The Way of Kings Book Review (Parts 1-2 Only) Brandon Sanderson #15

There are but a few truly memorable "firsts" in life...your first sig o, first car, first child...but perhaps none are more important than (drumroll snare cymbal *cymbal*) your first EPIC fantasy! We're thrilled to report that your beloved, cheeky (OG) Plot Goblins took the plunge with none other than Brandon Sanderson to shepherd them through such a monumental "first." Trevor & Wes were thrilled to dive back into the Cosmere and feverishly devour this chunker. In this episode, they review Parts 1 & 2 (as well as the accompanying interludes) of "The Way of Kings" (Book #1 in The Stormlight Archive). They discuss their favorite characters so far, reminisce on key scenes, and attempt to make plot predictions on what could happen in the remainder of the book/series 👀

⚠️SPOILER ALERT ⚠️ This episode (like almost all of our eps) is chock full of spoilers. So pretty please read the book before watching (unless you're a gluten for spoilers, in which case, watch away!).

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
00:40 TWOK is a BIG boy
01:09 YT poll on breaking TWOK into parts
02:09 Back to Brando
03:48 Thoughts on pacing for TWOK parts 1 & 2
04:03 What’s being reviewed today!
04:24 Sanderson annotated the first ~11 chapters of TWOK
05:57 How does Sanderson make time for everything he does lol
06:29 Start of Pod - Wes’ fav character so far
07:35 Shallan
08:38 Sanderson made edits to Shallan’s chapters based on beta read (annotations)
09:24 Yalb
10:40 Shallan’s mission
12:04 Shallan’s Dad
13:29 Kaladin & writing a character battling depression
16:10 Choosing your “path”
17:43 Renarin Kholin (Dalinar’s youngest son)
18:56 Dalinar’s wife
19:14 Significance of the number “10”
20:09 Szeth
21:58 Who has the motive to frame Szeth as a Parshendi and order him to kill Gavilar?
23:10 Parshmen vs Parshendi
24:52 Dalinar’s visions & something (or someone) is trying to stop the “uniting”
25:32 The Parshendi’s bio-armor
27:19 Alethkar seems to be underestimating the rest of Roshar
29:02 The significance of maps
32:45 Midnight Essence
35:30 TWOK’s prologue
36:48 could a herald be reincarnated? Is Kal that how Kal’s pulling stormlight?
38:30 Lashing
41:48 Kaladin theory
44:02 Spren description
44:58 Syl
47:03 Yumi magic system similar?
48:30 Hoid!
48:46 hot take on Sanderson’s 1 offs
49:00 Trevor prediction
49:58 difference between heralds & radiants?
50:14 tech snafu, Lost video feed 😭 sorry 😢
52:34 Kaladin & Dalinar similarities
53:49 what was the black sphere??
54:26 the most important words a man can say…
56:43 Why do Dalinar’s visions only happen during high storms?
58:46 Back to the maps (Shadesmare)
01:00:29 Symbol of the lost Radiants
01:01:35 the 17th Shard
01:03:33 Arcanum
01:04:46 Windrunning
01:05:34 Trevor with another hairbrained thought
01:08:19 Kaladin must have killed a shardbearer
01:10:29 Passage reading on Kaladin rebuking the Vorin adage that you become light eyes if you kill a shardbearer
01:11:57 Vorin Religion
01:13:13 Kabsal
01:16:00 Closing thoughts

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