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Interview: Jan 17th, 2015

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Cool. The other big one that I had was, um, how far ahead in the timeline is Sixth of Dusk?
Brandon Sanderson

Pretty far.

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… kind of a general-

Brandon Sanderson

Most people that I’m writing about now are all dead.

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Is it up into the third trilogy of Mistborn?

Brandon Sanderson

It is that era, yes.

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Sweet! That’s what I thought.

Brandon Sanderson

It might be a little bit before that trilogy, but it’s that era

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I really want to know more about Khriss and Nazh. We haven't seen Khriss yet in the books, and she knows more about the Cosmere than Hoid.

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In the Alcatraz series, there are several jokes that are dependent on reading the book, such as when you flip the text upside down, or start capitalizing random letters. Are you going to change those jokes if you release Audiobooks of Alcatraz?

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In TES, stamps are more likely to stick if they are making something beautiful, as with the wall painting. Is it easier to soulcast something into a beautiful shape rather than a ugly shape?

Are Hoi or Oid Aons? If they are, what do they mean?

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Well now that I got a good look at the page again it does say "Known" at the top, which is my bad for being mistaken. Brandon can technically still make it longer.

But honestly I can already tell what Joe is asking. And the answer is probably no and nothing.

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Well now that I got a good look at the page again it does say "Known" at the top, which is my bad for being mistaken. Brandon can technically still make it longer.

But honestly I can already tell what Joe is asking. And the answer is probably no and nothing.

 

Yeah since the text says there are "hundreds" of Aons the glossary is hardly an exhaustive list (there are actually several Aons mentioned in-book that do not appear in the glossary as well)

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Has a Spren ever gone to another planets Cognitive realm?

 

Make sure to ask this to specify exactly what you mean; spren apparently exist on every world, but are only visible and interact with the physical realm on Roshar.

 

Was Elend's Lerasium-bronze stronger than Vin's hemalurgically enhanced bronze?

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Well now that I got a good look at the page again it does say "Known" at the top, which is my bad for being mistaken. Brandon can technically still make it longer.

But honestly I can already tell what Joe is asking. And the answer is probably no and nothing.

There's always the possibility of more info.

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I'm pretty sure we have the entire Aon alphabet revealed, Joe.

Not if they figure out how to take Aons off-world. New geography would mean new forms of the existing Aons, but with new features we could also see entirely new Aons. (For example, Icebergs and Glacier features don't exist in current Aon forms)

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Not if they figure out how to take Aons off-world. New geography would mean new forms of the existing Aons, but with new features we could also see entirely new Aons. (For example, Icebergs and Glacier features don't exist in current Aon forms)

 

But for that to really do anything, you'd have to take the dor off-world.

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But for that to really do anything, you'd have to take the dor off-world.

Which was my point, and can be done.

INTERVIEW: Mar 11th, 2014

WoR Signing Report - Awesomeness Summoned (Verbatim)

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Is there a region based magic like Elantris on any of the other worlds?

BRANDON SANDERSON

The Aon magic is unique to that planet because it is intrinsic to the shard that created it, but you could theoretically hack the magic system so that AonDor would work on another planet.

Even without taking the magic off-world, a climate-change event could bring Icebergs to Elantris, allowing new Aons.

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Does investiture follow other laws in addition to the laws of thermodynamics? If so, could you name one for us?

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The law of conservation of [insert thing here] that seems to apply to most of physics is a thing with investiture, I'm pretty sure.

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The law of conservation of [insert thing here] that seems to apply to most of physics is a thing with investiture, I'm pretty sure.

So long as you're measuring all 3 Realms simultaneously.

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The law of conservation of [insert thing here] that seems to apply to most of physics is a thing with investiture, I'm pretty sure.

 

I was already aware that the cosmere follows the Laws of Thermodynamics and the law of the conservation of mass, I was wondering if there were any additional thermodynamic-type laws in the cosmere that deal with investiture, and what those laws might be.

 

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I was already aware that the cosmere follows the Laws of Thermodynamics and the law of the conservation of mass, I was wondering if there were any additional thermodynamic-type laws in the cosmere that deal with investiture, and what those laws might be.

Edit: clarity

From what we've seen, Investiture never breaks "normal" physics. Grabs hold of them and twists them into a balloon animal, yes, but never breaks them.

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From what we've seen, Investiture never breaks "normal" physics. Grabs hold of them and twists them into a balloon animal, yes, but never breaks them.

 

It almost certainly throws causality out the window, so that's a bit of a "breaking physics" type thing. The moment you allow for FTL travel or communication cause and effect are not pleased with you; we almost certainly already have travel that gets you from A to B faster than c when you consider travel through Shadesmar, and we will have FTL space travel in future books.

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It almost certainly throws causality out the window, so that's a bit of a "breaking physics" type thing. The moment you allow for FTL travel or communication cause and effect are not pleased with you; we almost certainly already have travel that gets you from A to B faster than c when you consider travel through Shadesmar, and we will have FTL space travel in future books.

That depends on how the FTL drive works. If it involves quickly jumping back-and-forth between the 3 Realms such that you are not moving in the Physical Realm but rather you are quickly flickering between points in Physical space, then Relativity isn't broken in physical space

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That depends on how the FTL drive works. If it involves quickly jumping back-and-forth between the 3 Realms such that you are not moving in the Physical Realm but rather you are quickly flickering between points in Physical space, then Relativity isn't broken in physical space

 

FTL communication necessarily allows violations of causality in a universe without special reference frames, by my understanding. It doesn't really matter how it's achieved.

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FTL communication necessarily allows violations of causality in a universe without special reference frames, by my understanding. It doesn't really matter how it's achieved.

Hmm, that I had not thought of.

*waves white flag in surrender*

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We know that the Divine Breath can be used to Awaken. What would a Lifeless, animated by a single Divine Breath, be like?

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