Scadrial is the only planet in the system existing within the habitable zone. It has no moon. The planet itself has been moved twice in it’s existence, once by Rashek to be closer to the sun and once by Sazed to it’s original position. It is unknown if Khriss’ star charts are to scale for distance from other planets.
Beyond Scadrial lies two large gas giants designated Aagal Nod and Aagal Uch. Aagal Nod has six large moons and Aagal Uch has five. Aagal Uch also has a set of rings most likely composed of rock and ice. Beyond them lies a comet belt which separates the gas giants from two unnamed dwarf planets. It is unknown what sort of presence these planets and moons have on Shadesmar but they are most likely uninhabited.
greaterbookwyrm: What happens when you cut a kandra with a Shardblade?
Brandon Sanderson: So a kandra is going to react basically the same way, in that the Shardblade’s going to be hitting at the soul and severing it and things like that. They are not immune to Shardblades.
But because they have mutable shapes, there will be a little bit of weirdness involved in that.
You’ll get to see that happen eventually.
We’re always asking how the world hoppers are living way beyond their lifespans. What if the Scadrial world hoppers we’ve identified aren’t actually human?
“Doesn’t count. You became a disembodied voice that may or may not have actually been speaking into the mind of a young boy who was probably insane.”
“Yes,” Kelsier said, “but my series has a long way to go yet. Who knows what could happen? I’ve heard that some very remarkable things can happen with spikes …”
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“That won’t count as a victory,” Kelsier said. “Cage match, to the death, blah blah.”
“I’m certain they’ll make an exception.”
“I’ll file an appeal,” Kelsier said.
“You can’t–”
“You’ll find I’m good at doing the impossible,” Kelsier said. “It’s one of my specialties.”
“Too bad staying alive isn’t another of them.”
“Touché.”
“Does that word even make sense in-world?”
“Damned if I know,” Kelsier said.
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“Please,” Kelsier said. “I already saved the world. It only took me one book, I’ll add.”
“That’s funny, because from what I’ve heard, you left that ‘saved’ world in a fairly awful state. Your friends ended up doing all the work in the next few books; the only thing you did was provide a convenient skeleton.”
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“Oh please,” Moiraine said. “The guy writes thousand-page books in his sleep every night. It won’t take him long to write this.”
“Be that as it may,” Kelsier replied, “I think you underestimate my ability to make a complete nuisance of myself. I promise you, I can draw this out. Hell, I’ll bet I could turn this conversation of ours into at least a novella. Maybe a six-part epic.”
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“Do we have a deal? You return to the Last Battle, and I spend my postmortem retirement filling people with lots of holes–preferably of the type that bleed vigorously.”
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“Wait,” Kelsier said, hopping off the wall and grabbing Moiraine by the arm. “We forgot something.”
“And what, precisely, is that?”
“Fanservice,” Kelsier said, then dipped her low and leaned in for a kiss.
I nominate Dalinar as the horniest character in the cosmere.
What about Breeze and Allrianne?
One spends his half of their relationship feeling consistent guilt for the way he’s lusting over a young woman and the other consistently uses her Allomancy to make the other as horny for her as she is for him
There’s two types of favourite character: those who you love as part of their setting, whose dynamics with other characters pique your interest and keep you massively entertained, who you’d love to see in other stories to get more of them…
And then there’s the character who, as soon as you lay eyes on them, you’re consuming the story just for them, waiting for them to reappear again in a new scene because there’s something about them that’s got you hooked. Everything else about the story pales in comparison and if someone told you there was a sequel that didn’t star them, you wouldn’t even watch because their absence would make the story dull. These are the male and non-binary characters who fit that bill for me. I’m going to do another one of these for female characters as the archetype that hooks me is very different and hyper specific
Severus Snape from Harry Potter: I started reading Harry Potter when the series was only up to book 4. Snape hooked me from his first scene: why is someone so cruel, so nasty, so obviously evil, working under such a Good wizard as Dumbledore? It was obvious that Harry had read the situation RE Snape completely wrong and i wanted to know more about this clever evil man. Severus Snape was my gateway into fanfiction.net and for that I’ll never forgive him.
I haven’t read the series in a very long time because it went downhill so badly in those last books. I was so bitterly disappointed when it was revealed that Snape didn’t betray Voldemort until after Lily’s death warrant was signed. That completely killed his character for me; a nasty man with still just enough integrity to act as double agent playing both sides for years is an amazing character, an fascist incel is not.
Dilandau Albatou from The Vision of Escaflowne: This little shit is the reason I’ve been calling myself Dilly in fandom spaces since 2008. Spoiler: he likes to start fires. It was his voice that hooked me the first moment he spoke: Minami Takayama was forcing her voice down to a sly contralto, I couldn’t tell from his character design if he was a boy or a girl, and I was caught. He’s a delight, a vicious flamboyant unbalanced delight of a horrible little person who’s got some massive tragedies in his backstory.
The quality of Dilandau’s voice in the show is my sole determinor for whether I like an Escaflowne dub. Japanese original? Godly. 90′s English dub that everyone on this site seems to be fond off? Terrible Dilandau, terrible dub. Recent English dub everyone on this site seems to hate for replacing their favourite? Decent Dilandau, decent dub.
Lelouch vi Brittania from Code Geass: The only main character on this list. Code Geass is a flawed show, I won’t lie about that, but it’s also an over the top dramafest that goes full throttle and Lelouch is in the middle being the flamboyant dramatic manipulative hero of the people. Personally I love his costume best when he’s emperor, it’s his most flamboyant final form and you know the lad made it all himself.
TenSoon from the Mistborn series: These books are fairly standard fantasy with a good plothook: what if the Dark Lord had won? I enjoyed them! But it wasn’t until book two when TenSoon the kandra made his appearance that I was properly hooked. Who doesn’t love an ancient slime creature who eats corpses and uses their bones to puppet itself along?
The Buckkeep Fool from The Farseer Trilogy: My forever blorbo! My love! The character against whom all other favourite characters are measured. This trilogy is amazing, absolutely gripping and heartbreaking, but it’s the Fool I live for. They’re a stranger in a strange land, driven by visions that have wracked them since childhood, wearing a mask of frivolity and hiding depths beneath their jester’s smile that our main character spends a lifetime trying to comprehend. Again, I think the subsequent trilogies went way downhill, but the Farseer Trilogy and its followup the Liveship Trilogy, set in the south and featuring The Fool wearing a new face, are some of the best and most unique fantasy you’ll ever read
Gabriel from Constantine: yes, that movie version of Hellblazer starring Keanu Reeves looking handsome and acting like a plank of wood. This movie introduced me to both Hellblazer (far superior) and to Tilda Swinton (androgynous goddess). Gabriel’s just what I like - ambiguous gender, inhuman, powerful and clever and not at all nice.
Komui Lee from D.Gray-man: He’s a side character, older brother of The Girl of the shounen gang. He comes across as a scatty terrible boss, too distracted by his own inventions to do the basic tasks his role requires, but as the series goes on he reveals hidden depths of seriousness to him. This is a man who gave up his home, his dream, his language, his culture, to chase after his sister who’d been kidnapped, and ended up becoming one of the people working for that sinister organisation that took her because there was no way to rescue her from something so powerful.
Fujimoto from Ponyo: Ponyo is such a cute cartoon, so lovely, but the second I saw Fujimoto walking about with his little pump spritzing water on the lawn I was taken by him. He just wants to live with his giant wife and his thousands of tiny fish-daughters, making sea-magic!
Elim Garak from Deep Space Nine: Sly and flamboyant lizard-alien spy? The lone member of the Evil Alien race that’s left on the station after his people were driven out? A man who claims to be a simple tailor, an exile, but surely must be more than that? He’s everything for me.
Yoitsthew: Are there any deserts on Roshar, and if so could the white sand organism spread? Just imagining how sand mastery might possibly migrate to Roshar lol.
Brandon Sanderson: The White Sand organism could spread on Scadrial, and on any planet, but it would need investiture to do so. It would be easier for it to spread on Roshar, for example, because of the storms.
i think mistborn era 3 should be about an industrial hygienist who needs to deal with the fact that when most people consume metals it poisons and kills them, whereas when a small subset of the population consumes metals it gives them special powers
i don’t know if anyone remembers but about a year or two ago i had a ballpoint pen phase and i’ve started using them again and i’m wondering why i ever stopped
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A young girl is called by a noble voice into a life of hardship. There, she disguises her femininity and faces bandits, strange voices, unworthy kings, enemy armies, inquisitors, imprisonment, despair, and betrayal. Yet her journey is guided by something beyond this world, and through the whirling mists of uncertainty, she discovers her purpose, learns to trust in those dearest to her, and becomes a beacon of hope to her people.
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JOKE-OGRAPHY:
This month’s wallpaper is based on the original “Mistborn” trilogy by Brandon Sanderson, which begins as a heist thriller set in a dark kingdom of magic and intrigue. In this wallpaper, I’ve replaced the main character, Vin, with St. Joan of Arc, because both are girls who dress in boys’ clothes, both are single-minded warriors, and both try to change their home for the better by having a very physical say in its leadership. I’ve replaced the story’s mentor and charming crew-leader, Kelsier, with St. Michael the Archangel, because both were a force of support and guidance to their respective charges, and both managed to turn seemingly lowly peasant girls onto the path of heroes.
AUTHOR’S NOTE:
There’s more I could share to explain the image, of course, but doing so just might spoil parts of the original “Mistborn” trilogy, which I wouldn’t want to do when it’s so worth reading. I only just finished it this month, but it’s easily one of my favorite series of all time. It’s not for everyone, but it’s got oodles of dark fantasy, a fascinating magic system, engaging mysteries with amazing twists and pay-offs, and poignant points about leadership, trust, and faith. If any or all of that sounds swell to you, give it a read (or a listen if you like audiobooks; Michael Kramer’s narration is wonderful), or if you’ve already read it, let me know what you thought (without any spoilers, just in case)!
I’m SO excited to share with you guys the newest piece for Brandon Sanderson! “Heir of the Survivor” is featured in the brand new leatherbound edition of The Well of Ascension, in Brandon’s store now.
This piece was a challenge but I feel immensely grateful for the opportunity to contribute to these books, even in just a very small way.
6 hours left until these prints are GONE, grab them now if know you won’t be making it out to Salt Lake Comic Con anytime soon, I’m not sure I’ll be putting them back up online!
Here’s my illustration of Vin, my favorite character ever, from Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn trilogy, as well as the cover for Mistborn: Secret History in the second image (pssst if you haven’t read Mistborn yet, drop whatever you’re doing and go read them!). I’m a huuuge fan of Brandon’s work and I’m honored that I had a chance at bringing these amazing characters to life with a visual medium.
These signed and numbered limited edition prints are up in my shop right now! They are created with archival ink on Moab Entrada Bright White Rag 300gsm fine art paper. They are printed with pigmented inks, making them both color-fast and archival, ideal for preservation and longevity. The images measure 16" x 20" and include a 1" white surrounding border, making the paper size 18" x 22". The edition size is only 40, and about a quarter of them are already gone
A reminder that the mailing-list-only 20% off coupon code expires this Friday at midnight, so use it soon if you’d like to snatch these limited edition prints up before they go back up to their normal price!
Passage from HoA this is inspired by is too long to quote. So, ya get a short descriptor instead.Passage from HoA this is inspired by is too long to quote. So, ya get a short descriptor instead.
Video of Wax and Wayne 4 reading from Jordancon brought to you courtesy of the Sanderson Collector. I have no idea if it’s been posted here or not, but I thought you guys might like to see it! Includes a somewhat spoilers Q and A after the reading, too.
I like Sazed. Next to Vin, he is probably my favorite character of the first Mistborn trilogy… at least so far in my reread…
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[image description: Digital painting of Sazed in his Terris Steward robes. He has overall elongated features with light, tan skin, a shaved head and a more strongly developed epicanthic folds. His hears are rimmed with various earrings, piercings and studs, his lobes slightly elongated to hold more jewellery. There is also a small metal stud in one of his nasal wings. His robes are made out of complicated arrangement of triangular cut cloth in orange and purple, which also is patterned with triangular shapes. The fingers on his hand are all adorned with rings made from various metals. He looks slightly upwards with a serene but discerning expression, a light smile in the corner of his mouth.]
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