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Questioner
So, is she [Rysn] going to get a novella maybe?
Brandon Sanderson
Rysn is probably not going to get a novella but Rysn is a character who's going to have a nice novelette in each story, in the interludes. Maybe not quite to novelette length on each of them but she, in each of the first five books you will get a scene from Rysn.
Questioner
I think she's a very interesting character because in a way she epitomizes what you just said about being exposed to different cultures and--
Brandon Sanderson
Right, that's kind of her thing, is she goes and visits the different cultures of Roshar.
Questioner
And then we get to visit them too.
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah. She's got a potted plant, she's got some grass actually, there's some grass that doesn't respond to the storm. So she's one of my favorites, I intend her to be in each of the interludes and have her own kind of little story running through the books.
Questioner
So now we know, when you think about--
Brandon Sanderson
Absolutely, there is a Rysn point of view in Oathbringer.
Questioner (A wheelchair user)
Have you had any negative feedback from other wheelchair users about Rysn's storyline?
Brandon Sanderson
I did go to a bunch of them to ask, so I've been trying. But if you have negative feedback to give me, I would love to hear it, because I had two beta readers in wheelchairs give me the best advice they could. But I obviously do not have that same disability, so there's things I'm going to get wrong.
Questioner
Will we see more of Rysn in the Stormlight Archive books?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah. I plan to... She never becomes a main character. I plan to have an interlude with Rysn every time.
Questioner
She won't be out of the interludes?
Brandon Sanderson
No, she won't be, but I might write a novella with her. Like I did with Lift.
morganlandt
Have you decided it'll be Rysn or Rock for the novella [between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War]?
Brandon Sanderson
Rysn for this one, Rock for the one between four and five.
Windrunner17
Obviously not anytime soon since you have a busy schedule, but do you ever see yourself looping back to do a novella/short story between The Way of Kings and Words of Radiance? Maybe the Lopen story you mentioned? Or is it something that's not valuable now?
Brandon Sanderson
I do want to do this some day, for cohesion's sake. So I can see myself doing this. (Maybe in the stretch between Books Five and Six when I'm working on Mistborn Era Three?)
simon_thekillerewok
Do you imagine that this possible Lopen novella would be an evolution of the King Lopen the First of Alethkar short story you've mentioned? Or would they be completely distinct? Or do you just not plan on writing that short story anymore?
Brandon Sanderson
That's what I have in the back of mind, but I would have to seriously consider what I'm going to do once the time arrives.
Questioner
So, I'm wondering if Rysn gets a book.
Brandon Sanderson
Rysn does not get a book, but she might get a novella.
Angrybread
I want Rysn to keep accidentally finding herself in ever increasingly plot-relevant situations until she just becomes a worldhopper by accident.
Ellarree
u/mistborn, please seriously consider this. It would be amazing.
Brandon Sanderson
I've got some plans for her. Saying anything more would be a RAFO.
MS-07B-3
Can we still expect a Rysn interlude in each book?
Brandon Sanderson
So, there's an interlude in this book for Rysn, but it's not from her viewpoint... (But you can expect one in book five.)
Simon
1) Is Hoid still holding his Dawnshard?
2) If not, is the Dawnshard currently hold by Rysn the same as Hoid's or a different?
3) Nikli mentions 4 Dawnshards. Are there more than that?
4) Are all the Dawnshards currently (as of SA 4) on Roshar? Or in the Rosharan System?
5) Are there some of them on worlds we have already seen (Scadrial, Sel, Threnody, etc...)?
Brandon Sanderson
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Hoid Dawnshard is a RAFO.
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Same.
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There are only four Dawnshards.
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RAFO on whether they're on this planet or not.
These are great questions, but Dawnshard info is mostly for the future cosmere books--and so I consider most of it very RAFOy.
Brandon Sanderson
Same here meant RAFO. I answer these quickly, I'm afraid, particularly when they come in a list like that.
Questioner
Rysn has come up a lot in interludes in both books.
Brandon Sanderson
Yep.
Questioner
Will she continue to be in the--
Brandon Sanderson
She does have an interlude in the third book. She is kind of, like-- so far I have wanted to use one of my interludes on her each time. I only get, you know, I get like only like eight or so per book, but I've used one of those on her every book. And I probably will going forward, but I can't promise.
ArgentSun
If Rysn's Dawnshard is about Change or Remaking or something like, how do we refer to it? The Dawnshard of Change? The Change Dawnshard? I am asking purely from a semantic standpoint.
Brandon Sanderson
I haven't honestly decided yet, Argent. I am playing with several themes for the Dawnshards even still.
David-El
It seemed from the way the mural was done in the book that you were implying that there are four Dawnshards, one for each four of the shards, considering the sun was split in four, then each quadrant was then further split into four more.
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, I'm afraid. As I said somewhere else, this was written as it was deliberately--but also somewhat vague on purpose.
-nightblood-
1) Will we see more Lift or Rysn in Stormlight 3? 2) Will Stormlight 3 have a main interlude character similar to how Eshonai was in Words of Radiance and Szeth was in The Way of Kings?
Brandon Sanderson
1) Yes. 2) Yes.
cinephile42
Now that Rysn has secrets to keep, where do her alliances lie? She seems slightly skeptical of the Radiants, so would she be more patriotic to Thaylen City and potentially share her information with Queen Fen? Or maybe even Vstim?
Brandon Sanderson
Her loyalty is most likely to her babsk and others who have proven, in person, to her their merit.
ArgentSun
Huh, I had assumed Rock's or Rysn's novella would be your airplane project. I guess taking a break from Stormlight by doing more Stormlight doesn't really work. Can you share your current plan for these two too?
Brandon Sanderson
Still hoping to do both of them sometime this year, but we'll see. I would hate for Edgedancer to be the only X.5 novella for Stormlight. Feels more right if I can get those, and the Lopen one happening between books one and two, done some day soon.
The Rock one kind of needs to happen, so we'll see. I need to get back on schedule with the main book first, though. That takes precedence over all of these smaller projects.
Hermitxd
This may be too much to ask.
For Rock's, is this a prequel in his homeland? Post-Oathbringer, coming to terms with his actions? Something different all together maybe..
I find either very exciting.
Brandon Sanderson
It is post-Oathbringer, involving him returning to his homeland.
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. :)
Katie Gerskey
Earlier you have stated that Spensa's story in Skyward was inspired by the 'boy and his dragon' stories that you read in your teens. Is Rysn and Chiri-Chiri's story in Stormlight 4 based upon this plot archetype as well?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. But only in small, minor ways.
Getting the gift of a strange and unusually pet is one of those things ever since I read Dragons Blood by Jane Yolen, ever since I read The White Dragon and Jackson getting his dragon. There is something in me that loves this sort of fantastical pet - I mean own a macaw. [As far as] pets that are responsible to have go, excluding things like getting a lion, it's one of the weirdest things you can get as a pet. And that's going back to that love of dragon stories. That's why I bought <Cock>, my love bird, that was my buddy all through high school, it was because a flying, talking, little creature just feels so fantasy to me. So yeah, definitely Chiri-Chiri is playing into that trope to an extent.
Questioner
(paraphrased)
Do you plan to do something like Arcanum Unbounded again?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Yes, eventually there will be AU2. I need to write more short stories before that. I'm hoping my novella this year will be about Rysn. Theoretically I will continue doing that, showing little glimpses of places around the cosmere.
XavierRDE
Since when did your start to plan this specific development for Rysn? Was it something that existed from her inception?
Brandon Sanderson
Rysn wasn't in my very first outlines; I decided upon this path for her when working on Words of Radiance, as I realized I really wanted one Interlude character that I returned to, and showed a longer story across several years for.
SageOfTheWise
Aww, was really hoping to get a Rysn book. Hopefully we still get a lot more of her anyway.
She can team up with Adolin and make their own club for people too cool for books.
Brandon Sanderson
Rysn will appear again. Not getting a book does not mean someone isn't an important character, just that I don't consider them as having a flashback sequence worthy of structuring a book around.
Brandon Sanderson
Dawnshard is about Rysn. But there's a small plot arc for multiple other characters. Lopen's got one. Even Huio's got one. Because I'm a novel writer, and even when I write in shorter form, I'm doing novel writer sort of things.
