Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

Secret Project 2 isn't cosmere, but join us for this very loopy episode where we discuss it anyway, along with news and Words of Brandon from the Secret Project 2 stream. This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Danielle (FelCandy), and Evgeni (Argent)! Don't worry, Secret Project 3 stuff is next week! Secret Project 2 Sample chapters: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/first-look-at-secret-project-2/ Secret Project Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KBKBd-peagE Brandon's Big FAQ: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/some-faqs-you-might-enjoy/ Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 1:24 News 11:33 Secret Project 2 summary 17:09 Secret Project 2 analysis 47:51 Words of Brandon 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 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/17thshard/

Remember how last week we said "oh if there are any good WoBs we'll put them at the beginning of Secret Project 2's episode"? Yeah, no, Brandon ruined that immediately by dropping huge lore bombs instantly in the Secret Project 1 stream, so we HAD to do a full episode on that. The first hour has some crazy stuff, so take a look! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Evgeni (Argent), Ala (Rasarr), Marvin (Paleo), and Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai)! Secret Project 1 Sample Chapters: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/first-look-at-secret-project-1/ Secret Project 1 Spoiler Stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQD2JKr3ljo Request Aether of Night here: https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/60219-aether-of-night-manuscript-requests/?page=1 Our collection of WoBs for this episode: https://wob.coppermind.net/collections/1047/ Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 4:07 Aether WoBs 48:15 Other WoBs 1:37:30 Next Month Shardcast Plans 1:40:26 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

This episode, we are delving into Brandon's reading of the first five chapters of Secret Project #1! We have Eric (Chaos), Grace (thegatorgirl), Ala (Rasarr), and Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai)! Next week we will be covering Brandon's spoiler stream on Secret Project #1 Read the Secret Project #1 Sample Chapters here: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/first-look-at-secret-project-1/ 00:00 Introductions and Very Important Cup Discussion 6:45 News and Brandon Comments 23:54 Secret Project 1 1:03:20 Aether of Night 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

Chapter 1 and 2 of the Lost Metal was read last November at the Dragonsteel Mini-Con, and was posted online in February. It took a bit to record this episode due to sickness and Brandon's recent bombshell, but enjoy! We don't know when future sample chapters will be coming out, but I imagine this will be our last Lost Previews for a while until sample chapters come in earnest. Brandon's reading of the chapters: https://youtu.be/FSMVG7agYjE Transcription of the reading: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/479/#e15385 Thumbnail image by clarainking: https://www.instagram.com/p/CBgMe0BDVAf/ 00:00 Introduction and Chapter 1 10:25 Chapter 2 21:14 Seeing how this connects with the greater plot 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're getting back to some previews for Lost Metal, this time covering Lost Metal's Prologue! We'll also be covering the reading of chapter 1 and 2 later this week, so even though this is a bit of a late one, we thought it'd be weird to not have Danielle and Marvin talk about the prologue as well! You can read the prologue, which Brandon read at JordanCon in July 2021, here: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/472/#e14863 Wayne image in the thumbnail by the amazing Elisgardor: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVtXd1-KEqC/ 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

We had to quickly put together a Shardcast in record time to discuss Brandon's video on March 1st. Make sure you check that out before watching this one (at https://youtu.be/6a-k6eaT-jQ ) because we go right into it. Our cast for this episode is Evgeni (Argent), Grace (thegatorgirl), and Marvin (Paleo), who really cruised through to record this in quickly! Brandon's video: https://youtu.be/6a-k6eaT-jQ Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/dragonsteel/surprise-four-secret-novels-by-brandon-sanderson 00:00 The Announcement 5:55 Kickstarter 12:15 Covers 18:42 Books 44:18 Recap and Closing 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

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