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@bluedeath33 We're still expecting it to be released in November 2017. He's been sending out parts as he's going along, but that basically reduces the time after the first draft from like a year and a half to about a year. There's a lot of art and production stuff that has to happen, and he still will do a couple more drafts of revisions before any of that stuff can happen.

@ccstat It's on the schedule page: http://www.boskone.org/program-event/schedule/

I didn't see an event thread for this yet, so I figured I would make one. This is a three day sci-fi/fantasy convention that Brandon will be attending as the "Guest of Honor", though it's not clear from either Brandon's website or the con website exactly what that entails. Here's a link to more info about the convention itself: http://www.boskone.org/ It seems like a pretty cool convention, and there are a ton of authors attending. I'd like to go but I'm holding off on buying a ticket until I can get more info about the schedule. Apparently, anyone can attend for free from 2:00 to 6:00 on Friday, with a pass for the entire weekend costing $55. The price will go up in January, so if you're interested I would recommend getting your pass sooner rather than later. Anyone been to this convention before? EDIT: Here are all the recordings that have been posted so far. I believe we have at least one recording up for every event, though there may be duplicates floating around on the internet somewhere. I'll be updating with links to transcriptions and progress: Friday Signing Line (2 h 18 min, 260 MB) (Transcript complete) House War Q&A (22 min, 42 MB) (Transcript complete) Rithmatist Q&A (55 min, 103 MB) (Video) (Transcript complete) Career Panel (56 min, 105 MB)/Second Recording Note: no book-related questions Reading/Q&A Session (Audio) (Transcript of the first reading and Q&A complete. The second reading has already been transcribed in other places.) Sunday Signing/Second Recording with more questions (Transcript complete) Sunday Post-Signing Q&A (Transcript completed, could use a second listen to double check everything) There were two readings done. One was the prologue of Oathbringer, the other was a "goofy" interlude about two ardents reading romance novels. Some interesting tidbits in the interlude though.

The prevailing theory is that those are two of the Unmade. They may not know. We don't even know how they've identified the big four as proto-radiants. Could be similar to Mr. T's method (look for people who survive when they shouldn't), in which case I don't know that there's an event with Jasnah that would identify her as proto-radiant.

Is this forum the best way to contact you? I often have question while trying to edit but decide they're too silly to make a post about. I'd like to get more involved in editing but I'm never sure how much I should change things without consulting somebody else.

I have updated my Cosmere Timeline to version 2.0! The new version includes Edgedancer, now that it's been released, as well as an event from one of the Arcanum Unbounded essays with a very rough estimate of the date. I also moved White Sand to be before Elantris based on a new WoB. I'd love to hear some theories as to exactly how long before it takes place; my guess is a fairly long time (like 500-1000 years). Thanks a bunch to @Yata for his persistence in asking about the timeline and finally getting us some new information! I don't know whether to be proud or ashamed of the fact that I've managed to simultaneously necro the thread and double post. But I've also seen a fair amount of timeline discussion happening that I've contributed to, so I want to encourage people to discuss things in this thread as it helps me make the document better!

I really don't think the names of the gasgiants have anything more than a cultural connection to the Heralds. There generally aren't coincidences when it comes to the Cosmere, but not every piece of worldbuilding is related to the Shards or the Magic system. As somebody pointed out above, we also named the planets in our solar system after ancient gods. But there's no specific connection between those planets and the gods they're named for, and there's no reason there has to be on Roshar either. It's definitely possible that the planets play some role, but I don't see much evidence to support that yet. If we're taking bets on which planets in the system relate to the Oathpact, the Heralds, or the fact that Odium is trapped in the system, my money is on the three planets with sentient beings and a presence in the Cognitive Realm, especially the one of those planets that literally had two god-like beings Invested there.

Do you have a specific source on the time interval between Warbreaker and Stormlight? Also Vasher would be much older than 320 if that were the case. The Manywar was 300 years before Warbreaker and he had already been Returned for at least a decent amount of time before that (long enough to worldhop to Roshar and see a Shardblade), and he was alive for some time before Returning as well.

I would say we have a high level of confidence that we've seen Ash and Nale. In Taln's case, it depends on how you interpret Brandon's insistence on only referring to that character as "the man who calls himself Taln" or similar phrases. Personally, I think it is Taln and Brandon is just messing with us, but there's certainly enough room in the evidence we have that it could be somebody else entirely (or some other thing with body-snatching/memory implanting/cloning/whatever X-Files nonsense you enjoy). There is also a high level of confidence that we have seen more than just those three, but there is not a lot of confidence in where those sightings are.

Here's all the info we have on the situation: https://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/3va8fw/day_4_group_ama_in_support_of_worldbuilders/cxnga0u/?context=3 So we don't know as of yet, but we will likely find out someday. Personally, I think it is more likely that Dalinar was feeling it in the present and imported it into his vision, as I don't know why the Unmade would want to aid Dalinar against the Midnight Essences (assuming that the Thrill makes him more effective in combat).

It was a twitter question, I found a link to it on the Coppermind page about Forton. I usually check Coppermind before trying Theoryland or anything else as it's likely someone has already done the work for me!

Windrunners have more squires that are more powerful, and it's been suggested that other orders have them as well (though some do not). WoB:

I can't imagine that they would want to print two different versions of same collection, especially since the only "new" story here is the Lift Novella (all the others have been published either online or in print somewhere). I would also say it's very possible that the novella will come out as a stand-alone e-book at some point (though that could be a year from now or more), and it's also likely that the collection will come out in paperback at some point. If you have a reddit or twitter account, you could always ask Brandon/Peter about the future plans for these stories. But I very much doubt that we will see a version of Arcanum Unbounded with different contents, especially since I'm not even really sure which stories you mean by "new stories".

This quote doesn't mean Taravangian's way of doing things is wrong; it's just a different set of ethics. Journey before destination is Honor's way of doing things, because, you know, Honor. Doesn't mean it's the best/only way of getting things done, and it seems likely that Cultivation did not agree with Honor about the best way to handle things. Because while how you lived may matter more to the Almighty than what you accomplished, the people who would be saved by the Diagram might see things a little differently.

Space and time are a little more malleable than what you stated in your original post. They are dependent on the reference frame of the observer, in a addition to the gravitational effects mentioned by @Iron Eyes. Here's the Wikipedia article on time dilation, with my favorite example of experimental testing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_dilation#Velocity_and_gravitational_time_dilation_combined-effect_tests Have you read Mistborn: Secret History? We find out some things in that novella about how the different realms work with regard to time and space. Also @Tariniel: the second link in your post doesn't seem to go to any particular post

Boy do I have some news for you regarding Special Relativity. We do have some insight into how this works; it's based on the amount of Cognitive activity in the region. So areas without any living things in them, like empty space, are contracted in the Cognitive Realm. However, areas of concentrated life, like cities and continents, span essentially the same distance. We do not yet know if there is a faster way to travel within the Cognitive Realm than walking. I think Hemalurgy is definitely a similar mechanism to Forging. Both involve altering the Spiritual makeup of an object or person. However, my impression was that Hemalurgy is much less elegant than Forgery. Forgery is very precise, and you need to change the history in believable ways or the change won't take. With Hemalurgy, it seems like you're basically using brute force to ignore the plausibility of a change and forcing it to happen. Allomancy isn't given when Snapped, but is present in the genes from birth IIRC. So while I think you could probably take somebody who had Allomantic potential but never Snapped and Forge their history so they had Snapped, I don't think you could take someone from another planet and Forge them to be an Allomancer. It's too big of a change, since you would first have to change where they were born. Hemalurgy doesn't have that restriction, so while they have some similarities (manipulation of Spiritual stuff), I don't think Hemalurgy does it in quite the same way.

Brandon answered a question regarding population sizes and densities of various cities around the Cosmere on Reddit earlier. In the answer, he references a city called Silverlight. I've don't recall this name in any of his books. I did a quick check through Coppermind, Theoryland, and the text of all the ebooks I have; I found no reference to something called Silverlight. Has anyone heard of this place before? I asked for clarification on Reddit, but until we get an answer, let's start madly theorizing! Original comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/51u8qu/oathbringer_spoilers_stormlight_three_update_4/d8zbvvs So what/where could Silverlight be? Personally, I think it would be a cool name for the worldhopper gathering place that we've heard about, which would tie into how he hasn't estimated its population precisely. What do you think it is?

The bright light being related to something he blocked out is an interesting hypothesis. I'm gonna throw out something completely out of left field here just for fun. Warbreaker spoilers: At the very least, there seems to be a difference between the "blinding light in Father's strongbox" with Shallan and the way Dalinar's wife is removed from his memory. So I think it's likely that those two examples have different underlying mechanisms.

Someone in another thread (linked below) suggested that it may be a vision sent by the Nightwatcher.

This is all the description we get the first time Kaladin changes gravity. @marianmi, I just looked through Kaladin's fight with Szeth at the end of WoR and didn't see any mentions of the Cognitive Realm or the strange sun.

I asked a related question on Reddit and got an answer: Source You can infer from this answer that the length of a "year", as people on the planet think of it, never changed from pre-TLR length. You can also infer the the orbit time around the sun did change. However, I agree with @The One Who Connects that the time to refill the Well is based on what the local people consider a year, not the orbit time. Having a numerical symbol isn't much use if it's in a different unit than the one everyone uses (hence the use of percentages as a symbol for the mist-sickness, which are unit-less).

You can take a look at the rough draft of a timeline I've put together here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JJtJhHwpKdow01n2-bsT3scVvqJd6lZh4uvpNwcslv8/edit#gid=0 Warning that there are spoilers for all the books to varying degrees.

@Tariniel Kadasix is definitely the Azir word for Herald. Here's the relevant quote from Lift's Interlude:

Definitely possible. They could have been made to mirror the Stormfather and Nightwatcher.