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I was poking around today and came across this:

https://www.recordedbooks.com/title-details/9781980062813

It looks like The Original is scheduled for a September release from Recorded Books. This was mentioned in the State of Sanderson 2019, but it's nice to have a bit more info. Unfortunately no cover art as of yet.

I'm personally very much looking forward to yet another new medium in which Brandon is choosing to release new material.

On 6/14/2019 at 3:56 PM, Karger said:

Can someone ID the last scene from Stormlight for me?

On 6/14/2019 at 5:02 PM, continuumg said:

Last one looks like Shallan and pattern in shadesmar 

Yes, that is correct @continuumg - this is the full description on the builder's original Instagram post:

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Shallan Davar

Shallan had never bothered imagining what Damnation might look like.  Yet here she was.  The land was made of a deep, glassy black stone.  Kind of like obsidian, with a black sky overhead, a cold sun -if it could even be called that- hanging at the end of a roadway of clouds.

No, she wasn’t dead, this was Shadesmar.

Pattern stood beside her. His black cloak hung at the sides too stiffly.  Above the rigid, high collar, where his head should be, was a large, floating symbol of twisted design full of impossible angles and geometries.

In front of her was a dark ocean of shifting glass beads, clattering against one another.  With her freehand Shallan retrieved a sphere from that sea of beads.  She stared, unblinking into that black sphere.  Understanding flooded her mind, she held a soul, the soul of a building.  Each bead in that vast ocean was the soul of something from the over side. She clutched the sphere that was the soul of a building, and tried to make it move.  It resisted. She further pressed her mind against it, and it still resisted. "You could be a ship," she said.

"I am a building," came the reply in her mind.

"A grand ship, with sails," Shallan pleaded.

"I am a building."

--Paraphrased from Brandon Sanderson’s “Oathbringer”

Check out these absolutely superb LEGO builds that an acquaintance of mine has recently done. I was extremely impressed with them myself!

Flickr Link

Individual builds:

The same builder also lead a collaborative effort to build a huge diorama of the Battle of Falme from the Wheel of Time:

For example of what I mean - here is a very rough list of sample notes I've taken so far on my Bibliography spreadsheet.

On 4/17/2019 at 7:08 AM, Scion of the Mists said:

I think that the Bibliography on the Coppermind has most of this, but the Unpublished Works are separate.  

The bibliography covers publishing dates, but not writing timelines. And at least for the most part, the individual entries on each book don't discuss the writing timelines. Same goes for the unpublished works.

Has anyone tried to compile a writing timeline for Brandon starting with Centrifugal in 1994 and through all of the pre-publication (2003) writings and then on up through the WoT years, and Stormlight then on forward to the present day?

I've started to document some of that information, but was wondering if that's already all available somewhere? I didn't see anything on the Coppermind or elsewhere with a bit of Google-ing.

I was at this signing as well!

On 4/11/2019 at 3:19 PM, Rebecca said:

Anyway, welcome! Who’s your favorite Sanderson character?

I can't say that he's my favorite character overall... but we named our dog Sazed, so I think that speaks to something!

Portland, Oregon @Taradiddle! I suppose I should have been more clear about that. 

And thank you!

@Lunamor - I would definitely want to be a Windrunner!

I found it to be quite enjoyable myself. I very much liked the Ogier scenes.

Just wanted to do a quick introduction.

I've browsed through the forum quite a number of times as a guest and finally decided today that I should actually create an account and maybe join in a bit.

I've been a huge Sanderson fan for quite a few years now. As I'm sure is the story for a number of people, I first got introduced to him through the Wheel of Time. I started reading the Wheel of Time in the early 2000s after I met my wife who introduced me to the series (she had started reading them a few years earlier in high school). After RJ's death and the announcement of this Sanderson guy finishing out the series, I figured I ought to get to know this author a bit.

My first jump into the Cosmere was with Mistborn. And I was immediately hooked. I devoured the trilogy quickly. Once The Way of Kings came out, I was even more hooked and Brandon quickly became my favorite active/alive author. Since then I've eagerly read the majority of his books and am still working my way through some of the bibliography.

I first met Brandon with Harriet on the Memory of Light tour in Portland, Oregon which was such an awesome experience. I've since had the opportunity two further times on tours for Words of Radiance and Oathbringer.

Sanderson love has become a whole family affair for us. Both my wife and son would count him as one of their absolute favorite authors.

My 10 second bio - almost 40, living in a very small town about an hour south of Portland, Oregon. I am a mechanical designer by trade. Glad to be here!