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Your search for the tag 'bendalloy' yielded 6 results

  • 1

    Interview: Oct 9th, 2015

    Question

    What happens if you burn atium at the same time as cadmium or bendalloy?

    Brandon Sanderson

    That would be really cool to see.

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  • 2

    Interview: Oct 9th, 2015

    Question

    If a Mistborn burned both cadmium and bendalloy, would the bubbles be exactly the same size?

    Brandon Sanderson

    That is an excellent question that I am not going to answer just yet.

    Question

    If they were the same size, would there still be a barrier between the area of normal time and the area of (maybe) distorted time?

    Brandon Sanderson

    RAFO. In general, cadmium bubbles are bigger, but you can influence the size.

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  • 3

    Interview: Aug 19th, 2015

    Shardlet

    You said previously that a slider's bubble is anchored to its position on Scadrial rather than on the slider's position or on the train (if the burner was on a train). If the slider was on a rock in space, would the bubble be anchored to a position relative to Scadrial, the rock or something else?

    Brandon Sanderson

    RAFO.

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  • 4

    Interview: Apr 23rd, 2016

    Question

    If you have a Slider who uses their power a lot, and I know bendalloy is very expensive, but do they need to live a fewer number of real-time years?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yeah, that will affect them.

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  • 5

    Interview: Jun 28th, 2016

    Question

    Could Bloody Tan burn bendalloy (because it mentions he steals a large shipment of bendalloy)?

    Brandon Sanderson

    *cautiously* ...which version of Bloody Tan? (If you've read Shadows of Self, then you know why Brandon was hesitant here)

    Question

    The "Alloy of Law" version, not later.

    Brandon Sanderson

    No, he didn't burn Bendalloy to pull the stunt with Lessie and the bullet or anything. He stole the bendalloy because its expensive and valuable.

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  • 6

    Interview: Dec 6th, 2016

    Question

    Speed bubbles-

    Brandon Sanderson

    Ehh these are the hardest ones...

    Question

    We’ve seen them work and move with trains, we’ve seen them not work with carriages: is there a size requirement, or is it how they view themselves…?

    Brandon Sanderson

    That’s a good question. So I build in this thing, right? I’m like “Oooh, speed bubbles! Speed bubbles are cool!” but the Delorean problem, right? You’re like “I’m going to go back in time: to the middle of SPACE”, because the planet is in the same position, right? This is stuff that science fiction writers have been having fun with since the silver age of science fiction. So I’m like “alright, I need to deal with the Delorean problem.” And so I’m like alright, we’re going to have to say that frame of reference is a big part of it: so perception and frame of reference is a big part of it; and also _size_ of the thing that you’re on. So it would be possible to use kind of cosmere cognitive training to get that speed bubble moving with you- and partially someone asked me a question about this on tour, I believe, so it would be in one of the reports—not this exact same thing, but “could they learn to move their speed bubble with them?”: and yes you can.

    Question

    So it is how the allomancer views it, not how the thing views itself?

    Brandon Sanderson

    That’s a _part_ of it. Partially how you view yourself, . It’s really also mass. Big things- The speed bubbles required all kinds of physics-gymnastics—I’m sorry physicists—but once you start playing with time the stuff you gotta’ do… just crazy stuff you gotta’ do.

    Question

    We actually sat down and worked out what the metric would have to do to have a speed bubble- it was gnarly

    Brandon Sanderson

    We did run the math on these things, and stuff like that. And Peter- he’s like “redshift” and stuff like this we talked about, and all kinds of fun stuff about speed bubbles that I then had to-

    Question

    Khriss asked about that?

    Brandon Sanderson

    Yeah. So- this one [presumably speed bubbles] and manipulating weight- those are the math ones where I’m just like-

    Question

    If you can get get massive _enough_ to move your speed bubbles- [Laughter]

    Brandon Sanderson

    So these are the ones where- they create the fun things to talk about, but they are where this is fantasy and not science fiction. A lot of these questions I could answer and you’d be like “alright, if there were this alternate power source we could buy this” but in this case we’re like exception-list of asterisks to make it work. But they’re too fun to not do, right? And I knew I was doing gravity on Stormlight, so I’m like I gotta do weight separately.

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