He considers himself a lone warrior protecting the city, nevermind the fraternity of fellow painters who work with him.

Probably the only reason that it works is because the locals don't know about intelligent non-humans and see her as a benign Cloudcuckoolander, even when she directly tells them she isn't human. Because she's been living this same day over and over for almost two thousand years, her skill has grown to incalculable levels, so from her perspective her output suddenly jumped by a huge amount overnight.In fact, when the Machine killed everyone, the fourteen yoki-hijo just brought themselves back to life, refusing to be consumed. Big Damn Kiss: After Painter brings Yumi back to existence in the epilogue, they share a passionate kiss. He tries to convince himself he's Married to the Job as a distraction from the utter mess he's made of his social life. The hion lines can only do so much, and nightmares—dark, wispy beings—emerge from the shroud to feed on human dreams. Hion also powers the city’s technology, which includes buses, electric-esque lighting, and “viewers” reminiscent of TV.

In this case, the reason the planet is so screwed up is because the Shard Virtuosity committed suicide. The only emotion it ever shows is when a yoki-hijo challenges it in stacking, and it begins to move faster in desperation. We pay respect to the Elders past, present and emerging, and extend that respect to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples today. He describes his former friends to Yumi with no small dose of disdain, clearly hurt by something that happened in the past. However, it was incapable of distinguishing between human souls and spirits, and harvested the Investiture of the entire population of Torio, destroying the country and turning its people into nightmares.

Fanservice: Design's body was made to specification by Hoid, combined with the fact that she doesn't really understand shame, so she doesn't know that she shouldn't let people stare at her.

Lo leía esperando que fuese relativamente lenta, pero el giro argumental que toma en cuestión de capitulos y la forma tan "sencilla" de consumir esos capítulos que te hacen seguir leyendo.

Much later in the story, when the characters visit a carnival, the crowd responds to a painter by applauding, saying "Thank you for your service", and letting them skip a queue. No Endor Holocaust: The Shroud being dispelled exposed the living inhabitants of Komashi to the sun for the first time in centuries, and removed the hion lines they'd relied on to power their lives. While this probably should have caused a major catastrophe, Hoid's second epilogue reveals that the people were able to survive the change in conditions.

But in the end, it was something entirely different, though perhaps Virtuosity could have done something if she had still been alive. He begins the book as a lone warrior, painting nightmares solo even as his colleagues band together for their patrols. This leads to the main story ending with Yumi dying to save Painter's society and let the souls of Torio rest, only for Painter to resurrect her in the epilogue. As a result, she got better and better at stacking rocks over the course of the centuries, until she eventually got good enough to pull a spirit free from the machine's grasp and set off the story's plot.A fun introduction to Brandon's work, this standalone Cosmere novel pulls inspiration from the likes of Final Fantasy X, Hikaru no Go, and Your Name. The third of Brandon Sanderson's four "Secret Novels," this book is beautifully illustrated by Aliya Chen and meticulously designed. According to Hoid, it is slightly more intelligent than the scholars believe (you can't shove that much Investiture into something and leave it completely mindless), but it's still not actively malicious. New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson adds to his Cosmere universe shared by Mistborn and The Stormlight Archive with a new standalone novel especially for fans of Asian pop culture. If they cannot unravel the mystery of what brought them together before it’s too late, they risk forever losing not only the bond growing between them, but the very worlds they’ve always struggled to protect.