Yumi and the Nightmare Painter: A Cosmere Novel

Product Information

Amnesia Loop: The father-machine doesn't have enough power to trap the souls of the fourteen yoki-hijo the way it trapped everyone else, but it does have just enough power to erase a day's worth of their memories. So it uses its captured souls to create fake villages and has each yoki-hijo live out the same day over and over again, erasing their memories each night, for seventeen hundred years. 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. They also managed to persuade some spirits to restore the hion lines, granting them enough power to keep civilization going.

There is a world. One of endless night, surrounded by an even deeper darkness. Filled with nightmares come to life, twisted shapes that slink to windows and ease open doors, sliding across floors to look down on helpless faces.Chekhov's Gun: After the time spent at the carnival, Yumi draws a very simple (and not really good) picture showing her and Painter's hands. Near the end, Painter passes that picture to her through nightmare-Liyun, which allows Yumi to regain memories stolen by the machine. Hoid: Granted, he did overdo it—his eyes lingered on her the entire time she worked. But don't judge him too harshly. He was nineteen, and I'm a uniquely talented artist. Team Mom: Akane for her misfit group of painters. She sincerely cares about all of them, looks after them and basically adopts Yumi. Nikaro mentions that it's what she's always done.

Design: Make me pretty so they'll be extra disturbed if my face ever unravels. And give me voluptuous curves, because they remind me of a graphed cosine. And also because boobs look fun. Yumi And The Nightmare Painter has a lot going for it. Sanderson’s flair for vibrant settings and magic is on full display. I particularly appreciated the feeling of being eased into a more advanced Cosmere, where technology becomes prevalent but the magic doesn’t fade away. Sanderson does a great job using Yumi as a sort of bridge between the medieval-ish fantasies of the other Cosmere worlds like Roshar and the futuristic ages the wider universe is creeping toward. No Ontological Inertia: When Yumi steals all the spirits from the Machine, rendering it powerless, it promptly shuts down. Under normal circumstances, it could just be turned on again... except it's been running non-stop for almost two thousand years, so almost all of it has worn away and been replaced by Investiture. Without a constant power source, those parts disappear, and it's left a pile of scrap.Please be aware that the delivery time frame may vary according to the area of delivery - the approximate delivery time is usually between 1-2 business days. Hoid explains that Painter's world uses a different calendar to the people he is telling the story to. He doesn't add such an explanation when they get to Yumi's world, because they have the same time measurements (though the names are different), because they're the same world. For every episode, we randomly draw a set of clues from all submissions, so yours might take some time to appear Mistaken for Incest: Yumi introduces herself to Akane as Painter's sister... and then mentions how they took a bath together recently. It might be for the best that all that got buried under Yumi mistaking Akane for Painter's concubine. At the end of the story, when Yumi is saved, Painter has to explain that the girl he's suddenly kissing a lot is not his sister, but his "girlfriend from another city." Apparently, his friends still didn't believe it until his parents showed up and confirmed they didn't have a daughter. You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious: Throughout most of the story, Yumi refers to Nikaro by his profession (though she does indirectly refer to him by his name when with Akane and the others to keep up her cover as his sister). After Painter reveals the truth of how he lied to his friends, he begins to walk away to leave her alone. It's only when Yumi directly calls out to him by his actual name that he turns to face her. From this point onwards, Yumi frequently switches between calling him "Painter" and "Nikaro."