Questioner
So, at the end The Bands of Mourning, I kind of noticed what seemed to me like a massive implied spoiler for Stormlight 5.
Brandon Sanderson
Okay, what is that?
Questioner
Red mist, not in the Roshar system.
Brandon Sanderson
Right.
Questioner
So, I wanted to ask you, how do you handle interlacing stories without, like, giving spoilers on the one hand and being faithful to the logic of the world on the other?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, it's actually been a bit of a challenge and I just had to be aware that people might read your books in any order and things like this. So, when I'm doing stuff like that, I'm usually being a bit more coy than I look I'm being. That seems like a very, very big spoiler, but...
Questioner
But I assumed that it could be like Autonomy or Ambition...
Brandon Sanderson
So, there's more going on there, but yeah, I do take care. The real trouble has been wanting to do short stories in the future, like Sixth of the Dusk, and I had to be really careful with Sixth of the Dusk, not giving away too many things about the main stories.
Questioner
Yeah, like, who are these people...
Brandon Sanderson
So, I'm more coy than I look like I'm being, how about that?