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    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    What would happen if a Pure Tone or anti-Tone interacted with Shard metal?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Different things can happen, but generally, if it’s the right Shard metal, you’re going to get a resonance or a destructive resonance to that Tone.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    In Book One, Taravangian was talking to Szeth, when Szeth confronts him at the end. He talks about the Lifebrother; but we haven’t heard any other references since then.

    Brandon Sanderson

    You have not. That’s a RAFO.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    When a Shard Splinters, does it have any effect on the cosmere that we aren’t seeing yet? 

    Brandon Sanderson

    No.

    Questioner

    What would be the effect if all the Shards Splintered?

    Brandon Sanderson

    It does have, but see, there is Splintering, and there’s Splintering. Traumatic Splintering is a different event than a Shard Splintering themselves, or things like this. There’s a whole continuum going on there.

    All the Shards being Splintered would, of course, have an effect. But it could have all kinds of different effects based on how, and why, and what’s going on, and what happened to the different pieces of Investiture. You can have a full Splintering, where the Shard is just completely blasted into pieces. Or you can have a Shard taking off pieces of their soul and Splintering it out and sending it off to be self-aware, and things like that. These are two different things.

    Also, there’s a whole bunch of nuance in that question. But the answer is: it will inevitably have an effect, and there are effects that have happened in the cosmere that you don’t recognize yet as being the effects of Splintering, and things like that.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    Is Tarah, Kaladin’s flame, still currently in Urithiru? Because there’s a chapter where it kind of seems like she’s there.

    Brandon Sanderson

    I will answer that in Book Five, so I’m gonna RAFO you. That is at least my plan; one of the interludes should be from her viewpoint. That is my plan right now.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    I have a sort of delicate question. If a bendalloy Ferring filled an unsealed mind and then gave it to someone else who tapped it, which one would go to the bathroom?

    Brandon Sanderson

    I don’t think this is working the way you think it’s working. The Ferring who is creating it is going to be the one who goes to the bathroom.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    Would Kelsier be able to Return to the Physical Realm in the same way that Vasher did?

    Brandon Sanderson

    No. Mmmm… which time? Let me parse this question. Could a Shard with a great deal of Investiture take his Cognitive Shadow and staple it to a body, or indeed recreate (which is usually what happens) an entirely new body for him? Yes, that could happen. It would need, really, the will of a Shard and the desire to do so, but that could happen.

    He couldn’t do it himself, though; because you could also have been asking: “return to the Physical Realm,” pop through; ‘cause Vasher popped through a perpendicualrity to get onto Roshar, which is another way he returned to the Physical Realm. I didn’t think that’s what you were asking, but sometimes, once in a while, you’re asking multiple things at once to be tricksy.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    With all the bad things that we’ve seen the Ghostbloods do so far (like imprisoning Lift) is Kelsier no longer a good or mostly-good person?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Kelsier would say he’s a good person.

    I would say: Kelsier’s a complicated individual whose moral compass does not align to my same moral compass. But he never was. He would say that he hasn’t changed; I would say that he has changed slightly over the centuries.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    Are the glyphs on Scadrial which happen to look like bands, spikes, and beads a breadcrumb from the Lord Ruler in case his plans failed?

    Brandon Sanderson

    No, they are more that we decided (if you go look at the old ones) that modern people were interpreting them differently. This is not an active thing done by the Lord Ruler. Isaac can contradict me on this, because he designed them. But my understanding that it’s a natural outgrowth of people said “that looks like a spike” and so they started doing it more spike-like. And it just kind of became a thing for them as they were standardizing, and as typography started to exist, and things like that. Not necessarily meant to be a clue from the Lord Ruler.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    As an avid chicken watcher in my real life, I really enjoy the inclusion of Aviar in the Cosmere. And I was curious if in upcoming series, will we see the inclusion of more worldhoppers utilizing Aviar for trans-Investiture purposes?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes, you will. The thing about the Aviar is: the secret of what’s going on there is known by very, very few people, and there is certainly some work going on in that regard. Basically, people offworld trying to figure out what is going on with Aviar and how they work, because they are not what people expect them to be because of the way that the Investiture is being Invested, shall we say. But you should see that being relevant to future era Cosmere.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    Kelsier was very clear in Secret History that his ties to the Physical Realm had been severed. Are we then to assume that the current Thaidakar/Lord of Scars is him teamed up with Spook? Or have they used their knowledge of Hemalurgy to find different human hosts? What’s going on there?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Excellent question. This is partially a RAFO. But you should assume that things have happened to allow for what’s going on. There are answers coming very soon. I’m going to warn you: not a lot of answers. But some answers are coming very soon. Maybe very, very soon.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    Dawnshards. More of an Intent, or like a Command?

    Brandon Sanderson

    More of a Command.

    Questioner

    And are they tied to the four groupings of sixteen?

    Brandon Sanderson

    That is a RAFO.

    Questioner

    The four groupings of the sixteen. Could it also be related to the groupings of metals?

    Brandon Sanderson

    It could be related to that, but I won’t guarantee that it is.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    Can a Shard hold on to the Cognitive Shadow of a person for later use?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes, that can indeed happen.

    Questioner

    Without it being fully Invested?

    Brandon Sanderson

    You don’t have to fully Invest it, no. They would have to do some Investing shenanigans, but what you’re asking is quite possible, very possible.

    So, for instance, let me give you a corner case. You might be asking: could Endowment send somebody back later than immediately after they have passed away? The answer would be “yes.”

    I’m gonna tell you, I have no immediate plans to do that, but it is possible within the framework of the cosmere.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Shining Silhouette

    If people started viewing their worlds as doughnut-shaped, would the Cognitive Realm change as well?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes, the Cognitive Realm would shape to that if the general group on the planet all were viewing anything, but particularly something like that. It would influence the how the Cognitive Realm manifests.

    Shining Silhouette

    As technology develops and people start seeing the world as spheres, will that change…?

    Brandon Sanderson

    It will have an effect.

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Will of D (paraphrased)

    We've seen Stormlight act like a wave in Rhythm of War. Does it also have particle-like properties like real light, and if so will we get to see an experiment that proves that?

    Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

    Yes, it does act like a particle too. No, I don't have plans to show an experiment like that. 

    Dragonsteel 2022 ()
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    Pagerunner

    Over the course of Rhythm of War, we see Cohesion applied in three different ways as applied by different Tones, and I can see internal/external and pushing/pulling contradictions in those. Is that a pattern that will be accurate for all of the Surges?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes, but a loose pattern. Accurate under the loosest definition of the word. You will find connections there, as you are looking for them, and most of them will be intentional. But it will be hard to fit every Surge into exactly that framework.

    Miscellaneous 2022 ()
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    /u/brnbrn1996 (paraphrased)

    Is it possible for a sentient bit of Investiture to pick up a Shard? Like a spren or Nightblood?

    Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

    It would be possible yes, well, for a spren or a seon for example, it would. Nightblood could theoretically but it would be difficult for various reasons.

    /u/brnbrn1996 (paraphrased)

    Right, because he has no hands.

    Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

    *graciously chuckles at my dumb joke*

    /u/brnbrn1996 (paraphrased)

    Would they have to be embodied to be able to actually use it effectively, or would they have the same limitations as Kelsier did when he was a cognitive shadow ?

    Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

    They would have the same limitations yes, but there are ways around that.

    /u/brnbrn1996 (paraphrased)

    Right, like Ishar is working on.

    Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

    Right.

    General Reddit 2022 ()
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    LewsTherinTelescope

    You have mentioned before that people should read one of the non-Mistborn stories in Arcanum Unbounded prior to The Lost Metal. Can you tell us which?

    Brandon Sanderson

    If I tell you, it will spoil a character who doesn't reveal themselves immediately in the Lost Metal. So I've been careful not to say.

    Cosmere.es Interview ()
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    Cosmere.es

    I remember that you said that we will have like tops two Kickstarters a year, one for books, one for products. This will cover like the product one.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yeah. Yeah. Plan is for next year for there just to be one and then the year after for there to be two. But the goal is tops two. Like this year we technically had three because there was the White Sand preorder campaign and we feel like that could get out of hand very quickly. Everybody who works with us might want to do a Kickstarter now because they've been so successful so we're kinda making this promise to make sure that we keep ourselves in line as well and I feel very good about having done that.

    Cosmere.es

    So if the product for 2024 is like maybe the RPG would the book be the art book for the story?

    Brandon Sanderson

    The book is more likely to be the Hoid Storybook Collection. So The Dog and the Dragon, Wandersail, and The Girl Who Looked Up done as picture books slash kinda coffee table books. That's more likely. The art book is a challenge because you know there's just so much that goes into that sort of thing—Isaac would have to be so deeply involved and it's whether he can find the time or not because he wants to be writing stories in his free time. We'll see, I do think we'll eventually get like an art book and an encyclopedia out but I'm a little more excited by the Hoid storybook personally.

    Cosmere.es

    And fully illustrated—they are going to look gorgeous.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yeah. I really would like people to have like—my goal on those is like The Dog and the Dragon to be like a traditional children's book, Wandersail to be more like a giant illustrated coffee table book right—more targeted a little bit older, and The Girl Who Looked Up to be something in between.

    Cosmere.es Interview ()
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    Cosmere.es

    And it's interesting that you mentioned the RPG because I remember like many years ago we started reading the RPG from [Crafty Games] and some things that were inside—because when you are doing an RPG you are reading it to explain like the lore and things about everything that's going on and the magic system and blah blah—and we didn't know if, for example, the metals that were included in there that were not yet on the book were canonical, and now I think that most of them are going to be canonical as well.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yeah when we were working on the Crafty game there were certain liberties we needed to take, and some of them I knew we were gonna use and some of them I knew we weren't going to. And this is just the freedom they asked for to make their game. You can't take everything as canon unfortunately in the Mistborn game, but theoretically there's a lot in there that will be.

    Cosmere.es Interview ()
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    Cosmere.es

    The other thing is, because we now have the Kickstarter and you have been working so hard within the last year with all the canonical designs for the characters and everything, and it's really exciting and pleasing to see Shallan turning into life and Kaladin and Szeth and everybody. What is the thing that—besides the statue the statue from Kaladin and Szeth but—what is the thing that you would like to see, what is the thing that will make you happy to see next as a project if not the minis, or what are you expecting?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yeah. After the minis I would say that I am really excited to start work on an RPG—a pen and paper RPG. I really like the Mistborn one, but I have a lot more experience now and I think I know better how to mechanically come up with something like this and how to make sure all the artwork works and things like that so doing a pen and paper RPG I'm pretty excited for that idea. That would be the product I'm most excited for. But there are a few things in the Year of Sanderson that I can't talk about now that I designed that I'm also really excited about.

    Cosmere.es Interview ()
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    Cosmere.es

    For the next year, when we were thinking about The Lost Metal one of the things that we were hoping is that—the same way that we had like a new tiny place which is New Seran on the map—we were hoping that maybe now we will get a bigger map? So we don't know yet, but hopefully.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes! The plan is a bigger map. Isaac has shown me a bigger map. I'm like 99% sure he put it in the book. So you should be getting—it's not a full world map—but you should be getting a map that includes the southern continent in its entirety. That should help as you are exploring Scadrial more and more.

    Cosmere.es

    Yeah! I wonder <like you said> like we were wondering regarding this new map is there any place where we will be able to find mummies on it?

    Brandon Sanderson

    *laughs* You know, Isaac's hard at work on his book. He hasn't let me read it yet, he's not quite finished. But I believe he might have an easter egg—it's really up to him—of where that might be. Close-lipped on what these mummies may be, and what's going on there.

    Cosmere.es

    Well well, let's see what the new book brings. And the other thing is because now we are closing this era and we will go into Scadrial—well in the future years we will go into Scadrial in year 3 [Era 3] it's going to be more technological, and since you said now we will have kind of a full map or more complete map of Scadrial, can we hope to see like the whole Scadrial in year 3 [Era 3] because they will have more—

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes. Yeah we should be able to get the entire world map by then for you.

    Cosmere.es Interview ()
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    Cosmere.es

    For the announcement that the Brotherwise <team> and you also shared, it's supposed we will have this RPG in 2024?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Well, we will likely have a Kickstarter for it in 2024, that's the plan. It's gonna take us that much time—uh, another two years—before we have a product. Until we know we have something that we can sell, does that make sense? We're gonna take that time to make sure that we are confident in it, that we have it done. But we probably won't be shipping in 2024 be my guess. It's possible we will be, but my guess would be we run a Kickstarter in the fall of 2024 for the RPG to arrive sometime after that.

    Cosmere.es Interview ()
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    Brandon Sanderson

    I'm not gonna give you any 10's [announcement significance on a scale of 1-10] at the convention as I understand right now. So don't expect movie announcements, it would be my guess. There's still enough stuff moving behind the scenes. I had hoped so, but I don't think it's gonna happen there.

    New York Comic Con 2022 ()
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    Questioner

    We know that finer gemstones like the King's Drop can hold Stormlight longer and encases other things that I won't say because of spoilers. Is that because of the craftsmanship, connecting their Identity in the Cognitive Realm?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Excellent question. "You can hold Stormlight in gemstones, and the more perfect a gemstone the more Stormlight it'll hold. Is the craftsmanship required to create it part of the reason why?" And no, it's actually the crystalline structure. Fewer flaws in the crystalline structure means fewer places for the Stormlight to wiggle out.

    Questioner

    Do gemstones exist naturally on Roshar? Or are they all gemhearts?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes, but you gotta dig through lots of layers of cremstone to get to them, so most of the time you're getting them from gemhearts.

    Miscellaneous 2022 ()
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    Dan Wells

    As of last week, I am officially the new Vice President of Narrative at Dragonsteel Entertainment, which is Brandon Sanderson's company. Brandon is one of the biggest and most successful fantasy authors in the world, with a vast universe of interconnected worlds and series called the Cosmere; I will be helping to guide the Cosmere, coordinate tie-in projects, write short stories, and co-write novels. This is, in part, a response to our collaboration on DARK ONE, and my first project as VP will be a large revision of that book.

    FanX 2022 ()
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    Dan Wells

    Guess who I am going to be working for? Brandon!

    Couple of years ago, he wrote a book called Apocalypse Guard that didn't work. And he brought it to me and said, "Hey, do you want to collaborate on this book, and maybe you can help me fix it?" And so I did another draft, and we looked at it and said, "Yeah, this still doesn't work." But we very much enjoyed the process of writing together.

    And so he gave me Dark One. And he said, "Here, this is an outline that I have; do you want to collaborate on another book?" And so I wrote that one. And this one did work. It worked very well. And we both really loved the experience, again, of working together, of cowriting books, doing all this stuff.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Meanwhile, on my side, the whole Brandon Sanderson thing has gotten kind of big. And I was talking to my team, and I'm like, "I need help with the narrative side of this. I need another brain." We're going to do Dark One, but the goal will eventually be to have Dan just kind of help me work on the Cosmere, and things like this. I need another writing brain. And I need somebody who can write stories that I can't, was another thing. I had been thinking for a while; I'm like, "I need another me." I need help to manage the whole thing. Not just the books, but the entire series. And I'm like, "Well, Dan is the best writer I know. Maybe I should ask Dan."

    I came to him, I'm like, "Do you wanna come on full-time as the vice president of narrative at my company?" So Dan is coming on on Monday as the vice president of narrative at Dragonsteel.

    Dan Wells

    That is gonna entail writing a bunch of books; there'll be a bunch of cowritten Dan and Brandon Cosmere books. We're gonna start with some non-Cosmere stuff, 'cause we gotta get Dark One.

    The book itself, we still are in the process of revising that. But as early as January, the prequel will be available in audio. We wrote a thing called Dark One: Forgotten. Which is audio native, specifically because we wanted to do it in the style of a true crime podcast. Imagine if, halfway through Serial, they discovered that there was a supernatural serial killer murdering people. That's what Dark One: Forgotten is. It's six episodes, hour-long mockumentary podcast thing. It's really cool; I turned in the final revisions this morning.

    I will say, to mollify any fears that might be out there, my own career is not disappearing. I am still gonna be writing my own stuff. There's still Dan Wells alone stuff; there's still gonna be Brandon writing his own stuff. But there's gonna be a lot of overlap with the two of us.

    New York Comic Con 2022 ()
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    jmcgit (paraphrased)

    Is there anything more to learn about why Helaran was on the battlefield that day when Kaladin killed him?

    Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

    Yes, but you already know the basics of that story... 

    jmcgit (paraphrased)

    Like it was definitely him on the battlefield, he was with the Skybreakers, his target was Amaram... 

    Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

    He nods, and says the 'more information' is more about the Davar family in general.   

    jmcgit (paraphrased)

    I had asked whether it was that Helaran was looking for Radiants, I had suspected maybe he would have struck at Amaram again if he was determined to kill him?  Maybe he thought Amaram was a Radiant and taking the Shardblade disproved that? 

    Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

    No, the Skybreakers knew about the Sons of Honor, they had a good opportunity to strike at the organization and they took it. 

    YouTube Livestream 50 ()
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    Thokna jihad

    Will the Stormlight RPG use the same mechanic system as the Mistborn Adventure Game?

    Brandon Sanderson

    These are two separate companies; they are unlikely to share mechanics. Is what I would say. But these are things that we want to hear. One of our biggest questions is: do we come up with our own system entirely? Or do we use one of the very popular game systems that are in existence already? Because there are ways to do both of those things. Would you, as a playerbase, prefer one that isn't compatible with d20 or something like that? Or would you prefer something that is? That's useful and relevant for us to hear.

    YouTube Livestream 50 ()
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    Brandon Sanderson

    One of the very first things that I said when I was talking to Isaac and Johnny [with Brotherwise Games] about this is: fans really want a pen-and-paper Stormlight RPG. We have, with the wonderful people at Crafty Games, a Mistborn RPG; but we don't have a Stormlight one. And so I said to Johnny, "Can you guys help us make one?"

    Brotherwise Games

    Absolutely. Totally a dream project for us. With an RPG project, we've been in discussions with some big names and also some great new voices in the RPG space, so we are assembling a killer team of TTRPG writers and editors and, of course, illustrators. (The art aspect of this is huge.) But this is a huge project, so this is something that's gonna roll out over time. We're gonna be fairly quiet about it in the near future as we're working on that team, but we will absolutely be getting to a point where we go to the community for feedback and ask what you're looking for in this. That's gonna be a huge part of this.

    Brandon Sanderson

    We know nothing about it yet other than "we are going to do one." But we are going to do one.

    Brotherwise Games

    At this point, again, we're not gonna be able to answer too many questions about that. But we're already gonna start listening for what you want. So if a Reddit thread goes up talking about "hey, what do you hope to see in this," then we will be reading that.

    Brandon Sanderson

    So let us know what it is that you guys want. Again, we're in the pre-concepting stages. We haven't even sat down and talked about what I like in RPGs and things like that. We will definitely get there, but that's our next project with Brotherwise, probably.

    Brotherwise Games

    That's our next big one; I think the next one that would be crowdfunded.

    YouTube Livestream 50 ()
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    Questioner

    Do you plan on doing more lines of minis for your other series? Namely, Mistborn?

    Brandon Sanderson

    If something is successful, we are more likely to do it in the future. I'll borrow an answer from Mark Rosewater whenever he gets asked about things with Magic: The Gathering. We have no immediate plans. This comes down to the "do fewer things better." And we want to make sure that we're doing a really good job with the thing we're doing right now [Stormlight miniatures]. And then, if things are successful and people want them, we will move forward.

    YouTube Weekly Updates 2022 ()
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    Brandon Sanderson

    In the future, we intend to continue kickstarting Stormlight leatherbounds—but not other leatherbounds we do. That gives us roughly one of these every three years. The other two years between, I’d like to do other things. The Hoid storybook collection (which is picture books and/or coffee-table-style books of The Dog and the Dragon, The Wandersail, and The Girl Who Looked Up) is another one I’d really like to do. On the products side, we’d like to do a Stormlight pen and paper RPG and a Stormlight board game, two of the most requested items you have all been asking us to do.

    YouTube Weekly Updates 2022 ()
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    Brandon Sanderson

    The other big thing that I want to talk about is Moonbreaker. So for years, I’ve been teasing a project I called Soulburner. You can go back many years in the State of the Sanderson posts and find me talking about this thing. This is a video game I originally started, then pitched to Unknown Worlds, who made Subnautica. They came to me and said, “Hey, would you be interested in developing a world for us to do a game in?” Their pitch was really cool. It’s better than a miniatures game. It’s like a digital version of a miniatures game. I’ll be talking a lot about Moonbreaker in the coming weeks. I’m really excited about it. I loved Subnautica, and so when Unknown Worlds came to me I was excited for the opportunity. This is the first time I have designed the setting for a video game. I wrote all of the worldbuilding guides and came up with the characters and character guides. Dan Wells has been writing audio dramas about these characters. So it’s going to be really cool. The game—I’m not even sure what their timeline is for releasing the game but now we can at least talk about it!

    Miscellaneous 2022 ()
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    Brotherwise games

    During our last trip to Dragonsteel HQ, we talked to Isaac and Brandon about adding characters [to the Stormlight Miniatures campaign) that weren't previously planned. Our Nale and Rysn miniatures both came out of that trip. During the same conversation, Brandon said, "let's add Zellion."

    "Who?" we asked. We know the Cosmere very well, and Zellion was not a name we'd ever heard. Brandon just smiled and gave Isaac a knowing look. Isaac told us he'd work with Ben to get concept art to us as soon as possible.

    Who is Zellion? To quote a great man, "Read and find out."

    General Reddit 2022 ()
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    Willbtsg

    According to Wax's conversation with Khriss at the party in New Seran, changing weight while falling doesn't have any effect. However, storing/tapping weight while Pushing laterally through the air follows the conservation of momentum.

    Peter Ahlstrom

    Yeaahh…I will probably have to revise the first part of that discussion when we do the leatherbound for Bands of Mourning. It really isn’t consistent with the second part and how we’ve been accounting for it after it was determined that momentum is conserved. There is at least one scene in The Lost Metal where this comes into play.

    MoriWillow

    Is part of the issue that Wax is creating a false dichotomy between gravity and a Steelpush? (As both the force of gravity and the force of a Steelpush should change as he changes mass?)

    Peter Ahlstrom

    There does appear to be a false dichotomy, but it’s about velocity rather than force.

    General Reddit 2022 ()
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    ZealousidealBid3493

    The way storing weight works in Feruchemy annoys me to no end, because regular laws of physics just don't work. Sazed once jumps from a height then reduces his weight to be light as a feather, but the energy should, in theory, stay the same, so his speed should increase to account for it, hence smashing into the ground at a massive speed. This is just one of the issues, there are many more like the one you present.

    That being said, I just thought about storing of weight as storing energy, in a sense, so that would fix the kinetic energy issue.

    Peter Ahlstrom

    It depends on where in his jump he starts storing the weight. I’ll have to look at the scene. We worked on making this consistent for the Era 2 leatherbounds, but did not do it for the Era 1 leatherbounds.

    General Reddit 2022 ()
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    Radix2309

    The Atium we experience in Era 1 is actually an alloy of Atium and Electrum called Nalatium. The stuff produced by the pits was naturally an alloy. 

    Peter Ahlstrom

    The name nalatium is not canon.

    Tetrarchon

    But what about alloys of lerasium with allomantic metals - can anyone still burn them to become a misting of that metal?

    Peter Ahlstrom

    Yes.

    General Reddit 2022 ()
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    somethingnuclear

    So I don’t know if this is ever addressed but what happened to Wax’s uncle Edwarn’s wife?

    I mean she was with Edwarn and Telsin in the faked carriage accident. The carriage ride was supposedly them trying to go see a particular vista but they couldn’t hike because of Edwarn’s wife’s inability to hike, at which point the carriage had an accident and everyone was reported as dead. As we later find out, this was faked and we see Edwarn and Tesin survived.

    They never mention what happened to Edwarn’s wife, however. Did she actually die in the carriage accident? If so, was that planned and Edwarn basically murdered his wife? If not, Will we see her show up as part of the Set?

    Peter Ahlstrom

    Yeah, she is dead. We may have clarified this a little in the Alloy of Law leatherbound, but I can’t remember for sure. The subject definitely came up.

    General Reddit 2022 ()
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    Isphus

    Gentlemen, i have gamed the system. [Diagram of infinite energy being generated by Terrisman storing weight on a Ferris Wheel.]

    Brandon Sanderson

    I realize this is mostly for fun, but I will say you have discovered the reason why weight manipulation feruchemy has to play by slightly different rules from most other parts of feruchemy, and why it fascinates Khriss so much. (To the point of going in person to interrogate someone on the subject, something she rarely does.)

    General Reddit 2022 ()
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    Jay_Gatsby123

    When Vin first meets Slowswift he mentions among other creatures ‘spren’!

    Wonder how he knows about them. What ties does he have

    Brandon Sanderson

    This swap was Peter's suggestion, I believe. He loved the idea of slipping in a minor Easter egg for the latest version.

    Unfortunately, spren weren't in the version of Roshar I had finished by 2005-6, and the writing of Mistborn 3.

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    chriseldonhelm

    Do you think you'll do the warbreaker sequal, if it comes before stormlight 6-10 or after?

    Brandon Sanderson

    I'm not promising this one, as I'm going to have to stretch to do Elantris 2 and 3, and they come first. But it is one of my goals.