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Interviews: Calamity-Chicago
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Date
Feb 22nd, 2016
Location
Chicago, IL
TourCon
Calamity
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What race is Sazed?Brandon Sanderson
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.Tags
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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?Brandon Sanderson
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.Tags
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Argent
Returned, they don’t quite fit the other splinters—their Breath, rather—because it’s the divine breath that’s the splinter right?Brandon Sanderson
Ehhhhhhh…. Ehhhhhhh....Argent
Okay, that was vague.Brandon Sanderson
Not a 100% correlation thereArgent
So in that case it’s not entirely fair to say that the Returned are vessels for...Brandon Sanderson
No… Well, more vessels than the people that are in T’Telir… So, Endowment is in control of what’s happening, right?Argent
The giving of _____Brandon Sanderson
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.Argent
Innate investiture.Brandon Sanderson
Innate investiture that they are born with.Argent
I was looking to _Divine_ Breath, _____ specifically.Brandon Sanderson
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 ____.Tags
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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?Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, to an extent. Yes. He’s seeing the cosmere-equivalent of atoms/investiture/energy waves all being the same thing.Question
Okay, so kind of a building block of things?Brandon Sanderson
Yes; it’s almost like he’s seeing the ____, the atoms.Tags
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_____ 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 ____Brandon Sanderson
Yes, but it doesn’t have the same thing going on. So yeah.Footnote
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At the end of Sixth of Dusk, were those Mistborn space-opera-people that showed up at the end?Brandon Sanderson
Not gonna say. Lot of people have theorized that, but I have remained closed-lipped.Tags
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Is Aslydin a Feruchemist?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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Question
Reckoners books?Brandon Sanderson
STEELHEART SEQUEL TRILOGY CONFIRMED - Alternate Dimension, dealing with the origin of Calamity.Tags
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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?Brandon Sanderson
Opinions are mixed.Question
Is it mixed between vessels and non-vessels?Brandon Sanderson
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%Question
____ Talking about opinion besides theBrandon Sanderson
Not many, it is a number that you could count to reasonably.Tags
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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?Brandon Sanderson
The Eleventh Metal and Allomancer Jak are, the others are not.Tags
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Is Iyatil of Malwish descent?Brandon Sanderson
In the same way that I [Brandon Sanderson] am of Danish descent.Question
Would she perhaps have been born on either Taldain or Threnody?Brandon Sanderson
She was not born on either one.Tags
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Is it significant that Paalm’s name does not follow the standard kandra naming convention?Brandon Sanderson
It does [follow the convention]. It’s not always written that way, but it is. Good question.Tags
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Hoid, in the Liar of Partinel sample chapters, is referred to as a Jesk. Is this related to the Jesker Mysteries religion in Elantris?Brandon Sanderson
No. Good question.Tags
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Will we get a more comprehensive Ars Arcanum in the Arcanum Unbounded?Brandon Sanderson
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.Tags
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Have we seen Iyatil in any other context, published or unpublished?Brandon Sanderson
No.Tags
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Was the shattering of Adonalsium done, for the forces to attack the Anti-Adonalsium?Brandon Sanderson
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.Tags
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In the religion with Trell and Nalt, is that in any relation to Nalthis?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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In SH, we see an Aon written in the steel alphabet, have we seen anything similar?Brandon Sanderson
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.Question
Similar to the Dakhor monks use different...Brandon Sanderson
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.Tags
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Is the death process, like dying from the physical to the cognitive staging area and moving to the beyond the same across the cosmere?Brandon Sanderson
Yes. it is a universal process. People don’t always hang out as long, depending on their investiture.Question
Is the God Beyond related to “the Beyond” spoken about?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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Harmony says the Beyond is a place he can’t reach, is that true for all shards or?...Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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Alterodent
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?Brandon Sanderson
Alterodent
Assuming they live to be 70 or 75.Brandon Sanderson
They could get pretty far.Alterodent
What would the savantism do to them?Brandon Sanderson
The savantism would probably allow them to get further… It’s completely reasonable… you can treat this like relativistic travel.Tags
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Kurkistan
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?Brandon Sanderson
It is more controllable than I have generally shown in the books.Kurkistan
And does the size correspond inversely to the strength?Brandon Sanderson
No.Tags
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Kurkistan
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...Brandon Sanderson
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?Kurkistan
Yeah.Brandon Sanderson
But it does not have "momentum" the same as the thing? So it would probably be in the bubble for a short time.Kurkistan
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?Brandon Sanderson
Kurkistan
So the bubble thinks the cork is travelling like 60mph North, the cork thinks it's not moving at all...Brandon Sanderson
Yeah...Kurkistan
So does the cork move the opposite direction of the bubble or something?Brandon Sanderson
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.Footnote
>Result of PAFO: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/52790-calamity-tour-chicago-naperville/page-4?p=414459#entry414459Tags
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Kurkistan
How exactly does hemalurgic decay work for Feruchemy? Is it like a leaky tube or something, or…?Brandon Sanderson
Yeah… yeah. (Here misunderstanding and thinking that the question’s about the power of the Feruchemy itself, not storing/tapping metalminds)Kurkistan
So they try to store 10 units of health and only 9 gets through, or…?Brandon Sanderson
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?Kurkistan
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?Brandon Sanderson
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.Tags
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So, what is the actual Firefight, Megan’s opposite, what’s their weakness?Brandon Sanderson
I’m not going to tell you. That’s a RAFO.Tags
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If a Kandra and a human were to have a baby, what would that baby be like?Brandon Sanderson
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?Question
Yeah.Brandon Sanderson
Because when the kandra is in human form, they can identically recreate the bodily functions and things if they want to.Tags
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With Forgery and ChayShan, can anybody from that country do them?Brandon Sanderson
Forge? No.Tags
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With safehand culture, with one hand feminine, two hand masculine: is knitting considered masculine?Brandon Sanderson
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.Question
Okay. So, Dalinar can make baby socks.Brandon Sanderson
Yes, Dalinar can make baby socks and not feel- (we were walking away at this point, he stopped talking).Tags
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Have we seen the world mirrored by the Expanse of Broken Sky?Brandon Sanderson
(long grunting and contemplation) I’m not answering that, RAFOQuestion
What does First of the Sun look like on the Cognitive Realm? I think it’s a whole bunch of grubs, or worms.Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, c’mon you know I’m not gonna reveal Cognitive Realm on the other ones.Question
The Expanse of Vibrance… Nalthis?Brandon Sanderson
(more grunting) You would be making a good guess, if you said that. That’s an informed guess.Argent
That’s not an answer, keep pushing.Question
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?Brandon Sanderson
Ahh, no. Good question, but no.Tags
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