Shardcast: The Brandon Sanderson Podcast

It's onto our last Cytoverse SpanReads: Cytonic! This is certainly not a controversial book, and we didn't have too much to say... Oh wait, this is one of our longest SpanReads. Also featuring Defiant hopes, some general Brandon comments, and the ocean. As always for our Skywards Spanreads, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). Only two weeks of Cytoverse SpanReads left, and then Defiant comes out on November 21st! For a recap, see Jessie's video: https://youtu.be/udNA1fhDgc0?si=-XbEeQZnIpOVdicj Thumbnail is the US cover of Cytonic, by Charlie Bowater. 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://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https:/

It's our last Skyward Flight SpanReads, where we discuss the lore in the Skyward Flight novellas! As always for our Skywards Spanreads, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Next up will be Cytonic from November 3rd to November 17th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail is the French omnibus cover, by Alain Brion: https://coppermind.net/wiki/File:Skyward_Flight_FR_Cover.jpg 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://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sound

It's time for another manic episode talking about our interview with Brandon back in July. I'm sure nothing interesting happens in this one. It's not like Brandon would ramble about... just everything about cosmere dragons in this one, right? Well, we thought wrong. For this episode, we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Shannon (Grey), and Jessie (Lady Lameness)! Watch our Brandon interview here: https://youtu.be/rkCP04Wo1Ho Thumbnail image is by Howard Lyon, the art of Xisis in Tress of the Emerald Sea. 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://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:u

It's time to discuss the characters in the Skyward Flight novellas, and oh boy, there's so much to discuss in these, from all three protagonists, romance, and more! As always for our Skywards Spanreads, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Next up will be Cytonic from November 3rd to November 17th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail is the US cover, by Sam Green! 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://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 Sen

We're onto to the Skyward Flight collection, the novellas written by Janci Patterson in collaboration with Brandon. We talk about our thoughts and compare them especially with Cytonic! As always for our Skywards Spanreads, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Next up will be Cytonic from November 3rd to November 17th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail is the US cover, by Charlie Bowater! View Jessie's recaps over on her personal channel: Sunreach: https://youtu.be/exXN4V719Rg?si=aDpSmxWWh8mMnF2I ReDawn: https://youtu.be/eA9n1xKzvTs?si=Bx3aJHx5qEdKG2zr Evershore: https://youtu.be/h6hCHidNfB4?si=c8Ot6tPlvBpsmPx2 View our Janci interview on these books here: https://youtu.be/edAoeeEhuDA?si=TxY_JWKEHphJQ2Q7 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

The final Brandon Sanderson Secret Project, The Sunlit Man, is out! In this episode of Shardcast, we talk about our thoughts on the book some, but we just can't help ourselves getting into the implications of it all. And this was us trying to not get into "the lore," uh oh! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), David (Windrunner), Evgeni (Argent), and Verónica (Cheyenne Sedai)! Next episode (coming October 22nd) will have us cover more WoBs from our interview with him, and then we will have episodes on lore from this book! Chapters: 00:00 Intro 3:10 Spoiler-free Thoughts 13:11 Is This a Good Starting point? 18:44 General Spoilery Thoughts 34:07 Sigzil Timeline & the Dawnshard 1:08:03 More Fav Moments 1:21:22 Chorus, Night Brigade, Threnody 1:36:28 Space Age Cosmere (Includes Sixth of the Dusk 2 stuff, and anti-Scadrian propaganda) 2:11:58 More Book Comments 2:18:06 What's Next for Sigzil? 2:29:27 Art and Final Thoughts 2:42:40:17 Who's That Cosmere Character If you like our content, support us on Patreo

Oh boy, we learned about so much lore in Starsight! Let's talk about it. We talk about delver mazes, figments, slugs, and of course, Twilight Imperium. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Next up is Skyward Flight from October 13th to October 27th, Cytonic from November 4nd to November 17th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail is the French cover at of Starsight, by Alain Brion. 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://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud

It's time to talk about the characters in Starsight, and oh boy, there is a lot to talk about! We discuss M-Bot, Spensa and her arc, Jorgen, and of course, the new flight in the book. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Starsight episodes air from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the UK art of Starsight, by Sam Green. 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://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind

Today on Shardcast, we start talking about the Words of Brandon from our interview with Brandon in July. We get through a record low amount of WoBs, but we discuss Mistborn: Ghostbloods and Yumi questions. It's also a completely unhinged episode. Enjoy! Next episode will be Secret Project 4 reactions, then we will do part 2 of these WoBs. But for this one, have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Evgeni (Argent), Shannon (Grey), and Jessie (Lady Lameness)! You can watch our Brandon interview here: https://youtu.be/rkCP04Wo1Ho?si=TzcNblog43xw5m05 Thumbnail art is by Nozomi: https://www.instagram.com/p/CopOBpyy7ro/?img_index=2 Chapters: 00:00 Unhinged Intro and Show & Tell 7:20 Unmade, Sja-anat, and Ambition 13:17 Dawnshard Mural and Super-Shard 18:54 Hemalurgic Spikes and the Beyond 20:52 Our Questions! Marasi and the Ghostbloods, Plus Mistborn: Ghostbloods 32:27 Did Shallan Rejecting Ghostbloods Affect Marasi? 40:38 Virtuosity's Investiture in Two Streams 57:55 Awakening and the Father Machine 1:16:04 Can Painti

This week on SpanReads, we are onto Starsight, the sequel to Skyward. How do we feel about this controversial book on a reread? Stay tuned to find out. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). For a recap, see Jessie's video on her personal channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vYkAoQ6HSeo&pp=ygUPc3RhcnNpZ2h0IHJlY2Fw SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Starsight episodes air from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the US hardcover art of Starsight, by Charlie Bowater. 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 Cop

This week on SpanReads, we are talking about the Lore in Skyward! We talk about foreshadowing for the future, and inconsistencies. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Skyward episodes air August 31st to September 14th, Starsight from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the Italian Skyward cover, by Federico Musetti! 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://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net

Brandon has read previews from book 5 of The Stormlight Archive, called Knights of Wind and Truth for now, at various occasions. We delve into them and discuss what this might mean for the book and the greater Cosmere! This episode we have Evgeni (Argent), Grace (thegatorgirl), and Ala (Rasarr)! Read the chapters yourself: https://wob.coppermind.net/help/readings Thumbnail by Randy Vargas: https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/comments/x7h8vo/stormlight_five_update_one/ Watch our episode on the SA 5 prologue on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMCXseuRCjE 00:00:00 Introductions 00:03:20 Kaladin Chapters 00:42:00 Szeth Chapters 01:21:54 Jasnah Chapter 01:54:50 Character Groupings 02:01:45 Who’s That Cosmere Character? 02:07:08 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 Discord: https://discord.gg/17thshard Want to l

This week on SpanReads, we are talking about the Characters & Relationships in Skyward! We talk about M-Bot, Cobb, Skyward Flight and Jorgen, and of course, ZEEN NIGHTSHADE. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Skyward episodes air August 31st to September 14th, Starsight from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the UK Skyward cover by Sam Green. 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://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanu

SpanReads, our reread show, returns! For 2023, in anticipation for Defiant's release, we are doing the Skyward series! We're doing three episodes on each book, and this one is Reactions & Retrospectives. Importantly, unlike our cosmere SpanReads, we need to compare with the rest of the series, so this does have full Skyward series spoilers, excluding Defiant, of course, because it isn't out yet. So, what did we think of Skyward on a reread? Stay tuned to find out. For this book, we have Mi'chelle (firstRainbowRose), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Ian (Weiry), and Eric (Chaos). Need a recap? Jessie has you covered, and her own channel, she did a full recap for Skyward: https://youtu.be/vfGZwEgoX9A SpanReads will come out weekly until Defiant comes out. Skyward episodes air August 31st to September 14th, Starsight from September 21st to October 5th, Skyward Flight from October 12th to October 26th, Cytonic from November 2nd to November 16th, and then Defiant comes out the week after! Thumbnail art is the US Skywar

Welcome to a bonkers, off-the-rails Shardcast. We're talking Tress and Yumi. We're talking Midnight Essence and the nightmares. We're talking about smoke. Black smoke! Yes, that's what we are doing for over two hours. Can you guess where we go in this episode and how many bizarre terms we mention? Well... you'll find out! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), David (Windrunner), Evgeni (Argent), and Grace (thegatorgirl)! Thumbnail by Aliya Chen: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/standalones-cosmere/#secretproject3 Here are all the Annotations Brandon has done: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/brandon-sanderson-online-library/#annotations 00:00 Intro & Podcast Topic 2:54 Show and Tell 5:55 Black Smoke Before Secret Projects 23:58 Midnight Essence 41:39 Nightmares and the Father Machine 1:49:34 Red Smoke vs. Black Smoke 2:02:02 Shades 2:13:17 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:/

Brandon's back on Shardcast! In this episode we discuss all sorts of spoiler questions from The Lost Metal, Tress of the Emerald Sea, and Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, and other cosmere questions. Brandon is awesome as always and we really thank him for his time here! Enjoy, there are some very interesting new things here, like a title for Era 3 and... more dragons than you would expect. It's a shorter episode, but Brandon is super busy, so we hope you don't mind! On this episode we have Evgeni (Argent), Matt (Comatose), Veronica (Cheyenne Sedai), and of course the man himself, Brandon Sanderson. Also featuring Producer Cognitive Shadow Eric and Brandon roasting him. But Brandon roasts Evgeni as well, so that's good too. 00:00 Intro & Spoiler Policy 1:55 How Are You? Mini Stormlight Update 3:43 Spoilery Questions, Marasi and Ghostbloods 9:50 Yumi Questions 23:09 Tress Things & Aethers 27:13 Dragons 32:36 Assorted Other Questions 42:37 Lightning Round 48:40 Misc. Things, Spoiler Streams and AI Art If y

It's time to talk about Secret Project 3: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter. It's a Brandon cosmere romance book, and how did he do? Listen on to find out. This episode, we have Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), Joshua (jofwu), Ala (Rasarr), and Veronica (Cheyenne)! Buy the Yumi art here: https://www.inprnt.com/gallery/chenalii/ Mythwalker sample chapters: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/warbreaker-prime-mythwalker-prologue/ Dragonsteel Prime sample chapters: https://www.brandonsanderson.com/dragonsteel-prime-chapter-25-bridge-four-1/ 00:00 Introductions 2:22 Spoiler-free reactions 10:44 Spoilers 22:31 The ending 39:27 Artwork 46:06 Characters 1:47:48 Cosmere stuff 2:17:07 Final thoughts 2:24:08 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://discord.gg/17thshard Want to learn more about the cosmere

The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England (Secret Project 2) is now out to everyone in bookstores (as of June 27th), so with that and because of some scheduling issues in April, we thought we'd do it now! What did we think about the noncosmere Secret Project? Stay tuned to find out! This episode, we have Ian (Weiry), Shannon (Grey), and Kadie (Aon Ene)! Next episode will be Secret Project 3 Reactions, coming July 16th. That one comes out tomorrow! 00:00 Introductions 1:11 Initial Spoiler-free Thoughts 7:19 Spoiler Thoughts: Likes 22:48 Dislikes 24:02 CW: Suicidal ideation 41:13 More Dislikes 44:31 Ryan and Jenn 53:35 Ahura Mazda 58:22 John and Sefawynn 1:06:26 Final Things 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 W

Ship It or Rip It returns after a very long hiatus, this time with characters up through Tress of the Emerald, Lost Metal, and Rhythm of War. Our cast today includes Eric (Chaos), Alyx (Feather), Matt (Comatose), Grace (thegatorgirl), and Shannon (Grey)! Chapters: 00:00 Introductions 4:46 MeLaan and Charlie 13:52 Shallan & Sadeas 28:51 Khriss & Ranette 42:42 Wayne & Ruin 54:57 Allriane & Rushu 1:07:10 Spook & Cultivation 1:21:44 Galladon & Frost 1:39:47 Jasnah & The Sorceress 1:56:06 Raboniel & Teft 2:11:35 Blushweaver & Allik 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://coppermind.net Read all Words of Brandon on Arcanum: https://wob.coppermind.net Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/sou

Today on our occasionally-running show where we talk about non-Brandon Sanderson stuff, we are talking about Shadow & Bone season 2! This episode we have Eric (Chaos), Ian (Weiry), Jessie (Lady Lameness), Lucy (Empress), Verónica (Cheyenne Sedai). 00:00 Intros / What Grisha Order are You 5:09 Show and Tell 16:02 What We've Read/Watched 26:08 Season 1 Thoughts 30:45 Season 2 (Show only) 1:17:21 Full Book Spoilers If you're here from the Grishaverse fandom, we're 17th Shard, and we do Brandon Sanderson content and occasionally other stuff like this. 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 Subscribe to Shardcast: http://feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:102123174/sounds.rss