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Around the Cosmere 12/8


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Hey Sharders! This week’s delayed Around the Cosmere is brought to you by a lot of Dr Pepper and sleep deprivation. Isn’t finals week delightful? Anyway, there’s lots of cool stuff, so let’s get started!

Weekly Updates

There’s a new chapter of Mythwalker--chapter sixteen--that just went up. The new episode of Writing Excuses deals with how Brandon, Dan, Mary, and Howard construct settings, and give a few away. Very fascinating.

Most importantly for those in the Utah area, there are two signings next week. The first is in West Jordan, on December 15th, and the second is in Orem, on December 17th. If you go, might you take a look at the (slightly outdated) Ultimate List of Questions for Brandon and ask him something cool? wink.gif

Giveaways and Interviews

Our holiday giveaway was a smashing success (though, I suppose it couldn’t be anything except a success, considering we did, in fact, give away stuff) with 462 entrants. Sadly, we couldn’t give away 462 items. But those lucky eight who won should go check their email. I still haven’t heard from two of you. Maybe check your spam folder.

And speaking of other international contests, well, if you’re in New Zealand or Australia, you’re in luck: Helen Lowe is giving away two copies of The Alloy of Law for you guys. She also interviews Brandon, though for the cosmere-centric, this one doesn’t contain anything you don’t already know.

Seattle Signing

Suvudu.com has did a recording of the Seattle Alloy of Law Signing. For one thing, he read from a 20,000 word novella, Legion. Then, there’s a second video of the same signing, where he discusses Legion as well as doing a Q&A. Legion will be released by Subterranean Press, with probably a nicer edition, as well as a cheaper ebook edition for $3. The coolest part of Legion? It was written as pitch for a TV series, and guess what? Lionsgate has picked up rights for it. They haven’t signed the deal yet, but they say that they’ll film a pilot next spring.

In the Q&A, there’s some cool stuff about his publishing schedule. After A Memory of Light, there he’ll work on the next Stormlight book--not a big surprise. But in between Stormlight books, he’ll write Alloy sequels. Pretty dang awesome. Brandon plotted them at three or four books. He also reveals who will get flashback books for the first five Stormlight books. And in between the two five book arcs of Stormlight Archive? He’ll write the second Mistborn trilogy. Woot.

He talks about the Mistborn video game, which is definitely going through, and he is writing the dialogue and is doing a pass on the story for the game. Sweet. And he doesn’t say in this signing, but we do know that the Mistborn video game will be set 200 years after the Lord Ruler’s Ascension. We have a discussion topic on this Seattle signing over here.

Forum Highlights

IvoryRoad posted a topic about your favorite moments in the Mistborn series. Ben McSweeney (aka Inkthinker), the wonderful artist who did Shallan’s sketches in the Way of Kings, the Alloy of Law Broadsheet ARC, and the art in the Mistborn Adventure Game, posted some higher-resolution images of the broadsheet, including a prototype. Take a look.

Then, for the very OCD fans (aka 99% of us), there’s a topic about what new, non-canonical, but 17th Shard standard term we should use for tapping a lot from your metalminds. The problem revolves around the fact that the word “compounding” is used for both this effect and the stuff Miles did, only one is compounding, and the other is Compounding. Quite confusing, so we’re on a quest to potentially clear up that ambiguity, at least on this site. And boy, many, many terms are discussed. It’s a very heated topic right now. Post and let your preference be heard!

Sweet Theories

And now for some theories that may be of interest. As usual, this section of Around the Cosmere has some slight spoilers.

We have one where perhaps Hoid founded the Worldbringers, and it’s looking like people are coming to a consensus on that matter. Then there’s the major revelation, confirmed by Brandon himself, that there are ten core Shardworlds. Realize that if you count up the known cosmere books, we only know seven of those--and those are just the core worlds. Awesome. Also, there is a Q&A in that topic as well.

There’s a theory about the nature of Hoid and his relationship with Adonalsium. Speaking of Hoid, there’s a theory that he has a method of hiding himself to Shards on worlds. Lastly, there’s also additional discussion regarding the people accompanying Galladon in the Way of Kings. One of his compatriots is from a book that hasn’t been published yet, but the other is from a world we’ve seen, and the description in Way of Kings supposedly match his description in that other novel. Get on it, all you Sherlocks.

Well that’s it for this installment! See you next week, and ideally on time.

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Baby Kaladin & I should be at the signing on the 17th, so I'll pick a couple things to ask him. :) Anything specific I should ask, or should I just pick my favorites?

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Actually, I'm glad to read about the plans of Brandon. But it's a big risk to plan for 20 years, and the end of the Cosmere-cycle is sooo far away. I hope I will read all the novels you wrote about.

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@Plediades - Pick the ones you like! I may PM you if I think of something particularly good though.

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