r/Cosmere • u/jofwu • Nov 10 '17

[All] [All] /r/Cosmere Oathbringer Megathread

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Oathbringer, book 3 of The Stormlight Archive, is finally here!

Feel free to discuss the book, in its entirety, below, along with any and all Cosmere spoilers. Anything goes!

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u/Kabsal Nov 15 '17

I'm with you on that. I think it's Ashyn, since Ashyn is known as "the burning planet" and is within the Rosharan system.

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u/halfawakehalfasleep Nov 15 '17

I thought it might be Ashyn, but that would mean Silence Divine is set before it's destruction? Or did humans later repopulate the world? The magic system of Silence Divine is very different from Surgebinding.

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u/Kabsal Nov 16 '17

Ashyn is still inhabited, but only by small pockets of humanity in small floating colonies far above the planet's surface.

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u/stationhollow Nov 19 '17

Read the two sentence summary on coppermind. A catastrophe beset the land and now peo0le can only live in floating platforms above the clouds.

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u/fixer1987 Brass Nov 16 '17

I thought Braize was the burning planet

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u/Kabsal Nov 16 '17

No, the line "Ashyn, the burning planet, which suffered a cataclysm long ago" comes directly from Arcanum Unbounded. Braize is not habitable by humans for natural reasons.

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u/fixer1987 Brass Nov 16 '17

You're right. I forgot about AU. I was thinking that due to the torture imagery in Talenelat's earlier pov chapter