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Interview #1116: Brandon Sanderson - /r/books AMA March 2015, Entry #27

focoma (Reddit)

First of all, I’d like to thank you for e-mailing me White Sand and Aether of Night last year, and for just being so awesome and giving to your fans.

Here are my questions:

  1. Sel question: What are the names of the Aons for West, North, and South? I’m assuming that these are also the names of the other cities around Elantris besides Kae (“East”). Is that right?

  2. Scadrial question: We’ve seen Kandra True Bodies made of crystal, stone, or wood. Can a kandra use a True Body made of metal? If so, what happens if each metal “bone” had a Hemalurgic charge, and each one is touching an appropriate bind point?

  3. Roshar question: Looking up the meaning of “lucentia”, I see that it’s a Latin word related to light and visibility. Why isn’t the Surge of Illumination connected to the Order of Edgedancers, which is the Order associated with Lucentia?

  4. Nalthis question: This is a two-part question about Perfect Invocation. (A) When an old God King passes down his Breaths to his infant heir, does Perfect Invocation turn him (the old God King) into a white drab and does that grant him any cool powers? (B) Secondly, do God Kings create white Lifeless instead of grey ones and are these white Lifeless special in any significant way?

Those four questions will do for now. I hope you’ll visit the Philippines one of these days. Anyway, I need to go back to sleep. Happy writing!

Brandon Sanderson (Reddit)

  1. Yes. Peter pointed out to me that we really needed these, so they should be in the Elantris 10th anniversary edition.

  2. Yes. And that would work, better than you think, because Kandra have fluid bind points. But too many spikes can be dangerous to the psyche, even with Ati not messing things up.

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