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This is the theory you're thinking of. Not a WoB.

Audio's starting to come out on Arcanum, for anyone interested in transcribing. There's some fun stuff in there. (Link for anyone who is too lazy to scroll up in the thread, but not too lazy to help transcribe: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/395-icon-2019/)

In this case, you'll want to type "allomancy+hemalurgy" in the search bar. I think that will give you what you want. https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=allomancy%2Bhemalurgy The "+" will exclude any results that don't include both words. When you sort "by accuracy," anything that includes both of those words as tags will be ranked higher than other search results.

Added the latest reading to the list. No transcription yet, just the audio; I'll update the link once it gets transcribed.

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There was a post on Reddit that gathered quite a few sources for potential future stories. It was from almost a year back, and it includes everything (Cosmere and non-Cosmere), but you'd probably find it interesting. It has quite a few esoteric references. https//www.reddit.com/r/brandonsanderson/comments/9z18ko/chart_of_all_published_and_potential_brandon/ Here's the source for Elantris as a "Core Story." https://wob.coppermind.net/events/131/#e3986 Here's something recent, where Brandon's assistant Peter said Dragonsteel is likely at 3 books. (Though, of course, that will be subject to change until it's actually written. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/379/#e12955 I don't see you mention the Sixth of the Dusk sequel. Brandon did some work on it this year, so it may actually be the next Cosmere story we see. https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=&date_from=2003-12-05&date_to=2019-10-06&speaker=&tags=sixth+of+the+dusk+sequel&ordering=-date

I've collected all the WoBs on Tension in another thread: Since it's the one we have the least information on, there isn't too much to prove or disprove any proposed mechanism. A common theme for all the Surges is that they are more complex than a simple physical principle. Gravitation can affect a single gravitational relationship between two objects (person and planet) or all gravitational relationships of a single object (pulling all the arrows to impact a shield). Division can be unnaturally exothermic (making stone burn) or endothermic (making wood turn straight to ash). Cohesion, as I demonstrate in my thread, is especially bad, requiring several 'secondary powers' to function as we see it on-screen. So, we'll need to see exactly how Tension plays out once it it makes it to the books, and how many different mechanisms it would require for all its effects. It's certainly possible that sometimes, it would behave like modifying the stress/strain curve. But I don't think that would necessarily disqualify Tension from working on a liquid; the Surge would just operate on an entirely different under those situations.

I have not seen any definitive statement that it has been retconned out. It was a possibility Brandon discussed, but like you said, there's nothing in the third graphic novel to address it. The WoB you link and one other one seem to indicate that it still is a thing in the cosmere, just that it functions differently: Since there is explicitly a "fix" in White Sand 3, it's worth asking what specific deviations there are in this volume from the original novel. The battle with Drile has a new lines, Kenton's thoughts about feeling the sand on a deeper level than ever before (four pages before the end of Part 5). It's not present in the original draft (pages 1006 through 1007), so it makes me think that Kenton was just about to figure out how to slatrify. On the other hand, the original draft did have a portion (page 1014) where Drile attempted to slatrify, which has been removed. All in all, I don't see anything definitive either way. I suspect, now that it's out, someone will ask Brandon about it later this year, either on the fall tour to Europe/Israel or at the Starsight release party.

I wouldn't be surprised if they're restocked concurrent with the Warbreaker leatherbound release at the end of this year - IIRC, the Mistborn 1 leatherbounds got a new print run concurrent with the Mistborn 2 leatherbound release. But the Sanderson Store has a Reddit account; they'll have the actual information. https://www.reddit.com/user/sandersonstore/

I can't believe I somehow missed this. I had just sat down to attempt to decipher this, and someone pointed me over here. At JordanCon, about a year and a half back, Isaac ran out of time to talk to me about glyphs, so he let me email him a few questions. One was about the Alethi calligraphic phonemes. I had guesses at four of them, from cross-referencing various glyphs. G, E, I, and N, respectively. And then, during Isaac's panel, I thought I caught him drawing a calligraphic "R." Watch the section from 19:40 - 20:00 in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=03Om1jQ46kQ&t=1194s . It reminded me of a phoneme I had been seen come up in several glyphs: I asked him about those five, and he said I had four of them correct. Since what I thought was the "R" looks exactly like the Dawnchant "M," I'm thinking that's the one I've got mistaken. Having the advantage of the video now, I think I'm able to see the difference, although with the amount of distortions typical for glyphs, it's still entirely possible it's an M. He didn't explicitly say it was the alternate R, just that it was a symbol in the alternate alphabet. I'm pretty rusty at glyphs right now; I'll need to sit down and brush up on where I got my original four guesses. Don't know when I'll have time for that, though. I'd like to take the other Dawnchant symbols that don't match the standard set and see if they appear in any other glyphs; I don't think anyone's done that yet, have they?

Aww I thought you made a physical globe. Misleading title. Disappointed.

All audio has received at least a first pass at transcription. Feel free to go claim questions (for those who were at the event) or help touch up transcriptions (for those of you who were not.) Or just to catch up on what we learned. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/394-dragoncon-2019/

There's a signing in Prague at the end of the month: https://brandonsanderson.com/upcoming-events/#23149 Looks like there will be more information coming out on Brandon's site, eventually. Anybody planning on going to this? Anyone planning to record the signing line?

Glad the flashback sequence is done. I'm hoping that one of these scenes winds up as the "something" that Brandon will read at the Skyward 2 release.

There was nothing in the ebook, at least.

I'll focus on the differences from the prose version, and what we may be able to learn from them. The most notable change from the prose was Drile's survival, of course. This was something Rand did in Wheel of Time, didn't he? Convert his greatest adversaries by promoting them to positions of power? I don't remember if it was Tear or Cairhien (or both). That bumps Dirin off the hierarchy, opening him up to go to Darkside instead of Kenton. This indicates a change in what Brandon had planned originally for the next entry in the White Sand trilogy; with Kenton staying on Dayside and picking up a powerful Number Two, there must be something interesting happening. Which is odd, because, on the other hand, the revolt in the Kerzstian capital was cut. We get a line from the Lady Judge that hints at a loss of support, but nothing like what we actually saw in the prose. The scenes on the boat are new, as well. Baon potential to become a Sand Master is interesting. I don't think his appearance in Way of Kings had any hint of this. The big "FA-TOOOM" seems a little excessive, almost reminiscent of Raoden's first Aon (from Elantris) or the first usage of Stormform (in Words of Radiance). As I understand it, the Investiture used for Sand mastery should come from the sand, so there wouldn't be anything to get "pent-up" with a lack of use. Right? But on the other hand, the sand never runs out of Investiture, the Sand Mastery runs out of water, so that could indicate the Investiture is coming from somewhere else, the sand just needs an initial influx to turn white. And if Baon is drawing from a different source of Investiture than the Sand Masters do, then that could be why he had such a violent first application. Kenton's inner monologue during the duel about feeling the sand is also new. I haven't had a chance to look through the prose to see if the similar earlier, post-overmastery inner monologue was already included. It seems to hint that more is possible with sand than just Sand Mastery, that you can communicate with the sand and have it accomplish other effects. This may be the true mechanism for slatrification (which received no mention in this volume, unless I just missed it), how you get the sand to transform into water. You just gotta know how to ask it nicely. The ominous cloud faces make their return. That panel with the Lady Judge, with the distinctly female face, seems intentionally obvious, cluing in anyone who has missed them so far. (Which, to be fair, includes me. I wasn't keeping an eye out for them for most of the book. I saw the other face in the final panel.) It brings Bavadin to mind, since Brandon has referred to her as female, despite the Sand Lord being referred to as consistently male. On the other hand, there could be an intelligence similar to the sand; I wonder if that's a hint that Cloud Mastery is a thing, that there are microscopic lifeforms in the clouds, as well. Also, Hoid is absolutely making fun of us. Total fourth wall break there: the farther the 'creation' (graphic novel) gets from the 'creator' Brandon, the 'more [we] must guess at the truth that is there." Rude. What's he going to Darkside for, anyways? And lastly, much of Gevin's harsh treatment of Khriss got cut. Which didn't fit all that great in the first place, to be fair. But the scenes it colored afterwards, like why she said he was 'holding her back' or why she was so quick to give up on him, didn't change that much, and now don't make a ton of sense. But that might just be from the context of the prose; I wonder if someone going in blind would have the same reaction.

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Where are you getting this information from?

Tor.com preview chapters have begun: https://www.tor.com/series/rhythm-of-war-brandon-sanderson/ We're starting to accrue bits and pieces of Stormlight Four. Here's what we've got so far, aside from the . (Fair warning, the earlier it is, the less continuity editing it went through.) March 30th, 2019. Planet ComicCon. A chapter about Lirin. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/386/#e12628 May 15th, 2019. Bonn, Germany. A rewritten version of the Lirin chapter. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/388/#e12676 July 20th, 2019. Video reading at SDCC. A scene with Venli. https://www.tor.com/2019/07/20/sdcc-brandon-sanderson-stormlight-archive-4-excerpt/ August 31st, 2019. DragonCon. Part of the prologue, from Navani's viewpoint. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/394/#e12852 October 15th, 2019. ICON. More of the prologue. https://clyp.it/lidyohcy November 26, 2019. Newsletter exclusive fiction. Stormlight Four excerpt. November 26, 2019. Starsight Release Party. Eshonai flashback, very rough in continuity. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/402/#e13303 December 10, 2019. Amazon released the publisher's summary. (This is the out-of-universe summary, not the back-cover in-universe text.) February 15, 2020. LTUE, Provo, Utah. Lift interlude. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/412-ltue-2020/#e13628 July 7, 2020. Newsletter exclusive fiction. Syl interlude. July 23, 2020. Kaladin scenes from chapters 7 and 8. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lRDdxUy5iE July 2020. Amazon released an updated publisher's summary. August 6, 2020. Newsletter exclusive fiction. Dawnshard prologue. Brandon's also been regularly releasing lengthy update posts. I'll summarize the goodies from each of them: January 2nd, 2019. Discussing outlining in broad terms. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/absjnj/stormlight_book_four_update_1/ February 6th, 2019. Update on outline progress. Tentative title revealed: The Rhythm of War. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/anttqr/stormlight_book_four_update_2/ April 16th, 2019. Introduces the concept of plot "Arcs," which focus on relatively isolated groups of characters. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/bdzor2/stormlight_book_four_update_3/ June 20th, 2019. Part One (of five) written. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/c30ijp/stormlight_book_four_update_4/ August 26th, 2019. Arc Two written. Graphic of which Arc fits in with which Part. (https://i.imgur.com/tcE4p4Q.png). Flashbacks may switch from Eshonai to Venli. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/cvvs75/stormlight_book_4_update_5/ November 6, 2019. Purely a writing speed update, no juicy bits. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/du30gp/stormlight_book_four_update_6/ January 10, 2020. Book's done. Brandon might take a break from revisions to write a Rysn novella dealing with Aimia. https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/emxhgo/stormlight_book_four_update_7/ And then, we've got various miscellaneous tidbits. January 5th, 2018. One-year gap between Book Three and Book Four. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/315-general-reddit-2018/#e8979 September 19th, 2019. Wit will have a cooler epilogue than usual. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/360-legion-release-party/#e10802 August 28th, 2019. 90% confidence on Rhythm of War title. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/379-general-reddit-2019/#e12847 September 9, 2019. Kaladin and Jasnah will share a scene: https://twitter.com/BrandSanderson/status/1171220837103362049 September 26, 2019. Flashbacks will be a mix of Venli and Eshonai. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/380/#e12961 and https://wob.coppermind.net/events/380/#e12962 October 15, 2019. We'll learn more about how fabrials work. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/395/#e13408 October 18, 2019. We will get pictures of all Radiant spren except Bondsmiths. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/397/#e13108 and https://wob.coppermind.net/events/398/#e13249 October 18, 2019. Potentially more Azure. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/397/#e13137 October 26, 2019. Two more fashion pieces for the art. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/398/#e13250 January 10, 2020. Rysn interlude hasn't been written yet. Content will depend on whether or not her novella gets written. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/406/#e13578 January 25, 2020. During a YouTube Livestream, a first look at a Taln art piece in the style of OB's four Heralds. It may go in Stormlight Four, it may not. https://imgur.com/a/Dl7G3PA January 25, 2020. Shallan's sketchbook pages will be Radiant spren, both Physical Realm and Shadesmar appearances. Nazh will have a second page of glyphs. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/411/#e13869 April 1, 2020. Venli/Eshonai are the flashback characters, but there's a third character who have a viewpoint focus in the present storyline. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/415/#e13633 June 12, 2020. The "pillar of the outline" scene is one of two or three through the entire series. The next one won't be until Book 7 or 8. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/408/#e13813 June 16, 2020. Rysn has a "very different sort of interlude" that references but does not spoil the planned Dawnshard novella. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/430/#e13976 June 16, 2020. We will meet a new Lightweaver named Stargyle. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/430/#e13985 July 28, 2020. Part 1 is plotted like a climax of a book, relating to the events that occurred in the intervening year. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/406/#e14086 I will endeavor to keep this up to date as new information or additional excerpts come out. If there’s something new, or anything important I’ve missed, please feel free to ping me.

Aha! That does rule out Ishar. So if he is a Herald, he must be Kalak. I think he is a Herald, based on the "getting worse" line, unless he's a Skybreaker and there's something going on with the Skybreakers that's being kept hidden from us.

Ishar may not have taken the role of Tezim yet. In Edgedancer, we learn that "things had changed over the last few years."

I'll take that wager. I think she catches him talking about making them, but I don't think she sees him in the act. I'd bet black spheres, whatever they are, come from Braize.

The relevant WoB from the following Q&A has been transcribed: There's another one that hasn't been transcribed yet, but the audio is up for it (about Szeth trying to assassinate Prof from Steelheart), where Brandon tosses out a throwaway line saying Gavilar had plenty of time to get ready for Szeth's attack. Which doesn't fit with the 'established' narrative, where the Parshendi decided to kill him that night because of his conversation with Eshonai. Which... I guess we already knew that Gavilar was aware an attack on his life was imminent, since he thought Szeth had been sent by the Ghostbloods. But it's not like he got ready for Szeth personally. (Although, Nale did seem to be aware of Szeth, since his companion was talking about him. So he could have warned Gavilar. [Boy, oh boy, the rabbit hole goes deeper and deeper.])

Some audio from DragonCon is up and ready to be transcribed: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/394-dragoncon-2019/ More will be going up throughout the week, so stay tuned and check in regularly if it looks like everything has been done. Not all signing lines got recorded, it seems like. So if you were there and asked a question, please (oh please oh please) share it with us in the thread! (Yes, anonymous lurker, I'm talking about you! Go ahead and make an account. I know you've been thinking about it anyways.) There was a reading of the Stormlight Four prologue, which has been transcribed. In case you missed it, we've been discussing it here:

Jasnah's prologue from Book 2 identifies the "ambassadors from the west" as Nale and his associate. And it seems like they're the ones coming to him for help, rather than the other way around: Let's work backwards. The Heralds are the ones who want to travel. (Gavilar is addressing them, at this point.) And they want to travel farther away than Braize. What's Gavilar's evidence? There is Connection binding something "from Braize," but doesn't anymore limit travel between Braize and Roshar. Voidspren or Fused are the options I see. With the Oathpact still in effect, and Taln not going to return for another five years, that's got me leaning towards Voidspren. Ulim, in particular. All that being said, I don't think anyone has figured out how to get all the way off Roshar, since Nale is still there, and he appears to be the one asking in this scene.