Brandon Sanderson
I took it a little easy over the Holidays, and actually worked on Stormlight 5's prologue as I'm eager to get to it.
Gavilar viewpoint. Final perspective on the book one prologue. Some interesting secrets revealed in this one...
El Tiempo
Which character of the world from Skyward would do well in the Final Empire, from the world of Mistborn and viceversa?
Brandon Sanderson
I think that Spensa would do well in the Final Empire. She'd do well if she had one or two energy weapons. She's going to do very well in the world of Mistborn. And from that trilogy I think that TenSoon would do a really good job navigating through all the cultures and the things happening in the Cytoverse, the universe of Skyward.
Rasarr
Huh; I was just uploading [the cover for Bastille] to the CM and realized the Coppermind is still calling the book "The Worldspire", but it's nowhere on the cover itself
Janci Patterson
Yeah, I think that title got scrapped. And now it's just Bastille vs the Evil Librarians. I think.
AonEne
Do the Lenses at the start of each chapter [of the Alcatraz books] correlate to the contents of the chapter in any way? Or just whatever's fun?
Hayley Lazo
I always tried to pick ones that loosely have something to do with things, whether it's a chapter where they are used or introduced, or something thematically that happens in the chapter. Sometimes there's no correlation, we just needed to pick one.
/u/CallumQuinnCreates
Hello Mr. Stewart. Isaac? Lord Ruler?! Well, anyway, I am very excited to hear that you are working on a Mistborn book! Can you give us any updates on your progress? Hope you are well!
Isaac Stewart
Very kind of you to ask! I just passed 100k words and am very excited by how it's all coming together.
Daniel Danchik
How long until we see more of Sel?
Brandon Sanderson
Probably not for a few years.
Syen Adnan Moquith
Any chance you can release the original ‘too dark’ version of the Rhythm of War?
Brandon Sanderson
I think it's Oathbringer you're talking about. If you're referencing the sequence I trimmed where Dalinar is brutally murdering a bunch of people. (In the scene after the avalanche.) Unless I'm forgetting something else? I'd be happy to release the scenes for you, if those are the ones you're talking about.
Maor Bril
SA 5 Title: Knight Of Winds and ThunderBrandon Sanderson
That's not bad, actually. One of the better suggestions I've been given. But it can't just be cool, it has to match the text. Knight of or Knights of is likely to start it, but the last words are ones I'm still mulling over.
Shreyas Wajekar
I'm just going to throw in a title suggestion for Stormlight 5. Knight(s) of Withered Truth(s).Brandon Sanderson
That's a good one. I've toyed with Knights of Woeful Truth for a while. That's the frontrunner, but yours isn't a bad one.
Mike Lach
When will we be getting a non-cosmere short story collection? I'd like to have all of the cytoverse in print
Brandon Sanderson
We've got it prepared and ready, just have to find time for it. (And I have to decide if I want to do an exclusive story for it or not.)
Christian Hoffer
Could you tease any potential crossover characters that are going to appear in these books? Obviously, Hoid (a character who has appeared in all of Sanderson's Cosmere novels to date) is at the center of Secret Project One.
Brandon Sanderson
So, Secret Project Four features a character from one of my books who has never had their own book, who is not Hoid, that readers will recognize. This has been a character who has had viewpoints, but no book.
It's not a main character, but it is somebody who's had some viewpoints and is very related to a main character. So, that's Secret Project Four. And Secret Project One has at least one more character who has been mentioned in a book before, but who has never appeared on screen, right? Stuff like that.
Scott Beckman (paraphrased)
How would Shallan handle pregnancy, and/or motherhood?
Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
Like most people, she would be scared at first, but dive on in.
Scott Beckman (paraphrased)
Which is scarier... Which is more dangerous: a sword that wants to destroy evil, or a Bondsmith with no bounds?
Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
A Bondsmith with no bounds.
Scott Beckman (paraphrased)
Can an unbound Bondsmith take that sword's... ability for himself?
Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)
Not exactly, but something similar. Probably not what you're thinking, but he could essentially take what that sword is, yes.