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2 minutes ago, Factor said:

The UK cover looks like it has Sadie! Yay! I thought she seemed like a fun character in Skyward and was sad they didn’t show her more, but I always thought she was perfectly set up for a role in Riftwake. Glad to see her!

Yep, Janci's confirmed the book's two PoVs are Arturo and Sadie!

36 minutes ago, Through The Living Grass said:

What’s Songrise? I was apparently under the erroneous impression that Songrise was the sequel series to Skyward.

Songrise is Riftwake book 2.

14 hours ago, Oltux72 said:

Do you think Brandon got a chuckle out of having Oathbringer on the cover of Wind and Truth?

I think it's actually the Way of Kings leatherbound, which is also in the Update #2 concept art they've been occasionally using in promo material.

Well, title aged interestingly...

23 minutes ago, Oversleep said:

Isn't a dragonsteel also a thing in cosmere?

Oh yes, so five things then.

As a side note, I refuse to call the event Dragonsteel 2022 no matter how often they repeat it, lol. There's now four five things referred to as just "Dragonsteel" (the original book, the future series, the company, and now the con, and as Oversleep pointed out also the in-world material), please give it a more unique name I beg you. Too confusing without very clear context!

5 hours ago, Use the Falchion said:

Jorgen (he's Janci's favorite after all) 

I really want Jorgen to be one (or even the persistent one), but tbh my gut feeling is that Defiant will wrap up his main internal arcs and he'll be more of a side character going forwards. Hoping Vapor is one of the rotating ones, figment book would be cool.

16 hours ago, Matrim's Dice said:

The answer very well could be that the pile of metal Elend and the Mistings burned was just the Electrum/Atium alloy, which would be convenient and probably raise a bunch of other questions. But I don't know, and I figure that someone probably does.

According to the Word of Peter, Preservation caused the atium to all manifest as the alloy.

12 hours ago, Argent said:

Gold and malatium Mistings are distinct in the same way steel and iron Mistings are.

Do we know this? I don't believe we've ever seen any try it, and the only source for malatium Mistings existing as a thing is that one WoB where the questioner just assumes it's true.

7 hours ago, Oltux72 said:

Because some people are very thorough. You have an unknown and unprecedented phenomenon, so you test everything. Or just expidiency.

"You were sick by the mists?" - "Yes" - "Here's a vial with all known metals"

If they're testing people taken by the mists, odds are that they're from Elend's army, since he was forcing them to go out in them, while most other people were staying indoors to avoid them, so most people who actively got Snapped would be from there. And the "atium" Mistings from Elend's army almost all died, so the odds of a person selected for testing being an electrum Misting is quite low, and being known as an "atium" Misting before the test discovered they could burn electrum is even lower.

6 hours ago, Oltux72 said:

They would not know the signalling ended at two levels.

Sure but you don't need to test everyone to work out that there don't seem to be any Mistborn of a significant numbered ratio.

7 hours ago, Oltux72 said:

People are literally eating tide pods and yet nobody would ever try another harmless metal?

Great, now they know they're an electrum Misting, doesn't tell them that they could also have burnt atium.

12 hours ago, Oltux72 said:

Because you would look for Mistborn.

Why would they test with electrum specifically, instead of the more mundane ones? And while they'd do some testing, I don't think they'd actually check too many mist-Snapped people for Mistbornness, since they know mist-Snapping isn't natural and seems to be producing a specific ratio of each type of Misting, and thus that it's unlikely any were Mistborn.

12 hours ago, Oltux72 said:

No. Firstly the Mistfallen among Elend's army mostly perished. All others must have been among the surviving population at the rates the mists left them. Granted we do not know how many were exposed. But we are talking about up to 1% of the population.

Yeah but only those at the army would've known they were atium Mistings, right? While they could try and find anyone who was sick for the right period of time, I don't know that they would have gone to the effort, since there wasn't any atium left for any of them to use if they wanted to.

4 hours ago, Oltux72 said:

You need to explain why all people after the Catacendre turned into fools and did not do experiments.

Why would they expect that the "atium Mistings" could burn any other metal? No other Misting type could. And even if they did, they'd probably try gold rather than electrum anyway, since they viewed them both as base metals and electrum and malatium as alloys.

We also don't know when they discovered atium and malatium weren't actually part of the sixteen, considering Sazed told them there were two metals undiscovered (yes, yes, WoB is he meant two base metals, but I don't think that's the most intuitive reading and probably not what those in-world would've gone with at first). All that has to happen is they don't find cadmium and bendalloy until after the few remaining atium Mistings (almost all died against the koloss during the battle) are dead or not caring enough to test things out.

4 hours ago, Oltux72 said:

And they surely looked for the allomancers among the rest of the mistsnapped. Where were the electrum Mistings?

The vast majority of the world's population died, so for all they know, maybe they were just among those. Heck, could even guess from their knowledge that maybe that's what those who died during Snapping were. I'm sure people would eventually question a lot of things about atium for the same reason people in the fandom did, but they don't exactly have any on hand to test with, and again almost all the Seers died so there's few of them to run tests on either.

On 2/7/2022 at 4:18 AM, Oltux72 said:

If they figured that the Mistfallen are allomancers, they must have also used those metals to test some of them. Why did that not work?

Not necessarily, Elend doesn't even consider the possibility that electrum Mistings might exist until after Yomen revealed that he was an atium Misting, and doesn't seem to consider the idea of any of the Mistfallen being atium Mistings until he has Demoux try a bead. Might be that he didn't think to give the order to try any of the other eight metals besides the "basic" eight until that point, and since most didn't know about atium Mistings they probably wouldn't think to check beyond those eight either until he told them about it.

On 2/7/2022 at 10:32 AM, thejopen27 said:

Maybe combining Atium and Tin allows you to change another person's senses or maybe it does something like combining atium and pewter to make another extremely weak

Worth noting that the Allomantic poster mentions atium alloys produce "various expanded mental and temporal effects", so probably not gonna be as simple as just flipping internal/external for most. (In fact, atium and malatium don't actually do anything to anyone else as far as we know anyway, they still seem to solely affect you yourself, the same way bronze and tin let you sense external things but are still only affecting the Allomancer themselves, so imo they'd very likely still be considered internal – atium was considered the couterpart to gold, after all, and there are observable differences between the bronzepulses of internal metals and external.)

10 minutes ago, Spren of Kindness said:

(Also, Kenton looks like how I picture Adolin.  That is all.)

Technically we don't know for a fact that Adolin didn't get replaced by an amnesiac worldhopper at some point... and Kenton clearly made it around going off that one street in Luthadel...

8 minutes ago, Wyndlerunner said:

it will be good to have a version that is fully in-line with canon

Well, he's toyed around with the idea of revising the prose, so maybe not.... screams into void

Just now, Bea said:

I actually really enjoyed White Sand. I think this new edition will make it more cohesive and easier to read! Looking forward to it. 

Yeah, I'm really looking forward to it as well. Apparently, while some of the worldbuilding and prologue stuff is from the prose, not all of it is, so there'll be some new scenes and information as well, which I'm quite curious to see

And having the full product there to tweak with will hopefully have let Isaac give everything just a bit more polish.

3 hours ago, PandACT said:

Unlike Gallery images, Forum posts don't seem to have an option for captions or alt text

If you double-click/double-tap an image when editing, you can set alt-text via the Image Title field. It's not super obvious that that's a thing you can do, though. (I myself only discovered it recently, though I tried to make use of it in yesterday's roundup article once I realized it could be done.)

7 hours ago, Use the Falchion said:

Also, do we know what Janci is working on for NaNoWriMo? I doubt it would be more Skyward novellas this soon, but I'm pretty sure she started working on this current batch around the time Brandon was Cytonic, so it's not impossible. 

I don't think she's said, but she's mentioned that due to the novellas she has a backlog of things she needs to work on this year, so I'd guess it's probably not more Skyward.

3 hours ago, Use the Falchion said:

Also, not sure if it's going to be a second update, but ReDawn's cover is out!

https://twitter.com/BrandSanderson/status/1445439857623330817

Thanks! Yeah, that's it's own article now, just took a bit due to people being busy.

8 minutes ago, Use the Falchion said:

Nice post! In the original Reddit post about the two audiobooks, Brandon hints that Prophetic Histories is the adaptation of the outline in novel form. This may indeed change, however, and it's far from a guarantee. 

Interesting. Curious why he'd give it a different name, in that case, but that does seem to be the implication.

4 hours ago, MistMage said:

So if 3 of the 4 suits have couples for king and queen, what does that say about Rashek and the Inquisitors haha.

And two of the suits are love triangles, which has even more implications 

4 hours ago, MistMage said:

I kind of wish his queen was Paalm, even though we didn't see him interact with her, she was his favorite kandra and very devoted. Could have gotten a cool image of a mistwraith and her human form. Plus we already get an image of the inquisitors through Marsh's card so it feels redundant.

Oooo now that you mention it yeah that would've been great. 

2 hours ago, Use the Falchion said:

The sale is going on until next month, right?

Just double-checked the email, and it's going through the end of November. I actually missed that part somehow, so I'll add it to the post. Thanks for pointing that out!

17 minutes ago, Use the Falchion said:

Thanks for the Mainframe newsletter link! I tried it yesterday and was having some problems with it, but your link to the sign-up worked perfectly. 

Yeah the link is weirdly broken in the email. Looks fine at first, but if you click it, it redirects to a doubled-up URL, and obviously https://mailchi.mp/0614a8dd851b/subscribehttps://mailchi.mp/0614a8dd851b/subscribe is not the correct address. So I just took half of that, lol.

19 hours ago, CannotHaveMyPain said:

I’m surprised the 3rd novella comes out after Cytonic. Do know if that was done intentionally for plot reasons, or just the way timing worked out?

I believe it's just timing, since iirc he'd talked before about wanting all three out, but not certain.

22 hours ago, Use the Falchion said:

Does anyone know how long the novellas are supposed to be? Brandon has said "almost novel length," but that's pretty vague IMO...

No clue, but hopefully the answer is "very"

3 minutes ago, spamilio said:

The store is asking for a password before letting me order tickets. Any idea how to get past that?

The online shop was shut down for the moment due to some technical issues at launch. Last I heard, tickets were unaffected, but maybe that's changed?

I'll add something to the post about that. 

7 hours ago, Mistbreaker said:

didn't the post implied that the Lost Metal draft was 60% done because it used to be halfway done but then he added 10% the day of the update?

Wasn't super clear to me whether that meant he had gotten it from 40% to 50%, or if he was saying it went from 50% to 60%, so I went with what the graphic onscreen said. 

7 hours ago, Mistbreaker said:

Regardless, the update progress bar on his site says 61% as of right now.

Yep, was updated further yesterday (day after the Weekly Update). Which might resolve the question of which was meant, but might also just mean he did another 10% over the weekend 

7 hours ago, Mistbreaker said:

As for me, I voted for the new cover option. The soulstamp looks cool and it will combine with the other novellas in style so that's great

Agreed, looks great and is more consistent with the other short books. Wonder if they'll get a new cover for Secret History if they print a hardcover or not.