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Vorin men being illiterate is always funny but I think sanderson peaked when nan balat had to choose whether he wanted his love letters to be read by his 14 yearold sister or his barely older than him stepmom

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i think it would be funny for tattoo artists in stormlight archive to tattoo wrong words on men since they can’t read like give me a big bad soldier who thinks he got some alethi script saying freedom or strength but instead it just says chicken or something

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Vishal Pani: Why didn't Kaladin seek help from Zahel during the occupation of Urithiru?

Brandon Sanderson:

Zahel... At some point I'll tell you what he was doing, but he was not available. That is a RAFO.

It came up multiple times, and there were various points where I was going to delve into it, and it just was one of those things that I just could not fit in. It is a thing that I wanted to, because we have this foreshadowing that Zahel's there; like, we have a scene with him and Kaladin to remind everyone that Zahel's around. And then we don't even bring him up. Alpha readers asked about it, beta readers asked about it. I could not find time for it. So maybe you'll get a deleted scene that is not a deleted scene, that's just a scene that I eventually write, showing what he's doing. This is one of those things like: what happened with Elhokar and the Herdazians and why does Lopen think he's a king? That scene just never fit into the books either.

Maybe I'll do it, maybe I won't. It's entirely possible, both options are possible. If I eventually never do it, I'll talk about it, but we are gonna have a little more Zahel in an upcoming volume of the Stormlight Archive, where some of these things coming out might fit into the story, to the point that your answers will come in that volume. There's a lot of various moving parts on what's going on with Zahel, and with Azure as well, and their relationship to Nightblood that there's just not space in the Stormlight Archive to talk about.

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Merch Design: Cosmere Lore Series (rubber straps)

1st batch completed!

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artmeme request: Kelsier and Rashek role-swapped. AKA The Only Thing Worse Than An Immortal Lawful Evil Overlord Is An Immortal Chaotic Evil Overlord.

So, we’ve got Kelsier, born 1000ish years in the past, no powers. Joins the Hero of Ages as the lovable rogue and proceeds to be a filthy traitor because hey, who cares about THAT guy, i want the cool destiny stuff. Gets Mistborn powers from Lerasium, ascends, figures out Hemalurgy, gives himself Feruchemist powers too. Proceeds to be absolutely insufferable for the next 1000ish years, and oh yeah, take over the whole bloody world.

And then we’ve got Rashek, a very salty young Terrisman who finds out about the Keepers’ whole deal and promptly goes Screw That, Im Gonna Go Kill This Guy.

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Wow new-year gifts from my fellow cosmerenauts have finally arrived!

Look what I have: a trophy with "cosmere's best newbie in 2021" written on it, a cosmere style red envelope and a nightblood tape roll! I'm soooo honored that I can become a Knight Radiant right now, I think😇.

The Cosmerenauts is a group chat that I entered about half a year ago. As you can see, all members are Chinese travelers in the fantasy universe Cosmere created by Mr. Sanderson.

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hoid could tell anyone on roshar anything about himself and they’d believe him. it could be a complete lie - or even the truth - and nobody would question it.

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Questioner: So the Parshendi Rhythms. They talk a lot about them as like music. So do you imagine them as rhythms where-they-talk-like-this or is their a melodic quality to it?

Brandon Sanderson: That is what they're doing. There's not very much melodic quality to it. They set songs to the Rhythms.

The way I have it in the books, in my mind, and the canon, is there is Connection between them and the songs of Roshar. That they can pick up a Rhythm when there's actually not enough of it, even in a sentence, because of the intent of the Rhythm and what the other person's hearing.

So they can hear a Rhythm even if it's only a couple words being said, that you couldn't learn, if you were just a human listening. No matter how good you were. Some you wouldn't be able to pick up because there is not enough information there.

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So if you and your Thaylen friend got into a fight you’d pull their eyebrows out of behind their ears as a sign of disrespect?

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I get that whenever Kaladin wants to show that he's a shardbearer without revealing he's a radiant he makes Syl into a sword because that's the form people recognize, but how funny would it have been if he kept her a spear and was like “Hm? Where did I get the only Shardspear? Wouldn't you like to know <3”

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In light of Brandon Sanderson's Kickstarter raising over $41 million USD for the 4 secret novels he wrote, I'd like to remind everyone that if you ever hear "You have the same 24 hours in a day as Brandon Sanderson" as some sort of psuedo motivation, Brandon Sanderson has multiple assistants and his own company which employs over 30 people

Please do not compare your output to a man who has multiple assistants and his own company that employs over 30 people because you will come up short every time

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Kaladin:

«Honor is dead. But I’ll see what I can do.»

Adolin:

«Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn’t leave. We tried to stop him, but the man’s a prince. We can’t storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it.»

Kaladin may not be as well dressed as Adolin, and Adolin may need things (like wearing cologne and having hot baths) that Kaladin can definitely live without.

But their honor matches.

(Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance)

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one of my absolute fave lit crit takes online is that if someone dies and gets better then obviously theyre a christ figure. to be fair sometimes that's true but this line of thinking means i can say "noted christ figure, szeth son son vallano" with a straight face

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Modern day AU where people are happy and Syl is an actual person

> Shallan and Adolin are university students, and they are going out

> Shallan is doing Biology

> Adolin is doing Bussiness, but is thinking about changing his major

> Kaladin works at a coffee shop near their campus, and is the legal guardian of his little sister Syl

Of course they all meet. And of course the three idiots have to end up together

I may write this out sometime, or do a small comic story, or maybe it will just live in my brain.

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Halel (paraphrased): If I were to cut an Elantrian's head off, would it still live? Just the head, the body, both or perhaps neither of them?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased): The body would grow a new head, as most of the soul is in that part.

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(relevant WoB for those who missed it)