ROSHtaFARian2.0 Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 It definitely sounds like the first hint of how allomancy could lead to accessing Shadesmar, and from there, worldhopping.
ParadoxicalZen he/him Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 It might explain how Scadrial becomes more cosmere aware is Saze doesn't spill the beans perhaps
Argent he/him Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 I speculated somewhere - or thought I did - that access to Shadesmar is a requirement for futuresight. This seems to confirm it. I just wish I remembered the context I speculated this for...
Argent he/him Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 But now, for my next trick - the same as my previous one! More AMA! https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/3f19ob/brandon_sanderson_or_rfantasys_dan_brown/ctmghpq?context=10000 Q: I'm wondering: do you have any other ideas for interesting magic systems you might use in the future? A: I've always got a few bouncing around in my head. Lately, I've found myself more interested in curious and unusual settings than I have magics. (Latest is a world that is surrounded by an envelope of water, much as the ancients imagined water surrounding the earth before the flood happened. So, like, five or six hundred feet up into the air you have an ocean. Beyond that, space and the sun.) https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctmghwg?context=10000 Q: Did these [blood types] arise naturally on Roshar, or did Honor/Cultivation get lazy on templating humanity and copying existing? A: RAFO. (Sorry.) https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctmgk3k?context=10000 Q: If Gavilar was still alive, would he most likely have aligned himself to or taken actions most similar to Dalinar, Amaram or Taravangian? In other words, which of the three is best acting out his will? A: I can say he would align with one of them most certainly, but I want to RAFO this for now. (Though I might have made it clear elsewhere and not be remembering.) https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/3f19ob/brandon_sanderson_or_rfantasys_dan_brown/ctmgq7c?context=10000 Q: I was curious, have you ever thought about making an RPG companion for Stormlight like you did for Mistborn? A: I have, and maybe we will some day. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctmgsxf?context=10000 Q: Vasher had a strange reaction when Vivenna mentioned Clod to him. Was Clod someone that Vasher knew in life? Or was this a reaction of his general disapproval of the Lifeless in general? A: No, Vasher has a connection to that particular lifeless. It was indeed someone Vasher knew in life. Q: Can't wait to see Nightblood in Roshar. Assuming he feeds on Stormlight rather than breath, he's going to be much "cheaper" to use. A: Cheaper indeed. But don't underestimate his hunger. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctmgxrr?context=10000 Q: Actually, my theory is that Braize is both the TQ and Damnation. Gamers will all be familiar with the concept of rezzing after you die, often at a specific place. The legend is that humans were forced out of the TQ and followed to Roshar. If Odium attacked and conquered Braize, and Honor created the heralds before he and Cultivation moved humans to Roshar, then the heralds might very well be rezzing on enemy-held Braize each day as described in the WoK prologue. Against the combined armies of the entire planet they get ganked as described in the prologue, only to rez the next day (kind of like the rez timers in World of Warcraft :-)). WoR confirms that Braize was called Damnation, but I think it is now damnation, and was once the TQ. A: Excellent theories, strange gaming parallels notwithstanding. Take from this what you will... https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctmh4nd?context=10000 Q: Are Feruchemists the Batman of the Cosmere? They can beat anyone with enough time to prep? Also, will steel minds be used in some way for the FTL travel you plan to have in the third trilogy? A: They are very versatile, but I'd say that Elantrians--on their home turf--could win in that department. They things they could do with enough preparation are even more impressive. As for FTL, RAFO. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctnpmnx?context=10000 Q: Metals act a lot like little microscopic molecular structure aons, right? Does that mapping go all the way? Like, if someone had a million bulldozers and a lot of time, could they reshape the geography and city into a giant 'brass-molecule'-equivalent aon, and turn all the Elantrians into soothers? A: This is one of the more unusual questions I've been asked. And I've been asked a lot of them. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctnpnay?context=10000 Q: Had Gemmel ever met Zane? A: Yes. I'm not saying that meeting was particularly relevant. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctnpnow?context=10000 Q: Is [the flute the Lord Ruler played the one] Hoid gave to Kaladin? A: RAFO. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctnpo5b?context=10000 Q: Are the Ten Essences from Stormlight inspired from the ancient Chinese theory of the Five Elements, which is often used to explain various physiological and pathological phenomena in traditional Chinese medicine? A: Yes. Part came from there. Part came from Jewish mysticism. Part came from the idea of fundamental forces. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctnpok0?context=10000 Q: Can a person holding a shard voluntarily give up the shard? Vin gave it up by killing herself, but could Harmony/Sazed just decide to quit?[1] A: I will answer this eventually in the books. So a RAFO with a promise that you will actually get the FO part. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctnpp1o?context=10000 Q: Could you give us a snippet about the Dustbringers? Or Willshapers? A: Dustbringers never liked their name, and tried hard to get people to use another title for them. Q: Will the Everstorm result in a influx of Radiants? A: RAFO. 2
Guest Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 Hmmmm the snippet on the Dustbringer hardly is new material: we already knew that.
WeiryWriter he/him Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 Hmmmm the snippet on the Dustbringer hardly is new material: we already knew that. We knew it from an in-world source that could very well have been "sanitized" by the Vorin church (it's mentioned they did so with other books during the Hierocracy). This however is an objective confirmation, and one I was hoping to get (though in reality I would rather have the reverse).
Guest Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 We knew it from an in-world source that could very well have been "sanitized" by the Vorin church (it's mentioned they did so with other books during the Hierocracy). This however is an objective confirmation, and one I was hoping to get (though in reality I would rather have the reverse). Good point: I had not thought of that. I guess I had figured it must have been true as the information from the in-world source did not seem so off, on a general basis. I am curious though, why would you have preferred if it had been wrong?
WeiryWriter he/him Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 Because "Dustbringers" fits the naming convention of the Orders of Knights Radiant, "Releasers" does not. I don't like when names like this don't follow the convention. (it's also why I'd much prefer sazedium over harmonium, but noooo Sazed has to go and not like the sound of it.) 2
Guest Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 Because "Dustbringers" fits the naming convention of the Orders of Knights Radiant, "Releasers" does not. I don't like when names like this don't follow the convention. (it's also why I'd much prefer sazedium over harmonium, but noooo Sazed has to go and not like the sound of it.) Oh but the WoB implies the original name was indeed Dustbringer which follows the convention. The Dustbringers themselves advocated for another name probably because theirs made them sound as the angels of doom. So Releaser is not the proper name: it merely is the name Dustbringers want other people to use such as to erase the negative stigma on their Order. Now I really wonder who will be our first Dustbringer. I agree with Sazed: Harmoninum sounds better than Sazedium
ParadoxicalZen he/him Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 If it was Sazeium/Sazium, then i wouldn't mind but Harmonium isn't too bad. Might be a good idea to ask if we've seen potential proto-dustbringers in book
Guest Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 If it was Sazeium/Sazium, then i wouldn't mind but Harmonium isn't too bad. Might be a good idea to ask if we've seen potential proto-dustbringers in book Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I believe he has already answered that one. I recall a WoB where he was asked if we had meet someone from each of the orders and he said yes. It thus implies we have meet someone from the Dustbringer. I can't though figure out who as there are no currently well developed characters that fit the bill, so it has to be some obscure named character.
WeiryWriter he/him Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 Oh but the WoB implies the original name was indeed Dustbringer which follows the convention. The Dustbringers themselves advocated for another name probably because theirs made them sound as the angels of doom. So Releaser is not the proper name: it merely is the name Dustbringers want other people to use such as to erase the negative stigma on their Order. Now I really wonder who will be our first Dustbringer. I agree with Sazed: Harmoninum sounds better than Sazedium I am aware, but if they prefer the name Releaser than they really shouldn't be referred to as Dustbringers, they should have the right to name themselves? So yes, if they wanted to be called Releasers than Releasers is the proper name. Which leaves me stuck in between "This doesn't match the convention so I don't like it" and "But it's what they want to be called so we should use that". That's what annoys me. RE: Harmonium. This is not a discussion I do not want to get into, all I will say is that I prefer the sound of sazedium infinitely more than harmonium.
Shardbearer he/him Posted August 2, 2015 Posted August 2, 2015 RE: Harmonium. This is not a discussion I do not want to get into, all I will say is that I prefer the sound of sazedium infinitely more than harmonium. It's better than "unobtainium". 3
ParadoxicalZen he/him Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 https://www.reddit.c...k?context=10000 Quote Q: If Gavilar was still alive, would he most likely have aligned himself to or taken actions most similar to Dalinar, Amaram or Taravangian? In other words, which of the three is best acting out his will? A: I can say he would align with one of them most certainly, but I want to RAFO this for now. (Though I might have made it clear elsewhere and not be remembering.) Oddly enough, I think he would have aligned himself against Dalinar
IAmTheBeard Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 I am aware, but if they prefer the name Releaser than they really shouldn't be referred to as Dustbringers, they should have the right to name themselves? So yes, if they wanted to be called Releasers than Releasers is the proper name. Which leaves me stuck in between "This doesn't match the convention so I don't like it" and "But it's what they want to be called so we should use that". That's what annoys me. RE: Harmonium. This is not a discussion I do not want to get into, all I will say is that I prefer the sound of sazedium infinitely more than harmonium. Ah, but that's why it's so interesting. What if the reason the name change didn't work has something to do with the fact that their chosen name doesn't fit the convention? And that, in turn, could be because a) the convention isn't an optional thing but something more or less forced on the orders (and the Dustbringers tried to go against it but failed) or the convention was so important to the people that they wouldn't change it even at the (apparently insistent) request of the KRs themselves. I'm certainly intrigued. Is there more to this than them being stuck with a bad nickname? I'd say there has to be. After all, who would be better able to make people stop calling them names than the Dustbringers? "Hey, look, it's a Dustbringer. Creepy freaks!" * sizzling sound * "Hey, look, it's a, um, Releaser..."
Ascendant Warrior he/him Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 I'm certainly intrigued. Is there more to this than them being stuck with a bad nickname? I'd say there has to be. After all, who would be better able to make people stop calling them names than the Dustbringers? The Coppermind quotes the epigraph from Words of Radiance, which indicates that the name was too similar to Voidbringers.
IAmTheBeard Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 Yes, that's what we're talking about. My question is why didn't their preferred name stick? Did it just not catch on? Did people not want to change? Or was the new name itself somehow incompatible? The fact that Brandon mentions this makes me curious. There could be more going on here than simply a name that didn't catch on.
Argent he/him Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 The way I see it, it's possible that the Dustbringers were okay with their name for a long time, and only after they had been using the name for a while did some of them decide to push for a change. Which by that time was a difficult thing to do.
Guest Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 The way I see it, it's possible that the Dustbringers were okay with their name for a long time, and only after they had been using the name for a while did some of them decide to push for a change. Which by that time was a difficult thing to do. I think there probably was a lot of negative connotation associated to the name "Dustbringer". Tired of being pictured as villains, when they are in fact heroes, they tried to go for a less threatening name, but it never catch on. So the convention holds true.
Argent he/him Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpnrxi?context=10000 Q: So in Mistborn, you have to be 'snapped' to awaken allomantic abilities. Similarly in Stormlight, you have to be 'broken' to release surgebinding powers. Are there any connections between these two requirements? Does it have anything to do with the 3 realms? A: Yes and yes. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpns9b?context=10000 Q: The final piece of training Gemmel gave Kelsier - was it attacking him and fighting him to the death? It seems like the type of thing he'd do. A: It does indeed seem like something he'd do. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpnsm0?context=10000 [Old Q]: I asked you at minicon if Roshar had always been the only large landmass on the planet and I think you said that there was once no large land mass on Roshar. Did I hear you correctly? I've been kicking my self for months for not recording that small q and a. [Old A]: You heard me right. Q: Does this mean Roshar was once an archipelago? A: Not necessarily. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpntsb?context=10000 Q: On the Coppermind there is this idea that if a natural Mistborn burned Duralumin and then Lerasium it would empower them to godly levels. Would this actually happen or would another effect happen. A: That actually wouldn't work, but it is a clever idea. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpnuem?context=10000 Q: Shallan explains the theory that all spren can be divided into two categories (emotions and forces). Jasnah then links these to Cultivation and Honor, and also notes that voidspren are of Odium. Is this theory maybe a little incomplete? Is there a third category of spren for "sensationspren" like painspren (which don't seem to involve emotions or forces)? A: In Vorin thought, those would be emotions, but that doesn't mean that the scholars who think about these things are right. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpnuv3?context=10000 Q: So you have said that making someone Mistborn is not lerasium's primary function, that a Mistborn burning it would have another effect. Is this also true of its alloys? A: RAFO. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpnv8m?context=10000 re: "cracking the whole system" by superpowering atium burn and peering into the cognitive realm Q: Is that what happened when atium was burned with duralumin? A: Yes. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpnvmt?context=10000 Q: Zane comments that he's "always had" his spike. Is that just Ruin's influence making him ignore it, "oh this thing, it's always been there" or has he actually had the spike since childhood? Did he get it before he Snapped, after he Snapped, or concurrent with his Snapping? A: More the first. After snapping. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpofln?context=10000 Q: So on theoryland there are a couple of WoBs regarding Selish Shadesmar and the ones that stuck out to me were how Rosharan Shadesmar is aligned with Roshar georaphically (and in turn, the other planets are too) and with the name of Sel's shadesmar expanse. So my question/assumption is...Given the above geographical alignment and sometimes inverse nature of Shadesmar, is the Expanse of the Broken Sky Sel? A: I'm not going to confirm what any of these are, I'm afraid. (At least not yet.) You are free to theorize as you wish. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpqg1g?context=10000 Q: We have seen some Hoid-related groups on the diferent worlds of the Cosmere... Worldbringers on Scadrial, Worldsingers on Roshar, Enefel on Sel (this one is a wild guess) Is there a Hoid-related group on Nalthis? Maybe the Five Scholars are part of it? (That would explain the Shardblade/Nightblood thing you've been talking lately) A: Hoid did not found the Five Scholars. 2
Axies he/him Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ctpqg1g?context=10000 Q: We have seen some Hoid-related groups on the diferent worlds of the Cosmere... Worldbringers on Scadrial, Worldsingers on Roshar, Enefel on Sel (this one is a wild guess) Is there a Hoid-related group on Nalthis? Maybe the Five Scholars are part of it? (That would explain the Shardblade/Nightblood thing you've been talking lately) A: Hoid did not found the Five Scholars. Well... that was fast (does this guy even sleeps?). If Hoid wasn't behind the Five Scholars... how they knew about other investitures? damnation... at least he said nothing aobut Enefel not being a Hoid related group xD 1
18th Shard he/him Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 This one was mine. Q: So you have said that making someone Mistborn is not lerasium's primary function, that a Mistborn burning it would have another effect. Is this also true of its alloys?A: RAFO Time to start a theory.
Zas678 he/him Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 On the Clod question asked last batch, Brandon's answered that Clod is indeed Arsteel. That's why Vasher is revolted, and why Clod seems as good as a swordsman as Denth. Just give me a sec to find a WOB... JEREMY_CARROLLI've got a few Warbreaker questions: Is Clod a Lifeless Arsteel? BRANDON SANDERSON Yes. Good eye. Source
WeiryWriter he/him Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 On the Clod question asked last batch, Brandon's answered that Clod is indeed Arsteel. That's why Vasher is revolted, and why Clod seems as good as a swordsman as Denth. Just give me a sec to find a WOB... It's also in the annotations. 1
Claincy he/him Posted August 3, 2015 Posted August 3, 2015 (edited) Well... that was fast (does this guy even sleeps?). If Hoid wasn't behind the Five Scholars... how they knew about other investitures? damnation... at least he said nothing aobut Enefel not being a Hoid related group xD The quote says he didn't found the 5 scholars. It says nothing about whether he interacted with them. I wouldn't cross off Hoid as a possible source of some of their knowledge just yet. Edited August 3, 2015 by lord Claincy Ffnord
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