Talk:The Black Prism

Notability
There was a notability tag on the main article, which I removed based on the book's New York Times bestseller ranking. Apoorv020 (talk) 21:28, 14 September 2010 (UTC)

reorganization
I believe that this whole article needs to be reframed, now that the Blinding Knife is out. Right now, there is no Light Bringer Saga article; the links to the lightbringer trilogy either lead here, or nowhere. All the random facts you learn about the universe from Black Prism are thrown in this article with no real organization. Now that there are multiple books in the series, these general facts about the universe should be removed, and placed in a new article that talks about the entire series as a whole. For instance, you can talk about all the chromatergy stuff that's currently in the BP article there, then add the information we learn from BLinding KNife about Bain, the cards, shimmer cloaks, etc. I'd do it myself, but I don't have an account, and really can't be bothered to go through the review process. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 108.65.196.216 (talk) 00:43, 1 January 2013 (UTC)

Word On Polychromes
"...if a drafter can draft over three colors, he can draft all colors and is a Prism (there are no "tetrachromes" who can draft four)..."

This needs a reference. I don't believe there is anything in the book that states this. We really don't know enough about Prisms to make this statement factual (in the sense of the fantasy world). I believe the only reference to polychromatic users are those that use more than two colors and also that they are rare. I don't remember anywhere there being a statement that if a polychrome is able to draft more than 3 colors, he can draft all of them. Zymum would then be able to draft all of the colors as well.

As an aside, I believe this statement was derived from Davin relating to his brother that he might be able to do so much more during one of his many internal monologues. I don't believe this can be used as basis for the above. As it is open to interpretation, I took it to mean simply that he felt able to draft more colors and during attempts to draft more colors, he was almost able to.

It doesn't take away from the fact that no where in the book does it ever state that if a chromatic user can draft more than 3 they can draft all. If it does, then there needs to be an reference to it.

Jacob Santos (talk) 01:56, 22 January 2011 (UTC)

I'm fairly certain this is incorrect, since the Omnichrome can draft all colours and is a wight and therefore, has broken the halo. I think I recall, infact, someone being refered to as a "full-spectrum polychrome". Also, poly=many, they're not called trichromes (which would indicate three). Either way, I'm going to go ahead and delete that line (or edit it) and chuck on a in-universe tag onto the article. Spadge88 (talk) 21:46, 27 January 2011 (UTC)Spadge88

Totally agree. It's a point of confusion and vaguely explained, but I agree that a polychrome is *not* the same thing as a Prism. Dsmith77 (talk) 17:39, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Plot
I suggest the recommendation that the plot be condenses be removed. Everything I've read from Brent Weeks can only be described as intricate and detailed. There are multiple storylines involving multiple characters that often converge and overlap such that there is no good way to summarize the novel while dutifully providing a reasonable summary. Dsmith77 (talk) 17:39, 23 October 2012 (UTC)

Considering I am the only person I've ever seen actually attempt to deal with the plot summary section in at least 2 years, I concur with this. If anyone whose actually read the book wishes to boil this down further, they're welcome to try. Otherwise... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:9:4780:C35:151D:1C6E:25E7:BDC3 (talk) 08:42, 7 June 2014 (UTC)