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If Hoid was to get his hands on "bavadinium," could he alloy it with lerasium and get Sand Mastery?
Brandon Sanderson [PENDING REVIEW]
This is theoretically possible.
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Rah179
How significant will the White Sand be to the cosmere? Any hints on the Shard that resides there?
Brandon Sanderson
Moderately. (Its magic has some cool ramifications for off world use, and several characters factor prominently into the Cosmere.)
Phantine
Is there more than one magic system in white sand?
Brandon Sanderson
Only one in the current outline.
WeiryWriter
Does the one magic have more than one variation? Because I got the impression that there was something going on on the Darkside? Though I guess the Sky Colors (I think that's what they're called, I read the draft you send out early 2014 so my recollection is a little fuzzy) don't have to be related to magic. Or you could have written them out if they were...
Brandon Sanderson
In intended the colors on Darkside to be more a matter of the ecology than the magic--though, on that planet, magic and ecology are very closely tied together. (Well, I guess most of the magics are.)
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DeliberateConfusion
Who would win in a fight between a Full Shardbearer and a Space Marine?
Brandon Sanderson
I don't know 40k well enough to say. But you will see Shardbearers in space some day.
Pariah_The_Pariah
...that's amazing. You've got high sci-fi fantasy coming? That'll be amazing.
Uh... Now I've got this image of Kaladin in modified shardplate(hell, can shardplate just serve as a spacesuit?) floating about in space and Syl appearing with a little bubble helmet.
Brandon Sanderson
The cosmere (the shared universe of my epic fantasy books) is interconnected, and eventually there will be space travel between them. Those books are quite a ways down the road, though.
Pariah_The_Pariah
I've known a long time of your cosmere! But I figured you'd take a "stargate" approach eventually -y'know, magical gates?
But actual Space travel?
I can imagine the various magical systems lending themselves well to that kind of stuff! I mean, gravity fabrials for artificial gravity, using some sort of cross-world steel pushing fabrial/biomechanical steel pushing device for a gauss rifle..
I mean, the last one is if you make this like space ship battles.
Windrunners and Skybreakers could just function as fighters themselves!
here's a question: how are cross world magics gonna work? Let's say a space freighter powered by fabrials enters Scadrial space. What happens to those fabrials?
Brandon Sanderson
Most of the magics are unaffected by being taken off world, though still subject to their own inherent flaws. Stormlight seeps out. Sand loses its glow. Metal can only be used by one with the right genetic code. Note that the magic from Sel is different, and is location dependent for reasons I don't think fandom has quite teased out.
Pariah_The_Pariah
Isn't Sel the original planet where Adonalsium happened?
Brandon Sanderson
Yolen is the original.
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unknown
The two known uses of magic on Dayside are very - peculiar - when though of together. Is it safe to assume that there are more 'ingenious' uses for the sand?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
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Questioner
About Hoid...
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner
Is he a sand master?
Brandon Sanderson
Hoid? You will have to read and find out in White Sand! I'm not gonna answer that.
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Questioner
You've mentioned in the last couple of afterwords that you get interesting results when you mix types of investiture.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes.
Questioner
Twinborn and Surgebinders on Roshar. Can you mix a form of magic with a source of investiture? Can say Vasher use Stormlight in place of Breaths or would that require tampering via Hemalurgy or something like that?
Brandon Sanderson
Most of them require tampering. Some of them are a little bit easier than others. It depends on really what you mean. For instance, white sand can be charged in the presence of any Investiture right? It's just-- But that's not really using the magic, it's just charging it with other Investiture. But, you know, it would be very easy, for instance, if you can get yourself Invested-- Like, for instance, it'd be very easy to use Breaths to fuel Windrunning right? Because the oath and the bond and things like that are going to make it pretty easy. However fueling Allomancy with something else is going to be a lot harder. So it really depends on the magic. It's the sort of thing that there will be lots of science in the books dedicated to making happen in the future and you will find some of the processes these work easier than other ones.