Questioner 1
I was just wondering about the timeline in Alloy of Law. How long does it take Wax to get back to the city after Lessie died?
Brandon Sanderson
That's... I would have to look exactly at the timeline. I believe it is months and not years, but I am not 100% sure. It might be, like eight months?
Questioner 2
I thought it was six months.
Brandon Sanderson
Six months? That's the sort of thing that I have to look at a timeline for. I'm not gonna remember that, but yeah, something like that.
Questioner
So if I came back tomorrow, could you answer that?
Brandon Sanderson
I probably could not. If you send me an email I probably could. But this sort of thing I have to go, dig into the timeline, say "Hey Peter, where's our timeline on this. Hey Karen, what's the month...get out the master timeline," and stuff like that.
Usually I do a lot of the books, writing them without really worrying too much about the timeline, and then I give them to Karen, and Karen's job is to make all the timeline fit. And she'll come back to me and say, "We need more time here, for these people to get here," and things like that. And so I adjust the books to match the timeline. And so, a master timeline is not something I take into a large account when I am writing. It's more important in Stormlight books 'cause of the storms. You can't just off-the-cuff if there's a storm or not a storm. But in a lot of other books doesn't matter as much.
Questioner
I was just a little confused when Marasi said that Wax had come back at the same time as the thing, it didn't make sense at the end.
Brandon Sanderson
We'll see. You can always fire us an email, and we'll go to the master timeline and see what Karen says.