Final Typo Changes to Underlord

2/22/2019

With only a week to go before the release of Underlord, I was trying to decide what preview I should share with you.

Then I had an epiphany! I epiphanated all over the couch. It was messy.

Travis Baldree, the awesome narrator of the Cradle audiobooks, has been sending me some last-minute typos and corrections as he recorded the Underlord audio. So I thought I'd share with you the lines that got changed out of context and you can milk them for spoilers!

Also, on the night of February 28th, I'll be reading the first Lindon chapter aloud on the Discord of Dubious Intent at about 10 PM EST! And then I'll probably be chilling on voice chat for the next five hours until the book comes out at 3 AM my time.

Discord invite: https://discord.gg/6AyYFER (I don't know how Discord works, so if this isn't right, just...figure it out.)

[EDIT: The Discord link keeps breaking, and I don't know if that's because it's inherently temporary or if too many people have used it. I've changed it one last time, because Little Blue has put effort into getting a new one, but I don't have time to keep replacing the link. When this breaks, it will be 'figure it out' time.]

[OBLIGATORY SPOILER WARNING EVEN THOUGH THE SPOILERS ARE MILD]

Page 40: "...if it drew on itself for power, it would only last for a few days before needing replaced." >>> "...before needing to be replaced."

Page 64: "Cycling aura here will be much faster here than back home..." >>> "...here will be much faster than back home..."

Page 68: "The second step of the [SPOILER MAN]'s instruction was set of soulfire control techniques..." >>> "...was a set of...

Page 108: "Her father was a significant figure in the Naru clan, and had taken to direct their defenses." >>> "...taken to directing their defenses..."

Page 146: "They didn't believe her, though she wasn't taking the situation seriously." >>> "...thought she wasn't taking..."

Page 147: "...languish the second prince with praise..." >>> Curse you, autocorrect. "Lavish."

Page 148: "Charity says" >>> "Charity said"

Page 178: "[SHE] abandons her advancement seeks a hearing with her own mother." >>> "advancement, seeks"

[END SPOILERS]

-Will

60 Comments

madbookworm

2/22/2019 08:35:22 am

uhh... spoilers what news we can deduct from this... lets se... SOULFIRE CONTROL TECHNIQUE! wait... its called overlord... must.. find... something...
(my brain while reading the spoilers)

Avi Nash

2/22/2019 08:43:13 am

While it might sound almost blasphemous , does anyone know and is inclined to explain the working of discord . Cause on clicking the link it opens the app store to download the app.

2/22/2019 09:05:44 am

on computer, when i click, loged in in the browser, it leads me to an invite. so try login in in your browser maybe...

Sam

2/22/2019 09:10:44 am

While the app is better, you should be able to join through a web browser. Just copy the link and paste it like any other website, you should be able to use it without the app.

Alpha Reader

2/22/2019 11:21:14 am

There was an issue with the first link, the blog has been updated with a better one. Try that. Let me know if you have questions.

Ancient blog reader from 2013

2/24/2019 08:29:10 am

Hi Devin

2/22/2019 08:39:34 am

Hey will how about a short story or two to tide us over the wait, if u have any lying around .

Bill

2/22/2019 07:24:10 pm

Ah but if Will writes a short story he won't be writing Wintersteel...

2/23/2019 11:26:26 am

I'm sorry , but seem to be missing the wintersteel reference
Would u explain

2/23/2019 04:56:07 pm

Cradle book 8-ish is Wintersteel.

Tom

2/24/2019 06:28:04 pm

You said you cut a bunch of scenes from Ghostwater. One of those would be nice...

AlphaMole

2/25/2019 08:59:12 am

You know, I really want a backstory or future of Ziel. Kind of like a spin-off that unravels the mystery a little bit.

Will link

2/25/2019 10:09:32 am

*cough* Book Seven *cough cough*

2/25/2019 10:19:42 am

So you were lurking will
I thought you gave up on this post seeing as there was no word from u

Kandra

2/22/2019 08:42:30 am

Time to make a Spiderman parody off spoilerman, now.

Perfect.

TwiceTested

2/22/2019 09:09:05 am

Spoiler-man, spoiler-man, spoils whatever story he can.

Jeremiah (hosoke)

2/22/2019 08:58:30 am

Hoping to look forward to Ch01

Hoping it doesn't include people who will never give me up

Rogue 9

2/22/2019 03:47:13 pm

I would take a Rick Roll

Kidpen

2/22/2019 09:33:11 am

Calling it now: Spoiler Man is Ziel.

Ravi

2/22/2019 10:08:50 am

Ew, you better clean that couch.

Austin

2/22/2019 10:11:36 am

They can only be talking about the Torchyard. Clearly its power source comes from somewhere else, and it makes cycling much faster there than at home. One of the ingredients he needs to gain insight to reach Underlord.

Deadnettle

2/22/2019 10:39:45 am

I like your idea but it could just as easily be talking about a location we've never heard of before.

Odjwn

2/23/2019 04:57:03 pm

People seem to be absolutely obsessed with the torchyard...

2/24/2019 08:23:53 pm

In the words of Dard "why is torchyard"
Seriously thought I don't seem to recall anything about a torch yard but then again im horrible at remembering names
Someone elaborate this mythical location.

Dave

2/24/2019 07:10:48 am

Whoever is saying that would first need a home. Lindon doesn't have a home he cycled at. Neither does Yerin. Mercy does. Eithan does, though he doesn't cycle aura. Orthos does. Unnamed New Main Character For This Book may. Or, it may be Jai Chen at Sacred Valley finding out she has the perfect madra for whatever they do there...

Sword Immortal Darknorth

2/22/2019 10:24:42 am

Curses. The 28'th is a Thursday night. I'll just have to sleep beforehand so I can be awake from 10 to 3

Jeff

2/22/2019 10:39:51 am

The real question for me is should I stay up all night listening to discord and then take a vacation day in order to read the book or just wait until after work. I am so torn, why did I have kids that I need to support.

Pierce Balko

2/22/2019 11:06:10 am

For some reason I think that the spoiler man is the Emperor, the only Overlord in the empire.

Sammy

2/24/2019 10:38:33 pm

I'm hoping spoiler man is Northstrider.

2/25/2019 10:16:32 am

That would be really cool
But not likely
I mean he is a monarch after all
And then there is the thing about dross.

Mike

2/22/2019 12:38:55 pm

Pg 68 - harmony used 2 drops of Ghostwater which means he got a 2nd answer. Dross would have known what instructions/answers Harmony received from the tree.

...and that’s all I have to contribute.

2/22/2019 02:12:51 pm

Unlikely
As harmony specifically asked the quickest way for "HIM" to become an underlord
His path and lindon s path are very different.
And while dross may very well know the ans as it is like a presence (or as close as possible without ascending to abidan level) and it may have a connection to the way.
But it's more likely someone in the Lord realm might even be the emperor or someone from AKURA(unlikely , but it might be the same convuluted way of indirectly helping MERCY) ,
For my guess I would say it's a new character.

Jer thom

2/22/2019 04:17:31 pm

So with an average of 1 error every 22.25 pages does that mean the book is around 200 pages.... I feel like an addict looking for my lost stash.

Fan

2/22/2019 07:21:24 pm

I suspect Will only shared the non-spoiler typos.

If you look at the picture of the paperback Underlord is thicker than any book besides Blackflame.

2/23/2019 11:17:33 am

Well that’s really happy news.

2/26/2019 02:37:07 pm

In Word pages it's over 200 pages. In words, it's 103k. For reference, Ghostwater was 90k.

Diego

2/23/2019 06:16:40 am

I've had a question floating in the back of my head for quite some time....could the Ragnarus Tree hold a great elder?
Also,.... while rereading Okak, I found a few weird things that seem to not line up. but perhaps I have an older version

2/23/2019 11:22:20 am

Unlikely
As in the death match the emperor was able to wipe out most of the common incarnation(except ragnarus and valinhall) quite easily and quickly but he had to fight a bitter war to defeat the great elders one by one and with a lot of help.
But the death matches were not canon (or might be canon will never clarified)
But one of the guild leader (the little girl with everchanging spear ) mentioned that the great elders could travel to other world freely before some sort of seal was applied to this world , that would imply an abidan level power (not neccenecess judge level but certainly the level of lei Marduk or greater)
Now the incarnation may be powerfull but they are not powerful enough to break through the void to travel to other worlds.
Also the the great elder may be reffering to the agent of chaos (or what ever the exact name was ) about phone suriels presence warned about when it was asked to mention judge killers.

2/24/2019 07:14:05 am

yes, Asylum is a prison for the Great Elders, who are Chaos Fiends that were imprisoned there by the Abidan. Nobody can leave it.

2/24/2019 08:25:07 pm

Diego
What were the odd things.
Now u got me curious.

Count De Monet

2/23/2019 11:17:52 am

Page 64 and 68 has to be in the same area or room. My theory, Lindon and crew has not left the island yet, they have entered the Akura castle to retrieve Bai Rou and the Akura Sage has allowed them to stumble into an advanced training room, complete with lord-level training instructions, possibly similar to the Blackflame instructions that Lindon learned from.

2/23/2019 05:07:11 pm

Unless Will trolled us on the page from the procrastinating post

2/23/2019 11:22:58 pm

Regarding the ragnarus trees
One thing always bothered me.
I get that the tree needed 12 sacrifice per year and usually the sacrifice came from 12 different villages
And this was the main problem in using them.

Now what bothers me Is the empire was quite large
Leah said the next sacrifice feom his village wont be in his life time , so atleast 50~80 village probably more and even large cities
Now it's hard to believe that in that empire there were not 12 capital criminals in a year
I mean if they have to be executed regardless why not sacrifice them to the tree.
It's not like there was a Geneva convention in place.
Hell maybe even publisice it to lower crime rates.

So if the criminals were executed using the tree then maybe it would have been better
In the words of RAGNARUS " it's effecient.,
And not using criminals is a waste of resources."

Chris

2/24/2019 07:32:23 pm

Personally I thought of this too, and didn't see any evidence in book that would really cover why not as I recall. But (and I am not disparaging Will here just making a point) This was Will's first book, he very well could have forgot to add the reason, or didn't even think about it. It definitely is not a story-breaking slip up if it was a mistake at all. There is almost certainly going to be new information about Ragnarus in the next trilogy so perhaps we will find out then.

2/25/2019 10:15:17 am

Ah . . . . .
The next trilogy.
My sweet summer child

There was a time when I believed in these legends along with santa claus and MONTHLY short stories.
I used to wait each month hoping for some word from amalgam , but alas child that world is dead to us
No more will we hear about them no more.

So abandon hope child and be glad if you even hear from Asylum this year.
:)

2/26/2019 02:23:11 pm

There are a couple of reasons, but one of the primary ones is the nature of Ragnarus. It values sacrifice, and sacrificing regular citizens has greater value than giving up criminals who were going to die anyway. They nourish the trees more.

Brendan

2/24/2019 12:53:28 am

I assume my preorder is relative to my location. As tempting as hearing you read the first Lindon chapter is at that time it will be lunch time for me on the 1st and I'll be half way through the book. I am looking forward to it.

2/24/2019 07:18:41 am

Nope, it comes out at midnight PST March 1st, translated to whatever that is in your location.

2/24/2019 08:16:45 am

Dunno about pre order but usually when will releases a book it comes at all sort of times to different Amazon's.
Heck ghost water came around 1~2 days late to amazon india.

2/24/2019 12:53:46 pm

That's because Will didn't do a preorder last time. With a preorder, the landing page is built beforehand and it releases in the same location everywhere.

Previously, Will just uploaded the book and let Amazon put it on sale immediately upon listing, which can cause some differences in upload times between regions.

2/24/2019 04:12:24 pm

Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo. I have to wait until 7:00pm? That sucks. Thanks though for letting me know. I finally thought that there was a benefit in living in Australia for once. I was mistaken.

Madeline

2/25/2019 10:14:43 am

Why can't things ever release at midnight on the east coast : (
I can't stay up until 3 am to start reading!

TransEmo

2/25/2019 03:32:09 pm

for those who can’t use the discord link, the best way to figure it out is to head to the subreddit r/iteration110cradle a link can be found there and several of the discord mods are contactable through there also.

Elliot

2/25/2019 07:10:08 pm

Just checked Wills Facebook page and saw a vid saying that audio is done for Underlord. He also said he will be submitting Underlord in to Amazon on the 27th so we might get it early. At the very least it means we will for sure have it by the first! Woohoo!!!

2/26/2019 12:01:52 am

Not if it's up for preorder. We'll get it at 3AM on the first Will time around the world, because that's midnight for Amazon.

2/26/2019 02:21:52 pm

The paperback is what might go up early. It doesn't sync to the ebook pre-order, so it might go up ahead of time.

It probably won't. And even if it does, you'd still have to have it shipped to you, so really the only thing you'd get early would be the free preview.

Colton

2/26/2019 02:05:32 pm

Thanks a lot Will. You have ruined other books for me. I am listening to another book right now and all I can do is Think of the cradle series... I literally don't know what just happened, and I am having to skip backwards because I think something important just happened.

2/26/2019 02:20:48 pm

You've discovered my secret goal: to corrupt your mind so that you are no longer able to enjoy other stories, and must depend entirely on me for sustenance.

3/1/2019 04:55:27 am

I don't want to ruin it for anyone but wow. I loved underlord. I think it was better that Ghostwater. The wait was torture but totally worth it. I think the epilogue was terrible though because it was so short and I wanted to know more about that situation. Way to torture me. Anyway well done. Keep up the good work.

Theorist

4/13/2019 06:08:49 pm

Really enjoyed your Cradle series. I may have found an error in Book 6. [I’m listening on audiobook, so some of my spelling may be off.]:

During the first meeting between the Akura sage (Charity) and the Blackflame emperor (Naru Huan) (the one in which Charity invited the Blackflame Empire to the tournament), Charity said (at 1:27:17): “The tournament does not permit anyone above or below underlord, though advancements during competition are allowed. All competitors must be younger than 35….”. The narrator then said (at 1:27:50): “Purple eyes swept over the crowd gathered around the emperor. Most of them, including Naru Huan himself, were beyond the required age, and no one but him met the power requirements.” But: Naru Huan is an overlord, and thus does not meet the power requirements.

Also, I don't know if this is an error, or just a curiosity: During her meeting with the Seishen (sp?) clan, Charity says that everyone she selects will be trained by her personally. But she doesn't appear to follow through on that at the end of the book, instead taking only Lindon for training, leaving behind Eithan's team. Of course, maybe she comes back for Eithan's team later, after they are officially announced.

In which we ramble on.
And by we, I mean me.