Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

It's time to wrap up Words of Brandon for a while! This episode we are covering the most recent spoiler stream in December 2021 and there was a lot of fun stuff here! Also, oh boy, we are loopy after five hours of recording these back-to-back. Enjoy! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), and Kadie (Ene)! We are going back to every other week, so our next release will be March 12th or 13th. Spoiler stream: https://youtu.be/7tKlnk7hNSw The Arcanum collection with the WoBs we talked about: https://wob.coppermind.net/collections/996/ 00:00 Introductions 1:15 Did Harmony recreate things incorrectly? 4:39 Hoid and spikes 6:00 Containing late stage timeline stuff 8:34 Spren society and Nale killing proto-Radiants 10:01 Glys and Tumi's names based off their pre-Enlightenment names? 11:34 Whimsy's planet 14:09 Nightblood's definite different metal 17:45 What did TLR do all day? 22:32 Five Scholar Siblings 26:04 Taldain and gems and Radiants 31:13 Hoid's self-interst 33:55 Are dragons better at being a Shard? 35:14 What magic would Kelsier want? 37:28 Raysium interacting with anti-Voidlight 42:02 Bondsmith and Truthwatcher position on Radiant tables 46:46 What did singers do during Desolations? 49:15 Would Enlightened spren cause singers to have different forms? 50:01 What is a metal??? 58:24 Others the Stormfather gave visions to 59:54 Seons and rhythms 1:02:55 Magics not in published stories 1:04:17 Static vs. kinetic Investiture 1:17:17 Meathearts 1:19:37 Why does mateform have breasts? 1:21:36 Hoid noticing Rysn's Dawnshard 1:27:13 Others working for Khriss 1:27:39 Fainlife spread 1:29:55 Soulstamping to trick Investiture 1:32:26 People with more Fortune than others 1:35:21 Why did Ruin and Preservation create? 1:36:28 Marsh in Lost Metal 1:38:15 What does Leshwi think of Moash? 1:40:25 Design and Elhokar 1:41:59 Sliver being resistant to Harmony's control 1:43:10 Dawnshard etymology 1:45:31 Who's That Cosmere Character If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com

We haven't done Words of Brandon since July, and there's been a quite a lot to cover! This episode covers some random events, but also FanX in September and November's Dragonsteel Mini-Con. There's spicy stuff here: aethers, dragons, Lost Metal hints, Ian completely despairing... Enjoy! Next weekend we'll have part two where we primarily cover December's spoiler stream. This episode has Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), and Kadie (AonEne)! Words of Brandon we talk about this episode: https://wob.coppermind.net/collections/990/ You can get a copy of the original Aether of Night manuscript (that is uncanonical) on the 17th Shard forums: https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/60219-aether-of-night-manuscript-requests/?page=1 Dragonsteel Prime sample chapters: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/dragonsteel-prime-chapter-25-bridge-four-1/ 2:36 Aethers are really relevant to the future of the cosmere 6:39 Why do gemstones crack when Stormlight is drawn out of them quickly? 9:43 Would Plate perfectly fit on horses? 11:20 Hoid will learn he got hornswoggled in the beginning chapters of SA5 13:21 Are the Intents of all the Shards related to the individuals who were involved in the Shattering? 15:35 What are dragons like in the cosmere? 17:53 Jezrien's death broke the Oathpact 23:06 Does Nightblood view Investiture as evil? 24:48 Mistborn becoming Cognitive Shadows 27:42 Jasnah surviving in Shadesmar 32:12 Khriss on Roshar? 33:00 Shallan's timeline is intricate 34:14 Does Investiture exist without Connection? 41:32 COW SHADES MOOOOOOO 46:17 What question about the cosmere does Khriss most want answered? 47:31 Dustbringers have a lot of variety 49:31 Onto Mini-Con, and a note about paraphrased WoBs 50:54 Are the aethers native to multiple worlds? 54:17 Odium double-crossing Autonomy 1:01:30 Medallions without Hemalurgy 1:03:02 Is there more than 1 dragon amongst the Shards? 1:07:30 Hoid should not be a Rosharan Lightweaver 1:10:35 Are there other Surges that are also versions of Yolish magic? 1:13:06 Is Renarin the first Truthwatcher of his kind? 1:15:56 Are Soulburner and Starburner the same project? 1:17:54 God Metals are why metal is weird in the cosmere 1:20:19 Isaac's cosmere Nikki Savage story! 1:21:36 Kimmalyn is gay! 1:24:22 Could a Bondsmith bond a Shard to something? 1:27:07 Is Hoid's hair naturally white? 1:28:08 How many worldhoppers at Kelesina Shores' party? 1:29:41 Worldhopper in TLM from a culture inspired by India 1:31:03 Are Aimians descendants of humans and honorspren? 1:33:15 Could Shai make a stamp to make her temporarily a Mistborn with lerasium? 1:35:57 Are the Ghostbloods on Roshar the same organization as the Set on Scadrial? 1:36:52 Is splitting ettmetal like creation of anti-Light? 1:39:39 Taravangian now sees what the Diagram was an inferior version of 1:42:04 Is Harmony bound by Ruin and Preservation's deal? 1:44:23 Rivals to Hoid's power, aethers and dragons! 1:45:48 Can Wax talk to Harmony from another system via earring? 1:46:50 What lies attracted a Cryptic to Tien? 1:48:45 Leeching/nicrobursting Feruchemy 1:52:13 Kaladin's yellow eyes 1:55:18 Hemalurgy in Desolations 2:03:44 Dalinar Connecting Kaladin to Tien 2:07:17 Could Navani open a perpendicularity? 2:14:03 Spiritwebs out of raw Investiture 2:17:01 Are there other God Metals anyone can burn? 2:18:21 Is Vax a good place to get vaccines? 2:20:40 Who's That Cosmere Character If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com

Do you want an episode where we talk about just a SINGLE WoB? Yes, it's true, your dream--or nightmare--is here. This WoB had consumed many channels for weeks (including I think most of our staff channels) on Discord. There are such strong feelings that we needed a full episode to delve into it. Not only that, but also get insight into one of the most arcane pieces of lore in the cosmere, and it's kind of Eric's fault. This episode we have Eric (Chaos), David (Windrunner), Evgeni (Argent), Rosemary (Kaymyth), and Matt (Comatose)! The WoB: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/482/#e15299 Hero of Ages Spoiler Q&A: http://twg.17thshard.com/index.php?topic=6655.0 We'll be back in two weeks to do more WoBs from late 2021. 00:00 Introductions 2:03 Atium Basics 12:24 Weirdness and WoBs before the big one 38:44 The WoB 51:02 The Temporal Quadrant 59:14 The Swapping 1:17:47 Rosemary's Theory 1:25:04 Atium and Duralumin 1:34:10 Alloy-ception 1:44:19 Clunkiness and this in Feruchemy and Hemalurgy 1:59:46 More Talk on the Swap 2:04:58 Bronzepulses 2:13:45 Wrapping up? 2:26:08 Who's That Cosmere Character If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com

We are incredibly excited to have a special Shardcast where we got to talk to Janci Patterson, co-author of the Skyward Flight novellas: Sunreach, ReDawn, and Evershore! We talk to her about the process, Evershore, and a bit about future Skyward things she and Darci Cole will be working on after Defiant is out! She is completely lovely we had a blast chatting with her! This episode, we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Jess (LadyLameness), Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai), and of course, Janci Patterson, who is actually on our Discord (https://discord.gg/17thshard) as jancilynne! Janci puts out a ton of other books (she put out NINE books last year). Here are some of them! The Extra (romance): https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07QGMNKDM Godfire (epic fantasy): https://www.amazon.com/Godfire-Five-Lands-Saga-Book-ebook/dp/B08BTK38JT/ 00:00 Introductions and Show & Tell 5:19 Janci Introduction and Alcatraz 6 9:35 Skyward Flight Novellas 33:08 How Jorgen Got Janci Into Therapy 38:50 Romance 46:07 Revision Process 1:14:33 Future Skyward Things 1:25:04 More Evershore Ending Stuff 1:29:00 Kitsen and UrDail 1:33:15 Janci Writing Cosmere? (No) 1:39:39 Who's That Cytoverse Character 1:51:39 Outro If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com

Our preview show with Danielle and Marvin is back, this time talking about The Lost Metal, the fourth Mistborn Era 2 novel that comes out November 15th, 2022! Preview chapters have not begun yet, and we don't know when they will, but we do have an extremely spicy blurb/synopsis for the book, and that's what we're talking about today! Link to the blurb: https://www.tor.com/2021/12/06/book-announcements-the-lost-metal-a-mistborn-novel-from-brandon-sanderson/ A draft of Lost Metal's prologue is out (and apparently Brandon read chapters 1 and 2 at the November Mini-Con, but we don't have the audio for this yet), and you can read the prologue here: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/472/#e14863 The sweet Marasi thumbnail is by Dan Watson and will be in the Alloy leatherbound: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/q9Q0Gn The Waxillium background is also by Dan Watson and will be in the leatherbounds (and animated with permission by Marvin): https://www.instagram.com/p/CLH1UFYj0Vw/ If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com

Evershore, the third and final Skyward Flight novella, has been out since December 28th, and so we have to talk about it! Let's see how this concluded the novella story. It stars Jorgen, and it was a delight. This week we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Ala (Rasarr), and Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai)! Thumbnail image is the cover of Evershore by Charlie Bowater: https://www.instagram.com/p/CWd9XyDtsAg/ Chapters: 00:00 Introduction 3:06 Spoiler free 13:25 General Spoilery reactions 25:05 Jorgen 43:51 Cytonic+Evershore stuff 53:27 Arturo, Alanik, and Alien Cultures 1:15:13 More Cytonic spoilers 1:17:32 More Kitsen Culture 1:18:17 More Jorgen 1:25:32 Brief Defiant Thoughts 1:28:37 Minor Final Thoughts 1:41:41 Rankings the Novellas, Future Novellas 1:50:21 Who's That Cytoverse Character? If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com

Happy New Year and welcome to 2022. The Lost Metal is finally for realsies coming out this year, and that is so great to finally say. So let's continue talking about Mistborn and Era 2 by talking about one of its biggest mysteries: the Set and Trell! Oh, and Paalm. And a bunch of other cosmere things, like Svrakiss. We're all over the place, but hopefully you maybe know more on this subject now than you did before! Today we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), and David (Windrunner)! This happened in 2017, but here's our article showing off all the Shire Post Mint coins: https://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/shire-mints-mistborn-coins-are-awesome-and-heres-its-kickstarter-r337/ Chapters: 00:00 Introductions and Show & Tell 3:22 Spoiler Warning 4:20 What is the Set? 10:58 Motivations and Goals of the Set 34:05 Trell and Autonomy 55:58 Paalmcast 1:19:09 The Set Origins 1:30:31 Technology 1:39:33 Men of Red and Gold (Crack Theory Time) 1:51:14 Final Thoughts and Hemalurgy If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com

Brandon's State of Sanderson blog post is coming out (as stated on the spoiler stream) on the morning of December 20th. We thought it'd be fun to do our Shardcast on State of Sanderson live so we can interact with chat about this. You'll have to excuse the empty spaces and lack of WTCC clues on screen; I can't edit this video otherwise the chat will go away! On this episode, we had Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), and Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai)! Here's the link to the blog post: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2021/ If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com

Cytonic, the third Skyward novel, is out now, and now we are discussing everything in this episode of Shardcast! We start with some non-spoilery thoughts, and then we get deep into the weeds on what we think as well as talk about some lore topics too. What did you think of Cytonic? Put your comments below! This episode has Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Jessie (Lady Lameness), and Ala (Rasarr)! Eric's Non-spoiler Cytonic review: https://youtu.be/leggchPjUMk Jessie's Non-spoiler Cytonic review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wEWrCs_BkM Jessie's Spoiler Cytonic review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zX6AQS4l-Pk 00:00 Introductions 2:00 Non-spoiler thoughts 14:56 Spoilery thoughts 1:39:11 Brief RoW spoilers 1:41:04 Cytonic again 2:04:40 Who's That Cytoverse Character If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com

There's still so many Stormlight topics left to do (and such little time) but it's time to do a deep dive about Jasnah! We delve into her philosophy and a certain lesson, her "lunacy," and what happened with her in Rhythm of War! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), Ian (Weiry), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Evgeni (Argent), and Shannon (Grey). Brandon's Rhythm of War Chapter 17 Annotation on Jasnah's sexuality: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/jmwe4r/last_weeks_annotation/ Today's amazing thumbnail is by Grant Hansen: https://www.instagram.com/p/BTXpUsJlBpB/ 00:00 Introductions and Show & Tell 06:46:29 Jasnah 13:27 Personality, Philosophy, and the Lesson 1:05:50 "Lunacy" 1:32:17 Jasnah and Hoid; Jasnah's Sexuality 2:23:11 Wrapping up 2:25:54 Who's That Cosmere Character If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community on the 17th Shard Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss Send your Who's That Cosmere Characters to wtcc@17thshard.com