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(During discussion on the Surges) It's properly transportation rather than travel?

Brandon Sanderson

Yyyes, that’s the general thing. This is the one that involves Shadesmar.

Questioner

You've said previously that the Oathgates don't obey Physical Realm speed of light. Do they obey the speed of light in Shadesmar? Or are they tapping into the Spiritual Realm shenanigans?

Brandon Sanderson

They're tapping into Spiritual Realm shenanigans. An Elsecaller is capable of creating something that can teleport you faster than the speed of light.

VeryNiceName16

In Emberdark, we’re told that the only way to go to a planet without a perpendicularity is to use an FTL ship. And in Sunlit, Sigzil says that methods to get to planets without perpendicularities are very recent. Why can’t you just use Transportation to go from the Cognitive to the Physical?

Brandon Sanderson

You'll find out more about that when we get there. When we get to the back five [Stormlight 6-10] and we talk about it.

There's a couple things going on there. Obviously, Hoid does it, so it is possible to do. In these cases, most people, they're mostly talking about large scale- like if a person wants to go there, they can. And we will get to why Transportation isn't an option. That doesn't mean an individual couldn't figure out how to get onto-

So, just understand that it is possible. They're both kind of wrong; but if you're talking in general terms, there are very, very rare exceptions without FTL. And one of those exceptions is to just bring a whole metric strawberry-ton of Investiture with you, and that will puncture into the Physical Realm if you do it right. It's harder to go from Cognitive to Physical; if you have that in Physical, it happens automatically. Much harder to do. But it happens very naturally in Physical. So if you can get a bunch of Investiture together in the Physical Realm, it will make a hole that you can get through. So, there's ways.

Adam Horne

Have you guys mapped out light-year distances for the system?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes. Isaac has, but I don't know if we're gonna release that.

This is a more nuanced question than I've answered before on this. But Transportation, most forms of teleportation in the cosmere, work at speed of light. Transportation works at speed of light. So Elsecalling, Elsegates, work at speed of light. Spanreeds work at speed of light. Most of your uses are speed of light. There are a few ways around speed of light but...

Questioner

Is Jasnah still alive at the end of the book, since the whole scene where she kind of appears...

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, she is.

Argent

*photo pause* Why does she take so long to come back?

Brandon Sanderson

Because Elsecalling is not precise even if you know what you are doing, which she doesn't.