#the 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

[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.

[novae-viking]

the girlypoo<333

[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)

[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

[dawn-the-rithmatist]

just because I just saw you say something about it in the tags of a post I just want to mention how much I love that you are such a diehard fan of the rithmatist it's such a good book we really need to talk about it more

ITS SUCH A GOOD BOOK AND I LOVE IT SO MUCH. WHERE IS THE SEQUEL BRANDERSON. I AM IN YOUR WALLS.

[sweetened-condensed-rage]

*Violently shaking Brandon Sanderson in my head*

WHERE'S MY RITHMATIST SEQUEL OLD MAN

[incorrectsanderversequotes]

Renarin: Oh, fiddlesticks. Melody: Look, I understand this is a tense situation, but let's watch the fucking language.

[joel-saxon]

Hehe sillies

[murderousjelliebean]

Branderson books I've read so far:

Stormlight minus the novellas (I'll hit those on the reread)

Both eras of Mistborn and Secret History (as evidenced by my stupid meme that somehow has over 150 notes)

The Reckoners minus Mitosis

Skyward, including two and a half novellas (the skyward flight ones- haven't finished evershore yet)

All of Alcatraz (this man is a troll, i love him)

Elantris (Branderson has been killing off POV characters since the beginning)

Warbreaker

The Rithmatist (WHERE'S MY RITHMATIST SEQUEL BRANDERSON)

Tress of the Emerald Sea

The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England

Things I need to read/finish reading:

The stormlight novellas

Mitosis (maybe, my friend read it and didn't like it)

Defending Elysium and the second half of Evershore

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter (my copy finally came!!)

The Emperor's Soul

All the novellas listed at the beginning of Yumi

And also everything under that

[novae-viking]

what if i was a boy and you were a girl and we were both at a beach

[kainekron]

did Brandon really have a guy make calk out of blood (Assumption)