I read some stuff, it’s pretty old, about the sequel to Elantris. Are you still planning on doing it, and is it the same thing?
It’s still the same thing, and I’m still planning to do Sarene’s uncle, Kiin, and his family as the main characters.
And do we get to learn more about the monks, the Dakhor?
The Dakhor, yes. You will find more about them, it will take place over in, uh, Fjorden.
I was wondering about the Ryshadium. So, they can’t be tamed, so where do you go to [get them from]?
You will find out some of this in Book 3.
Do you think we are likely to get another story in the Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell world?
Yeah, you’ll probably get another story in the same world, just different characters.
Brandon recommended the writings of Brent Weeks and Brian McClellan multiple times to various questioners asking for authors with a similar writing style to Brandon. Especially the book The Black Prism.
I was wondering, is Nightblood a Shardblade?
Nightblood is an attempt by someone who didn’t know how Shardblades were made to create a Shardblade using a different magic system.
How does Harmony know about radio?
There are actually two answers to this. First, Harmony was given a grand understanding of the laws of the universe during his Ascension. Second, Preservation had some limited precognitive abilities. Either one of those can lead you to the answer.
Could an old [Feruchemist] go and transfer his Coppermind to his star pupil using Hemalurgy?
Like Deliberate…? Right. Ask me that question after you’ve read a few more Mistborn books.
Is there a limit to the amount of useful energy that can be extracted from an end-neutral system? Like Skimmers on a Terris wheel on opposite sides.
So... Skimmers by making their weight lighter, spinning the thing around, and things and then--
You got one on opposite sides--
Yeah you could totally do this. In my mind, the way I work this out is that it's no more-- having people do it and things like this-- yeah you could totally do that. The power for making this happen, you are drawing Spiritual energy into the Physical plane can power your motor. It's not power-negative, it's changing forms.
But in realistic terms that would be so much less cost-effective than other methods because Allomancers are expensive, but yeah you could just keep that going.
Same with Lifeless? Telling them to push a wheel around?
Yeah, the sustenance for life is coming directly from the Spiritual plane. So if you remove that, it wouldn't work. The whole idea from this is that energy is getting recycled back into the Spiritual plane when people are dying and things like that, so...
IF they were to fight with a lightsaber and a Shardblade, which would be able to cut through the other?
Depends on who’s world you're in, that's what I would say. Is Lucas writing it or am I?
Well say you are writing it, since we're--
If I'm writing it I say they bounce off of each other.
If an Allomancer found themselves on Nalthis or Roshar, would they be able to use chromium on someone using Stormlight or Breath?
I am staying away from answering too many questions like that until I start having it happen. But do know that the magics interact... some ways they interact very naturally, some ways, they don’t. One way I’ve released is, you could use bronze on most forms of Investiture to find it. So you can extrapolate that some of these things would work. But not necessarily all. All of them could be made to work.
In Shadows for Silence one of the characters refers to “Justice has died here.” Is that the actual Shard of Justice?
That’s a great theory! (Big grin, raised eyebrows.)
So I’ve noticed a certain syllable, “Vo,” that turns up in this book [Warbreaker] and also in Vorinism. Is there supposed to be a link between Vo, the First Returned, because there seem to be a great deal of similarities between the monks of Austre and the Ardents.
So there are, um, more links between the planets than people know about, and I’m not going to confirm or deny anything. But the fact that you’re finding words that are connecting, like Worldsingers and Worldbringers, says that there’s… intentional connections. I’m not [confirming a connection], I’m saying that these theories should not be dismissed out of hand.
Do the glyphs on Roshar have any fundamental connection to [the geography? Some confusion about if they’re connected to Sel
I’m not going to answer that yet, since I’m going to dig into what’s happening on Sel later.
Does Alloy of Law take place after the whole Stormlight sequence?
I have not nailed down the exact timing, but it’s at least after book 5 of Stormlight. Because I haven’t nailed down exactly how long
So alternate ending of Well of Ascension … *inaudible* three more spirits… *inaudible* if another Shard would show up [with the?] mist spirit, is that in [???]
That’s in *inaudible* There are things you don’t know about the mist spirit yet I am planning to reveal soon.
Have we met any of those three yet?
For what I was planning there, yes, you have.
The whole Cosmere thing, is there an end to it, and do you have a specific year in mind for when that will be?
Yes, there is an end. Here’s what has to be happen before I finish it. We have to do another two Mistborn trilogies, The Stormlight Archive, at least three Dragonsteel novels. That’s the soonest I can do. I’ll probably have to do a few more Elantris and Warbreaker, but that’s the minimum. Because the third Mistborn trilogy is where we bring things to a head.
Does the spren have to be present for a Surgebinder to have their abilities? Because with Dalinar, the Stormfather won’t be around all the time...
Good Question! Fortunately, the Stormfather is a little more omnipresent. Normally you’re gonna have to have your spren close, but the Stormfather absorbed... is basically Honor’s Cognitive Shadow, which means he’s got a connection to a lot of different things, so he’s not bound by a lot of the rules that others are.
How far away from the original Mistborn trilogy is The Stormlight Archive?
From the original Mistborn trilogy? 300 years-ish. It’s happening kind of… Just before The Alloy of Law era.
Is Stormlight an infinite resource or a finite one?
Stormlight is a renewing resource.
Does Hoid go to the same place the Elantrians are going?
Yes.
In Hero of Ages, I don’t quite understand why… the point of Hoid is in Fadrex, going around the city, gathering information…?
Not many people do! It’s an intentional secret, I have to wait a little while longer to explain it.
What are the odds of making a Stormlight RPG?
If the Mistborn RPG goes well, maybe in the future.
Have we seen Odium’s champion?
RAFO.
Imagine a hypothetical Shard of Tenacity. What happens when the Vessel of that Shard dies?
The magic will change drastically. Among other things, it would be very easy for practitioners of that magic to become Cognitive Shadows.
Is the programming-esque nature of the Dor a product of the power being in the Cognitive Realm or is it for some other reason?
A mixture of the Vessels' personalities, the fact that the power's in the Cognitive Realm, and the nature of Sel's focus.
When Khriss visits Scadrial, does Harmony know it?
*written* Some times He does. (more often than not, these days...) But it is possible to hide.
*spoken* Khriss doesn't have a lot of reasons to hide. She doesn't mind the attention, usually.
The short is this: A fan asked if there were any holidays in the Mistborn world. I jokingly said Koloss Head-Munching Day. Fans ran with it.
is Koloss Head-Munching Day when people munch on Koloss heads, or Koloss munch on people’s heads? Just want it to be clear.
It’s the day the koloss celebrate by having a nice head to eat.
How do you reason using such specific historic terms as “Messiah” & “utilitaristic” in Mistborn world?
What you are talking about is sometimes called the “translation question” in regards to fantasy novels.
The book—and the dialogue—weren’t in English & had to be translated. The translation uses similar English words to the originals.
So when the book uses a word like those, the translator from the original Mistborn language feels it is the closest approximation.
‘IronEyes’ at the end of AoL is actually Marsh? It could be any kandra could it not?
It could be a kandra, but I will tell you specifically that this time it is not. It is him.
Do Shardblades go to the Spiritual Realm when they haven’t been summoned?
The answer is in future books.
it seems that TLR still needed to store age “normally” but less. Did Miles ever have to store healing?
Yes. He did, but not in the normal way.
In Alloy of Law, are people still Snapping?
Sazed chose to alter the way Snapping works. It bothered him. It does happen, but differently.
Will we ever meet Elend and Vin again?
Elend and Vin have had their stories told.
Kel said he ended atium production for a few hundred years. Will atium reappear in Alloy & such, or did Sazed move the Pits?
RAFO. :)
Complex “magic” system in Mistborn, & the complex one in Elantris, what base ideas do you build from for this?
For Mistborn, Alchemy and biological metabolism. For Elantris, Chinese linguistics and geometry mixed.
loved Way of kings, can you say where shard blades go when not summoned or is it a Rafo
It is RAFO, but one that will be answered for sure.
Is Endowment's holder female?
RAFO. :)
What exactly is a dueling cane anyhow?
Some are flexible, like sparring swords, and are used for duels where blood is not needed.
Others are basically a big length of wood for hitting people, like a tonfa without the grip.
Do canes have a hilt like a sparring sword then? I always picture something like pic being used
Many have a hilt. However for most, there is no crossguard or the like.
And most don’t taper like that one. They are often of a uniform diameter all the way down. #torchat
You mentioned friday night in Seattle Allomacy has “FTL” built into it, any more hints you can share on how that would work
It involves where the lost energy from thermodynamic issues goes in certain Allomantic interactions
Is the recipient of the letter in Way of Kings also in Dragonsteel?
Yes. (Good question.)
If so would it be the person that Topaz gets mad at?
RAFO on the second one. I’ve already given you too much! :)
Will some of the loose ends in The Alloy of Law be tied up?
All of them will, but some are foreshadowing for the second main-line Mistborn trilogy.
your side characters often have physical infirmities. Can you explain why?
I feel that often, fiction tends to gloss over or ignore people like Clubs. So I find myself sticking them in.
i messaged earlier regarding #alloyoflaw appendix narrator, unaware of today’s torchat. maybe you can respond in the chat?
I haven’t been telling people the name of the appendix author. It is either Hoid or one of the 17th sharders. #torchat
The Almighty’s original name was Tanavast, yes/no?
Yes and no. The concept of the “Almighty” in Roshar has a lot of meanings, many of them wrong.
But the person who held the Shard Honor was originally named Tanavast?
Yes. You wiggled it out of me. That was the name of the original holder of the Shard Honor.
So Aona is a synonym for love, hmm? Is Charity the correct Shard name?
Not quite. I’m trying to remember what the guesses were for the other Shard on Sel. I may have dismissed them too quickly.
How about Mercy for Aona, then? The guesses for Skai’s Shard include Devotion, Obedience, and Order
Okay, I was right, then. Ha There’s something very ironic in all of this.
was reading the Liar sample chapters again today. Really want this book to come out… any idea when/if it will show up?
It’s a long way off. I’m displeased with some of the aspects of it mid-to-late in the book.
Is Roshar *broken* in some way? Shards, storms, Spren—everything there seems very fragmented.
Roshar is broken in some way. You are on to something there.
Do allomantic pushes and pulls apply forces only to an allomancer’s center of gravity?
Yes, they do.
Why is Sazed “unfortunately” the hero of ages? Why by depressed about it? He became a god and gets to see Vin etc.
He did not want the responsibility, and so he regards it that way.
whatever happened to the flute that Wit/Hoid gave Kaladin, why do I think it’s going to be insanely important in book 2?
Kaladin still has it
