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The turnaround on this one is incredible. Zach, Terez, and the other transcribers, you are amazing.
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Okay guys, thank you for all of your questions! You all astound me with how intelligent and astute you are! We're going to close it up now. Thank you so much! And Brandon, thank you so much for being here. Seriously. I try to type how appreciative we all are, and it just comes out like a rainbow vomiting on a keyboard. Or something. Bizarre metaphors aside, thank you. How about I just leave it at "you are the best" and call it a night, hm? (Brandon: Though the topic will be closed, we've given you and Peter rights to post here. We've tested and it should be fine. Just FYI.)
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A Shardic duo stronger than Harmony?? Perhaps
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Hey Brandon, it’s Eric. I can’t tell you how amazing it is for you to actually come here. I really hope you enjoy 17th Shard. We did, after all, build it for you and for Brandon fans everywhere. Hopefully, you approve. (I’m actually totally terrified the site will go down with all the traffic with you here. I highly doubt it will. But hey! At least we won’t get DoS’d again.) It is such an honor for you to join us. I have just a few questions for you. Cosmere, of course. What else did you expect, though, deep in the den of the crazy theorizers of 17th Shard? 1. Is Splintering a Shard permanent? 2. In the Ars Arcanum of the Way of Kings, next to the Essences are listed ten Body Focuses. Are these Body Focuses the focus (in cosmere terms) of Surgebinding? 3. Is there a cosmere-specific term you use to describe, say, a Shard’s power inside someone? For example, people on Scadrial had little bits of Preservation in them that made them sentient (and, with enough Preservation, Allomancy). This obviously doesn’t make these people Slivers or Splinters, so I was just wondering if you had a word for it. 4. A lerasium Mistborn’s kids would surely be Allomancers. If such a lerasium Mistborn traveled to, say, Nalthis, fell in love and had kids with a native Nalthisean, would those kids be Allomancers? Or something else?
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17th Shard Forum Q&A with Brandon Sanderson! (Update)
Chaos commented on Rubix's article in Events, Signings, & Giveaways
We have been given permission to open at midnight, guys! I'm updating things as we speak. -
I would like to announce that I'm using the hardcover of Way of Kings as a paperweight. Again. (Come on, I'm grading papers and this stupid paperback solution manual doesn't want to stay open. Way of Kings was there )
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I totally buy this idea.
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It's short notice, yes, but there is totally a signing Brandon will be at tomorrow (well, today now) at 4pm, for an hour or possibly two. It is in Orem, Utah, at: Where: 330 East 1300 South, Orem, UT 84058 Phone: 801-229-1611 Time: Saturday September 22, 2012 4:00 PM I know our own Josh (Rubix) will be there, so if you spot him, you can say hi! And, you know, if you're in the game of asking crazy cosmere questions, might I direct you to our massive list of open questions you can ask? For those who can make, have fun! I will be here, sitting, and waiting to exact my revenge against you lucky souls who live in Utah. EDIT: If you want a transcription of the (awesome) info from the signing, Zach has posted it up here. They are amazing for getting two and a half of hours of audio transcribed so quick. -
Zane, by far. Don't get me started on ranting about him.
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Excellent. That page really needed that. Thanks so much!
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If there exists canonical terminology, we will always use it. However, there sometimes exist terms which are necessary, and are not canonical. The big example would be the term "Shardholders", for people who hold Shards of Adonalsium. Brandon does not like the term: he says that when someone takes up a Shard, they become the Shard. He also doesn't like it because he thinks it would be confused with Shardbearer. But, there exist times for us--as fans--make theories that discuss the people, separate from the Shard themselves. And it is much preferable to choose Shardholder instead of using Shardbearer for both Shards of Adonalsium and Shardblades/plate. So that's an example of necessary, non-canonical terminology. Thing is, in Mistborn, it is a more faster paced series than Stormlight. There are a lot more names for events and such in Stormlight--vastly more. So there may not be a canonical term for a term we need. And indeed, this is exclusively for the purposes of 17th Shard or the Coppermind. On the Coppermind, we at least need to decide on these standards so the wiki is logical. It doesn't really matter what other fans call it.
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What book(s) are you looking forward to most about the Cosmere?
Chaos replied to Turos's topic in Cosmere Discussion
It's a toss up between the future Mistborn Trilogy and Liar of Partinel. Both of which are both the oldest and latest stories in the cosmere. I voted Mistborn, simply because I'm an ultra-Mistborn nerd, but I am deeply interested in Hoid's background and how Adonalsium was Shattered. -
Motivation, Execution, Consequence: A Realmatic Theory
Chaos replied to Kurkistan's topic in Cosmere Discussion
I have yet to read your reply on Breath just yet (I intend to soon), but I would like to say that while I don't completely agree with the terminology you say, the ideas here are extremely extremely good. -
I guess. I think it is stretching it to say that totally BAMF of Rayse who holds the most dangerous Shard is, in fact, dead. I mean... I don't know, that'd be kind of a letdown with the letter so heavily implying that Rayse is a danger and not have Rayse hold Odium. Besides, in the Late Breaking Alloy of Law report that I wrote, everything about Odium that we learned there fits exactly with what we know of Rayse in the letter. His personality is a good match for the Shard he holds. This is precisely the impression we receive from the Letter. (It is for this reason Odium does not pick up additional Shards; he does not want to be influenced by their intents.) So yeah, Odium is Rayse. I would bet real money on that. Like a dollar, but whatever. There are additional problems with this thread, which have already been mentioned. Hoid certainly intervenes--a lot. With this fact, it also makes sense that, say, someone with a firm policy on nonintervention would probably be rather annoyed on all of Hoid's meddlings and want to stop him. "Friend" in this context could be negative. Like talking about a very old rival. Especially when you consider the actual quote: If Hoid is the letter writer, then he has knows Rayse in some capacity and has met him (because the letter writer said that Rayse was the most crafty, dangerous men he had ever met). It is perfectly reasonable for Hoid to call him an acquaintance in this context.
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I am fairly certain Brandon has confirmed that Rayse holds Odium.
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I had thought we were going to move the Battle for Scadrial article into the Final Ascension article (the latter being a canonical term).
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Of course! We'd love any contribution to the wiki
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Cool! I'm a beginning Master's student, so I'm TA (which means in my program I get my own section). As much as I'd like to claim credit for this, every precalculus section is full or nearly full
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Here's a screenshot I want to show you. It's from my university's registration system, that displays class sections. This would not normally deserve an announcement, but humor me. That is my name in the instructor section. I teach for the first time on Monday. Whoa.
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Compendium of Key Terminology for The Way of Kings
Chaos replied to Tamzin Ashevai's topic in The Coppermind Wiki
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...No. As was said earlier in the thread, Ruin and Preservation have seen humans elsewhere. Chapter 76: This is what the annotations say on that same subject: So, it's absolutely confirmed that human life existed prior to Ruin and Preservation's creation of mankind on Scadrial. Other planets definitely had life first. So while you maybe have a point why Preservation didn't take humans from another place--which I don't have an answer to--humans totally existed elsewhere.
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With the Wheel of Time effectively finished, work on Stormlight Archive is in full gear. As you can see on the progress bar on Brandon's site, Stormlight 2 prewriting is at 75%. Sweet deal, right? In the meantime, with Alcatraz annotations finished, there aren't any Way of Kings annotations yet. But, there's something else pretty dang awesome: a scene from Way of Kings Prime. Way of Kings Prime is the original (and unpublished) draft of The Way of Kings that Brandon wrote in 2003. By his accounts, he didn't succeed with this draft and had to rewrite it from scratch in 2010. A lot of the timeline was shifted around, and Kaladin's character (then named Merrin) was vastly different. Brandon hasn't given out Way of Kings Prime to people because it has spoilers to later Stormlight books--Prime actually has viewpoints in more places, so presumably we will see these things restructured in later Stormlight books. This chapter is about proto-Szeth, before he was named Szeth. Check it out. Lots of names are changed, but you can feel similarities as well. There's tons of interesting stuff here. Does this mention of Davar here have anything to do with Shallan in the actual version of Way of Kings? Can Szeth be released from his Oathstone? Or had most of this changed for the revision of Stormlight? Well, it wouldn't be 17th Shard if we didn't analyze some potentially misleading unpublished scenes, so sound off in the comments or in our forum topic
