Theoryland of the Wheel of Time

The number 10 seems to be a recurring theme in this world. Are the Ten Fools the antithesis of the ten orders of the Knights Radiant?

Have you ever killed off a character and later regretted it?

When writing a battle scene in which thousands die do those deaths affect you in any way?

Which one will you focused more in the future, the Heralds or Radiants? Will you dig deeper into each of Heralds story and some of Radiants?

I feel that I should probably RAFO this one. We are going to delve into the Radiants as orders a lot. But the Radiants as individuals? Depends on what you mean. Kaladin is well on the path toward becoming one of them, though he's not one yet, as Teft is quick to point out. So if you mean focusing on actual Knights Radiant, we'll have to see if anyone actually manages to become one.

The Heralds are integral to the entire story, which is why the Prelude focuses on them. Since someone showed up at the end of the book claiming to be one of them, I think you can obviously expect some attention to be drawn there. Who each of the Heralds are and what their natures were is important.

Is the remove of Shalash statue connected to the man speaked gibberish that Szeth met before he assasinated Gavilar?

RAFO

Can a Herald's blade/equipment be um....adopted? I only ask because Dalinar seems to be lacking one and that Herald at the end did kick the bucket in his capital and he's gonna need more than armor when Szeth shows up.

Someone who is not himself or herself a Herald can indeed use one of the Honorblades.

This post is for anything info that was gleaned at the recent signing at Forbidden Planet in London.

To start with, The question i asked him was, 'Is Shalash the lady smashing up the art in The Way of Kings?'

He was apprehensive to say it out loud, but he wrote in my copy of Alloy of Law 'Shalash appears in The Way of Kings'! I shall get a scan of that once i am able, and ill put it up in here. He also said to me 'you'd be surprised at how many of the Heralds appear in the book', so i guess another re-read is in order!

You have met almost all of them. Let me do a count... Let's see. The main characters in the book are�in the series�Kaladin, and Dalinar, Adolin, Jasnah, Shallan, and Navani, whom you all met in this book and most of them had viewpoints. Szeth, Taravangian, and Taln. And one of the other Heralds; I'm not going to tell you who that is. But I think you've met...you have, I'm sure, met that person; I know he's in there. And so, I think you've met them all, basically. Taln is the person who shows up in the epilogue.

Marc Aplin

Excellent.

How many Heralds appear in The Way of Kings

More than you might expect. Some have appeared, some have been mentioned but not appeared.

London Signing

... RAFO! Why would you say that Nohadon's still alive?

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I know he's still alive.

Brandon Sanderson

Why would you say he's still alive?

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It's the perfect trick, that you're gonna bring back Nohadon. Um. It's my feeling about things.

Brandon Sanderson

Um ...

Good question. Um, their abandonment of the Oathpact is related... but mostly tangentially. If I was pinned down on that, I would say no.

Wetlander

Is there any of the Oathpact still functioning because of Taln's continued participation?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, indeed.

Yes. In fact, it was named based on—it was Greek in our world—the Athenaeum? It was based off of that.

Wetlander

Did we see Palah?

Brandon Sanderson

I believe every one of the Heralds is mentioned or shown somewhere in the first book.

Wetlander

Someone was wondering whether the old woman who was wandering around the Palanaeum was her.

Brandon Sanderson

That is a very good guess. I won't say specifically, because some of them are intended to be more obvious and some of them are intended to be red herrings. So, that was a very good guess.

Oh!

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Not Hoid.

Brandon Sanderson

So what about Taln?

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Is there anything you'll tell us about him?

Brandon Sanderson

What do you want to know? Ask me a specific question.

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Is he Rosharan?

Brandon Sanderson

Is he Rosharan? Taln is Rosharan.

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Brandon Sanderson

Define Rosharan, how about that?

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Native to Roshar.

Brandon Sanderson

That I have to RAFO.

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Are the Heralds...

Brandon Sanderson

The Heralds are from the same place that Taln is from.

Because the Heralds can no longer be in existence. There is a certain period of time that they can be there, and after that, if they're there, they will start a new one. So the Heralds do need to leave for a Desolation to end.

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Oh. So they've got a time limit.

Brandon Sanderson

They do. Otherwise the Desolation will start again. What they discovered is not all of them have to. As long as one remains, the Desolation will not start again.

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So, by the nine leaving, did that actually break the Oathpact for them? Did it change the cycle of Desolations?

Brandon Sanderson

They have not completely broken the Oathpact, despite what they may think.

Are the Heralds aware that Taln is back? Uh, you're implying that this person actually is Taln. [The smile on Brandon's face at this moment was the best, most excruciatingly awful smile ever. And we thought Peter was a tease.] Which is not guaranteed. It's not guaranteed. However, the return of the Voidbringers does indeed indicate to them, in their mind, that he would have returned.

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So they assume because the Voidbringers are returning--

Brandon Sanderson

Because the Voidbringers are returning, would be a clue to them that Taln has returned.

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You said “have.” The question was, are there?

Brandon Sanderson

I’m sure there are people around...[Laughter] I’m sure you can go to any city in the United States and find someone who claims to be Jesus, right? So yes! Absolutely!

CCQ

So I clarified the question to being did Ishar know that he was lying to Nalan

Brandon Sanderson

got a RAFO but he added something that seemed to mean that Ishar could perhaps see the future and that each insanity was unique and that uniqueness played a part in the info. Not really sure on the last part.

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