Date: 2016-02-22
Location: Chicago, IL
What race is Sazed?
The Terris have intermixed to the point that they… Skin tone run the gamut, from being indistinguishable to being darker skinned. When I say darker-skinned I mean say, like as perhaps as a dark Indian, East Indian… But they can range in that skin tone.
What does Curiosity mean to you? We see Vin talking to Kelsier and developing trust just because she is curious. Same thing with Moash and Kaladin, so what is curiosity?
I think curiosity is one of the driving forces in the human experience. You read books because of curiosity, you watch shows because of curiosity. Almost everything we do, curiosity is a basic motivation. It’s kinda what makes us human.
Returned, they don’t quite fit the other splinters—their Breath, rather—because it’s the divine breath that’s the splinter right?
Ehhhhhhh…. Ehhhhhhh….
Okay, that was vague.
Not a 100% correlation there
So in that case it’s not entirely fair to say that the Returned are vessels for…
No… Well, more vessels than the people that are in T’Telir… So, Endowment is in control of what’s happening, right?
The giving of _____
Yes. So what you’ve got to remember—and this is something that people keep mistaking is- something like a spren is still part of the god, and it’s not that different from the fact that the rock has a part of the body in it, and that everything is kind of made—in [the] Mistborn world in particular—everything is made out of their essence. And so… the breath _are_ similar, but it’s less that- they’re not autonomous in most cases and it’s more like- it’s like a hybrid of what’s happening in Mistborn where everybody’s got a bit of Preservation in them. Everyone’s got a bit of Endowment in them.
Innate investiture.
Innate investiture that they are born with.
I was looking to _Divine_ Breath, _____ specifically.
Oh _Divine_ breath! Divine Breath is it’s own special thing, and it’s more like what happened with the Honorblades, in that the god is pouring a bit of its investiture, infusing the magic ____.
splinters ,
honorblades ,
investiture ,
divine breath
At the end of Bands of Mourning, Wax begins seeing what seems like souls, as he’s holding the bands. He sees lines. He ponders that man/metals are the same thing. Is he seeing investiture there?
Yeah, to an extent. Yes. He’s seeing the cosmere-equivalent of atoms/investiture/energy waves all being the same thing.
Okay, so kind of a building block of things?
Yes; it’s almost like he’s seeing the ____, the atoms.
investiture ,
Wax
_____ Southern’s(?) connection to the Spiritual world ____. So, that being said, you know the ____ inanimate matter ___ the source, but inanimate matter is projected into the Cognitive realm. So does inanimate matter have a connection to the Spiritual world the same as ____
Yes, but it doesn’t have the same thing going on. So yeah.
incomplete question
At the end of Sixth of Dusk, were those Mistborn space-opera-people that showed up at the end?
Not gonna say. Lot of people have theorized that, but I have remained closed-lipped.
Is Aslydin a Feruchemist?
RAFO.
Reckoners books?
STEELHEART SEQUEL TRILOGY CONFIRMED - Alternate Dimension, dealing with the origin of Calamity.
I’m _____ ____ Adonalsium. Out of the people that were leftover from just before the Breaking, did they think it was a good idea or a bad idea?
Opinions are mixed.
Is it mixed between vessels and non-vessels?
Most of the vessels support the decision that they made. I would say of those remaining, who are not vessels, the majority think it was a bad idea. I would say ____ it’s not 100%
____ Talking about opinion besides the
Not many, it is a number that you could count to reasonably.
shattering
I know you wrote the Eleventh Metal for the Mistborn Adventure Game. Of the other stories included in the expansions (Darzon’s Story, Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Eltania, and House of Tin and Ash), should they be considered canon?
The Eleventh Metal and Allomancer Jak are, the others are not.
Is Iyatil of Malwish descent?
In the same way that I [Brandon Sanderson] am of Danish descent.
Would she perhaps have been born on either Taldain or Threnody?
She was not born on either one.
Iyatil
Is it significant that Paalm’s name does not follow the standard kandra naming convention?
It does [follow the convention]. It’s not always written that way, but it is. Good question.
Hoid, in the Liar of Partinel sample chapters, is referred to as a Jesk. Is this related to the Jesker Mysteries religion in Elantris?
No. Good question.
Will we get a more comprehensive Ars Arcanum in the Arcanum Unbounded?
It depends… there will be cool things in there, but I don’t think they’ll count as “Ars Arcanum” exactly. It’ll be more focused on maps and things like that. There’ll be a star chart for each world.
Have we seen Iyatil in any other context, published or unpublished?
No.
Was the shattering of Adonalsium done, for the forces to attack the Anti-Adonalsium?
You’re focusing too much on the idea of the anti-adonalsium. What was really asked is “is there a force that opposes Adonalsium” and it left me a lot of wiggle room. In other words, the people who killed it was a force, or any person who opposed Adonalsium you could say is a force. What they were trying to get was a “devil” but that assumes Adonalsium is a more Christian-style God, and I have not confirmed any of that.
In the religion with Trell and Nalt, is that in any relation to Nalthis?
RAFO.
In SH, we see an Aon written in the steel alphabet, have we seen anything similar?
I don’t think we’ve shown you any, that doesn’t mean they don’t exist. For instance the Aon on the wall in Emperor’s Soul would probably not look exactly like an Aon, because it’s different culture.
Similar to the Dakhor monks use different…
No, more like, if you started writing in Chinese characters, and they became popular here in America, they’d change so they don’t actually look like their origin. But I don’t think I’ve ever DRAWN one out like that, but there are references to other cultures across the cosmere.
aons ,
Mistborn: Secret History ,
culture
Is the death process, like dying from the physical to the cognitive staging area and moving to the beyond the same across the cosmere?
Yes. it is a universal process. People don’t always hang out as long, depending on their investiture.
Is the God Beyond related to “the Beyond” spoken about?
RAFO.
transitions ,
God Beyond ,
spiritual realm
Harmony says the Beyond is a place he can’t reach, is that true for all shards or?…
RAFO.
If a hermit were to take a whole lot of Cadmium and go off and live by himself, how far within a lifetime, reasonably, could he get into the future by essentially time-capsuling himself?
Assuming they live to be 70 or 75.
They could get pretty far.
What would the savantism do to them?
The savantism would probably allow them to get further… It’s completely reasonable… you can treat this like relativistic travel.
allomancy ,
cadmium ,
savants
How broadly can a time-bubbler control the attributes of the bubble? Like could he make it ten times smaller to make it ten times more powerful?
It is more controllable than I have generally shown in the books.
And does the size correspond inversely to the strength?
No.
time bubbles
So when that cork [in Bands of Mourning] was thrown above the train, if the cork had been thrown by someone who was standing _besides_ the train, what would have happened when the bubble hit [the cork]? So the bubble’s moving at 60mph and the cork [is not moving laterally relative to the bubble] and gets hit by a bubble…
Right. Right right right… So… this one’s complicated. Let me see if I can… So anything that touches the bubble will be immediately lodged into the bubble, and be hit by that… So say you throw something up, the bubble hits it, is that what you’re asking?
Yeah.
But it does not have “momentum” the same as the thing? So it would probably be in the bubble for a short time.
So if I threw the cork straight, and then the bubble came from the right, the cork would shift to the right within the bubble as the bubble thought it was moving or something?
So the bubble thinks the cork is travelling like 60mph North, the cork thinks it’s not moving at all…
Yeah…
So does the cork move the opposite direction of the bubble or something?
Ask Peter the math on that one, and I’ll have him run the math. That one’s kind of… it’s kind of like the time travel train experiment stuff, with the flags and things. So let’s go ahead and PAFO that one.
Result of PAFO: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/52790-calamity-tour-chicago-naperville/page-4?p=414459#entry414459
time bubbles ,
hypotheticals
How exactly does hemalurgic decay work for Feruchemy? Is it like a leaky tube or something, or…?
Yeah… yeah. (Here misunderstanding and thinking that the question’s about the power of the Feruchemy itself, not storing/tapping metalminds)
So they try to store 10 units of health and only 9 gets through, or…?
Hemalurgic decay meaning someone who has been spiked is less powerful? That Hemalurgic decay] or the Hemalurgic decay when a Hemalurgic spike is left outside of blood?
Less powerful. So like the Inquisitors are less powerful Feruchemists so they had to spend longer storing: so _why_ did they have to spend longer storing?
Yeah they lose a little bit, it’s a leaky… You’re there, exactly. It just doesn’t quite… it’s not as efficient: it’s [an] efficiency thing.
hemalurgy
So, what is the actual Firefight, Megan’s opposite, what’s their weakness?
I’m not going to tell you. That’s a RAFO.
If a Kandra and a human were to have a baby, what would that baby be like?
I would say that right now… It would depend. The kandra would have to remain in human form, keep the same body, and then would give birth to a human. If it was a woman [human] with a man [kandra], it wouldn’t be that big of a deal, with a kandra. Does that make sense?
Yeah.
Because when the kandra is in human form, they can identically recreate the bodily functions and things if they want to.
kandra
With Forgery and ChayShan, can anybody from that country do them?
Forge? No.
With safehand culture, with one hand feminine, two hand masculine: is knitting considered masculine?
Knitting is not one of the prime arts, and so it would be considered either direction. It’s not one of the major arts, so men can knit their socks and things like that at war and not have to feel feminine, but women could knit if they wanted to, also.
Okay. So, Dalinar can make baby socks.
Yes, Dalinar can make baby socks and not feel- (we were walking away at this point, he stopped talking).
safehand ,
culture
Have we seen the world mirrored by the Expanse of Broken Sky?
(long grunting and contemplation) I’m not answering that, RAFO
What does First of the Sun look like on the Cognitive Realm? I think it’s a whole bunch of grubs, or worms.
RAFO, c’mon you know I’m not gonna reveal Cognitive Realm on the other ones.
The Expanse of Vibrance… Nalthis?
(more grunting) You would be making a good guess, if you said that. That’s an informed guess.
That’s not an answer, keep pushing.
Is the only reason that Yolen is not reachable, according to Khriss, because it doesn’t have any sentience on it thinking of it as a planet, so it doesn’t appear in the Cognitive?
Ahh, no. Good question, but no.
Cognitive Realm ,
Yolen ,
Khriss ,
Nalthis ,
Sixth of the Dusk
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