Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

This week on SpanReads, we are talking about the Characters & Relationships in Skyward! We talk about M-Bot, Cobb, Skyward Flight and Jorgen, and of course, ZEEN NIGHTSHADE. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Skyward episodes air August 31st to September 14th, Starsight from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the UK Skyward cover by Sam Green. 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 Arcanu

SpanReads, our reread show, returns! For 2023, in anticipation for Defiant's release, we are doing the Skyward series! We're doing three episodes on each book, and this one is Reactions & Retrospectives. Importantly, unlike our cosmere SpanReads, we need to compare with the rest of the series, so this does have full Skyward series spoilers, excluding Defiant, of course, because it isn't out yet. So, what did we think of Skyward on a reread? Stay tuned to find out. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). Need a recap? Jessie has you covered, and her own channel, she did a full recap for Skyward: https://youtu.be/vfGZwEgoX9A SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Skyward episodes air August 31st to September 14th, Starsight from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the US Skywar

Welcome to a bonkers, off-the-rails Shardcast. We're talking Tress and Yumi. We're talking Midnight Essence and the nightmares. We're talking about smoke. Black smoke! Yes, that's what we are doing for over two hours. Can you guess where we go in this episode and how many bizarre terms we mention? Well... you'll find out! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), David (Windrunner), Evgeni (Argent), and Grace (thegatorgirl)! Thumbnail by Aliya Chen: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/standalones-cosmere/#secretproject3 Here are all the Annotations Brandon has done: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/brandon-sanderson-online-library/#annotations 00:00 Intro & Podcast Topic 2:54 Show and Tell 5:55 Black Smoke Before Secret Projects 23:58 Midnight Essence 41:39 Nightmares and the Father Machine 1:49:34 Red Smoke vs. Black Smoke 2:02:02 Shades 2:13:17 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:/

Brandon's back on Shardcast! In this episode we discuss all sorts of spoiler questions from The Lost Metal, Tress of the Emerald Sea, and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and other cosmere questions. Brandon is awesome as always and we really thank him for his time here! Enjoy, there are some very interesting new things here, like a title for Era 3 and... more dragons than you would expect. It's a shorter episode, but Brandon is super busy, so we hope you don't mind! On this episode we have Evgeni (Argent), Matt (Comatose), Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai), and of course the man himself, Brandon Sanderson. Also featuring Producer Cognitive Shadow Eric and Brandon roasting him. But Brandon roasts Evgeni as well, so that's good too. 00:00 Intro & Spoiler Policy 1:55 How Are You? Mini Stormlight Update 3:43 Spoilery Questions, Marasi and Ghostbloods 9:50 Yumi Questions 23:09 Tress Things & Aethers 27:13 Dragons 32:36 Assorted Other Questions 42:37 Lightning Round 48:40 Misc. Things, Spoiler Streams and AI Art If y

It's time to talk about Secret Project 3: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. It's a Brandon cosmere romance book, and how did he do? Listen on to find out. This episode, we have Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), Joshua (jofwu), Ala (Rasarr), and Veronica (Cheyenne)! Buy the Yumi art here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/chenalii/ Mythwalker sample chapters: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-prime-mythwalker-prologue/ Dragonsteel Prime sample chapters: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/dragonsteel-prime-chapter-25-bridge-four-1/ 00:00 Introductions 2:22 Spoiler-free reactions 10:44 Spoilers 22:31 The ending 39:27 Artwork 46:06 Characters 1:47:48 Cosmere stuff 2:17:07 Final thoughts 2:24:08 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

The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Project 2) is now out to everyone in bookstores (as of June 27th), so with that and because of some scheduling issues in April, we thought we'd do it now! What did we think about the noncosmere Secret Project? Stay tuned to find out! This episode, we have Ian (Weiry), Shannon (Grey), and Kadie (Aon Ene)! Next episode will be Secret Project 3 Reactions, coming July 16th. That one comes out tomorrow! 00:00 Introductions 1:11 Initial Spoiler-free Thoughts 7:19 Spoiler Thoughts: Likes 22:48 Dislikes 24:02 CW: Suicidal ideation 41:13 More Dislikes 44:31 Ryan and Jenn 53:35 Ahura Mazda 58:22 John and Sefawynn 1:06:26 Final Things 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 W

Ship It or Rip It returns after a very long hiatus, this time with characters up through Tress of the Emerald, Lost Metal, and Rhythm of War. Our cast today includes Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), Matt (Comatose), Grace (thegatorgirl), and Shannon (Grey)! Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 4:46 MeLaan and Charlie 13:52 Shallan & Sadeas 28:51 Khriss & Ranette 42:42 Wayne & Ruin 54:57 Allriane & Rushu 1:07:10 Spook & Cultivation 1:21:44 Galladon & Frost 1:39:47 Jasnah & The Sorceress 1:56:06 Raboniel & Teft 2:11:35 Blushweaver & Allik 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/sou

Today on our occasionally-running show where we talk about non-Brandon Sanderson stuff, we are talking about Shadow & Bone season 2! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Lucy (Empress), Verónica (Cheyenne Sedai). 00:00 Intros / What Grisha Order are You 5:09 Show and Tell 16:02 What We've Read/Watched 26:08 Season 1 Thoughts 30:45 Season 2 (Show only) 1:17:21 Full Book Spoilers If you're here from the Grishaverse fandom, we're 17th Shard, and we do Brandon Sanderson content and occasionally other stuff like this. 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 Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss

In this very special episode of Shardcast, we interview Isaac Stewart, VP of Creative Development at Dragonsteel! We talk about all the projects he has been or is currently working on, including his very own Cosmere novel! From our regular cast, we have Evgeni (Argent), Marvin (Paleo), and Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai). 00:00:00 Introductions 00:00:45 Isaac’s Role 00:04:45 White Sand Omnibus 00:18:50 The Arcanist/Darkside story 00:22:35 Graphic Novels at Dragonsteel 00:25:15 Boatload of Mummies 00:32:35 Maps in Secret Projects 00:37:25 Most Exciting Item in a YotS Box 00:40:25 Minis Kickstarter & Stormlight RPG 00:47:05 Working with a Team at Dragonsteel 00:50:55 Stormlight 5 Concept Art 00:53:50 Art Book 00:55:10 Hoid Story Picture Book 00:57:00 Evgeni’s Merch Idea 00:57:55 Any Personal Projects? 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 Di

This is it, it's our final Word of Brandon episode for solidly like a month. This episode covers the final bit of the December Spoiler Stream, and then we talk about the Tress Spoiler Stream. This episode, we have Eric (Chaos), Evgeni (Argent), Shannon (Grey), Marvin (Paleo), and Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai). Dragonsteel Prime Bridge Four Sequence: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/dragonsteel-prime-chapter-25-bridge-four-1/ 00:00 Intro 1:30 Evgeni's week 11:16 News 14:05 The Last Bit of Spoiler Stream WoBs 43:19 Tress Wobs 1:38:55 WTCC 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/us

We're back! There's still more WoBs! Jaddeth is Autonomy, maybe? Tons of Elantris and Lost Metal stuff here, as well as Hoid and Bloody Tan stuff! We have Eric (Chaos), David (Windrunner), Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai), and Kendra (little wilson). Our 2022 Art Commissions: https://www.17thshard.com/news/features/a-year-of-art-commissions-2022-edition-r954/ Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 2:14 Newsy and Lots of Show & Tell 14:11 Words of Brandon 2:04:53 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 T

On today's episode, we are finally finishing up WoBs, except for the Tress stream from yesterday. We talk about Navani's past, Jasnah and Hoid, storms blowing leeward, intense ship names discussion (I didn't expect this today!), and cosmere hell. This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Evgeni (Argent), Marvin (Paleo), and Kadie (Aon Ene)! You can find these WoBs and more at Arcanum: https://tinyurl.com/4rfvjaw5 Thumbnail image by Elisgardor: https://www.instagram.com/p/CVRAzR_qB7C/ 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 T

It's time for more Words of Brandon from Dragonsteel, and we start on December's spoiler stream! This one is even more unhinged and philosophical than the last one. We talk about brontosauruses (brontosauri?), bugs, bones, piles of cash, and of course, what is a soul, anyway? This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Evgeni (Argent), Marvin (Paleo), and Kadie (Aon Ene)! Please note we will not be having an episode two weeks from now on March 26th, because Eric is getting married. We will have more WoBs April 1st or 2nd. 00:00 Intro 7:06 Dragonsteel WoBs 1:23:56 Youtube Spoiler Stream wobs 1:53:21 Stormlight 5 Prologue Spoilers 2:07:39 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

It's been ages since we've done Words of Brandon, and boy there's a ton to catch up on. We start with some miscellaneous events, then get to Dragonsteel 2022 ones. Expect two more WoB episodes as well! This episode is peak unhinged Shardcast, and I love it. This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Alyx (Feather), Evgeni (Argent), and Marvin (Paleo)! All WoBs discussed this episode: https://wob.coppermind.net/collections/1151/ Shire Post Mint: https://www.shirepost.com/collections/mistborn (These are their previous coin sets, the new ones Argent showed off don't have listings yet) The Traveler: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/332-jordancon-2018/#e9518 00:00 Introductions 3:31 Show & Tell: Shire Post Mint 12:10 Misc. WoBs 30:45 Dragonsteel 2022 WoBs 1:24:37 Alyx Dying 1:42:32 Moar DSX WoBs 2:34:06 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

The White Sand Omnibus is here, and so it's time for another episode of Shardcast where we go into extensive detail on things. There's character stuff, lore stuff, talking about the Indiegogo failure, as well as astrophysics and complex cosmere stuff. Oh, and infesting sand! This is a very weird and extremely nerdy episode, even for us. We have Eric (Chaos), David (Windrunner), Evgeni (Argent), and Joshua (jofwu)! If you want to buy White Sand Omnibus, you can here: https://www.dynamite.com/htmlfiles/viewProduct.html?PRO=C132295 Our previous Volume 1 show: https://youtu.be/L59oE3-IMTA Our previous Volume 2 show: https://youtu.be/lnrlp3OFW2w Our previous Volume 3 show: https://youtu.be/ZFyh_w-Q5UM Astronomy Ars Arcanum page: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/brandon-sanderson-s-white-sand-graphic-novel#/updates/9 Peter's comment on Dynamite: https://www.reddit.com/r/brandonsanderson/comments/vd1hxn/white_sand_omnibus_update_first_run_not_expected/ici6bac/?context=3 Chapters: 00:00 Intro and News 4:22 What

It's time we talk about aethers, the last big cosmere magic system! Or is this actually an MCU podcast? A Pinnochio podcast? Maybe it's an ecology and physics podcast. Surprise, it's red spikes all the way down. This episode is both very on the rails and also totally not. Spoilers for Lost Metal and Tress of the Emerald Sea. This episode we have Eric (Chaos), David (Windrunner on the forums), Evgeni (Argent), Ala (Rasarr), and Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai)! Aether of Night requests thread is here (please note this is a manual process and it will be sent to you in the order of weeks): https://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/60219-aether-of-night-manuscript-requests/?page=1 Incredible thumbnail by Caio Santos: https://twitter.com/BlackSalander/status/1617230159563870208 00:00 Introduction 01:42 Show & Tell, Hoid Box 9:01 What is an Aether? 13:40 Meta history, Aether of Night 29:42 Canonical References 33:49 Strains of Aethers 59:05 Ecology 1:15:30 Prime vs. Primal Aethers 1:19:25 Types of Aethers (Canonically

Secret Project 1 is here, and it's Tress of the Emerald Sea! What did we think of it? Turns out it's reeeeeally good! Watch on for our reactions, some complaining, some lore, and randomly, Rithmatist and White Sand thoughts? Oh yeah, things are wild. This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Grace (thegatorgirl), Evgeni (Argent), Jessie (Lady Lameness), and Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai)! 00:00 Introductions 2:20 Spoiler-free reactions 7:47 Spoilery initial reactions 29:51 Art 50:34 Likes and Dislikes 1:04:06 Characters 1:36:40 Xisis 1:46:42 Midnight Essence and some aether stuff 2:02:20 Audience and Final Thoughts 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

Here's our Shardcast on the State of the Sanderson 2022. This was streamed live on our YouTube channel, so this is unedited, but hopefully you enjoy! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), and Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai)! Read the State of the Sanderson blog post here: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/state-of-the-sanderson-2022/ 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 our longest episode ever! If you've read Lost Metal, you know what this episode is about, and there's so so much to discuss. In fact, believe it or not, we probably easily could have talked for two more hours at least on it. In this one, Alyx is a mind-reader and says Realmatic things! We also get talking about the Fused. This episode has Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), David (Windrunner), Evgeni (Argent), Jessie (Lady Lameness). Mistborn playing cards can be purchased here: https://www.dragonsteelbooks.com/collections/featured-products/products/wax-and-wayne-playing-card-deck Silhouette in the thumbnail is by Botanica: https://botanicaxu.tumblr.com/post/688478334502551552/saw-the-cover-of-secret-history-hardcover-book-and 00:00 Introductions 2:48 Show & Tell 6:21 Alyx on Kelsier (Lost Metal Edition) 11:20 Kelsier's personality / morals 45:54 Cognitive Shadows 57:29 Kelsier Kandra & Looking at Playing cards 1:13:35 Kelsier not having powers, the Bands, Kelsier and medallions 1:37:20 Rosharan Ghostblo

We discuss the origins and motivations of offworlders that show up in latest Mistborn book! Besides the obvious Lost Metal spoilers, there's a lot of cosmere references in this one! Our cast today is Eric (Chaos), Evgeni (Argent), Grace (GatorGirl), Jessie (LadyLameness), and Marvin (Paleo)! We're back to weekly podcasts for a bit, at least through December. Thumbnail is by Botanica Xu: https://www.tumblr.com/botanicaxu/702151767076552704/tried-my-hand-on-some-ghostblood-agents-love-all 00:00:00 200th Episode! 00:01:00 Introductions 00:03:55 Show & Tell 00:08:40 Overview 00:11:00 Tenets 00:16:00 Moonlight 01:05:43 TwinSoul 01:30:30 Codenames are stupid 01:41:00 Dlavil 01:48:40 Potential Skybreaker? 01:53:30 Darkwater 01:56:30 Comparison with Roshar 02:07:40 Timeline 02:22:15 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