Theoryland of the Wheel of Time

JordanCon 6 - Cosmere questions

Did Ben or Isaac design the glyphs in The Stormlight Archive?

I did. So here's an interesting thing the-- [trolling] no I'm not going to tell you that. *lots of laughter* I think it would be a spoiler for Book 3. Bridge Four in Alethi, you guys ready? Vev Gesheh. Vev is the number four, Gesheh is bridge. When I design the glyphs, I always make sure I know how to say it in Alethi before I design the glyph.

Ben

Is there a reason for that?

Isaac

There is a reason for that.

Ben

Are you going to tell us what that reason is?

Isaac

Nope. The glyph writing system is just a-- You are supposed to be able to look at it and say "Hey that's-- That means bridge" but it could be elongated, it could be changed, it could be-- but the same shapes are in there and that means "bridge" or whatever else that is. The glyphs don't really relate to pronunciation. You learn them from seeing the glyph and knowing what the word is for that. But the people, the people who create the glyphs have a different process from those who read them. It can be somewhat difficult to draw the glyphs, we generally go through several iterations of different looks of things before we come up with something that we like.

glyphs, artwork, bridge four,

Chicago

I do have a question for you.

Yeah, you want the Ghostblood symbol. I think this is the one we settled on, but Isaac has final say on art things. So you might have the one that was the one before we settled on one.

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Shadows of Self-Oak Brook, IL

Is this how you envisioned Wax? [on the cover]

It's pretty close, yeah. [some time later] If there's one thing in the depictions of Wax that are a little wrong, I imagine him more swarthy. Darker coloring, just a bit. He's really kind of tannish. But I like how Ben got him to look kind of ugly, which is kind of Waxish. He's not horribly ugly, but he's not a model.

Wax, artwork,

Calamity-Austin

I think the UK covers are really cool.

Yeah, the UK has this thing - the US likes to have different cover artists for different series, the UK likes to have a single cover artist for an author. So there's kind of a different style and philosophy.

Brandon on artwork,

La Dimension Fantastique

Who is the woman on the "Voidbringer Chart" ?

Isaac did the art. It is just a pattern. She's no character in particular.

artwork,