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Since Warbreaker takes place between the first Mistborn trilogy and The Way of Kings, and The Way of Kings happen before The Alloy of Law, Warbreaker cannot take place more than about 300 before The Way of Kings. Visually, we know: Mistborn > Warbreaker Warbreaker > The Way of Kings The Way of Kings > The Alloy of Law Mistborn - ~300 years - The Alloy of Law Therefore, within the sequence Mistborn > Warbreaker > The Way of Kings > The Alloy of Law, the middle two books have to happen sometime in the 300 year period between the outriders.

I think you may be very much on the right track here - but I am more interested in Nightblood than the Shardblades. Let me distill the arguments I find most interesting and relevant: Nightblood is a Shardblade - a unique one, but a Shardblade nonetheless Shardblades are the locked physical manifestations of dead spren - which in turn are cognitive aspects. Living ideas. Nightblood was created as a successful attempt to imitate a Shardblade. He was also an attempt to recreate [a Shardblade] using a different magic system - BioChroma. So the way I see it, at least one of the Five Scholars found out about Shardblades and decided to create one. This probably happened on Nalthis - otherwise I imagine Nightblood would've been created with Stormlight instead of Breath. So the Scholars got themselves a sword, which may or may not have been made in a certain way (e.g. maybe only certain metals would've worked, we don't know), which took care of the easy part. Now, this sword had to be infused with a cognitive aspect a little more sophisticated than "I am a sword!" - and BioChroma probably proved itself extra useful, because Commands seem strongly cognitive in nature. However, simply Awakening the sword wouldn't have been enough, it needed to be at least a little sentient. So they dumped a bunch of Breaths in it, betting on the knowledge that investiture eventually becomes self-aware, and large amounts of it presumably become self-aware quickly.

Sure, knowledge of Shardblades would work too.

My best guess is that Elhokar still remembers the thrashing Dalinar gave him at the end of The Way of Kings (he did kick him in the chest). But I will acknowledge that there may be something more interesting going on.

Well, what are our options? A Herald visited Nalthis A Rosharan with knowledge of Honorblades visited Nalthis A Scholar visited Roshar A Nalthian visited Roshar, learned about Honorblades, and came back A worldhopper visited Roshar, learned about Honorblades, then visited Nalthis and passed on the knowledge Any of them are possible, really, and all of them have interesting implications.

I've been considering Warbreaker kind of low on Cosmere Easter eggs, but maybe now I need to reread it and revise my policy... I should say, this WoB lends some support to the theory that (at least of) the Heralds are (were?) worldhoppers, and that at least one of them either came from Nalthis or visited Nalthis during the time of the Five Scholars.

Oh, yea. And it's such a perfect Blackthorn line.

Brandon confirmed (on Reddit) that the third book of The Stormlight Archive will be Dalinar's, and it looks like the tentative title Oathbringer is still around. Some of you might recall that Brandon writing Dalinar's flashbacks was an experiment whose goal was to let him decide whether he wants Dalinar's or Szeth's flashbacks in #3. Anyway, here's the full text of his announcement, which also includes the (awesome) first line of said flashbacks too Source

The thing is, you can't know what Brandon means by "main" there - not unless you ask for a clarification. It could go either way. Here's some more answers to keep you distracted: Stormlight 3: Oathbringer is going to be Dalinar's book. Szeth has been moved to 5. First line of the flashbacks included too, so woo! Source (let's discuss this, if it needs discussing in a separate thread though) And now some stuff directly from the AMA: https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ct6c4kc?context=10000 https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ct6cbka?context=10000 https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ct6ccoe?context=10000 Dun dun dunnn. Confirmation in the house! Also, somebody get Brandon a bacon milkshake next time he comes to your town.

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ct5pxzs?context=10000 https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ct5q31n?context=10000 There it is again, Nightblood being an "an attempt to use one magic to replicate something in another."

You can bet money it's going to be spoilery. How much, we can't tell. But in many ways it's the first Cosmere story, so while much will change, I expect much - the core - will remain the same.

I wouldn't use drafts for canon. Things can change significantly before publication.

Obviously a few Sanderbots need to be repurposed as Peterbots.

Not necessarily. We know each book will focus on a different order, so it could be something in the back 5. But Adolin is a top candidate. I know. But we don't know its effects.

The parts of Allomancy you know The parts of Allomancy you know If this doesn't spell out "more metals" or "harmonium," I don't know what does.

Done with Witches Abroad. This puts me halfway through the Witches subseries of the Discworld books, and already I find them noticeably superior to the Wizards. Which, of course, in a meta turn of events, is how the witches feel about wizards, so everything is right in the world. I am going to finish the second half - reading Lords and Ladies now - before I go back to more traditional fantasy for a bit.

Hoid's skill in recognizing tune and pitch don't make him immune to accents. It's not about what he hears, it's about what the speaker says.

That's a good point, Hoid's opinion on whether someone has an accent or not is probably an unreliable one, given his babel fish thingamajik.

https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ct3al67?context=10000

Eh. I didn't exactly say the story would be predictable - obviously I haven't read it, I wouldn't know. But the moment I read this bit: I knew something like was coming. You don't mention enemies that have been defeated unless you plan on bringing them back somehow. It's how synopses work. This is not criticism, it's an observation - Elantris, Mistborn, and The Way of Kings all follow a similar pattern, and they are some of my favorite books.

Yeah, The Shadow of What Was Lost looks promising. The Goodreads synopsis made it sound just a tiny bit predictable (if the defeat of god-like oppressors is mentioned in a synopsis, they are guaranteed to come back, after all), but it's well rated. A friend of mine, who has similar taste in books, also decided to give it a shot, so there's also that. Now I just need to plow through the other two dozen Pratchett books I've got left...

Looks like the silence may have been just something SDCC-induced. https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/2ytg2h/im_novelist_brandon_sanderson_ama/ct38ujc?context=10000

My eyes lit up when I read that, yeah

So the story goes. How much of it is true, we don't know.

Indeed there is. I am a little busy to find it, but since it was I who posed the question to Brandon ("Is the man who arrived at the gates of Alethkar at the end of The Way of Kings the same man as the one who arrived in the Alethi warcamps in Words of Radiance?"), I remember Brandon's confirmation very well.