Windrunner he/him Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 Maybe you could ask about the whole spren thing we've been discussing on the wiki. I seriously didn't mean to start that XD I should post my questions too. I've got four right now, but I may whittle them down as I think upon them more. 1. Why does Hoid want the Scepter of the Moon? Or was it just a convenient excuse to get Shai imprisoned? 2. Shai refers to an Unknown God, is this at all related to the rocks that fell from the sky that Shai's ancestors carved? 3. Kelsier and Rashek share multiple characteristics; both were Allomancers, Slivers, and had religions based after them. Does Rashek also have the ability to hang around after death? 4. Is Bloodsealing a subset of Forgery, like Resealing? (I believe you've answered this before, but the audio was lost somewhere)
FlashWrogan he/him Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 I really just have one: 1. Is the Thrill a form of magic, or is it just a formalized concept for the enjoyment of battle? 2
Phantom Monstrosity Posted April 11, 2013 Posted April 11, 2013 "How cosmere-aware was the Lord Ruler? If a Returned waltzed into Kredik Shaw, would he have any idea what was going on? Or at least be able to recognize 'hey that guy seems endowmenty'." 2
Satsuoni he/him Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 @Windrunner: Chaos answered your question #4, as Kurkistan pointed out in this very thread. If that audio was lost, well... Then I would like to suggest you post the unedited, 6-hour long audios somewhere, with links on the site, as soon as you have them. Then a. They won't be lost. b. It may be possible for somebody in community to transcribe and edit them faster. Assuming validity of Chaos quote, the answer is still valid. @Nepene: found the question that I believe is similar to yours: BS: That's right, it's based on distance. That's why there are no stamped objects in Elantris.Me: So do soulstamps get weaker further from MaiPon? If you left Sel via Shadesmar and went to another planet, would the soulstamp stop working?BS: That's correct.Me: Could soulstamps be carved that used Arelon as a base form instead of MaiPon?BS: That's very interesting, isn't it? He might answer it in different formulation though. It has happened before. 1
Windrunner he/him Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 @Windrunner: Chaos answered your question #4, as Kurkistan pointed out in this very thread. If that audio was lost, well... Then I would like to suggest you post the unedited, 6-hour long audios somewhere, with links on the site, as soon as you have them. Then a. They won't be lost. b. It may be possible for somebody in community to transcribe and edit them faster. Assuming validity of Chaos quote, the answer is still valid. Dude, I know that it got answered. Eric and I have discussed this. I've listened to the whole 6 hours twice trying to find it and asked both Josh and Eric if they know specifically where it is. No one knows what happened to it. It's gone, and I want to hear Brandon himself answer it. I get to chose what I want to ask, and getting an explicit verbatim citation is something that I personally value. So thank you for your input, but no, I will not be removing that question. We will not be posting the audio, at least not in its current version. The amount of work to edit it down would be enormous and quite frankly not worth the time spent doing it, in my opinion. 1
Satsuoni he/him Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 @Windrunner Understood. I thought there was another audio file that got lost after Chaos listened to it. 1
Chaos he/him Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 I probably have it somewhere, I just can't find it. I know it is accurate, it's just probably easier to get a new confirmation
Rubix he/him Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 I too can confirm that it is true, having heard it with mine own ears. The recording, on the other hand... I don't really want to go diving through over 48 hours of raw audio to find a 30 second audio clip. Also, as for uploading the raw audio files to the server and putting a link into the wild? Our servers couldn't handle that. We have to keep a close eye on them when we upload a new ShardCast, and even then we sometimes see downtime. It's just not a good idea.
Phantom Monstrosity Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 I too can confirm that it is true, having heard it with mine own ears. The recording, on the other hand... I don't really want to go diving through over 48 hours of raw audio to find a 30 second audio clip. Also, as for uploading the raw audio files to the server and putting a link into the wild? Our servers couldn't handle that. We have to keep a close eye on them when we upload a new ShardCast, and even then we sometimes see downtime. It's just not a good idea.Have you considered putting them on bittorrent?
Rubix he/him Posted April 12, 2013 Posted April 12, 2013 Have you considered putting them on bittorrent? I considered it, but decided against it for a few reasons. First and foremost, there are things that Brandon asks us to edit out of pretty much every single signing audio (mostly personal conversations between Brandon and people in line). Out of respect to his wishes, we don't just post the raw audio.
Phantom Monstrosity Posted April 14, 2013 Posted April 14, 2013 I considered it, but decided against it for a few reasons. First and foremost, there are things that Brandon asks us to edit out of pretty much every single signing audio (mostly personal conversations between Brandon and people in line). Out of respect to his wishes, we don't just post the raw audio.I can understand that, yeah. I was intially only thinking of the 'my kids are really into sonic the hedgehog now' type conversations.
Chaos he/him Posted April 14, 2013 Posted April 14, 2013 At the very least, we really will get transcriptions up more quickly. This was an inordinately long time. Sorry about that. Very much unintentional.
Joe ST he/him Posted April 14, 2013 Posted April 14, 2013 At the very least, we really will get transcriptions up more quickly. This was an inordinately long time. Sorry about that. Very much unintentional.Too busy planning the ball
Chaos he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 I'm changing my question list, in light of new info about the southern continent. Namely, Windy and I don't know what it means how: But yes, the magic systems have the same root and it’s not just the Dor. I like the magics on a given planet to all have a consistent theme. And for Elantris they are these almost programming-like, very based on symbols and whatnot. And in Misborn, it’s based on the metals and the interactions in the metals. And so yes, the southern continent does have interaction with the three Metallic Arts, but they use them in very different ways(From here) To me, this implies that the Metallic Arts are functionally somehow in the southern continent. But that's kind of crazy, so I'm going to try and get a bit more of a clear answer on that. So, my questions are now both magic related: 1. You have said the Scadrians on the southern continent does have interaction with the Metallic Arts, but use them in very different ways. Does this mean there are different, for example, Allomantic abilities for those Scadrians? Or is it more a cultural thing? 2. Why does giving your Breath to another person not require color? Every other Command does. Hopefully this will result in some good hints or info. 1
Windrunner he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 Chaos's reevaluation of his questions caused me to change mine as well. Firstly, I'm dropping the TLR one. I can't in good conscience ask Brandon that many cosmere questions in a AMoL AMA. If anyone else wants to steal it, feel free. The first two are basically unchanged. The third one has been tweaked to try to get new info while still confirming Bloodsealing as a separate system. 1. Why does Hoid want the Moon Scepter? Or was it just a convenient excuse to get Shai imprisoned? 2. Shai refers to an Unknown God, is this at all related to the rocks that fell from the sky that Shai's ancestors carved? 3. Why does Scadrial, which has two Shards, only have three manifestations of investiture, (Allomancy, Feruchemy, and Hemalurgy) but Sel, also with two Shards, has five manifestations of investiture (AonDor, Dakhor, ChayShan, Forgery, and Bloodsealing)? Those parentheses may or may not stay there.
Kurkistan he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 (edited) Last minute question: Are the changing beauty standards of Returned and the "plausibility" of Forgeries determined by the same kind of "cognitive ideals or concepts which have taken on literal personification over time" that some types of Spren represent? Edited April 15, 2013 by Kurkistan
Nepene he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Author Posted April 15, 2013 Reddit thread is ago http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/
Morsk he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 Is the best way to follow answers to look at Brandon's user page, refresh it, and click on "context" each time? It's what I'm doing and it seems good enough, but I'm really new to Reddit and don't know if I'm overlooking other methods.
Phantom Monstrosity Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 Would it be too self-indulgent to automatically upvote other 17th sharder questions? 1
Cheese Ninja he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 (edited) A timeline for events during the Way of Kings? I'm pretty sure Kaladin is on the Shattered Plains for less than two months, and closer to a month and a half (75 days), but confirmation would be nice. Also, the date from an event in the book. All we've got is "circa 1173" and the epigraph dates. Edited April 15, 2013 by Cheese Ninja
Nepene he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Author Posted April 15, 2013 (edited) Here are the new cosmere relevent answers to date. I've mostly used shortened versions of people's names since I am lazy. Satsu http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fombd Me(Nepene)+Chaos http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fp780?context=3 Apto, Ngu http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9foxwm Rome http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fr744?context=3 Hero http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fr2lw?context=3 Shadow http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fs0ea?context=3 Newbs http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fs9lp?context=3 Clay http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9ftd2b?context=3 The_Vik http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fth5e?context=3 Havok http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fukgm?context=3 Arseno http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fuoe9?context=3 Klok http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fvv7t?context=3 Windrunner http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fw0zu?context=3 Ethnic http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9g6os8?context=3 mweaver http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9g12u8?context=3 P0st http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9hbqpc?context=3 Linkh http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9hbskk?context=3 iarepants http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9hbvyc?context=3 Phantine http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9hc6in?context=3 Balefire http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9hbww0?context=3 Victo http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9hbwoc?context=3 Some humorous ones. http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fuhux?context=3 Is Sanderson a robot? http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fsqhm?context=3 Does reading Cosmere books make you a member of the LDS church? http://postimg.org/image/r0jtnydsx/ Is this all a publicity stunt by Peter? http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/c9fw8vm?context=3 If metals give Vin magic powers, should I eat them irl? Edited April 17, 2013 by Nepene 1
Kurkistan he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 (edited) Good thought, Nepene, but I think it woud be best if we held off until everything is in. Then we can put up a new thread and start fresh. Edited April 15, 2013 by Kurkistan
Nepene he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Author Posted April 15, 2013 Good thought, Nepene, but I think it woud be best if we held off until everything is in. Then we can put up a new thread and start fresh. I did see Harmony in the chat room asking if anything cool had happened in the ama. I imagine there's some interest among people for a condensed form of it. Any reason why we should hold off?
Kurkistan he/him Posted April 15, 2013 Posted April 15, 2013 Just simplicity, making sure evidence and discussions don't get fragmented.
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