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Will Joel become a Rithmatist?
Brandon Sanderson
Oh that's totally a RAFO. Here's your RAFO.
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Questioner
One of my favorite books is Warbreaker, and it’s been eating me for years what’s going on with Vivenna and Vasher. Are we going to get some kind of sequel soon, or is that going to be explained in any upcoming books?
Brandon Sanderson
When The Wheel of Time came along, there was a certain path my career, I thought, was taking. And there are certain things I began that got changed. And so, I learned very quickly to stop promising sequels to things when I can't see the future. But I promised to finish the Alcatraz series, the Legion series, The Rithmatist, Warbreaker, and Elantris. I have finished Alcatraz and Legion. And I'm doing Elantris next. Warbreaker and Rithmatist will come. But I feel like Elantris just fits better right now. It is something I am going to do. Assuming I live long enough, which shouldn't be… as long as I'm making it to the end of The Stormlight Archive, by that time you should have it. I can't promise it soon. Because I sat down, I'm like, “All right, what am I doing next?” And the Elantris sequels fit so much better into the framework of what I'm doing, that it felt like I should do those.
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Questioner
You mentioned earlier in the spoiler Q&A that you will not promise that you’re going to write- Like, you won’t promise things that you won’t fulfill. You’re not gonna promise that you're gonna write write books that you won’t. So, what is a project that you see you might not get to?
Brandon Sanderson
I think something like The Silence Divine. I sure would like to, but I won’t promise that I’m gonna get it to it. I’ve got a lot of books in the mainline Cosmere sequence that I need to get to. If it comes down to: am I gonna finish the Stormlight Archive, or am I gonna write Silence Divine? I’ll finish the Stormlight Archive. There are some of these side projects that I just can’t promise that I will be able to get to. The ones that I am promising are the ones that I’ve made promises about in the past about. So, there will be a Warbreaker sequel, there will be a Rithmatist sequel.
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Adam Horne
The next question is from... someone, I'm not going to say their name because I don't know how they say it. "Now that Skyward is finishing up, any plans for your next YA series? Apocalypse Guard maybe, or do you have something crazier in mind?"
Brandon Sanderson
Right now it's probably the next Skyward series.
Janci Patterson
Yay!
Brandon Sanderson
It's the next YA thing I will do. Finishing The Rithmatist is still on my radar. Apocalypse Guard is still on my radar, but I think that the next thing I will be doing is these next Skyward books with Janci.
Janci Patterson
The Rithmatist had some stuff you needed to work out.
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah, The Rithmatist has some issues, and the biggest one, honestly, is that it's just been so long. I've moved to different parts of my career, and it's real hard to pick up a thread that old. People are like, "Why didn't you do it when it came out?" When it came out, it was already old, because I wrote it in 2007, and I sat on it for years. That's part of it, but there's also some sensitivity issues with it, and things like that.
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Questioner
Not to bring up Rithmatist, do you think it is just going to be the two books or--
Brandon Sanderson
I plotted it at three, so it is probably going to be The Rithmatist, The Aztlanian, and then I-- The Nebraskian? But I have to find some goofy thing so it's not necessarily Nebraskan...
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Questioner
How many more Rithmatist novels are gonna be?
Brandon Sanderson
The original plan was for a trilogy. We'll see if I can make that happen or not. There'll be at least one more.
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Brandon Sanderson
I really like that one [the mystery of Roanoke]. I actually, for a while... You guys are gonna hate me for this, but I, for a while, was gonna have the second Rithmatist novel deal with that. And then I threw that out the window; one of the reasons why the second Rithmatist novel's taken forever is I threw that whole concept. But it was gonna be Lost Colony-focused, for a little while.