Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

ReDawn, the second of the Skyward Flight novellas came out on October 26th, and so we're here with another bonus Shardcast doing our reactions! It's not very "mini" of a mini-episode, but I guess under two hours is mini for us. We have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Jessie (LadyLameness), and Marvin (Paleo)! Thumbnail art is the ReDawn cover by Charlie Bowater: https://www.instagram.com/p/CUu-sMAtOeq/ YouTube chapters: 00:00 Introductions 01:53 Spoiler free thoughts 08:20 Full spoilers, top moments, thoughts on collabs 26:15 The ending 42:33 Cuna 46:11 Alanik 1:00:29 UrDail Culture 1:10:05 Slugs and Cytonics 1:26:34 Who's That Cytoverse 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://cop

It's October, the spoopy season, so let's do an episode on Brandon's use of horror in his works! This one has spoilers for uh basically every Brandon's works. We go into tons of different horror types and more, and explore how Brandon uses these elements in his books. This episode, we have Ian (Weiry) hosting, along with Evgeni (Argent), Matt (Comatose), and Kadie (Ene)! 01:11 Spoiler Warning 01:40 Content Warning 02:34 What is genre? 08:05 Cast Experiences with Horror 18:33 Cast Experiences with Brandon Horror 29:10 Types of Horror Used by Brandon 30:20 Cosmic Horror 41:27 Body Horror 58:40 Dark Fantasy 1:05:41 Folk Horror 1:17:11 Ghost Stories 1:24:29 Gothic Horror 1:35:57 Disaster Horror 1:45:02 Psychological Horror 1:56:54 Slasher Horror 2:02:59 Who's That Cosmere Character Terrifying but amazing thumbnail image from Petar Penev, who did incredible art of the Re-Shephir fight at the beginning of Oathbringer. Check him out, he is awesome: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/y8BNJ https://www.artstati

We love Brandon Sanderson here; that's why we've done over a hundred and fifty of these Shardcasts. But you know, we have some beefs too. We did a Cosmere Beefs episode long ago in 2018, and so it's time for some new (and updated) beefs for 2021, with some of our newer cast members as well! We have some funny beefs along with some serious ones too, but we hope our complaining is entertaining! Put your beefs in the comments; we'd love to read yours! There are some Skyward spoilers in addition to cosmere ones, which we have put on screen so you can skip past (or you can look at the chapters). This episode we have a few returners, Eric (Chaos) and Alyx (Feather), who has some hilarious reactions during WTCC. Then we have people who weren't on our first beefcast: Shannon (Grey), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ala (Rasarr), and joining us for the first time on the show, Payden (Otto Didact)! Here's a link to our first cosmere beefs episode: https://youtu.be/noEmwqgqGWs Thumbnail from Ralf Melevo: https://www.instagram

Sunreach, the first of the Skyward Flight novellas, came out last week, and so here's a bonus, "shorter" Shardcast on us discussing this novella! Turns out it's pretty great. There will still be a regular episode this weekend. On this episode, we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Marvin (Paleo) who brought along his slug friend, and Ala (Rasarr)! Yes, I know this is already longer than many podcasts but shhh, it's short for us. Under 75 minutes? So short! Sunreach cover by Charlie Bowater: https://www.instagram.com/p/CUE9mYzLBQF/ Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 1:05 Sunreach General Thoughts 9:30 FM 15:18 Romance 22:02 Collaborations 30:49 Slugs 38:39 Space Combat and Tension 45:50 FM not being Main Character 52:50 Other Stuff + Alanik 1:07:44 Who's That Cytoverse Character 1:12:29 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 Discor

Can you believe that we've never done an actual episode on Kaladin? He's kind of a big deal, and he did a lot in Rhythm of War, so let's get into it. We also, of course, talk about depression and mental illness as well. This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), David (Windrunner), Ben (Overlord Jebus), and Jessie (Lady Lameness)! Thumbnail art by Ari Ibarra, which is amazing as always: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/qA3EWL Exmakina's excellent Kaladin and Lirin comic: https://exmakina.tumblr.com/post/635179935258050560/trying-to-remember-how-to-draw-these-nerds-with-a Hello Future Me's video on writing mental illness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6c8o68ghGBM 00:00 Introductions 4:00 General Thoughts on Kaladin 15:07 Kaladin in Rhythm of War and Mental Health 43:41 Szeth 52:26 Lirin 1:12:53 Tien 1:24:23 Fifth Ideal 1:31:46 Fight Scenes and the Glowing Yellow Eyes 1:41:16 Lyn 1:44:05 Syl 1:56:03 Leshwi 2:01:47 Adolin and Shallan 2:08:23 Moash 2:11:24 Who will Kaladin end up with? 2:24:28 Who

We got a new Brandon Sanderson book this year already, and it is Lux! It is an Audible original set in the Reckoners universe, and it's time for us to talk about it. Overall we liked it, but we obviously get into the weeds, because it's Shardcast. Spoilers for the original Reckoners trilogy (Steelheart, Firefight, and Calamity) here, but if you haven't listened to Lux yet, we start with spoiler-free reactions. Chapters are below! Hosting this episode is David (Windrunner), and we also have Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Danielle (FelCandy), and Marvin (Paleo)! How many ways can Evgeni say a different character when he meant Jax? Well, you'll find out! Lux is out: https://www.17thshard.com/news/brandon-news/lux-is-out-physical-dawnshard-and-way-of-kings-prime-dragonsteel-mini-con-r736/ 00:00 Introductions 2:26 Spoiler-free reactions to Lux 20:20 Spoiler stuff and the ending 45:16 The Reckoners 1:29:39 Epics 2:02:55 Final Thoughts 2:13:40 Who's That Reckoners Character If you like our content, support us on

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