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Are we gonna see Hoid on any other planet with his new little friend?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh that's a RAFO.
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Are we gonna see Hoid on any other planet with his new little friend?
Oh that's a RAFO.
What does the Cognitive Realm of Sel look like?
RAFO!
Can Hoid be killed by Nightblood?
RAFO.
You told someone that Nan Balat likes to hurt things. Like, a supernatural tendency to hurt things.
It's more along the lines of, "He has suffered some...enhancement of a psychological issue through supernatural effects."
It's not an Unmade thing?
RAFO! Good question! That's basically a confirmation, isn't it? *teasing laugh*
Rayse went after Dalinar and then Kaladin for his champion, strong fighters who would have dealt a massive emotional blow, how likely is Taravangian to use the same approach?
RAFO
How many Allomantic metals are there? Does each god have their own set of sixteen and does harmony have his own set of sixteen?
That is a big ol' RAFO.
So we know that aluminum resists Investiture or blocks Investiture in some cases. Does it act like radiation protection like lead or something that actually gets deteriorated while it's resisting something or is it like, does it just interfere?
RAFO, good question.
You mention Adonalsium as a being, and that they were split. Where one supposedly supreme being exists, are there others?
That's a RAFO.
Dalinar walks away with a gemstone. Was Yelig-nar taken as well?
RAFO. I will get to Yelig-nar.
Hey Brandon! If you're still answering these...what would happen if a Surgebinder absorbed Voidlight? (Or whatever's powering the Everstorm)
RAFO. (Sorry.)
Is Voidlight a good name for it? We've been playing with the words "void" and "odium", stitching them together into Voidlight, Voids (as opposed to Surges), Voidspren, Odiumspren, etc. Are any of those accurate?
It may not be accurate, but it is a valid conjecture. Afraid I won't say more right now.
...the giant South American glyphs.
Yeah that is super RAFO.
In Secret History, Fuzz mentions having buried something. That's the atium, right?
RAFO.
So, I was just thinking, if it's something of greater import, I'll just leave it to that it's not the atium. But it's something else, I think. But, I was just thinking, if he wanted to hide something, he could build a planet around it? Because he built a planet. I'm guessing, if I asked a question about that...
You would get RAFOd. Excellent question.
Something I've recently been wondering about is how responsive is Sazed to people in the Cognitive Realm flagging him down for a conversation. Let's say Khriss, during one of her trips between Scadrial and Silverlight just shouts "Yo Harmony, do you have time to chat?", how would he respond?
RAFO on this one. :)
If Kaladin created a kid while he had not summoned Syl in a while. Then he made another kid right after he summoned Syl, would they have different colored eyes?
Wow! I'll RAFO that for now.
Would a Returned who bonded an Honorblade have their eye color change when they summon it?
That's a RAFO! (More because I don't have my notes handy than anything else, though.)
Szeth wasn't actually Truthless. Would his experience be difference if he were?
I'll RAFO that for now. I'll dig into that pretty deeply in book 5. After book 5's out, there will still be questions but I might be able to answer them.
Would giving a Lifeless a pair of Kandra Blessings make it more intelligent? Similarly, could Blessings make a Parshman more parshendi-like?
RAFO.
What would happen to someone who burned an alloy of Lerasium and lead? Would they a) gain Mistborn powers and a splitting headache from trying to burn lead, b) gain Mistborn powers and no splitting headache, c) just get the splitting headache, d) gain the ability to burn lead without a splitting headache, or e) die of lead poisoning?
This is a RAFO, not because I want to imply that lead has some big secret to it, but because I don't want to dig into the mechanics of Lerasium right now--and I don't want to kick off more questions like this at the moment.
Is the chain in Celebrant made of Dragonsteel?
RAFO!
If you had a giant pool of milk or mercury, or some other liquid, on a cosmere planet, how would that manifest in the Cognitive Realm?
I will RAFO that. I've actually thought about it. You'll have to see. Those two things are slightly different, the two things you just mentioned.
The Aimians seem disliked throughout the world. Is that based on something that has happened in the past?
Um, yes, but they're also really creepy.
Are they open to manipulation like other sentient non-human humanoids of Roshar? The Parshendi? Or, similar?
Um, RAFO.
Was Bavadin nonhuman?
RAFO. There is at least one Shard who wasn't human, but I'm not ready to reveal who was or wasn't just yet.
Hi, the community has a [question], we have two WoBs: Shardblades can cut aluminum and Shardblades can't cut it. Which one is true?
Hm. Yes, I wondered last night if I'd ever answered this before. Truth is, the answer is contentious at Team Sanderson.
I've been pushing for one answer, but Peter (whom I trust) is pushing back. We will see what ends up in the books as canon.
Problem with magic like I do is sometimes you have to wait for the scientific consensus... :) Err on "no" for now.
Oh, I think aluminum would stop Shardblades from magical cutting. But if it's too thin like foil, a sword...
...would cut it anyway. What I'm arguing is that something else that Shardblades don't cut doesn't need...
...to necessarily be made of aluminum, for various reasons.
For example Invested objects (metalmind,spike,etc) or polestones (from some SA's Quote) ?
RAFO
I was asking about the diets of the Shin, Stone Shamanism, because Szeth in one of the interludes talks about the stone walkers, being able to eat food on any day of the week, so I was wondering what that actually referred to.
RAFO.
I've heard it is possible to be a Radiant of two orders - it would depend on spren and ideals, and may be difficult to handle, but is theoretically possible. How about being a Willshaper and an Edgedancer at the same time? Could that work?
I'll have to RAFO that, I'm afraid.
Is Adolin going to be an Edgedancer?
That's a RAFO.
Is Azure Returned?
Azure is Vivenna. And RAFO.
Is the entity now calling itself Trell, was-- is Trell the real Trell that was worshiped by the Trelagists?
RAFO.
Is Endowment linked to the ocean in Warbreaker?
RAFO.
When Sazed is fighting Marsh he hears a voice telling him about his rings, in his head.
Mhm.
Whose voice is that? Can-- Can I make some gueses?
Sure.
Is it Kelsier?
*Brandon hands RAFO card?* What does that mean? *laughing*
That means I'm not gonna answer that.
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!
Could you make a (working) stamp out of aluminium?
RAFO
What is the gem cut that holds the most Stormlight, and does it vary from gem to gem?
It does vary from gem to gem, and... I've got this written down somewhere... I am going RAFO, because it's more of a "go to my notes and find out."
On Sixth of the Dusk, First of the Sun, if humans eat the fruit or the seed of the worms, will they gain Investiture?
No. They tried that. Someone has tried that.
Has Hoid been there?
That's a RAFO.
Of all the magic systems, would Awakeners most quickly be able to utilize acquiring a Dawnshard?
RAFO!
At the end of Words of Radiance, Hoid is sitting there talking to some cremlings. And I was wondering, is he talking to one of the Dysian Aimians?
*laughs and motions for Joel to hold up the RAFO sign*
Do Ralkalest and Soulstone have any connection to the two shards?
RAFO
The really question is, given the death of Rayse, is Honor really dead? Or is his essence out there, still available to be claimed?
I will answer this for certain by the end of Book Five. For now, RAFO.
Was Honor just talking about the people on Roshar when he told Dalinar to "Unite them?"
RAFO. *taunting hum* Read and find out.
Regarding the Ire: did they set out into the Cosmere pre- or post-Reod?
RAFO! :)
If you had an AI like M-Bot with subroutines that simulate emotions, if it was written well enough, could it attract a spren?
I will RAFO that for now, I have been asked it a bunch. Let's just say, AI in the cosmere are going to be an interesting thing to explore. We will explore that.
So, it's been established when Syl transformed for Kaladin that a living Blade can become any weapon, right?
Yes, based on the perception of the wielder.
Right. So, why is it that there are only dead swords?
That's a good question that will be answered in the future.
Could they make a lightsaber?
Could they make a lightsaber? W-- They could make metal weapons of a similar style to that, so no, we're not talking lightsabers because… Creating plasma is not something that we're looking at.
But like a bow, for example?
They could create, probably--Well, let's RAFO that one, I'll show you what's going to be happening.
Is the sapphire in the white-gold blade specifically for Jezrien?
Uh, yes.
Do the gems swap out, or are there different weapons?
I'll RAFO that one.
Are they Dawnshards? Or blades of Odium, like Honorblades?
Those are not Dawnshards. Good question.
The Expanse of Broken Sky, is that Sel?
RAFO
Is Jasnah aware of the Diagram?
RAFO.
How did Hoid get the name Cephandrius?
Cephandrius? Cephandrius is one of his very earliest aliases. Not his real name, but very soon after he stopped using his real name.
Okay. Is there any relation to his real name? With that?
I will give you a RAFO card.
Is-- Would you consider Szeth an official Skybreaker? And will he have spren or will he just use Nightblood as one?
So, would I consider Szeth to be a Skybreaker. That is definitely also a RAFO for the next Stormlight book.
Did the mistress from the interlude in book 1 destroy the Shalash statue on the night of Gavilar's death?
Yes, and also all the other ones that we've seen, including the one in Shallan's vision in Words of Radiance.
Is the mistress Shalash?
RAFO.
How aware is Odium of the Seventeenth Shard? Hoid mentions that he has to be careful to keep his head down as he doesn't want Odium to catch him. Given the history between the two that makes sense, but would Odium have the same policy for the Sharders, or does he not view them as a threat?
RAFO
When Kelsier destroys the Pits of Hathsin in Final Empire, it is mentioned that they'll take something like 300 years to start producing atium again. Do the Pits of Hathsin still exist in any form after Sazed reshaped the world, and is that timeline for them still valid?
RAFO.