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WeiryWriter
To what extent are Cognitive shadows the same as the individuals they are shadows of? Do you count them as the same person or are they just a "copy" so to speak? Or is this a discussion for philosophers (which you've said is the case with the cosmere's "far afterlife")?
Brandon Sanderson
I've considered answering this a few times, and have decided I just have to RAFO it. This is a discussion for philosophers, as you've said. It may become a plot point in future books.
Questioner 1
The ball of Preservation energy that Kelsier used, is that Stamping, Hemalurgy, or a third kind of the same thing?
Brandon Sanderson
That is a different thing. You haven't really seen that before.
Questioner 1
Because it seems to have similar effects--
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, you haven't seen that before. It was designed to do what it did.
Questioner 2
Is it just Connection?
Bystander
Connection juice. *laughter*
Brandon Sanderson
We'll get into this, this is involving Silverlight stuff, so let's RAFO it for now.
Questioner
Is anyone gonna use a wormhole to worldhop?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh, there you go, there's a RAFO. Yeah, yeah, okay, we got one for you right there.
Zas678
About Bands of Mourning... Marasi finds ReLuur's missing spike, and she describes it as pewter... Which is not one of the four metals conventionally used in kandra blessings...
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Zas678
...and is used to steal Feruchemical abilities. Was Marasi just mistaken, or is something going on there.
Brandon Sanderson
That you will eventually find out.
Questioner
Are the Heralds originally from Roshar?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Argent
Renarin, his visions of the future are they connected to one of his Surges? Both of them? Are they a side-effect of his order?
Brandon Sanderson
Umm...
Argent
Like I can kind of fit in the two of them...
Brandon Sanderson
Alright, how much of a spoiler do you want on this?
Argent
All of it.
Brandon Sanderson
*Incredulously* Really?
Argent
Is that even a question for me?
Brandon Sanderson
Do you want to know something secret that you then can't post?
Argent
*sighs* How-- Is it something that is going to come up in Book 3--
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Argent
--or later.
Brandon Sanderson
It comes up in Book 3.
Argent
I'll bear the burden.
Brandon Sanderson
You'll bear the burden meaning I can tell you?
Argent
I'm going to pause this actually... *Audio paused*
mooglefrooglian
1) How simple is it to bond an Honorblade? Is it just a matter of willing it? Shardblades need gemstones, but it seems like Honorblades might not even need those.
2) Do you need to be bonded to an Honorblade to Surgebind? Or is just holding it in your hand sufficient?
3) Do you need to be bonded to an Honorblade for it to change your eye color? Or would holding it in your hand be sufficient to do the eye color trick?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
[questions being asked on behalf of Alyx, a.k.a. FeatherWriter] About Renarin's Surgebinding. Are [his visions] influenced by Voidbinding instead of Surgebinding?
Brandon Sanderson
That's a RAFO.
Questioner
And then if they are influenced by Odium the way that Dalinar's are influenced by Honor.
Brandon Sanderson
That's a RAFO. I'm not going to talk about stuff like that! I have dropped some very blatant hints, and that is enough for me right now.
Argent
I asked pretty much the same thing last time, and you pointed me to a certain page. Can I tell her what the page was?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. There are certain things going on with him that I feel are very blatant. I think he [Argent] is going to point them out to you.
Truthwatcher_17.5
Does Hoid have any Hemalurgic spikes?
Brandon Sanderson
I will RAFO that one.
Questioner
How are the letters between Hoid and Frost getting delivered?
Brandon Sanderson
That is read and find out.
A_Shadow
You once said Nightblood can do some really freaky things when he is fully consuming Investiture, have we seen Nightblood do that yet?
Brandon Sanderson
That is a RAFO. But you will find out...
Questioner
Stormfather is the spren of the storm. What is the Nightwatcher the spren of?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
If you took Nightblood into the Cognitive Realm, what would he look like?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, and yes, he has been taken into the Cognitive Realm before.
Questioner
More specifically, would he stay a sword or would he give himself a sort of...
Brandon Sanderson
That's a RAFO... that's the RAFO. Just make sure when you go through that perpendicularity, he's in a sheath. Otherwise, bad things happen.
Questioner
There would be a difference, you say?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, bad things would happen if you took Nightblood through.
athos45678
Did Honor and Cultivation interact with Odium when he first came in a neutral way or was it immediately an all out conflict?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
I asked about the Evil on Threnody.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner
Is it a Splinter?
Brandon Sanderson
That's a big RAFO.
mcase19
Are the stars in the red rip naturally red, were they turned red, or does someone (and I feel like if i mentioned his name this loses all chance of not being RAFO'd) use lightweaving to make them appear so?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO! :)
Truthwatcher_17.5
Will Adolin ever become a Knight Radiant?
Brandon Sanderson
That's a RAFO!
Questioner
Are there any fain or formerly fain holders of a Shard of Adonalsium?
Brandon Sanderson
What an excellent question! It's a card, it's a RAFO card.
Alteroden
What happens if you Compound chromium?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Argent
A RAFO happens.
Brandon Sanderson
A RAFO happens, yeah. Chromium, come on...
Questioner
Did <Iadon> die, or did he just get in a different host?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO!
Snote85
Is the story of the girl who looked up a story that is only known to Roshar? I know it could have spread out, especially since we see paintings alluding to it in the cosmere seen by a non-Rosharan but could it be a story they talked about on... say... Yolen?
Also, was the "god" from "God's love" mentioned by Hoid a piece that either should have or did belong to/with Passion/Odium? Cause that would make all the sense in the world to me that somehow Odium was Passion but because Odium once he lost love from his being... I know it doesn't make a lot sense in the timeline. I just can't get the thought out of my head.
Thank you for the time you spend answering my inanity or was it insanity. Either/or.
Brandon Sanderson
These are actually both RAFOs, I'm afraid. I do appreciate you asking, but I'm going to remain silent for now.
tskyeguye
From Rysn's observations in the epilogue, it seems like she has a lot of the same aspects of a Fifth Heightening/Returned at the least. Is this because her Dawnshard is particularly connected to Endowment or because the effects of a certain level of Investment result in similar effects?
Brandon Sanderson
The latter.
Skrimyt
Interesting. So are actively Surgebinding Radiants or metal-burning Allomancers just not Invested enough to gain those passive effects, or do they not experience perfect pitch/color/etc. because their Investiture is just not as tightly bound to their Spiritweb as Endowment's Breaths or a Dawnshard would be?
Brandon Sanderson
Be aware that the two groups you mention don't generally hold much Investiture themselves, at least not in large quantities over time. More in Surgebinding. Almost none in Allomancy.
But RAFO to specifics.
drughat
Any hints on Duralumin's effect on Gold and Electrum?
Brandon Sanderson
Nope. :)
When Dalinar and Honor are having a "chat" at the end, Honor says "I don't know who you are, or how you found your way here." Does Dalinar visit the Spiritual Realm in his dreams then?
RAFO. (Sorry.)
Questioner
Could I have you write the name of-- or the intent of the Shard that's hiding on it's uninhabited world away from everybody?
Brandon Sanderson
Mostly because I don't want to canonize these things and so I get locked into it and the decision is absolutely made. I haven't changed many of them, but I have tweaked them before. I've tweaked like how I wanted to represent the intent, so...
Ayende87
Doesn't Zahel mention that he has 'Lost a Friend' maybe in a worldhop he dropped it, or nightblood has grown in power since landing on roshar and was able to move enough on his own that Zahel didn't notice til it was too late and he had already been identifed by Nalan.
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
With The Bands of Mourning, now that we understand flight with potassium, or whatever alkali metal that actually was... So is that part of where we’re starting with the Faster Than Light travel? Something along those lines with potassium and maybe like--
Brandon
I’m not going to tell you, but this is the bridge into the next Era, which the Era beyond will be FTL, but this sort of stuff needed to happen first.
Questioner
Right, right exactly and the good stuff and the technology trying to get them up to speed and plus with Kelsier going to that other realm and the glimpse of Sel and stuff.
Brandon Sanderson
Yep, yep, there will be so much fun stuff in the next series.
MS-07B-3
We know Scadrial is speeding on its way to modern, Earth-like technology, including computers. So what is the internet like in the Cognitive Realm? Is it connected to Scadrial's Cognitive aspect? Does it form into its own standalone location? Do memes become spren?
Brandon Sanderson
This is going to be really fun to write some day. But RAFO until then.
Questioner
Is Bavadin a dragon? Was she originally a dragon?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
Stormlight production by Bondsmiths. Is this a Dalinar-only thing, or a Bondsmith thing? Has it been used historically? Or am I getting RAFOd?
Brandon Sanderson
You're getting RAFOd... I'm gonna RAFO it. You should know the answer to that eventually. But not yet.
Calderis
Feruchemical aluminum stores and taps a marker that seems to suffuse all Investiture within a person, removing or strengthening Identity. Does Feruchemical duralumin work similarly? Does tapping connection while storing in a metalmind increase the connection of the Investiture stored?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. Mostly because I've got a main character who's going to be doing this, I'm not going to spoil the fun or lock myself down yet.
EHyde
I was wondering if, at the Recreance, the Radiant were deliberately trying to put Shardblades in the hands of non-Radiants? Since they left them all outside a military base.
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
DammyJerry
Also, I noticed that Dalinar fits well enough with the Hero of Ages prophecy. Lines like "The Hero of Ages was the person who united others, who brought them together" and so on. So I wanted to ask if there is a coincidence or not? Or that's a RAFO?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
LerasiumMistborn
Did we see Tension in Oathbringer? (NOT from Stoneward in the vision).
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
Questioner
Is the God Beyond, or the Unknown God, one of the Adonalsium Shardholders or is it another godlike entity?
Brandon Sanderson
You got [a RAFO card].
Questioner
Is the Old Magic a Shard?
Brandon Sanderson
Is the Old Magic a Shard? That's a Read And Find Out.
Argent
The last Unmade, the one that's hypothesized to Dai-Gonarthis. It looks suspiciously to me like Cusicesh, because of the feeling of being drained, because it's a large spren-- Is there something to that or is the feeling just because Cusicesh is a large spren?
Brandon Sanderson
I'm gonna RAFO.
Questioner
In Shadows of Silence, there's another guy named Red in that one, so that's our third guy named Red. Because we have Shallan's groupie, and then we have the guy in Mistborn that's named Red. So , there's three different ones named Red. Is that a coincidence? Or is that intentional?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.
PrncRny
(paraphrased)
Did Hoid have anything to do with Bavadin showing up on Sel?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
RAFO.
Questioner
Is Soulcasting more efficient if the item you're Soulcasting resembles the item you're trying to make?
Brandon Sanderson
Good, no one's asked me that yet. RAFO.
FeatherWriter
Can you tell me what the Truthwatcher spren are called, like do they have a name? I know it's not in Oathbringer.
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, I'm not gonna canonize that yet. There're things I am still thinking about.
Chaos
So, will Hoid and Frost continue their letter correspondence in Stormlight 3?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO
WinespringBrother
How did Odium's people know that Taravangian stole the Honorblade?
Brandon Sanderson
I'll RAFO that.
tvchurch2701
Wait - there are Sleepless on other worlds?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes indeed.
Have you seen them? RAFO. (Note that non-Rosharan ones can't imitate humans.)
m4ge
Would the non-Roshar ones have hordelings that look similar to the Rosharan ones, or would they have bred completely differently?
Also, can the Sleepless communicate with the ones on other planets? Do they do so often?
Brandon Sanderson
They would look completely different.
RAFO on the second question.
Rubes
At the end of Rhythm of War, is the coin that Hoid had before meeting Odium a metalmind?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh, RAFO.
Mestiv
Can you tell something about Vax? Shardworld?
Brandon Sanderson
No, I can't tell you anything about that. But I can give you a card [RAFO] for not telling you anything about Vax; they're very interested in Vax, everybody's interested in Vax.
But I stayed very close-lipped on Vax.
Questioner
When you compound copper? What does that do?
Brandon Sanderson
That is-- *hands RAFO card* --the first one tonight. The first one I brought. I'm leaving a lot of the compounding questions for me to explore in later books and show you. And part of the reason is because I like the-- I like letting the readers discover new things and saving things back. And partially it's because I do change it as I go. Once in a while I'll write the book and be like, "No, this thing just doesn't work." Or, "Oh this other thing worked way better." So... That's kind of a double RAFO for those reasons.
atarynnosaurus
How many Truths has Wit currently spoken?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO! That's definitely a RAFO.
Questioner
Nicrosil Feruchemy stores Investiture. Would a Nicrosil Compounder be able to gain Investiture up to the power of a Shard by infinitely Compounding?
Brandon Sanderson
I talk a lot about that in an upcoming Mistborn book. So that’s a RAFO. The reading is coming. I will explain what it does.
William Anderson
Do all Epics' weaknesses come from things in their past?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.