lilmage99 She/Her Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 A Thread of All My Favorite Arcanum Bits I've been reading the Arcanum A lot lately and making a little treasure trove of my favorite parts hee hee. Happy to share them with y'all! Feel free to post your own in the replies! The first few entries will be screenshots of the Arcanum but going forward I'll use the Copy Text + Link method (I don't wanna go back and find all the ones I currently have again ) Still getting used to the formatting of forum space so pls go easy on me if I look like a total Noob Spoiler ^ This was a big discussion topic between me and the friend who got me into the Cosmere. We were pondering over how Lifts food to Stormlight Metabolism works. So I was delighted to find this! Spoiler ^ Theoretically, eh Brandon? Spoiler ^ I love Sigzil Spoiler ^ (Mistborn Era 1 Spoilers) Spoiler This for me confirms the ability to merge the shards and create whole new Shards. Harmony isn't just holding Preservation and Ruin, but has created a New thing. 3
TwinStorm He/Him Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 14 minutes ago, lilmage99 said: A Thread of All My Favorite Arcanum Bits I've been reading the Arcanum A lot lately and making a little treasure trove of my favorite parts hee hee. Happy to share them with y'all! Feel free to post your own in the replies! The first few entries will be screenshots of the Arcanum but going forward I'll use the Copy Text + Link method (I don't wanna go back and find all the ones I currently have again ) Still getting used to the formatting of forum space so pls go easy on me if I look like a total Noob Reveal hidden contents ^ This was a big discussion topic between me and the friend who got me into the Cosmere. We were pondering over how Lifts food to Stormlight Metabolism works. So I was delighted to find this! Reveal hidden contents ^ Theoretically, eh Brandon? Reveal hidden contents ^ I love Sigzil Reveal hidden contents ^ (Mistborn Era 1 Spoilers) Hide contents This for me confirms the ability to merge the shards and create whole new Shards. Harmony isn't just holding Preservation and Ruin, but has created a New thing. heeheehee I love the Spoiler Taln never broke wob their all pretty cool I love being in a fandom with an author that says stuff
lilmage99 She/Her Posted January 13, 2025 Author Posted January 13, 2025 Spoiler Oh we got joooookkkeeeesss Spoiler I'm cackling at the "So is it going to do the breaking of the Shards?" Something about the phrasing made me giggle. Also eternally waiting in anticipation for Dragonsteel Novels. Give. Me. Hoid. Or. Give. Me. Death. 2
Through The Living Glass She/They Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 12 minutes ago, lilmage99 said: Hide contents Oh we got joooookkkeeeesss Hide contents I'm cackling at the "So is it going to do the breaking of the Shards?" Something about the phrasing made me giggle. Also eternally waiting in anticipation for Dragonsteel Novels. Give. Me. Hoid. Or. Give. Me. Death. Yes, the puns are so good
TwinStorm He/Him Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 25 minutes ago, lilmage99 said: Reveal hidden contents Oh we got joooookkkeeeesss Reveal hidden contents I'm cackling at the "So is it going to do the breaking of the Shards?" Something about the phrasing made me giggle. Also eternally waiting in anticipation for Dragonsteel Novels. Give. Me. Hoid. Or. Give. Me. Death. I can't wait to see Ati and Tanavast and Rayse and Valor and and and 1
Treamayne Posted January 13, 2025 Posted January 13, 2025 38 minutes ago, lilmage99 said: The first few entries will be screenshots of the Arcanum but going forward I'll use the Copy Text + Link method (I don't wanna go back and find all the ones I currently have again) Lift: Spoiler Quote Questioner Is there any relationship between the Lift’s ability to eat food and create Stormlight [Lifelight] and Scadrians’ ability to eat metal and burn it? Brandon Sanderson Yes. Dragonsteel Nexus 2024 (Dec. 5, 2024) Related, but longer: Quote Argent Does Lift turn food into Investiture directly or is it similar to the metals on-- Brandon Sanderson Similar to the metals. Argent So like a gate? Brandon Sanderson Yes. Argent Okay, that's good to know. Brandon Sanderson She can metabolize-- She can draw-- It's not actually the food, it's-- It's not like the metals, not exactly. It's not-- What she can do is she can metabolize into Investiture instead of sugar. Does that make sense? Argent Yeah. Brandon Sanderson We metabolize food into sugar. She can metabolize it into Investiture. Does that make sense? Argent That makes a lot of sense. So if she eats-- Brandon Sanderson She's got to have a blood sugar spike. Argent So if she eats like a cake it will give her more Investiture-- Brandon Sanderson Faster. It will give her faster. Argent Whereas if she eats a vegetable... Brandon Sanderson Vegetable... More calories is going to equal more. But the better comparison would be a sausage and bread. Because bread is a fast blood sugar spike and the sausage is not. And that's how I'm working in my head. It's kind of a magical version of a blood sugar spike and I have it happen to her faster than it could happen. Like normally you eat a piece of bread and your blood sugar spikes in a half hour, it's going to go faster for Lift. Argent Hers is like five minutes. Brandon Sanderson Hers is like five minutes, but a sausage would be slower. Firefight Chicago signing (Feb. 20, 2015) Shallan: Spoiler Questioner Shallan has bonded two spren. Is it possible for a spren to bond two people? Brandon Sanderson This is theoretically possible. Dragonsteel Nexus 2024 (Dec. 5, 2024) Sigzil: Spoiler ant_tree (paraphrased) Can you give me a fun fact about Sigzil? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) He knows how to read Alethi women's script. He learned it in school. C2E2 2024 (April 26, 2024) Sazed: Spoiler Thanatos17901 If Sazed were to die, would he drop the Shards Ruin and Preservation, or would he drop the Shard Harmony? Brandon Sanderson Excellent question. The shards are now intermingled, and would take effort to split apart. He would drop Harmony. (This is what Odium feared would happen, by the way.) /r/fantasy AMA 2013 (April 23, 2013) (Mistborn Era 1 Spoilers) In Cosmere discussion, you do not need to spoiler tag older material - all Preview material and any new releases need to be tagged (and prefereably in the correct Spoiler Zone for new releases). In a specific section (such as the Stormlight Archive Forum) then this would need a spoiler tag - except the Mistborn Forum. Each series Forum must tag and cover all spoilers outside of that section's stories. Spoiler Policy: Spoiler Spoiler and Unpublished Works Policy Unpublished work that has not been publicly released by Brandon and his team (including the original manuscript of Dragonsteel), may not be discussed on any 17th Shard platform. Publicly available chapters or samples of unpublished work may be only discussed in the appropriate forum or Discord channel. If in a book specific forum or channel, you wish to refer to another series please use spoiler markup or, if appropriate, move to a full spoiler channel. A reference to what the spoiler is related to, should also be included. (eg. OB (SPOILER)) Forum: The ‘eye’ button will create a spoiler box in which text and images can be added. Discord: Add || to either side of a sentence without spaces at the beginning or end (eg. ||spoilers||) Forum: Stick to the appropriate forum. Check forum board description if you are unsure. Spoiler topics posted in non-spoiler forums must contain ‘Spoiler’ in the topic title. New books can be discussed without spoiler tags in the dedicated new book subforum/area only. Topic titles should not contain spoilers You are strongly encouraged to post topics on new works in the new book subforum/area only. If you must reference something in a spoiler period outside those forums, you must spoiler tag it. <snip> Spoiler Period and Spoiler Period Lengths for Forums and Discord: Cosmere novels - six months Cosmere everything else - three months Non-cosmere novels - three months Non-cosmere everything else - one month Hope that helps 1
lilmage99 She/Her Posted January 13, 2025 Author Posted January 13, 2025 @Treamayne You're a gem, truly, thank you so much for being so helpful 1
lilmage99 She/Her Posted January 18, 2025 Author Posted January 18, 2025 Spoiler Ahoymatey Brandon, I just wanted to confirm that you did have a couple of cameos as Slowswift? Or was that mean to be someone else? Chaos I'm pretty sure Slowswift is Hoid. The Ars Arcanum says he "bears a striking resemblance to a storyteller", which I take to mean Hoid. Brandon Sanderson Slowswift is an homage to Grandpa Tolkien. A study of his personality will reveal why that name was chosen for him. Hoid appears in that same chapter, but Vin doesn't meet him. Something he does spooks her. She's just too darn observant for her own good. Footnote: This is the first time Brandon mentions Hoid outside of the books themselves. Hero of Ages Q&A - Time Waster's Guide (Oct. 15, 2008) FIRST MENTION OF HOID FOUND. I'm digging deep into the archives and reading all the lore. I don't care if it takes me a billion years. Spoiler Qarlin Who were Ruin and Preservation? I mean, when they died, they had bodies, like Vin. And you went as far as to describe their hair color (Red and Black, respectively). Preservation even had a prominent nose. Why describe their dead bodies, if they weren't at one time mortals themselves? They created humans, but were at one time human themselves? Brandon Sanderson RAFO. (Sorry.) Hero of Ages Q&A - Time Waster's Guide (Oct. 15, 2008) Mistborn : Hero of Ages : Preservation : Ruin Hee hee it's so cool to see how much we know now, when at the time Brandon was RAFOing whether or not Preservation and Ruin had been humans themselves 1
lilmage99 She/Her Posted January 18, 2025 Author Posted January 18, 2025 Spoiler Vegasdev How many moons circle Scadrial, i.e. when the planet was moved were the moons moved as well? Brandon Sanderson Scadrial has no moons. I think I let slip the phrase "he's mooning over her" somewhere in the third book, but that is just a translation quirk to English. These people have no concept of a moon. There is a very bright star patch, however, covering much of the sky—much brighter than on Earth. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/243/#e6089 It amazes me that I never considered someone writing a world without a moon until I realized Scadrial has no moon. With how much sci-fi I consume I'm surprised I never thought about it sooner Spoiler Questioner (paraphrased) Was Elantris intended to be a zombie story? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yes, but he disguised it so that it would not be typecast as a horror story by potential readers. He wanted to do a story about heroic zombies, since he had never heard of such a tale. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/265/#e7195 This made me giggle, hero zombies
TwinStorm He/Him Posted January 18, 2025 Posted January 18, 2025 11 hours ago, lilmage99 said: Reveal hidden contents Vegasdev How many moons circle Scadrial, i.e. when the planet was moved were the moons moved as well? Brandon Sanderson Scadrial has no moons. I think I let slip the phrase "he's mooning over her" somewhere in the third book, but that is just a translation quirk to English. These people have no concept of a moon. There is a very bright star patch, however, covering much of the sky—much brighter than on Earth. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/243/#e6089 It amazes me that I never considered someone writing a world without a moon until I realized Scadrial has no moon. With how much sci-fi I consume I'm surprised I never thought about it sooner Reveal hidden contents Questioner (paraphrased) Was Elantris intended to be a zombie story? Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Yes, but he disguised it so that it would not be typecast as a horror story by potential readers. He wanted to do a story about heroic zombies, since he had never heard of such a tale. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/265/#e7195 This made me giggle, hero zombies which is why the Wax and Wayne pun is even more ridiculous 2
lilmage99 She/Her Posted January 18, 2025 Author Posted January 18, 2025 1 hour ago, Ookla the Irreplaceable said: which is why the Wax and Wayne pun is even more ridiculous I literally never thought about their names like that lol
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