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Interviews: Calamity-Philadelphia, PA
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Date
Feb 20th, 2016
Location
Philadelphia, PA
TourCon
Calamity
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So for Calamity, like about these others that you mentioned, are we ever going to figure that out? Or--Brandon Sanderson
Oh yeah, so the next series I’m doing deals with the greater-- sort of interdimensional travel and who are these people.Question
Okay good, because I was like “You can’t leave me like this” at the very end. I really like how it was put together and stuff. My own theories were that David was, his powers were figuring out Epics’ weaknesses—Brandon Sanderson
I considered that, I really did. At the end of the day, when I brainstormed the trilogy I said you know what would be most fun for me in this series is to do a trilogy that is basically an origin story for a character and then when I come back to The Reckoners, if I do, because the next one’s a parallel dimension, right?Question
From where Firefight is? Or another--Brandon Sanderson
That-- We will get into why certain ones are stable and certain ones aren’t and why Megan can pull from and we’ll do something there with a new character. And if I come back, then Mizzy will be the main character in the sequel series.Question
Awesome, […] looking forward to more Mizzy.Brandon Sanderson
Does that make sense? That’s where the plan for this is, we’ll see how the new series goes, they’re announcing it next week. And the entirety of the magic system is based on interdimensional stuff.Question
Right, especially with Megan and her--Brandon Sanderson
Yep.Question
--multiple hundred personalities coming together and stuff.Brandon Sanderson
So it’s kind of like Megan has opened up this idea of a quantum multiverse, and now I’m going to do a quantum multiverse which is not something I can deal with in the cosmere so it’s exciting for me to be able to do it.Question
Yeah ‘cause the first one we see about the others I was like […] this is not the cosmere.Brandon Sanderson
Not cosmere. Going straight-up quantum multiverse, in kind of a classical sense. I’ve been doing a lot of reading on string theory and things. It’s so hard, string theory breaks my brain. Quantum mechanics break my brain, but they’re fun.Tags
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Question about ettmetal.Brandon Sanderson
FTL question, RAFO answer.Tags
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A question about writing, how do you write a story set in a misogynistic setting, without writing a misogynistic story.Brandon Sanderson
Admits looking back he could have had more female characters in Mistborn; Vin was awesome but the “one woman in the world”.Tags
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Legion series?Brandon Sanderson
There will only be one more Legion book.Tags
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Is one of the guys looking for Hoid at the Purelake Galladon from Elantris?Brandon Sanderson
Yes.Tags
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Squires?Brandon Sanderson
Bridge 4 are Kaladin’s Squires.Tags
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Favorite book of all times?Brandon Sanderson
Les Miserables.Tags
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Will people travel between worlds?Brandon Sanderson
Yes, spaceships. (Star wars, but like, magic. FTL RAFO)Tags
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White Sand?Brandon Sanderson
White Sand will be 3 graphic novels for the first book; if they go over well, maybe he’ll write more.Tags
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Graphic Audio?Brandon Sanderson
Hoping for Stormlight next.Tags
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Relationship between Skai and Aona?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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Have any other Shards been combined?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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If the Shards were split because Adonalsium is too dangerous to be in one place, why do they clump?Brandon Sanderson
Personalities, business associates.Tags
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Odium red Herring?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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Have we seen Vathi anywhere else?Brandon Sanderson
No.Tags
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Would Kokerlii disguise you from an Awakener’s Lifesense?Brandon Sanderson
Yes.Tags
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Is Drehy Terris?Brandon Sanderson
No, his descriptions are because Drehy is based on a friend, just an inside joke.Tags
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Where is Gretgyr, the first Wyrn’s sword?Brandon Sanderson
Enshrined in the Capital (he believes).Tags
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Can Seons be harmed by swords?Brandon Sanderson
No.Tags
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Can Seons communicate across planets?Brandon Sanderson
Cognitive realm are bounded by distance, spiritual realm is not. If you learn how Seons communicate, you’ll know.Tags
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What are the names of Hrathen’s and Wyrn’s Seons?Brandon Sanderson
No idea.Tags
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Did Theopolis turn into a shade?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO (just in case)Tags
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Parshendi heartbeat?Brandon Sanderson
Very similar to a human?Tags
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If a Cognitive Shadows travels to Threnody, does it automatically turn into a shade?Brandon Sanderson
No.Tags
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Are there animal shades?Brandon Sanderson
Yes.Question
How do you butcher venison?Brandon Sanderson
Apparently, carefully.Tags
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What are some common Aviar talents?Brandon Sanderson
They’re in the notes, he’d have to look it up. Aviar will be very useful for navigation.Footnote
(Astronavigation mayhaps?!?!?!?!!?!?!?!) (That mad speculation was from me, the transcriber, not the author.)Tags
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I think someone asks if it’s Hoid coming out of the Horneater pool.Brandon Sanderson
He’s never confirmed it but he’s strongly implied it. (I think he has confirmed it before, though). And then a lewd joke The Lopen would find hilarious.Tags
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Which Epic was most fun?Brandon Sanderson
Larcener, or Regalia.Tags
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Favorite series?Brandon Sanderson
Could sooner pick a favorite child.Tags
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Santhids and greatshells?Brandon Sanderson
No direct relationship between Santhids and Chasmfiends.Tags
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Dalinar's wife?Brandon Sanderson
Dalinar’s wife is gonna be revealed in the flashbacks.Tags
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Did the Knights Radiant create the Shattered Plains?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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Are there two groups of Skybreakers?Brandon Sanderson
No, only one.Tags
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Is Cultivation Shattered?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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Would Stormlight lanterns around a sick person heal them faster?Brandon Sanderson
Not any faster than sunlight.Tags
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Did Thunderclasts exist outside of Desolations?Brandon Sanderson
They typically didn’t, but could.Tags
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Will we see more godmetal alloys?Brandon Sanderson
Yes.Tags
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In earlier drafts, were the metals mostly the same?Brandon Sanderson
Yes.Tags
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Are the Ones Above, Southern Scadrians?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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Price of Breath.Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes, people don’t do what makes the most sense.Tags
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How do you decide which Shard goes to which Planet?Brandon Sanderson
He talks about his outline.Tags
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How fast can a Steelrunner run?Brandon Sanderson
There are hard limits.Tags
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Kandra names?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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Mistings got weaker since lerasium; will it continue to get weaker?Brandon Sanderson
They’re pretty much at the point where it’s as weak as it’s gonna get.Tags
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When did you decide to make a whole Cosmere?Brandon Sanderson
By the time he was first published.Tags
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How do you build names?Brandon Sanderson
Third of the time, makes up linguistics, third of the time steals a convention from something in Earth, a third of the time is like Reckoners where he just comes up with it.Tags
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Is White Sand gonna be canon?Brandon Sanderson
Yes.Tags
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Who would play Prof in a Steelheart movie?Brandon Sanderson
Hugh Jackman.Tags
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How did you come up with the powers of allomancy?Brandon Sanderson
I made a crew and thought, what powers would make them better?Tags
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He asked for the name of an “observed but un-named spren”Brandon Sanderson
There are none, they’ve all been named.Tags
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Lerasium question.Brandon Sanderson
Explains how you make people mistings.Tags
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What would it mean to compound tin?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO, because he wants to write it out and see how it looks on the page before committing.Tags
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In Bands of Mourning, was that Itaytil?Brandon Sanderson
No, good question.” Further clarification: Alloy books are happening after stormlight archive.Tags
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The Ire?Brandon Sanderson
The Ire have been around for a long time.Tags
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We’re told to worry about anyone pierced by metal, but we only see Ruin to affect people pierced by hemalurgic metal.Brandon Sanderson
Answer: Yes, you can’t TRUST anyone pierced by metal, because you don’t know if it’s safe or not.Tags
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Is the unknown spike Raysium?Brandon Sanderson
RAFO.Tags
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How do you channel Wayne?Brandon Sanderson
I wear his hat.Tags
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Do you want your books to be video games?Brandon Sanderson
Yes. (Looks like Birthright isn’t happening)Tags
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Elantris special edition?Brandon Sanderson
Second running of Leatherbound should be available in the next month.Tags
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Asked if things have changed now that he’s trying to tie his worlds together.Brandon Sanderson
No, they pretty much started connected.Tags
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Books?Brandon Sanderson
He recommends Name of the Wind.Tags
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Vasher?Brandon Sanderson
Yes, there will be more Vasher stuff.Tags
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Superpower?Brandon Sanderson
Flight.Tags
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more Reckoners?Brandon Sanderson
Yes.Tags
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Favorite book read?Brandon Sanderson
Dragonsbane.Tags
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Is there a correlation between Awakening steel (Questioner later clarifies that by this he means making Nightblood), and summoning a sprenblade (Brandon tries to get him to clarify, live or dead sprenblade, but I don’t think they ended up on exactly the same page).Brandon Sanderson
Someone should REALLY verbatim this one… the difference here is in one, you’re pouring Investiture into a physical object, in the other, something closer to pure Investiture is entering our realm and taking on a physical shape. Similar but different things. There is a correlation, but (trails off)Tags
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Can Nightblood receive a Boon and Curse from the Nightwatcher?Brandon Sanderson
She can try. I have no idea how that would turn out. I think he could take them (huh? Maybe someone go over this audio for me, I may have misheard)Tags
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Would Mat’s fox medallion prevent allomancy?Brandon Sanderson
It would prevent emotional allomancy, but not metals on his body.Tags
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How much of Newcago would a Coinshot have to eat to Push it?Brandon Sanderson
A lot.Tags
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Any plans to return to the world of Elantris?Brandon Sanderson
Someday.Tags
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Question about feruchemy and allomancy… what does it take to match allomantic pewter?Brandon Sanderson
He imagines that baseline pewter doubles strength, flaring triples. He wouldn’t imagine someone burning pewter and lifting a car. Hasn’t thought about speed and healing. He’s admitting he hasn’t canonized these things.Tags
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Does atium still do the same thing since Sazed has Ascended?Brandon Sanderson
Yes. If it didn’t, Marsh would be dead.Tags
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In real life, a man got an iron bar through his head and that changed his personality. Would that happen in the cosmere?Brandon Sanderson
Yes, like it would have happened in the real world. Unless the bar were a hemalurgic spike.Tags
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Are the Bands of Mourning as Invested as Nightblood?Brandon Sanderson
Not even close.Tags
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When a Shardholder dies, how is a new Vessel chosen?Brandon Sanderson
You should read Secret History, it talks about that.Tags
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Conflicts?Brandon Sanderson
Make conflict and setting important to the character. Making a religion that opposes something the character believes will make instant conflict.Tags
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Favorite food?Brandon Sanderson
Mac and Cheese.Tags
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Do you worry that you get too repetitious with words?Brandon Sanderson
Yes, he thinks all authors do. (I totally worry about this.)Tags
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How do you set a scene without describing for pages?Brandon Sanderson
One or two really powerful sentences, let the reader fill in the rest.Tags
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If you were gonna build a Cosmere Avengers, who would you have?Brandon Sanderson
He doesn’t wanna talk about this to pre-dispose people. He’d have answered if it weren’t being recorded. He’d want someone from every magic system. Would the name of the team be a spoiler? He says, “I haven’t thought about it.” Then he starts talking about the 17th Shard but stops because the guy thinks this is his answer to the question, it doesn’t seem like he really wanted to give that as the simple answer.Tags
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Would Secret Histories be on other planets?Brandon Sanderson
The next one will probably be on (Cannot tell if he says Scadrial or Nalthis).Tags