PeterAhlstrom

I always thought Eerongal was the girlfriend of someone named Eeron.

One or both of them might be someone from an unpublished book, which would make it harder to figure out, unless you've read that unpublished book. Or even if you have read it (or them).

About the recording, I'm guessing Brandon would not want a recording of any chapter released before its text sample is released online.

I wouldn't read too much into the number of things on the Shadesmar map. Brandon mentioned something about how there was supposed to be another label where it says Shadesmar, but Isaac deleted it or moved it because it would get in the way of the Shadesmar label. Also, remember that this map is supposed to represent a stained-glass window that actually exists somewhere in the cosmere. It could be just as wrong as the Mistborn metal charts that show atium in a pair with gold.

Some of the things Nohadon says are based on things that King Benjamin says. I kind of get the Mormon thing though. He's the last modern believer in ancient scriptures that say you should be nice to other people, yet he's also a great warrior himself. But Mormon was a believer from childhood, and Dalinar only came to believe when he was getting old. BTW, Moroni was obviously Mormon's hero; that's why he named his son after him. Dalinar doesn't seem to have a hero other than his own brother. I don't find the Joseph parallel very convincing.

Dragonsteel has reappeared at the BYU library. I don't know if it had just been misplaced and they found it somewhere, or someone returned it, or what, but it is back and available for ILL. I think there are some misconceptions about what Brandon has or hasn't confirmed. You can say for sure that the Hoid in the books is not the same person as the Hoid who is described as having died at the beginning of Liar of Partinel. Saying that Midius is Hoid has its own problems but there's not anything more I can say about that.

It looks like a basic "put up a website in order to make advertising money" thing. They spend maybe 20 minutes slapping together a website using a template, then leave it there unchanged for months or years to come, counting on Google hits.

Brandon fixed some mistakes after the copyedit. But then Scholastic never gave us galley proofs, so those fixes did not get into the final book. There are various reasons that Brandon is not happy with Scholastic.

It's called a Blind Stamp. Maybe because you can feel it if you're a blind person? Anyway, it's the same symbol as in the background of the Part One page and the Part Five page.

I do say otherwise. Brandon has said he doesn't want details of Dragonsteel discussed openly. I believe that goes for all unpublished books.

As I understand it, that does not happen at the end of that book.

Hah! Good Ol' Frost! (Dances with glee because he's read Dragonsteel and actually knows this character) There's a different clue somewhere that will help you know whether or not you're right.

Brandon wrote it for the back cover.

It's a smaller room this year. Nothing we can do about that, unfortunately.

Nobody except Brandon has ever read all of Liar of Partinel. His writing group got about 75% of it, and those people are not going to talk.

You've got the answer already, but you guys should really pay more attention to chapter titles in the future. Go look at chapter 2. There are also references to other things in the chapter titles that I don't think people have mentioned.

Um, the reference in chapter 16 should be obvious...

OK guys, help me out on this. Let's take a bubble where time is sped up inside, maybe to 10x, maybe to 100x. I'm thinking that if there is no light source inside the bubble, but all light comes from the area outside the bubble, to an observer outside the bubble all light that goes inside and gets redshifted will get blueshifted back the same amount when it exits the bubble. So the outside observer won't see a color change at all. (I'm ignoring refraction for the purposes of this post, but someone else may elucidate.) The person inside the bubble will see a redshift of all light coming into the bubble--but will also see far fewer photons per second, so the world will go dim or even black. At low time-speedups, the person in the bubble will see UV light shifted into the visible range, so will start effectively seeing in UV. At very fast speeds he can see X rays or even gamma rays. (I don't know from Brandon what the max speedup is.) If the person inside the bubble turns on a flashlight, this will be shifted into the UV or X-ray range when it leaves the bubble. You can fry everyone around you with deadly radiation this way. When you have a bubble that slows time, the opposite happens. People inside can see in infrared or radio waves. And if they go slow enough, visible light from the outside is shifted into the X-ray or gamma-ray range and the person inside gets fried by radiation. If they turn on a flashlight, people outside get cooked. Can anyone point out flaws in this analysis? Does anyone have magical suggestions for why any of these things wouldn't happen? For practical reasons it looks like there will need to be a lot of handwavium burned.

I heard it is database corruption. And Jordo hasn't had time to see if there is any kind of recent backup.

Thanks. This is very helpful. I should have copied the TWG list out earlier, but I figured it would be there when I needed it. Oops.

Has anyone here read Aether of Night? There's a similarity. I may be seeing things though. I do not know the answer to this question.

I think I read that there used to be a dragon but it was removed from the final version because it wasn't needed. IIRC some answer to an interview question. There is a dragon in Dragonsteel. There's a reason it's called Dragonsteel, y'know?

Heh. There's a reason for this.