Dreamwa1ker she/her Posted yesterday at 01:43 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 01:43 AM Tor posted the endpapers on Facebook today. I think they are showing Taln, Tanavast/Honor, Koravellium Avast/Cultivation, and Battar. Cultivation's image has the Nightwatcher lower right, which I missed at first. I was wondering what the crystal-like shape in front of Tanavast was - a representation of a Shard? But with Cultivation having the Nightwatcher I wonder if this one is a representation of the Stormfather somehow. Or it's the Wind- it looks much more like some of Kaladin's unusual Wind moment like parting the highstorm in OB. Taln we have seen before so I don't have much comment. I LOVE the image of Battar but I feel like we don't know much about her yet. I can't determine what she is holding or manipulating in this picture with her safehand, the other hand seems to have a flower or plant. She also is in front of a moon like the Ishar image. Do we have 3 moons between all the herald endpapers? 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Subvisual Haze Posted yesterday at 02:05 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 02:05 AM Tanavast is clearly a fan of that "Here's what you would look like if you were Black or Chinese" meme account. I do think it's interesting that he has a similar windspren helix pattern as the Jezrien endpaper. Something to do with him being connected to The Wind? Or maybe related to that Epigraph about how people shifted from worshipping the wind to the storm. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taliax none (name only) Posted yesterday at 02:33 AM Report Share Posted yesterday at 02:33 AM 48 minutes ago, Dreamwa1ker said: I was wondering what the crystal-like shape in front of Tanavast was - a representation of a Shard? But with Cultivation having the Nightwatcher I wonder if this one is a representation of the Stormfather somehow. Or it's the Wind- it looks much more like some of Kaladin's unusual Wind moment like parting the highstorm in OB. I was assuming it was just a gemstone, since stormlight has the power to infuse gemstones? Battar is sooooo pretty. Might be my favorite of the endpaper portraits (definitely my favorite of this set; I need to go back and look at the others). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
coolsnow7 Posted 22 hours ago Report Share Posted 22 hours ago I think Battar is in the Purelake? I was hoping we’d get more from her artwork since they saved it to the end. I have no idea what those rocks hanging from her belt are. Does Taln perhaps look like he’s in Urithiru? Tanavast’s floating platforms remind me of scenes we’ve seen of Dalinar in various visions of destruction, standing on a platform above the void. In particular at the end of Way of Kings/beginning of Oathbringer, and when he brought Venli in in Oathbringer. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alder24 Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago Battar looks spectacular. I looove it. And are those chicken skulls (looks like parrots) hanging from her belt??  WHY?? Tanavast holds the gem directly above his heart - a gemheart. This reminded me of a certain death rattle, which probably is unrelated, but sounds poetic in this context: Quote Ten orders. We were loved, once. Why have you forsaken us, Almighty! Shard of my soul, where have you gone? Also Tanavast has a chain as his belt - a chain he used to imprison Odium? Cultivation looks like she just had the most fabulous musical entrance. Taln looks cool, we've seen this image before so not much to say. 11 hours ago, Dreamwa1ker said: Do we have 3 moons between all the herald endpapers? Yes. Violet Salas with Battar, blue Nomon with Ishar (all three moons are present on Ishar's image, but Nomon is in the center) and Mishim is with Ash. However Mishim is green, but the moon on Ash's image is red/orange, but this may be because only a tiny sliver of Mishim is illuminated in that image, unlike moons in Battar and Ishar's pictures, which are fully illuminated. I wonder why they have moons behind them and if this is someone related to Hoid's story. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sandra she/her Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago 31 minutes ago, alder24 said: And are those chicken skulls (looks like parrots) hanging from her belt??  WHY?? could those be Tamu Keks? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alder24 Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago 2 minutes ago, Sandra said: could those be Tamu Keks? Maybe, but I don't think so. Hoid's Tamu Kek is described as a bone, not a skull. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dofurion Posted 11 hours ago Report Share Posted 11 hours ago 2 hours ago, alder24 said: Battar looks spectacular. I looove it. And are those chicken skulls (looks like parrots) hanging from her belt??  WHY?? I interpreted that those hanging from his waist were locks 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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