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  • 1

    Interview: Aug 13th, 2014

    Jared Andersson (Goodreads)

    1. What's the schedule on when Reckoners parts 2 and 3 be released?
    2. What are your plans for the Mistborn universe? More specific, will there be a sequel to The Alloy of Law? Will there be Mistborn books taking place in a further future society, with respect to Alloy of Law?

    Brandon Sanderson

    1) Two is in January. Three hasn't been set yet. We'll see when I finish it.
    2) Yes, there will be a sequel, probably next fall. And yes, we will eventually go further into the future.

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  • 2

    Interview: Jan 17th, 2015

    Question

    What’s Mitosis? Is it available in print?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Novelette. They will reprint it. It’s too expensive now.

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  • 3

    Interview: Jan 17th, 2015

    Question

    Are you going to complete any series or just continue?

    Brandon Sanderson

    I will be completing stuff. The Reckoners will be finished fairly soon. I writing the last one right now.

    Question

    And new Mistborn?

    Brandon Sanderson

    And the new Mistborns. We are getting close to the end of that.

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  • 4

    Interview: Jan 17th, 2015

    Question

    What influenced your characters in Steelheart? Comic books? Specific ones?

    Brandon Sanderson

    I’ve read a lot of comics. Watchman influences everyone. Kingdom Come - one of first that really made me think about comics. The original Turtles. Graphic novels (self contained) like the Killing Joke.

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  • 5

    Interview: Jan 7th, 2015

    Question

    And my last one, Obliteration, the Epic, is based on an author.

    Brandon Sanderson

    He is based on an author. Q: It’s Jim Butcher, right? B: I couldn’t say if it were, with these handsome locks and wearing a trenchcoat, and the goatee. Q: It’s totally Jim Butcher. B: Well Jim Butcher doesn’t have hair like this anymore. He cut his hair.

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  • 6

    Interview: Jan 7th, 2015

    Squirenonny

    So my friend wanted me to ask you, after we both read Firefight, is there anything you can say about Instabam? Powers or anything.

    Brandon Sanderson

    See facetiously in my head I had Instabam have power over instant potatoes, but I’m probably not going to do that. But that is what I had in my head when I wrote that name. Yeah, instant potatoes “Poom” can cook food at the snap of fingers. I don’t know what their powers are. I didn’t work that out. You can say instant potatoes if you want.

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  • 7

    Interview: Jan 24th, 2015

    Question

    In /The Reckoners/, was there a particular power that I gave to someone because I just thought that power was cool.

    Brandon Sanderson

    And yeah, the tensors. They can turn things to dust. For years I’d been walking around looking at our society where we have all this metal and this wood around, and things like that. I just loved the idea of just being able to turn it to dust. Maybe it’s like a “reducing things to their more primal state” or whatever-- but anyway it was one of those magics that was in my head for a while. And really superheros are magic. I don’t pretend that they’re science fiction, they’re magic. So I just designed these magics that feel cool to me.

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  • 8

    Interview: Jan 24th, 2015

    Question

    In Firefight you said Obliteration-- he wasn’t an ordinary Epic, he was a force of nature. Why did you say that?

    Brandon Sanderson

    It was in David’s voice, and that is kind of how he views it. It’s not necessarily true, it is what he viewed.

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  • 9

    Interview: Jan 24th, 2015

    Question

    So Edward [sic], Conflux, [...] turn evil [...]

    Brandon Sanderson

    Well they think it is because Edmund is a Gifter and isn’t using his powers directly. That’s their philosophy on it. Whether that is true or not remains yet to be seen.

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  • 10

    Interview: Jan 24th, 2015

    Question

    And are there established trade routes between Epic-controlled areas? Are they patrolled by Epics?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes. Umm, yes to an extent. For the most part you know that if you hit an Epic’s trade caravan you’re all dead, y’know? So they don’t have to worry about it that much. But some are patrolled. Not by the Epics, but by their people.

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  • 11

    Interview: Feb 20th, 2015

    Question

    Where did you get the idea for the Reckoners series?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Where did I get the idea for writing the Reckoners series? I almost got in a car wreck. I was driving to a book signing and I was late and somebody cut me off in traffic. And it was like-- I had to slam on the brakes and things like that and I thought-- At that moment I’m like “You, person in front of me, are so lucky I don’t have superpowers, ‘cause if I did I would blow your car up right now. BOOM” It’s a great Michael Bay effect, like it explodes and I drive through the smoke. It was really awesome I remember it. And then I was immediately horrified, right? I’m like “Here I write all these books about people protecting the world with their powers and what would I do if I had them? I’d be blowing up people because they inconvenience me.” *laughter* And this is where the series came from, I thought about that the entire rest of the drive, which was about another hour. And I thought “What if-- What could we do if people just started manifesting superpowers and-- You couldn’t throw them in prison, or if you did they’d just break out. You couldn’t defeat them with the armies. What would the society do if there were legitimately superpowered individuals?” It’s kind of the same tactic that Watchmen took, if you’ve ever read that, but it kind of goes the other direction with “They are all evil, what do we do?” That was the origin and I wrote a whole book series about it.

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  • 12

    Interview: Feb 20th, 2015

    Question

    Why would you choose Chicago as a setting?

    Brandon Sanderson

    I grew up in Nebraska, Lincoln, and Chicago was the big city we would travel to. I liked that it was-- This is kind of going to sound weird but it was a big city full of mid-westerners. Like when I went to LA everyone talked and acted different, when I went to New York everyone talked and acted different, but in Chicago it-- they were kind of like a bunch of hokey mid-westerners had somehow built a big city? *laughter* If that makes any sense. So I have always had a fondness for Chicago. It’s like the big city of farmers or whatnot. I don’t know there’s just something about it, the being on the lake and the profile of it and things like that. And I’m a Batman fan and Gotham is Chicago. Chicago was my go-to when I was going to destroy a city in our world; I picked Chicago.

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  • 13

    Interview: Feb 20th, 2015

    Argent

    Since Chicago came up, will Atlanta have a special name as well?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Atlanta will have a special name, it’s now a theme of the books.

    Argent

    Because Peter said “Hotlanta” and people think he’s joking, like he usually does

    Brandon Sanderson

    I’m not going to ruin one of Peter’s jokes if it indeed is a joke. But I haven’t written the book yet so he hasn’t read-- I mean I’ve written parts of it but he hasn’t read anything of the book.

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  • 14

    Interview: Feb 20th, 2015

    Argent

    Since Chicago came up, will Atlanta have a special name as well?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Atlanta will have a special name, it’s now a theme of the books. Argent: Because Peter said “Hotlanta” and people think he’s joking, like he usually does. Brandon: I’m not going to ruin one of Peter’s jokes if it indeed is a joke. But I haven’t written the book yet so he hasn’t read-- I mean I’ve written parts of it but he hasn’t read anything of the book.

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  • 15

    Interview: Apr 16th, 2015

    mail-mi

    One about the Reckonersverse that I reported in the questions thread.

    Brandon Sanderson

    Night's whisper is a super powerful Epic on the west coast, and Obliteration could definitely be there for Oregon's destruction.

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  • 16

    Interview: May 22nd, 2015

    Vaidd

    I just got through the signing line. Since it was a mile long, I only asked about the Reckoners.

    Brandon Sanderson

    The ratio of Epics to normal folks is about 1 in 10,000. Brandon then clarified, without prompting, that was pre-Calamity population and the ratio is much higher now because so many normal people died. He then gave an example of Newcago, which has about 1000 Epics in a population of 250,000, so in that particular case the ratio is 1:250. (He didn't say, but I'd expect that to vary from place to place depending on the local politics.)

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  • 17

    Interview: Jul 1st, 2015

    Cognizantastic

    Did any countries not pass an equivalent of the Capitulation Act?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Some did, some didn't. For example, Canada didn't… and things didn't go very well for them.

    Question

    Were the areas where they didn't livable?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Well, livable is a broad definition. For some people, Newcago is livable.

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  • 18

    Interview: Feb 17th, 2016

    Question

    What happened with Abraham’s court marshal?

    Brandon Sanderson

    So, that is backstory that is also a RAFO. Why Abraham was there is not something that he likes to talk about. It’s not that he’s shy, but at the same time it’s not something that he easily talks about, so I will not talk about it. I will let him someday, perhaps, talk about it.

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  • 19

    Interview: Feb 17th, 2016

    Question

    With the changes that happened to all the cities in the Reckoners—like we know there was a big war in Portland—did you have anything specific that happened in Seattle?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Um…yes, but I don’t want to canonize any of that. I’ll save it for when I’m actually writing.

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  • 20

    Interview: Feb 17th, 2016

    Question

    What kind of Epic is Mizzy?

    Brandon Sanderson

    That is another thing I’m going to save. If I do a sequel trilogy—which I may or may not actually do after the next thing—Mizzy would be the protagonist.

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  • 21

    Interview: Feb 17th, 2016

    Question

    The alternate world that we see sometimes with Megan. Did Firefight and David know each other before David died?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Firefight knows of him. But he did not know him.

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  • 22

    Interview: Feb 17th, 2016

    Question

    With The Reckoners you had to make the decision not to put it into your cosmere cosmology, was that a difficult one?

    Brandon Sanderson

    It was not difficult once I realized I did not want Earth to be part of everything else.

    Question

    If it had been would [CalamityDavid? have been a Shard of Adonalsium?]

    Brandon Sanderson

    That’s an interesting question. Maybe.

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  • 23

    Interview: Feb 17th, 2016

    Question

    Megan and Steelheart, what was the nature of their relationship? How did they know each other, meet each other?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Employer and an employee. More like high-level employer and very competent contractor.

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  • 24

    Interview: Feb 25th, 2016

    Question

    Do we get to find out eventually where Calamity comes from?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Eventually, like the next trilogy I do will dig into that... You've got to remember, in the teen books I’m not going to dig into lore as much, they're written as action novels. So in the next series I'll get you some of your answers, but that's not what the point of these books-- like The Stormlight Archive, the point is the lore. In these books, the point is “have fun”. So you will, but it's going to take a little bit longer.

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  • 25

    Interview: Feb 25th, 2016

    Question

    Next Reckoners books?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Reckoners semi-sequel will involve a parallel dimension, if there’s a direct sequel trilogy, then Mizzy will be the protag.

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  • 26

    Interview: Feb 25th, 2016

    Question

    [on David's bad metaphors]

    Brandon Sanderson

    It came from me writing a bad metaphor on accident, and then being like, "I'm going to run with this and see where it goes." I like it [as a character quirk] for David because his personality is that he's a little overzealous about things, and so trying so hard on the metaphors is a great way to express that.

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  • 27

    Interview: Feb 25th, 2016

    Question

    How did Regalia establish contact with Calamity?

    Brandon Sanderson

    I think I’ll save that for the next series I am doing.

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  • 28

    Interview: Feb 22nd, 2016

    Question

    Reckoners books?

    Brandon Sanderson

    STEELHEART SEQUEL TRILOGY CONFIRMED - Alternate Dimension, dealing with the origin of Calamity.

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  • 29

    Interview: Feb 20th, 2016

    Question

    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.

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  • 30

    Interview: Feb 20th, 2016

    Question

    more Reckoners?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yes.

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  • 31

    Interview: Oct 13th, 2015

    Blaze1616

    Can you tell me anything about the downfall of Oregon?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Well, I've revealed before that Night's Sorrow was in Oregon during the destruction. Well, Night's Sorrow...Night's Sorrow is the one who destroyed Oregon.

    Footnote

    As someone who partakes in the What Happened In Oregon RP, this was an exciting answer.

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  • 32

    Interview: Dec 3rd, 2016

    Ted Herman

    Where did you get the name for David's crystal grower?

    Brandon Sanderson

    I named it to annoy Peter [Ahlstrom] since he didn't like the names for Dawnslight and Harmsway. (paraphrased)

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  • 33

    Interview: Dec 6th, 2016

    Question

    Did you come up with Prof’s powers prior to setting up the context to the story or--

    Brandon Sanderson

    That one was prior. [Turns it into a general question]

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