Mayalaran Posted January 18, 2021 Posted January 18, 2021 In Brandons newsletter he released the start of skyward 3. In the start spansa, the main character, has just gone into an alternate dimension. It says... That wasn’t much, though. I fished in the pockets of the jacket, hoping maybe I’d shoved a knife or something into one of them without remembering it... Instead, I came out with a handful of glowing sand. Glowing. Sand. Silver, like it was made of ground up starfighter hull, and glistening. It was such an incongruous sight I just sat there, staring at it as some dribbled between my fingers. Scud. I slowly returned it to my pocket. The other pockets were empty, but that one—my right hand pocket—held a ton of the stuff. Enough that my hand sank all the way in when I reached inside. As I felt at it, I noticed something else. A lump at the bottom of my pocket? I pulled it out, dropping more of the sand to the ground. It was my father’s flight pin. The one I’d kept for years after his death, hidden away. The one I’d tried to use to get into flight school. It...hadn’t been on me when I’d jumped into the portal. Where had it come from? Why as it suddenly in my pocket, surrounded by silver sand? Is this the white sand that we find in the rest of the cosmea? I think so. Potential crossovers? I think so.
NameIess Posted January 18, 2021 Posted January 18, 2021 53 minutes ago, Mayalaran said: Is this the white sand that we find in the rest of the cosmea? I think so. Potential crossovers? I think so. No, it's not. Skyward is not Cosmere: Quote Oversleep At first [Skyward] was supposed to be in the cosmere. Were there any reasons you pulled it out of it besides not wanting to deal with spacefaring era of Cosmere yet? Where was the planet supposed to be in the cosmere? Would it have had a Shard or would it have been a minor Shardworld? Brandon Sanderson When Spensa started life in my brain, she was late cosmere pilot character, from around Era Four. When I started to work on this as my next YA project, I decided I wanted to use a certain technological aspect from a story I'd previously worked on--something I touched on in a novella, but which was still very interesting to me all these years later. But it was something that did not work with cosmere technology, so it was a natural fit to port Spensa over to this new story. It wouldn't have been planetary-based if it had been in the cosmere. Mostly, it was Spensa as a character. Once the story started transforming into a girl and her spaceship, the cosmere ties got severed quickly. Skyward Pre-Release AMA (Oct. 4, 2018) 1
katanallama Posted January 18, 2021 Posted January 18, 2021 How about My Little Pony and Stormlight Archive? 2
imriel452 Posted January 19, 2021 Posted January 19, 2021 Anything which is set on Earth, or a version of it, like Rithmatist, Spensaverse, Legion etc is NON-Cosmere sadly. However, like the spot
Mayalaran Posted January 22, 2021 Author Posted January 22, 2021 Nameless, I know of this too, but at the same time, I have to think, why white GLOWING sand? Also, this is after spanza has gone into an interdimensional portal, if I am correct that is. Can anything else besides smaller things such as M-bot go through the portal? I don't know, but I believe that if not, it would create a way to allow crossovers without huge problems with the different technologies. I saw what you quoted about Brandon saying and, well, that was 3 years ago BEFORE he wrote the first 2 books. If you remember, he originally planned to write only 3 books. Now it's 4. A lot could have changed. I still believe that the potential of crossovers is liable. I believe that a lot could have changed since he (Brandon) said what he said. A lot could have changed. Glowing white sand is a good indicator of crossovers and it might be explained later in the book, but it's fully possible that it might not be. Food for thought.
Kingsdaughter613 she/her Posted January 22, 2021 Posted January 22, 2021 11 hours ago, Mayalaran said: Nameless, I know of this too, but at the same time, I have to think, why white GLOWING sand? Also, this is after spanza has gone into an interdimensional portal, if I am correct that is. Can anything else besides smaller things such as M-bot go through the portal? I don't know, but I believe that if not, it would create a way to allow crossovers without huge problems with the different technologies. I saw what you quoted about Brandon saying and, well, that was 3 years ago BEFORE he wrote the first 2 books. If you remember, he originally planned to write only 3 books. Now it's 4. A lot could have changed. I still believe that the potential of crossovers is liable. I believe that a lot could have changed since he (Brandon) said what he said. A lot could have changed. Glowing white sand is a good indicator of crossovers and it might be explained later in the book, but it's fully possible that it might not be. Food for thought. Or it’s just an Easter egg.
Shob the Voidbringer Posted February 1, 2021 Posted February 1, 2021 i'm really sad that the rithmatist isn't in the cosmere. i want hoid to be a rithmatist so BAD, but it will never happen 1
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