Brandon Sanderson
Reading this [The Amulet of Samarkand], with a djinni viewpoint, really makes me want to write a book I've been planning for years, one told from a magic sword's VP.
Reading this [The Amulet of Samarkand], with a djinni viewpoint, really makes me want to write a book I've been planning for years, one told from a magic sword's VP.
I was thinking about some assumptions I have made. Are you going to write Hoid's series in first person?
I have tried it both ways in test scenes, and am undecided, but leaning toward first person.
Listening Words of Radiance. Can't wait for the next book. Will this be a trilogy? Thank you.
5 books! With another series in the same world to follow about another set of characters.
Hey, I'm working on the Shardblade article for the wiki. Did the glitch about the Shardblade count in WoR get worked out?
Yeah. Teleb was using a King's Blade.
Was he just using it for the duration of the expedition, or had it been granted to him by Elhokar?
Just for the expedition.
I thought (hoped) you meant you were working on the next set of Mistborn trilogies… Still, Shadows of Self is good too…
Trilogy two doesn't get to be written until after Stormlight 5, I'm afraid.
Can either one of you, pretty please, tell us if Alethi was inspired by the Elian Script?
It was not. The inspiration for the shapes was an EKG readout.
He might be speaking of the Thaylen script, which looks more like the Elian script than Alethi does.
Right. I was thinking Alethi glyphpairs, which seem to share some ideas with Thaylen letters.
The glyphpairs are more Chinese influenced. But Isaac will have to answer on Thaylen.
Late to this conversation (forgot password!) Similarities to any Earth scripts is coincidental.
I was thinking more conceptually, less visually. Just trying to crack the writing system :)
Thaylen and Alethi are related kinda in the same way Korean hanja and Chinese chars are related.
Do you mean hangul? Since hanja and Chinese characters are pretty much the same thing.
I defer to Peter on this one. :) And add a small RAFO, which looks a lot like 'rafo.'
Would you mind answering these? What defines a high Epic? How does Tia's tier system work?
A high epic is one where you have to negate their powers somehow to kill them.
Just threw away the prologue to Shadows of Self. Sigh. Need to try something else. (My third attempt.)
So, there will be a total of four Wax and Wayne era Mistborn novels. Alloy of Law, plus a Trilogy I plotted after finishing it.
so this 5 and 6 are not the end of this era, there is one more we should wait for, right?
Yes. The last of this era is tentatively called The Lost Metal.
Have we met Odium's champion yet?
RAFO!
Can you give us any hint what Hoid is, and if you'll ever tell us his whole story?
You will get the whole story someday. He is a person who turned down what others accepted eagerly.
So is the Wax and Wayne trilogy the second trilogy in the Mistborn trilogy of trilogies?
No, it's actually not. I'm going to need better terminology…
Finished WoR. Great stuff! <3 Lift and Pattern. The burning question: Just WTF is crem?!
It's like hard water deposits writ large. Sediment that falls with the rain.
Have all ten primary characters in The Stormlight Archive been at least mentioned in WoK?
No.
Re-reading Warbreaker by Brandon Sanderson I had my mind blown by seeing the word "shash." I hadn't remembered that by the time I read TWoK.
That's actually a coincidence. Just a convergence of phonology.
There are many reasons that not much of Way of Kings Prime has been made public. I think the most important is that it spoils book 6
Are Denth and Tonk Fah in Warbreaker siblings? I assumed so for some reason
No
Is The Rithmatist supposed to get 1 or 2 sequels?
Brandon hasn't decided.