I spent countless hours looking on the Dragonsteel summary on a different computer that can take on the bus, a Mac. I wrote a lot and then Saturday morning I forgot to plug it in and it ran out of juice and died. When I restarted it all my work was gone. Poof. Deleted. I had saved it, but that computer doesn't have Word so I used Notebook instead, and saved it to notebook, and I thought that was fine but I guess it wasn't because it all got deleted. So now I have to re-do all that work, or call up Heather's brother Chris who knows a thing or two about computers and see if he can't help me hack into the computer and get it back. So no new Dragonsteel summary for you guys today.
Instead, here's some Questions and Answers with Brandon Sanderson which I consider to be really interesting. Enjoy.
Question #1:
Would aluminum give an atium shadow? Like if someone threw an aluminum spear?
BRANDON SANDERSON:
The aluminum would not give an atium shadow. Good question.
QUESTION #2:
Would a Hemalurgic spike take surges?
BRANDON SANDERSON:
Hemalurgy can interact with every one of the magics. I designed it specifically in writing Mistborn for future use. Because some of the magics are so limited by their planet I wanted one that transcended all of them and Hemalurgy is very important to the entire Cosmere. Its invention is a thing of great power and great danger to the entire Cosmere.
Questioner:
But, I mean, somebody couldn't just walk along with a metal spike on, say, Nalthis. Stab someone and have the power, right?
Brandon Sanderson:
If they knew where to stab them, yes they could.
Questioner:
Anywhere in the Cosmere?
Brandon Sanderson:
Yes.
Question #3:
Is anything magical going on with the screams Szeth hears?
Brandon Sanderson:
Uhhh, Szeth's screams. Uhhm, I'm trying to decide how to answer this. It is not, see here's the thing. What we would call magical may not be considered magical in the Cosmere, but it depends on your definition of magic. Would Szeth if he were on our planet and have done those things would he hear those screams, probably not, but would someone else in the Cosmere who had gone through what he had gone through hear those screams, yes.
Questioner:
So it has to do with the spiritual realm?
Brandon Sanderson:
Yea, mhmm, yea.
Question #4:
In Elantris it talks about how the wood and stone in the city is rotten and crumbling. Why does this happen?
Brandon Sanderson:
This is because when objects become Invested for long periods of time their Spiritweb changes to accommodate the investiture. When the investiture was pulled up off the stuff in Elantris its Spiritweb was severely damaged so it showed that in the physical realm. This happened with the Lord Ruler when the Bands of Mourning were ripped out of him.
Question #5:
Do all Shards have some sort of Shard-induced weakness, like how Ruin and Preservation can't see metal?
Brandon Sanderson:
Yes.
Question #6:
Why on earth does Marsh have a Feruchemical atium spike? You've said that Ironeyes is in fact Marsh. Did Ruin spike someone for him? Or did Sazed grant him the power?
Brandon Sanderson:
Dead inquisitors Vin killed. Some were granted the spike for reasons I haven't spoken of yet.
Question #7:
Don't know what the question was, but the answer is a cool look into Brandon's mind about how he writes his Cosmere books.
Brandon Sanderson:
So it is this weird balancing act that, as a writer, you have to perform, particularly with the longer books in the longer series, where you want to make sure they're engaging to the hardcore fan, but not overwhelming to the person who maybe hasn't reread the books since the last one came out. And I don't know that I have that balance figured out, but it is something I think about a lot...
Question #8:
When will we visit the Spiritual Realm like we have done the Cognitive Realm?
Brandon Sanderson:
Yes, you already have, briefly when Elend transcended and burned atium with duralumin.
Questioner:
Okay, so when Kelsier is in the-- Which Realm is he in?
Brandon Sanderson:
He’s in the Cognitive Realm.
Questioner:
Is he seeing people from other worlds or is he--
Brandon Sanderson:
No, he meets some people who are traveling but Cognitive Realm is location dependent. He is on the Cognitive Realm on Scadrial and the people he runs into there-- until he kind of travels off into space, which is where he finds the fortress.
Questioner:
So even though he’s tied to Scadrial could he go to the Cognitive Realm of other worlds?
Brandon Sanderson:
He would have trouble getting to another planet, being a Cognitive shadow like he was.
Questioner:
So is there some particular thing that somebody would need to have to be able to move between the realms?
Brandon Sanderson:
A body is helpful. Depends on what their ties are and things like that. Not always, but yeah.
Question #9:
So, the Spiritual Realm is not the Beyond?
Brandon Sanderson:
No, Spiritual Realm is not the Beyond.
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