Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

The Fires of December is out to backers! What did we think? Stay tuned to find out! We have a short spoiler-free section if you haven't read it yet, but then we quickly get into spoilers!

We have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai), Bonnie (Cosmeregirl), and Adim (AAKS)!

Thumbnail art (and interior art) is done by the incredible Tran Nguyen: https://www.mynameistran.com/

You can find all the interior art in Fires of December on Brandon's site: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/pages/standalones-cosmere

0:00:00 Introductions / Show & Tell
0:02:12 Non-spoiler Section
0:11:03 Spoiler Thoughts
0:47:50 Chapter 41, Style
1:02:14 Setting
1:12:18 Other Characters
1:19:46 Lore
2:21:09 Who's That Cosmere Character

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Today, we are sitting back down with Janci Patterson to discuss the new Cytoverse novel, Blightfall!

We have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Will (#1 Taln Fan), and of course, Janci herself!

0:00:00 Intros
0:01:38 Non-spoiler section
0:09:15 Spoiler section

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Blightfall, the first book of Riftwake is out! This is the follow-up to the Skyward series, written by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson. What did we think? Well, stay tuned to find out! (Please note there are some Skyward series spoilers in this episode, but that is also true of Blightfall itself.)

This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Evgeni (Argent), Ene (AonEne), and Will (#1 Taln Fan)!

Thumbnail is the US cover of Blightfall.

0:00:00 Introductions
0:03:45 Disclaimer on reaction episodes
0:04:46 Non-spoiler thoughts
0:13:47 (Non-spoiler) Is it worthy sequel?
0:23:21 (Non-spoiler) Entry point to the series
0:30:24 Spoiler thoughts begin!
0:56:18 CW: Medical stuff
1:02:05 Arturo and Alanik
1:29:55 Sadie and Nedd
1:56:30 Dayan
2:05:56 Slugs
2:16:55 Last thoughts

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We are finally caught up with WoBs! Wow, incredible. We discuss some news and the upcoming releases, some Intent shenanigans with atium moon stuff.

Today we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), and Adim (AAKS)!

Thumbnail is the Scadrial system art because I have no idea what image to put on episodes like this: https://coppermind.net/wiki/File:Starchart_scadrial_color.jpg

0:00:00 Introductions
0:01:30 News
0:12:54 Verdant and Cultivation
0:22:46 Shards and the planets
0:41:38 Astronomical metals dealing with Intent influence
1:02:38 Screenplays into a new medium
1:11:56 Is Night the god that nurtures
1:14:35 Atium and electrum vs. Enlightened spren future sight
1:17:45 Can Honorblades pull directly from the Spiritual Realm?
1:22:49 Does everyone have their own rhythm?
1:26:43 The "missing" hion color
1:34:43 Time as an entity
1:42:55 Liss as a Herald
1:51:00 Who's That Cosmere Character

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We are ALMOST done with WoBs. I know, that is the real fantasy story, but we do finish the December spoiler stream. Wow! Then we proceed to JordanCon. We have quite a few Stormlight back half WoBs which we just go off the deep in with, which maybe you'll enjoy.

Today we have Eric (Chaos), David (Windrunner), Evgeni (Argent), Grace (thegatorgirl), and Bonnie (Cosmeregirl)!

Thumbnail is a promo image for War for Roshar by Amirul Hhf: https://bsky.app/profile/brotherwisegames.bsky.social/post/3mrxd7lngf724

0:00:00 Introductions
0:02:57 Connections of children born in the Emberdark
0:05:32 Stormlight Back Half Prologues
0:16:05 Stormlight Back Half Protagonists
0:33:45 Nightblood in a silver sheath
0:41:47 Student of mine
0:42:40 Copper effects with the Emberdark device
1:10:26 Fires of December Cosmere Significance
1:11:40 Which of Hoid's Travail's is His Fav to Tell?
1:13:59 Lesser dragons
1:20:57 What's coming down the pipeline that no one has asked about?
1:27:07 Investiture's association after being used
1:51:51 Voidlight for Surgebinding
2:03:53 Cryptics in reflected light, photos
2:16:30 Who's That Cosmere Character

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