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@Vecna I like the diagram a lot, good design. In general, the Mistborn Adventure Game isn't really canonical, so I don't think we can base theories off of it with much confidence. I agree that this way of dividing things up makes sense, but unfortunately we can't prove anything until more books come out or Brandon decides to be generous with his answers.

@WeiryWriter Yeah, I recorded the Post Signing Line audio.

I've transcribed the Sunday reading Q&A session and added the transcription of the interlude reading to the document. Nothing too interesting there, only two Cosmere questions that were both RAFO. But it's still useful to know what people have asked so we don't waste time on the same questions. Remaining to-do: Complete the Rithmatist Q&A transcript Complete the Sunday signing transcript Check through the Sunday post-signing transcript for accuracy I don't think I'm going to transcribe the Career panel if there are no Cosmere questions there. Probably is interesting to listen to though.

I believe the reading transcript is the interlude that was read on Sunday.

I believe the Friday signing transcript is completed! @jofwu once I start transcribing the Sunday Q&A, I will add your transcription of the reading to the document. Or someone else can start it if they have the time. There's still a lot of work to be done here!

A relevant WoB to keep in mind: Source This question was in 2016, so Words of Radiance had been out for a while. So whatever the Listeners are doing at the end of WoR, it isn't Voidbinding. This, to me, makes it seem like the Parshendi forms are completely different from Voidbinding and are instead a function of their natural ability to bond with spren.

@ccstat Thanks for transcribing that! I added the document to the first post, and added a few things that happened before I started recording.

Szeth's afterimages are not because of a stronger connection with the Cognitive Realm, but because his soul isn't sticking to his body quite right: Source Lift is the one with the stronger connection to the Cognitive Realm, which allows her to see the images. But that's not the reason why they exist.

Here you go: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1o_-OadmbojDGZqFWls2meynCw4qLBWP-syEeSSgSRQ0/edit?usp=sharing EDIT: I updated the OP with links to all the recordings people have posted and the transcription documents we've created so far. I added an additional recording I took of our brief Q&A after the Sunday signing where Brandon was kind enough to wait around an extra 15 minutes while we pestered him. You can find that here: https://www.dropbox.com/s/o9wtqhlj4y2s56b/Brandon Sanderson.m4a?dl=0

I made one for the Friday signing here.

I just updated the OP with the links to the audio files and the Rithmatist Q&A transcript. I'm going to start on the Friday signing line transcription now. I had a few other questions answered that I'll paraphrase quickly.

I was there for about half an hour but I did manage to get one question in. Wish I had gotten there earlier. My general remembering of my question: Q: In the Stormlight Archive, there's a relationship of some sort between the Chasmfiends and the thunderclasts (Brandon generally agrees here). Is there a similar sort of relationship between white spines and the Midnight Essences? A: Yes, but it's a more tenuous one. The Midnight Essences imitate whatever's around them. I interpret this to mean that the Midnight Essences were imitating whitespines during Dalinar's vision, but that there isn't necessarily a deeper relationship there.

I thought it was a little slow at the start, but once we got into the main part of the movie I was hooked. Especially once they started the mission at the end, I thought the last 45 minutes or so was absolutely incredible. Even though it was really sad, I thought having all the characters die was the right choice. It really sets it apart from a lot of other blockbuster movies coming out now, and makes A New Hope feel even more important. And even given the slow start, there were a lot of moments in the beginning that blew me away. Some really really incredible use of CGI here. I'm pretty sure Jimmy Smits in the movie is the first and only time they have acknowledged the existence of the prequels.

I generally think it's 2000+ years before the books. We know Honor was alive for the Recreance and he was Splintered "millennia ago", which I take to mean greater than two thousand years.

I think some of them do. Some languages (generally the ones with different symbols associated with them) already have their own page. Aon, the women's script, and the thaylen script are all examples of that. And as I said above, I think this will help a lot in cases where multiple countries speak the same language (like Arelon and Teod). It doesn't really make sense to me to duplicate the info on both pages, and I think it would be strange to have it on one page but not the other. The cleanest solution, in my opinion, is to have a separate language page. Even if it leads to some small articles being created, I think it would clear up some of the more complex situations.

I'm not sure, that's a good point. I'm in favor of having a consistent structure set up, and we already have some separate pages for certain languages that are fairly small (one example: http://coppermind.net/wiki/Fen). We could also create them as redirect pages to the Language section on another page (similar to how the Ethnicities and Nationalities category is set up).

I was thinking about this as well (we're so in sync!). I think it would be good to create separate pages for the languages specifically and link to those from the culture pages, as the names of the languages won't always be the same as the culture they're associated with. It also covers the cases where there are multiple languages spoken in a single country and when one country speaks another country's language, like how Jah Keved mostly speaks Alethi, but also contains the Horneater Peaks with their own language. So yeah, my idea was to make separate pages like "Alethi (language)" to differentiate between the language and the nation.

This isn't technically true. Brandon said the metal in Bleeder is from a Shard we know. However, there's nothing in the text or in any WoB that explicitly connects that metal to "Trell", the entity that Miles/the Set worship. I'll grant you that it's likely they're related, but we can't say that for sure yet.

A self-RAFO? Impressive. I assumed that either there was a separate compartment to whatever carriage the governor was in that allowed Paalm to slip out unnoticed, or she just said to the guards "hey I'm gonna take a walk for a bit, you keep going" and they did what she said because she's the governor.

I think it's believable that Paalm could converse out loud and via telepathy at the same time. It's something to ask Brandon (we don't even know the "method" of the telepathy in terms of Realmatics), but given that Paalm could literally split her brain into two, I think she could probably manage to do both at once. I believe, and Coppermind agrees, that the priest was killed by Paalm impersonating another priest. The governor disappears from the party while Wayne is questioning people, and the timing seems to work out such that Paalm could have murdered the priest right after leaving. I will definitely let you know. I'm currently in the middle of another book (Lies of Locke Lamora), so it may not be for a little while, but I'll keep this theory in mind for sure.

I don't think that's what he's trying to say here. He's specifically trying to say that there was not a mass immigration of Southern Scadrians, but that Iyatil is an isolated case of someone from Scadrian heritage immigrating to another planet and having a family there. I think the WoBs that Pagerunner posted are pretty definitive when taken together with the one I posted above. We have three planets referenced when talking about Iyatil: where she lives, where she's from, and where her people are from. We know from the books that she lives on Roshar. Pagerunner's post specifies that her heritage is Scadrian, which means that's where her people are from. So the only question is, where is she from specifically? I don't think the answer to that question relates in any way to the origination of the Southern Scadrians. Additionally, they can use the Metallic Arts, which means they must either have originated on Scadrial (created by Ruin and Preservation) or they must have all eaten Lerasium (which seems unlikely given how rare it is).

I was definitely freaking out when I transcribed that question. I was a little surprised it didn't get more attention in the signing thread, because I thought it was a huge revelation. My understanding is that the similarity is that they've both gone through mass migrations. Brandon may also be implying that the Iriali were similarly fleeing a cataclysm of some sort, and that's why they migrated in the first place. Personally, I think it's very possible that they migrated from Ashyn a long time ago (I think we know via WoB that there was some sort of cataclysmic event there). See this WoB: So I would interpret that as: Iyatil lives on Roshar and is Scadrian, but wasn't born/didn't grow up on either of those planets. Also worth noting that this is the WoB that the original "mass exodus" quote comes from, prompting the question about the Iriali in the OP here.

Awesome write-up! Everything you've said about the chemical properties of harmonium makes sense to me. I only took general chemistry in college, but I like to think the physics degree is worth something. I'll have to get back to you on the stability of the nucleus question, it's going to require a little more research first. However, I'll say now that even physicists don't understand it very well. The strong nuclear force that holds the nucleus together is probably the least understood of all the fundamental forces, so it's pretty easy to for Brandon to handwave that kind of thing away. It will have to be different from cesium regardless, as it doesn't share any of its physical properties. I don't think it would be a reliable way to make airships fly if there was a good chance of it melting in the process. I'll have to think about this further and see if I can come up with something.

That's true, but we haven't seen any evidence to suggest that might be the case. On the other hand, we know that when Shards invest in a planet, you get a perpendicularity that people can use to worldhop. It's a lot simpler to go with the explanation based in something we already know (Autonomy being invested in the planet itself and having a Shardpool there) rather than inventing a new magic system to explain it.

Darn it, now I have to go reread SoS to check your theory out in more detail. I remember some discussion when it first came out about whether or not the voice in Wax's head was really Paalm. Doesn't he comment that it sounds similar to her actual voice or something? Not that that really means much when Shards are involved, as Ruin was able to replicate Reen's voice in Vin's head. We're not at all certain that Paalm was acting on her own, and it seems 100% likely that she was influenced to some degree by another party. Whether that influence was in the form of direct communication throughout the events of the book, or whether it was simply a suggestion and the gift of a spike that would free her from Harmony's control, is the real question. Trell being Autonomy is a pretty popular theory, which I think is definitely strengthened by the new information we've received, as you point out in your theory. One thing I haven't seen people talk about much is how sure we are of the connection between the unknown metal that Paalm had and "Trell". The name Trell was mentioned by Miles at the end of AoL, and then when thinking about the unknown metal at the end of SoS Marasi decided to try and learn more about Trell. However, the two are never connected by either Miles or Paalm. Even in BoM, when we find out that the Set worships Trell, it is never connected to the actions of Paalm or the unknown metal specifically. The Set support her actions in SoS, but Wax's uncle is very clear that she is not one of them and that he, in particular, voted against helping her. While I do think it's unlikely that there are two different powerful entities messing with Scadrial at the same time (aside from Harmony), it's still worth talking about and making sure that we aren't making unwarranted assumptions. I've seen a lot of Trell theories that pull evidence from both Bleeder and the Set, but I don't believe it's been confirmed 100% that they are related. In any case, I definitely think your theory has merit, and I will probably do some re-reading tonight to look for evidence. I think it's pretty indisputable that Paalm was influenced by somebody. Who that somebody is and the degree of influence is open for debate.