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We’re ba-ack! It’s time to acknowledge the answers to the account of beta-reader reactions to Oathbringer that we acquaint a few weeks ago. Hopefully you’ve all had time to accomplish some guesses as you apprehend through the book—and hopefully some of the reactions included abundant advice to let you accomplish abreast guesses!
So analysis it out, and see how abounding you got right!
WARNING: DO NOT READ THIS BEFORE YOU’VE FINISHED THE BOOK!! It will be brimming abounding of massive, soul-destroying spoilers.
As you know, I afresh spent some time combing through the beta spreadsheets for a alternative of amusing, teasing, insightful, or contrarily absorbing reactions, with permission from the beta association in general. Some of these were originally a distinct comment, some were accumulated from assorted comments, and in abounding cases I artlessly listed a alternative of the reactions to a distinct event. I’m appealing abiding you don’t affliction what I accept to say ABOUT the account though… you appetite to apperceive the answers, already! So, actuality they are, with Chapter, Part, and folio cardinal identified. The reactions are reprinted actuality in the aforementioned adjustment as the aboriginal list; words in blooming are pieces I had cut or adapted so they wouldn’t accord it away, but are now included for the abounding quote.
Chapter 3, Allotment 1, Folio 47
This one was heavily edited, or it would accept been a asleep giveaway. Aback Darci retyped it into our “quotable quotes” collection, it afresh auto-corrected “a**” to “chull” … which may betoken that accession has been too absorbed in Cosmere-specific terminology. Anyway, it was her acknowledgment to:
He gestured adjoin the dying man, and Dym rammed a brand into the armored man’s armpit, finishing the job. The adolescent had fought analytic well; no charge to extend his suffering.
Interlude 2, HB Folio 333
This one is accessible the moment you apprehend it, of course, because I actually quoted the book. The additional bisected of the acknowledgment should accomplish abundant added faculty now, though; Aubree acicular out that Ellista’s reactions, as she talks to the book characters, are absolute cogitating of the comments you’d acquisition in a beta spreadsheet!
Chapter 84, Allotment 3, Folio 819
This was Lyndsey’s acknowledgment to that abhorrent chapter, angry in the palace, with Elhokar aggravating to save his son. Moash asleep him adapted there in advanced of his 3-year-old son, while he was aggravating to allege the Aboriginal Ideal, and afresh had the acrimony to accord Kaladin the Bridge Four salute. I’m not 100% sure, but I anticipate aloof about every one of the beta was axis the air dejected at that point.
Chapter 42, Allotment 2, Folio 440
“Your base is too nice. Old guys shouldn’t accept bound butts. It agency you absorb waaay too abundant time accepted a brand or punching people. You should accept an old baggy butt. Afresh I’d assurance you.”
Y’all had some acceptable guesses on this, but … nope. Alyx provided an accomplished adduce for some much-needed humor!
Chapter 47, Allotment 2, Folio 478
This was a aggregate of Darci’s and Kristy’s responses to the adumbration at Jasnah’s accomplished trauma:
Something afflicted abysmal aural her. Glimmers of anamnesis from a aphotic room, agreeable her articulation ragged. A adolescence affliction cipher abroad seemed to remember, for all it had done to her.
It had accomplished her that bodies she admired could still aching her.
Chapter 57, Allotment 2, Folio 550
Matt batten for abounding of us in his acknowledgment to this moment:
Odium angry to him so acutely that Dalinar jumped. “Is that,” Odium said quietly, “an action to absolution me from my bonds, advancing from the man captivation the debris of Honor’s name and power?”
Chapter 58, Allotment 3, Folio 581
Navani captivated his arm, admitting Taravangian and Adrotagia had trailed abaft on the access up.
The absolute argument was anchored up amid the beta and the gamma, admitting the basics of the arena remain. In the beta, Jasnah was abaft behind, arm in arm with Taravangian, and… either way, he makes us all nervous, not aloof Kelly!
Chapter 65, Allotment 3, Folio 646
“Would you advice me understand?” he aside to the Stormfather.
What makes you anticipate I can?
“Don’t be coy,” Dalinar whispered. “I’ve announced new languages in the visions. You can accomplish me allege Azish.”
The Stormfather rumbled in discontent. That wasn’t me, he assuredly said. It was you.
“How do I use it?”
Try affecting one of them. With Spiritual Adhesion, you can accomplish a Connection.
The adduce was from Brandon C., but there was a fair bulk of squeeing over the advertence to a abstraction aboriginal conflicting in The Bands of Mourning.
Chapter 74, Allotment 3, Folio 734
Elhokar was a acceptable man. In his heart, at least. Shouldn’t that amount most?
This was my actual acknowledgment to the arena area Shallan was animation Elhokar while they waited in Kholinar. She drew him kneeling, ragged, but unbeaten. Noble. Regal. And he reacted aloof like Bluth had. I… I knew afresh that he was activity to die. I still hoped he wouldn’t—that he could save his son and live. Alas.
Chapter 83, Allotment 3, Folio 799
Adolin abutting the troops, abstracted his fretfulness by force.
They’re ambagious up the Kholinar stint; Kaladin fought Fused with the Bank Guard, Shallan attempted to access the Palace, and all of them struggled with their assorted crises of appearance and whatnot. In the bosom of all this drama, Mark’s acknowledgment to Adolin’s abstemiousness resonated with a lot of the beta readers. So did Paige’s acknowledgment to Mark!
Chapter 115, Allotment 5, Folio 1085
Jasnah put her duke to the side, then–taking a abysmal breath–summoned Ivory as a Shardblade.
This is the end of the arena area Jasnah finds Renarin in the temple of Pailiah-Elin. Those of us who adulation Renarin (which turns out to be best of us) were SO afraid for him adapted there! This accumulating is a mash-up from Darci, Matt, Bao, Kristy, Paige, Nikki and Marnie. For some reason, I messed up and didn’t accommodate the one that got the best up-votes: Ravi’s acknowledgment was:
O___________________________________________O
Interlude 14, Allotment 4, Folio 1070
A Bridge Four officer’s coat, beat as a disguise. Teft’s coat, which he’d awash weeks ago in the market. To get a few spheres.
Alyx’s animadversion is adumbrative of all the responses to this moment, as Teft realizes that the covering he’d solde was acclimated as a beard to get into the Bridge Four quarters, area the burglar acutely afflicted Rock and Bisig, asleep Eth, and blanket the Honorblade they’d been application for training. And it wasn’t acceptable for him…
Chapter 114, Allotment 5, Page
Dalinar blinked tears, alert to the sounds of the accouchement dying in the distance, and aside a distinct word.
“Forgiveness.”
I chose aloof two out of a accomplished account of agnate reactions and up-votes (these happened to accord to Ravi and me) apropos Dalinar’s appeal of the Nightwatcher. The way it was not what he’d advised to ask, accumulated with his accessible need… well, it generated a lot of tears, right?
Chapter 106, Allotment 4, Folio 986
That arena aback Szeth is with Nale in the abandoned courthouse, Nale is giving every affirmation of accepting rats in his attic, and Nightblood is figuratively eyeing Nale and his Honorblade absolute suspiciously… that was Becca’s acknowledgment to Nightblood’s advice:
Fight him. I anticipate he ability be evil.
It’s alike bigger aback commutual with the abutting lines:
“He is one of the Heralds— one of the least-evil things in the world.”
Huh. Doesn’t augur able-bodied for your world, then.
Chapter 94, Allotment 4, Folio 890
Renarin stepped in and hugged him. Dalinar flinched, animating as if for a punch. The boy clung to him, not absolution go.
“They allocution about you,” Renarin said, “but they’re wrong. You aloof charge to rest, afterwards all the angry you did. I know. And I absence her too.”
Dalinar baffled his lips. “What did she acquaint you?” he said, articulation ragged. “What did your mother say about me?”
“The abandoned honest administrator in the army,” Renarin said, “the atonement soldier. Noble, like the Heralds themselves. Our father. The greatest man in Alethkar.”
My acknowledgment was originally for the aboriginal paragraph, but this accomplished chat had the betas actually flailing—anger at Dalinar for afresh calling Renarin “the added one;” his assumptions that Evi had berserk his sons adjoin him, and afresh acquirements that she had abandoned anytime told them acceptable things about him; his ability that he actually was a blend and adapted to be hated, but instead he was loved—all of this had the tears abounding again.
Chapter 89, Allotment 4, Folio 862
In fact, her … her beard was fading. It was the strangest thing; Adolin watched it dim from Alethi jet-black to a aside blah as she sat down. Charge be accession aftereffect of this aberrant place.
I larboard out a ample block of Marnie’s response, aback the blow of it was allurement questions for which we will accept no acknowledgment in Oathbringer, but this seemed to be the moment aback the aftermost hold-outs were assuredly assertive that Azure was actually Vivenna. And yes, I’ll accept I included this partly because of the cardinal of bodies arguing abroad that there was no charge to apprehend Warbreaker afore Oathbringer. So sue me.
Chapter 83, Allotment 3, Folio 797
It had acquainted so acceptable to boost it through Sadeas’s eye. He still didn’t apperceive whether to feel abashed or proud.
Steve summed up appealing abundant everyone’s reaction, admitting best variations leaned toward, “if you accept to accept one, accept proud. It bare to be done.”
Chapter 76, Allotment 3, Folio 749
“She came to us,” Tanalan said. “To plead. How could you accept absent her? Do you clue your own ancestors so poorly? The aperture you austere … we don’t adumbrate there anymore. Anybody knows about it. Now it’s a prison.”
The ability of how Evi died was a bite in the gut to all of us; Ian said it well. So adamantine to read.
Interlude 3, Allotment 1, Page
Venli acquainted cold. Demid actively aerial Eshonai’s faceplate, absolute asleep eyes set in an anemic face.
Eshonai … no …
To be honest, this wasn’t technically allotment of the beta read. It was aloof a brace of weeks afore the release, aback the betas were chatting and Eric was attractive advanced to the reactions we’d anon be seeing. And we did see this reaction. Much.
Chapter 92, Allotment 4, Page
The skies were his already again.
The alternation of comments were from Paige, Nikki, and Darci. Afterwards all the things he did in the aboriginal two books, it seems odd to be so blessed for him, but… there we were. Blessed that he was activity to be a Skybreaker and be able to fly again. Huh.
Chapter 102, Allotment 4, Folio 960
“Sylphrena, the Ancient Daughter?” one shouted.
“That’s me!” she shouted back. “You’d bigger bolt me afore I bolt away! Wow! I’m activity arbitrary today. I ability aloof vanish again, off to area cipher can acquisition me!”
It worked.
Credit to Deana for this one, and she was not abandoned in her wish! There was a accomplished lot of Syl-love activity about up in there.
Besides, it worked.
Chapter 105, Allotment 4, Folio 981
“‘The question,’ she replied, ‘is not whether you will love, hurt, dream, and die. It is what you will love, why you will hurt, aback you will dream, and how you will die. This is your choice. You cannot aces the destination, abandoned the path.’”
Nikki and Aaron aloof said it all. The scene, if you don’t admit it, is aback Dalinar is flipping out afterwards Gavilar’s funeral, gluttonous abeyance in alcohol (if he can ambush his keys and get into his rooms), and he hears Jasnah’s voice, account from “The Way of Kings.”
Chapter 111, Allotment 4, Page
As Dalinar stepped into the temple’s capital chamber, he begin that he was attractive advanced to this meeting.
This scene, abreast the end of Allotment 4, is one of those places where, as a reader, we all apperceive things are aloof activity too well, and article abhorrent is about to happen. Alyx’s acknowledgment captured the activity well.
Chapter 114, Allotment 5, Folio 1078
We were all added than a little abashed aback Cultivation stepped in and took over from the Nightwatcher—and also, added than a little delighted! I re-inserted the comments I larboard out of the series, which would acutely accept accustomed it abroad actually (and been spoilerific besides); the up-votes were aerial on the reactions accounting by Darci, Ted, Bao, Paige, Marnie, and Brandon C. My claimed admired is the “ironically accurate” attributes of “ERRRR MAHHH GAWWWWD.”
Chapter 117, Allotment 5, Folio 1112
She screamed as Stormlight flowed through her, angry in her veins, extensive adjoin article in her pocket.
A bank appeared in advanced of her.
Shallan gasped. A awful accurately from the added ancillary of the bank adumbrated that the Fused had collided with it.
The brainy angel evoked by the comments from Lyndsey & Ravi… I don’t actually charge to be answer this, do I? ::gigglesnort::
Chapter 117, Allotment 5, Folio 1130
Renarin didn’t appetite to die. But strangely, he begin himself affable Jasnah’s strike.
Better to die than to alive to see what was accident to his father. For he saw the future. He saw his ancestor in atramentous armor, a affliction aloft the land. He saw the Blackthorn return, a abhorrent affliction with nine shadows.
Odium’s champion.
“He’s activity to fall,” Renarin whispered. “He’s already fallen. He belongs to the adversary now. Dalinar Kholin … is no more.”
Last we saw, Dalinar was actuality acerb apprenticed to accord all the accusation for his accomplished accomplishments to Odium, which would somehow accomplish him become Odium’s champion. So abundant depends on Dalinar’s decision, and Renarin sees him as that champion. I best Nikki’s animadversion out of abounding of a agnate nature, as we all feared both what was accident to Renarin, and what was accident to Dalinar.
Chapter 115, Allotment 5, Folio 1085
A spren rose from his back, ablaze red, ablaze like the calefaction of a mirage. A apparent structure, like a snowflake, admitting it dripped ablaze advancement adjoin the ceiling. In her pouch, she agitated a account of the able spren of the Truthwatchers.
And this was article different.
I feel a little asinine here; I included two pieces that are actually aback to aback in the book… (See #11 above.) But the reactions were intense! Deana, Brian, Darci, and Nikki were best expressive—and the aboriginal one had about sixteen up-votes. The moment was actually a shock, no amount what you had ahead believed about Glys.
Chapter 108, Allotment 4, Folio 1012
Many of you estimated this one, and I’m captivated that you did. It was aerial time, wasn’t it? Sarah referenced the absolute chat from the moment Adolin came over until Kaladin absent them, but the highlight was adapted here:
“It’s confusing, actuality all these people. I feel like I’m presenting altered faces all the time. Lying to everyone, because I’m altered inside. I … That doesn’t accomplish sense, does it?” She awkward her eyes shut again. “I’ll cull it aback together. I’ll be … someone.”
“I…” He pulled her bound afresh as the address rocked. “Shallan, I asleep Sadeas.”
Chapter 95, Allotment 4, Folio 891
“Humans, you charge stop your emotions. They are absolute annoying here.”
Again, abounding bodies accurately articular this one, although some were aberrate by “No mating!” Pattern is funny abundant on his own, but Mark’s animadversion had me arise up.
Chapter 101, Allotment 4, Folio 947
Ico acclimated keys to alleviate the door, absolute the spren of Adolin’s brand sitting on a bank inside. She looked at him with those addictive scratched-out eyes, her cord face abandoned of emotion.
“I ambition you hadn’t bound her in here,” Adolin said, stooping bottomward to associate through the broad doorway.
“Can’t accept them on deck,” Ico said. “They don’t watch area they’re walking and abatement off. I’m not activity to absorb canicule aggravating to angle out a absent deadeye.”
My antecedent acknowledgment actuality was to the aboriginal paragraph, but as Steve and Deana note, the locking-up is array of considerate, and the acumen for it is actually sad. The action of an unsummoned Blade in Shadesmar is … well, depressing.
Chapter 103, Allotment 4, Folio 967
“… Acquaint me, my friend. You allocution about your burdens and the adversity of the decision. What is the amount of a principle?”
“The cost? There shouldn’t be a amount to actuality principled.”
The chat amid Nohadon and Dalinar got a few reactions from Brandon C. and me. While it’s actually account because the amount of one’s principles, it’s naïve to anticipate there shouldn’t be a cost.
Chapter 88, Allotment 4, Folio 851
As Dalinar goes into abounding alcoholic approach afterwards the Rift debacle, aggravating to escape his nightmares and the complaining he hears aback he sees fire… Lyndsey did not acknowledge this thought:
Storms booty Evi for accomplishing this to him!
Chapter 6, Allotment 1, Folio 74
Many of you got this, so aloof let me accord you the absoluteness of Brian’s reaction:
I admired this moment. It was a lump-in-throat moment for me. There were several things that fabricated it agitating for me. First, I wasn’t abiding that Lirin would admit Kaladin. He has continued hair, scars and brands on his face. He’s a mess. Cipher abroad accustomed him. But his ancestor did (I’m disturbing up aloof autograph this). I adulation that his ancestor anon accustomed him. And afresh aback he alleged for Hesina, yelled for Hesina… I don’t apperceive why, but that hit me, too. The authentic joy of advertent one’s absent son. (I’m disturbing up again). Beautiful. My admired allotment of the chapter. Comeuppance for Roshone doesn’t appear abutting to this. Beautiful.
Chapter 78, Allotment 3, Folio 765
“You may ascend the accomplish to enlightenment,” the cultist in white told her. “Your adviser will accommodated you at the top.”
Shallan, attempting to access the Cult of Moments, was nerve-wracking. Deana wasn’t the abandoned one shuddering!
Chapter 100, Allotment 4, Folio 938
When Dalinar was in Vedenar, speaking with the old soldiers, and asked them what the civilian war had been like, Lyndsey’s acknowledgment batten for several as we apprehend this:
“Nobody would stop, Brightlord. Alike aback it should accept been done. They aloof kept adapted on fighting. Killing because they acquainted like killing.”
Chapter 105, Allotment 4, Folio 978
“You, consistently about dreams. My body weeps. Farewell, complaining soul. My dreams … about, always, You.”
Navani’s ketek for Gavilar’s burial hit Dalinar hard, and it additionally evoked some able reactions amid the beta readers—in this case, Mark.
The end of Allotment 4, Folio 1054
This was Gary’s acknowledgment to extensive the end of this part, alive he’d be cat-and-mouse accession anniversary to acquisition out what would appear to Dalinar afterwards the affiliation fell apart, and what would appear of the assorted revelations that acquired its collapse.
Chapter 118, Allotment 5, Folio 1133
What a moment. This was a baby alternative of the reactions, commendation Darci, Bao, Paige, Nikki, and Brandon C. re:
You cannot accept my pain.
Chapter 114, Allotment 5, Folio 1074
“You’re a little beneath foreign, sir.”
Raise your duke if you alleged it with Ross! For those who didn’t know, Acquainted is a worldhopper, apparently from Scadrial, area he was one of the capital spies for House Venture in Mistborn Era 1.
Prologue, Folio 20
I begin myself absolute abundant in acceding with Marnie apropos this:
When Eshonai had aboriginal met the humans, she’d apparent the little admirers they had with them. A hapless association who were trapped in dullform. Eshonai had affected the bodies were demography affliction of the poor souls after songs.
Chapter 79, Allotment 3, Folio 779
“I’m here,” Kaladin said, comatose the Sylblade on his shoulder, “on orders from King Elhokar and the Blackthorn. It’s my job to save Kholinar. And it’s time you started talking to me.”
She smiled at him. “Come with me.”
And it switches to a Shallan POV. That was Brandon C. again. Heh.
Chapter 12, Allotment 1, Folio 143
The reactions from Eric, Jory, Chris, Nikki, and Kalyani were excerpted from best statements, in some cases, but it appealing abundant sums up the accepted acknowledgment to:
If Dalinar bootless everywhere else, at atomic he would accept King Taravangian at his side.
End of Allotment 3, Folio 828
Some of you accept already heard this story. Allotment 3 ends with Elhokar dead, Dalinar about bedridden by memories, and Adolin’s aggregation shunted to Shadesmar. Tense, much? Then, because of circumstances, the beta readers waited about three weeks to get Allotment 4. This was Brandon C.’s acknowledgment to the end of allotment three, and then… Well, the delay was excruciating.
Chapter 31, Allotment 1, Folio 319
A blackish-violet glow—like aphotic Stormlight—rose from the red-eyed parshman.
I can see area this reaction, aggregate from those of Deana, Brian, Richard, and Eric, could be advised a spoiler, so I apologize for that. But stringing it calm like this was way too abundant fun.
Chapter 114, Allotment 5, Folio 1077
In accession to the quotes from Lyndsey and Kelly, I added those from Ravi, Rahul, Richard, Steve, and Aaron, aloof for a little entertainment. And now you know, if you hadn’t already guessed, we were talking about the Nightwatcher:
She was a aphotic blooming mist, vaguely shaped like a ample person. Too-long accoutrements accomplished out, affairs her forth as she floated aloft the ground. Her essence, like a tail, continued far abaft her, aberrant amid timberline trunks and dematerialization into the forest.
Chapter 120, Allotment 5, Folio 1163
Something amused his mind, absolute faint, like a sigh. A distinct word: Mayalaran. A … name?
You all knew it was this moment, right? It had to be. I called aloof a few of the athrill reactions in the spreadsheet; these were from Deana, Darci, Bao, Marnie, and Brandon C. It was such a acceptable footfall in Adolin’s progression, and, as noted, article we’ve been acquisitive to see for a lot of years.
Well, there you accept it, my friends. The adumbration of the heavily-edited alternative of a few of the bags of reactions from the beta readers. My acknowledgment to all of them (see the abounding account in the acknowledgements to Oathbringer!) for acceptance me to use their words, and for actuality an actually admirable accumulation of animal beings. It took me far best than it should accept to abridge the aboriginal list, as able-bodied as to put calm this “solutions” post; activity aback into the spreadsheet was aloof so abundant fun, and afresh of advance I had to apprehend continued sections. What a book.
As a ancillary note, best of the affiliate titles were appropriate by the beta readers. For the aboriginal time anytime (or at atomic in my experience), we were accustomed the befalling to advance quotations from the affiliate that would accomplish acceptable titles. We had a lot of fun with this, up-voting suggestions we abnormally liked, and bedlam our active off at some of the suggestions. You’ll be absorbed to apperceive that Affiliate 42 was about blue-blooded “A Affair About Butts.”
And on that note… See you in the comments!
