#edgedancers

[sorchasolas]

Im doing this super stupid thing where i combine two(eventually maybe three?) knight radiant glyphs into one glyph

So, behold:

Truthdancer & Windbreaker

i can and WILL make more. Recommendations are encouraged.

[thatboreddrake]

Stormlight AU where Tien doesn’t get drafted to fight a pointless war. Kaladin gets to go and study to become a surgeon at Karbranth. Instead of Syl, he ends up attracting the attention of a cultivationspren and becoming a nascent Edgedancer. He becomes catapulted into Plot(TM) when one of his patients gets transferred to Taravingian’s sketchy future sight division.

Idk I just like the idea of a Kaladin who doesn’t have to angst about when to kill and when to save, he can just focus on saving and healing those in need. You cannot tell me that Roshar’s #1 Union organizer wouldn’t swear to “remember those who have been forgotten.” Also Surgeon Kaladin getting to use Regrowth powers would be very fun.

Taravingian: “Why do I hear Eurobeat music?”

Edgedancer Kaladin who has been picking up speed and gliding across half a continent:

[blindradiant]

I’m wondering about the Heralds’ relationship with their associated Radiant orders. Like obviously Nale has had a lot of influence over the Skybreakers. He’s the Herald of that order, a Skybreaker himself, and the only living one who has sworn the Fifth Ideal. Modern Skybreakers are the way they are largely because of Nale’s direction and enforcement of the order’s structure and methods.

But what about the other Heralds? Have any of them been involved with the Radiants at all, or do they try to forget? Does it depend on the Herald?

I don’t know if Jezrien was aware enough to be involved with the Windrunners before Moash killed him. We know pretty much nothing about Chanah and Vedel. I wonder what they think about modern Dustbringers and Edgedancers. Same with Pailiah and the Truthwatchers. I kind of think Ash would have absolutely no interest in being associated with the Lightweavers, and would actively try to distance herself as much as human(ish)ly possible. Batah and the Elsecallers??? Kalak is another one who I think would try to avoid any reminders of the past. Taln has been locked on Braize for 4500 years, and is now in no shape to be involved with the Stonewards. And we’ve seen how Ishar treats Dalinar.

I just think there’s a lot of potential to see how Heralds who aren’t Nale might have guided their Radiants at various points over time

[narniangirl1994]

Anyone here read The Stormlight Archive? You can't tell me this isn't what Lift and the other edgedancers look like once they become experts.

[warrioreowynofrohan]

Seeing Protector of the Small fanart reminded me of something I wanted to say.

One of the things I love about the series is that Kel’s life gets better over the course of it. Oh, the enemies she’s facing get tougher - in the first book of the quartet she’s an 11-year-old fighting bullies at school, by the fourth one she’s an adult fighting in a war - but the number of people she’s got on her side and at her back expands immensely.

In the first book, she’s virtually on her own at the start and she has almost no control over her fate - whether she will be able to pursue her dream of being a knight depends solely on the arbitrary judgement of a raging sexist. By the second one, she still has enemies, but also a sizeable group of friends, and is a mentor to younger students. By the third, she has some of the most powerful people in the kingdom on her side, and is virtually never without either emotional support or people willing to go to bat for her. In the fourth, she has dozens of people – including the aforementioned raging sexist, who has some of the best character development in any Tamora Pierce novel – supporting her when she does something that is technically illegal.

She’s never more alone or less in control of her fate than the moment, as an eleven-year-old girl, when she says (paraphrased): “If I want to be a knight in order to help people, then I’m going to help people now even though it will probably ruin my chances of ever becoming a knight; because otherwise what was the point?” And the fact that she sticks to her principles doggedly and refuses to turn aside from anyone who needs help is why she has so much support by the end. With a lot of that support coming from people whom she helped and supported because they needed it, people whom the rest of society ignored and discarded and regarded as useless, and who turned out to be tough and talented and invaluble friends. It’s not an authorial gift, it’s the cumulative effect of the mountains of hard work she’s put in over the previous books, usually with no expectation of any return.

[itscorsaire]

Lift & Wyndle doodle from class last week

Ignore Laios looming in the background lmao

[duckngk]

lifts i did while reading edgedancer cus shes my favorite

[lilaeleaf]

My Stormlight OC, Lotan and their spren, Marari!

They’re an edgedancer and professional silly little guy🌿

[naomi-the-red]

I need fan art of Lift on Painter’s world. Have her blazing through the streets eating ramen with Hion lines, looking rad. Call it Cyberpunk: Edgedancers

[lamaery]

Lift and Wyndle

After working on Lift's design for the miniature last year, I made a sketch that I really liked and now I finally decided that it deserved get a painted rendering. Here are some more sketches I did back then. The poses for Lift being awesome are taken from an ice skating race on a natural downhill track . I thought that got closest to gliding on uneven terrain.

[shakesthewizard]

Hey Stormlight fans. Would you like a Knights Radiant quiz that isn't kind of boring? Have this!

[itsyaraz]

What happens when you're simultaneously hyperfixated on Stormlight and Yuri on Ice?

Adolin On Ice BABEYYYY

[arcanistsdelight]

Listen. I know there are some wonderful theories about how Adolin Kholin is going to be a villain, or how he won’t be able to bond with Maya, but listen, Listen. He would make such a good freaking edge dancer.

“I will remember those who have been forgotten.”

“I will listen to those who have been ignored.”

My theory? This man won’t even need to speak the ideals to form his bond because he is out there living them. Every. Single. Day.

He visits his fathers Ryshadium on the regular, why? Because Dalinar is too busy to go ride him.

He never forces that beautiful, intelligent creature to bear him, he is so gentle and loving and goes just to groom him and be near him. When Gallant does let him ride, he treats him with the respect he deserves, and Gallant repays him at every turn, even allowing Maya to ride frequently.

He speaks to everyone, and listens, and learns about their lives. His troops love him, even Kaladin is forced to admit that Adolin is simply a good man because he listens. Always, his mind churns with questions and concerns, with brilliant dueling strategies, but he never rejects people who need him to hear. The one significant moment that he trips on this, he backtracks and apologizes and supports Dalinar despite not believing him.

He listened to his sword. He listened to what he believed was a dead object and spoke to her with such love and tenderness over years of never knowing that she was a living being that eventually even through the pain of his touch she grew to tolerate and even like him.

No. Maya doesn’t need him to speak the oathes, she has heard such oathes before. Their bond will be one forged in the purest trust, the deepest love, and the kindest hearts. It won’t be a Nahel bond, it will be its own, and it will reshape Roshar.

[sheepintheastralsea]

LMAO LIFT'S REINTRODUCTION IS INCREDIBLE

she trespassed into dalinar's vision, called his ass tight, said he was too grumpy to be trustworthy, spooked odium (SPOOKED ODIUM AND HE COULDN'T SEE HER) and left. what a FUCKING icon

[theelfdruid]

Some Edgedancers after a length, late-night feverish rant that mostly consisted of me trying to figure out how they navigate when having frictionless feet means you can't push off the ground to steer like ice skaters do (I'm not a physics major, though). Solution? Staves/spears, which can change in shape at your need if you've got a spren version (or just your hands, if you're like Lift). It was fun experimenting with referenes for this one. I used a combination of artistic roller skaters, speed skaters, and figure skaters, then took to playing around with canon things like shardplate, a more performative outfit... you get the gist.

Plus some Bridge 4 since I got really fixated on professional skydivers (specifically kuczynska.maja) for inspiration as to how Windrunners might move in the air. Ran out of steam to finish all of them, unfortunately.