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Brandon Sanderson
I'm working on a story slowly about a world where diseases grant powers while you have the disease. The pitch is you catch the common cold, you can fly until you get it over. This is the idea that bacterial and viruses have evolved to grant these powers in order to spread themselves, and so I need some help with my immunology stuff. Even if it's just...
Questioner
No one ever needs immunologists.
Brandon Sanderson
Here. Give a list of good diseases that have a certain like how long it takes the average person to get over them, and I have to really work out the viruses that you don't ever really get over. Right?
Questioner
The chronic ones, like yeah.
Brandon Sanderson
Like how does that work with the magic, and cuz I actually want one plot point of the story for someone to invent penicillin. And its basically like a weapon, right? To knock out people's powers, and so, I have to make sure I can only use those for bacteria and I have to know how that's going to work and stuff.
Thadamin
How many Cutting edges does Nightblood have? I'm just trying to find out what Nightblood looks like exactly, Warbreaker is a little sparse on an exact description.
Brandon Sanderson
Nightblood is a long, straight sword, edged on both sides.
morsk
If Nightblood was a Dark Souls weapon, which class would it be? Straight Sword, Greatsword, Ultra Greatsword? I think of it like the Claymore.
Brandon Sanderson
Claymore might be close. Though the dark souls ones might be a tad bigger than he is.
Brandon Sanderson
One of the things I also wanted to do before the series was done was show someone burning atium without regard for it running out. I wanted to show the awesome power of the metal. And then I wanted to have them lose.
Why? Many reasons. Because violence may work to solve some problems, but it isn't always the answer. In fact, it's often a poor answer, even if it's the only answer. (As it was for Elend.) Killing koloss doesn't solve anything in the long run.
Yes, atium is amazing. Yes, showing it off like this was inevitable in the book. However, I figured that most fantasy novels would get to a point where the character drew on the ultimate hidden weapon, and then would save the day. I didn't want to do that. Not just because I like to do the unexpected, but because it didn't fit what I wanted to say with this book. It didn't fit what felt right.
A twist is no good if it's just there to be a twist.
Questioner
Probably a question you are not going to want to answer but how old is Hoid?
Brandon Sanderson
How old is Hoid? ...Hoid is older than the Shattering of Adonalsium. Hey there is an answer for you! He is very old.
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
I would like to know more about Wit. What is he?
Brandon Sanderson
Wit was born on the planet where all of this started. Long ago, in the early history of the Cosmere. Certain things that happened there made him immortal. A bunch of the people who were involved in this became what we call Shards of Adonalsium. They took up deific power. He did not, but he is one of the only other people who was around during that time who's still around.
Questioner
So does he get a flashback book?
Brandon Sanderson
He gets an entire series which is where all of this happens, in the beginning. That should be a trilogy right now. We'll see. I'm going to write it after Stormlight is done.
Xandeis
These Shards everyone is talking about...what are they?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO. ;)
Schaaschaa
If Dalinar were to deadeye the Stormfather, would highstorms stop or change? Related, were there highstorms on Roshar before the Splintering of Honor?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, I'll have to think about that.
Adonalsium
is Mag # just a scifi way to say Mach #? If not, what does it mean?
Peter Ahlstrom
Mag is about 300 miles per hour.
Adonalsium
Are the boosters airbreathing or rocket boosters? If rocket, what fuel do they use?
Peter Ahlstrom
This might be explained in book 2. But I think it's something very sci-fi rather than propellant-based. They're not airbreathing, for sure.