Brandon Sanderson Answering Fan Questions vs. Other Authors
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- Опубликовано: 27 июл 2022
- Why do I feel like I have to have a PHD in Cosmere Studies to understand some of the fan questions Brandon Sanderson gets?
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“They would need some way to survive on that planet” sounded exactly like him lmao
The "Ok" at the start perfect
Exactly what I thought, spot on!
I was about to write the same thing
The whole thing sounded like him. It was perfect.
I legit lol'd at that
Man, listening to that question was a ride. I know what the words mean by themselves. I know what some of them mean when used together. But I don't have a PHD from silverlight, so the end result is resigned acceptance that people like that do indeed exist.
Not gonna lie, I'm as much at a loss as you are.
if people like that put as much time and energy into things like , oh, I don't know, cancer research or saving the world, I think the world might be a better place right now
@@mikeha Nah, that'd be boring.
I... Am slowly turning into that person. It's an acquired thing.
Also, I'm on my 3rd re-read of stormlight. Send help.
@@mikeha most of us like that are just neurodivergent. Not really an intelligence thing.
I will never again be as confused as I was when -- after reading mistborn, elantris, and the rithmatist -- I decided to wander onto coppermind. It was like I had learned my abcs and decided to take a class on particle physics.
Thats how I feel rn lol. And the only things I haven't read are Sixth of Dusk and the roshar short stories.
@@Indosentia READ THE ROSHAR SHORT STORIES
@@lordxuthane3294 I will! Eventually! One day! Dont judge me!
@@Indosentia Here, I'll shoot for some inspiration to get to them and simultaneously draw agro for being judged:
Dawnshard is my favorite stormlight book.
I recently started rereading the original Mistborn Trilogy and wanted to look up something about Feruchemy. 3 hours later and I understand less about everything.
Spot on, we come up with the craziest uses for the magic system and Brando El Sando is like "Yeah, I'm not gonna answer that just now because I plan to have fun with that in fhe future"
The fact that he rarely gets a fan question that truly surprises him is, I think, a testament to how well thought-out his magic systems are.
@@genericallyentertaining well, there was that dandruff one...
@@gabal please elaborate i really wanna know lol
@@gabal The one about whether Edgedancers would need to wipe their butts or not was also particularly good.
@@gabal Or the Shardblade cutting cheese one.
Me: "wait but that's a really interesting set of questions!"
Me: "...oh my god we ARE insane..."
@@Ms.Pronounced_Name I had almost exactly the same thought process, though I also wonder about the Connector ordeal.
I don't think a Connectors ability works like that. As far as we have seen, the effects of tapping connection has more of a direct effect on the person (languages, for example), rather than letting someone steal connection. If we're talking about spiking somones surge bending, that would be hemalurgy, and something anyone could do. The actual thing you would be doing, is taking the nahel bond, though, and could just end up killing the spren, as the spren might break the bond.
@@ThorGJack Well, yes, but you would still need to be a ferring.
Step 1: Spike a bondsmith using hemalurgy. Gain bondsmith abilities
Step 2: Go to Sel, use stolen bondsmith abilities to steal connection to Arelon. (Why you couldn't just spike the Elantrian instead of the Bondsmith, idk.)
Step 3: Store Arelon connection in unkeyed metalminds.
^^ This is where the ferring requirement comes in
Step 4: Give unkeyed metalminds to Elsecaller so they have Elantrian abilities now.
Granted, this is all so much more complicated than it has to be. Pretty sure you could just have the Elantrian use AonDor to make the Elsecaller an Elantrian because they can do pretty much anything if they're skilled enough. No feruchemy, bondsmithing, or hemalurgy is necessary.
@@yf-n7710 Hell the Elantrian could just teleport the whole group directly the Monody skipping the first half of the question.
"and also Night Blood is also there for some reason" lmfao
We love asking questions about Nightblood.
He told us it's one of the most heavily invested things in the cosmere, therefore we are invested in learning more about it.
@@Igneusflama just wait until the scadrians invent crypto, let's see what's the most invested thing in the cosmere then.
The best part is that the actual question didn't even have anything to do with Nightblood.
@@WintryFox Literally! Sometimes we just want every single point of our theories to be connected even though there's no connection
the sanderson fanbase: where you can enjoy his books but feel like you need a degree on physics, harmonics and possibly other things
The best choice for autistic people, English students, physicists, and autistic English students with an interest in physics
To be fair, his books are still highly rewarding without a degree in cosmere-ology. It's just that there are bonuses for deep comsere-ologists.
As someone who has a degree in physics…
Believe me, it doesn’t help me keep track of Sanderson’s epic storylines.
Can't wait for the space era when we see Rosharans travel to Sel thanks to an unkeyed nicrosil metalmind that was charged with Gravitation by a windrunner with a Hemalurgic spike in his nose
Cosmere fans will go ballistic over that.
I'm looking forward to Scandrian 'sleeper ships' where a pulser savant flares cadmium to make a century long journey take hours in subjective time.
@@drachna man I hope we never see another full Mistborn again. With all the new Allomantic metals plus unkeyed feruchemical metalminds plus I guess atium (idk the next book is called the lost metal) that's a disaster waiting to happen.
@@robertopalmieri3803 We'll definitely have the equivalent of Steel Inquisitors but stronger, but I doubt that we'll have any full mistborn protagonists in the future. I bet you that mistings are going to get even weaker (but more skillful) in era three.
@@drachna Would a pulser savant age more slowly than normal people because of their abilites?
This is exactly why i refuse to read anything outside a book. I'm not touching a single cosmere wiki page in my life or listening to any of his events or any of hits posts. I am not ready to take that stress in my life. Just let me reread Rhythm of War in peace and cry again.
Honestly, fair.
even than rhythym of war went a little too scientific for me when it foucsed on Navani. i'm like..i'm not smart enough to understand this scientifc process of the various rhytyams
@@stevenhedge2850 you aren't the only one to have this issue reading RoW. I personally loved it because my education in STEM allowed me to understand and compare with the science we know, but I admit it's unusual (and to many jarring) to have such technical talk within a high fantasy book. I think, for the average reader, this part has three important takeaways :
*SPOILERS BELOW*
A- Magic is science (invested cyberpunk foreshadowing for future books?)
B- Navani "not a genius" Kholin is, in fact, a genius
C- Through the discoveries in investiture, a simple farmer could be a threat to a shard once equipped with the right weapon
@@hoane6777 honestly c is soo true it hurts
You're not along in that regard. I WANT to be at that level compression. . .I however do NOT want to take the amount of time it would take for me to become that comphrensive in the material. At some point, I need to remember to actually have a notebook on hand when I do another re-read of the entire Cosmere and see how many connecting points I can make.. . but that is WORK and EFFORT and I just want to read my books and laugh and cry in the same places I do every other time I read them and not turn it into a study session.
Someday. Maybe. Or not. I still will enjoy them.
lol this was great
Holy crap, it's the Man himself. Glad you enjoyed!
Both of you are great!
The communion of the Lords Of This Small World in the same comment section
what I want to know is whether or not you can gaslight a bondsmith-capable spren into existence. You know, whether or not getting Roshar to adopt the concept of a legend on par with the storm father would create a another legendary spren like him, stuff like Santa, the Easter bunny, or the queen of England
I get that reference!
This is always the best part of belief-based magic (which Cognitive effects are, pretty much). In my opinion, the answer is no, for a couple reasons:
a) Shardic involvement. The Bondsmith spren represent a huge portion of the Shards' Investiture (even though it's infinite, only some finite amount is around; we know that Investing themself in a planet, for example, has a huge effect on a Shard). Unless both Shards are Splintered or Vessel-less, I think they have enough rein over their Investiture to prevent something like that cropping up. Even the Stormfather, as a spren, has some amount of Cultivation in him, I think. Plus, all the Investiture tied up in the existing Bondsmith spren is going to limit the supply available for the new one.
b) Belief isn't that directly powerful towards spren. The lesser spren feed on concepts and emotions and ideas and... whatever creativity is. Whatever. But they aren't created by it. They are part of a Cognitive ecosystem that can directly exploit those things as resources. People knowing they exist isn't necessary for them to exist, and people believing a type of spren exists doesn't... well, I can't say for sure.
A lot of this is more gut feeling than solid fact. Even actual Rosharan philosophers would struggle with this question (although Silverlight professors might not).
Huh. Normally, I make these small-essay comments on Reddit, not here.
@@lucasriddle3431 I think the most interesting counter to this (point b) is Syl's comment about older spren not having 2 genders, because humans didn't "imagine them". This, of course, implies that all the rest exist because humans *did* imagine them.
There are also the spren who's size is determined by being measured.
@@admiraljosh if you think about it, the fact that Odium's spren are human shaped, something Venli even notices does bring up several questions. Clearly, they are human shaped because Odium was humanity's god. now, did he create those spren, or did he have the unmade corrupt them, so they will serve him? were the higher spren, like honor spren and cryptics always shaped lke that or did they change when they started to bond to humans?
@@lucasriddle3431 except the stormfather is a splinter of Honor, even before Honor was Splintered he was one, and Brandon has confirmed that spren will begin to appear that relate to things like electricity and computers and such once those things are introduced to humans on roshar as new types are made by humanity's impact on the cognitive realm
Starting the Sanderson impression with “oookay” nails it on the head.
Damn if that bit about the coppermind isn't true. I'd just finished mistborn era 1 and thought I'd read about Kelsier, safe in the knowledge I couldn't be spoiled. Then the words "cognitive realm" happened...
Edit: I've now read Stormlight, Warbreaker, and Secret History, and now I find this to be an interesting question that I don't understand fully, rather than just a long string of words some of which I understand
cosmere is like MCU if it had a coherent creative vision behind it
I took a break from Brandon Sanderson after Oathbringer and now I feel like he doubled his writing speed
I go to coppermind and I don’t even recognize it anymore
Uh...
The fact that the question was actually coherent while still sounding insane is impressive. Props to you.
you know that'd actually be a pretty good racket, if an author made a relatively short book with a highly complex magic system, and then whenever asked for clarification on a specific sort of interaction says "alright I don't wanna spoil but you've got the right idea" and then proceeds to figure out and write in that interaction into the next book
That's exactly what I do as a DM
Butcher admits to having done this in Dresden Files multiple times, lol.
@@KettleHatt My exact same thought. I love when players start saying theories out loud and I'm just furiously taking notes because their ideas are so much better than mine
I know a few writers and game designers who have done this. They found theories online and realized the way they were going was the most popular answer but also seemingly too obvious but also found fun theories that they weren't going to explore but then felt it worked even better. Not only because it was not as obvious but it fit even better when the creator thought about it more.
I recall that Dan Harmon did something similar to Rick and Morty as well.
you just explained manga writers
The fact that I could follow along with your questions tells me I have read waaaayyyyy to much Cosmere and Cosmere adjacent material. And I am ok with that.
This was literally the exact thought I had.
I don't think there is such a thing as too much Cosmere
Yeah... I have only recently finished the main mistborn series (out of all his the cosmere) and was surprised by how much I understood haha
What happens if you follow along exactly never having heard of that material?
I followed like 80% of it, but some of the words I'd never heard out loud before so I got a bit confused
I'm kind of shocked that I could actually follow that entire conversation XD
Also you did an amazing work on Brandon's mannerism, I could almost hear this in his voice.
Also the outfit lol
What would I have to read to understand any of that other than shadesmar and Windrunner and elantrian
@@lololulu1238 Unfortunately, I picked up most of this stuff from the Shardcast episodes of the 17th Shard youtube channel. But unless you feel like watching a few hundred hours worth of pedantic analysis of the cosmere books, that might not be the best idea.
@@akernis3193 damn
@@akernis3193 do they have a playlist for that or something
What I love is that not only does Sanderson take the time to field questions like that. . .but he does in fact take the time to answer them seriously or at the least give a 'RAFO' card to them and generally seems to genuinely enjoy being asked questions like that.
Having read Brandon Sanderson's books in spanish not understanding a single word from that question
I feel you, and I'm here reading the comments even more confused.
I laughed at how well you captured Sanderson's mannerism when speaking, this is great
Good to see Brandon coming on to help for skits of other booktubers. I don't why you tried to make him look like you, for a moment I thought it was you acting like him.
He's a really chill guy. I just sent him an email and he agreed to help out immediately.
@@genericallyentertaining How many books did he write in between takes?
@@lurkerabove24022 long ones, a novella set on a world in a system without a shard, and a Skyward comic from M-bot's point of view.
I'm just waiting for inspiration to strike Brandon for Rithmatist 2
This is so funny and so true 😂 I love the person reading the Coppermind going “what?!!” Because that’s me lol
Glad you enjoyed! Love your content!
This is basically the 17th Shard Podcast in a nutshell.
I don't really see a reason why an Elsecaller on an uninhabited planet shouldn't be able to use Transportation to get into the Cognitive Realm. It is not that the place between inhabited planets does not exist at all, it is just that this space is extremely compressed. So they should simply appear somewhere at the Edge of the Threnodite Subastral.
You're probably right.
And I’d say that the size of Shadesmar is determined by the amount of life on the planet they went to the uninhabited planet it would now be inhabited and have a small but existent Shadesmar
@@benmerkin3202 I think it's less about how inhabited the planet is, but how aware life is of said planet. Being on it definitely would be the best, but I don't think it's the only way.
except Jasnah had a problem getting back to physical realm
@@stevenhedge2850 Sure, but the question was not about Elsecallers getting from the CR into PR, but the other way around. And this is easy.
How did you get his speaking rhythm down so well?
That's what got me haha. Brandon's cadence is iconic and he landed it 😂
Put me off from listening to what was actually being said as well.
I guess if tou’re watching enough of his streams, there’s some material to practice off from ^^
fr subbed just for that sando impression. Best one in booktube lowkey
He simply attuned to the Rhythm of Sanderson
@@corbanbausch9049 this comment is underrated
I wrote the following in a Facebook discussion not 5 minutes before I saw this video.
"It wouldn't work that simply, because the automaton wouldn't be able to access metal minds keyed to someone else. BUT, if they used an unkeyed identity metal mind to give the automoton the identity of the person, it would work."
If you somehow created an automaton capable of making a metal mind would it naturally be unkeyed since as a mindless machine it wouldn't have an identity? Although I suppose that would be impossible since no spirit web = no investure.
@@FrostSylph I don't remember the full context of what I was replying to, but it involved using biochromatic breaths to awaken a humanoid form made out of ferruchemical active metals. I think I was pointing out that it couldn't access any of the reserves unless they were unkeyed.
I'm pretty sure a spren or other sentient investiture could use an unkeyed metal mind, since all that seems to be required at that point is intent. And while they don't have a human spirit web, they must have a presence in the spiritual realm, being sentient beings.
@@FrostSylph if the automaton functioned like a Southern scadrian airship engine but instead burned unkeyed aluminum minds it might work
This was so funny. I consider myself well versed in the Cosmere but the Connections (get it?) that some people can make goes far beyond anything that could ever be relevant!🤣
Holy crap that was accurate. I loved the whole Brandon impression, the signing of the book, talking and looking up whilst writing constantly, his ability to follow bullshit like this but give an answer that's satisfying but also ambiguous.
Top notch work my dude.
YES. This describes it exactly. 10/10 would rewatch another 5 times to laugh even more and reflect on my own lack of knowledge.
ive come back to this video every time I've finished a cosmere book to see if I understood anything more about that question and I'm happy to say that now that I'm caught up I can fully understand it 🎉
I watch the spoiler streams even though I have only read Elantris because I know I won't understand any of the questions.
lol are you me
I was watching a presentation of his at a con years ago and someone asked a question that made no sense to me, but judging on how the crowd reacted it was a huge deal.
Absolutely me lol
Impresion right on man
I tried!
“And Nightblood is there for some reason” 😂 that’s what got me
Nightblood is like Hoid, everywhere..
I remember being in line with a friend at GenCon and the friend got a message from his wife to ask him a question like that.
He actually said something similar to this video, but then decided "ah, whatever, I'll tell you the answer" and explained some major unanswered question about Hoid or something? I forget since I haven't really read his work but it was some huge uproar online and people doubted it was real for a few days. Thought that was funny.
Oh, and he asked a few fans to sign MtG cards for him as he signed their MtG cards for them.
Really nice guy overall.
Skits poking fun at Brandon’s crazy traits are among the funniest things to watch for me, amazing video!
AHAHAHA I HATE HOW I NEARLY UNDERSTOOD THE QUESTION
If an elsecaller managed to get to an unpopulated world they would immidietly begin to have thoughts and perceptions about the planet. Thusly creating a new subastral (albeit a very small one) informed by their thoughts about the planet
I am crying from laughing. That is exactly how I feel when watching Sanderson's AMAs.
Brilliant! I keep coming back and watching this! Love the RAFO part! Mannerisms are really accurate -- great acting!
“You’re definitely thinking ALONG the right lines” was spot on
Me: laughs histerically at the accuaracy of whats portrayed in here
Also me: cries cause I cant send this to any of my irl friends cause they havent read the Cosmere at all
Also also me: is sad
I'm gonna show this to my friend who only finished Elantis to see their reaction
Won’t be as funny as you think…
@@Sam-vk8xd I don't know. I've only read Elantris and I found this amusing. Had no idea what was being said, but the vibe of the video came across and made me laugh.
0:47 is his exact voice cadence wow
Fan: comes up with incredible theory using the correct means and systems.
Branderson: *I gotta make that work somehow* "here's a card bud"
First of all, any person perceiving a planet which doesn’t have a subastral would create a subastral for it, so if the elsecaller manage to get to a planet without a subastral with their spren, they would create its location in the cognitive realm simply by knowing that the planet they’re on exists. So yes, if an elsecaller could get stormlight and they’re spren and a spacesuit on an uninhabited planet, they would still be able to travel to shadesmar from the planet, but not necessarily the other way around. I don’t know why you think you need al the extra Connection steps? Maybe to get the spren over there?
Well, the extra Connection would make it easier to create a sub astral, generating a connection that may take years or longer to form naturally.
I wonder if people going to an uninhabited planet would make the sub astral look like their home planet's
The funny thing is is that i mostly understood what he was asking
I was really amazed my your Brandon Sanderson impression! Also great delivery
Love it!
The super in depth nerding out with the hard magic systems is a whole different kind of fun we can enjoy months after reading and rereading the books.
I love how you nailed his mannerisms!
I like coming back to this video every couple of months/books. Everytime I rewatch this it gets a little easier to understand,...a little
I love the accurate Sanderson Cosplay of t-shirt and suit jacket.
I watched this video early in my read through and I didn't even understand enough for it to be a spoiler. Having read significantly more I almost understood that question. Growth.
Lol, the Brando impression was really good
You NAILED that impression!
You became Sanderson for a moment there.
Bruhhh the things you said as Brandon aree spot on!! This is perfect
Technically the fact that they’re on the planet means that it would manifest in the cognitive realm… I am too invested in this lol
The accuracy. Great video. 🤣
Your delivery and cadence for Brandon was perfect. That’s exactly how he talks lol
I haven't laughed so hard in weeks! Glad the algorithm decided to show this to me xD
The fact that he didn’t make any of this stuff up and that is a legitimate question you could ask Brandon
I have only experienced this level of "being lost" twice. First time was the first 3 years of medical school. The second was reading the first 3 stomlight books and thinking I had a pretty good grasp on the cosmere
As a relatively new Sanderson fan who is starting down the path of becoming the fan from this video (IE: Reading coppermind articles for hours at a time) this is my new favorite video
This is what learning a foreign language sounds like.
i only pray for the day I've read enough brandon sanderson to understand more than half of that question
This was definitely one of the most entertaining videos I've seen for a while, mostly because of how accurate it is.
And now I'm curious to know the answers to the question.
Also, I'm pretty sure that WoB would get well known pretty fast, as it would hit nearly all of the buzzwords that people search on the coppermind.
Please more brando content :3 this was awesome
I am horrified to admit that that entire question made sense to me. Also yeah, mad props, cuz you absolutely nailed the Brandon responses.
BRUH THE FUCKING
*Reading Coppermind*
"WHAT"
my boi you need more views, that was a good one :D
I've gone from watching this right when I started Mistborn and being totally lost to actually comprehending it over the past year. I'm quite proud.
Coming back to this as I read the books and gradually understand more of that man's questions
Man the ‘I know something you don’t know yet and you’re going to love it’ face is spot on
You imitate him so well; congrats, the video is very funny.
This is the video that made me read Sanderson
Thank you
I had to watch this twice (rewinding several times each time) to get it but once I did, he‘s right, this IS an interesting question lol, damn you Sanderson
the suit jacket over a tee shirt 😭😭😭
That is on point! Loved it
Omg the impression was spot on
Your impersonation was actually spot on
i gotta say you imitate sandersons inflections masterfully
Your intonations were spot on haha
"And nightblood is there for some reason." Lmao
Wow, I didn't expect this to be so relatable
You know, after seeing this, I’m starting to think…
Sanderson doesn’t get his ideas from himself-he gets them from people asking him these things.
I could honestly see him revealing RAFO cards are actually his way of indirectly telling fans “thank you for the inspiration.”
Wow, the accuracy!!!
A year later and I caught up with the cosmere. Everything in this video finally makes sense
Hahaha I'm quite sure I heard him saying those exact lines from his lives
You! Brandon impression is so perfect even though you’re not like putting on a voice
I’ve never read Brandon Sanderson before but this has just convinced me.
Damn, so accurate xD... Really good skit ^_^
I am... kind of embarrassed that the Brandon Sanderson fan's questioning made sense... I too have spent way too much time theorizing about the Cosmere
I rewatch this video every couple of months and went from understanding about 5% of it to now about 15%. At this right I’ll understand this video in its entirety around the time the Cosmere is finished.
That's amazing. I'm glad I managed to make a useful proxy by which to judge one's Cosmere progress.
This is painfully accurate from all directions. XD
Your Brandon acting was perfect
Also I'm reading the finale empire and the way of kings and understood non of that
Legit had an experience like this reading the coppermind😂
“But okay?” 0:50
I listen to so many Brandon Sanderson interviews I hear this is a mental tick now!
When your magic system has more rules than any country's legal system, you are asking for people to be lawyers
I love this!!!!
Every now and then I come back to this video with a little more knowledge of the Cosmere. One day I’ll understand what the hell is being asked