So, I wanted you ask: you, I think more than almost any other fantasy author, you create universes and then you leave them behind. I feel like you could have pages of a physics lecture for each of your universes and you’d have equations for everything. Have you always had these ideas for these various universes with gods and magic systems and things like that, or are you always creating them as you go?
Its yes and no. A lot of the ones you’re seeing in the cosmere are things I created at the beginning to be kind of what the cosmere was. But I left some holes intentionally cause I knew I would come up with cool things that I wanted to add, and so I built in that wiggle room, and I’m always coming up with new ones, and there are way more that I want to do than I can write, like the one I keep wanting to find a chance for is like - do you guys know how Nikolai Tesla tried to create wireless energy? I think I’ve talked about this one. Like, he tried to create wireless energy, and I’m like “what if there were a world where that happened naturally”? Where you had an actual current going, and you could set your lantern on the ground and it would create a current and your lantern would just turn on, you don’t need electricity, and you could have giant toads that could shoot out electrodes in their tongue that would create a current, like tazer tongues? *Brandon makes tazer noises* Stuff like this. And so, I started jumping in to looking at electricity and things like this, and current and whatnot, and that’s just all back there and I’m like “aww, someday I need to be able to write this.” But there are so many things that I want to write that I just don’t have the time for, so it’s a yes and no.
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