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Peter answered a couple questions on reddit.

"It's Khriss, some years after White Sand. Perhaps around the time she wrote the planetary system essays that are included in the book." (referring to the woman on the cover).

"The symbol on the book she's holding is the symbol for the Cosmere."

I wonder why the cosmere needs a symbol? What is it used for?

WOB is he uses feruchemy to know where to be.

To me that just seems like Brandon just caught on to what the speaker was asking, not actually saying ettmetal is caesium. Would really love to see the verbatim on this one

Recording is here. (1:17:23 for the question)

A more accurate transcription would be:

Asker: We ever going to find out more about the caesium or the uh exploding metal?

Brandon: Oh, yes the uh the super caesium

A: Yes

B: Yeah, that will be, well the last Wax and Wayne book is called the Lost Metal, so...you kinda got a…

Him calling it "super caesium" is interesting.

I was thinking given it's world-ending potential, akin to nuclear weaponry, and we saw how dangerous just a small piece is when not being used at maximum effectiveness (Edwarn's scene at the end)

Word ending potential?

"The creature reached into its pocket and removed a device like a small package wrapped in wires. One of Irich’s early attempts at creating an explosive device from the metal that powered the airships. It had proven ineffective, barely more explosive than dynamite, when they needed something that could end cities."

“There’s a little bit in the primer cube too, to make it work. A lot more to make a ship like Wilg go, and a lot, lot more to get Brunstell into the air.”

Along with:

“You said there was more on Brunstell.”

“Yah, but they have it.” He grinned. “At first, the evil ones didn’t know how to care for it. Got some wet. That was a good day.”

[...]

“This kind,” he said. “Anyway, your evil men, they got most of ours.”

Allik doesn't seem too worried that the Set has a lot, lot of it. They could certainly do some damage with it, but it isn't treated as that dangerous. Unless something needs to be done to it to make it that dangerous.

This WOB ([1:16:15]) is referring to Ettmetal.

Q: Find out more about the exploding metal, the caesium?

A: The super caesium? Yeah, but the Wax and Wayne book is called “The Lost Metal” so....

Well, the pronunciation is only strange to English speakers. In most European languages (which the Rosharan language is 'a lot closer to') the 'J' is pronounced with a 'Y' sound.

 

Likewise, a word in a strange language doesn't necessarily relate. Even if this were a well known word in a well known language, it still might be an accident (and let's face it, this is far from that). In fact, he did this very thing in the Mistborn series, with Elend and Straff. Elend in German means misery, and Straff in German means... from memory, it's 'tight'.

 

In addition, the Cosmere doesn't have any form of Earth. So any names that mean something like this don't have an in-world explanation, and are merely easter eggs for the readers (and to the best of my knowledge, Brandon hasn't done this with any of his Cosmere stories.)

I was thinking more that he might have run across the word while doing research and thought it would make a cool name. More of an ironic joke for himself than for the readers. (I've done this with my own writing, don't know if other authors do.) You're probably right though, just a coincidence.

I don't think it's intentional. Just like to fact, that in Polish Jasnah sound almost like "jasna" which means "bright"... And so we read about brightness Bright when she's mentioned

Ha! That's awesome.

So, I was wandering through the pages of Wikipedia, reading about Zoroastrianism, when I came across this page.

Quote: "The Avestan language word yasna literally means 'oblation' or 'worship'."

This seems too much to be a coincidence (though it might be).

Anyways, I found it interesting that the only atheist main character is named after something religious.

Explains the odd pronunciation as well.

1) But this doesn’t mean that it is a medieval society; instead consider what happened to warfare next? If war had been perfected why did it change some much over the last 600 years? Well there are three reasons. The first is explosives, specifically gunpowder.

2) In fact I can’t think of any religion which has ever promoted the pursuit of science like Vorinism appears to do, let alone pursued it itself

1) Gunpowder as an explosive has existed for a long time.

2) Here's one Not to the same extent of Vorinism maybe, but it's possibly one of Brandon's inspirations.

Overall, I agree with the Alethi, or any part of Roshar, not being strictly medieval. As Brandon has said:

"When I approached writing the Stormlight Archive—when I approached creating Roshar—I very consciously said, "I want to create something that feels new to me." I'm not the only one who does this, and I'm certainly not the one who does it best, but I wanted a world that was not medieval Europe. At all. I wanted a world that was its own thing."

Source

The reading is actually on youtube and Volratho posted it here.

Name one person.

Mistborn 3:

It doesn't seem as if zinc has anything to do with intelligence. In Bands of Mourning

http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=1076#31

Question

Brandon Sanderson

((Imagine some super cool word for the equivalent of World Hopping here)).

((Realmwalking, maybe?))

How exactly do Realmatic Wells work? What are they?

How does elemental magic work? How common is the ability to use it?

Why is Aemudi sealed off? Is there any way to get around that?

In what ways are Nemle different than humans?

((Are you planning a story for this character?))

Where is Nemle located? What does it teach?

How often have you been to Aemudi?

What are the most common misconceptions about your kind?

The war had been going on for about 5 years (and 8 months) when Kaladin shows up in the Way of Kings. Chapter One says "Five Years Later", Chapter Two says "Eight Months Later".

Also:

"There seemed to be quite a lot of them. Around fifty barracks, with—perhaps—twenty or thirty men in each…that would make nearly as many bridgemen in this army as there had been soldiers in Amaram’s entire force."

When Kaladin first shows up.

The knife actually belonged to Nazh. He probably isn't very happy about that.

“The Ire built a city,” Preservation said, softly. “In a place between worlds . . .”

This seems to be saying that the fortress was built in space, not on Sel.

Hello

Brandon wrote a scene showing what happened to Jasnah.

http://www.tor.com/2014/08/06/stormlight-archive-scene-after-words-of-radiance/

Somebody must have made a mistake there. You could ask again for Aether.

And no, they do not take place on the same world.

I've only managed a chapter so far, probably because I did no planning at all. The full 50K is certainly not happening, but perhaps I can do half that.

I'm back! I'm sure I was missed. Had some computer trouble and stuff. In other news, I'm trying out Linux for the first time. Had to reinstall the OS 3 times. Fun stuff. Also, Codeblocks keeps crashing:(. Other than that, Linux is awesome!

At least you're not a mysterious assassin dispatched to kill smart people.

(Yes, I know that's not what an Enefel actually is... Once again, I take things too literally for the sake of a bad joke)

Don't the Enefel have something to do with sports?

Not sure what your region is like, but I absolutely recommend trying to find a write-in or 30 near you that you can attend.  Doing it by myself resulted in failure; it wasn't until I hit up the write-ins that I began winning.  Also made some awesome friends that I spend time with throughout the year and not just during November (altho, I also have a few of those, too!)

Thanks for the advice! I'll be sure to check those out.

I'm going to be trying this for the first time. I'm very new to this writing thing, so I don't know if I'll actually finish. My name is the same on The Website, if someone was wanting to know.