Dragonsteel 2022 Spoiler Q&A

[@benchristenson2280]

Sanderson is such a good guy, he doesn't just tell you he won't answer your question He gives you a card as a keepsake that you asked a question that cant be answered and then everyone cheers as if you accomplished something ah to be half as cool as Sanderson

[@Cosmere_Considered]

There are some time stamp spoilers under here: 0:50 - RAFO explanation 2:40 - Is Whimsy the most dangerous shard 3:01 - Would knightblood consider investiture to be evil? 3:13 - Have we been introduced to any chromium Ferrings? 3:40 - after finishing Mistborn era 1 I was left with terribly sad but satisfied feelings; how are we to brace ourselves as we prepare for the ending of not just Wax & Wayne and the Lost Metal, but also the end of era 1 of Stormlight? 4:31 - if people starting viewing your worlds as donut shaped, would the Cognative world change as well? 4:56 - follow up question. 5:14 - PATTERN. If Wayne, the Lopen, and Vasher were all in the same room, who would Vasher punch first? 5:57 - can a shard hold onto the cognitive shadow of a person for later use? 6:50 - Dawnshards: are they more intent or a command? 7:25 - Kelsier was very clear in Secret History that his ties to the physical realm were completely severed. Are we to assume… 8:01 - “there are answers coming soon. I’m going to warn you; not a lot of answers, but SOME answers.” 8:21 - as an avid chicken watcher in my real life… I was curious if in the upcoming series we will see the inclusion of worldhoppers using more Avair? 9:19 - is there - or has there ever been - a Dawnshard hidden in a book? 10:18 - are the glyphs on Scadrial a breadcrumb? 11:12 - is the pattern of internal & external and pushing & pulling accurate for all the surges 11:51 - is Kelsier a good person? 12:39 - would Kelsier be able to return to the physical realm the same way Vasher did? 13:35 - *Delicate Question* Bendalloy… who will sh*t their pants? 14:50 - Did Hoid join the Worldsinger’s just to learn Roshar’s stories or…? 15:25 - (That’s me!) Is Tara, Kaladin’s flame, currently in Urithiru? 16:10 - when a shard splinters does it have an affect on the Cosmere that we’re not seeing? 17:21 - Who is the Life Brother in TWoK? 18:00 - What would happen if a pure tone interacted with a shard metal? 18:47 - Shard induced time dilation - *you should watch this one* 21:22 - we have some idea that Autonomy is fiddling around… has Autonomy directly interacted with Kelsier? What is her opinion of Kelsier? 22:38 - if one of the singers reached the 3rd heightening would one of them be able to sing the pure tones of Scadrial? 23:23 - are you telling a story of overcoming mental health issues or ongoing mental health problems? 26:23 - “Getting help is okay. Working on its okay. And society should maybe do a better job about understanding that.” 26:40 - sometimes Vin and Kelsier notice people bringing metals even with a copper cloud around? 27:45 - Magical Healing 29:33 - *ADOLIN’S EYEBROWS* 30:24 - in the future eras - Breaths seem like a very easily transportable form of investiture - Will they become a currency? 32:00 - Aonna and Sky, what are their pronouns? 32:48 - Kandra’s not being able to reproduce…? 35:22 - Aon Dor - can you use it to manipulate Connection? Would an Aon Dor user manipulate it like a Bondsmith? 37:06 - Hemalurgy: what happens when you use a spike on an Aviar? 39:52 - how much leeway do your translators have in making your books work in their languages? 41:56 - Breaths and Memories and Hoid and Odium 43:48 - can lift eat metal and produce Stormlight? 44:15 - is Teft, Dalinar, and Zahael we’re to play a game of Mario kart, how would they place? 44:45 - will we ever see a full Twinborn again? COULD THEY BECOME THE SUN GOD?! 46:33 - What hope is there for the poor people of Threnody? 48:25 - how do ferrings know how much they have stored in a metal mind? 48:55 - what is the cost of so many shards breaking the oath to not settle near each other? 49:53 - will we ever see the origin of storms explored? 51:03 - Hoid is collecting investiture like Pokémon cards, what will happen if someone uses all the investiture at once? 51:48 - will Wax ever meet a full Mistborn that we don’t already know about?

[@sethtye8059]

Thank you for your work 🫡🫡

[@TheAmyrlinSeat]

Thanks

[@KethusNadroev]

Delicate Question is 13:35

[@Cosmere_Considered]

@@KethusNadroev huh, I remember typing that out, must’ve accidentally deleted it. Thank you!

[@akamai8097]

Someone pin this man

[@sethtye8059]

Someone was burning a Cadmium Bubble around this video 😂

[@SkyDiving_StormTrooper]

Can someone explain why this was rafo with such vigor? Is there an implication here I missed?

[@sethtye8059]

@@SkyDiving_StormTrooper now sure which part you’re referring to

[@Cosmere_Considered]

@@SkyDiving_StormTrooperthe implication is that there is a cadmium bubble out up at the end of The Lost Metal by Marasi pouring her power into a cube and dropping it into the cognative realm. And we know that there is a 15 year time skip from Stormlight book 5 to Stormlight book 6.

[@ArtSnob101]

I assumed it was because it said dragon steel 2022 Q and A and this is the year 2023.

[@sethtye8059]

@@ArtSnob101 that’s what I was going for. I was joking that there must have been a cadmium bubble around this video, and that’s why it took almost a year to come out

[@MobBossBobRoss]

The great thing about Brando is how much info he will give, and how much teasing us along the right track for theorizing. But because of his legendary writing speed, we don't wait very long for some answers.

[@deeveegamer9681]

I mean, the guy went and wrote 4 books and apologized to us for keeping pace AND writing additional content. Great dude.

[@Beldizar]

"Will Wax ever meet a full Mistborn that we don’t already know about?" Oh that last question was perfect. His sly use of RAFO when Lost Metal was already written. It also sort of hinged weirdly on the word "meet". Does it count if you meet the person before they become a full mistborn, but don't see them afterwards?

[@joereeve2569]

Who are we talking about here? Totally can't remember

[@Beldizar]

@@joereeve2569 wish there were spoiler tags in youtube... but Wax becomes a full mistborn before the midpoint of Lost Metal, then Wayne becomes a full mistborn in the climax. So did he "meet" himself? Or does it count as meeting Wayne if Wayne became a mistborn after the last time they saw each other?

[@joereeve2569]

@@Beldizar thanks!

[@oscarandell5935]

4:20

[@Cosmere_Considered]

YES!!! ITS FINALLY HERE!!!! I GOT TO ASK A QUESTION AT THIS ONE

[@KyleOfTheNorth]

Why'd it take so long?

[@Cosmere_Considered]

@@KyleOfTheNorth I’ve no idea. Maybe the thought it was public but it was private? Legal problems? Secret projects keeping everyone really busy?

[@Arttano]

@@KyleOfTheNorth I vaguely remember someone saying somewhere there were recording issues. It seems they either found a backup recording, or cleaned up whatever problems they were having.

[@Krlytz]

Which question was yours? =)

[@Cosmere_Considered]

@@Krlytz I asked about Kal’s old flame Tara being in Urithiru

[@IPulse1337]

Thank you, Brandon, for giving me the best stories of my life.

[@KevinHorecka]

Man those folks had such great questions! So excited to get to go this year!

[@thekilluminati2011]

Brandon - You are Brent Michael - I am now Brent 2:17

[@planetzdr]

That Pattern impression was spot on!

[@theoriginalkimerli]

20:19 I honestly thought that would be a RAFO. So many creators let their fans do the heavy lifting but I guess Brando would operate on a different level

[@KatiePayneVlogs]

Dragonsteel 2023 hyyyypeeee!!

[@Talcor]

I hope we get a dan wells horror book about the planet with the shades some day

[@saintjimmy456]

7:42 when the question shocks the camera operator

[@maxriering]

please dont make me wait another year for this year's spoiler q&a

[@joereeve2569]

Ive read every cosmere novel and i have no clue what half these people are talking about lol

[@FreemanGames]

Seriously

[@beepbop6542]

There's a TON of lore that is revealed in Sanderson's Q&A, like in this one lol.

[@omegasupreme1912]

Same. Whimsy? A cat shard? I feel like I woulda noticed that.

[@subressor1]

Thanks for this! Been anticipating it for a while :)

[@avlost1784]

What is the other Investiture source that he would be easier at becoming a commodity? He said it was left as a note in The Lost Metal. Around the 31:40 mark...

[@patmac1940]

i think its aondor, easy to trasport but hard to get. i think moonlight said it was unkeyed aondor.

[@joshyaash]

@@patmac1940 Or possibly Aether, the spores from Tress's world. It's potentially dangerous to obtain like Brandon mentioned here. Also pretty easy, just add water!

[@DampeS8N]

He was definitely referring to Aethers. They were both in Tress and also Lost Metal.

[@Ekaret13]

@@DampeS8N It was more likely the Aon Dor as that appeared as investiture in a jar essentially while the aethers in Tress were slightly different than the aethers in The Lost Metal. The primal aethers as seen in The Lost Metal require a bond similar to a nahel bond with the source of the aether while the spores in Tress are separated from that and are loose forms. I also don't believe they are technically considered forms of investiture since the primal aethers either existed alongside Adonalsium or at the very least predate the shattering.

[@CHUCKLZLORD]

People have already said it, but it's the Dor. It's all in the Cognitive Realm, it's in no way keyed to any one place or magic system (All of the magic systems of Sel are locked to one place, but that's because of the massive amount of power in the Cognitive Realm. If you take straight from the source you wouldn't have that issue). The problem is that it's a maelstrom in the Cognitive as well. Trying to approach has a good chance of flaying you and ripping you apart. I'm fairly certain that the jars of Investiture that the Ghostbloods had in The Lost Metal are jars filled with the Dor.

[@omegasupreme1912]

45:09 I love these kinds of hypotheticals

[@xedden2]

Coming off the questions about disability and healing and identity: if someone has internalized a physical disability as a part of themselves enough, would that disability stay when they were healed because it's part of their internal identity?

[@TristanCzerwinski]

I think the disability would stay most likely, we've seen some examples of that. Edgedancers are said not to be able to heal injuries that are too old, probably because the injury has started to become ingrained in the person's identity. Another example is Kaladin, who can't heal his slave brands even when other Windrunners do. I think that has to do with how he views the brands. He seems convinced that he is broken and will never recover from the things that were done to him, at least until recently.

[@xedden2]

@@TristanCzerwinski call Jordan was the example I was thinking of, but it's been long enough since I've read that series that I couldn't remember if he did eventually heal them when he came to terms with things more

[@joseyerayalmeidaalmeida]

Glad to see you

[@PeteSudlow]

48:55 "Odium did get permission" !!🤯🤯

[@Artagars]

Yea this shocked me on multiple levels, biggest being why would you give him anything! BrandoSando threw that out to the crowd and knew what it would do to us!

[@BartasRapowanie]

41:56 thanks brandon, I think I now understand it even less

[@omegasupreme1912]

Whelp. I have learned I need to read Arcanum Unbounded STAT

[@kaladinstormblessed9626]

Incredible

[@neondemon5137]

Me 80% of this Q&A: 💀

[@callum7081]

What it sounds like to someone who’s only read stormlight: “when will glimglash from the glimglore region react to the blade of shlimshlam”

[@beepbop6542]

@@callum7081 When will Hulabaloo use THE DAWNSHARDS OMG I KNOW THAT to ahoivoioiau the Shards in order to ajnuvgb with the opjosh from planet jpohoiubsy?

[@festini4111]

8:21 is that Greg Street asking the Question??

[@Eureka-Films]

*____* i love him, and his books 🤭. I’m new in the cosmere universe. I finished mistborn: the final empire and now i’m reading the well of ascension ♥️

[@omegasupreme1912]

47:01 they manage to SURVIVE you say? 👀😶 *cough* Kelsier *cough*

[@hubrisnxs2013]

Dang! I thought this said 2023

[@lukecox6317]

From the future!

[@Priscellie]

We found Renarin!

[@ProfPyro]

First! Loved this Q&A

[@joshmccarty8800]

I find it weird people ever said kaladin overcoming his depression was unrealistic. There are several types of depression. It could be a ptsd event where dealing with that traumatic event say the death of your brother and friends may or may not have results. There is depression from the state of your life where making changes in your life and working on your self definitely can help and there is chemical imbalances which most likely can’t be fixed. By saying there’s nothing you can do you are the same thing as the person that assumes you absolutely can.

[@Giratile]

Sorry if i mistaken, this video wasn´t already uploaded before?

[@theoriginalkimerli]

44:07 that’s a great question but I can’t imagine her wanting to

[@SkyDiving_StormTrooper]

Okay somehow missed that part about the Singers. That has crazy implications. Okay so what if a Singer gets to that point but also has enougg/more Breaths to reach the 3rd/higher Heightenings? The become "closer to divinity" and such as you gain more Breath so would get even more out of it? Also, how does copper clouds fall into this? What if said Singer became a Mistborn? Would their abilities be amplified because of this? I mean they would have far more insight into all of this if they can simply experience the tones. We also know the tones are also similar to the pulses Seekers gets. Can such a Singer also naturally become a Seeker as well by training to experience allomantic pulses which have been stated to be smaller versions of the Well's pulses, which again were confrmed to be at least one of the "pure tones of Scadrial" in another WOB. So can all Singers, with training, be Seekers with just their natural abilities? Another WOB said Seekers could also detect others uses of magic other than those on that world. Could such a Singer train themselves to detect that as well? Do the Hues AND Harmonics from Nalthis relate to this. Hues is the colors for sure, but isn't harmonics a musical term? I never thought of this before. So is there a "true tone" for each of the colors? If so, and each that would be what, 7 tones on Nalthis? But don't each world have a true tone per Shard there? Didn't they state that during ROW? That Odium's tone was now a true tone of Roshar just as much as Honors or Cultivation's? If that line of reasoning is true, would that mean their are 7 (or however many tones there are to match the Hues) Shards or representation of Shards active there? One tone for each? And if so would that be a bunch of Endowment avatars or some from Autonomy or such. I know Vivenna's family pray to a diety Audri or something like that, and wasn't that confirmed to not be Endowment (could be an Avatar though)? Does any of that hold up or am I recalling some of these wrong?

[@tudornaconecinii3609]

I would guess that 1. all Singers with enough breath could effectively become Seekers, but not all Singers unenhanced, because there is a difference between being able to *distinguish* tones clearly and *perceive* tones if they're faint, and IIRC Singers basically only have the former. 2. a Singer that does this would probably still have smaller detection *range* than a true Seeker who is actually burning metals. I wouldn't expect Nalthis to have 7 true tones. My guess would be that all Endowment investiture has the same tones, and *maybe* an Endowment Avatar's investiture would have a different true tone than Endowment proper, but you don't get a different true tone purely off changing hue. I do remember being stated that Audri is not Endowment, but I don't remember being stated that Audri definitely *exists* . It is entirely possible, even in a fantasy setting, to have there be religions that are simply ontologically wrong.

[@smashify3491]

27:45 Hey I'm in this one

[@bikash5706]

What is AVR, that has been discussed quite a few times?

[@MyKingDodo]

Aviar are magic parrots from the white sand graphic novel.

[@zenthepoet.]

He said for two of my favorite people to procreate.. not gonna happen buddy 🥲

[@TheDiabeticGameMaster]

lol. That’s the same reaction I had. Also “Will Wax meet a full Mistborn that we haven’t met yet?” lol.

[@zenthepoet.]

@@TheDiabeticGameMaster giving us a feel of what a time traveler would be thinking lol

[@Unbounded_animations]

Is the fool in the Emperor’s soul hoid

[@MercuryManProduction]

Yes it is. There's a deleted scene where he and Shai have a chat on Brandon's website.

[@Unbounded_animations]

Thanks

[@EzaleaGraves]

Probably the only rafo where Brandon can give you a specific thing to go read for the finding out

[@TheCosmerenaut1]

Finally

[@zenthepoet.]

Adoooonalsium

[@TheAmyrlinSeat]

why does KZbin keep unsubscribing me from you?

[@zenthepoet.]

@@TheAmyrlinSeat me? Not a clue. I have it public so there's not a reason I can think of.

[@ChillBeans42]

rad

[@cosmerejunkie7931]

I’m so sad he shaved

[@thisisnancybot]

This is from last year.

[@matteosoldo]

Who in that room did not know about RAFO?😂 Still fun to re-hear the explanation

[@pillarmusic1641]

Damn he’s looking massive

[@SkyDiving_StormTrooper]

Is there a such thing as a question you don't RAFO Brandon? Jeeze, bro, the only questions people even bother waiting like this and such to get an answer to are always going to be good ones, or they wouldn't be bothered to go through this. Essentially, it just equates to sitting here watching commercials for 45 min and 15 min of almost okay substance. I used to be excited for "WOB" episodes or QA events like this but any more they just... well they're this. I don't think we'll ever go back to these being good the way I remember them. Just something changed along the way that has these not being as exciting as I remember from before. No, I don't mean spoil everything right now mwuahahah. Lol obviously. I don't know how to explain it. It's not like those old QA spoiled everything every question.

[@althechicken9597]

Blame the people asking the questions lmao. It would be objectively dumb to answer something that spoils a book that's not out yet. Edit: I can't believe you've been complaining about this for 9 months. wtf? We are lucky he answers questions in the first place. If rafos upset you stop watching these hahahaha.

[@Nathan-fb6zn]

I will say that there were almost no RAFOs at the Q&A in Tampa - I think one? Maybe two? Some really great stories.

[@Cosmere_Considered]

“Hey man, why won’t you spoil more of your intricate worldbuilding when we get to ask you questions, something almost know other authors do in large format?” Come on bro. Enjoy the journey.

[@TheAmyrlinSeat]

Honestly, it's just the fault of the people who asked the questions. If you ask a question that won't spoil a book, there's a good chance he'll answer it. Also, the fact that Brandon RAFO'ed something still reveals some info because of the fact that he wasn't willing to answer the question ALSO, Jordan RAFO'ed so much more that Brandon. And at least they answered any questions. A lot of authors on give us new info in the form of another release. ALSO, you get a RAFO card as a keepsake, which is really cool I know you're probably a troll, but come on. At least say something divisive. Literally nobody else agrees with this opinion.

[@TheAmyrlinSeat]

Pretty sure his recent interview on shardcast had 1, maybe 2 RAFOs

[@TheBrainFart2000]

2nd