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Brandon Secretly Wrote Another Book, Stormlight 8


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We have a scoop for you today. Recently, a few of us at 17th Shard got to talk to Brandon, and he had a serious bombshell: he secretly wrote a book. Okay, none of us are shocked but that after the announcement of Bands of Mourning, but what we didn't expect was that the project was actually a fully formed Stormlight novel. Not Stormlight 3, but Stormlight 8.

"I've been working on this for a long time," Brandon had said. "I have all the Stormlight books plotted, and it was always the plan to skip certain books. We will get back to Stormlight 3-7 eventually."

We questioned further, and discovered the answer was time travel.

"Time travel has always been a strong component in the science fiction and fantasy community, and I wanted to do it justice. Temporal magics have a role in the Cosmere, as you've seen with cadmium and bendalloy. I've actually seeded this into the Stormlight novels, if you looked closely."

"The Truthwatchers watch every time period," he added.

But if this was truly the eighth Stormlight book, how would readers who have just read the first two avoid massive spoilers to the fifth book, which will still be a decisive climax, splitting the Stormlight Archive into two five book series.

"Since we are following specific characters into the future, they don't know what happens in book five either," Brandon said. When asked on how it would avoid spoiling who lived and died in books 3-7, Brandon just said, "Yeah, it's a fun first few chapters, when they find it all out."

It all makes sense. We're insanely excited to see if Brandon can pull this off. There's no release date for the 500,000 word tome, as it requires rewrites. Brandon joked that Tor may need to invent time travel to develop a machine able to print the massive, door-stopping book.

"I want to keep everyone guessing," Brandon said. "The fans, my characters. And now Tor can be added to the list of people guessing what will happen next."

When asked if he was simply going mad with power, Brandon cackled and did his best Emperor Palpatine impression. It was comparable to Eric's terrible impression, at least a 7/10. But we are sure that Stormlight 8 will be a 10/10. Though, technically, depending on how you count, it would be a 3/10 or 8/10.

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Damnation. I hate global time zones. I thought I was safe from April's Fools nearly 5 hours ago, then this...

 

Well played, Chaos, well played.

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I wish that was true, just a little bit. It would be fun to see what that would be like.

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Does he do that a lot?

Accidentally writing books? Considering Alloy was one of those unexpected books, yes :P Seriously, all the time.

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I saw that and I was like "really?" And then I was like "yeah, right." Good joke, Chaos. Good joke.

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My reaction: "He secretly wrote another book? Cool!...wait...Stormlight 8?...*facepalm* ". I hate April Fool's Day!

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According to a WoB I saw on Reddit, we'll see interludes from Axies, Rock, Pattern, Wayne, Steelheart, and a badchull Lift with an eyepatch from the future in this book. So excited!

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According to a WoB I saw on Reddit, we'll see interludes from Axies, Rock, Pattern, Wayne, Steelheart, and a badchull Lift with an eyepatch from the future in this book. So excited!

Also Stick is a main character. He becomes a Radiant.

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Also Stick is a main character. He becomes a Radiant.

 

That one surprised me, but in hindsight it seems obvious. Perhaps a little too obvious, actually--maybe Brandon's misleading us, and Stick's actually a Herald?

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That one surprised me, but in hindsight it seems obvious. Perhaps a little too obvious, actually--maybe Brandon's misleading us, and Stick's actually a Herald?

 

No you are all wrong. He's a shard. Adonalsium was actually a huge branch and then it shattered and gave us the stick!

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Damnation you can't do that to a guy. I fell asleep early and woke up, couldn't get back to sleep so decided to browse the web and my foggy sleep-filled mind almost exploded when I read this.

Also it would have been a cool idea if he actually did this. Maybe with a Mistborn far future book it could be plausible. Ah crap, thanks, now I'm never getting back to sleep.

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That one surprised me, but in hindsight it seems obvious. Perhaps a little too obvious, actually--maybe Brandon's misleading us, and Stick's actually a Herald?

His Knights Radiant, the Truthwoods, are pretty great.

I think you can guess what their oaths are.

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I probably shouldn't share this yet, but I couldn't help it! 

 

May I present the 5 oaths of the Truthwoods:

 

1. I am a Stick

2. I am a Stick

3. I am a Stick

4. I am a Stick

5. WE ARE STICK.

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SPOILERS, Zas.

The fifth ideal was such an amazing moment in the book. I nearly cried.

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Upon further questioning it was revealed that Lift had defeated the Voidbringers in book 7 by eating all their dinners, depressed that they had no dinner they all complained to Odium and left Roshar forever.

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