know that sort of creed

953
01:35:10,200 --> 01:35:16,680
and it's very much like a way of how kings should operate and behave and his brother supposedly had

954
01:35:16,680 --> 01:35:22,840
been looking into it and then go forbid reading it at some point and dalinar starts to ask um

955
01:35:22,840 --> 01:35:27,480
other highborn ladies like read him the book because he's now trying to understand more

956
01:35:27,480 --> 01:35:35,320
about his brother post-death dalinar at the start of the series well just a slight time in here like

957
01:35:35,320 --> 01:35:41,160
all of the high princes have basically moved like a sort of they have a temporary city that's set up

958
01:35:41,160 --> 01:35:46,360
near the shattered plains that like it's been this the war has been going on for about six years at

959
01:35:46,360 --> 01:35:52,680
this point um just because they basically a lot of them like are enjoying fighting the parshendi

960
01:35:52,680 --> 01:35:58,120
in these like massive battles across like the chasms and like these different areas and it's

961
01:35:59,640 --> 01:36:04,680
it's also probably gem hearts yeah there are things called gem hearts which like basically

962
01:36:04,680 --> 01:36:10,760
massive gems are like similar to the smaller gems which store stormlight which come from these like

963
01:36:10,760 --> 01:36:15,640
massive like crab like creatures which they basically hunt as well so basically they're having a

964
01:36:15,640 --> 01:36:23,240
massive ball a massive fun time in shattered plains so they military industrial military complex

965
01:36:23,240 --> 01:36:31,720
pretty much yeah and um dan when the first book is happening he's undergoing visions every time a

966
01:36:31,720 --> 01:36:36,840
high storm is passing over and he starts like screaming like people have to hold his body down

967
01:36:36,840 --> 01:36:43,560
but he can't wake and he starts to see visions of past desolations he sees the recreants when the

968
01:36:43,560 --> 01:36:50,760
knights radiant like abandoned all their shards and charplate and every time a vision ends like

969
01:36:50,760 --> 01:36:56,200
he he ends up with a character someone who's in the vision he kind of can interact with it in like a

970
01:36:56,200 --> 01:37:03,480
like a really realistic way and at the end of every single vision a voice like booms over and

971
01:37:03,480 --> 01:37:08,200
someone looks to him and says unite them and it just screams it to him every time he undergoes

972
01:37:08,200 --> 01:37:17,480
a vision and the last character is my boy my favorite character is called caladin caladin is

973
01:37:17,480 --> 01:37:24,360
for the way of kings the first book uh he is mostly like each of the main books um follows

974
01:37:24,360 --> 01:37:32,040
like the main story and then they follow a like uh they they explore the background of a particular

975
01:37:32,040 --> 01:37:35,560
character in each of the books the first one's like caladin the next one like shalom and things

976
01:37:35,560 --> 01:37:44,600
like that and caladin is a dark-eyed boy from a poor region of like north alucar and he is training

977
01:37:44,600 --> 01:37:50,280
under his father to become a surgeon which is like quite a big deal for like a lowborn dark-eyed boy

978
01:37:50,280 --> 01:37:58,840
in alucar and using a donation from their uh the recently deceased local bright lord they're like

979
01:37:58,840 --> 01:38:06,200
bright you know their light eyes lord um basically it's allowing caladin to go and train in i think

980
01:38:06,200 --> 01:38:11,560
is it carparanth or another city to go be a surgeon which is like a big thing and caladin

981
01:38:11,560 --> 01:38:17,240
himself is quite like a mopey teenager at this point he doesn't really he's good at like surgery

982
01:38:17,240 --> 01:38:22,600
and stuff like that and he's good at being you know a medical sort of professional in some regard

983
01:38:22,600 --> 01:38:29,080
but he doesn't really want to do he kind of has his desire to like the ability to fight within him

984
01:38:29,080 --> 01:38:33,960
is like there he doesn't know why but like he feels like a sort of you know like he can sort of

985
01:38:33,960 --> 01:38:38,760
feels like that way like the way of water almost he's got the fire or whatever yeah like it's like

986
01:38:38,760 --> 01:38:45,720
it tied into him and he's a very protective older brother to tian his little younger brother tian is

987
01:38:45,720 --> 01:38:52,520
a very gentle gentle boy he is like i made he literally makes calin's calin's like a very grumpy

988
01:38:53,160 --> 01:38:57,480
person but he always smiles when tian like i got you this rock and it looks so pretty like he's

989
01:38:57,480 --> 01:39:04,040
very very nice tian's like sheltered if you know what i mean like a very like tian's like a very

990
01:39:04,760 --> 01:39:08,760
precious child he needs a lot of help and he's very shy and doesn't like talk to people

991
01:39:09,560 --> 01:39:15,160
whereas caladin is like very standoffish and protective one day when their new bright lord

992
01:39:15,160 --> 01:39:21,320
who by the way this bright lord will come again up again this new one he's an absolute p.o.s this guy

993
01:39:21,320 --> 01:39:28,200
is the worst this guy is like i can't describe he is like the sniveling like he's the their new

994
01:39:28,200 --> 01:39:33,880
bright lord because he got ousted from somewhere else because he's such a p.o.s and he's like

995
01:39:33,880 --> 01:39:42,360
sniveling son up here and this bright lord seeks revenge on calin's father who failed to save the

996
01:39:42,360 --> 01:39:47,240
bright lord's son after there was a hunting accident because the father basically said i

997
01:39:47,240 --> 01:39:53,320
can't save the son the the father and the son were both injured and he was like begging save my son

998
01:39:53,320 --> 01:39:57,800
and they went the father went the son's actually gonna die because been pierced by like massive

999
01:39:57,800 --> 01:40:02,840
thorns i can only save you and he chooses to save the bright lord obviously the right thing to do

1000
01:40:02,840 --> 01:40:07,080
but probably the wrong thing to do if you know i mean just in terms like it really ruins their

1001
01:40:07,080 --> 01:40:15,240
lives so he offers up tian the younger brother to bright lord amaran who's basically uh sorry he's

1002
01:40:15,240 --> 01:40:19,000
offered him up as one of the conscripts of one of the many border wars that's happening whilst all

1003
01:40:19,000 --> 01:40:25,720
the big boys are in the shattered plains fighting the the singing you know double partners you know

1004
01:40:25,720 --> 01:40:33,000
parshendi and tian is like not appropriate for this at all but the bright lord has taken his quote

1005
01:40:33,000 --> 01:40:41,000
unquote revenge calin against his father's wishes joins amaran to protect his little brother and

1006
01:40:41,000 --> 01:40:45,560
calin's kind of all right with it because amaran is like seen as like he's a bright lord and the

1007
01:40:45,560 --> 01:40:50,040
light eyes but he's seen as like one of the good ones he treats people with respect and people

1008
01:40:50,920 --> 01:40:55,320
offer like you know i don't like light eyes but you know that amaran guy is a good one

1009
01:40:55,880 --> 01:41:02,760
and the story essentially starts with calin as a slave so it goes downhill um he goes downhill

1010
01:41:02,760 --> 01:41:09,560
from there now he i guess worse even than that he gets um yeah sorry current theme calin's mental

1011
01:41:09,560 --> 01:41:14,520
health issue because they all have it uh is sorry saying earlier dalinar's mental health issue

1012
01:41:14,520 --> 01:41:21,320
earlier is essentially guilt not come up a lot in the story um calin's one is uber depression my

1013
01:41:21,320 --> 01:41:28,840
boy suffers depression hard uh he is at the start of the story a branded slave and are following the

1014
01:41:28,840 --> 01:41:33,800
death of his brother so right at the beginning of the book you're like his brother died his brother

1015
01:41:33,800 --> 01:41:38,440
died because some other soldiers didn't protect him he got killed like a border skirmish like

1016
01:41:38,440 --> 01:41:44,920
pretty quickly on when they were soldiers he was branded as a deserter and is calin is currently

1017
01:41:44,920 --> 01:41:51,240
being shipped away to be uh sent to the shattered plains to be sold into something called a bridge

1018
01:41:51,240 --> 01:41:58,120
crew the bridge crews are essentially slave crews who drive the massive massive like wooden bridges

1019
01:41:58,120 --> 01:42:02,920
that allow armies to like run across a different shattered so basically you know like the total

1020
01:42:02,920 --> 01:42:07,240
war maps colin like there's that one one that has two bridges like something like that those those

1021
01:42:07,240 --> 01:42:12,920
ones you always hope for essentially yeah most of like all the shattered plains is just like cut

1022
01:42:12,920 --> 01:42:18,040
off sections like that and they have to make bridges and like these little beach heads into

1023
01:42:18,040 --> 01:42:22,760
like these massive like battles between like knights and horsemen and archers and then like

1024
01:42:22,760 --> 01:42:28,600
the posh endy lines and the only way to do that is through bridge crews and essentially a lot of time

1025
01:42:28,600 --> 01:42:35,880
is being in a bridge crew is like certain death because you are basically fodder and he's being

1026
01:42:35,880 --> 01:42:43,080
sold into a bridge crew but throughout caladin's journey there he is mysteriously followed by a

1027
01:42:43,080 --> 01:42:49,720
wind spren which i will happily expand on one day and the very last thing here i'm just gonna end

1028
01:42:49,720 --> 01:42:57,320
on this brothers is the character elia you know him as wit you know he won't talk about kings this

1029
01:42:57,320 --> 01:43:02,760
is a character goes by the name wit and this is this is a character like a reoccurring thing

1030
01:43:03,240 --> 01:43:08,200
um you don't really get a pav of him but he's i want to talk about him the king's sorry he is

1031
01:43:08,200 --> 01:43:13,160
he is the wit and he is basically called like the king's like the king's wit or the basic the jester

1032
01:43:13,160 --> 01:43:19,800
of king elokar slash the alethi kingdom and he's in the shattered plains like temporary capital

1033
01:43:19,800 --> 01:43:25,800
at the moment and essentially the king's wit is a position where they in alethkar you can't really

1034
01:43:25,800 --> 01:43:30,120
like be seen to insult someone because people often just duel you like you can't talk crap at

1035
01:43:30,120 --> 01:43:35,080
anyone but there is a way around that which is having like a king's wit who's basically their

1036
01:43:35,080 --> 01:43:41,880
job is to go around insulting people and basically being witty and funny and annoying as hell so he

1037
01:43:41,880 --> 01:43:46,520
basically got to be like oh lady i can't be here wearing that tonight is it distract you from your

1038
01:43:46,520 --> 01:43:54,360
stanky breath or something the king's wit is a hilarious character who every single person

1039
01:43:54,920 --> 01:44:00,920
groans when they see the king's wit even like dalinar who's like a very like straight edge like

1040
01:44:00,920 --> 01:44:07,240
soldier type of figure he's like oh my god it's a wit you know i mean like every time the wit the

1041
01:44:07,240 --> 01:44:12,280
king's wit is around everyone is smiling but there's something a bit more to the king's wit he seems

1042
01:44:12,280 --> 01:44:17,000
to know things like he shouldn't he knows things about the whole universe and rochard like he

1043
01:44:17,000 --> 01:44:23,800
that have not been told i'm pretty sure his character is in all of the uh yeah slight slight

1044
01:44:23,800 --> 01:44:30,760
support he his character appears in multiple different universes in the cosmic or whatever

1045
01:44:30,760 --> 01:44:35,080
like in the other series that brandon sandson writes there's something strange about the king's

1046
01:44:35,080 --> 01:44:42,600
wit but honestly whenever he's in the scene he's absolutely hilarious um something he has great

1047
01:44:42,600 --> 01:44:48,680
interactions with like some characters i can't spoil now but he is particularly uh funny and

1048
01:44:48,680 --> 01:44:53,720
there's like another character who well i think one of the bright lords who like we end up hating

1049
01:44:53,720 --> 01:44:59,160
in the series like i mean whenever he sees him this guy has been like always on top he's a big dog

1050
01:44:59,800 --> 01:45:03,960
and whenever the king's wit is like near him this guy is like oh my god he actually wants to run

1051
01:45:03,960 --> 01:45:08,920
away from him like he's a big badass warrior but he's like scared the king's wit because the way

1052
01:45:08,920 --> 01:45:15,080
it's about to like tear him apart it's like his deepest most horrible insecurities um uh the funny

1053
01:45:15,080 --> 01:45:19,400
part about the king's wit is like everyone's trying to kill him so the position of king's

1054
01:45:19,400 --> 01:45:25,560
wit particularly the current wit has held it the longest longer than anyone else's before because

1055
01:45:25,560 --> 01:45:31,080
essentially whoever's king's wit always gets assassinated relatively quickly so because

1056
01:45:31,080 --> 01:45:36,200
they're so annoying um but his current king's wit has been around the longest and he is a

1057
01:45:36,760 --> 01:45:41,400
recurring character that ladies and gentlemen though is essentially the

1058
01:45:42,840 --> 01:45:48,920
that is the current setup for most of the stormlight archive i have attached some for the

1059
01:45:48,920 --> 01:45:53,720
boys here there's like some visual arts of some of the things i put on screen during the um

1060
01:45:54,840 --> 01:45:57,640
recording here though i'll describe some of them they're like some of them are

1061
01:45:57,640 --> 01:46:03,160
the characters i might describe a bit better so delinar himself is i think i didn't describe him

1062
01:46:03,160 --> 01:46:09,880
earlier but he's like quite like a tall very broad man he's in his 50s he has two sons who are like

1063
01:46:09,880 --> 01:46:14,360
reoccurring slash more prominent characters later one's called aidlin he's like the older brother

1064
01:46:15,080 --> 01:46:21,720
the perfect warrior perfect handsome son and then he has a younger boy called ronarin who's kind of

1065
01:46:21,720 --> 01:46:28,040
like a very like i don't know if ronarin has possibly speculated maybe he has autism or

1066
01:46:29,000 --> 01:46:34,040
possibly on the spectrum or has like extreme social anxiety but ronarin is not the most classic

1067
01:46:34,040 --> 01:46:40,280
classic alethi character and so he's often insulted by people but aidlin his brother and his father

1068
01:46:40,280 --> 01:46:47,800
are very protective of him uh delinar is built like a you know brick house my my dude is huge

1069
01:46:47,800 --> 01:46:55,400
huge muscular he's quite good like they're quite handsome like just the colons all of them are

1070
01:46:55,400 --> 01:47:01,880
really and he's you know he can fight like no one but he's always learning to be a more wise

1071
01:47:01,880 --> 01:47:07,320
character but yeah he's pretty built starting he's starting to gray cuttings in his early 50s at the

1072
01:47:07,320 --> 01:47:15,240
time of the start of the first book he's still a baller he's the dude still goes hard dude like

1073
01:47:15,240 --> 01:47:20,040
because when he's in shower plate there's parts where like he just jumps off cliffs and then

1074
01:47:20,040 --> 01:47:27,080
like rams into like parshendi lines and just goes at it goes at it hard like my dude is truly carrying

1075
01:47:27,080 --> 01:47:35,160
the series uh caledon is like caledon's only i think 19 at the start he's tall he's dark dark

1076
01:47:35,160 --> 01:47:44,120
skin dark eyes dark hair uh he's got very long like mopey hair um he's does have this brand like a

1077
01:47:44,120 --> 01:47:52,040
tattoo slash burn into his forehead that like his slave brand uh yasna colin is very much similar to

1078
01:47:52,840 --> 01:47:59,720
dal and iron features so like you know light eyes you know sort of fine figure shalans often says

1079
01:47:59,720 --> 01:48:03,960
she finds it annoying about yasna how she's literally perfect almost because she's like very

1080
01:48:03,960 --> 01:48:09,320
good looking but she's also incredibly smart as well shalon doesn't look like the rest of the

1081
01:48:09,320 --> 01:48:15,160
alethi she's like quite pale skin she's redhead so obviously she often jokes about her being like a

1082
01:48:15,160 --> 01:48:23,480
horn eater zeth obviously quite small he's nimble though and my dude is expressly expressio depressio

1083
01:48:23,480 --> 01:48:29,000
my dude is having a bad time there are some smaller side characters which i'll probably get into a

1084
01:48:29,000 --> 01:48:38,120
future one there is yasna's uh mother who was king gavilar's wife who was lady nirvani who by the way

1085
01:48:38,120 --> 01:48:44,120
lady nirvani i'll have to get into at some point but she essentially was dalinar's like first love

1086
01:48:44,120 --> 01:48:49,320
although they were never together and then like later on the book after gavilar's like death

1087
01:48:49,320 --> 01:48:53,560
they're like there is some things going on between those two so it's like interesting to

1088
01:48:54,360 --> 01:48:58,760
sort of like that's all in the first book so it's not like two major spoilers uh characters we will

1089
01:48:58,760 --> 01:49:05,240
see again not like things like amaran and uh wit and seth and the particularly the sons dalinar

1090
01:49:05,240 --> 01:49:08,680
but and all these characters will be coming up and then there's one more character called

1091
01:49:09,400 --> 01:49:16,440
uh sadius this is another one of the high princes and this dude can truly this dude can sit in a

1092
01:49:16,440 --> 01:49:22,680
fire hydrant and make it disappear i despise this man this guy is a horrible bastard but um you'll

1093
01:49:23,800 --> 01:49:29,240
you'll learn more about him in the books but for now that's kind of most of it how do you feel

1094
01:49:29,240 --> 01:49:39,400
about that so far colins also that's just a lot of world building i what is i'm trying i'm trying

1095
01:49:39,400 --> 01:49:46,680
i'm trying to remember that it's not a quote but it's like the more the more you learn the more you

1096
01:49:46,680 --> 01:49:53,080
understand you don't know anything yeah like it's very slowly introduced to you in the book

1097
01:49:53,080 --> 01:49:59,720
because they're so it's such a long read each of them but it's like i don't i feel like i even

1098
01:49:59,720 --> 01:50:06,120
after all that i feel like i don't do it justice to how well the world building i i it wasn't it's uh

1099
01:50:06,120 --> 01:50:12,440
i think the more you the more you know the more you understand you don't know if that makes sense

1100
01:50:12,440 --> 01:50:18,760
or it's like you understand you there's so much more you don't know about does that make sense

1101
01:50:18,760 --> 01:50:25,560
yeah like there there is this is this is a hefty world i mean what did you say the audio books are

1102
01:50:25,560 --> 01:50:32,920
like 45 hours long yeah there's like one of them one of them yeah like there's about if i look it

1103
01:50:32,920 --> 01:50:39,000
up i think the there's five main books and then there's some novellas going in between each book

1104
01:50:39,000 --> 01:50:47,720
and the main books are about 45 to 50 hours long of audio each book yeah it's a lot but the thing

1105
01:50:47,720 --> 01:50:53,400
is it does it is all these stuff that introduce you so sorry like you just like when you finish

1106
01:50:53,400 --> 01:50:58,360
one book i reckon like if you finish book one i reckon you could literally do all of what i just

1107
01:50:58,360 --> 01:51:04,760
did now because it's just such a like um like a heavy like input a heavy like imprint into your

1108
01:51:04,760 --> 01:51:09,800
mind a lot of this stuff but it's very like i i again like the stormlight archive i feel like i

1109
01:51:09,800 --> 01:51:16,680
don't do it quite justice how well i like a lot of the character like payoffs are particularly

1110
01:51:16,680 --> 01:51:21,000
a lot of the character things that happen in it they're very slow that's my own like slight

1111
01:51:21,000 --> 01:51:25,000
gripe with it like some of the things like take forever to happen but once i do you're like

1112
01:51:25,000 --> 01:51:32,040
yelling you're like yes um but it's so there's like the world in itself is huge um but for

1113
01:51:32,040 --> 01:51:38,920
context most of the story is happening on the shattered plains like pretty much 90 percent

1114
01:51:38,920 --> 01:51:45,800
of it in book one at least anyway so uh it's a lot but uh i think there are some cool aspects to it

1115
01:51:45,800 --> 01:51:51,480
like i'd like the idea of um the knight's radiant abilities obviously they're quite

1116
01:51:52,440 --> 01:51:58,120
like the idea of like some of that like it's not every part of this is unique but in terms like

1117
01:51:58,120 --> 01:52:05,960
how it's all fit together in terms like it's um story building and i was like oh no no no i was

1118
01:52:05,960 --> 01:52:12,200
gonna i had a comment though so it wasn't i was trying to cut you off sorry oh yeah so but they

1119
01:52:12,200 --> 01:52:18,600
do a good job of like each part of every layer of like society within so my archive is represented

1120
01:52:18,600 --> 01:52:25,720
even down to like the parsh men the parshendi and aleth kars like you know being a dark eyes to a

1121
01:52:25,720 --> 01:52:32,040
bright lord itself like every level of it and there's like the underlying mystery of

1122
01:52:32,840 --> 01:52:38,200
desolations and the void bringers that is a sort of main like it's very odd like it says it quite

1123
01:52:38,200 --> 01:52:43,080
early on in books i don't feel like it's too much of a spoiler but the desolations and void bringers

1124
01:52:43,080 --> 01:52:55,000
is a very important um subject that will come up and you'll love it yeah it does i this was it was

1125
01:52:55,000 --> 01:52:59,960
way earlier some you brought up but i really i don't i really like the idea of both just that

1126
01:53:00,520 --> 01:53:07,240
at the edges of the world there's the high storm was uh yeah and uh just that every now and then

1127
01:53:07,240 --> 01:53:12,760
it just sweeps over i don't i don't that's always like some stuff like that has been always something

1128
01:53:12,760 --> 01:53:17,960
kind of interesting to me like something that above all other things is just something else

1129
01:53:17,960 --> 01:53:25,320
everyone just has to deal with every now and again oh yeah like they even say like they've had someone

1130
01:53:25,320 --> 01:53:31,640
one they someone tried to sail like to find the origin of a high storm but like they just couldn't

1131
01:53:31,640 --> 01:53:38,520
it wasn't even possible like some ship tried it once off like the coast something but yeah although

1132
01:53:38,520 --> 01:53:42,680
i got a big thing like when like ships are trapped in the sea during a high storm like is incredibly

1133
01:53:42,680 --> 01:53:47,880
dangerous as well so the whole world operates around high storms but it's also like their form

1134
01:53:47,880 --> 01:53:57,000
of energy as well which is quite strange but it's quite unique to this uh world i think anyway um

1135
01:53:57,000 --> 01:54:03,000
it uh it reminds me of a it's not a one-to-one but it reminds me of a like uh i don't know if you've

1136
01:54:03,000 --> 01:54:09,640
played it hal but i'm you might have elia endless legend yeah like how the the winter is getting

1137
01:54:09,640 --> 01:54:14,280
longer and longer and they just have to figure out like oh how do we deal with this or alternatively

1138
01:54:14,280 --> 01:54:22,840
like the uh like the fate the fire fading you know fireside fantasy uh endless universe will

1139
01:54:22,840 --> 01:54:29,960
happen someday or the fire fading in dark souls where it's like like ignoring everyone else's

1140
01:54:29,960 --> 01:54:37,000
schemes in it this is someone everything has to deal with oh yeah like the um there's a lot of

1141
01:54:37,000 --> 01:54:42,120
things like a lot of these different threads though like the i don't think any other series

1142
01:54:42,120 --> 01:54:46,760
quite does it as well where like every single threat isn't like game of thrones means of eight

1143
01:54:46,760 --> 01:54:52,680
where you're like but so many things were left unturned like every thread in the stormlight archive

1144
01:54:52,680 --> 01:54:58,680
is pulled together and means something the payoff is worth it if there are things that like i said in

1145
01:54:59,400 --> 01:55:03,880
book one at the very beginning you're like what's that random like that one does get paid off at

1146
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some point there's no brandon sands doesn't quite forget anything which i do like because

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you don't feel like you don't really feel lost because a lot of time like even though this is

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like all this world building in the background the you're you're just following the story of like

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those like these main characters like kaladin dalinar shalan and yasna you're you're just

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following their story and the way in which they interact with the whole world you just learn all

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these other things about roshar itself because like the high storms are like intrinsic to the

1152
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story itself as well like the actual world itself is a pivotal point of what's going to be happening

1153
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in the later plots and even though the book starts with like the thing of the heralds and

1154
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king gavilar's death like a lot of times in some books they're open on a thing like king gavilar's

1155
01:55:56,040 --> 01:56:04,040
death and the heralds they are actually central to the entire plot as well so you keep coming back to

1156
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them in a way and then you learn more and more and how it interacts with the characters but again i

1157
01:56:10,280 --> 01:56:15,240
feel like it's hard to do justice with um just go read it just go read the book yeah it's like

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someone you know like the character we all love it like kai's fuz kane whereas like you can say how

1159
01:56:19,640 --> 01:56:24,840
good the books are with kai's fuz kane you can't you have to go read a book on kai's fuz kane you

1160
01:56:24,840 --> 01:56:29,160
feel like that was so good man like you know i mean you have to really go enjoy it and then

1161
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and i was i was saying not this is i think you did a very good job uh like introducing it it's

1162
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just uh there's just like you said there's a certain amount like at a certain point you need

1163
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to you need to you need to go read the damn book to really appreciate books uh how good they are

1164
01:56:48,440 --> 01:56:54,440
but uh so i think you did a good job i am very interested in it now there's a few things were

1165
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like i mentioned something like the asian empire earlier that's not a thing in book one luckily

1166
01:56:59,560 --> 01:57:04,280
like it's just one of things like it just slowly like most of the story as i said earlier in book

1167
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one is shattered plains and then it expands out into like the rest of the world obviously

1168
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that is incorporated into the story so it is it's like it does a good thing of like small scale to

1169
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big scale if you know what i mean the book doesn't throw a million things at you all at once

1170
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no and also particularly each book like shalan, kaladin, dalinar, zef, sun sun and mostly just

1171
01:57:33,160 --> 01:57:41,480
call him zef and so yeah so dalinar, kiasna, shalan, zef each of the books like when they say

1172
01:57:42,040 --> 01:57:48,440
they have like sections where like they kind of so two-thirds of the book of book one is the main

1173
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plot one-third of it is kaladin's backstory book two is two-thirds the main plot one-third shalan

1174
01:57:55,800 --> 01:58:03,080
so you you only you you really get to know like you're just focused on that like character in some

1175
01:58:03,080 --> 01:58:09,480
aspects and you're not like you know i mean like certain things make more sense of previous things

1176
01:58:09,480 --> 01:58:13,960
like happen but it's mostly just like i know what's going on like i'm not lost at any point

1177
01:58:13,960 --> 01:58:20,360
which is like again for how much audio there is and how much stuff there is to learn about the

1178
01:58:21,240 --> 01:58:26,520
whole universe like a lot of it is so slowly introduced and again it's so heavily character

1179
01:58:26,520 --> 01:58:32,280
focus even though i've only like an introduction today the like i don't i get like the character

1180
01:58:33,160 --> 01:58:38,040
journeys particularly like there's a theme of like each of these characters is dealing with like a

1181
01:58:38,040 --> 01:58:45,480
mental health issue and like their character arcs about how they are coping or slowly trying in a

1182
01:58:45,480 --> 01:58:51,400
way to get but they're not perfect they're not like these things like at most things you read

1183
01:58:51,400 --> 01:58:56,120
it's like the the character particularly i have a companion warhammer which is like the character

1184
01:58:56,120 --> 01:59:00,840
arc finishes whereas like in real life you don't have a character your character arc doesn't finish

1185
01:59:00,840 --> 01:59:06,840
until you've finished if you know i mean so like the characters are doing better at some points but

1186
01:59:06,840 --> 01:59:13,960
then certain things throw wrenches into it but again it just is a very uh i think brandon sandin

1187
01:59:13,960 --> 01:59:19,080
just said like he had to ask for like do a lot of research into particular things that characters

1188
01:59:19,080 --> 01:59:23,720
go through just to make sure he was getting it right in terms of like how someone does react

1189
01:59:23,720 --> 01:59:29,080
to that experience and so that's quite refreshing it's not like it's not like a therapy book but

1190
01:59:29,080 --> 01:59:36,760
it's very much a damn you know i mean i really enjoyed how on point it is it's not it's so

1191
01:59:37,560 --> 01:59:41,960
realistic in terms of like the human experience rather than like you know there's things like

1192
01:59:41,960 --> 01:59:49,160
spren and sharp blade sharp blade sharp blades and magic and all that stuff but it's it's completely

1193
01:59:49,160 --> 01:59:54,280
like you know it's seasoning on what is like the actual characters of them because a lot of them

1194
01:59:54,280 --> 01:59:59,800
are dealing with very heavy stuff but they're good books go read the books chat or comment section

1195
02:00:00,920 --> 02:00:06,120
go read the books or listen to them they're easy to listen to and if you do if you if you did like

1196
02:00:06,120 --> 02:00:11,720
this uh episode here because i think we've given quite a lot of audio for this episode um if you

1197
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want us to do like a possibly another one in the future well i've kind of done all the setup for

1198
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most of it and then i would probably just go straight on to doing like the journey of like

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a character say in each uh like book one or book two or something like that again there's just so

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much that it would like each character's journey through one book is a already like an hour and a

1201
02:00:33,080 --> 02:00:38,840
half uh amount of talking so hopefully uh if you guys do like that stuff and we've also got more

1202
02:00:38,840 --> 02:00:45,080
fancy or more uh the fire size when we're doing this is like you know we like other things too

1203
02:00:45,080 --> 02:00:51,320
and uh there are some like other universes out there like are very like they do hit just as

1204
02:00:51,320 --> 02:00:56,360
equally as hard as like warhammer particularly in terms of uh quality of writing and we're usually

1205
02:00:56,360 --> 02:01:03,160
better usually a lot better actually try to refrain from commenting spoilers as well

1206
02:01:04,280 --> 02:01:10,200
don't uh or like flag it or whatever if you're gonna comment spoilers i found uh i found a good

1207
02:01:10,200 --> 02:01:20,120
way is to uh you know you know spoiler alert and then have 5 000 lines of just dot dot dot enter

1208
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dot enter dot enter then you can do your spoiler yeah let us know how you feel about the series as

1209
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well just in general other recommendations because uh my i was saying at the very beginning

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mr brandon sanderson my man is the opposite of george hall and martin this guy is pumping out

1211
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quality books i think he does a book like every two years ridiculous yeah my he finished off the

1212
02:01:47,240 --> 02:01:53,560
the will you know those the weather times there's like 17 books long and then he wrote the least he

1213
02:01:53,560 --> 02:01:57,880
said you know what i'ma help and he finished he wrote the late like i can write the last three

1214
02:01:57,880 --> 02:02:04,520
books and he did it like pretty much like three years and like damn my boy uh yeah he's a great

1215
02:02:04,520 --> 02:02:11,000
writer and uh hopefully we get like a mistborn series live action in the future probably not

1216
02:02:11,000 --> 02:02:15,880
the stormlight archive in live action because it's just too long but if there's like an animated

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version of this it'll be damn damn cool um other than that thank you everyone for listening this

1218
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is quite a lot hopefully people have enjoyed this little foray into a different uh universe

1219
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they obviously will you know we all like one the fancy in some regards so other fancy stuff is

1220
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still pretty enjoyable indeed other than that we'll catch you all on the next one peace brothers

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have a good one everyone love you