#sand mastery

[diabolicalworldwriter]

Inktober day 19

Today’s prompt was dance and i remember sand masters being described dancing and flowing and all that stuff so here’s my fanart of Kenton. I think it turned out pretty good, if a bit messy.

[imaginarycosmere]

Q: If you could make one change to the Cosmere that is impossible to change now, what would it be? A: Hmmmm.... I gave this some thought all week, and had trouble deciding because the the things I would change are more about individual books, and less about the cosmere as a whole. I don't know if I'd change anything about the big story--mostly because the things I would want to change would all take place in the Dragonsteel era, and that book isn't canonical anyway. Once I write it for real, I can change any of the things that I don't think are working. As for the core of the cosmere... I might make some small tweaks to Allomancy. I have never liked how the signal of sixteen worked in Hero of Ages. (For those not in the know, I talk about this in the annotations-I was looking for a sign that Preservation could send that Ruin wouldn't notice, along with help for mankind.) In the end, I think this ended up being a little clunky. Other things (like slatrification in Sand Mastery) are small enough I can change moving forward, but not Allomancy. So l might take another stab at that. On the whole, though, I'm very pleased with how the larger cosmere story is playing out.

Brandon’s FAQ Friday

[uneditedbookreview]

“Don’t swear now, Father,” Kenton suggested. “Wait until I run the Path successfully. Then what will you do?”

from White Sand (prose)

[uneditedbookreview]

[kindleln]

White Sand

I got the White Sand graphic novel today and I have to say, I was impressed. I've read the 2 nd prose version of White Sand, and some aspects were noticeably cut and changed. I won't elaborate due to spoilers and the possibility they'll be brought up in a later volume. The biggest no spoiler change was probably Ais switching from male to female. This is probably due to the original Ais being a lot like Hrathen from Elantris, and the only real female character in the entire story being Khriss, so this change does make since. In Sanderson's newsletter from this month it was stated that "As a note, we changed one of the characters in the graphic novel version to be female, to help balance this out. It worked very well, and she's now one of my favorite characters in the whole book." (Direct excerpt from Brandon Sanderson's email newsletter for July) I personally like this decision and if you didn't know about the change it'd be no big deal. Ais was one of my favorites from the prose It's a good read and you should definitely check it out