i’m in the details Posted November 12, 2024 Posted November 12, 2024 In this recent-ish WoB: Brandon Sanderson We needed to come up with a name that is a little bit different than just Dragonsteel [for the convention], and we spent forever arguing. We finally landed on something; it does have Cosmere applications. We're just gonna call it Dragonsteel Nexus. There's no big convention named Nexus in fantasy/science fiction. We realized that, and it's also... (Secret!) It's the name of the perpendicularity at Silverlight; it's the Silverlight Nexus. C2E2 2024 (April 27, 2024) Brandon says that there is a perpendicularity at Silverlight. This implies that Silverlight exists either on or dimensionally adjacent to a planet. Not ground breaking you may say, but I can think of a few details this clears up. Mainly, that Silverlight isn't a wholly cognitive realm civilization. I for one thought that was a possibility. I also thought that it could be located in that cognitive anomaly on the Nathis map, but the city would have to have a perpendicularity that opened to the moon which doesn't seem likely. What are your theories on Silverlight? 2
Treamayne Posted November 12, 2024 Posted November 12, 2024 2 hours ago, i’m in the details said: Brandon says that there is a perpendicularity at Silverlight. This implies that Silverlight exists either on or dimensionally adjacent to a planet. Not ground breaking you may say, but I can think of a few details this clears up. Mainly, that Silverlight isn't a wholly cognitive realm civilization. I for one thought that was a possibility. I also thought that it could be located in that cognitive anomaly on the Nathis map, but the city would have to have a perpendicularity that opened to the moon which doesn't seem likely. What are your theories on Silverlight? Here's the only WoB I could find in this direction, which says "moon" is not far off: Spoiler Questioner Obviously the world covers different planets, but most people on all the individual planets don't know about the other planets. Is there a planet within the cosmere where worldhopping is common knowledge? Brandon Sanderson Is there a planet in the cosmere where worldhopping is common knowledge. Um… it's not a planet. Bystander It's a space station? *laughter* That's no moon! Brandon Sanderson That's not as far off as people laughing think that it is. *laughter* It's not a space station, it's not that futuristic, but there is a place in the cosmere where a lot of worldhoppers have settled, is where Iyatil is from, even though her ethnicity is not from there. Moderator Clarifying question… Is that place in the Physical Realm? Brandon Sanderson *laughs* RAFO! Footnote: Brandon has since confirmed that the worldhopper colony, named Silverlight, is located in the Cognitive Realm. JordanCon 2016 (April 23, 2016) We also know that the Yolish Dragons and Nalthian FIve Scholars were instrumental in early Silverlight: Spoiler Quote Cheyenne Sedai What research about the aethers is Xisis hoarding? Brandon Sanderson His biggest interest is how aethers break down, and he's really researching the water cycle, and trying to figure out how the seethe happens, because he's very interested in the decomposition of aethers, which is what's causing the seethe. That's what he is hoarding there. He's got quite the establishment in Silverlight as well. Silverlight was once upon a time a bunch of dragon palaces, they all still have their skyscrapers there, basically. He's taking a little detour for some decades on Lumar, but his home base would be in Silverlight. Cheyenne Sedai That kind of answers my follow up question, that was, is his scholarly seclusion typical of dragons, or just something unique to him? Brandon Sanderson He's taken a bit of seclusion, but I wouldn't say... There's a whole bunch of different things about dragons. If you've got a Tamu Kek, you can contact them, you can pray to them, and they can actually influence your emotions. They're all kind of like little mini gods. They're not immortal immortal, but they're pretty long lived and functionally immortal. They've been around for a while doing all kinds of stuff, so there's all kinds of things going on with them. Some of them will be secluded. Some of them take their duties very seriously, like Frost takes his duties very very very seriously. Other ones just don't care. You will get some themes with dragons, they do like bargains, they do tend to have their interests, they do tend to collect people and have either followers or corporations or things like that--I don't want to go too cyberpunk on us, but yeah. You'll notice some themes the more you get to know them. I will warn you, in the cosmere, there are more Anne McCaffrey style dragons, lesser dragons if you want, that do not have a human form. The greater dragons, as well call them, they're basically like amphibians, they have to spend a part of their life cycle in a humanoid form. They give birth in humanoid form, then have a transformation in puberty to dragon form, and then can go back and forth after that. But we've got some Anne McCaffrey style dragons, we've even got some little drakelings on one planet that are not six limbed and stuff like that. We'll eventually have some more dragons, but when I was writing the early books in the cosmere, we were a little dragon flooded with Eragon and How to Train Your Dragon, so I didn't write the dragon stories. But maybe some day. Cheyenne Sedai That's fascinating. And also, that means we got our Tamu Kek, which seems to be a theme with these because we always have a Tamu Kek somewhere. Brandon Sanderson One of the few ways to have an ansible in the cosmere in the early days, pre technology, if you wanted to communicate between planets, this is one of the only ways. Really handy to get a hold of one of those, or to get some seons. Before we get technological solutions, those were your two main ways to communicate across planets. Shardcast Interview (July 30, 2023) Quote FirstSelector I read that you had said if you had written Khriss' essay on Nalthis, it would have been more or less that she was talking about the magic, and then mention that there were scholars on this planet that were spitting distance from, like… Brandon Sanderson Yeah, yeah. FirstSelector So, Vasher, and maybe some of the other ones have been off world-- Brandon Sanderson Shashara has been, yeah. FirstSelector ...Are they known to the people at Silverlight? Like-- Brandon Sanderson Yeah, yeah. FirstSelector Like does Khriss know Vasher? Brandon Sanderson Know Vasher is a different question than know of Vasher. But they are widely regarded as early cosmere scholars... They are pioneers of this sort of stuff. So yes. Arcanum Unbounded Chicago signing (Dec. 6, 2016) Hope that helps 3
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