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while you were talking about a sleepless human romance I couldn’t stop thinking about sleepless in Seattle

Like many of you I am hesitantly excited about the news of Apple TV making mistborn movies and a stormlight tv show. I think the thing that makes me the most excited is the level of partnership between Brandon and Apple. I know I may be unique in this concern but my biggest concern with the adaptations is the content level. I am pretty intentional about what kind of content I consume. When an adaptation is made of an IP that I love with content beyond what i personally feel comfortable with i always feel so disappointed and conflicted. I hate not being part of the discussion and my FOMO kicks in hard. I know it is my choice not to consume the content but I always feel left out. mistborn is a pretty violent story. I’ve always appreciated that a lot of the heavy violence happens off screen. For example, We never witness an inquisitor being made, but we know the gist of how it happens. But even still, the world is a violent one. Illl admit my biggest concern with movies being made is that the violence will be beyond my personal comfort level. This happened with both Rings of Power and The Wheel of Time. what do you all think the chances are of the adaptations being rated pg-13/tv-14? I would really love for this to be something I’d feel comfortable watching with my older children. I also understand that I am most likely in the minority. In fact I’m sure many of you have the opposite opinion, worried that the show will shy away from some of the more graphic themes and your perspective is perfectly valid. I’m not trying to pass judgment on anybody or anyone.

Szeth as Polyphemus from Epic. “You killed my sheep, my favorite sheep”

This has bothered me for awhile, but I feel like the number of beads in shadesmar, enough to make a whole ocean of them (albeit a shallow one), doesn’t make sense. Each bead represents a real item in the real world right? Looking around me right now, in my office, I could probably identify a hundred or two objects. If I were to turn them all to beads, they would probably fit in a large bowl. I know things don’t always track one for one with the location in the physical realm vs the cognitive realm, but even accounting for that, and the fact that all the items in the physical oceans would probably appear as beads in the shadesmar oceans, it feels like there would be nowhere near enough to make a whole ocean. has anyone else had this question? Anyone have an explanation?

I know Brandon has commented that Wind and Truth contains an ending that he came up with years ago while DM’ing a dungeons and dragon game and that he thought was completely epic and wanted to use it in a book. Does anyone know what this turned out to be? Which specific part in the book is this?

Sorry

I am currently reading DragonSteel Prime and have a theory on where the safe-hand custom began on Roshar. mild Dragonsteel prime spoilers, if that is even a thing since it isn’t cannon.

Spoilers for Dragonsteel prime below:

Thanks, this is very helpful! And it turns out that in the faq section you can ask a question without having backed it. But thank you so much for the help!

Kickstarter won’t let you comment unless you’ve already backed it, so I can’t ask clarifying questions unless I back it (which is slightly frustrating). I have never played a TTRPG before. Can someone tell me what is the bare minimum I need to actually get a group together and play the game? Do you have to get the GM level to actually be able to play?

I’m not sure it will be as simple as winning or losing. Or breaking the pact and releasing odium. I don’t think odium will be the big bad for books 6-10. This book has got to set up some of the conflict for those. I think that outside players or cultivation or something will change things up in a way we can’t see yet.

I believe so, I know in 2022, the non-vip badge was good for both days.

What are your thoughts on the name for the Brandon Sanderson convention? I like the name a lot. Nexus invokes a sort of cool interconnectivity/central hub. I did find it a little funny that Brandon says they are using the name Dragonsteel for too many things so they need a better name for the convention, but then it is still called the "Dragonsteel" Nexus. We have Dragonsteel the material, the book, the company, the convention.... Still, I really like the name and am very excited for the event. I do have a question regarding Dragonsteel 2024 that the community may be able to help clear up. I am traveling in from Germany and may not be able to attend on Thur. On the Dragonsteel website it says, "The Wind and Truth Release Event will be held on Thursday December 5, 2024 from 7-9pm". Haven't the book release events normally been the 2nd day? I'd hate to miss that part of it. Also, do we have any details on how this one will differ from past Dragonsteel conferences (Dragonsteel nexi, nexuses, nexus?) since it is going to be 1 day longer? See you in December!

Well here I was thinking the leatherbound was too rich for my blood. Foiled again by Brandon making things I want. I may have to back it afterall.

I’m not certain that it is clear if 2 or 3 came first. I think this is the most relevant passage: So he does say it was at two different times, that he was in the two orders and that he formed new “bonds” after getting the dawnshard. But I’m not sure why bonds is plural. But I think you could read this as 1. Join the wind runners 2. join the sky breakers 3. Get the dawnshard

I didn’t love this book. It was fun but I had a real hard time getting into it. The characters felt a little flat to me. I loved the whole premise of the story with the interdimensional travel and all of the moral quagmire that would be. But the book never really caught me where I couldn’t put it down or couldn’t wait to read it again. I really didn’t like the handbook parts the felt very distracting and the humor felt too silly for me. I also have to say I didn’t love the art. It felt overly juvenile to me. my prediction is that this will be the weakest of the four. When creating a 4-person relay team you generally put the strongest in the 4th spot, next strongest in the 1st spot, then the 3rd spot and the weakest in the 2nd spot. I think the kickstarter novels will be like this.

Good point about the dor being made up of both Dominion and Devotion. I had forgotten that.

I was joking, I was referring to a gorn from Star Trek

I’m pretty sure he was a gorn

We’ve seen Hoid intentionally seek out new powers multiple times now. In Elantris he tried to become an Elantrian, in Tress he succeeded, in stormlight he sought to become a radiant, in secret history he intentionally became a mistborn, etc… Two questions. 1) why is he seeking out these powers? I don’t think it is just to become more powerful in the traditional sense. Rather I think he is messing with some realmatic theory to gain some connection to each of the 16 shards. Maybe with the intent of re-forming Adonalsium? 2) if he is trying to gain connection to all 16 shards, does becoming a mistborn connect him to both ruin and preservation or just preservation. Similarly, does becoming a light weaver connect him to both honor and cultivation or just one of them. Is becoming an Elantrian connect him to just devotion or does it connect him to dominion as well? any other thoughts on Hoids gotta catch ‘em all strategy?

Honestly, I'm normally not very good at picking up on things too early. But this one seemed very obvious right from the start. I suspected he was Charlie from the very first time we met him and learned he was cursed by the sorceress and recognized Tress's face. Also, who else would want to go to the rock, and then every time he talked about his family it seemed obvious, he was Charlie. It seemed so obvious that I was frustrated with Tress for not realizing it. I also thought it was so obvious that Hoid would make some comment later on like, "yes to anyone paying attention, the rat is obviously Charlie". But reading on this forum it looks like perhaps it wasn't as obvious as I thought.

I’m just going to throw this out there, but I think Knights of Wind and Truth would be a great title. I just came up with it.

I still can’t find a video or transcript of the reading done during the spoiler q&a. Does anyone know where I can find it?

Hello, I attended Dragonsteel 2022 and loved it. I went to the spoiler Q&A but had to leave early before he did his reading. I also wasn't able to attend the release event on Tuesday night. Is there anywhere I can get a transcript of his readings during those events?

Exciting/sad news all in one! I do agree that it seems like the wear of writing a stormlight book is taking more and more of a toll on Brandon. It seems like it is becoming more and more a drudgery, something he feels he has to do rather than something he can’t wait to do. Personally I’d trade all 4 secret projects for SA5. But it seems like these other projects are necessary for Brandon to give us his best version of SA5, and there are much worse things for authors to need for rejuvenation than writing new exciting books.