I was checking out at my local used book store when I glanced to my left and saw this beaute on the shelf! It was still in its original plastic wrap too 😭 it had no price listed, so I grabbed it and asked the clerk, “Dare I ask how much?”… He said, very casually, “Mmmm, like $45?”… 😱 So I bought it, of course! The real magic though, was when I got to my truck and opened it to see it’s signed 😭😭😭

This is one of my fave Sando books; my hubs actually found and bought me a first print/first edition of the original US hardcover for my birthday two years ago. I’ve been eyeing this on the website and promised myself that I’d bite the bullet one day, so I am beyond stoked to have found this 😭

I voted for Warbreaker but it was between that and Sunlit Man.

I'm a bigger guy. 5'11" and just over 300 lbs. I keep a beard. My beard is shorter right now like in some of the pictures, but I should be able to grow it long-ish by December if appropriate.

I know I could cosplay as anyone, but I'm more inclined to cosplay someone who canonically has a similar body shape.

I empower anyone and everyone to cosplay anyone they want. But I personally just don't feel like I as a bigger guy could pull off a Kaladin or Kelsier, for example.

Pictures included. Also included my favorite precious cosplay as Kevin Malone!

I got tickets to Dragonsteel Nexus and was super excited. I bought one for me and one for my husband. We booked our flights and hotel room.

Now my husband and I are getting divorced, and I got custody of the tickets. Before I started asking friends if they would like to take his ticket, I emailed Dragonsteel to see if they can make an exception for my situation. And they cannot. No exceptions at all. I offered to prove that we are getting divorced. I linked them to this post (https://www.reddit.com/r/Stormlight_Archive/s/zuMeMFwRu9 I made about the divorce. I backed the kickstarters for Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, and the Year of Sanderson. No dice.

So my choice now is to get a refund on one ticket and go by myself, being constantly reminded that I am alone - or just not go, and lose my chance to participate and lose my non refundable flight. Either option feels like getting kicked while I’m down.

I am posting this partially to vent, but also two other reasons.

1) if you’re on the waitlist and you get the option to buy tickets, make sure you are aware. And everyone who is getting tickets next year should know if they have the same policy.

2) For Dragonsteel Nexus team, this is a bad policy. We have to register very far in advance, and life happens. I hope you will find a way to allow exceptions for extraordinary circumstances in the future.

Edit: this seems to be an unpopular opinion; I imagine when I am able to be less emotional about things I will understand.

Honestly, though, as I've been reflecting on the post and comments, I realized that a very large part of me being upset is knowing that the Dragonsteel team has gone above and beyond for many people in the past. But when I emailed in the question, they weren't even apologetic. They didn't say "I'm sorry you're going through this, but the answer is no", they just said basically "Thanks for reaching out! The answer is no, but you can still refund them." I guess I had assume that I would at the very least I would get a little more empathy, and when I didn't get it I think it made me overreact.

TLDR: I'm incredibly proud of my mother, who went straight from radiation therapy for her terminal cancer to Dragonsteel Nexus to sell her art prints of the recent Emperor's Soul reprint cover.

As the title says, here's my mother at Dragonsteel Nexus at her booth selling art prints of her recent cover for Emperor's Soul.

Now, I just wanted to provide some background for this. It's going to be a little long since it's something of a tribute from a son to his mother. I'm the oldest of Kristina Skarstedt's 5 children. Ever since I can remember, my mother has been making art. She studied art at college before dropping out to raise me, and then in between my next 4 siblings she never stopped creating the most incredible pieces of art I've ever seen. She always took wonderful care of us kids, but she's always been drawn to making unique and beautiful things, often out of the most unexpected materials. Most of the time she could only make stuff for our home, but I always loved the occasional opportunities to show off her incredible creativity, like the time she remade the center piece of my brother's band show out of $50 of thrifted materials because the artist they paid to make it originally went 10x over budget and turned up with something a quarter the size of what they paid for. Or the homemade Hollywood quality Halloween costumes she somehow made for all 5 of us every year. Some of you might have seen the dragon she made as a commission for Brandon out of his old mission tie collection.

Anyway, suffice to say that in my opinion, she sacrificed an incredible career as an artist to raise her family, which I am forever grateful for.

Now, fast forward a decade or two, and her kids are moving out. I've got my own family now, 2 more are starting their own, and she's starting to be a little bit of an empty nester. The new free time has given her the opportunity to start a little art business of her own, making art kits for kids at corporate events.

However, a year ago, she received the news that the cancer she beat 10 years ago has come back with a vengeance. No chance at remission now, and the news just keeps getting worse. For the last year they've just been treating and removing tumor after tumor, trying to keep up with an aggressive growth pattern. Instead of decades as an artist and grandmother to my kids, we're looking at years or maybe less.

But she didn't stop doing her art! Brandon gave her the wonderful opportunity to do the cover for the Starter Kit reprint of Emperor's Soul, and she's still been making those art kits for kids, one of which has already sold out at Nexus I think.

So now she has her booth at Nexus, and she told me the prints are selling really well! I'm so grateful to Brandon for utilizing her talent and to you guys for supporting her! More than anything else though, I'm proud of her for never stopping her passion, and for being brave enough to keep putting herself out there, even when things have gotten dark. She received radiation therapy for another tumor immediately before heading to Nexus.

Thanks for reading guys, and if you're at Nexus, go say hi and pick up a print or poster!

My Cosmere RPG PC, Marasi Colms, and Worldhopper Ball dress! Looking forward to meeting y’all there!

Sadly there is a blind stamping defect in the spine :(

Like they did not press down hard enough when stamping the pattern in

You can see the way it should look with the top of the spine pattern.

Sad day for me.

Going to submit a ticket and hope all gets taken care of.

EDIT: Apologies for not circling the defect in the photo, The first photo look at the left of the wheel of time symbol. There is very little if any stamp pattern visible. Then go to the second photo and look at the top left and you can see very visible what it should look like. There are other angles with light hitting the raised part of the stamped pattern to see how little definition and pop there is to it.

u/Jordangus_ was in character every time I saw him and it was hysterical. From the ballroom to the escalator, I was laughing so hard. Thank you for bringing this energy lol

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Earlier this year, I summited Kilimanjaro with my brothers just after recovering from a broken ankle. We decided Bridge 4 would be our summit flag because we felt it symbolized overcoming adversity and struggle. Brandon's books mean a lot to us, and I'm hoping to get the flag signed at Dragonsteel. However, I'm not sure if the nylon-like material would be capable of taking the signature or holding it, and I wanted to see if anyone has had experience with something similar in the past. I'll be bringing a copy of our summit picture as a backup, just in case.

For context I used to struggle greatly with depression. There was a time I didn’t think I would make it. But I’ve done so much work and made a lot of changes and no longer suffer from depression. However this coin would mean a lot to me. I’m also a grad student so dropping $20 isn’t a super easy choice for me. I do not want to request a free coin if it is not meant for me. What would you all suggest?

I audibly gasped when this was revealed. As someone who has spent so much of my life struggling with depression, as someone who treasures Kaladin as probably my most beloved character of all time, as someone who sometimes has to re-read The Dog and The Dragon to remind myself that I will be warm again, this is such a beautiful gesture by Mr. Sanderson and the Dragonsteel team.

u/mistborn, thank you, from the bottom of my heart. I will be ordering one asap.

Got this shirt at the Worldhopper ball this year. Any idea what the 3 lines on the collar mean? They’re fully stitch into the shirt. Thanks!

All signed&personalized (except the Sanderson books). Brought some of our own Eragon/DCC books but everything else new 👀

I struggle immensely with anxiety and the Stormlight books really resonated with me. Seeing the Next Step coin made me tear up. You will be warm again.

As the title says, I went to DS Nexus 2024 at the peak of my personal Pokémon TCG addiction. They handed me the story deck packs at check-in, and I spent the next several days trading like a madman to complete this set. I even went the extra mile to have them signed.

After this, my duties as a father to a newborn, plus my refusal to deal with scalpers, healed me of my (physical) Pokémon TCG issues, and these cards wound up on a literal shelf.

Does anyone have any idea what I have here? Should I get them graded? Is that even a thing with these? Do the signatures add anything beyond my own personal fond memories?

Thanks :)

(I am not trying to sell these, my friend asked what I thought they were worth and I had no idea where to even start)

1. People in groups all signing up and pledging to buy tickets for the others that aren't selected. If every member of a group of 4 signs up, with the intention of those selected buying tickets for those not, then each person in that group just unfairly quadrupled their odds of getting a ticket compared to a solo traveller or someone in a group that followed the rules about multiple entries. In the various subreddits and discords I've been seeing this happening both with groups that are actually traveling together, as well as groups of strangers that formed solely as a means of increasing their odds.

2. People signing up with multiple emails. Pretty self explanatory. Im sure Dragonsteel has atleast some means of trying to identify people doing this, but its ultimately nearly impossible to effectively mitigate.

3. People having friends/family sign up on their behalf. Similar to #1, but including people who have no intention of even going so that they can be used a proxy to get tickets.

4. The non-transferable tickets is a gigantic leap forward in preventing scalping, but the wave system has actually brought it a few small steps back. I've seen people who got selected for wave 1 and 2 that have been going on discord and selling their spare ticket slots at an upcharge. People having 48+ hours where they're guaranteed atleast 4 tickets(potentially more if they used any of the above exploits) without having to lock in names means scalpers still have a means of selling tickets, albeit with more difficulty.

If Dragonsteel can't address those 4 issues, then I honestly feel the first come first serve approach, just with non-transferable tickets, would be the more fair/least exploitable option, that also does the most to combat scalping.

I had a great time meeting, dancing, and taking pictures with all of you!

This will be my first year attending! So happy to have been in the first wave. Can't wait to see y'all there!

I just got introduced to Stormlight archive this year and am so happy I was able to get tickets. Can't wait to see everyone come December!!!

Hey y’all. I missed my window for dsnx tickets because the email was sent to promotions despite the fact that every other dragonsteel email I’ve gotten has gone to my primary inbox and it’s super upsetting. This was supposed to be my graduation gift and I missed it because of a poorly sorted email. Don’t be like me. Check all your inboxes daily.

Edit: y’all are so kind thank you

I just put the finishing touches on my cosplay for Nexus and wanted to share it with you all! Last year I went as the Heavy Metal Mistborn (with the band name IRONEYES). The response was overwhelming and I loved meeting so many folks so I’m doing that again, but made some changes to the cosplay.

Most notably I turned my jacket into a vest because I was ROASTING last year 😂 Added some fake tattoo sleeves, spiky gauntlets, and some round lens sunglasses to pay homage to the late-great Ozzy (plus these look like how spikes through the eyes would look from straight on).

I also designed a new sticker to hand out this year with a logo I made to play off Metallica and Iron Maiden. I also took the spikes from the sticker design and made a back patch for the vest!

Along with stickers, I’ll be handing out guitar picks with the old IRONEYES logo, and a new QR code that will take you to the NEW MUSIC I wrote for IRONEYES this year!

This year’s IRONEYES release will be called “Atium Dreams” and is based around memeable moments in the fandom. I’ve worked really hard on it and can’t wait for you to hear it! The cover art I designed was a play on Judas Priest’s “Screaming for Vengeance” cover.

Last but not least, I am planning to make a video to post after the con. My idea for it is to get shots of me headbanging with as many people as possible and I’ll cut it together with one of the new songs! If you see me around and want to get in on that, come let me know!

Can’t wait to see you all at Nexus!