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Truthwatcher_17.5
Darksiders have almost as advanced technology as second Era Scadrians.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner
But then we see Darksiders in The Secret-- in Mistborn: The Secret History. So are they gonna be the first spacefarers, are they gonna get there before Scadrians?
Brandon Sanderson
So, where it is right now is that certain things have happened to Taldain that have isolated it and cut it off.
Questioner
Yeah, a little bit in Arcanum Unbounded talked about that.
Brandon Sanderson
And some-- they're under-- going through some difficult times, let's say... So, I will RAFO whether or not they're going to make it first to make it to space, but let's just say they were well on target to making it first before certain events happened.
Questioner
How do people live on the Darkside [of Taldain]?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh!
Questioner
Because like... how to plants grow...?
Brandon Sanderson
So, Darkside has a really weird thing going on. *brief interruption* So, Darkside is full of life. UV light comes through. In fact, on Darkside-- it's very interesting-- basically my concept for Darkside is everything's under a blacklight. So...
Questioner
So it's like the scorpions you see in the--?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. So actually people's fingernails, eyes, and hair glow on Darkside. And a lot of plant life glows, and things like this.
unknown
Is there an active application of investiture on Darkside?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO
BlackYeti
How did you get the temperature differential between the two halves of the planet such that life could survive on both sides and travel between them?
Brandon Sanderson
Right, yeah. We've got a couple things going on here that are helping with it. The thing about Darkside is-- And I've had to run this through my physicists, and they're all kind of "Ehhh", so we're still working on the physics-- But the idea is there is a light source over there, but it works like a black light. And so, there's warmth, and there's radiation, and that's why people over there are dark-skinned. They've actually adapted to this radiation, there's a lot of UV and things like that. But there is-- It works like a black light. So for a Daysider going over, it's all-- it feels dark and dim, but it's more twilight-ish than it is completely dark, if that makes sense. And with that and with... jet-streams and stuff we were able to kind of justify it mostly. I mean, it's still going to be colder on the other side and things. But I didn't want it to be like snowing and things like that, all the time over there. And so we kind of had to do some jumping through hoops astrologically to make it work.
BlackYeti
The other thing is about the atmospheric composition, since-- Well on Earth we've got plants which supplies us with oxygen, which can't really exist on a planet like that.
Brandon Sanderson
Right. They can-- The plants on the other side grow really well, they're just adapted to UV. And they grow with the UV. And so a lot of the oxygen is happening there, and, of course, in the oceans.
BlackYeti
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Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, a lot of algae from the oceans, which is helping out. Oxygen content is pretty solid there. I mean, it's not Roshar which is high-oxygen.
Questioner
Can you tell us anything about the Darkside of White Sand?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. We are hoping to do a story set there once the omnibus is out. It might graphic novel, it might be print. There is some very cool stuff about the way that the other sun works, and the magic involves tattoos. It's very nifty. We will get to it eventually. So, there you go.
Questioner
If you do a graphic novel, will you release the prose like you did for the first one?
Brandon Sanderson
There might not be a prose if we do a graphic novel. I haven't written-- One of my goals is actually, now the graphic novel's done, is to do a straight up revision of the prose and actually make it match the graphic novel and match current Cosmere continuity, and then actually release a print edition of it. I think it's more likely that we do a prose edition of the second book than a graphic novel, but I'm not sure which one it would be.
