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Oh wow, that's amazing, and over 100 hours of work into it is super dedication!

Well it says that there are 4-5 new KR in WoR, mainly. Just because other people aren't as nice doesn't mean you can't be! But hey it's your thread, sorry to hijack.

Ooh, I like Crem-Be-Gone. Seeing-spren-glasses. Coinshots/Lurchers as Metal detectors! lol...

Right, but if you go to the forum main page, on the right hand side, there's a Recent Topics section. Anyone can see it, including people who don't want to be spoiled. Don't need to put spoiler tags in the topic, just have a generic topic title, for their sake. It's not a huge deal, but it's a nice thing to do? Back to the topic, yes, I agree that a lot of cross-training will happen. I'm not sure about Kaladin training anyone, though, since he's going to be off to Heartstone and Alethkar to protect people.

It's [-spoiler] textyouwanthidden [-/spoiler] without the dashes

Marbled marbles!

Here ya go about Heralds, and their Honorblades

Cosmere-cocktails!

Fixed and added

Witspren, it might be a good idea to put less of the spoiler in the topic, since topics are visible in the sidebar to EVERYONE. I notice a few of your threads are this way. To edit them, click on Edit, then go to Full Editor, and you'll be able to change the topic title.

Just for fun, if Shadesmar were Shadesmart, what kind of things do you think they'd sell? And even better, what kind of advertisements and sales would they run? Tuesday Two-For-One Shardblades. Get 'em while they're hot! Rent-An-Elsecaller for all your transportation needs.

Oh I agree that Elhokar should step down. He's a bad king with a bad queen, and who knows how his heirs will turn out? But yeah, you're right that it's still dead as far as Moash's family is concerned.

Darn, well thank you anyway for going to the effort! I'll check that time coordinate and listen for the Shadesmar questions. Those would definitely be important!

But there's a difference between being incompetent, and being bad. Elhokar is incompetent. Sadeas is/was bad. If incompetence were grounds for death, then a lot of us wouldn't survive to bear children!

Let's get back to the Easter Eggs and leave Hoid's motives/abilities to the numerous other threads about the subject. .

Well they also use words like "Wow" and "Hey," which kind of annoys me, but oh well

Updated the Omaha signing with my transcription of SirJerric's audio.

I might have missed some nonSA/cosmere-wide stuff but here's most of it: Q: The hair color: is there a link between the hair color in Warbreaker and the hair color in—like with the Alethi always have black, and I can't remember the other country that always have their gold hair coloring? A: Yes. You are noticing something very interesting which was done deliberately. Q: If you write Nightblood, the Warbreaker sequel, chronologically, will it come before or after Stormlight? A: Before. More close to Warbreaker than to Stormlight. Q: So do you know what the end of the series is going to [can't make out the rest]. A: I do. I've actually written the epilogue to book five. Peter, my assistant, like sent an exlamation point after he saw that apopear on the wiki. Actually the ending of the entire series, of the ten books, is somewhere in the two books. Just like in Mistborn it was in the first page. It's not in the first page but it's in those books. Q: There are some scientists talking about spren, and they seemed to be describing the positioning...[can't make out the rest]. A: It does, but it's really behind the scenes. This is just helping you understand the nature of spren, kind of their relationship to subatomic particles and quantum thery and things like this. There are relationships there. It's even one or two steps further than what you see in actual quantum physics. In this book you get a discussion of the theory on spren that should relate right back to that. Watch for stuff that Jasnah says about spren. It's worldbuilding stuff that's not part of the main story. It's fun for scientists. Q: Is Wit a Herald? A: Wit is not a Herald. Wit predates the Heralds. Sir Jerric Q: Has Hoid ever visited the planet Braize? A: [sing-song, delighted] RAFO. Such a big RAFO! The biggest RAFO! Q: Could a Seon, or a Skaze, could they turn into a, some sort of Shardblade on their own planet? A: That is theoretically possible. It's—I mean they work under the same fundamentals, but they would need to have something to pull them more into the physical realm. Q: Do we see the highspren at all in Words of Radiance? And if so, do they look like a comet? A: That's a good question. That's a gooood, good question. I will say this, the comet, hmm, the comet spren. The comet spren is very important to an order of Knights Radiant. Macen Q: What group, if any, was Shallan's mother a part of? B. RAFO. But you are right, she was indeed involved. Q: Was Shallan's father influenced at all by Odium? B. Yes. Q: Is it possible to bind with more than one spren? (then I added in) of different types? B. I'm not going to say it's impossible. Q: Will there be more romantic subplots? I really enjoyed the scene between Shallan and [can't make this out]. A: There will be more romantic subplots. There will definitely be. If you watch, there will be a lot more. I'm a big fan of romance. Q: Are there any other continents on Roshar? A: I haven't said if there's anything else out there, but I have said that it's a pangaea. Meaning if there's anything else out there, they are small. They are not of a similar scope in size. Now on Scadrial, there's other stuff going on. And I've told people that for years and years and years. So you may find some other stuff going on there. So the southern continent was populated on Scadrial, during the Final Empire era even. It was just impossible to reach because of the heat. The poles were the only habitable places on the planet. So anything in between just cooked. Final Empire was on the North Pole. Q: We know that 10 is an odd number in the cosmere. And I noticed that the Lord Ruler specifically released 10 Allomantic metals. Is there a reason behind that? A: No, that was a coincidence right there. 10 is an odd cosmere number for Roshar, and there are reasons why it is Q: But it wasn't just Roshar, it was also Nalthis and Warbreaker. A: Nope, that one is a coincidence. Sometimes they just pop up that way. Part of the original reason that Roshar was 10 was I was going for a 10 day like Robert Jordan did, which I thought was cool. But then I ended up writing the Wheel of Time so I have to do something different now. So it turned into the two five-day weeks. Two five-days becoming a 50 day month. Q: The Cognitive Realm, is Shadesmar a Roshar specific term? A: Shadesmar is a Roshar specific term. But when I translate from what other people are saying in these books, I just translate it to Shadesmar. For instance, when Wit is talking about it, he's going to call it Shadesmar, he's just going to use the Roshar term. But no, Shadesmar is what--it's called there. Q: With the whole ground/water inversion thing, is that a cosmere wide thing? A: That, you will need to RAFO. But I will say that there are places in Shadesmar that are different, and some that are the same. Q: [Not sure on this] Is there something important about the stone, and the girl that's missing that has to do kind of with the stone, and how Tien gives him rocks? A: Some of that you're reading too much into, but something is real. I'm not going to tell you what is what. But there's definitely something about that. Q: When Hoid was talking to Dalinar, he seemed to expect that Dalinar had heard of Adonalsium. Why would he think that? A: He thought that Dalinar was part of some of the secret societies on Roshar. And he had thought his way into thinking Dalinar was part of them and that was how Dalinar was knowing certain things. Which he really wasn't he was getting them from the storms and things like this. But he thought that Gavilar had confided things in Dalinar. That Dalinar would know more about this. So he was kind of testing to see. And he was wrong. Q: I was thinking of how Shardplate in Dalinar's first vision looks different than Shardplate is now. Syl can only transform into a Shardblade after he says the third round of Oaths. Is Shardplate the next set or will it be a totally different [Can't make this out.] A: You are totally going to get a RAFO. You are asking good questions. Q: If someone is using an Honorblade, would they be able to bond a spren? A: It is indeed possible. It does not block it. Good question. You do not have to bond Honorblades. Honorblades work with whoever holds them. [syl was mainly created to be a figure of light to contrast with Kaladin's darkness.] Q: Why does Hoid show up in all of your books? A: Because they're all connected and he's searching for something. Q: Soulcasters, [can't make this out] do they visit Shardsmar, do we see more about them? Because they're [can't make this out] something about them with the stony face. A: Yes, the actual soulcasters. Use of the soulcasters is affecting them on one of the Realms other than Physical. Q: Can you tell me something about Tension and Cohesion? A: I haven't actually written these magic systems yet, so they may change. But they are--Tension is the ability to take something flexible and make it rigid. Which sounds simple, but there are so many cool things you can do with that. Q: Is Shallan's mother, the one that she kills, is that her birth mother? A: It is. Good question. Q: What Heightening is Hoid? A: [Coy] I don't know what you're talking about! Heightening? He's just the King's Wit! Q: With perfect pitch? A: He does have perfect pitch! [Even more coy]You're obviously misconstruing that! Q: Are Heralds Surgebinders without Honorblades? A: That's a RAFO. That's a big fat RAFO! [This was answered at another signing.] Q: [Can't make this out] A: Sigzil claims Hoid is his master Q: [Can't make this out] A: Sigzil is not a world hopper, but he spent some time with Hoid during one of Hoid's visits. Q: A couple of days ago, you mentioned some person called Khriss. Has he actually appeared or been referenced in any of... A: She! has appeared and.... Q: I guessed as much because one of the pictures says "Dear woman!" toward the end of the book. A: She has appeared in--if you ask around about Khriss, she has appeared in unpublished books. Q: Is Khriss the author of some of the Ars Arcanums? A: [Teasing]Oh I dunno. That's very interesting Q: Does Khriss owe Nazh a new coat? A: [Long pause]I'll stay closed mouthed on Khriss. Kythis Q: [Didn't hear] A: Hemalurgy-when you spike, you place the spike in a place that determines which charge the spike gets. Q: Through the heart seems to pick up universally. A: It depends on where in the heart. It's like acupuncture. This is designed from acupuncture and you get very specific on which nerves you're hitting and things like that Q: So the spike will never pick up more than one power. A: Not the way they know how to do it. Q: Can they hold more than one Honorblade at a time? A: That is theoretically possible. Q: The names Zahel and Nahel bonds are very similar. Is it coincidental? A: It's part of the linguistics. They're based off of similar suffixes. They're the same suffixe I believe. Q: Is there a specific # of Ideals that they have to do before they can get the Shardblade? A: It depends on the Order. Q: How did Pattern actually become a Shardblade even though he hadn't been fully pulled into the Physical Realm? A: He was pulled into the Physical Realm before, when Shallan was younger. And she almost broke her bond. Q: He didn't go mad though. A: She didn't completely break the bond. She didn't reject him completely. But it was dangerous for a while. Q: Is there anything Hoid was scared of? And if so, is it still around, and... A: There are many things that Hoid is scared of. He is really scared of Odium, but there are others. Q: I'd kind of like to get you to talk more about Southern Scadrial but... A: That, we're just going to wait on. Q: I have a theory that it requires Hemalurgy to get started. A: Hmmm! Good plot, good theory!

In Warbreaker, when Siri is teaching Susebron to read, the first letter she teaches him is "Shash."

*Excited* *Goes to listen* Edit: I'm having a really hard time hearing the questions and answers over the sound of the crowd. Does it get better? Brandon's usually okay with it if you ask to put the recorder on the table. Edit x 2: It got better about halfway through so I'm getting some of the Q&A's down.

Right, that's what I said?

Actually, he said that the ending to SA is scattered between the two books

Odium will for sure need to be backed into a corner somehow before he'd be willing to appoint a champion. How you back a shard into a corner is beyond me though. Perhaps if his armies are defeated, but the Heralds refuse to go back to endless torture, and the Stormfather/Dalinar threatens to go kamikaze on him like in Mistborn?

Maybe after all 10 books are out, we can play musical covers!

Yeah every TV/Film adaptation of the Arthurian lore tends to turn out pretty much with the names the same, and with vague situational resemblances, but everything else made up by the screenwriters. I stopped watching those because they just made me want to cry