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Questioner
What was the metal that Hoid gave Vivenna and her crew to use the fabrial?
Brandon Sanderson
You're asking, what metal it was that let them use the fabrial without the screamers detecting them? So, should be aluminum. I don't think there's anything sneaky about that. The only thing that I've had to change is, I wanted the sheathes that they use with Shardblades to be aluminum, and Peter tells me I just can't do that. It's not in continuity. So we have to have some sort of aluminum... alloy, or something like that. I'm not sure exactly what I wrote that broke the continuity on that, but he is certain that those can't be aluminum. So, those aren't aluminum, but it was aluminum around that. And Hoid's bag has an aluminum lining, too.
mithrilnova
Are all the kinds of intelligent spren seen in the Shadesmar chapters capable of forming Nahel bonds?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
zas678
You said that there are "multiple" people from Mistborn in [The Way of Kings]. Does this include Hoid?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, it does.
zas678
Are they just vague allusions?
Brandon Sanderson
Vague, no. But I wouldn't say they, save Hoid, have any important impact on the events of the book.
Questioner
How many spren does it take to form a full suit of Shardplate?
Brandon Sanderson
That's making assumptions that we're gonna RAFO. Nice try!
Drew
(paraphrased)
Does the Expanse of the Broken Sky refer to Taldain?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
RAFO.
Newan
(paraphrased)
Is the kandra worldhopper MeLaan?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Good question. *hands Newan a RAFO card* In upcoming Mistborn books, you are going to get to know a lot more of the kandra, so you will have a lot more options.
Questioner
Are we going to see Hoid's flute again?
Brandon Sanderson
Hoid is very disappointed in the loss of his flute and would like to recover it.
dougpgc
Is there Shard based magic that's used for translation? Hoid is very smart, but it seems like it would be a pain to learn all these other world's languages -- and he's very eloquent in all of them. Will you tell us any details you can about this? pretty please : )
Brandon Sanderson
There are several ways to do this. Hoid is not learning all of the languages without aid. No details, I'm afraid. Except that if you watch, you will see him slip and use words that have no meaning (or the wrong meaning) in some of the languages he's speaking. Those translate oddly, or don't translate at all.
Snipexe
Could an AI bond a spren?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO
Questioner
(paraphrased)
Is Hoid the most knowledgeable about what's going on in the cosmere?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
No, Khriss is the most aware by a long shot. Nazh knows a lot as well. Hoid might know more than Nazh but he is pretty in the know as well so it's close.
Extesian
Insert Cultivation's Vessel's name here.
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO
CephandriusTW
Since Teft is dead, may he rest in peace, could you tell us what his fourth Ideal would have been if he had spoken it before Vyre killed him?
Brandon Sanderson
Hmmm... Fourth Ideal for Teft. I would like to give that more thought, rather than be on the spot for it here, so it's a RAFO, but not a promise that I'll answer you. There are things I would want to consider before I answer that. It's a great question. That's the one I'm saddest not to be able to answer, but I don't think I can answer that on the spot, while I'm doing other things right now. It deserves more consideration than an off the cuff answer.
dvoraen
During the course of Oathbringer, and not counting what happens towards the end of the book, are all nine [Unmade] active in the world again (no longer imprisoned)?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
I don't think Marsh would get along too well with Hoid, but are they ever going to hang out?
Brandon Sanderson
*pause* Are they ever going to hang out?
Questioner
Are they ever going to meet?
Brandon Sanderson
Are they ever going to meet. It is likely that if they both survive for many more books that they would, but I can't promise it.
Questioner
Does the Iriali religion relate to the Shattering?
Brandon Sanderson
I'm going to RAFO that.
FirstSelector
Is Ati Ruin's original Shardholder?
Brandon Sanderson
Ohh, good question. I will go ahead and RAFO that.
FirstSelector
I have a big theory that someday we are gonna see something more about him.
Brandon Sanderson
You will see something more about him for sure! Because Dragonsteel includes-- But that's not what you meant, and I know what you meant.
Lerasium Mistborn
Dalinar had two non-Stormfather visions. First at the end of Words of Radiance, and second with Nohadon in Oathbringer. I'm curious if these two are related or they come from different sources?
Brandon Sanderson
So, by even answering that, this is one of those questions I tend to RAFO because by answering it I'm implying that your postulations are correct, which I am not even willing to do. It's more of a RAFO in that... let's just say I'm not even willing to confirm the postulations.
Questioner
*inaudible* <spren of Adolin> *inaudible*
Brandon Sanderson
Dead for a spren is kind of weird.
Questioner
So they can wake up?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO card.
blocking-WTF
I did not know about "Cosmere" or its cycle until this very moment. I have however, read just about every single one of your books and knew that HOID makes an appearance in them. I had always thought it would be a grand idea if someday, a long time from now, we found out that all these different worlds were connected and your last masterpiece would be the book that revealed that to us. But I guess you thought of this brilliant idea before I did , sigh.
Brandon Sanderson
I planned to do something just like that, actually. I considered sticking the clues more deeply into the text. (For example, in some early drafts of later books, I didn't use the name Hoid for his alias.)
In the end, though, I felt that readers would enjoy the journey far more if they could connect things and begin to dig at the deeper picture themselves. Besides, if I hid the clues so well nobody found them, then that would have required so much arranging of stories as to make for some awkward moments.
Questioner
Is there a specific mineral deposit around the Purelake? Is there a sacred enclave?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
FeatherWriter
Is Glys a normal Truthwatcher spren?
Brandon Sanderson
You'd have to read the book, it's a RAFO.
Brainless
How did Spook die?
Brandon Sanderson
That's a RAFO. There's your card.
Questioner
i have an 'all the shards' question. Is how they obtain the Shards the first time affect what kind of magic their investiture effects?
Brandon Sanderson
That's a RAFO.
Questioner
What happened with Abraham’s court martial?
Brandon Sanderson
So that is backstory that is a RAFO. Why Abraham was there is not something he necessarily likes to talk about, not that he’s shy, but at the same time it’s not something he easily talks about. And so I will not talk about it, I will let him, someday perhaps, talk about it.
Questioner
Did Adonalsium have more than one Vessel?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Been discussing something Mistborn - can we have Wayne's and Marasi's time compression/stretch factors?
i.e. What would 60 seconds of "real time" turn into for either one of them?
We'll have to RAFO that.
Snipexe
Could a Twinborn with Feruchemical zinc and Allomantic atium beat an atium Misting in a fight because of the enhanced mental capacity?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
I did have a question about Doomslug and M-Bot, where they came from?
Brandon Sanderson
Those are questions that will be answered, I promise.
Questioner
Are they connected?
Brandon Sanderson
That's what we call a RAFO, Read And Find Out. You will find out; I'm not gonna tell you know. You'll find out some of those answers in the next book.
TheMadLiteralist
Deep lore question: Why is the storm that goes backwards called the Everstorm and not the Reversestorm?
Brandon Sanderson
Heh heh heh. That is actually a RAFO, which stands for Read And Find Out. I can explain the terminology a lot better after upcoming books are out.
Anushia Kandasivam
Okay, cool, so you just have to wait.
Brandon Sanderson
You do have to wait on that one.
vorpal_username
In mistborn you can't access someone else's feruchemical stores. However, what if feruchemist A stores something, and then hemalurgy is used to take A's ability and put into person B. Can person B use A's stores?
Also, what happens when someone burns metal with a hemalurgic charge? Or stores/retrieves something in a spike using feruchemy?
Brandon Sanderson
All RAFOs here, I'm afraid.
Questioner
With Dalinar as a Bondsmith, what does that mean his power is?
Brandon Sanderson
Ah, now that's a good question! That is going to be a R-A-F-O, because you have to read and find out. But I'll give you a card.
Chaos
Can Hoid jump through time? If so, can Shards jump through time?
Brandon Sanderson
Hoid, so far, has only moved forward in time. He has not 'lived' all of those years, but has used some time dilation techniques. That said, he is far older (both in relative and real time) than a normal person can live.
Argent
Recently, somebody came up with a very clever theory about the meaning of The Way of Kings endsheet, and I liked it very much. I suspect you want to keep most of that a secret, but maybe you can answer this also vague question - is there another chart, in-world, similar to the ones on frontsheet and endsheet, that we haven't seen?
Brandon Sanderson
I'm afraid that the first one is RAFO territory. Let me point out that most charts in Cosmere books are human attempts at understanding the world. There are fundamental principles to them, but also human groupings and perspectives worked in.
Evan Modder
Do you have a favourite type of Investiture?
Brandon Sanderson
Favourite type? They are all like my children. So... I don't know. That one's a RAFO, but a “I'm never going to answer it”, so just “Read and Don't Find Out”?
Questioner
In the Celebrant Market, there's a nice piece of jewelry that's mentioned.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, I wouldn't call it jewelry, but yes.
Questioner
Say a spren in humanoid form there put that on, could they manifest in Roshar in their humanoid form?
Brandon Sanderson
So he's asking about the odd chain that's mentioned in the Celebrant Market. You are way off on this one. I'm going to say, point different directions than that on that one.
UndertakerSheep
Did Kelsier, after holding preservation and Sazed becoming Harmony, ever find out if Mare really betrayed him or not?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, I'm afraid. There is more coming on this topic in the future.
Could a Shardblade sever a Nahel Bond? Could it slice a spren?
RAFO.
The Only Joe
(paraphrased)
Was Hoid offered one of the Shards we know about?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
You know, I can't remember which Shards I've shown you, Wait, no I haven't shown you that one.
18th_Shard
So you have said that making someone Mistborn is not lerasium's primary function, that a Mistborn burning it would have another effect. Is this also true of its alloys?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
Does Hoid go to the same place the Elantrians are going?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Nasa1225
Theoretically, what would happen if one were to compound chromium?
Brandon Sanderson
As expected, this one is a RAFO.
twixttwists
Since the dead spren are said to have been more or less "reabsorbed" into the cosmere, why did they leave behind physical shards at all?
Brandon Sanderson
We'll find out more about dead spren as the books move forward.
Aaronator17
I was wondering whether any of the Vessels are blood related?
Aside from the romantic relationship between Honor and Cultivation I'm not sure that we know anything about the relationships that others have with each other within the group of 16, and it would be interesting to know.
Brandon Sanderson
I'm saving most of this for Dragonsteel, I'm afraid. So RAFO.
Pinpoint
(paraphrased)
Does Dalinar have Surgebinding abilities?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
RAFO.
Evilkill78
Have we seen Trell under another name before?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, in part because the question makes some assumptions.
Dalinarium
While reading Dawnshard I remembered something...Dalinar's odd dreams about warm golden light that is very similar to what Rysn experienced.
Is there any connections? Maybe Dalinar is connected to another Dawnshard?
Brandon Sanderson
I will RAFO this, but it's a worthy line of conjecture.
electricdelta
I'm pretty sure Mark Twain inspired Wit/Hoid from Brandon Sanderson's cosmere of books. Care to comment?
Brandon Sanderson
Most certainly he had an influence.
Questioner
(paraphrased)
Any chance of a Shardspear?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Shardspear? YOU are going to get RAFO'd.
Questioner
Did Hoid join the Worldsingers just to learn about Roshar’s stories? Or is there something more going on there?
Brandon Sanderson
Hoid never joined the Worldsingers. (Can one join a group that one created, is the question there.)