Questioner
What's going on in the other pole of Scadrial?
Brandon Sanderson
Oooh that's a big ol' RAFO. But it is a RAFO with a promise that you will find out before too long.
Questioner
So in these coming two Mistborn books, maybe? Because there was some mention of something to do with that, I thought, briefly, in Alloy of Law, just some vague--like there was something that had been found, or some brief contact, maybe...
Brandon Sanderson
*Brandon clears his throat, significantly* let me say this, so I don't spoil things. By the time we do the 1980's level technology, the whole world will have been explored. I mean, I can't really do the second trilogy, with-- I mean, by then, you know what the continents look like, and things. Even in Scadrial, where they just haven't explored nearly as much, but they're kind of behind on that so far, so sometime between now and then, exploration of the world has to happen.
Questioner
Good point. Because they didn't have the whole volcano thing going on.
Brandon Sanderson
No they didn't. They did not.
Questioner
How is there anyone alive over there?
Brandon Sanderson
Well, I can tell you this because it's in the annotations. The people down there were placed as kind of a control group to the changes that were made to the people of the north, where changes were made to live with the ash and things like that. But other changes were still made to them. Or changes happened to them, shall I say.