Questioner
Shallan's photographic memory, is that due to her Connection to Pattern?
Brandon Sanderson
Shallan's memory is not, um, her memory has a supernatural component.
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Questioner
Is Shallan's drawing abilities. Is that related to Pattern's bond to her like Kaladin's spear with Syl, or...?
Brandon Sanderson
Her memorization abilities are supernaturally enhanced, and they aid her drawing.
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Questioner (paraphrased)
Where was Pattern before Shallan drew him?
Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
He was around. The bonding process had started when Shallan was young but then she pushed him away and he withdrew mostly to the Cognitive Realm until the bonding was started again and she pulled him fully into the Physical when she drew him.
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The_Honor_Spren
Would you be able tell us a little more about what Pattern looks like as a Shardblade?
Brandon Sanderson
I'll try to get a drawing into the next book. I've realized that we really should have one.
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Marina
We know that Pattern was with Shallan before the murder of Shallan's mother. Will we see in the next books how they met?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, you will probably see this some day.
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Questioner
What came first, Pattern or Chalklings?
Brandon Sanderson
Pattern was before Chalklings, good question. For some part of its existence, The Rithmatist was in the cosmere, until I finally decided I just don't want Earth in the cosmere at all, even a bizarre sort of version of Earth.
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Zas678 [PENDING REVIEW]
Pattern doesn't have vocal cords, and yet he makes sounds in the Physical Realm. Is this due to Realmatics of him projecting into the Cognitive Realm and connecting that way, or does he make physical sound?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
He makes physical sound.
Questioner 2 [PENDING REVIEW]
So the vibrations that he makes?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
You could record the vibrations that Pattern and Syl...You could record the patterns that these spren make on a recording device.
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Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
He also mentioned that Pattern actually was originally from one of his Dark One drafts.
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Kythis
How did Pattern actually become a shardblade even though he hadn't been fully pulled into the physical realm?
Brandon Sanderson
He had been pulled into the physical realm before when Shallan was younger, and she almost broke her bond. And in so doing . . .
Kythis
But he didn't go mad.
Brandon Sanderson
She didn't completely break the bond. She didn't reject him completely. But it was dangerous there for a while.
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Questioner [PENDING REVIEW]
I want to ask you a question about Pattern. Could you speak to anything about where your idea for...
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
I wanted different spren to look drastically different. And, as I was building-- Like, I wanted a lot of the spren of a lot of the Orders of Knights Radiant to kind of have an internal, natural conflict. Like, that's one of the division lines between a spren that's not sapient, and spren that is. For instance, Windrunner, honorspren, right? Honor is about rigidity in a lot of ways, and Syl is the embodiment of a lot of the opposite of that. And Pattern, who is so interested in lies, is a mathematical fractal-- a mathematical equation. This sort of thing, like naming the inkspren Ivory is just-- I want that internal, natural contrast to be part of them. And Pattern, I really wanted a spren that wasn't just another ball of light. 'Cause Syl is basically a ball of light. And a lot of the others are basically balls of light. And I'm like, I need something that's different, I want something that looks different, that feels different. That's where I went.
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Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
I have to post the Pattern deleted scene some time because, whenever I see someone dress up as Pattern, which doesn't happen that often, I wanna quote that scene but it's not in the book anymore, where Pattern talks about how famous he is. Yeah, so, I need to post that scene.
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MadhavDeval [PENDING REVIEW]
Who's your favorite spren in The Stormlight Archive so far?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
...Right now it's probably Pattern. But I don't know. I love them all. They are my children.
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Questioner
How do you envision Patter and Syl when they are in their Shardblade form.
Brandon Sanderson
We're going to do sketches eventually, mhmm.
Questioner
Ok, cause I'm getting a tattoo at some point and i want to make it relatively accurate.
Brandon Sanderson
Send to Peter and to... well Peter can be in touch with him. Ben, who does a lot of the... Ben is the one that we have canonize the Shardbaldes, and so after i write a book he does a bunch of sketches for us of what I've describes and we kinda pick one, and i know we've picked one already, but I don't know. I cant draw it for you or anything but if you go to them they can give it to you.
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Oudeis16
When Pattern is not floating as a 3D fractal ball, he has a tendency to travel just beneath the surface of things. Is this a deliberate parallel to blood?
Brandon Sanderson
Not deliberate, but perhaps unconscious.