Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

Here's our second Word of Brandon episode from JordanCon 2021! Here lay answers to critical questions like, if a tree falls in the Forests of Hell and no one is around to hear it, do the shades still get angry? And watch many questions from the general Q&A where people try to talk their away around spoilers in hilarious ways, like about a certain Scadrian's bones. Our cast today is Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Marvin (Paleo), and Rosemary (Kaymyth)! All Words of Brandon from JordanCon: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/472-jordancon-2021/ Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 2:43 Ralkalest vs. aluminum 4:37 Do Kelsier and Sazed still like each other? 7:02 Will Dalinar have a longer page count in Stormlight 5? 7:43 Did the Five Scholars go to Sel? 10:24 Dalinar's weird visions 14:48 Has Wit's bond bound him to Roshar more? 15:32 Dakhor monks 17:25 Is Roshar like Arelon, with something thematically broken? 19:09 Elantris sequel 20:21 Wax and Steris having children 22:36 Was there ever an Adolin and

Oh boy everyone, we have some spice for you today! At JordanCon we had both a reading from the Lost Metal (Wax and Wayne 4), which was its prologue, as well as one of the craziest Words of Brandon: Taln didn't break! Holy crap. Oh, and Marvin's meme game is on point this episode. This week we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Marvin (Paleo), and Rosemary (Kaymyth). Apologies for the late episode! The next one, which will be more WoBs, should be out Saturday, and we'll resume our once every two weeks schedule. You can find the transcribed Lost Metal reading here: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/472/#e14863 Here's an Arcanum collection of all the Words of Brandon: https://wob.coppermind.net/collections/875/ Amazing Navani and Raboniel cosplay by Galadriel and Callynah Coffeen (LittleGreyDragon and singmuse): https://twitter.com/CaylahCreations/status/1417135934613737476/photo/2 As always, you can skip to wherever you want using the chapters: 00:00 Introductions

We are extremely fortunate to have the amazing booktuber Merphy Napier (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FW6FYqPLeQIXMSulBfOLw/) on the show today! She just finished The Bands of Mourning for the first time, and so we thought hey, let's talk about Mistborn Era 2! What book is everyone's favorite, favorite characters, and more! The rest of us reread Era 2 and we have thoughts (and many more podcasts on Era 2 are coming). We have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Rosemary (Kaymyth), and of course, Merphy, and you can find her channel here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7FW6FYqPLeQIXMSulBfOLw/ She just did a Bands of Mourning review (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZFfbD4KAGg) and she's been recently doing an awesome series on Inside Publishing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKebN_9ykjo) which you should go check out! 00:00 Introductions 00:04:45 What did you think of Era 2? When to Read Secret History? 14:37 Shadows of Self 22:34 Favorite Era 2 books 35:20 Merphy on Bands of Mournin

In this episode of Shardcast, we go through the very light, chill topic of Shallan's past. Oh boy, there is so much to talk about, and so much more in Rhythm of War to ruminate on. Let's grind through and see if we can figure out what's going on here. Today We have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), David (Windrunner), Grace (thegatorgirl), Joshua (jofwu), and Jessie (Lady Lameness, who I still owe brownies to). 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://discordapp.com/invite/bMAUS5c 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 continuing on with Words of Brandon from the June spoiler stream, as well as the Dusty Wheel interview! There are some very interesting WoBs this time, one pretty crazy one involving TenSoon. We also talk about more Investiture time dilation and more! Rhythm of War spoilers on this one! This week we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), and Marvin 9Paleo)! Our next episode will be out 7/24, as we're moving back to our biweekly schedule. Here's our collection of all the Words of brandon in this episode: https://wob.coppermind.net/collections/807/ You can watch the full spoiler stream here: https://youtu.be/A67G4ObX7CM You can watch Matt of the Dusty Wheel interview Brandon here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxQYLUUMCxI 00:00 Introduction 2:40 Is Nightblood a Sliver now? 5:21 Eshonai's experience in mateform 7:05 Sel-phones 9:38 Mistborn burning Tanavastium 13:43 Singers having red teeth 14:52 Singer skin and hair patterns 18:55 Did Hoid burn bendalloy in RoW? 23:55 Odium in RoW, Te

There's less signings these days, but there are still a few things that have happened, like an excellent Cosmere.es interview, as well as another spoileriffic Brandon stream! There's a ton here, with one of Brandon's best reactions ever regarding blowing up the Selish Cognitive Realm (actually, a ton of Cognitive mumbo jumbo this time), as well as a definition on avatars! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), and Marvin (Paleo)! We'll continue Words of Brandon from the spoiler stream, as well as cover the recent Dusty Wheel interview, next week! Rebecca Jensen, Stormlight Playing Card Artist's Print Shop: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/rebeccasorge/ The Reckoners novellas are now a single novel, Lux, and it comes out July 22nd: https://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/lux-a-texas-reckoners-novel-cover-reveal-including-sample-chapter-and-releases-july-22nd-r726/ Cosmere.es Interview with Brandon: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuPjMDKnWM4, transcribed here: https://wob.copperm

Happy Pride Month everyone! This episode of Shardcast, we get very gay. We're talking about Queerness in the Cosmere, so we're talking about queer representation, examples, how Brandon has evolved over time and is putting in more representation. We also have some critiques and hopes for the future. So if you want to see the cosmere from a queer lens, this episode is for you! This week Jess (LadyLameness) has killed Eric and is hosting the podcast instead, and we have our token straight person, Alyx (Feather), as well as Matt (Comatose), Shannon (Grey), Ala (Rasarr), and Kadie (AonEne)! Here are a bunch of links for terminology: https://www.hrc.org/resources/glossary-of-terms https://pflag.org/glossary https://transstudent.org/gender/ Thumbnail image of Renarin and Rlain by the amazing rspixart: https://rspixart.tumblr.com/ Here's a link to Jemma Young, who made those Zelda pins: https://www.jemmayoung.com/ YouTube chapters: 00:00 Introductions and Show & Tell 7:49 Terminology Disclaimer 10:07 Consuming M

Today on Shardcast, we talk about an extremely nice, totally sane character: Ishar! He definitely did not have his hand in a lot of stuff, or cause many problems. And he certainly did nothing disturbing in Rhythm of War! Also, news, and limmericks in Who's That Cosmere Character! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Grace (thegatorgirl), Ben (Overlord Jebus), and Ala (Rasarr), who even though it was just three letters wrong, I still pronounced it wrong. Way to go, Eric. Thumbnail art is the Ishar endpaper from Oathbringer, by Dan Dos Santos: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/the-stormlight-archive-series/#OATHBRINGER News: Kelsier in Fortnite (though he's gone now): https://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/kelsier-in-fortnite-now-may-leave-tonight/ Skyward 3 title and cover reveal: https://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/skyward-3-title-and-release-date-skyward-novellas-warbreaker-giveaway-r718/ Brandon's spoiler stream was yesterday 6/3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A

Last time we talked about Moash in a meta sense, but let's dig a bit more into Moash, who now holds the title of He Who Quiets. But, of course, we also need to talk about Grace's villain crush, who used to hold that same title: El! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Alyx (Feather), and Grace (thegatorgirl)! Thank you to Alyx for editing this one while I was getting married this weekend. 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://discordapp.com/invite/bMAUS5c 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 week on Shardcast, we're talking about everyone's favorite character: Moash. Has any other character inspired such emotion throughout the fandom as that wayward-est member of Bridge Four? We're taking a deep dive into Moash's character, with plenty of hot takes on what role he serves in the narrative, where we think he might go after Rhythm of War (RoW spoiler warning!), the most important question: Should Moash be redeemed, or should he die very horribly in a very hot fire? Stay tuned to find out. We have Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), Ian (Weiry), Grace (Gatorgirl), Shannon (Grey), and Matt (Comatose). This episode was edited by the effervescent Alyx (Feather), despite what Eric might try to tell you in the recording! Do not believe his lies. 0:00:00 – Introductions 0:02:18 – Let’s Talk About Moash, Huh? 0:27:41 – Can/Should Moash be Redeemed? 1:07:00 – Moash and Structural Inequality 1:33:59 – What’s Going to Happen to Moash Next? 1:39:34 – Conclusions 1:42:41 – Who’s That Cosmere Character Our thu

Let's catch up on some Words of Brandon! In January, we did a Shardcast with Brandon, so we discuss what we learned from that, as well as getting through everything else that's happened in the first quarter of 2021! There's a bunch of things! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Grace (thegatorgirl), and Joshua (jofwu)! Thanks to Ben for editing this one! If you didn't see our episode with Brandon, check it out here: https://youtu.be/fZMuK8i0Wwg 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://discordapp.com/invite/bMAUS5c 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.r

So you've sent in a ton of Who's That Cosmere Characters, and we haven't done ANY from after Rhythm of War! We gotta go do that. So here we are, and we get through... fifteen characters. So we're really reducing the queue down a bunch, heh. Anyway, I hope you enjoy! This week we have Ben (Overlord Jebus), Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), David (Windrunner), Shannon (Grey), and Marvin (Paleo)! There's also some long outtakes from this episode of Ben flubbing up the intro and also talk about movies and horror on our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 1:49 WTCC Intro 4:12 Character 1 7:21 Character 2 11:16 Character 3 20:31 Character 4 27:35 Character 5 33:03 Character 6 38:43 Character 7 51:46 Character 8 1:05:55 Character 9 1:10:26 Character 10 1:15:08 Character 11 1:17:02 Character 12 1:22:50 Character 13 1:25:58 Character 14 1:28:00 Character 15 1:31:23 Outro For discussion, theories, games, and news, come to https://www.17thshard.com Come talk with us and the community

Switching off from cosmere things, let's talk about Skyward 3! It won't be called Nowhere, but we'll still make some jokes about it. There's plenty to discuss for what could possibly happen in this book, so check it out! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Shannon (Grey), and for the first time, Jessie (LadyLameness)! If you want to see our last episode on Skyward stuff, check out our Starsight Reactions podcast: https://youtu.be/N0wrSGZ0G_Y We also have some bonus content totally unrelated from the podcast, but there are Star Wars, MCU, and WandaVision talk that had nothing to do with this episode, and we cut it and put it on our Patreon. You can support us for as little as $1! 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://discordapp.com/invite/bMAUS5c Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermind.net

Last time, we talked about the Rhythm of War Part One epigraphs and the fabrials details there. This time we are going deep into the new things we've learned in Dawnshard and Rhythm of War, and boy. There is a lot. We get solidly into the weeds here on mechanics, aluminum, and the ancient fabrials. We have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Joshua (jofwu), Marvin (Paleo), and Rosemary (Kaymyth). 00:00 Introduction 3:57 Fabrials 6:10 Aluminum, Frame of Reference, and Spanreeds 27:39 More Aluminum: Tomor's Glove and Fourth Bridge 41:06 Force Multiplication 48:47 Ancient Fabrials 1:29:49 Suppression Fabrial 1:54:25 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://discordapp.com/invite/bMAUS5c Want to learn more about the cosmere and more? The Coppermind Wiki is where it's at: https://coppermi

Let's talk about fabrials! We sure learned a bunch about them in Rhythm of War, that's for sure. This is the first of two episodes on fabrials. In this one we're going through the Part One epigraphs, which really did have a ton of fabrial stuff. We'll continue this next time, but do note Shardcast will be back to every other week after this one. We have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry, and who lives by a jet plane known as his laptop's fan), Evgeni (Argent), Joshua (jofwu), Marvin (Paleo), and making a return from a long, long time ago is Rosemary (Kaymyth)! Timestamps: 00:00 Introductions 03:08 Fabrials Pre-RoW 9:51 Part One Epigraphs! 10:40 Ch 1 Epigraph 11:40 Ch 2 13:29 Ch 3 15:20 Ch 4 22:08 Ch 5 28:05 Ch 6 30:06 Ch 7 38:29 Ch 8 46:21 Ch 9 49:05 Ch 10 56:22 Ch 11 (and Ch 10) 1:11:21 Ch 12 1:14:44 Ch 13 1:21:12 Ch 14 1:22:06 Ch 15 1:30:27 Ch 16 and 17 1:35:45 Ch 18 1:40:37 Ch 19 1:43:53 Who's That Cosmere Character 1:50:54 Outro If you like our content, support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/17thshard

Last time we talked mechanics about Enlightened Truthwatchers, but now let's talk about some character dynamics with Renarin and Rlain! We discuss representation, hopes for the future, with some book five thoughts as well! We also talk about possible oaths and Shardplate some too. We have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Alyx (Feather), Grace (thegatorgirl), and Matt (Comatose). We also have Dalish who wanted to play Who's That Cosmere Character too. See our previous episode on the Enlightened Truthwatchers here: https://youtu.be/qQaq9PWj4v8 Excellent thumbnail art by rspixart: https://rspixart.tumblr.com/post/636832734069850112/dont-deny-it-rockim-still-the-strange-one 00:00 Introduction 1:37 Renarin & Rlain 1:31:37 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://discordapp.com/invite/bMAUS5c Want to learn more about the cos

This is one of two episodes we are doing on Renarin, Sja-anat, and Enlightened Truthwatchers! This episode focuses more on the mechanics side of things as to what's actually going on, and next episode we will dig into character relationships of these characters. We have Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Grace (thegatorgirl), and Matt (Comatose)! 00:00 Introduction and Nonsense 5:42 Sja-anat Enlightening Spren 31:00 Voidbinding and Renarin's powers 1:02:00 This is probably a different chapter I don't know 1:14:47 Rhythm of War 1:29:39 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://discordapp.com/invite/bMAUS5c 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.copper

This week we need no rails. We're going to talk about Surges and Surgebinding, and we sure go in the deep end here! Rhythm of War spoilers on this, for sure. We also talk about a lot of Herald stuff, and it's probably relevant! We have Eric (Chaos), David (Windrunner), Evgeni (Argent), and Ben (Overlord Jebus)! 00:00 Intro and Show-and-tell 4:55 What is Surgebinding? Do Fused Surgebind? 18:24 Reading from RoW Ch 31 23:12 The Fused as Surgebinders 31:04 The Surges and Honor Binding The Surges 40:30 What's the deal with Honor's Truest Surge? 48:47 Ishar Bound What Now? 59:30 Honor Restricting Surges 1:22:13 Nale Talking to Dalinar 1:31:05 Honorblades 1:35:17 Crack Theories and Tangents 1:46:45 Preservation's Allomancy Tinkering 1:53:15 Voidbinding I guess 1:59:44 Cultivation 2:09:16 Final Thoughts 2:14:27 Who's That Cosmere Character 2:26:03 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 C

We have an in-depth, meaty Shardcast for you this week, on the Lord of Scars. Big Rhythm of War and cosmere spoilers in this. Like really. Also, some of the things we discuss here were in the Brandon episode last week (https://youtu.be/fZMuK8i0Wwg), but hopefully you don't terribly mind. This week we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Alyx (Feather), and Matt (Comatose)! Thank you to Alyx for editing this. There were some pretty significant rendering issues this time. Thaidakar really didn't want this episode out, I suppose. 0:00:00 - Introduction 0:01:37 - Who is the Lord of Scars, exactly? 0:08:42 - The Body Issue 0:38:08 - Morality, Character in Context, and Feather has Complicated Feelings 1:09:13 - Short spoilers for The Prestige 1:10:29 - Cognitive Shadows and Intent 1:20:49 - Avatars 2:15:08 - Harmony and Southern Scadrial 2:26:05 - Relationship with Marsh 2:37:46 - Final Thoughts 2:44:52 - Who's That Cosmere Character 2:51:57 - Sign Off If you like our content, support us on Patreon:

Brandon Sanderson is on Shardcast! We're here to discuss some fandom stuff, and then we transition into full spoilers and Rhythm of War spoilers to talk about some big spoilers there. And yes, he DOES play Who's That Cosmere Character! Thank you for Brandon coming on and his publicist Adam for setting this up! This week we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Alyx (Feather), and of course, Brandon! The amazing meme of Magellan and Brandon is made by the absolutely wonderful Connor Chamberlain: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/kxdrud/originally_posted_to_crem_but_people_have_told_me 00:00 Intro and Non-spoilery Questions 25:27 RoW and Cosmere Full Spoilers 1:36:12 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://discordapp.com/invite/bMAUS5c Want to learn more about the cosmere and