Casual Cosmere Fans React to Emberdark (New Sanderson Secret Novel)

[@_Squiggle_]

You meet the shade in secret history! Before he's a shade, though, and just the companion to Khriss! He's also the person who annotated all the maps in the book

[@NextChapterYT]

That’s what marty was telling me!! How cool. Love the tiny connections

[@Wrekonize-fh3pl]

No Warbreaker?! Read it NAOOOOO lol. But for reals, it was the "FIRST GO TO" for Brandon Recommendations to a first time book, until the secret projects came out. It is a great book

[@NextChapterYT]

😬 well that’s a pretty strong recommendation!! SOO many books on the list haha

[@brocolicosmique]

I second this ! Warbreaker is a very good book by itself, and since you already read the Stormlight Archive and the Secret Projets, you will be able to catch many connections with the Cosmere at large.

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

38:50 you're not wrong, just not factoring something in: Time. The longer someone holds a Shard, the more force the Shard exerts on that person's Will - or maybe the more that person's willpower is ground down, preventing them from resisting.

[@NextChapterYT]

Ah yes thats super interesting!! I want to learn a ton more about adonalsium… off to watch Captured in Words video on it again!! Haha

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

@@NextChapterYT I just realized that I missed a really obvious parallel to how a Shard affects the holder: Sunlit Man Nomads "Torment" from the Dawnshard is IMO conceptually similar to what an A-Shard does, though the Dawnshard seems to be much more direct and forceful.

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

Frost is mentioned in Stormlight in the Chapter Epigraphs, specifically he's one of the letter writers to Hoid. Emberdark was never MENTIONED in Stormlight, but if you read all of the little notations on the Shadesmar map(s) you can find it there

[@NextChapterYT]

Wow that’s quite the Easter egg!! I’ll have to take a look during the reread!

[@jaredpoulter6762]

Read Yumi. It relates to the conversation you were having at the end.

[@NextChapterYT]

No way! That makes me really excited to read that one. Can’t wait to get there!

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

17:28 Scadrians are of Ruin and of Preservation, so a lot of the time you see them destructivly (Ruin) pursuing their own self-Preservation. Cooperation may be a valid option, but not to them

[@NextChapterYT]

Makes sense to me!! We definitely agreed on that one

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

19:10 IMO, the Shardgun won't fire Shardbullets, but will either propel regular rounds or fire an energy blast. My reasoning for this is 2-fold: 1) Only the Shardblade itself has a Shardedge, the Shardplate does not seem to have that same capability, and as an individual a Radiant Spren cannot divide themselves to form bullets. 2) The Skybreaker loads a clip into the Shardgun. This clip may be some type of super-dense Investiture, or just a bunch of metal rounds, but the fact this needed to be done again suggests that Shardbullets won't be a thing.

[@NextChapterYT]

Darn. Would’ve been pretty darn cool!! Lots of interesting things coming in this secret project!!

[@troyharbpro]

I had not imagined Shardbullets burning people’s eyes out until now 😮 but it’s awesome

[@NextChapterYT]

😳😳 yeah would be absolutely nuts!

[@TryingExtraHard]

Note that it said he created the gun and then loaded something into it. I don't think Shardweapons can make bullets themselves, so it would unfortunately likely be a conventional bullet being fired from a gun that is made of Spren.

[@_Squiggle_]

I think it's more of an energy blaster type of gun, and I think the power pack the rosharan loads implies it shoots something that's not the spren

[@troyharbpro]

Yeah I was assuming it was just normal bullets or energy blasts at first, too. But now that I’ve imagined the burned-out eyes version of the blasts, I’m hoping Sando goes with “rule of cool” 😆

[@unclearmirror6013]

36:56 Brandon has 100% confirmed that cultivation is a dragon.

[@NextChapterYT]

Well that’s awesome!

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

29:00 for the ship to fly using Steelpushing wouldn't require the landing platform to be steel, only metal. Requiring the platform to be pure steel implies that the Scadrians are turning the PLATFORM into a Steelpusher, which in theory could let the locals use it to launch their own ships.

[@NextChapterYT]

Wow!! I loved that idea in Mistborn Era 2 but still learning more about the concepts!

[@_Squiggle_]

I think the radiant is a Skybreaker because they ask about the laws to see if they can shoot the other guy. I've also heard it theorized that the radiant is a singer because their voice is described as having an unnatural timbre (but not an accent).

[@NextChapterYT]

Ahhh that makes a ton of sense!! Fun fact from our Radiants test I got Skybreaker, so they’re hands-down the coolest order

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

Sixth of the Dusk is about 18,000 words, Emperor's Soul is around 32,000 (2x), Elantris/Mistborn 1.1 are each around 200,000(11x), and Words of Radiance is 400,000(22x)

[@NextChapterYT]

Wow I can’t believe how much Sanderson is writing

[@Wordhopper1990]

Marty, a bit more Yolen background, if you want: there are three sapient races on Yolen: humans, dragons, and Sho Del. The group of people who partook in the Shattering of Adonalsium had all three. Also, the AI discussion as it relates to art is a very interesting aspect to Yumi! Go read it!

[@NextChapterYT]

Interesting! I haven’t heard of the Sho Del, have we met them yet? And so cool! I am very excited to check out Yumi!!

[@Wordhopper1990]

@@NextChapterYT You have! MeLaan hangs out with one in The Lost Metal. Also, the vessel for the shard Ambition (shattered by Odium (and Mercy?) close to Threnody) was a Sho Del.

[@NextChapterYT]

Very cool!

[@Ms.Pronounced_Name]

We've seen LOTS of people travel to the spiritual realm, what we've never seen is someone return.

[@NextChapterYT]

😅 Fair point!!

[@daneantoine7143]

It would not surprise me if there is a war between Scadrial and Roshar ....Dosage would make sense to go up against Scadrial because an effect of stormlight archive events and no resolutions because of a broken oath pact the Rosharians are able to make technological advancement with fabrials so a shard gun vs allomancy would not surprise me in space age cosmere and we know Scadrial and Roshar has most of the world hoppers in the cosmere as my educated guess.

[@NextChapterYT]

That would be wild. Could do a whole book on that war and I’d love every page!

[@connorslocum9327]

👑Kings👑

[@NextChapterYT]

Glad you enjoyed the video!

[@aldan7812]

Bro.. read Warbreaker!!

[@NextChapterYT]

Wish granted! ;) keep an eye on the channel this coming Thursday!