Blowing Up Sel's Cognitive Realm, Avatars, & More! | Q2 2021 Words of Brandon Part 1

Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

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.coppermind.net/events/466-cosmerees-interview/ Brandon's Full Cosmere Spoiler Stream: https://youtu.be/A67G4ObX7CM transcribed here: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/467-youtube-livestream-32/ Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 1:39 Show and Tell, Stormlight Playing Cards 4:09 Words of Brandon begins! 5:40 Cosmere.es Interview: We'll know who Trell is in Lost Metal 11:00 Novella between WoK and WoR 17:18 Cats in Shinovar 18:24 Songs of the Dead, Reckoners Novel, Skyward Novellas 21:23 Spoiler Livestream: Should we blow up the Selish Cognitive Realm? 32:42 Is there a reason Vasher and Vivenna changed their names on Roshar? 35:51 Mraize's Aviar 38:43 How many Awakening Commands are there? 43:20 Could Sja-anat heal deadeyes? 45:01 Is Hoid afraid of the Beyond? 46:27 Black holes affecting the Cognitive Realm 52:03 Invested Light related to backwards shadows 56:32 Spren bonding spren 58:42 Gravity in the Cognitive Realm 1:04:04 Caffeine in bronzeminds, Cyberpunk Mistborn 1:06:34 Feruchemical decay 1:10:19 Did anyone try to assassinate Wit? 1:11:10 Avatar definition!! 1:27:25 Long WoB about base Investiture and diseases 1:32:31 Nalthian customs and Breath bleed 1:41:37 Who's That Cosmere Character 1:50:12 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 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 [e-mail]