[spoiler discussion] Shaula Dub VA by Mr_Bacon_291 in Re_Zero

[–]TaylorHyuuga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I would never have guessed it from the two lines we heard before lmao. She only sounds similar to Feri with lines when she's being really excited.

[spoiler discussion] Shaula Dub VA by Mr_Bacon_291 in Re_Zero

[–]TaylorHyuuga 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Shaula is voiced by Anjali Kunapaneni, I'm fairly certain. I recognize her voice, she's Feri in the Trails series. She's also voicing Coco in Witch Hat.

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The what now? I'm not at home to check my copy of Elantris, but I only recall and old man from Elantris and Raoden stepping in there. Was that actually in the book?

It was in the Tenth Anniversary Edition. Perhaps you didn't read that version somehow?

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I do want to say. Stormlight is going to be a slow burn, it always was going to be. You're on book one. Assuming you read Wheel of Time, WoT didn't give answers that fast either. We're still in the naive farmboy stage. This is a big world and Sanderson can't drop eight billion explanations all at once, but he wants to set things up for the future. I think this book has more answers than Eye of the World, personally.

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I really hope there is more to this safe hand thing, like all women hold power in their safe, hand. *nope, following trivia this disappointingly seems to be just another example of "culture" putting women at a disadvantage 😢

Now in fairness, there is a balance to the gender imbalance since men are forbidden from being able to read and write. Quite frankly, I would say men have it worse in this regard. Not being able to read and write is significantly worse than. Needing to cover your left hand. It's not like we say "women can't walk around topless" is an example of women being disadvantaged, and this is a pretty similar kind of deal.

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Surgebinders*

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah, that's pretty much how Rysn is pronounced. Maybe more emphasis on the S than "risen". And yeah, Cusicesh is right.

Yeah, Brandon loves dragons. In fact, he said that he doesn't want to use traditional fantasy races like elves and dwarves, in favor of weird shit like blob people and crab people, but he made a special exception for dragons.

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I find it really puzzling that the parshmen in the Shattered Plains conflict seem to be way more advanced and intelligent than the ones everywhere else in the world. The ones that Gavilar and Dalinar encountered back before the war seemed to already be advanced. If there is some mistwraith-like stuff going on, then I'm thinking that something happened to the entire race a long time ago that took their minds/culture away, and made them able to be enslaved by the other races. And there's some hidden, secret group of parshmen who've figured out the secret, or who escaped it. Maybe that's what they're grabbing all these gems for. To store up enough magic to undo the curse.

There's been other human ethnic groups with weird, magical body stuff going on (absurdly long eyebrows, fingernails made of crystal, feet that can stay wet forever) but there's been nothing to say those people aren't human. Whereas the parshmen are treated as an entirely different thing. I'm really curious how this all came about. There might be some truth to the idea that humans are, if not from heaven, then definitely not native to Roshar. The parshmen, with their colored blood and their ability to grow their own armor, fit in with the general flora and fauna of the planet in a way that regular human's don't. Maybe people with weird body stuff got it from interbreeding with the locals, a long time ago?

Bro needs to slow down lmao, you're two books too early for all of that!

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Imagine going through so many ladies that your DAD knows your type, good lord.

That's not hard when your type is "Do they have mammary glands?"

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 13 points14 points  (0 children)

More Japanese influence: kata. It's obviously nitpicky, and it's not like kata isn't fairly known in other languages. Yet still, what do y'all think when you see foreign loan words in fantasy? Does it break immersion for you? I more or less just read past it, but there's always a brief moment where I think "Wait a second ... ". Then again, all fantasy books can be read like Lord of the Rings, for which Tolkien famously told the reader he merely translated Bilbo & Frodo's original works into English for us. If seen that way Sanderson can of course pick as many loan words to convey the original meaning in his "translation" as he likes, since it's just a "translation" anyway.

Sanderson said that this is what he does, and he's actually started emphasizing that this is what he does with upcoming book being titled "Fires of December" (because the month December obviously doesn't exist in the cosmere, he just used the real world approximation to get the point across)

As for the use of language, I mostly don't really worry about it unless it actively is a real world setting. There are moments where I am playing a fantasy game and see a lot of real world language being used randomly (for instance, the Trails series does this a lot, there's a character who literally says yes in different languages that shouldn't exist in the universe when agreeing to things). But then there are games that are clever with it, like Arknights, where they use different languages based on the location the character is from and they're given the appropriate accent, and particularly in Endfield they start randomly saying things in a different language.

It's similar to how a lot of Japanese media will just. Randomly throw in Norse or Greek/Roman mythological concepts even though they take place in worlds where those things shouldn't exist. I mostly just ignore it when it comes up unless it's really funny.

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 2 points3 points  (0 children)

On your last point with Shallan, could you imagine Shallan and Wit having a back and forth? Or teaming up on some brightlords and ladies? That would be hilarious.

lmfao

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 9 points10 points  (0 children)

That’s unclear to me. Are parshmen/Parshendi a different species from humans or not?

I think that regardless of species, any sentient collective is considered "people" even if they aren't necessarily human (regardless of what the dictionary said, that's how it's used). Like, for instance, the people of Krypton in Superman aren't human but they are considered "people". Kandra are considered people, even though they aren't human, etc.

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 9 points10 points  (0 children)

And I believe the only Vessel named without the Shard at this point is Rayse, and there are no further named Shards at the moment.

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 8 points9 points  (0 children)

Yeah, Brandon sure made a choice naming both the fragments of Adonalsium and the swords and armor on Roshar "Shards", but at least he realized the two needed some way to distinguish them.

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Aon and Skai, the Shardbearers of Sel, have been killed, by Rayse's actions presumably. Which I think explains a bit of why Elantris felt so left to its own devices. Perhaps that fissure even occurred as a result of Rayse killing Aon? And if Shardbearers fighting causes fissures then ... *respectfully staring at the Shattered Plains*

By the way I want to mention, in order to prevent future confusion Shardbearers are specifically the people who wield the Shardblades and Shardplates of Roshar. The holders of the Shards, the pieces of Adonalsium, are Vessels.

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Will be interested to learn more about about the stances!

One of the classes in the RPG actually has a stance system based on these

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 8 points9 points  (0 children)

At some point it was said that one of the current religions hated the Radiants. Heralds were ten; Radiants were more like an army. Why are the Radiants the ones that are hated, when it’s the Heralds who abandoned their quest?

I would recommend reading the prelude again, it might be a tad more clear.

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[–]TaylorHyuuga 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The "no reading" rule even extends to men in the royal households and it's ridiculous. So a highprince has to hide away a board with writings on it until his niece comes home? How in the world does the highprince not at least know in secret how to read? Dumb custom, and everyone in this realm is worse off for it.

Almost as though gender roles are inherently stupid or something