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Questioner
How does Nightblood work on Roshar?
Brandon Sanderson
Well Nightblood feeds on Investiture, which is the general life-force/magic-force in the cosmere and so he can feed on basically any source of magical energy.
Questioner
And do other magics work on other worlds?
Brandon Sanderson
I've been describing it lately more like you see DC current and AC current, where they're similar things but slightly different. It is possible to make magics work on other planets, some it's easier than others.
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
On being asked if an Elantrian could wield Nightblood, he said yes it's possible but would be very dangerous - you'd have to figure out a way to connect Nightblood with a local source of Investiture.
Questioner
So, Hoid was not afraid of a Shardblade? Would he be afraid of Nightblood?
Brandon Sanderson
Every rational person *laughter* who has ever existed in the cosmere is afraid of Nightblood, or should be. Hoid isn't always rational, but yes, he is afraid of him.
Questioner
So, if another weapon were made in the same exact way as Nightblood and the two collided would the one with more Investiture win in that scenario?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. Yeah. Mmhmm. Yes.
Questioner
Are we going to see Vivenna again?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. At the very least, you will see her in Nightblood, the sequel to Warbreaker.
Questioner
Was Nightblood always the same size?
Brandon Sanderson
*chuckles* I will RAFO that.
Rocko Toplift
Was a Dawnshard involved in Nightblood's creation, or did a Dawnshard alter it?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
How many different worlds of the cosmere has Nightblood been to in total? By which I mean, been present in the Physical Realm of that world.
Brandon Sanderson
More than two.
Questioner
What would happen if Nightblood was drawn inside of a perpendicularity?
Brandon Sanderson
It depends on the perpendicularity. It has a good chance of collapsing it.
Snipexe
Would Nightblood view Nale as evil?
Brandon Sanderson
*Long pause* Probably not.
Questioner
Who will be the monarch of Idris during Nightblood?
Brandon Sanderson
...I will RAFO that. Just not-- not for any real secretive reason. But more because, when I write that book, it's possible, you know, that I will change things and whatnot, so--
It's likely to not change.
Questioner
What is the most Invested item so far revealed?
Brandon Sanderson
What counts as an item?
Questioner
Inanimate object. Sentient swords, stuff like that.
Brandon Sanderson
Okay, inanimate objects, would be Nightblood. Well-- is he inanimate?
Questioner
Well, he's a sentient sword, but he's an inanimate object.
Brandon Sanderson
So, yeah, he would count.
Questioner
How does Nightblood determine who is evil and who is not?
Brandon Sanderson
He is not very good at that, which is the joke. He needs someone else.
Brandon Sanderson
So, here’s my official future status, as I sometimes post.
BOOKS YOU WILL SEE SOON
- Towers of Midnight (November 2.)
- Alcatraz Versus the Shattered Lens (December 2010.)—A note on Alcatraz. This is the fourth and final of the Alcatraz books in my contract. I do plan there to be more in this series, but I don’t have time for them right now. And so, for now, this is going to stand as the ending of the series. I’ll do Alcatraz Five eventually, I promise.
- Scribbler (Early 2012)—A note on Scribbler. This is a shorter steampunk book I wrote in 2007, just before I got the call about The Wheel of Time. It’s quite good, and Tor has decided to purchase it. It involves chalk-based magic and a boy who is the son of the cleaning lady at a school for people who learn the chalk magic. I haven’t had time to give it a revision, but will likely use some of the time in my free months between now and January to do a draft of it. If I turn it in January or February, you won’t see it until a year after that, due to scheduling.
BOOKS YOU WILL SEE SOMEWHAT SOON
- A Memory of Light (March 2012.)
- Stormlight Archive Book Two (Late 2012 or early 2013.)
- Stormlight Archive Book Three (One year after Book Two.)
ANTICIPATED SEQUELS
- Alcatraz Five (Indefinite hiatus.)
- Elantris Two (Planned to be written after Stormlight Three.)
- Second Mistborn trilogy (It’s coming someday, I promise.)
- Nightblood: Book two of Warbreaker (Coming someday.)—Some notes here. Elantris has three books in the series, but they are loose sequels of each other. This means that side characters in one become main characters in the next. So while you’ll see Raoden and Sarene in the second book, they won’t be main characters. (Kiin’s children will be.) Warbreaker is two books. Mistborn is a trilogy of trilogies, with the second trilogy in an urban (20th-century-level technology) setting. For Stormlight, I’m planning a pattern of two every three years, with a different epic—a standalone, or one of the sequels mentioned above—in between. Thus the Elantris sequel is next in line after Stormlight Three, which would be followed by Stormlight Four and Five.
MAYBE COMING SOMEDAY BUT ONLY PARTIALLY WRITTEN
- Dark One (YA dark fantasy.)
- Steelheart (Superhero apocalypse.)
- The King’s Necromancer
- The Silence Divine (Shardworld novel, standalone.)
- White Sand (Shardworld trilogy.)
- The Liar of Partinel (Shardworld novel, one of two.)
- Dragonsteel (Major Shardworld epic. Won’t be written until Stormlight is done.)
POSSIBLE PROJECTS FOR MY TIME OFF
- Mistborn short story (Looking likely.)
- Unnamed urban fantasy (This is what I’m working on right now. Watch Twitter/Facebook for updates on this story. It involves a necromancer pizza deliveryman as a protagonist.)
- Scribbler revisions (Will almost certainly be done.)
- Finishing one of the unfinished novels mentioned above (Not likely, but you never know.)
Who knows when/if anything written during my side-project time will get published. Sometimes, these stories are too unformed (as I like to be very free and loose when I write them) to make it. On other occasions, there isn’t time to do revisions on them. (I write initial books very quickly, but spend many months in revision.) For instance, Alcatraz books were my deviations for 2005 and 2006, and the first of those came out very quickly. Scribbler was the one for 2007, and it won’t be published for a year or so yet. I didn’t have time for much in the way of deviations in 2008 or 2009, just the unfinished projects I mentioned above.
We shall see. As always, thank you for reading and supporting me in this compulsive writing addiction of mine.
Questioner
The sword with which Azure fights? Is it a lot like Nightblood, maybe?
Brandon Sanderson
It shares some features, but is different.
Nashan'Elin
(paraphrased)
Szeth refers to Nightblood as sword-nimi. What is the -nimi ending?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
It is an honorific.
Nashan'Elin
(paraphrased)
And why does he call it "sword", and not by its name?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
It has not told him its name.
Questioner
How's Nightblood going to react to Szeth's spren?
Brandon Sanderson
Hmmmm! I'll give you a RAFO on that, here's your card.
Brandon Sanderson
Nightblood (Warbreaker sequel)
This is still on the back burner, but it is coming. Probably after the Elantris sequels. I'll squeeze it in someplace. I'm very excited about it, but now (while I'm juggling multiple teen series) is not the time.
Forger
(paraphrased)
Is Nightblood a Dawnshard?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
He is not.
Questioner
(paraphrased)
Is Nightblood an aluminum-titanium alloy?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
No, he's something else. RAFO
Questioner
Could Nightblood receive a boon and a curse from the Nightwatcher?
Brandon Sanderson
... She could try. I have no idea how that would turn out. I think it would take them and nothing would happen, would be my guess.
Questioner
If an Allomancer drew Nightblood, would it eat the metals first?
Brandon Sanderson
Only if they were burning it.
Questioner
At the time, otherwise it would go straight through and eat them?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah it would just eat them. Yeah. If they were burning the metals, it would burn through the metal, and he would take the power instead of you gaining whatever ability you were trying to get from it.
Questioner
Who he be able to use the metal power or would he just eat it as...?
Brandon Sanderson
He would just take it as raw Investiture.
Questioner
What’s the most dangerous non-Shard thing in the cosmere?
Brandon Sanderson
Nightblood’s up there, Hoid is up there, but not deadly dangerous, a different type of dangerous, yeah no, what we know of, right now, those, those are in the running. Chasmfiends, chasmfiends are pretty nasty. Whitespines are a little more nasty probably. The… the Unmade are pretty nasty. Yeah. There’s a couple of mercenary troops that you haven’t met yet that are really quite, quite dangerous, I would list them as well.
Argent
You've said that there are three types of Blades in The Stormlight Archive. We've seen "dead" Shardblades, Honorblades - is the third type the "living spren" Shardblades, or is there another type we haven't seen?
Brandon Sanderson
Nightblood is a very unique kind of Shardblade, but IS a Shardblade.
mail-mi
Is Nightblood's sheath made out of aluminum?
Brandon Sanderson
That is an excellent question that nobody has asked me yet! Um...I will RAFO that.
mail-mi
Oooh, I get a card. I got the card.
Brandon Sanderson
That is an excellent question.
Comatose
What would a fully trained Seeker sense from Nightblood when it is influencing emotions?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO!
R.E.
(paraphrased)
Does Vasher have a different way of getting access to Stormlight than everyone else? Given that he has no spren, no honorblade and he isn't a squire?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Yes. He can use Stormlight to stay alive, but it doesn't let him Surgebind.
R.E.
(paraphrased)
Could Szeth get access to this method?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Yes
R.E.
(paraphrased)
And use it to fuel Nightblood?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Yes he could.
R.E.
(paraphrased)
Can you tell me what that method is?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
*smiles*
Questioner
Do people in The Way of Kings have Biochromatic breath and if not, how will Nightblood function?
Brandon Sanderson
Spoilers! No they don't, but Investitures from the various magics can power magics from other systems.
Questioner
Would Kelsier be able to wield Nightblood?
Brandon Sanderson
In his current state? That'd be really dangerous.
Questioner
I didn't say "should"! I said "would"! *laughs*
Brandon Sanderson
Briefly.
Snipexe
What would happen if Nightblood was swung at a gold compounder?
Brandon Sanderson
What do you think would happen?
Snipexe
They would survive. Maybe.
Brandon Sanderson
Hmmm, I will RAFO it.
What would happen if Nightblood and a Shardblade hit each other?
RAFO.
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Nightblood: Would mostly be about Vasher and Vivenna hunting down the last of the five scholars. Apparently.
Questioner
So at the end of [Oathbringer], how aware is Odium of what Nightblood is and can do?
Brandon Sanderson
Modestly.
Questioner
Taking the sheath, that kind of thing?
Brandon Sanderson
He knows. I would say more than modestly, he is well aware.
Questioner
I noticed Nalthis didn't get a star chart. Will you be posting a star chart?
Brandon Sanderson
We'll be doing one eventually, I'm sure. We should get that done and posted on the website. Hopefully, someday, I can find a place to work it in. When I publish Nightblood, maybe we'll put it into that.
little_wilson
Peter said if we did enough begging, we could see some Nightblood replicas. Can you give us more details? And exactly HOW much more begging would be necessary (Mi'chelle says keep it below $100...I say below $50, but I suppose if you must go higher, I might be able to compensate...)?
Brandon Sanderson
I've had an offer from a swordsmith who was at JordanCon. These would be more expensive replicas, though, as they be hand-made by the swordsmith himself. He does very good work, but the price he mentioned was $200, I believe.
I've put Peter in charge of looking into this and seeing how viable it is. The cost might be too high for the readers to want to buy them. What we'd do is take pre-orders, and then do a limited edition run of maybe ten or twenty swords, hand-made by the swordsmith. If we had ten or so preorders, we'd be able to do it.
Questioner
Did Nightblood cause the Cognitive Anomaly?
Brandon Sanderson
*Hems and haws*
I'll give you a RAFO card.
OrangeJedi
When Nightblood created, was Endowment involved in any way more than normal?
Brandon Sanderson
Good question, you qualified that the right way! I would say yes, but maybe not to the extent you're thinking.
OrangeJedi
Normal being using Endowment's Investiture to Awaken. There's something special.
Brandon Sanderson
I would say, there is something special.
Questioner
I am curious about, if sprens are pieces of the god power, and investiture is the power of the god, then can Nightblood consume spren?
Brandon Sanderson
He could theoretically -- yeah, he could totally consume spren. There's not even any “theoretically” to that.
Brandon Sanderson
Tertiary Book Projects
Warbreaker
While some characters from Nalthis have made appearances in other books, I still don't have a specific timeframe for when I'll go back and write the second Warbreaker book. (Titled Nightblood for the time being.)
I know a lot of people really want this book, and I intend to do it, but I have to find time for the Elantris sequels first. So you're unlikely to see it until Elantris is finished. (Sorry.)
Status: On Hiatus
Questioner
When am I gonna get my Warbreaker to Stormlight Archive crossover book?
Brandon Sanderson
Nightblood will bring you a lot closer, but I can't promise when I'm gonna write that.
Obbles
Is Nightblood made of the same material as the sheath?
Brandon Sanderson
No. Good question.
Storming Radiant
Could Shashara have retrieved her Breath from Nightblood?
Brandon Sanderson
Not by means she knew.
mathota123
Is Nightblood any more Invested now than when she was created?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. (Good question.)
Mason Wheeler
Nightblood is the most ridiculously over-invested thing in the Cosmere, second only to the Shards?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Mason Wheeler
Was this true from the moment of his creation, or did it grow in power over time.
Brandon Sanderson
Grew in power over time. Kind of answers a question that people have been wondering. But, yes.
ccstat
A question I've been thinking about recently: In Warbreaker we see Nightblood's consciousness shift dramatically when he is actively consuming investiture. Does the Shardic flavor of that investiture (Breath vs Stormlight or Preservation Mist vs Ruin Mist) influence how his mind functions in that state?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, actually. Good question.
Chaos
Is atium Invested?
Brandon Sanderson
Is atium Invested? Atium is Investiture distilled into the Physical Realm, right? So is electricity electric? Or is it--
Chaos
Well I think the question Sharders had was if it's Invested, how can people Push and Pull on it. That was the struggle.
Brandon Sanderson
Atium breaks a lot of rules, in the same way that you will see other things break rules. Atium plays weirdly. When you get distilled Investiture, you're starting like-- My kind of rule for myself is it's kind of like when you start going on the quantum level, the rules just start playing weirdly. Because it's like, what Realm does atium exist in-- is another thing. Because-- Pure Investiture like that is like a mini black hole, right? It's like existing in three Realms at once. Kind of, and things like that... There's lots of weirdness.
The writerly answer is there is lots of weirdness because when I built atium, I didn't have the rest of the cosmere built, right? And so it breaks a lot of rules that I later set up that everything else has to follow, right? So the writerly answer is we just have to accept that atium and lerasium and some of these other distilled Investiture things are going to play very weirdly with the magic systems. But that's okay. Nightblood will too, and some of these things that were built even after the cosmere was coming together.
FirstSelector
Can Nightblood be dismissed like a Rosharan blade?
Brandon Sanderson
He thinks you could.
Zachrandir
Does this mean that Rysn is immortal now? If so that's going to start causing some questions if she stops aging.
Also, would Hoid be able to tell that Rysn bears a Dawnshard? Solely from having born one before? (Maybe he'd be able to sense it with Breaths or some other mystery Investiture.)
I also want to see what would happen if you stabbed a Dawnshard (/Dawnshard bearing person) with Nightblood.
Brandon Sanderson
These kinds of questions are why I gave a preemptive RAFO. :)
yahasgaruna
sequels
...
You mean sequel right? No s?
Brandon Sanderson
There is only one planned Warbreaker sequel. In my head, the entire Stormlight Archive is a sequel, but I really shouldn't talk that way. Nightblood is the only planned traditional sequel to Warbreaker.
Walin
Does Nightblood contain any of Ruin's Investiture? Like, not atium, but...
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, technically; and I'm not wiggling around that, because technically, location in the Cosmere and who belongs to what gets really weird, right? Because Ruin's Investiture is everywhere--but I'm not talking that way. I'm talking the way you actually mean it.