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Lord Beggar isn't technically an official title, and so isn't actually part of the Council of Taishin. It's mostly a title Nilto has made for himself, to show that his influence and power are comparable to the Taishin, but they do not recognize him officially.

29 minutes ago, Harry the Heir said:

I didn't know that. If I bought WoR in mass market paperback in October '16, would it have the new ending in it?

Yes, the change was specifically for the paperback edition.

3 minutes ago, KereDerek said:

Thanks for response, appreciate it. But in Edgedancer theres a line that says "Tashi, God of Gods", could this just be their name for the Almighty aka Honor? 

There's also a reference to "Tashi and the Nine", which implies, to me at least, that Tashi is one of the Ten Heralds.

1 minute ago, harambe said:

first of all : is a sequel coming and when

From this year's State of the Sanderson:

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The Rithmatist

A sequel to The Rithmatist is looking likely this year, depending on some factors (such as how long Stormlight revisions take.) This is the single most requested book I hear about, though that’s probably because people know that Stormlight is coming along very well already.

Some people do wonder why I’d do like The Apocalypse Guard before The Atzlanian (Rithmatist 2). It comes down to having two publishers. Stormlight, Rithmatist, and Wax and Wayne are all books for Tor. I need to give Delacorte some love too, and they’ve waited patiently all year for me to finish Stormlight. So they get the next major writing time slot.

I hear you, Rithmatist fans. We’ll get something to you before too much longer. My son Joel (who has a character in the book named for him) is getting old enough to read The Rithmatist, and so I intend to read it with him together, and then jump into the second book sometime soon.

Status: Soooooon.

Part One: Malatium

Part Two: Kredik Shaw

Part Three: Lerasium

Part Four: Atium

Part Five: Steel alphabet-stylized version of Aon Ire

Part Six: Ettmetal/harmonium

So Snapshot is a novella Brandon wrote that is coming out in February. It depicts a world were they can recreate a single day, so that the courts can investigate crimes. I thought it was an interesting concept and wondered how they were able to do it. With the recent revelation that Snapshot takes place in the Reckoners multiverse I think I have an idea.

The snapshots are not artificial recreations, they operate in a similar way to Megan's powers, probably pulling from ephemeral possibilities which are nearly identical to their own core possibility.

This could also relate to the "terrible discovery" the main character makes that is mentioned in the blurb:

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Snapshot is a Science Fiction detective story following Anthony Davis, a cop assigned to Snapshot Duty. In this vivid world that author Brandon Sanderson has built, society can create a snapshot of a specific day in time. The experiences people have, the paths they follow—all of them are real again for a one day in the snapshot. All for the purposes of investigation by the court.

Davis's job as a cop on Snapshot Duty is straight forward. Sometimes he is tasked with finding where a criminal dumped a weapon. Sometimes he is tasked with documenting domestic disputes. Simple. Mundane. One day, in between two snapshot assignments, Davis decides to investigate the memory of a call that was mysteriously never logged at the precinct, and he makes a horrifying discovery.

As in all many stories, Snapshot follows a wonderfully flawed character as he attempts to solve a horrific crime. Sanderson proves that no matter the genre, he is one of the most skilled storytellers in the business.

What if the people "created" in the snapshot aren't fake, but rather made real as part of the snapshot only to be destroyed when the snapshot is destroyed?

@Segren any update on your audio/transcription? Also since I guess I didn't ask this question before, what did you use to record? It seems odd that it isn't letting the original audio be downloadable.

So UBooks has posted their recording of the general q&a:

@karaokeang any update on your recording?

So a sequence of videos of the general q&a, and the reading have been posted:

I've actually always been of the opinion that it refers to one of the Unmade, not one of the Heralds (or Radiants for that matter). If you actually look at the citation for that epigraph it is "Paragraph 27 of the Book of the 2nd Desk Drawer". We have two other quotes from that section of the Diagram as well, and they are talking about the Unmade.

I would generally be opposed to merging scripts into language articles, because they really are very distinct concepts. It's not always an easy correlation between language and writing system, the Latin script for example is used by the majority of European languages. Sure we could potentially merge the Thaylen script into a Thaylen language article, but the same could not be done with the women's script, as it is used by multiple languages. (I saw this mentioned earlier, but the Vedens do not speak Alethi, they speak Veden. And both languages, and probably more, use the women's script.)

I would probably just include them on the Glyph page, at least for now. They're more closely related to those than anything else I think (and they are used as part of glyph designs).

As far as we know there is no connection between Aon Ati and the original Vessel of Ruin. Actually if I remember correctly there is a WoB out there somewhere that explicitly says there is no connection between them.

Oh sorry, it was in there but I went in and took it out. I thought I had posted about that but I guess I didn't...

Thaylen script is the title it should have (as "Thaylen" would refer to the language in this context, not the writing system).

If I were being altruistic, "Defend the Innocent". If I were being more pragmatic, "Destroy my enemies".

Perhaps @Argent can check to see if his recording picked up the people asking questions as well?

I am the de facto person in charge, but it is pretty far on the back burner for me unfortunately. I generally try to go through an update it during the lead up to a major tour. That didn't happen this time round because I just didn't have time.

Thank you for going through and commenting on questions that have been answered, it makes my job that much easier when I do sit down to update the list. I'm more than willing to listen to ideas about how to better organize things so please share them, though I'm not sure I'm sold on "Conflux" as the title for a spin-off section.

So since this thread has recently been seeing a surprising amount of activity, I've gone through and made it clear that it was disproved.

4 minutes ago, emailanimal said:

I think the new piece here is that if someone were to try taking up Devotion's or Dominion's Intent, they would not be even able to do it, as no separate Investiture for each  exists anymore. There is now only Dor.

That's not how I understand the situation. In Arcanum Unbounded Khriss makes reference to the "polarized" nature of the Dor, which implies, to me at least two extremes there, which I would assume are areas of more Devotion and areas of more Dominion.

Ooh, that's interesting.

Was this at a signing, if so, would you mind posting about this in the relevant event thread? We recently codified our policies on signing reports, and we would generally prefer that things get posted in the event forum before being posted elsewhere.

Yeah the steel bubble being a function of his being a savant is in the annotations:

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Things like Wax’s steel bubble are tricks I wanted to save for people like Wax. (He’s what we’d call in the Mistborn world a steel savant, so capable with his metal—and having burned it so long, for so many years—that he’s got an instinctive ability with it that lets him be very precise.)

Yeah I just tried to listen and, yeah, the audio is pretty garbled. I can make out Brandon for the most part but fans, not so much.

9 hours ago, Argent said:

Which unfortunately means Elantris would be EE-LAYN-tris, but nobody says it that way

Oh so I'm a nobody am I? In all seriousness, Elantris isn't so hard to pronounce the way they do in-world. it's Elantrian that is the tricky one.

7 minutes ago, Argent said:

Anyone notice that the photo source at the bottom of the event page is "Nazrilof"? a.k.a. Nazh?

Yeah, that photo has always been sourced to Nazrilof, you can see it on Brandon's site as well. That's actually where we learned the correct spelling.