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Interview #1067: Steelheart Release Party, Entry #20

Question

At the end of the trilogy Sazed communicates with Kelsier so there is something going on with an afterlife. Is it uniform across the cosmere?

Brandon Sanderson

What is happening there is not actually technically an afterlife, well it kind of is, it is what we call a cognitive shadow its when your spirit is not moving on yet. So there is a Beyond but there is a—basically it is what we would call in our world a ghost, and there are actually magic systems based around that. Actually the story I have coming out in George R.R. Martin’s next anthology is a ghost story involving this same—yes it is cosmere based. Yes, that would be consistent, they don’t all have the same mythology regarding it. But it would be consistent, what happened with Kelsier could have happened on any of the planets.

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