Jubilus

I wouldn't be surprised if the important parts of the planned sequels were reworked into novellas or a standalone novel in Taldain, but like you said, this is the first world and first story Brandon ever wrote, I expect he has some attachment to these characters and plotlines and wouldn't want to leave them unfinished.

I say this all the time, but it bears repeating, Warbreaker is by far Brandon's most *ahem* "concupiscent" novel...

So, White Sand Volume 3 is releasing on Kindle next week and the hardcover's coming out in a few months. I think it's fair to say that the reception to the graphic novels so far have been... less than stellar, especially with the art. Regardless of how the last volume turns out, this adaptation definetely left a bad taste in most people's mouthes overall. Now, these 3 graphic novels are an adaptation of White Sand (Prose), which in itself is a rewriting of both White Sand Prime and Lord Mastrell, Brandon's first and third novels, and was supposed to be the first of a trilogy. Brandon talked about this before, saying that how the rest of the trilogy would be released would depend on fan reaction, and about how there could even be another story set on Taldain after this trilogy. The question now is, what will happen with those 2 (or more) other books? Well, in the State of Sanderson 2018, Brandon said about White Sand that "I have no immediate plans to do sequels to this in graphic novel form, though you can expect stories set on Taldain to happen in the future." So if we're getting those 2 sequels in novel form, it's probably not happening anytime soon, seeing as Brandon is working on a lot right now and has a full schedule up until at least Stormlight 5 and probably has no time to work on other main cosmere novels. However, to me, when he says "you can expect stories set on Taldain to happen in the future." is sounds a lot like he's talking about the "new story after the end of the trilogy" he mentioned in the WoB, not a direct sequel to the graphic novels. Does this mean these 2 novels are cancelled or put on hold for the foreseeable (without using any voindbringer powers, of course) future? Is he going to try yet another medium to tell that story in now that the graphic novels didn't work out? Maybe he plans on coming back to it after the Dark One graphic novel is out, if that one has a better reception, and using what he learns from that experience to make it better the second time around. Honestly, I have no clue, and I don't even know what I want to happen with this series. Switching back to novels would yield 2 really good books but also a very weird series that starts with 3 graphic novels and somehow transitions into 2 more regular novels, which would probably be very hard to pull off and create a bunch of problems for how those books are writen. I've seen some people say they wanted the graphic novels to be wiped from canon and to just start over again with a regular trilogy of novels, but that's really unlikely, and I don't know if I'd want that either (it would also pile up even more work on Brandon's back and nobody wants to overwork the guy any more than he already does himself). So, what does everyone think is most likely to happen from now on? What would would be your prefered way out of this whole mess? I really like this series, despite all its shortcomings, and want to see it finished one way or another, and I'm sure there's some important cosmere tidbits we still need to learn from it too!

I always thought they weren't the Scadrians precisely because they're the only real candidates we know of so far. Brandon has been talking about how Mistborn Era 4 is going to be sci-fi space opera with FTL for a long time and he knew that the second he put a spaceship in Sixth of the Dusk everyone would scream "Scadrians! Era 4!". To me, putting that in just to mislead everyone is 100% a Brandon thing to do.

That's perfectly fine Thank you all for the warm welcome!

Hi everyone! I've been lurking around everything cosmere for a long time, trying to start being more active in the community now. I did some stuff on the Coppermind when the monthly objectives started last year but didn't really have time to keep up with that, I'm on the discord too but haven't talked much in there either, hopefully I'll be better about it from now on. You guys can call me Jub, btw, I know the full name is weird to pronnounce no matter how you do it.

I left this on the youtube comments for this episode but I'll post it here too cause I'm trying to start being active on the website too: I am bilingual, native Portuguese and fluent in English. I think we really haven't seen enough of connection to settle this argument, my personal theory is that different levels and types of connection magic work differently. I think alll of them work the same way in that they feel natural for the person speaking and they phisically speak and hear in the other language, but that is translated in their mind either to their native tongue or to some sort of general "spiritual understanding", your brain just processes the information and it's only turned into actual words in a specific language when you try to recall it or "actively" think about it. But they would be different in that the medallions are closer to the google translate style while Dalinar's and Hoid's are closer to perfect native level translation (and would include the whole song/poem spiritual mumbo jumbo, while the medallions wouldn't). When Allik uses the medallion in BoM, he doesn't speak the same way a native northener would, his lines (from what I remember) are a bit unnatural, kind of like how a person who knows enough in a lnaguage to hold a conversation, but isn't totally fluent, would speak (see Rock and Lopen). We can't be sure if Dalinar's is any better though, since we only see those scenes from his perspective, and not one of a native Azish speaker, to Dalinar he's speaking normally in the same way Allik must feel like he's speaking normally. Meanwhile, with a better form of connection magic, like what Hoid probably has, a native speaker wouldn't be able to tell the difference between your speech and anyone else's. In general though, I do agree more with what Eric and Shannon said though, based on what we've seen, most of what I said speculation (and I might be misremembering things too). Regarding Kenton's eyes changing colors, "When overmastering, a sand master's mouth will go dry and their eyes will burn." Not sure exactly what burns means here, but maybe that's it? It could also be the art, but from flipping through volumes 1 and 2 I didn't notice any eye color change, the best I could find is when the entire sand master gets a glow around them when using the magic and that goes over the eyes as well, but it's definitely not consistent.

A Tarachin board (field?) fully staffed with servants to measure where your spheres fall and what your score is, but the staff is instructed to never tell anyone the rules