masaru Posted December 30, 2014 Report Share Posted December 30, 2014 Well let's start the speculation: https://twitter.com/BrandSanderson/status/550075550853636096/photo/1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyPilgrim Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) What a tease that man is. I am going to go out on a limb and say that it is either a. what it sounds like: something secret he has never mentioned before or b. (since it is somewhat unlikely he has something secret that he didn't mention in the new State of the Sanderson) one of the Elantris sequels. Edited December 31, 2014 by GreyPilgrim Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oudeis Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 I KNOW, RIGHT?!?! Other possibility: He's writing trashy romance novels to make ends meet and is ashamed to admit it. 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kobold King Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Other possibility: He's writing trashy romance novels to make ends meet and is ashamed to admit it. The Nightblood/Stick romance novel we've all been secretly praying for? 8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Slater Posted December 31, 2014 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) "There's always another secret." SANDERSON!!!!! Edited December 31, 2014 by Slater130 19 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyPilgrim Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 What has clearly occurred is that one of the SanderBots™ has achieved sentience and started to conceive and write its own stories. 16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slater Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Or Hoid has found a way into the real world and decided to takeover writing Liar of Partinel. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newan Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Check out the document fragment on the right edge of the screenshot. ...Lutha......udien... ...rturn... ...re it ... ...ier's... ...for a... Luthadel... audience... overturned... were it... Kelsier's... for a... I'll have to pack this away in my "Extremely tenuous evidence that Kelsier is coming back" folder in my brain. 15 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zas678 Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Why on earth does he NOT have Kelsier added to his dictionary? He's only used a couple hundred times in the MB trilogy. Also, this is going to be something that people are going to bother Brandon about the entire tour. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post PeterAhlstrom Posted December 31, 2014 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 The secret thing is not worth speculating about because no one will know anything about it anytime in 2015. The background document is much more interesting. 20 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderfan Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) Check out the document fragment on the right edge of the screenshot. Luthadel... audience... overturned... were it... Kelsier's... for a... I'll have to pack this away in my "Extremely tenuous evidence that Kelsier is coming back" folder in my brain. The secret thing is not worth speculating about because no one will know anything about it anytime in 2015.The background document is much more interesting. More evidence for my theory that Kelsier never "moved on," even after HoA. Perhaps in the two new Wax and Wayne books we'll get to find out more. Or maybe not until the third Mistborn trilogy, which would be a very long wait. Grr. Edit: And Brandon seriously never added "Kelsier" to his computer's dictionary? Edited December 31, 2014 by sanderfan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistdork Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) hmm, Peter the Troll strikes again. >.> That secret was edited the same day as his Alcatraz 5 folder (8/12/14) and around the same time (1:13 for Alcatraz 5, 1:14 for the 'secret'); my theory is it's Alcatraz 6, though, I can't remember when that's supposed to be released... Either that, or Elantris 2. More evidence for my theory that Kelsier never "moved on," even after HoA. Perhaps in the two new Wax and Wayne books we'll get to find out more. Or maybe not until the third Mistborn trilogy, which would be a very long wait. Grr. Pretty much canon by this point...he's just a cognitive shadow who has a little too much sway over events... Part of me hopes though that this is really a sign of either a Marsh, Kel, or Sazed POV - probably Marsh - since, the view point character may have a more...personal connection to Luthadel (or it's history)... Mind you, this argument is about as solid as water vapor, but I wouldn't mind seeing Marsh's view point again... Edited December 31, 2014 by Nymp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Oudeis Posted December 31, 2014 Popular Post Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 The secret thing is not worth speculating about ... You're adorable. Like a thing has to be worth speculating about for us to speculate about it. 29 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderfan Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Pretty much canon by this point...he's just a cognitive shadow who has a little too much sway over events... (Part me hopes though that this is really a sign of either a Marsh, Kel, or Sazed POV - probably Marsh - since, the view point character may have a more...personal connection to Luthadel (or it's history)... Mind you, this argument is about as solid as water vapor, but I wouldn't mind seeing Marsh's view point again... That's true, but there's still a lot that's not answered. Is Kel choosing to stick around, or does he want to move on and is stuck? How is he a cognitive shadow anyway? What sort of stuff is he capable of doing as a shadow? And a Marsh or Sazed or Kesier POV would be amazing. We'll just have to wait and see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mistdork Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 (edited) That's true, but there's still a lot that's not answered. Is Kel choosing to stick around, or does he want to move on and is stuck? How is he a cognitive shadow anyway? What sort of stuff is he capable of doing as a shadow? And a Marsh or Sazed or Kesier POV would be amazing. We'll just have to wait and see... Okay, quick thing here. Since spren are based off the ideal/form in the spiritual realm (like fire spren), one can suppose that while other worlds don't have cultivated, living ideas; they still have ideals represented in the other realms, or so I would think... On Scadrial they have this religion where they believe that the Survivor isn't dead (even immortal...) and because of this, an ideal form of this idea would supposedly exist in the spiritual realm... In this case, though, because Kel stuck around (originally of his own free will, perhaps), and after hijacking Preservation he may have had some idea of what might happen or he may have decided to stick around to fulfill the role that the Church of the Survivor had made for him (or been 'forced' to do it). It might even be a combination... Though, really, this is just pure speculation at this point. And it jumps around a lot too, sorry. Edited January 1, 2015 by Nymp 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sanderfan Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 That's basically my theory as well, but like you said, it's pure speculation. I'm guessing we'll get more info in the new Wax and Wayne books, but maybe not at all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steel Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Could this be a Cosmere calendar? It seems to be arranged in chronological order... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Relevant quote from Brandon's facebook: Brandon SandersonRegarding the Secret Project: it is one of two things I am working on that I couldn't mention in my "State of the Sanderson" post a few weeks back, as both spoil things by existing. Neither are finished and neither will be out in 2015. Sorry to be unable to say more! 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyPilgrim Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 I'm starting to suspect Brandon only posted that picture to torture us. All he needed to say was that the outline for Calamity was finished and tell us it is his 38th book. The picture amounts to mere cruel and unusual punishment. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecatinthehat Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Why on earth does he NOT have Kelsier added to his dictionary? He's only used a couple hundred times in the MB trilogy.And why is he using such a large font size? And monotype face? It's surely a teaser. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyPilgrim Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 And why is he using such a large font size? And monotype face? Judging from the , that is how he writes all of his books. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Can we talk about how there are close to thirty books Brandon has worked on, on some scale, in 2014? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 Can we talk about how there are close to thirty books Brandon has worked on, on some scale, in 2014? You mean the edit dates? He and Peter have explained those as archived versions of new editions and lists for the "Where people can buy this" that are on Brandon's site. And typo fixing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argent Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 You mean the edit dates? He and Peter have explained those as archived versions of new editions and lists for the "Where people can buy this" that are on Brandon's site. And typo fixing. Shush. I was tricking people into hype. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GreyPilgrim Posted December 31, 2014 Report Share Posted December 31, 2014 You mean the edit dates? He and Peter have explained those as archived versions of new editions and lists for the "Where people can buy this" that are on Brandon's site. And typo fixing. Realistically, though, he has worked on at least 10. Words of Radiance (#30) through Calamity (#38), and the other Unfinished Secret he mentioned. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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