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(Created page with "[2016/11/13 20:08] [SA] What do Vorin practitioners believe happens to the soul if it is severed Q: When someone is "killed" by a shardblade, their soul is understood to be s...")
 
 
Q: Did the length of a year (as measured by the people on the planet) change when Scadrial was moved by The Lord Ruler/Harmony?
 
I've assumed that lengths of time given in the books use that world's time lengths. For example, the Reod happens ten Selish years before Elantris (which may not correspond exactly to Scadrian years or Earth years), or that the 4500 years between the prelude and the prologue of Way of Kings is in Rosharan years. Is this an accurate assumption?
I've assumed that lengths of time given in the books use that world's time lengths. For example, the Reod happens ten Selish years before Elantris (which may not correspond exactly to Scadrian years or Earth years), or that the 4500 years between the prelude and the prologue of Way of Kings is in Rosharan years. Is this an accurate assumption?
I've assumed in the past that all the major shardworld planets we've seen have roughly earth similar years. Can you confirm/deny this for any of them specifically? I'm especially interested in Sel and Nalthis. (Specific numbers would be ideal, but even a yes/no for any of the planets would be super super awesome!)
 
I've assumed in the past that all the major shardworld planets we've seen have roughly earth similar years. Can you confirm/deny this for any of them specifically? I'm especially interested in Sel and Nalthis. (Specific numbers would be ideal, but even a yes/no for any of the planets would be super super awesome!)
 
A: I mentioned in another post that I'll wait a bit to give you exact numbers, because I want to make sure Peter has run all the right calculations. But yes, changing the orbit had an effect on things--though official calendars didn't need to change, as they'd been used since before the original shift happened anyway. When we talk about 'Years' in the Final Empire, it's original (pre LR) orbit anyway. I knew I was going to go back to them later in the series, and when characters were actually aware of things like the calendar, it would be close to earth standard.
 
Though, since you mention it, all numbers mentioned in their respective series are in-world numbers. This makes things tricky, as Rosharan years (with the five hundred days) are blatant enough to start the average reader wondering about these things.
 
Mostly, Roshar is the big one (not in actual deviation--I think a Roshar year is only 1.1 Earth years--but in how the scope and terminology of the novel will make people start to notice and ask questions.) Other planets have deviations from Earth, but it's not as noticeable. We'll give specific numbers eventually. I promise.
 
 
Q: There is a very specific passage from The Way of Kings I would love to get some closure on, but it's a bit of closure on:
 
In The Way of Kings, Chapter 54: Gibletish, Dalinar has a brief conversation with Brightlord Hatham, one of his ardents, and a few other people. During the conversation the ardent uses the word “soil” in a way most Rosharans wouldn’t. After the conversation he tells Dalinar of “our goodwill toward you” and that “we will speak with you again.” The odd use of the word “soil” combined with what could be a vague reference to the ardent’s associated with a group other than the ardentia has led some of us to believe he might be a worldhopper. Plus, we know Nazh is around in the area, or will arrive soon. Is there truth to this idea, or are we overthinking this?
 
A: Alethi use the word "soil" on occasion in their language to mean "dirtied" or similar. It's a holdover from an earlier time. But they don't associate it with the ground, and if you see it used instead of stone like in this quote, it should indeed raise an eyebrow.
[2016/11/13 13:38] [MB] The plot of the next Mistborn series
 
Q: You've dropped a few tidbits about the plot of the next Mistborn series over the years. Putting all those things together, we have a necrosil Ferring Terriswoman hacker recruited for fieldwork in an "Allomancer SWAT team" to chase a Mistborn serial killer. Could you give us a more recent and concise pitch/blurb if the above is no longer accurate?
 
A: Ha. That's not far off, as all of those things still exist in the series, though the weight I'll give them is relative. With the Alloy series covering some of the police procedural aspect of storytelling, I'm inching the outlines slowly away from the SWAT idea and toward more spy thriller--but the SWAT team isn't not gone completely. (Of course, who knows what will happen in the intervening years between now and when I write it.)
Rosharans would need knowledge of the materials involved, but the upshot is that either getting a big enough chunk of plutonium all in one place or getting a slightly smaller chunk surrounded by the right reflective stuff is sufficient for a reaction to start running away. If the soulcaster doesn't care about surviving or has a way to escape the blast, making an explosion would not be technically difficult. As Phantine says, the yield would not be anywhere near as high as a purposefully constructed device, but still plenty deadly.
 
There IS historical precedent of accidentally setting off fission reactions in the cosmere using the magic
 
Now this is a story I look forward to hearing.
 
(https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/51u8qu/oathbringer_spoilers_stormlight_three_update_4/d9i35bo/)
 
 
 
[2016/11/13 10:31] [MB] Kwaan might have understood realmatic theory
 
Q1: In the chapter 19 epigraph for the final empire, the author of the journal says "When we first met, he was studying one of his ridiculous interests in the great Khlenni library - I believe he was trying to determine whether or not trees could think."
 
I wonder if that means he was looking into trees have a cognitive aspect. It seemed weird to me the first time I read it, but knowing what I know about the Cosmere and Sanderson loving worldbuilding, I feel like that's what this was about.
 
Q2: Was pre-ascension scadrial cosmere aware?
 
A: The OP's theory is correct. The rest is a RAFO.
 
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(https://www.reddit.com/r/Cosmere/comments/5b66wg/no_spoilers_kwaan_might_have_understood_realmatic/d9njbqq/)
 
 
 
[2016/11/13 10:19] [MB] Wax and Lessie
 
Q: Was anyone else completely surprised in Bands of Mourning when Wax offhandedly mentions that he and Lessie had been married? I don't remember any mention of Wax and Lessie being married before that point in the series. Together, yes. But married, not at all.
 
I read somewhere, and I can't remember where, that Wax and Lessie were never officially married, but that Wax always thought of them as being married, especially since he's in mourning all over again at that point. It's more of an insight into Wax's current state of mind than a retcon.
 
A: This is one of those things that editors kept trying to change back, but which I insisted stay as it's not a contradiction to the earlier book. Wax's thinking of her in this way is a kind of unconscious defense against what his mind perceives as an attempt by society to wipe her out of existence and force him to move on.
 
Q: I appreciate that the intention here was for Wax's state of mind to feel a little off. Still, with the concrete way he thinks of the relationship as a marriage, with how he remembers the specifics of a ceremony, it's hard for me to resolve your statement that "Wax and Lessie never had a real ceremony" with the conflicting statements in the text (emphasis mine)—
 
At the very beginning of chapter 1, Wax and Wayne are talking, Wax casually mentions that it's his second marriage and Wayne doesn't bat an eye:
 
“You gonna be all right?” Wayne asked.
 
“Of course I am,” Wax said. “This is my second marriage. I’m an old hand at the practice by now.”
 
Then, after Wax gets to the church and is getting dressed, he muses further on his previous wedding:
 
Then, after a moment’s hesitation, he strapped on his gunbelt and slid Vindication into her holster. He’d worn a gun to his last wedding, so why not this one?
 
And finally, Wax contemplates the actual ceremony as he and Steris are walking "down the aisle":
 
Wax found himself smiling. This was what Lessie had wanted. They’d joked time and time again about their simple Pathian ceremony, finalized on horseback to escape a mob. She said that someday, she’d make him do it proper.
 
With all three of these in short succession, Wax clearly establishes that 1. he was married before to Lessie (at least in his head), and 2. there was some kind of wedding ceremony (was this in his head, too?).
 
A: So, the following is how I explained it to Peter, I believe, back when he raised these objections during the editing stage. Wax and Lessie had no official marriage, though they did exchange some vows (as Wax notes, on horseback, fleeing a mob.)
 
Lessie gave him grief, claiming that it didn't count--that she wanted more. She wanted an actual wedding, and a piece of paper to say they were married. Wax figured this was good enough, and resisted wanting to do something more formal. It was his whole, "I am the law" thing he had out in the roughs. Focus on what matters, not what paper-pushers might claim he should do.
 
Over the years, they talked about getting married for real, and he started to think of the day they would. (Shifting his focus away from thinking of "my wife" but instead of kind of a long-term betrothed/common law wife.) When he lost her, and moved to Elendel, his viewpoint shifted. He wanted more and more to treat what they'd had as a legitimate marriage, for fear that what he and Lessie had would be wiped awaystamped out, by something more grand that society was demanding of him.
 
So while the event never changed, his perception of it certainly did. I intended for it to be contradictory, but only subtly so, and this is one of those things that I didn't feel like it was right to do in the text. (Much like Wayne's dislike of Steris for stealing Wax away from him and from the memory of Lessie--but this sentiment slowly shifting into a protectiveness of her as she reached the "inside" circle and gained legitimacy by making Wax happy.)
 
These are things that the characters themselves don't realize, and while I'll occasionally hang a lantern on them, sometimes I just leave it unspoken and subject to interpretation. If every little thing gets spelled out in the text, then I am left feeling that we're being too on the nose.
 
That said, once in a while, things like this DO annoy Peter. He'd prefer I pin the text down on things that seem to contradict one another.
 
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(https://www.reddit.com/r/Mistborn/comments/5c1pf5/minor_spoilers_wax_and_lessie/)
 
 
 
[2016/11/13 10:10] [SA] Oathbringer jumps from 80% to 87% complete! Also: Adam confirms that Brandon is not human.
 
When I near the end of a book, the writing accelerates. This is because earlier parts of the process require lots of back and forth between the outline and the text, rebuilding, planning, etc. I get around 2k words average a day, despite eight hours of writing and an average speed of 500 words an hour.
 
Later in the book, the outline is firm, the scenes have been played out many times in my head, and there are far fewer false starts. It's more rare to throw away chapters. I can move up to 3k or 4k words a day, and I get very excited about finishing, so I build up a lot of momentum.
 
So we're getting close. I hope to finish the book soon, though there's still a lot to do, so who knows.
 
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Q: About how much faster do you go when revising? Are there certain story or character aspects that are easier or harder revise?
 
A: Yes, there are some things that are harder or easier to revise--but it's all depending on how broken they are when starting. There's no theme that I can think of. When revising, I do around 20k words a day on average, though it does get faster as I proceed through a book.
 
Q: Do you generally find revision to be more or less enjoyable than the initial writing process?
 
A: I can get into a revision, once going, but I generally do not look forward to it like I do outlining or writing.
 
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(When I near the end of a book, the writing accelerates. This is because earlier parts of the process require lots of back and forth between the outline and the text, rebuilding, planning, etc. I get around 2k words average a day, despite eight hours of writing and an average speed of 500 words an hour.)
 
 
 
[2016/11/13 9:54] [SA] WoB Compilation: Spren
 
Can Shardblades kill spren? Theoretically, yes.
Belief has had a lot to do with the Cosmere. (for example in Warbreaker. The appearances of the Returned had a lot to do with belief) Will Belief have a big part to play in The Stormlight archive? It already has. The two scholars measuring the spren.
Do all greatshells have spren? In order to survive with the science that I built, the greatshells almost all require some sort of spren to keep them from collapsing.
Does Shardplate use a spren? That's a RAFO.
Can Glys, Renarin's spren, be a box? The box is not his spren
Why are Ryshadium cooler than regular horses? I suspect a spren bond. There is Investiture involved.
To the spren, is becoming mindless the same as death? They consider it as such.
Can someone bond more than one honorblade Honorblade? You can't bond an honorblade, though it can be given to you. Shardblades, however, come from a spren bond and it is possible to bond more than one.
Will you ever write any chapters from the POV of a spren? Likely that he eventually will, but probably as an Interlude. More talk about main characters in SA and structure of SA.
Were there spren bonds before Aharietiam[ [AKA The LAst Desolation]? I'm not going to answer that one either but we will delve much more into this. The spren were around back then but they're not nearly what they are now they've changed over the course of the book obviously. I think the cosmere theorists have figured it out. They are much more prevalent following Honor and what happened to him, but there were some spren on the planet before even that happened.
Is the Nightwatcher a spren of Cultivation in a similar way that the Stormfather is to Honor? The Nightwatcher is not Cultivation but is related. You're on the right track.
Can anyone other than a Parshendi bond a voidspren? Like, can a human bond a voidspren? That is theoretically possible but humans are not good at bonding spren in the same way.
How about the other way around? Can a Parshendi bond a KR spren? Historically, the Parshendi were not made KR, or the parshmen weren't.
Can they become squires maybe? Historically they did not, but it's not impossible.
Is it possible to bind with more than one spren of different types? I'm not going to say it's impossible.
Do we see the highspren at all in Words of Radiance? And if so, do they look like a comet? That's a good question. That's a gooood, good question. I will say this, the comet, hmm, the comet spren. The comet spren is very important to an order of KR.
How many oaths can a Radiant swear? There is an upper-limit/threshold to the number of oaths a Radiant may make. By the end of WoR, Shallan is a step higher than Kaladin. [Not completely sure on this one: He said that at one point Shallan may have said all the oaths for her order but has since regressed due to "memory loss/repression. Brandon also clarified that the oaths, with the exception of the first ideal, are not restricted to specific words. Rather, a specific idea must be conveyed for the oath to be accepted.]
Can spren be resurrected? Because ideas can never really die. This is theoretically possible but very difficult without the people who originally betrayed their oaths.
We were talking that it's kind of a shame that Dalinar doesn't have his own "real" spren. I think it's an upgrade, is there a way I should think of this? Is it a cool thing or a bad thing? It's a cool thing, it's also a very dangerous thing.
Well [the Stormfather] controls the highstorms...follow-up question: if he dies, does that affect the spren Dying, as long as the oaths are not broken, does not affect the spren in a very terrible way. There are effects.
Are flamespren, are they all doing their own thing, or is there some Ideal of "Fire" sitting in the Spiritual Realm that they're all based on? Each spren is based on the Ideal of Fire.
And is that sitting in the Spiritual Realm? Yes, we're using sort of a Platonic Ideal, and that concept is in force, so "yes", but [spren] are manifestations of it.
Is it the power of the bond between humans and spren, the Nahel bond, or from the swords-the existing Shardblades-that causes the eyes to turn light? Yes
Does each specific order have their own spren that they would bond? Yes. Each order has a spren that is distinctive. All Windrunners come from wind- from honorspren.
Before the Recreance, there were three Bondsmiths. Did they all bond supersprens, or is Dalinar an exception? They did something similar.
Can the Unmade be bonded? Wow...plausible. Er, possible, I should say.
Szeth a lot of the time throughout Words of Radiance is referring to the fact that he's hearing his victims scream in his head. Is that actually his conscience screaming at him or has he possibly already bonded to a spren in some way, that is displeased with- That is not the spren. Good question. It is not...the spren is not a spren that is a...for one of the orders.
But it is related to-- I didn't say that. I just said it is not a--it is not a blade. It is not one of those.
When does a person become a Surgebinder? Because Kaladin talks about when he was a child, about it being a familiar feeling, and Shallan obviously was younger. Or is it when they speak the Words? The bond starts forming before the words are spoken, but if the words are never spoken that bond will eventually evaporate and get broken. But the bond will start forming before. Just like an emotion attracts a spren, acting in the way that the spren you would eventually bond will start drawing them toward you and that will start to create that bond.
Lift's spren refers to the Nightwatcher as Mother, right? They definitely call somebody Mother. The implication in the text is that it's the Nightwatcher.
So I'm just gonna run with that right now. Is Surgebinding in general a melding of Honor and Odium ala Feruchemy being in some senses being not directly of Ruin or Preservation? Honor and Cultivation is what you mean? Um, there are spren of all three shards. And those spren can work within the bounds of the magic that has already been set up on Roshar.
What shard are Cryptics associated with? RAFO
What spren types are Glys, Ivory, and Wyndle? RAFO, because I haven't decided yet. I know generally what they are, but I don't know how I am going to call them in the books. It happens with other things in my writing, Shards for example - Odium was originally Hatred; the idea was the same, but I decided to change the actual word.
The spren that are of Odium, the ones in the storm - are there be more of those and will they pair directly as opposites for certain kinds.. There are more of them. There is not an exact one-to-one correlation.
The Nahel bond, what determines whether you get a Cryptic or an honorspren? The spren themselves.
So it doesn't have anything to do with the Orders of the KR? Um, you have to attract the spren, the same way you attract emotionspren, you have to attract the right spren for the Order.
 
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Remarks:
Hmm. With a casual glance, I see at least one here that I might have been fixated on a question that wasn't actually being asked. I do this occasionally, particularly at signings, where we're going so fast and I think someone is asking something that they're not.
 
In regards to there being spren bonds before the Last Desolation--there obviously were. (We see Knights Radiant in Dalinar flashbacks that are before the Last Desolation.) I think I was trying to talk my way around a different question, without giving RAFO answers, that I'm not going to get into now.
 
EDIT: Looks like someone caught this one already. /u/Ray745, I missed your post below, but here is your answer. Another sketchy one on this list is regarding whether the spren call the nightwatcher Mother or if they're calling cultivation Mother. I don't think the text of the books actually implies either way, despite what I said. (Unless I'm forgetting something.) For those in the know, with the Nightwatcher being an analogue of the Stormfather, that implication is there--but I don't want to confirm it either way. You'll get more on the Nightwatcher and Cultivation, and their relationship, in the books.
 
(https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/5ckbwy/cosmerewob_compilation_spren/)
 
 
 
[2016/11/13 9:33] [MB] Melting a metalmind
 
Q: What would happen if a Feruchemist fills, for example, a tin metalmind then mixes it to make a pewter metalmind? Does the stored attribute change? Is the Investiture gone when you melt the metal? What if he just makes it into a tin metalmind again?
 
A: If you make it impure, you'll keep the investiture, but won't be able to get it out. If you make it back into the same thing, you'll be fine, and can access it normally. If you try to fill it, after changing the composition to make another viable metal, it will act a little like a computer hard drive with corrupted sectors. Some of it will work for the new investiture, but you won't be able to fill it nearly as full. (Depending on how full it was before you melted down.)
 
This holds for basic uses of the metallurgic arts. Once you start playing with some of the more advanced parts of the magic, you can achieve different results, which are currently RAFO.
 
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[site:reddit] [type:qa] cosmere cosmere/scadrial magic magic/feruchemy mistborn mistborn/feruchemy mistborn/metalmind
 
Remarks:
Q: So you could, for example, use electrolysis to dissolve a metalmind in water, then reverse the reaction later to get the investiture? OR, better question, if you store investiture in one allotrope of iron, can your retrieve it off you change to a different allotrope?
 
A: I see no reason why these wouldn't work.
 
Q: Have you heard the story about how Bohr's lab hid Nobel prizes from the Nazis? http://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/2011/10/03/140815154/dissolve-my-nobel-prize-fast-a-true-story
 
A: That's what I was thinking of, actually, when the question was asked.
 
(https://www.reddit.com/r/Cosmere/comments/5cg6ti/scadrialmelting_a_metalmind/d9wi1yy/)
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