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Were you going to give us the answers too?

Good catch indeed

Yeah, I hear ya. Some conventions - JordanCon being one of them - are totally worth it, but international travel can be rough.

Wow, that was a 2/10 welcome, you can do better, Argent. Here some decent entrypoints into this mess we call home: Shardcast. A good number of people hear about us from our weekly Brandon Sanderson podcast, Shardcast. If you are one of them, and are all caught up, great - you can go leave a comment (or better yet, tell another commenter how wrong they are!). If this is news to you though, the YouTube playlist is coming up on 80 videos, and even the ones I am not on are good quality! And speaking of news, the News. We had some White Sand vol. 3 and Starsight reveals recently. Outside of these, you are probably best off hitting up your favorite series' subforum and scanning around for an interesting thread. You could also check the more casual forums. Sanderson Fan Works is one of my favorites, as is the Gallery; Events and Signings for past and future events, and all the different miscellaneous things under Community for, well, miscellaneous things. Oh, we probably have rules somewhere too. Don't break them!

Hi, and welcome!

Honestly, it's an honor to have such a great community. Top tier people. Thanks, y'all!

The new artist seems alright. I think I am going to enjoy the one who finished volume 2, I really liked their clean style (though that may be more the colorist than the artist, I don't know). Looking forward to Amazon spoiling everything when they release preview pages

Hey, @Lipton Tea, I've moved your topic to the Stormlight Archive forum, where it fits more accurately - but welcome to the forums! I would put my money on this being simply a superstition. Glyphs are, at least for the most part, manmade, so I don't see much of a reason to believe that burning them would have any kind of effect. There are some loose threads you can kind of grab here - Honor is associated with oaths and bonds, and writing things down, speaking words, or putting any kind of mark can be associated with that in turn; conversely, destroying the stand-in for the bond could have an effect as well. You could also throw the Cognitive Realm here as well - glyphs are associated with ideas, and if that association is strong enough, it could have effect in Shadesmar. But I think all of these things are purely theoretical, in the same way it is true that technically speaking every human is gravitationally attracted to every other human, but this has no practical bearing. I think the scale of these relationships, correlations, and associations is just too large for anything to actually be affected. Plus, I am contractually obligated to agree with everything Jasnah says...

I like these interpretations of the strong and soft axial interconnection - strong for how "strong" an object is, and soft for how, well, soft or flexible, or weakly held together it is.

So, somehow there wasn't a thread for this. Obviously, it is now after the fact, and only the Ahlstroms were there to represent Dragonsteel, but I figured this is still a good place for a quick recap. Warbreaker anniversary leatherbound is still being worked on, and both Dan dos Santos and Peter showed off some of the art that will go into it. Both panels had a no-photos policy, so I can't show you anything, but I can say that the goods are very very good! Dan is doing all of the endpapers, and they feature Vivenna, Siri, a bit of Vasher with Nightblood, and Susebron. He also revealed a few concept pieces that won't be making it in the book, but he might put them up on a "the making of" kind of blog post on his website once the book is out. Crossing my fingers here, because there was an amazing Siri there. Dragonsteel has also done some work on the script they use in Warbreaker, and there will be a small sample of it in one of the endpapers; its meaning (Created by Dandos the Oilsworn) is not meant as an in-world canon, Dandos' name in Warbreaker does not imply that the Rosharan artist is actually a worldhopper, or anything like that, it's just Dan signing his work. I am only sharing this because it may be useful to have this if there is any kind of translation effort. Howard Lyon, the illustrator for the Vedel & Jezrien endpapers for Oathbringer, is doing another piece (at least) for Warbreaker. Dan showed me a not-quite final version of it on his phone, so I don't even know if I should say what it is about, but it's pretty incredible. And speaking of Howard, I got to meet and ask him about the symbolism in the Vedel piece. The keys are obviously Vedeledev's Golden Keys (though whether they are meant to be canonically four is unclear) and they symbolize the unlocking of all the knowledge in the four corners of the world. The instrument in her other hand is a compass, and it's tied to several ancient (Earth) cultures, where the circle drawn by a compass represents all the knowledge... of mankind? meant for mankind? mankind can acquire? I don't remember the exact meaning; but everything outside of that circle is forbidden knowledge. Her coming down the stairs represent her descending to give all of this knowledge to mankind. And while we are on the note of symbolism, I asked Dan about how much of what what's in his endpapers is meant to be symbolic and how much is references requested by Dragonsteel. He didn't go into specifics, but generally speaking Dragonsteel doesn't request specific things. For example, Shalash's dress design was his ideal, with the long sleeve maybe serving as an in-world inspiration for the safehand idea. He didn't say anything about the moons in the Ishar piece, but shared that the composition is meant to invoke a feeling of him bringing people together; and because I know you people, he did not use the world "unity". Both illustrators mentioned that the pieces are meant as religious pieces in-world, so they are loaded with symbolism rather than lore. I asked Peter about the Tension/Cohesion apparently contradiction we touched in the most recent episode of Shardcast (short version, the Stormfather appears to contradict the Ars Arcanum). He reaffirmed his previous answer to @Pagerunner that it's a mistake and the Stormfather's words either have been updated in the ebook, or will be at some point. I take this to mean that the Ars Arcanum is correct in its assignment of Cohesion to Willshapers and Tension to Bondsmiths is correct. I had a chat with Karen about her work on both the wiki and the timeline. Nothing of substance I can reveal (because there was nothing of substance to reveal). There was a spreadsheet on her desktop called "Master Cosmere Timeline" but she didn't open it Of less import to the community is a whole is that I got to hang out with @LittleGreyDragon and her sister a lot, who were both cosplaying a lot, and it was absolutely brilliant! I'll probably have some photos sometime soon too. I spent a lot of time with @FelCandy too, and she is just as marvelous in person as you might already suspect from interacting with her online. She and LGD did a bit of art-ing together, so I imagine stuff will show up somewhere on their accounts at some point; go give them a follow so your eyes can feast upon the things I saw with mine too. Our own @Kaymyth was dressed up as a Mistcorn (that's a Mistborn unicorn) and it was traumatic. Other notable cosplay, just off the top of my head, included a couple of Doomslugs, a few members of the Skyward Flight, a Shalash (different from last year's Shalash, IIRC), your standard smattering of main characters (including a Vin with a truly gigantic koloss sword; that thing was easily 10 feet long!), plus a ton of Wheel of Time cosplay. A few people came up to me because they recognized my from Shardcast, and that was really cool too. The JordanCon anthology includes Brandon's reading of The Traveler (a few pages of Hoid meeting with Frost after the events of Hero of Ages), which Brandon read during last year's JordanCon, as well as another few pages of the short story that was meant to bridge Mistborn Era 1 and the 1980s Mistborn trilogy (now Mistborn Era 3, back then Era 2), which eventually morphed into the Wax & Wayne books; I believe there is a reading of it somewhere as well. I am yet to check the exact wording of these two against their earlier readings, but I will let you all know if there are noteworthy changes. And I think that's all! Some friends are nagging me to do a panel next year, so we'll see whether and how that pans out...

Actually, could you hold off on this for a couple of days? I am in the middle of making some updates to all literature pages right now because I noticed some inconsistencies in how they are being used; so I want to standardize this. Maybe keep an eye on this thread and ping me towards the end of the week if I haven't posted an update?

I need my pancakes in my mouth...

Thanks "The Page" was a bit of a meme for a while on the forums, you can participate in a bit of forum history in The Grand Reveal from 2017. I will think of those times fondly for years...

The Voidbinding chart.

Checks out: https://www.thalia.de/shop/home/veranstaltungen/showDetail/20668/?jumpId=1859272 Looks like a ticketed event too.

We'll be reading Brandon's books for the next several decades, you'll get a few chances here and there

The UK is a frequent non-US stop for Brandon, I think he goes there every other year, so 2019 seems like a likely candidate.

Still upset I don't have that on audio

Not a typo, but in Chapter 18: Double Vision, when Shallan goes to the market as Veil, she describes her entire outfit as she turns into Veil: but doesn't mention a hat until later in the chapter when she uses Stormlight to clear the alcohol from her blood:

There are some small typos I see that need correction, but I just reread that page and it does include the line you mention. Or are you saying that in Kelsier's copy of the logbook, the "simple packman" line comes right after the "liar" one? Because if it's the latter, the Wiki page probably lists things as they appear in the epigraphs, not necessarily as they would appear in the actual logbook - which, given that we don't have the full text of the logbook, is probably a more consistent way of presenting it.

Why so angry though?

Dragonsteel has been trying to limit the complexity of personalizations in recent years, first by lowering the length of the personalization request, then by drastically increasing the price of more special personalizations, and now by (I guess) removing the ability to ask questions altogether, instead giving you a few generic personalization options. Unless something changes, I am going to assume they don't want Brandon spending a lot of time on this kind of stuff, and so no questions.

That actually happens sometimes (happened to me too), don't remember why...

Banned.

My headcanon on this has been that Tanavast had a different... oath, let's say, he saw as being more important. Maritalrital vows, for example.