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Questioner
So, I was curious about Hoid and how he is sending letters to a dragon, while he is on Roshar and the dragon is elsewhere?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. So, there is a courier service you can hire in the cosmere.
Questioner
So, it's like a Pony Express and that on the...
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. Not everything he's doing is going via that, but it is a thing that exists.
Questioner
Like, in the Cognitive Realm?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, they have to go through Shadesmar. So... you can hire a very specialized group to get things where they're supposed to go.
Questioner
So Hoid writes a letter to his old friend, was that before or after he got the bead of lerasium?
Brandon Sanderson
That was after he had taken that, the letter.
Questioner
How are the letters between Hoid and Frost getting delivered?
Brandon Sanderson
That is read and find out.
Questioner #1 (in Mistborn cosplay)
I was wondering if we were ever going to see dragons in the Cosmere?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes, Dragonsteel, which is one of the first books that I wrote in the Cosmere has dragons. It's also just one of the weaker books, so I can't publish it as is, but yea. Being a big fan of dragons, I did write them into the Cosmere. They are the one kind of generic- kind of the standard fantasy race in there.
Questioner #2
Are they ever going to infiltrate the other worlds kind of?
Brandon Sanderson
Well Hoid writes a letter to one, he calls him you old reptile. And that's in Words of Radiance. So that's a letter to one of the dragons. So they are referenced.
Questioner #3
I thought that was a general insult.
Brandon Sanderson
Nope, he's actually writing to Frost, an old reptile.
Questioner
In The Stormlight Archive, there are letters in the epigraphs. With those letters, is there some sort of Shardic postmaster? Who's delivering these letters?
Brandon Sanderson
I've been asked this before, actually. I wasn't asked it as early as I thought. I only started getting this one kind of recently. And my answer is RAFO. because, in part, it depends on the two planets you're talking about.
ParadoxicalZen
The Second Letter, Frost mentions a gemstone, is that in the Moon Scepter?
Brandon Sanderson
No, good question. That is a topaz, which was associated with him for a long time and had some mystical properties.
Overlord Jebus
Cosmere postal service. Can you tell us anything about this? How many people are involved?
Brandon Sanderson
It is more UPS than USPS, if that makes sense. Meaning it is enterprising individuals who are traveling and trading between planets. Some places are easier to deliver to than others.
Questioner
The Letters in Stormlight Archive. Wit and Sazed; are those the two people that are talking to each other?
Brandon Sanderson
Wit and Sazed are both involved in the Letters. Sazed is in there, and there are others, as well.
Chaos
(paraphrased)
Did you mean to imply that Autonomy wrote the second letter in Oathbringer back there, with the aspects thing?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Yeah, I did.
(He did imply that it was supposed to be fairly obvious.)
Pagerunner
The letters in [Oathbringer]. Are they all three from Shards?
Brandon Sanderson
...Yes.
Pagerunner
Is the first one, is that one we know? Is that one we've seen yet?
Brandon Sanderson
They are all ones you have seen.
Pagerunner
They are all ones we have seen.
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. Or at least you know.
Pagerunner
Have seen or know of.
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah.
T.T
Was the letter posted on the top of chapters to Sazed?
Brandon Sanderson
It is written to a character who exists outside of Roshar. I won't yet say who.
zuriel45
Out of curiosity, in the [epigraphs] will we be getting another Letter?
Brandon Sanderson
I intend for the first five to all have letters.
Questioner
We know that Hoid is really old. Is there anyone else around that same age who is not a Shardholder?
Brandon Sanderson
Yes. He communicates with one of these people by a letter in one of them.
Questioner
*inaudible*
Brandon Sanderson
Not very many, let’s say that.
Elegy
(paraphrased)
The second letter in this one [Oathbringer], was it written by Patji?
Brandon Sanderson
(paraphrased)
Yes.
phoenix2563
Can you drop a hint about which Shard authored the first of the letters to Hoid shown in the part 2 epigraphs [of Oathbringer]?
Brandon Sanderson
You have seen their world.
IcyLetters
So I was looking at the letter sent by Hoid to Frost and vice versa and I was wondering how he sent them? Like is there some sort of Cosmere Postal Service in the Cognitive Realm?
Brandon Sanderson
He's not using it, but there is active trade between several of the planets (and a version of a postal service.)
