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Did [Hoid] cause the Shattering?
Brandon Sanderson
*hands out RAFO card* ...There is a hint about this in a book that is released tonight that is not that book.
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Did [Hoid] cause the Shattering?
*hands out RAFO card* ...There is a hint about this in a book that is released tonight that is not that book.
Did Hoid have anything to do with Bavadin showing up on Sel?
RAFO.
Before his departure in [The Way of Kings] and his return in a future book, does he stay on Roshar only?
Good question. RAFO.
In Warbreaker, Hoid's about to tell a story and he starts pulling out sand, some black sand. Is this from the planet that White Sand is from?
Good question, and that's a RAFO.
When Hoid Awakens, does he speak his native tongue (Yolish)?
RAFO.
Is Hoid using the Lerasium as a metalmind.
That's a read and find out, but I'll give you a card!
Where is Hoid's Cryptic during Era 2? Did he have to leave it behind?
RAFO
Did Yolen ever have a moon? Is a past version of Hoid in any of Dalinar's visions?
Two questions, I'll RAFO them both.
What's Hoid's real name?
That's a good one; RAFO.
If Hoid were to hold an unsheathed Nightblood, would he feel sick?
*Loud laughing* RAFO.
Are we gonna see Hoid on any other planet with his new little friend?
Oh that's a RAFO.
Can Hoid be killed by Nightblood?
RAFO.
You said that Hoid has had love interests. Does he have any children?
RAFO.
Who invited Rayse to the Adonalsium-Shattering party?
Hehe, you will have to see. That is definitely a RAFO.
Hoid has never drawn his sword on Roshar, which looks similar to Nightblood. Is Hoid's sword also Awakened?
That is a RAFO, I'm afraid!
Where is Hoid on the religious scale about the Beyond?
That's a RAFO.
In Part 2 of Oathbringer, the chapter headings are to Hoid, right, from other [Vessels] I'm assuming. One of them talks about Hoid. They reference to him as holder of the one gem [bearer of the First Gem]. Is that the gem that is then split into Shards perhaps?
RAFO. Mhm. RAFO.
So in Words of Radiance, when Hoid has-- switches places with the carriage driver, who was mentioned as having a hat and a strange accent - is that carriage driver important?
Hehehehe… That's a-- I'll leave this one to you. It's a RAFO, but it's not a big RAFO.
Will we see Hoid's Lightweaver Truths?
RAFO. Unlikely, but RAFO. Possible
Can Hoid safely have an MRI?
Why do you ask that?
Because if you have metal inside your body, and you have an MRI, which is magnetic, it's very bad for you.
You're just assuming that... That's a very clever way to try to get around a question that I have not answered and intentionally said I am not going to answer, so...
Also, tattoos. You can't have a tattoo with an MRI. The ink has little bits of metal in it.
You can't? Well, I assume there are tattoo inks that are not little bits of metal.
That's true.
Is there any relation between Shardplate and the spren like there are with the Blades?
RAFO. :)
Are the Ones Above in Sixth of the Dusk Third Era Scadrians?
I haven't revealed that. That's a good guess, though.
Do you think you'll ever store Stormlight in a metalmind?
RAFO!
Did Spook ever leave Scadrial?
RAFO.
In the Ars Arcanum of Elantris, you mention Vax, the planet? What project is there?
Good question; I'm not gonna answer.
Why Cultivation thought that helping Dalinar would be very, very dangerous? Also, there's a theory that she wants him for a new vessel for Honor's Shard. Is this...valid assumption?
RAFO on both, I'm afraid.
Could you have a good conversation with Adonalsium, back in the day?
Back in the day? I actually have to RAFO that because I actually haven't said whether Adonalsium was a force or an individual. So it is an excellent question, no one has asked me that before, but it's not one I can answer.
That was a bit of a sneaky one, because it seems like it would be an easy one to answer, but it gives away too much
It does.
How did Regalia established contact with Calamity?
I think I'll save that for the next series I'm doing. If I don't answer that *inaudible* things like that in the next series, you can ask me again and I'll answer.
Voidbinding, and what Renarin does, we are still very confused about how much--
I am happy that you are very confused about that, because I haven't explained it very much.
Ok.
And Renarin didn't figure it out very much.
And he hasn't figured out it much, yeah. And we're not even sure whether he's a Voidbinder.
Yes.
He's probably a Voidbinder, right. Then I'm not going to ask you that, because you're going to say RAFO.
Yup.
You said in a previous question and answer that there was Cultivationlight, possibly. Since Lift is aligned to Cultivation, does she actually use Stormlight?
That's a RAFO. You know I'm staying away from this.
Is Hoid an Allomancer now?
That has been strongly implied.
What was Hoid up to during the Lord Ruler's Ascension?
I might tell you some day.
Can Hoid access the Dor?
He has tried and failed to access the Dor.
Will Joel become a Rithmatist?
Oh that's totally a RAFO. Here's your RAFO.
Did-- this is RAFO bait, but did Khriss and Nazh happen to meet on one of their planets or in a different location?
Oh, you are RAFO baiting hard.
Yeah, that's RAFO bait.
At the end of Stormlight 4, we see Dalinar create a vision where Kaladin is able to talk with a version of Tien. How interested would Hoid be to know about this?
This would be a 9/10 on the Hoid interest meter.
Could a Shardbearer materialize his or her Shardblade inside another person? What about something inanimate like stone?
RAFO.
Does Szeth ever get to figure out Nightblood's name, or does he just always call Nightblood, "Sword-nimi?"
That's a RAFO too!
Can a full Radiant summon his Shardhelmet even if there is already one physical manifestation?
RAFO.
Would you consider or have you considered romantic relationships between spren and humans?
That's a RAFO.
Does Hoid have any descendants?
RAFO.
Is Silverlight that place that is not a planet where there is a Shard?
RAFO.
"Elhokar, the king's son and heir, sat at the high table, ruling in feast in his father's absence. He was in conversation with two men, a dark-skinned Azish man who had an odd patch of pale skin on his cheek and a thinner, Alethi-looking man who kept glancing over his shoulder."
Are these two men - Nalan'Elin and Kalak?
RAFO.
I developed a lexicon of shapes to use in the creation of glyphs.
How do you determine which shapes to use when creating a glyph? Is that phonetic? Are there shapes that only appear in proper nouns, or for abstract concepts?
I don't get to say this very often, but RAFO. :)
In Elantris, we know the Shards Aona and Skai influenced the large religions, Shu-Korath and Shu-Dereth. When Odium came to Elantris to shatter... to Splinter them, did he make the [Jeskeri] Mysteries cult?
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Oh, the Mysteries, the Jeskeri Mysteries? I'll RAFO that for now.
My other question was, has Hoid ever or would Hoid ever dress in drag?
Yeah, and he has... Multiple times!
Does Silverlight have a Shard?
Good question. I will RAFO that.
In at least two of the books that I know of, a god is either dead or attacked in some form or fashion. Is there any reason for that?
Yes, there is an ongoing theme there, and it's primarily because there is an overarching story behind the story. The books are all in the same universe. And there is a character that's the same in all of the books. In Way of Kings it's Wit. He's actually in all of them.
Cosmere is a dwarf galaxy. Does Investiture exist in other galaxies? Do those galaxies have their own Adonalsiums?
That is beyond the scope... that's a RAFO, but not a RAFO I'm going to answer, that is a RAFO that we are concerned only with the cosmere.
Would you be able to write the... Second Ideal of the Truthwatchers?
...It's a RAFO. There's a lot of stuff about the Truthwatchers in [Oathbringer], that's gonna make it complicated to do that, okay? ...Yeah, it's really complicated, and those are things I'm not gonna probably canonize for another couple of books, for reasons that will be very clear by the end of this book.