Dive into the whimsical world of Stormlight Lost Tales as the hosts explore three engaging stories. They discuss the lighthearted antics of 'Chasmfriends' and the emotional depth of 'Elsecaller' and 'King Lopen.' Enjoy snippets about character dynamics, narrative challenges, and the unique storytelling format of card packs. Topics also include ethical quandaries faced by characters and the potential for adapting stories into children's media. It's a mix of analysis, humor, and fan theories that brings the Cosmere to life!
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Chasmfriends' Silly, In-World Tale
Chasm Friends is a playful, noncanonical children's-style story about five chasmfiends trying to befriend a human.
The card art and alternating 'traumatized human' variant elevate the gag and make it feel like an in-world tale.
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Format Forced Elsecaller Cuts
Elsecaller tries to expand the deleted Jasnah Shadesmar trip but was compressed to ~8,300 words from a much larger draft.
The card format constrains pacing and forced heavy cuts that hurt character beats and continuity.
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Jasnah's Anger Feels Out Of Character
Elsecaller's portrayal of Jasnah shows sustained anger and attracting anger-spren, which feels unlike prior Yasna POVs.
That change conflicts with later Oathbringer passages and raises continuity concerns.
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It's time to talk about the three Stormlight Lost Tales, the Storydeck stories that came out as card packs at Dragonsteel Nexus. The three are Elsecaller (the Jasnah story during Words of Radiance), King Lopen the First of Alethkar (Lopen and Elhokar at the ending of Words of Radiance), and The Chasmfriends Get a New Pet! (a noncanonical children's story). Dragonsteel later sold the cards separately, but are sold out now. But we hope you enjoy this episode anyway! Listen on to see what we thought of these stories.
Episode does contain some Wind and Truth spoilers during Elsecaller and Lopen segments.
This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), and Ene (AonEne)!
Thumbnail is card art for King Lopen the First of Alethkar, by Marie Seeberger: https://www.instagram.com/p/DD0bPqSIH8k/?img_index=7
Cards are sold out, but the listings are: https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/products/storydeck-box?_pos=4&_sid=aef7e52e2&_ss=r
https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/products/story-deck-3-packs?_pos=3&_sid=aef7e52e2&_ss=r
0:00:00 Introductions
0:02:51 The Chasmfriends Get A New Pet!
0:14:04 Elsecaller (Some Wind and Truth Spoilers)
0:32:11 Interesting Elsecaller things
0:59:04 Everstorm Stuff
1:18:29 Other Gripes, Matching WoR Epilogue
1:36:25 King Lopen The First of Alethkar (Some WaT Spoilers)
1:47:38 Storydeck format
1:53:42 More Lopen
2:07:41 Who's That Cosmere Character
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