Which Twinborn do you think is most useful?

[Trusk'our he/him]

18 minutes ago, SwordNimiForPresident said:

Dang, those are from forever ago. Wonder if his plans have changed at all. I don't think Era 2 was even a twinkle in his eye at that point was it? Or rather, I think that was supposed to be Era 2 and he hadn't thought up Wax and Wayne yet.

Wax and Wayne ended up overwriting some of his old plans for era 3, such as there being an Allomancer SWAT team.

So, some of that will end up changing, though I don't know about the main character's powers changing.

Spoiler

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/181-stormlight-three-update-4/#e3778

Argent

You've dropped a few tidbits about the plot of the next Mistborn series over the years. Putting all those things together, we have a nicrosil Ferring Terriswoman hacker recruited for fieldwork in an "Allomancer SWAT team" to chase a Mistborn serial killer. Could you give us a more recent and concise pitch/blurb if the above is no longer accurate?

Brandon Sanderson

Ha. That's not far off, as all of those things still exist in the series, though the weight I'll give them is relative. With the Alloy series covering some of the police procedural aspect of storytelling, I'm inching the outlines slowly away from the SWAT idea and toward more spy thriller--but the SWAT team isn't not gone completely. (Of course, who knows what will happen in the intervening years between now and when I write it.)

Spoiler

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/118-rfantasy-ama-2017/#e3691

quadquapters

I was surprised when I learned just how much more Mistborn you're planning on writing, and was even more surprised when I heard that the Wax and Wayne quadrilogy was only a spin-off and not part of your major plans for the series. But now I've found out you've decided to include those books as a major part of the larger series and instead do 4 different stories within it. Will this mean the next part (which I understood was going to take place in the more or less present) will be further into the future so as to space out each story? And what was the reasoning behind including Wax and Wayne in the main series?

Brandon Sanderson

I changed my opinions on Wax and Wayne after writing the first book, then outlining books 2-4 (which are a kind of "Trilogy" with these characters, when the first book was an experiment.)

I realized that the next era (which is still 1980's level technology) would work way better with some foundations in the W&W era. I'm very pleased what this did to Era Three, as it now is (1980s), because of the foundations in Era Two.

And yes, the next series will each go further into

 

[SwordNimiForPresident the sword/that sword]

@Trusk'our Interesting that it swapped from misting to ferring. Ferring makes more sense given the far more versatile ability it grants. Those are still pretty old WoB's too, so who knows what it will be by the time he gets around to writing it.

[Trusk'our he/him]

Just now, SwordNimiForPresident said:

@Trusk'our Interesting that it swapped from misting to ferring. Ferring makes more sense given the far more versatile ability it grants. Those are still pretty old WoB's too, so who knows what it will be by the time he gets around to writing it.

I think that's more a misunderstanding on the part of the questioner, as I can't find any reliable sources backing that particular claim up, but the misunderstanding between Misting and Ferring is very plausible. 

[Steel Speedster ♂]

On 7/27/2024 at 5:19 PM, SwordNimiForPresident said:

Dang, those are from forever ago. Wonder if his plans have changed at all. I don't think Era 2 was even a twinkle in his eye at that point was it? Or rather, I think that was supposed to be Era 2 and he hadn't thought up Wax and Wayne yet.

I’m guessing that’s still his plan. Probably why we didn’t get to see any nicrobursts in era 2.

[SwordNimiForPresident the sword/that sword]

55 minutes ago, Speeding Steelrunner said:

I’m guessing that’s still his plan. Probably why we didn’t get to see any nicrobursts in era 2.

Maybe. Though I do think he meant nicrosil ferring rather than misting. There’s not a ton of depth to a nicroburst’s powers where as a soulbearer has implications for the entire cosmere.

Edited July 29, 2024 by SwordNimiForPresident

[Steel Speedster ♂]

5 hours ago, SwordNimiForPresident said:

Maybe. Though I do think he meant nicrosil ferring rather than misting. There’s not a ton of depth to a nicroburst’s powers where as a soulbearer has implications for the entire cosmere.

The thing is, Brandon never mentioned a nicrosil Ferring in these WoBs. The questioner said Ferring, and Brandon didn't offer a correction, but it's likely he just didn't notice. We haven't seen A-nicrosil used once as far as I know, and we have seen (indirect) use of F-nicrosil with the medallions.

I think it actually will be quite interesting to see a nicroburst. A nicroburst can't do anything on their own, but that means that instead we'll be seeing cool interactions with other Allomantic powers.

A Soulbearer on the other hand can't really do anything without having other powers. I think of F-nicrosil (along with F-aluminum) as being a utility power--something that you can use to manipulate Investiture and create interesting things (like using F-nicrosil to create medallions, or F-aluminum to create unkeyed metalminds)--but not something that's interesting to watch someone use.

Edited July 29, 2024 by Speeding Steelrunner

[alder24]

6 hours ago, SwordNimiForPresident said:

Maybe. Though I do think he meant nicrosil ferring rather than misting.

52 minutes ago, Speeding Steelrunner said:

The thing is, Brandon never mentioned a nicrosil Ferring in these WoBs.

I'm guessing it's an error on the questioner's side. She was planned as a Misting, he said it in one of the earliest WoBs from 2009, when it still was Era 2:

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Sensitivemuse

Are you going to write more about the Mistborn? There's still those mysterious metals, and it's a brand new world out there now so many possibilities you could do with that!

Brandon Sanderson

I will, someday, write a follow-up trilogy to Mistborn. It will be set several hundred years after the events of the first trilogy, after technology has caught up to where it should be. Essentially, these will be urban fantasy stories set in the same world. Guns, cars, skyscrapers—and Allomancers.

That's still pretty far off, though. The other metals are being revealed on the poster I'm releasing of the Allomantic table. Should be for sale on my website sometime soon, though someone here can probably link to the image I posted of it, which has the other metals explained. (I can't remember where exactly that link is right now.)

Hero of the new trilogy would be a nicrosil Misting.

Barnes and Noble Book Club Q&A (July 8, 2009)

And in 2011 he said it's something he wants to explore because it's important for the future:

Spoiler

MindCanaries

Why did you settle on a Nicrosil Misting for your second Mistborn trilogy? Did you consider any other types?

Brandon Sanderson

I considered others, but in the end this was one aspect of the magic system I hadn't explored yet but which is very important for the future of the series. I wanted to start establishing it.

/r/fantasy AMA 2011 (Aug. 31, 2011)

[SwordNimiForPresident the sword/that sword]

@Speeding Steelrunner@alder24

Could be. Just seems odd that it could be so important given that, as it is described, it is a less convenient form of A-duralumin. Maybe it's important because of compounding?

I feel like the "foundation" that he mentions Era 2 establishing in that WoB is F-nicrosil though. It seems like it is probably going to be fairly important going forward.

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

I think that this one is the scariest. 

DOUBLE CHROMIUM!

Theoretically, one of these could take down even a Gold Compounder. I imagine it like a bad sit-com scene where the hero is tripping over their feet, miraculously avoiding a bullet, or stepping on a rake, flipping it into the face of the villain, but it would probably be different though. We can only hope it's not.

Edit: double chromium drawing Aons, all perfect and immensely powerful. Also, with breath, they could just stumble onto incredibly powerful commands. Money wouldn't be a problem, because you would just find it everywhere. They would be unstoppable. 

Edited November 19, 2024 by ThatOneWorldhopper

[Alumínio he/him]

If you asked me on any different day of my life I would say Duraluminium for the myriad of things it can do and how it would help me in life, but I've been dying of illness in my bed for 4 days, what I wouldn't give for F-gold right now

[Through the Living Hopper He/Him]

Sorry to hear that.