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Thoughts on the actual name for Wisdom/Prudence/Survival? 

I've been thinking something along the lines of Vigilance, Care, Discretion. The concept seems to be "being conservative or cautious."

The last one would be the "Wisdom/Prudence" one mentioned in WOBs.

4 hours ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

guys this is quite obviously being told to someone on Roshar by the indubitable Hoidius. I mean who else would use ritual oils in that way? Also someone cals Yuri (or whatever her name was) Warden NIMI. Szeth calls Nightblood sword-nimi! IS THIS THE SILENCE DIVINE!!!

This isn't Silence Divine.

The story (and Hoid by extension) says the Iriali vanished from this place. Why would they go here from Roshar? 

2 hours ago, Child of Hodor said:

THREE Cosmere novels set on world's we haven't seen yet! 2023 will be the Cosmere year with this and maybe SA 5. The anti-2021 :).

They met the ksickstarter goal in like 30 minutes lol. For a kicstarter that no one was expecting that's pretty great. 

Doesn't he just say "characters who haven't had their own books before"? Not sure he's saying worlds we haven't seen yet.

2 hours ago, Child of Hodor said:

THREE Cosmere novels set on world's we haven't seen yet! 2023 will be the Cosmere year with this and maybe SA 5. The anti-2021 :).

They met the ksickstarter goal in like 30 minutes lol. For a kicstarter that no one was expecting that's pretty great. 

Doesn't he just say "characters who haven't had their own books before"? Not sure he's saying worlds we haven't seen yet.

2 minutes ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

storms it isn't loading for me!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, MY DAD IS DONATING BLOOD RIGHT NOW OR I WOuLD BE YELLING AT HIM TO GET HIS COMPUTER OUT AND GETTING THE SUBSCSCRIPTION NOOOOOOO!!!

there's no limit on the pledges. you've got plenty of time. stuff doesn't deliver until January 2023.

i like how he expressly asks to not reveal the secret, but everyone shouts it out

this guy lol

The idea that a movie ramping up is going to interfere with novels is a good one, but I don't think he would delay Stormlight 5. It may be more of a "Mistborn is happening (yay!) but I need to be ready to devote time to it later this year, so Stormlight 5 will be my last novel for a little while. This is my big chance to get my stuff adapted and I can't pass it up."

Edit: rereading his reddit message, though, I do think it's either "no touring" or "offloading a lot of projects to co-authors."

Since we can take illness off the table, my guess is he's going to stop touring and just do Dragonsteel Con as his event every year. Touring takes a lot out of him: interrupts writing, doesn't see family, traveling is exhausting, etc. Co-authorship of non-Cosmere stories is also likely. I don't think he would co-author Stormlight, Mistborn, or Dragonsteel. Those seem too personal. 

1 hour ago, Thaidakar the Ghostblood said:

ok, *strangled breathing* let's hope it isn't Brandon saying he's done with the cosmere.

how about we hope he's okay first?

Theory: it’s made of Dragonsteel, hence it’s crazy value.

4 hours ago, WeiryWriter said:

The transcript for the Release is now live: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/171-oathbringer-release-party/

Yay! Thank you.

Any update on the Arcanum entry for this event (or any of the subsequent events)? There's so much discussion happening about OB and it's ramifications, but we may be operating with less information than Arcanum transcribers, hard to know what will be outdated theories when the WoBs hit those not attending the small amount of events.

Maybe he changed his mind and wanted to give her a new role in the book. I'm just baffled at the arc of your criticisms about this, I guess. Originally it was that you weren't convinced it was her and 17S shouldn't act like it was certain. Then posters gave you evidence that made it certain and you now say it's too obvious. Sorry if this is harsh, but that doesn't seem consistent, so maybe there's something else about Vivenna being in the book that is bugging you.

11 hours ago, Hyarmenatan said:

Or 'trolling'. Brandon might be as well trolling us all. He said to 'keep an eye for Vivenna' in OB, but Azure is not someone you could skip or not notice - she is so obviously Nalthian awakener, swordmaster etc. You don't need to search for her as it's one of the secondary characters for 1/4 of the book. I imagined that Vivenna's appearence would be so slight like a Paliah in Paleneum or Terriswoman nurse in WB. Azure is screaming I AM VIVENNA. That's why I feel a troll's scent now.  

But, likely, it unfortunately is Vivenna after all. Sad.

I’m really confused. What is trolling about it? And why is it sad?

22 hours ago, Hyarmenatan said:

I agree those are strong points, and it likely indeed IS Vivenna, but I strongly object when this community says it like it is already certain. It could potentially by anyone from Nalthis (only this awakened sword undermines my point really hard). We won't know for sure until she meets Vasher / we get a WoB confirming her identity. Or maybe we have it confirmed already?

This is basically what they teach in reading classes as "context." You are meant to infer something by surrounding text, not just directly. It's a way to circumvent obvious exposition, which tends to feel like an unrealistic information dump. 

15 hours ago, XS-Terrain said:

 

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Q: Also, does each of the Unmade have a corresponding order of the Knights Radiant?

A: Ughhh... kind of.

Q: Ok. So there are 9 Unmade right, so I believe one Radiant Order is left out?

A: Uh... Bondsmith. But it’s not as one to one, there’s some fuzziness in there.

 

This raises a lot of questions. Whoa.

53 minutes ago, TheOneKEA said:

During the Salt Lake Comic-Con, Brandon told a forum member that all audio transcriptions have to be checked by Peter so that (a) Brandon’s personal wiki can be updated, (b) things that should not be canonized can be removed so that they are not public, and (c) things that are ambiguous and would cause problems for Brandon later can be clarified and/or reworded.

Well, that's interesting. Sounds like a bit of a bottleneck, but I guess it avoids misconceptions.

1 hour ago, Argent said:

What you are seeing here is, hopefully, not how future events will be handled. We are still figuring things out, and as a result we not only have fewer transcribers than usual (just the Arcanists), we also can't show you guys what we've transcribed (until Peter greenlights us). Once the Oathbringer craziness dies down a little I imagine both we and Team Sanderson will have a little more time to figure this out.

Arcanum entries are subject to Peter approvals? 

I love the the entire Arcanum project...but I do miss being able to almost immediately see signing reports in these threads. BS never comes near my city, so it's fun reading them. This particular event has at least 208 entries, it looked like (before that info was hidden). But nothing is readable, yet. I assume posters are directly submitting there instead of in the forum threads for the most part?

Do some hunting about Autonomy. There are lots of indications and a few WOBs that Autonomy manifests as different personas, hence the "we" and "us" usage.

On 11/18/2017 at 3:42 PM, axcellence said:

Not sure.  Can’t find that quote.

I think Nazh wouldn’t write something if he wasn’t sure of it.

 

FYI: Khriss writes the Ars Arcanum, not Nazh.

The last Dragonsteel Prime chapter has been posted. https://brandonsanderson.com/dragonsteel-prime-chapter-37-bridge-four-7/

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This marks the end of the Bridge Four sequence in Dragonsteel Prime.

Frost is back with some knowledge to drop on Jerick.