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Hey, nice to meet you and welcome to the shard! Just read through the books, you'll find out moe about the cosmere soon enough.

Hey, welcome to the shard and nice to meet you! As said before, be careful of those cookies...

Hey, nice to meet you and welcome to the shard! Just be careful of the cookies.

I'm pretty sure I heard something about emailing him questions, not normally but I think he might sometimes do things where everyone can send him questions. A lot of authors do that if they don't travel much or have far-flung fans.

Oh yes, I'm pretty sure it's confirmed that the Ire group in Secrect History are a group from Elantris. There should be an article on Coppermind wiki: and here it is. http://coppermind.net/wiki/Ire It doesn't have much though, mostly just what's in SH. We haven't really encountered them much yet; apart from in SH I think they're mentioned in one of Kriss' essays in AU, because they refuse to co-operate with her.

I think 'Sharder' is most common for people who use this site, although some people call us 'Sanderfans,' just as a general fan name.

Hey, welcome to the shard and nice to meet you! I agree, be careful of the cookies...

Okay, thanks everyone. That answers my questions pretty well, or at least for now.

So, this may be a silly question, but I was wondering if, after a Shard is splintered, there is a way to bring the pieces together again to allow a new Vessel to take on the Shard. I get the sense that this is probably something that depends on certain conditions, mainly the amount of time that has passed since the Shard has been splintered, but if you had enough power yourself, and it hadn't been a long time, do you guys think it's possible for a splintered Shard to be 'put back together,' so to speak?

Ah, okay. I'm pretty sure I've seen other people use it before, though.

This is great! At some point, we could probably do a game from the forums with this on xyzzy.

I'm sorry, I couldn't resist the puns for once...I'll try not to make any more, don't worry.

Hey, nice to meet you and welcome to the shard! Just be careful of the cookies.

Hey, welcome to the Shard and nice to meet you! I would advise you to be careful of the cookies. We'll make bad puns about what they will do to you.

Hey, I wasn't the first person to make that pun. I've seen far worse...

I thought the podcast was great, but it was a little weird for me hearing some of the names of places and characters, because I pronounce some of the things rather differently.

Hey, welcome to the shard! Yeah, that is quite a long introduction. Just be careful, make sure you don't eat the cookies. They'll Ruin your life.

Hey, welcome to the cosmere! I agree on the cookie point. It's best to tread carefully...

Hey, welcome to the shard! It's good to know I'm not the only Aussie on here.

Hello, and welcome to the shard! And I would suggest being careful about that cookie...

Hey, welcome to the shard!

Hello, and welcome to the shard! Just be careful about the cookies.

"I wish I owned a pet dinosaur," Sam thought glumly, looking out enviously at his next-door neighbor's yard. He pushed the vegetables around his plate using his fork with a vengence, and kicked the legs of his chair. "Mum, how come I can never have cool stuff like that, but Pete does?" His mother sighed as she picked up his plate and put it in the sink. "Sam, we've been over this. You know that you don't have the qualifications to legally build your own time machine." "Neither does Pete..." "No, but he has his dad help him, which means it's all fine." "Thanks, dearest," said Sam's father dryly. Sam scowled, but inside his head, he could feel a plan beginning to form... "I just don't understand it!" Pete was saying to the entire playground. "We built the machine to the letter of the instructions, there was no reason for the anomaly created by bringing a creature forward in time to cause my new dinosaur to turn into a chicken egg!" "I dunno," said Dan, one of his friends. "I mean, I knew dinosaurs became chickens..." "Yeah, but not that fast," said Pete mornfully. "And dad won't let me get another one, just in case it causes a rip in time and destroys the universe." "That's just too bad. I'm sorry," said Sam, who wasn't at all sorry. After all, it's hard to be sorry when you have a dinosaur hidden in your shed. ____ Lucinda was 13 when she discovered her cat had a British accent.

This was the year I really got into reading Sanderson and found out about the cosmere. It's also the year I started circus club, and learnt how to do poi and stilts. I also wrote one of my first completed stories that I actually like, and wasn't for school. Now, of course, I think it's absolutely horrible, but that's irrelevent. I also only joined this year, but I haven't been on for long.

Hey, welcome to the Shard! And of course the cookies don't have spikes in them. Why would you ever think that?