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@DAdam Any update on your recording of the Sunday Signing Line?

@BeskarKomrk Quick question, did you record the Sunday Post Signing Line audio linked in the first post? Or am I just not seeing a post in the thread by whoever did?

4 minutes ago, acatnamedkaren said:

Is this a Core Possibility? (omg is Rithmatist one?)

It is a Core Possibility, and Rithmatist is not officially one (but Peter has an argument that it, and Alcatraz, should be).

Cool, but would you mind posting about this in the event thread? We prefer that people do that rather in addition to/instead of posting singular threads like this one so that reports do not get lost.

I just finished reading it and while I do think it is a good story it is definitely not my favorite thing Brandon has ever written. Which is perfectly alright not everything will resonate as well with everyone, and I'm sure there is someone out there that will love Snapshot in the way I love The Rithmatist, that person just isn't me. I will admit that I did not see either twist coming (that Davis wasn't real or that he was planning to kill Chaz). I think part of my issue is that it could be argued that the ending is essentially "And it was all a dream", but then again there is the question on whether the people in Snapshots are real or not.

@ccstat Makes a great point about it being fundamentally hopeful, but I don't know if I agree. Sure one person can make a difference, but in this instance the good guy dies whereas the murderer lives, which is kind of depressing.

I do want to learn more about that world though.

4 hours ago, jofwu said:

Alright, I took your mock-ups @Harakeke and this is what I came up with:

Wow, that's actually pretty interesting! Somebody should totally ask Brandon about this in his AMA.

2 minutes ago, Pagerunner said:

Oh no! I was supposed to have a whole month to get caught up cataloguing his old AMAs before this new one started. Part of me can't help but wonder if he kept this on the DL just so we wouldn't have a lot of time to develop a plan of attack...

Here's one question that I've been turning over in my head for a while, but it isn't too detail-oriented, and I think he might bite on it: So far, the Shards we've seen in your works have been operating much more individuals than a true 'pantheon.' But Odium has been referred to as "God's own divine hatred, separated from the virtues that gave it context." Can all the Shards similarly be understood as singular attributes of God, which, together as a collective, embody all divine attributes? In Mistborn, especially, there seem to be elements of theodicy in Harmony's actions, how he must balance these two seemingly conflicting attributes without betraying his nature. Same with the literal war between Shards on Roshar.

While this question is tailored towards larger themes of religion in his books, it's designed to give some clarification on Shardic Intents, especially Autonomy (which people have been all over the place in interpreting). I don't have a Reddit account, so anyone can feel free to take this question if you're having a hard time thinking of one that isn't detail-focused. Just let me know if you do; I might give in and create an account just to ask this question, if nobody else wants to take it.

If I remember correctly Brandon has already answered part of this. That all of the Intents are actually aspects of divinity. I don't know exactly where though, but I'm pretty sure it was latter half of 2016.

Just now, The One Who Connects said:

It might have been due to available space on the image, but the Ten on the image of Elhokar's Sword looked like simplified versions of the Order Glyphs. Perhaps they were based upon those or vice/versa depending on the timeline?

Eh I just think they are the same glyphs, just more artistically rendered in the Double Eye of the Almighty chart, there's a quote somewhere in here that says you can add lines to glyphs without changing their meaning.

1 hour ago, Pagerunner said:

Also, as I peruse the coppermind, I see there are ten fundamental glyphs. Has anyone tried to identify what they are?

The Ten Fundamental glyphs is the proper name for what the fandom generally calls the Radiant Order glyphs.

On 2/7/2017 at 1:33 PM, Oversleep said:

Thanks

Seriously? 10 years after publication of WoA Ruin being freed would be a spoiler?

I mean, it's one thing to talk about Shadows of Self or Bands of Mourning without spoiler tags in Stormlight subforum... but original trilogy?

Yes it's a spoiler. Don't presume that just because someone has read Stormlight they've also read Mistborn, and also new people are reading the books all the time. It is forum policy to place plot-relevent spoilers from another series in spoiler tags.

The sentence to search for is in the sub-forum description.

So just a heads up but the Fantasy sub-reddit has listed a Brandon AMA and "appreciation day" in their Upcoming AMA list on March 10th.

If I remember correctly there is a WoB floating around that explains that if you attach something to a Line of Warding at a point that isn't a valid bindpoint it actually weakens the Line of Warding.

So I think we have WoB on this somewhere, but basically Elend was the last Venture of the direct line, but there were others who were members of House Venture.

3 minutes ago, PelaoFeliz said:

I'm here. Shoot.

Something I've been wondering about is whether Brandon, as he's been working on planning The Apocalypse Guard (and to a lesser extent Snapshot), has come up with some sort of organizational scheme for the different iterations of Earth. Marvel and DC both just do Earth-#, will he do the same, or something different? I don't know if that is interesting to non-wiki people though...

Brandon has an event with the Provo City Library on February 1st:

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AuthorLink with Brandon Sanderson

Wednesday, February 01, 2017 7:00PM

The Children’s Literature Association of Utah invites you to spend an evening talking about reading and writing with international best-selling fantasy author Brandon Sanderson.

Free tickets for this event will be available at the First Floor Reference Desk and online beginning January 18th.

Edit: *grumbles about getting ninja'd by dougpgc*

17 hours ago, The One Who Connects said:

Aimia was a nation during the Era of Solitude. From the Coppermind: "The current calendar in the Era of Solitude did not begin at the end of Aharietiam, but a date approximately three thousand years afterward." Aharietiam was 4500 yrs ago, so that puts the start date of the Era of Solitude at roughly 1500 yrs ago.
Best estimates from what few things Brandon has given us, the Recreance is about 22-2500 yrs ago. So Aimia had to still exist in the post-Recreance era.

Minor correction here, the Era of Solitude began at Aharietiam, not at the start of the modern Vorin calender.

19 minutes ago, DSC01 said:

I got a question answered! I asked with little hope of actually getting an answer because I didn't see the update until some time after it was posted. And I then promptly forgot about Reddit and didn't go back to see if I got an answer until days later. Here it is (tagged for spoilers because it touches on Edgedancer and Mistborn Era 2):

 

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I'm probably too late to this party to get a question in, but just in case... The Resonances for Edgedancers and Bloodmaker/Slider pairings--are they basically the same thing? It's maybe mostly linguistic for Edgedancers and more like Invested method acting for the Wayne types, but if I'm reading things correctly, it seems that they're very closely related.

After all, Progression and Bloodmaking are quite similar. Abrasion and speed bubbles have a more tenuous link, but they do call bendalloy boys "Sliders," after all (no disrespect to bendalloy girls, but I couldn't pass up the alliteration).

 

mistborn:

 

The connections are more because the magics are all inter-related, and based on fundamental rules, and less because I was trying for any specific connection.

 

So, I kind of sneaked several questions into one because neither of those Resonances have been confirmed, that I'm aware of. It's not an outright confirmation, but the answer certainly implies that my assumptions are correct (Brandon will often say something when someone's question has assumptions built in that are not necessarily true). Another interesting thing about the answer is that the similarities are not intentional, but the consistency of the way the magic systems work is such that they just worked out that way without any conscious thought going into it.

Actually Brandon has previously said that Wayne's acting ability has nothing to do with his Resonance. I will try to find the WoB when I can.

17 hours ago, Flynn said:

The book isn't even out yet. Branderson's getting popular with these movie people... 

This actually isn't the first time this has happened. Steelheart was optioned over a year before it was released.

There's already a thread discussing this here, so I will be locking this one.

There's already a thread discussing this here, so I will be locking this one.

Okay, so I actually re-listened to the reading Brandon did from this (which I neglected to do when first proposing this), and the narator does give an in-world tech explanation of how the snapshots are created. Namely that there are nano-robot things in people's blood and crawling over every surface in the city, and that the data they collect is used to create the snapshot. I am still in favor of my theory however, as I don't think the nano-robots could possibly be collecting enough data to possibly accomplish what they claim it does. It could re-create all the pieces, but I don't think it could accurate duplicate the human mind.

1 minute ago, maxal said:

Oh from the progress bar. Last winter/spring it remained practically still for several months. It might not have been 4-6 months, this is a rough estimate (I am taking the January-June time period and I subtract 2 months for the work which was done in this period), but it coincides with the time frame Brandon used to work on Arcanum Unbounded or maybe there was something else toss in there as well. There was very little progress being made on SA3 during the first half of 2016, so much I heavily doubt he could finish the first draft before the end of the year. Luckily, I was wrong and he pulled it of  

My point was, the very selfish reader that I am wished he had used the first half of 2016 to work on SA3 in order to wrap the first draft during the summer or a bit earlier which would have yielded an earlier release. I understand his reasons for working this way was due to his personal disappointment in not being able to deliver SA3 in 2016 like he promised: he thus decided to give us the Lift novella instead which I did love reading. I however would have traded the Lift novella for an earlier release of SA3 any day, but this is just me and as I said, this is very selfish of me to say so.

Okay there are a bunch of factors that went into progress slowing down during the early parts of 2016, which he actually talks about in the State. A lot of February/March was spent on tour, which he has said hampers his ability to write (and he ended up writing the novella Snapshot during March as well, but that was mostly while he was traveling abroad). He only spent May writing Edgedancer and the AU essays.

4 hours ago, maxal said:

For my part, I wish the 4-6 months he spent on Arcanum Unbounded had been used on SA3 instead in order to get an early summer release as opposed to a late fall one. I however understand this is an incredibly unpopular opinion and it might not have fit into Brandon's writing process, I cannot say, but from my very personal reader's perspective, this is how I would have preferred it.

Where exactly are you getting the "4-6 months" number?

The name change is probably just because it's copyrighted by Dragonsteel Entertainment, Brandon's company, or something 'though I'm not sure why it would be doing that. There are converters on line that will give you an epub if you supply a .docx, that's what I did.

The underlined words are just manuscript notation for italics, underlining is easier to pick out when skimming a document.

9 hours ago, Oversleep said:

That's new - I thought Second Era is firmly between two arcs of SA for quite a time now?

No, it is definitively after Stormlight 5, we do not know more specifically than that. (It may be between 5 and 6, or it could be between 6/7, 7/8/, 8/9, 9/10, or after 10)

25 minutes ago, orion88 said:

I've heard different answers to this question, so I'm going to ask it on here: How many books are going to be in the Lost Metal series?

Era 2 will be four books, of which The Lost Metal is the last.