#rithmatist

[libralita]

Your DnD Alignment based on your Brandon Sanderson starting point

Lawful Good – Tress of the Emerald Sea, You took Brandon at his word when he said that the Kickstarter books would be good starting point for the Cosmere.

Lawful Neutral – Wheel of Time, you found Brandon when he finished Wheel of Time and decided to give his own books a shot.

Lawful Evil – Rithmatist, this is your villain origin story tbh

Neutral Good – Elantris, you’ve been a fan for a long time,

True Neutral – Mistborn, you started where everyone recommends

Neutral Evil – Warbreaker, get it?

Chaotic Good – Alcatraz/Skyward, wild children of the fandom

Chaotic Neutral – The Way of Kings, despite everyone and their mother telling you to not start here, you do it anyways

Chaotic Evil – Alloy of Law, despite this being in Mistborn ERA 2 and the FOURTH Mistborn book, you still start here.

Reckoners, you like superheroes? Idk

[louwhose]

FOR THE REQUESTS!! can you do 1C with Joel and Melody?

(I mainly like them platonically but that pose is so THEM, HELP)

this really IS so very them. I'm especially imagining early on in the book when Melody thinks Joel is following her around earlier

sorry I have at best a vague idea of how joel looks in my head but I tried. and I've gotta admit this was very satisfying to do after my recent reread of the book

[novae-viking]

OK but what if they were adults and slayed absoloute penis

[joel-saxon]

Hehe sillies

[worldbuilding-tomfoolery]

This is basically how Rithmatist magic works

[onlycosmere]

Ironeyes: So, uh, we know that the charcoal creatures are afraid of coins.

Brandon Sanderson: Yes.

Ironeyes: So are the white chalk creatures, which I think are called Shadowblazes…

Brandon Sanderson: Yes.

Ironeyes: Are they also afraid of coins?

Brandon Sanderson Are they also afraid of coins? To a much lesser extent. I can give you guys some backstory on this.

What’s going on here is that the place these things come from linear structure and things like this are frightening to them, like they come from a non-linear location. Time does not move linearly where they come from. When they come into this world, structure and linear time progression, is bizarre to them.

And there are some who have embraced it, and been like, “This is cool and different!” and there are others that are still terrified of it, as a representation of what is so alien from the world they came from.

So that’s why we’ve got this whole clocks, and even structure, as a metaphor for something that is terrifying to them.

Rithmatist started in the Cosmere. The magic shares a lot of its roots, then, in Cosmere magic worldbuilding. I split if off because I wrote the whole first book with it being in the Cosmere. I split it off, saying “No, I don’t want Earth to be in the Cosmere.”

Even an alternate version of Earth. It just raises too many questions about the nature of Earth being involved in this. I want the Cosmere to be its own dwarf galaxy of which not even a dimension of Earth is involved.

And when I made that decision, I broke Rithmatist off. That’s the only one I had written that didn’t belong, but it still has, so, it means that the magic is going to feel very familiar to you, uh, it’s going to feel like the magic of the Cosmere. And Cosmere magic is based around, usually, human beings making a symbiotic bond with an entity made out of the magic.

This is, kind of, one of the origins of Cosmere magic, and Rithmatist has, therefore, its roots in that. I’ve done some things since I’ve split it off in the outlines to distinguish it, but it’s going to have the same roots. So you’ll notice some things like that, that are similar.

Questioner: Before you split The Rithmatist from the Cosmere, did the Shadowblazes come from the Cognitive realm?

Brandon Sanderson: Yeah. Yeah, the Shadowblazes were in the Cognitive realm, they’re--you know, well, they’re more Spiritual Realm. They were Spiritual Realm, sorry. They were Spiritual realm entities that got pulled into the Physical realm.

And the Spiritual realm has no time, it exists independent of time and location, all times and all places are one, and so, when something that’s from the Spiritual Realm got pulled into the Physical realm, it was like, “This is so weird!” And there are very few things in the Cosmere that exist only on the Spiritual Realm, which was a really fun thing I could do with this book, was show that. Cause most things exist on all three Realms. Um, so, yeah.

So, yeah, I mean if you’ve got, if you’re a Cosmere theologian--not theologian, magic, what do you call it? They call that, I have a word for it in-world. But anyway, if you’re a realmatic theorist, you can kind of pick out how the Spiritual Realm beings were related, originally, to the Realmatic theory.

[themelodyofspring]

JOMP Book Photo Challenge

Sep 16, 2023 - Favourite Genre

To no one's surprise, it's ✨fantasy✨ featuring my cosmere shelf.

[fake-words-of-brandon]

WordsOnToast

So, Rithmatist sequel.

Brandon Sanderson

Ah. Yeah, that one.

WordsOnToast

Where is it?

Brandon Sanderson

Sadly, my main focus, my main focus for now is Stormlight Five. Rithmatist is definitely still in my mind, but I'm not focused on it right now.

WordsOnToast

I'm really not okay with that. I liked that book, and I need a sequel.

Brandon Sanderson

You know what, I -- I kind of like your chutzpah. If you had backed down, I wouldn't have bothered to try this, but I've actually been working on it in my spare time, so give me a second.

[Brandon pulls out a hardcover book with no cover art or visible title, and begins scribbling furiously across the pages for about a minute, his hand a blur as the surrounding air heats up from the motion]

There's your Rithmatist sequel. I usually do more drafts, but that should be good enough. Yeah, I didn't realize that the fans really cared that much. If you had let me know earlier, I would have just written it.

The Gamer of Partinel Release Party, Salt Lake City (January 17 2024)

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

Tagged by @dykevirgo who had a BRUTALLY difficult poll team link

make a poll with five of your all time favourite characters and then tag five people to do the same. see which character is everyone's favorite

Tagging @voltfruits @newtsnaturethings @linktheacehero @szethsmom and @louwhose :)

[thorne1435]

Hey, do you like Mistborn/Stormlight Archive/other Cosmere stuff? If so I'll definitely reblog more of that but I've been kinda avoiding reblogging too many Cosmere posts because I just assumed none of my followers would care

Well...it's complicated.

First of all, reblog whatever, this is the Reblog Whatever Website.

But second of all, I know more about the Stormlight Archives but only really the first...two? maybe three? books. I like Brandon Sanderson as a writer, I think he's really good. But I engaged with his work pretty exclusively through listening to the audiobooks with my mom, kind of unintentionally. We just happened to occupy the same space a lot. Everyone was always doing their own thing in the living room, but my Mom has never heard of using a headset. So, we all kinda just consumed media vicariously through her.

She listened to Mistborn, too, but Stormlight Archives became a massive family event: we all took our headphones off to listen to Stormlight Archives books with my mom.

I haven't even touched anything remotely related to Brandon Sanderson in years, though. I have no idea what's going on in any of his series anymore. But it was worth it, I have a room that doesn't suck now.

[louwhose]

"Icecream, like all things virtuous, must have a pain to get a reward."

It is 38 degrees outside and I am cold but. Icecream. So expressing my feelings with a Rithmatist quote. Er, probably more a paraphrase, since I went off of memory here.

[novae-viking]

:3 doing smthn

[onlycosmere]

The Aztlanian

xland44: Speaking of Rithmatist, is the reason for the lack of a sequel still due to further research being necessary? Or is it just due to schedule?

Peter Ahlstrom: Both, plus Brandon really wants to find a good writer with Mexica heritage to coauthor it with.

Lostboy289: Im confused. Why does the heritage of the person writing it matter?

Peter Ahlstrom: Because what Brandon wants to do requires a lot more research than he is up for. Someone with a personal connection is more likely to have already done the research.