Which questions do we want answers to?

[Miyabi She/Her]

Next week I will be attending a signing.

What are the questions we want answered most? I will do my best to try and get as many as I can. Perhaps I could email him to see if he wants to do lunch and maybe an interview for the site? I will see what I can do.

[Navi]

Why can Rock see Syl?

 

Can Rock see Cryptics too?

 

Is it possible to use a Soulstamp to give Shardplate life or at least achieve robot status?

 

Is there any way to reverse the Shaod? 

Edited September 14, 2013 by Navi

[Moogle]

Is Shalash the daughter of Jezrien?

[Chromium Compounder]

When are we going to see an example of the 'mechanical' way to use metallic arts?

[Mailliw73 he/him]

^^this one! Also, will the southern Scadrians have their own series or will they just be in one of the next mistborn trilogies?

[Kurkistan he/him]

A very generous offer, Miyabi. In order of importance:

Thread. What happens when a Pulser is burning Cadmium and in a speed bubble? She'd be burning her Cadmium 20x faster than usual--so far as her bubble and those in it were concerned--and her slow bubble would extend far outside the area made "normal" by the effects of the speed bubble, so where does all that extra energy go?

Thread. Would it be easy for a Forger who'd once almost lost her arm (freak guillotine accident) to make a stamp to lose it temporarily, or would it require some more involved Forging than "my arm actually got cut off that one time"?

-On that note, is Resealing a subset if Forging, or a separate system like Bloodsealing is?

Thread. Do bigger gems hold more stormlight for longer than smaller gems? So a broam, if it's 20 times heavier than a chip, would hold 20 times more stormlight and take ~2.7 times longer to lose it all: a chip lasting for 6 days would let a broam last 16, for instance.

I included the threads for everyone's edification.

Edited September 13, 2013 by Kurkistan

[WeiryWriter he/him]

So many questions... I could really come up with an endless stream of these...  I'll limit to these three though.

 

Did Seons exist when the Aonic peoples discovered Elantris?

 

What year did the Reod occur in the Selish/Elantrian calender?

 

Is the word "Hoed" based off an Aon?  If so which one?

 

...that ended up being four... oh well...

[Vortaan he/him]

Does Shu-Kessig predate the splintering of Dominion and Devotion?

 

Can you store Breath in metal without the Eighth Heightening?

 

Does mechanical Feruchemy draw from the user or the machine?

[Kadrok she/her]

Is burning Atium the key to Scadrian worldhopping?

 

(I give my reasons for this suspicion/position here and here.)

Edited September 13, 2013 by Kadrok

[Miyabi She/Her]

Current status on possible interview is checking to see when he is going to start signings books before the actual signing. lol

Keep in mind this is the day of the Steelheart release.

If the interview happens I would like the questions for the interview to be more professional question be things along the lines of:

We have seen hints of the overarching Cosmere story arc. What was the inspiration behind the story?

When we reach the end of the Cosmere will there be something else, or do you feel this will take your whole writing career to achieve?

Things like that.

These other questions are great and I will try to ask them if I can, but I also need some more ideas for the larger scale questions. haha.

[Gaelan he/him]

Large scope?

 

Will you expand more on the Cosmere if you get done all what you have planned?

 

Are you going to eventually release more content like WoK prime or the old Dragonsteel?

[Windrunner he/him]

Heh both of those have significant spoilers for their various series so not for a while I'm sure

[Kurkistan he/him]

@Miyabi

 

Oh, you meant actual questions, the kind normal people ask authors...

 

...

 

I got nuthin' 

Edited September 13, 2013 by Kurkistan

[Gaelan he/him]

@Miyabi

 

Oh, you meant actual questions, the kind normal people ask authors...

 

...

 

I got nuthin' 

Upvoted because I am as you are

 

By the way, I imagine that he will RAFO my questions, but just asked what Miyabi demanded.

[Shardlet he/him]

Q: When we reach the end of the Cosmere will there be something else, or do you feel this will take your whole writing career to achieve?

Brandon:  Hmm, RAFO. 

 

 

[metaldragon]

What are some characteristics of Other worldhoppers that we have seen that excluded

 

1. Hoid

2. Demuex

3. Galladon

 

If hoid is always a beggar,storyteller, jestor  what are roles some of the "other" world hoppers have?

 

servants?  lords?  cops?

[Windrunner he/him]

How about:

 

How and when are you planning on releasing Sixth of the Dusk, the cosmere short story you wrote for Writing Excuses?

[Morsk he/him]

This isn't a "large scale question", but it's a topic that generated 100 posts and almost melted the forum into a ball of slag and fire...

Weight has nothing to do with allomantic Push/pull strength.

Basically, is there something genuinely magical about weighing more, and "I weigh more so I push harder," is literally how it works? Or is it just the physics of mass and inertia, and the characters are all unreliable narrators because they don't understand that?

[Kurkistan he/him]

Ah, that argument. The fact that the first reply starts with "You're wrong" is not a good sign.

[Morsk he/him]

I'm curious if Brandon even intended it to be ambiguous, or if he'd gawk at the thread and think it's our version of the Asmodean murder...

[Pechvarry]

He's an author and we keep expecting a physicist. Same thing with some of gold's inconsistencies. I honestly feel sorry for him when he tries his best to explain things and we're all THAT CAN'T BE RIGHT BECAUSE OF THIS EDGE CASE.

If you do happen to ask about storing Breath in metal without the Ninth Heightening, make sure you specify that it's storing and not trying to awaken that we're looking for.

Edited September 18, 2013 by Pechvarry

[Kurkistan he/him]

Normally, I'd be inclined to agree with that kind of opinion, Pech. The problem is, Brandon has historically been scary-good at thinking of everything. And I mean everything. The only real inconsistency I can think of is Feruchemical brass, but that was more a high-level whoopsie than a "how this works" one, and he managed to Realmatically square it. 

 

Well, and perhaps how attributes are stored in Feruchemy, but there's still some wiggle room there.

[Miyabi She/Her]

So lunch with Brandon has been confirmed. ^.^

[WeiryWriter he/him]

This is kind-of a craft question, but not really.

 

When do you plan on releasing the WoK annotations?

[Miyabi She/Her]

I vaguely remember him saying after WoR release to avoid spoilers.