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It’s finally happened. I’m famous! You can see half of my arm and an entire foot behind the Szeth cosplayer in that picture!

14 minutes ago, Bcknight2 said:

This is great!

It's good to know why a couple of people were marked as 'Arcanists'. I was beginning to think there was a Kingkiller section of the shard....

But I'm confused as to why you would mark Brandon's Reddit comments and such as 'paraphrased'.

I would consider the wording of anything he typed and posted more accurate than the phrasing he uses off the top of his head at a signing.

 

We don't, so far as I know. See Weiry's "WoBs for which we don't have audio (or are directly written by Brandon) are always marked as paraphrased..." bit. If there's a "paraphrased" reddit comment drop us a link and we can fix it.

Best tag:
https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=&date_from=&date_to=&speaker=&tags=time+bubbles

Not to burst anyone's bubble here, but we've had the Jek (or as I prefer to call him Jerk) bit for quite a while now.

Re: Speed bubble occupancy

In general, objects are either all-in or all-out of time bubbles. For people in particular, anything living that even touches the bubble is included in it. Note that this "inclusion" doesn't meant that the bubble glorps out and swallows them or the like: rather, the bubble's border stays in place, but the bits of people that are outside of it are still going "fast".

Ah, Thanks.

So that "or" there tells us that's the only way muggles can worldhop on their own, I suppose.

Hm. Some nice stuff. Thoughts:

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P.S. Did anyone else notice Brandon slipping there with that last answer? If only we'd gotten this earlier, then the two AoL books in the pipeline might not be such a surprise.

I did get some interesting info at the signing though, which will be revealed in the 1 hour sum up.

Wait a second...

Feather, have you been holding out WoB from me us for months?!?!!?

Another Glimpse of Feather: "I renounce the Shallarin ship."

The "Glimpse of Feather" I wish I could have sent back to past-Feather before she read WoR: "Featherwriter then cried out, rage in her voice, 'Shallan, I'm going to murder you!'"

There are some particularly fun effects for black constellation (like that 3-cost 1/4 that drains one life from every opponent each time you put down an enchantment...), so I'd advise you to take a look. Though, to be fair, the true beastliness of constellation effects is only seen when you get some large-scale flicker effects.

So far as scrylands go, I actually have a friend who'll swear up and down that no non-basic land beside the shocklands is even worth having in your deck. He is crazy, though...

A fairly solid deck, I must say. Gotta' love that Eidolon of Countless Battles. Guildgates instead of scrylands, though?

*Checks price of scrylands*

Ah, nevermind.

Theros must be a bit of a love/hate thing, eh? So many enchantments, but so many things that murder enchantments. I'd throw an Armament of Nyx in (instead of that Arrest?) if I were you. It's saved my posterior a few times in my own white/black (focus on Constellation) deck.

You don't have any temptation to do some Constellation effects, by the way?

Mono-white: *hiss*. Boros all the way!

*Runs off Hastily to lose after his deck stops working after turn 7*

Feather's MTG color guess: Well, she gave us the plains right away, so I'll say... she plays/is White/Green.

Oops, for some reason I tend to read "Alethkar" as "Alethikar", seeing an 'i' there for no apparent reason. So I thought you were commenting on that, and... :[

On second thought, though, even with the proper spelling emphasis in poetry/song isn't necessarily correct, so there's still some chance you had it right to begin with.

So far as the pronunciation of Alethikar within the story goes, you could well have been pronouncing it right all along and Hoid (probably) dropping that syllable could simply be an elision for the sake of the meter.

Ah, but that fact in itself is one of the secrets.

1:04:00 "Another random fact that Windy hates..."

I do hereby submit my bid for swag.

Can you give us any hints as to what we'll see?

EDIT: Have you squashed the /> bug? :huh:/>

Got an email from Amazon saying that release was moved up to the 15th.

Note: I forgot that cool kids post on the forum thread instead of commenting on the announcement. Consider this a double post.

I must say I think I like the hardcover cover art more than the eBook.

*Spoilers*

The "swirliness" of the hardcover accentuates the nature of the protagonist's condition more, shows the fluidity and ultimate ephemeral nature of his "aspects," while leaving the real man distinct, awash amidst the horde of his creations.

The eBook cover, on the other hand, sends a far different message. It is visually more clean and perhaps even better conveys the true vastness of Leeds' mind, and also gives a much more put-together, assertive image of the main character. This is not representative of the book, at least in my opinion, where we see a thoroughly competent Leed (see what I did there? Huh? Am I right? ), but still understand that he's a bit overwhelmed whenever he's thrust into these situations, relying on his aspects moreso than leading them into battle.

Leeds' facelessness in the eBook cover is also in stark contrast to his presentation in the hardback. The eBook gives the impression that Leeds is a blank slate with a plurality of personalities to step into, which is akin to Monica's misapprehension of his abilities in the book.

The eBook cover also looks a bit samey. It's clean-cut to a fault, and visually pleasing, but I don't get a sense of uniqueness from it. This is all not to say that the eBook cover is bad, just that I like the hardback cover more.

P.S. And it goes without saying that Brandon is a fantastic human being for going to the trouble of doing all of this.

I must say I think I like the hardcover cover art more than the eBook.

*Spoilers*

The "swirliness" of the hardcover accentuates the nature of the protagonist's condition more, shows the fluidity and ultimate ephemeral nature of his "aspects," while leaving the real man distinct, awash amidst the horde of his creations.

The eBook cover, on the other hand, sends a far different message. It is visually more clean and perhaps even better conveys the true vastness of Leeds' mind, and also gives a much more put-together, assertive image of the main character. This is not representative of the book, at least in my opinion, where we see a thoroughly competent Leed (see what I did there? Huh? Am I right? ), but still understand that he's a bit overwhelmed whenever he's thrust into these situations, relying on his aspects moreso than leading them into battle.

Leeds' facelessness in the eBook cover is also in stark contrast to his presentation in the hardback. The eBook gives the impression that Leeds is a blank slate with a plurality of personalities to step into, which is akin to Monica's misapprehension of his abilities in the book.

The eBook cover also looks a bit samey. It's clean-cut to a fault, and visually pleasing, but I don't get a sense of uniqueness from it. This is all not to say that the eBook cover is bad, just that I like the hardback cover more.

Source? I know that Emperor's Soul was done on the plane back from Taiwan, but I haven't heard anything like that about Legion.

Legion was on the plane back from France.

http://www.brandonsanderson.com/book/Legion

Legion was the one he wrote on a plane

Yes, I know.

*Crawls deeper into sad, sad hole in the ground*