We probably have found the prototype of the Moon Scepter! One of my friends is visiting Taipei Palace Museum now and he just sent me this photo. Itās stated that this is a Ruyi scepter, which was mentioned by Brandon earlier. Itās likely that what Brandon saw is exactly this artifact. Though itās said that thereāre at least two sets of Ruyi on exhibition currently, so no promise, but we have the solid confirmation that the thing can be calledĀ āscepterā in English. Confusing, but legit XD
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As a reminder! Most of them were collected from Reddit, Twitter, Tumblr and various forum posts. Hopefully all the source links could work. [LONG POST WARNING]
COSMERE IN GENERAL
Info on why Adonalsium shattered?
Adonalsium shattered because he was killed. [Footnote: Confirmed! Adonalsium was a living being, and was male.] [Source]
Is Odium aware of the weapon created by Adonalsium's opposition?
Yes. [Source]
Has Odium used the weapon created by Adonalsium's opposition?
RAFO. [Source]
Is Edgli Endowmentās holder?
Yes. [Footnote: Endowment is female.] [Source]
How many Shards are whole at the time of Shadows of Self?
RAFO. Ish. (He's too tired to do math, but he says it's about half-ish). [Source]
Hoid says he would watch Roshar burn if it meant his goals were achieved. Would Hoid go so far as to kill to achieve these goals? Can you give a hint about what his goals are?
Yes, Hoid would kill - If he were able to make it happen - to achieve his goals. His goals are super secret. Some you would agree with, some, maybe not. [Source]
Are Odium and Devotion opposites?
One could make that argument. [Source]
[Paraphrased] Does the Shard that just wants to survive have something like the intent of fear?
[Paraphrased] That shard's intent is only tangentially related to what's going on. That shard is well aware of what is going on in the Cosmere, and is smart enough to try and just get away from it all. [Source]
Is there a finite amount of Investiture?āØ
Yes. [Source]
Will Thinker+Grump appear again? Or is this a RAFO?
They will appear in the cosmere some day again. [Source]
About Intention: INTENTION is vitally important to the workings of most Cosmere magics.
You can learn to burn metals instinctively over time, but it does take time--time for your body to figure out what it's doing. If you have instruction and guidance, you can pick it up in an evening, like Vin did. Same goes for most of the magics. This ties into Awakening, with the idea that you have to form a command.
During Warbreaker was where I really refined this aspect of the magic. Logically, since the beginning of the cosmere, I've wanted all three Realms to be important to the way the magics worked. The "Practice" therefore for compounding is mental practice--a barrier to overcome in understanding what is happening, and what it will do to you. [Source]
Is the chronology through the whole Cosmere fairly linear, or are there some Interstellar-relativity timey-wimey stuff at play?
Relativity is in play for sure, but I am not allowing time travel into the past in the cosmere. So while you might find places that move at slower/faster speeds, and while foreseeing future timelines is in play for sure, nobody will not be pulling serious time travel shenanigans. [Source]
Can a person who dies but somehow hasnāt passed Beyond the Three Realms (a la Kelsier) serve in place of a spren for Radiant purposes?
This is theoretically possible, but it would require an unusual sequence of events. [Source]
In a way I felt that The Emperor's Soul was a bit post-singularity - in the sense that humans were capable of downloading new identities and histories. I know you've planned on doing FTL cosmere work, but have you any interest in doing post-singularity cosmere work? I'd be fascinated to see 'multiple-consciousness beings' using breath or soul stamps. Seeing human development push the boundaries of the shards would be quite intense, and I'm tickled pink at the notion of humans bamboozling the rules of shardistic investiture - how far can spiritual or cognitive identity stretch? tl;dr - do you have any plans to bring post-singularity stories to the cosmere?
I have plans for some of this, but the main-line cosmere stories I'm planning seem to adapt better to grand space opera than true post-singularity stories. That said, I've certainly got some short story ideas that will play with this. (And you'll see more hints like this even in the mainline books that I think you'll like.) [Source]
Realmatic Theory: In the cosmere, your soul is basically an idealized version of yourself--and is a constant force pushing your body to match it. Your perceptions are the filter through which this happens, however, and many of the magics can facilitate in interesting ways. [Source]
If everyone is from Yolen way back when, is there a migration story?
Not all humans originated on Yolen, but the first humans were there. Watch the books for myths that hint at more. [Source]
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MULTI-SHARDWORLD
Is the reason Raoden couldn't interact with Devotion's Shardpool the same way Vin interacted with Preservations was because Devotion was splintered?
That is part of it, but not the main part. [Source]
I've seen people saying that Alloy of Law takes place during the gap between the first five Stormlight books and the last five. Is there any chance for some crossover?
Yes. [Source]
If a Windrunner lashed Wax upwards, could he dump all of his weight into his metalminds and be unaffected or would the lashing affect his clothes and whatever else he had on him too?
Wax could mitigate the effect (unless he was in a vacuum) but not eliminate it completely. [Source]
Vacuum or freefall? It can be easy to confuse them in the context of surface to orbit.
I was talking about a Vacuum, but it's good to clarify. What I'm saying is that without wind resistance, his mass doesn't matter--and the books have established that what Wax does is a freakish transformation of his mass, not just his weight.
Kaladin changes how much gravity pulls on someone, and in what direction. Wax (basically, it's more complex than this) changes how much mass he has. The two, then, have some very distinctive effects. [Source]
On Threnody, Silence notices a 'tug' when cutting a wraith with her silver knife. Is is analogous to the tug a Shardbearer feels when cutting people with a Shardblade, i.e. you always feel it when cutting something from the Cognitive Realm while in the Physical Realm?
Yes, that is a valid analogy. [Source]
Do those fictional worlds [Shardworlds] have Earth-analogue?
Actually I donāt like to tag every book/series [Shardworlds], though if I have to, here it is:
1. Elantris [Sel] - Mediterranean during the Renaissance
2. Mistborn Era 1 [Scadrial] - Europe during the Industrial Age, especially Paris in 19th century (Luthadel - London in about 1820)
3. The Way of Kings [Roshar] - China, Korea
I learned Korean during my two-year stay in Korea, so WoK is influenced by Korean culture in some way. But at the same time, I got inspired from the Chinese Three Kingdoms Period and used much stuff in my settings. I also applied some Chinese calligraphic elements and Confucian ideas of art. The charactersā appearance is not clearly written in the book, though they do look like Chinese. [Source]
Could a Kandra pretend to be Returned on Nalthis by using the bones of a recently deceased person?
Heightenings would still recognize them as being alive, as their flesh is aliveāeven if theyāre pasting it over dead bones. [Source]
Could you make a Lifeless out of someone killed with a Shardblade?
Shardblades sever the soul from the body, but Awakening makes a āfakeā soul for a body, so how the soul left doesnāt matter. [Source]
Do returned have a bond with their divine breath that would give them powers on Roshar? Or are they different to Seons?
They are Highly Invested beings, but the Investiture is not sapient. [Source]
SEL
In Elantris, are Forton's "potions" magical, or is he using natural substances?
They are invested. (Magical.) [Source]
If an Elantrian drew Aon Kii, what effect would it have?
In the presence of Aon Kii, the guilty feel pain. [Source]
The updated Elantris map (from the anniversary edition) includes a city map, and the interior of Elantris looks awfully like Aon Ela. Was it indeed designed so the streets for Ela, and if so - does this merely augment/support the giant Aon Reo, or does it have a separate effect?
This was designed this way! It is separate from the shape of the city itself. [Source]
If Gretgor, (1st Wyrn's sword) exists, who has it now?
RAFO. [Source]
SCADRIAL [LIST]
Scadrian races explanation on Reddit: [x] | Mechanics of Feruchemy in relation to Compounding work on Reddit:Ā [x]Ā [x] | Secret History explanation on Reddit: [x]Ā |Ā Secret History continuity notes on 17S: [x]
Can we hope to see a 'Secret History' for each Era of Mistborn?
It will depend on if I have the time. The next one would have to go between Era One and Era Two--the lead up to things happening in the Wax and Wayne books. [Source]
Will we see any of that "traditionally 80s" stuff make an appearance in the next series?
I'm planning it based more on tech level than pop culture, though I do think some of these things go hand in hand. (Like the rise of certain kinds of counter cultures, and musical departures.) So you may not see hair bands, but you will likely see counter cultures that fit the society. [Source]
Just curious where the inspiration for the word skaa came from.
Hard to say. It goes back decades. I canāt remember if the music was a thing by the time I was developing them or not. [Source]
Do the Allomantic and Feruchemic symbols for the metals have any extra meaning to them? More specifically, were they given those symbols on Scadrial for a reason?Ā
They go WAY back to before the Lord Ruler's ascension. So perhaps, perhaps not. (On other words, RAFO.) [Source]
Is The Lost Metal planned to be the actual conclusion of the Wax & Wayne story then, or more of an epilogue to it and/or transition to Era 2 formerly-known-as-Era-3?
It is an actual conclusion. [Source]
Did the lord rulerās armies have female soldiers?
I would imagine that the LR's armies would take allomancers of either gender quickly and happily. [Source]
Are any of the Lord Ruler's descendants alive at the time of Alloy of Law?
Yes. [Source]
Would being fat be advantageous for steel pushing?
Advantageous in pushing against someone else, trying to knock them over. Disadvantageous when lifting yourself into the air. [Source]
If someone used Hemalurgy to take someones feruchemical abilities would they be able to use that persons personal metalminds ? Most relevantly perhaps to take that persons knowledge from their copperminds?
Yes. [Source]
If the spike granting Feruchemy were to be reforged/split into two distinct spikes which are then implanted into two different people, could those two people "share" a metalmind (as in actually be able to tap something the other stored and vice versa?).
It's complicated, but no.Ā There would be too much of the other person mixed in. Both could use the metalminds of the person the Feruchemy was stolen from, but when they made their own, their own Identity would "muddy" the creation. [Source]
Quick question on genetics and investiture on Scadrial. Is it weird that Wax would have a different allomantical power than his predecessors, or does it only matter that you have the ability in the first place, and then it takes different forms generation to generation?
Great question! I don't think anyone has asked it.Ā It is the second of your two theories. The power manifests differently in different people; specific powers are not hereditary. [Source]
A theme throughout a lot of the Cosmere novels is that form, of one sort or another (patterns, aeons, etc.) has a crucial role to play in unlocking or using Investiture. As a chemist, I'm curious about the role of form in Allomancy and Feruchemy. Does the underlying molecular or crystalline structure of the metal or alloy play a roll? Different processes, doping ratios, and metal mixtures result in different molecular packing, lattices, and ultimately structure. It seems like that kind of very defined, orderly matrix would be right in line with other forms of unlocking Investiture.
Yes! I've actually mentioned to people before that the chemistry of the various metals acts, for Allomancy, in the same way that the Aons work for AonDor. It's more a key than it is a source of power itself. [Source]
NALTHIS
Did it take a life to create Nightblood?āØ
No, it did not. [Source]
Is Nightblood reducing the amount of Investiture in the cosmere?
Yes. At a very slow rate, but yes. [Source]
How many planets has Vasher visited?āØ
He has visited fewer than six. [Source]
ROSHAR
Stormlight 3 update on Reddit: [1] [2] | Rosharan cultures explanation (Inspiration of Dalinar and Horneaters) on Reddit: [x]
Do Rosharans treat the āHā as palindrome neutral so that āHonorā is a perfect name?
No. It is not spelled that way in Alethi, unfortunately. It is a cool side effect in English, though. [Source]
Is there any relation between Shardplate and the Spren like there are with the Blades?
RAFO. [Source]
Info on Syl?
At first I was thinking of only a small number of important spren. So Syl started as simply āThe East Windā. [Source]
Is the gender of a spren bonded to a surgebinder based on sexual preferences?
Not strictly. You're more likely to bond a spren of the opposite gender (or a spren that identifies as the opposite gender since spren have no gender), just like you're more likely, statistically, to be attracted to someone of the opposite gender. There is a correlation between the two but just because a male character has a male spren does not necessarily mean what some think it means. [Source]
Info on Prime!Shallan?
In the original version of KINGS, the character in Shallanās place was engaged to a different character! [Source]
Who was holding Szeth's oathstone when he was ordered to assasinate King Gavilar?
RAFO. [Source]
Are you intentionally alternating between male and female main characters through the whole series?
Yes, I'm alternating intentionally. It's a pattern I don't feel slavish toward, so if the next book doesn't work for Eshonai but works for Szeth, I'll break the pattern. But the originally outline alternated through all ten. [Source]
Kharbranth's Palanaeum boasts 700,000 scrolls and tomes, the same amount as the ancient Library of Alexandria before it burned down. Was there any inspiration here for the Palanaeum?
It was an inspiration. [Source]
In Chapter 19 of The Way of Kings, when Dalinar has a vision of fighting Voidbringers (maybe something else?) as a farmer, he says that he felt the Thrill in the vision. Does this mean that Nergaoul was active there, at the time that vision was "recorded" or was it Dalinar's viewing of the vision that was affected by the Thrill? Would the actual person whose perspective he was seeing have felt the Thrill if he had fought?
This is a great question, and one I've never been asked before. The answer is going to be a little vague.
First, Dalinar could have felt the Thrill from Nergaoul, and imported it into the vision.Ā Second, Nergaoul could have been active then, and the farmer could have felt it when he fought.Ā So both theories are valid. Which is it? I am going to hang back from answering this for now, as I am digging more into the Unmade in a future book. [Source]
At what point did Renarin hear the Shardblade screaming?āØ
Earlier than what was apparent. [Source]
OTHER SHARDWORLDS
I just read Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell and loved it. How did the first shade come to be? Are there shades in other worlds? Do shades have bones?
Shades are what we call "Cognitive shadows" in the cosmere. They're basically "spren" or "seons" created from human souls. (Where investiture--or magical power--keeps a consciousness alive after it has lost its Physical connection.)
Yes, shades all once had bodies.
Think of them like petrified souls, where instead of stone replacing the tissue of a corpse, magical power replaced the parts of a soul that connect that soul to the three realms. [Source]
About White Sand graphic novel: The plan is to do three graphic novels, of six "Issues" each. We've basically finished the first six issues, and plan for a summer release. [Source]
About White Sand novel:Ā It is not outside of the realm of possibility, but I like the graphic adaptation so much, that I'd rather this stand as the cannon version for now. It is superior to my original novel. [Source]
Finally, here is a collection of all the non-spoilery questions I asked during the translating course (answered by Peter) - Year 2015 (60 questions): [x] | Year 2016 (5 questions so far. Iāll keep updating, if thereās more.): [x]
