mostlywhatnot she/her Posted March 27, 2015 Report Share Posted March 27, 2015 (edited) Hello, Midwestern fans of Brandon Sanderson! Will anyone else be attending Minicon in the Minneapolis, MN area on Easter weekend? Hope to see some of you there! Edited: Fixed a typo. Edited March 27, 2015 by mostlywhatnot 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wetlander Posted March 29, 2015 Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 Make sure you pick up the new Con special! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlywhatnot she/her Posted March 29, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 29, 2015 I will! Hopefully I won't be the only one they taking notes on Brandon panels. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dihatimus Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 (edited) I am Pumped. My second con and my first sanderson meet. Perfect State is right on time! I am sad that I will only make it to 2 of the 4 days it is going on. I will be taking notes as well. Weeeeeeeee Edited March 30, 2015 by Dihatimus 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlywhatnot she/her Posted March 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 Good! Glad there will be some backup. This will be my fifth con, but my first Sanderson meet. I'm ridiculously excited. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
weebojello Posted March 30, 2015 Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 I plan on attending as well. I failed to pre-register, so I figured I'd head over Friday maybe and get tickets for the weekend. Also, I noted that he's going to be at Red Balloon bookstore as well for a reading. Any plans on anyone going to that? I can probably go there and catch what it said, if need be. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlywhatnot she/her Posted March 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted March 30, 2015 I hope to go to the reading, but I'm not sure I'll make it there. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dihatimus Posted March 31, 2015 Report Share Posted March 31, 2015 Both are on saturday, a day I can't attend, but my friend is going to go. So I got that going for me, which is nice. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dihatimus Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 Got my con exclusive copy of perfect state. He signed both the front and the back because it has two sides? Actually I think the second signature was because he forgot to add the copy #2 to it. Sooo cool! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlywhatnot she/her Posted April 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 He signed both sides of mine, too. I love that he is so willing to sign things for fans. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dihatimus Posted April 4, 2015 Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 ...whoa...what...what is your avatar icon mostlywhatnot? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mostlywhatnot she/her Posted April 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted April 4, 2015 (edited) Just a little guy trying to be happy.In more specific, it's a sketch I did a while back. He's holding up his own smile. I should probably get an avatar related to Sanderson's work, though. Edit: No longer applies to my current profile pic. Edited April 9, 2015 by mostlywhatnot 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Ruro272 he/him Posted April 8, 2015 Popular Post Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 (edited) Hi all, this is only my fourth post on the 17th Shard but I've been a frequent reader here for over a year. I'm a huge fan of Sanderson's works, specifically the Cosmere-related ones, and I love that he drops little hints and tidbits to his fans. Theorizing about an epic series like this is like a guilty pleasure of mine. I just made my account this week because I finally have something unique to contribute. Brandon came to Minneapolis MN this last weekend for MiniCon, which was basically in my backyard, so I had several opportunities to meet and ask him questions. I'm going to throw them all down here, and then whoever is in charge of the overall WoB collection can add them there if they'd like (there are definitely some worthwhile ones here).So to set the stage, there I am at Minicon feeling like an outcast since I'm not quite as nerdy or into sci-fi as pretty much everyone else there, but I am completely into Brandon's work and came specifically to see him. I asked him a question when he went to sign my WoR copy, and I had another question inside the book that he graciously answered as well. He also had a social hour from 10-11pm Saturday night, but not a single person asked a single question that I would consider "Cosmere related". I was totally bummed out, but I stuck around until after the social hour to see if anybody else would have the guts to come forward. And sure enough there comes a dude with an iPad and a list of great questions. This bolsters my confidence as well so I start asking them too. There's a not a lot of info here because Brandon needed to leave quickly, but I think we got some good tidbits.These questions are a mix between mine and the kid's. We did not have a recorder so these are based on handwritten notes and memory, sorry. Comments in red are my personal comments.Q: (At the book signing) Will we see all of the Heralds doing things in the upcoming books?A: The back five books are all about the Heralds. Two of them claim to be Heralds..... Two of the point-of-views will be HeraldsThis fits well with what I've read from this site; specifically Taln and Ash are the Herald POVs in the back five according to other WoB. The interesting tidbit here is that "two of them claim to be Heralds" with the implied "but...." in his tone.Q: (Written in my WoR cover) Any hint on how Nin got a hold of Nightblood, or how Vasher lost Nightblood?A: "Vasher and Nightblood had something of a falling out..."This is a direct quote since it is written in my book. Not all that interesting, but I think the important implication here is that Nightblood was not "stolen" without Vasher's knowledge, they had a "falling out". Obviously this doesn't answer a lot but I think it does put to rest the possibility that somebody came up and stole Nightblood out of nowhere. From other WoB we know that Vasher "misses and feels responsible for Nightblood" so obviously he's gotten over it since then.(After social hour)Q: Does Harmony have any SplintersA: Do you mean like in his fingers? (Brandon has a coy smile. Kid looks at him like "you know what I mean you fool". Brandon laughs.) No, he does not have Splinters right now. Good question.Q: Is there a reason why shadows go toward the light in Shadesmar, or is it just worldbuilding flavor?A: There is a reason, but its not super important. It's like a cultural thing, things have reasons but they aren't always super relevant to the story. It's like safehands--do you know how safehands came to be? It's a cultural thing but it came from somewhere. This is something you probably won't read in the books but I can tell you. The idea of the safehand has to do with one-handed arts being feminine but two handed are masculine, and it all started after the Knights Radiant cast down their Shardblades. There was a huge power grab for these weapons and people quickly realized that the differences between men and women didn't matter when they had power armor, so the idea of one-handed arts being feminine and the safehand arose from that over many years of cultural evolution.Obviously this is very much paraphrased since it was a long answer and my notes and memory are not perfect, but I think I captured the important points without adding any of my own thoughts. Interesting that the safehands arose from the power grab after the Recreance as a way to maintain the division between men and women.Q: Is there a separate "Shadesmar" (cognitive realm) for each planet or is it one big place that are all connected with different regions for each planet.A: It's one big place with different sections.Q: So since its one big place, could spren travel to a different section that correlates with a different planet, such as the cognitive segment for Scadrial?A: They could do there, but they wouldn't usually...Q: Is that because Honor's influence is only on Roshar?A: (Brandon gave sort of a noncommittal half nod, but looked doubtful himself. Maybe best to interpret this last answer as a RAFO rather than reading into it too much.)Brandon didn't say a lot about this, and unfortunately I don't remember his exact wording, but it was clear that spren could technically go to different regions within Shadesmar that correlate to different worlds, but for some reason they don't or won't. My guess would be simply because only on Roshar to the ideas of men give them power, and if they deviate away too far they lose that connection that makes them exist. Just a thought tho. Q: On a similar note, since Elsecallers can physically go to Shadesmar and have access to Transportation surge, can all Elsecallers worldhop?A: Yes, that is one of the Elsecaller powers.The most interesting thing about this is that, depending on the number of people in the Elsecaller order, there may have been quite a few Worldhoppers from Roshar throughout history. i'm surprised they weren't more Cosmere-aware if that was the case, but maybe they always just stuck around Roshar? I wonder how many Elsecallers are on other planets....Q: In hindsight this seems like a really obvious question now (laugh), but I think it's really interesting that Elsecallers can travel to other planets too--we didn't know that before.A: There are hints in the names on the map of Shadesmar.Since getting this answer I found out a few more things about this on the 17th Shard. It looks like previous WoB confirmed that there are hints in the names of things on Shadesmar somewhat related to Worldhopping, and we also know that the Expanse of the Densities is a planet that we already know. He could be alluding to those tidbits with this answer, who knows.Q: Does Hoid have a Hemalurgically charged Nicrosil spike?A: It's... unlikely. Hoid would not want to open himself to the influence of Shards so using Hemalurgy on himself is unlikely. Although Hemalurgy is the easiest way to get other powers, he'd more likely do things the hard way.Q: Alright, but would Nicrosil be the right metal to make a Hemalurgic spike if you did want to steal powers from another world?A: It's a good theory, you're theorizing well.Q: Is Roshar, or has Roshar always been the only large landmass on the planet?A: Roshar is.... (Brandon then pauses and looks up, thinking very hard) Roshar has always been the largest landmass--as long as there has been land. (This statement was met with a LOT of OOOOHS, and Brandon had a definite grin on his face)Now this one is extremely interesting. If any of you guys have followed the discussions regarding the "Hints on the Roshar map" that Brandon's alluded to many times, the 17th Shard finally cracked the code that the landmass is a 2d cross section of a 3d shadow of a 4d Juliet transformation something or other blah blah, some crazy math thing. There is a whole thread about this topic somewhere on this forum, and the similarities are striking--plus Peter himself commented on that thread "About time you guys figured this out". So what does it mean that the shape comes from some complex mathematical methodology and not just random? Well, because somebody in that thread commented that they thought Roshar was created from leftover crem from highstorms over the course of thousands of years. Based on what we know about Roshar's shape, the fact that Brandon has commented on needing a system in which "earth" is deposited from the air, and the strong implication that there was a time when Roshar had no landmass at all, I think I'm definitely on board with the "Roshar = crem" theory.Q: Was Adolin's murder of Sadeas him falling under the influence of Odium, or was that all him?A: That was all Adolin. Edited April 11, 2016 by Ruro272 31 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruro272 he/him Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 My thread detailing the QA with Brandon at Minicon: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/24387-brief-qa-between-me-some-awesome-kid-and-brandon-minicon50-last-weekend/#entry245320 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 Just an fyi, this sort of thing should go in the event thread in the Events and Signings forum. Anyway thanks for this, some interesting stuff here. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruro272 he/him Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 Oops sorry... Somebody told me to put it here. Maybe a mod can move it. Sorry mods/admins! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kurkistan he/him Posted April 8, 2015 Report Share Posted April 8, 2015 Oops sorry... Somebody told me to put it here. Maybe a mod can move it. Sorry mods/admins! While you've committed an unforgivable offense, it is perhaps possible that your offering of WoBs is enough to earn forgiveness. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe ST he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Those are some awesome answers indeed Just an fyi, this sort of thing should go in the event thread in the Events and Signings forum. Anyway thanks for this, some interesting stuff here. shall we just topic merge? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bort he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 (edited) Did anyone else notice the possible slip up? Q: Does Hoid have a Hemalurgically charged Nicrosil spike?A: It's... unlikely. Hoid would not want to open himself to the influence of other Shards so using Hemalurgy on himself is unlikely. Although Hemalurgy is the easiest way to get other powers, he'd more likely do things the hard way. "Hoid would not want to open himself to the influence of other Shards..." WoB confirms Hoid does not carry any Shards, but was Hoid Adonalsium? Edited April 9, 2015 by Bort 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze1616 he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Did anyone else notice the possible slip up? "Hoid would not want to open himself to the influence of other Shards..." WoB confirms Hoid does not carry any Shards, but was Hoid Adonalsium? We've known Hoid has never been a Shard already via WoB, if I am not mistaken. It is interesting that he notes other though, implying perhaps he's already influenced by one of them? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruro272 he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Hey guys, good catch. I do not think what you're reading into is actually what Brandon meant. these are mostly from memory and hastily scratched notes so some of my own word choice is in there. I'll edit my original post to remove the "other" so we don't look too much into it. Thanks for keeping me honest, and sorry for the confusion. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaze1616 he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 Hey guys, good catch. I do not think what you're reading into is actually what Brandon meant. these are mostly from memory and hastily scratched notes so some of my own word choice is in there. I'll edit my original post to remove the "other" so we don't look too much into it. Thanks for keeping me honest, and sorry for the confusion. No worries! It's what we're here for. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curious Anamaximder he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 This is awesome. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vaidd he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 For reference, here's the thread where the link between Roshar and the Julia set was finally uncovered. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ruro272 he/him Posted April 9, 2015 Report Share Posted April 9, 2015 And here is the link to the specific page that figured it all out: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/6912-hidden-things-in-map-of-roshar/page-31 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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