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Can cytonic people potentially use all the abilities from Defending Elysium?
Potentially, yes. So mindblades and things like that. Mostly, I'm kind of pushing people into specialties a little bit more, like I've done with something like Mistborn where you're generally better at one thing than another. So you may see some divisions of powers, but they're all capable of it.
AutoDidact17 says, "I'm curious about the UrDail's connection to Tolkien's Elves. I love the idea of Tolkien being Cytonic or being visited by aliens, but wasn't there a period of several hundred years before the human years when no humans were in touch with ReDawn, Evershore, etc.?" I guess that's the question.
So when I'm working on a book, I get excited about dumb little stuff. When we were working on ReDawn, I was like, "Yeah the plot, sure, whatever". I need this thing where Tolkien was Cytonic and the UrDail are his Elves, this is really important, and Brandon was like, "Okay. Let's talk about the plot."
So, he was, in this lore, didn't know he was Cytonic, right?
Yeah. My explanation was actually not that he was Cytonic, but that he knew Cytonics.
He knew Cytonics, okay.
...And so he had met UrDail who had travelled to Earth, not that he was Cytonic. But it's not canonized, right? It's not in the book, we don't know in the book. So it could be whatever.
Could be. You get to pick the canon version for these things.
Awesome. So that's my headcanon anyway. To me, nothing is canon until it's on the page, though. Because even in my headcanon, I might later be like, "But it makes more sense if it works this way but differently."
Well, I do the same thing. "Words of Brandon", which is what they call them, are not as high in the hierarchy of canon as what I end up putting in the books, and I've warned people of that.
Yeah. I'm on the Coppermind now. There's a "Words of Janci". *laughs*
*starts and stops a few times* The Cytonics not being kind of official doesn't mean there wasn't some connection, something's happening. And so yeah.
In the past, you've mentioned how Skyward was originally intended to be part of the cosmere. Were cytonic abilities originally going to be an Invested Art, or were they developed after the creation of the cytoverse proper?
Slight correction, Skyward was not going to be part of the Cosmere. It was specifically Spensa who was going to be in the cosmere. The story she was going to be part of is still cosmere-relevant, and we will still see it, but we'll see the replacement for Spensa instead. The cytonic abilities were developed afterwards, as we see in Defending Elysium.
Is Doomslug the cytonic hyperdrive?
That is a RAFO.
Theoretically, could an AI develop cytonic powers or is it purely biological rather than consciousness.
It is possible that an AI could.
Is Doomslug capable of using Hypertravel as well as taking matter with her?
RAFO. Doomslug will be very important to the next book. She's very relevant to the events of the book coming out in December.
