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No_Doughnut8618
Do you have a plan for Whimsy's planet already, like with a developed magic system and maybe a story to go along with it? Or is it kind of a wild card?
Brandon Sanderson
I have plans, but that doesn't prevent wild cards. Let's just say I have plans, that doesn't prevent me from changing it as things develop. The only two planets that I'm unlikely to change are Yolen and the Aether planet at this point. Those most likely need to remain canonized for reasons that they are being worked into the narratives. Everything else can be flexible.
And you assume that there's one planet for Whimsy, and that it is a planet, don't make assumptions.
No_Doughnut8618
If you've got a plan can we get any little detail about any of it?
Brandon Sanderson
Yeah; making assumptions.
Questioner
I've been coming since the first Dragonsteel. And there is a man that has come every year that I run into every year, and I've always mentioned - I call him “The Whimsy Guy.” Because for years he went on about how Whimsy was the most terrifying Shard, until you so rudely told him it was not. You said that Whimsy was only dangerous to your sensibility. Something along those lines.
And that got me thinking, because that sounded very Wayne. And you have a very specific trope in a lot of your characters, in every single one of your st- well, maybe not every one, but a lot of your stories. We have Lopen, we have Wayne, we have Lift; we have a lot of these. And we know that Whimsy is just off doing whatever Whimsy does. And we also know multiple Shards can touch the same person, and one Shard touching somebody could actually make them more favorable for another Shard. So, is Whimsy just kind of going off and slightly touching a bunch of different people with the only purpose of pissing off all of the main characters in your stories?
Brandon Sanderson
You think Wayne needs the help of a Shard to piss off the other main characters? So the actual answer is: this is not needed for these characters in order to act like they are. Wayne needed no help.
KandraAllomancer
What Magic The Gathering colors would the Shards introduced in Rhythm of War or after be?
Brandon Sanderson
I have to RAFO that for now, because it kind of depends.
But Whimsy is pure red.
Questioner
We had some unnamed Shard namedrops in Rhythm of War. Has there been any kind of Whimsical machinations onscreen, or have they been mostly absent?
Brandon Sanderson
RAFO! Sorry, sorry. I think there's a mention of Whimsy in Wax and Wayne 4, so... Capital "w" Whimsy.
ImKrypton
If there was Any shard to be offered to Hoid, it would have been this one [Whimsy].
Brandon Sanderson
Hoid is far too calculating and deliberate for Whimsy. It might seem his style on the surface, but a deep dive into who he is would show that it's very much not who he is.
DeJeR
Will we ever see the world or magic system for Whimsy?
Brandon Sanderson
Some day, hopefully.
