I loved the Graphic novel, haven't listened to forgotten. Will there be a volume 2 of the graphic novel?

I've been looking for this thread around Reddit and haven't found it so creating it here.

I'll share my thoughts as a comment to this.

This is showing on Kobo for preorder with a release date of 11th July 2023

In today's episode of Intentionally Blank, Dan revealed that he's the new VP of Narrative at Dragonsteel. When talking about how this came to be, Brandon and Dan revealed that while the draft of the novelization is in, they're "still in the process of revising" it. (See at about 45 minutes in.)

This tracks with Brandon's talks about the novelization potentially coming out during the time between Stormlight 5 and 6.

Dan also mentioned that the turned in the final revisions for Dark One: Forgotten, leaving only edits and audio stuff.

Pretty straight forward. I just read through the first Dark One book, not realizing it had only one volume out. Id really love to see it continued, but cannot find any updates anywhere Im looking. Do we have any idea what state volume 2 is in?

Dark One Forgotten, the audio-novella cowritten by Dan Wells was supposed to release this October, but now the release date on Audible has it as January 10, 2023.

Audiobooks.com doesn't even list the audio-novella.

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Hopefully Brandon will provide a reason for this delay. The bad news is that it's one less thing coming in 2022, but on the bright side if this is true, it means we're getting one more thing in 2023!

-Illarion describes Earth as being an entirely separate place, while Malmahan describes it as an "echo" - insubstantial/not really real was the vibe I got. Who's right? It seems likely that Malmahan is delusional to some extent, but I can't discount it entirely because of the memory thing.

-Did Nikka die in Mirandus or in some other world? It looked like the Kingdoms of Light until the mine....also, how did Paul survive the explosion?

-What happened to Zoran, exactly? Obviously he was going to Mirandus but unless I'm missing some subtext, I can't figure out what he was doing or why he was killed.

-Rastik says "they brought this on themselves, she most of all." Does that mean Feotora? I'm a little confused since I can't think why Rastik would attribute any additional fault to her.

-Presumably we don't know much about the mechanics of this part, but I don't really understand how Paul actually killed Kraisis. It looks like he just kind of sucked the chosen one-ness out of him. Does that mean that Kraisis had risen? Because otherwise he wouldn't have had the power to be taken...

-Why is Paul returned to Earth? Malmahan isn't delivered directly to the well room so it's not like they swapped places in both worlds. Is he just expelled because there can't be two dark ones at once? Or is it part of the design of the Peragator? Also, does Malmahan just not know about the method Illarion and Zoran used, or did he lose the ability somehow?

P.S. You're welcome, /u/Use_the_Falchion

On February 28, Dan Wells did an interview with the Sandersonian Institute of Cosmere Studies. During that time, Dan talked a bit about Dark One, what he's working on with it, and what he knows and is allowed to say:

1. Dark One Novelization is roughly 84% done. And repeated that the graphic novel and novelization are doing their own things based off of the same outline, so we can't expect them to be the same.
2. As far as Dan knows, the show for Dark One is dead in the water at this time.

These are small updates, but they're still more than what we've had in a bit.

Can I read Dark One without future spoilers, or is it highly connected to Cosmere? I have not finished Stormlight. Finished Elantris, Way of Kings, now on Words of Radiance. I love it so much!

Dan talked a little about Dark One while waiting for some technical issues to get solved at his 8:30 (which really turned into a 9:10/9L15) Jaws viewing panel tonight. The gist of it is:

Dark One: Forgotten is in, and we're waiting on Brandon to do his draft of the story. Currently, Dan is writing the novelization of the overall Dark One story, and it's not following the outline. So those (of us) who are expecting it to read like the graphic novel will most likely be sorely disappointed. Dan has written about 30k words, and is expecting the length to be 100-120k by the end of things. There was also a mention of wanting to finish that 100-120k by the end of the year, but we'll see if that happens. Either way, it's looking like things are chugging along for Dark One!

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November 23 Update:

I was able to ask Isaac about Dark One Volume 2, and the direct quote he gave was "Volume 2 - all I can say - is it's in the works and it's gonna be cool." So while this isn't new information, as we've had an official confirmation via Jackson Lanzing for a while now, it's still cool to hear about this from Brandon and Co's side of things.

In today's weekly update, Brandon talks about working on a draft of something Dan just finished recently. I think this is likely Dark One: Forgotten. The first "recent" clue is from one of the early episodes of Writing Excuses, where Dan and Brandon talk about working on that together. And then in the previous major Q&A signing, Brandon mentioned that Dan just turned in something related to the Dark One novelization. Combined, that sounds like all but confirmed proof that Dan finished the first draft DO:F, and it's now time for Brandon to do his draft.

Now, if this is Dark One: Forgotten, when might it come out? The Mainframe projects seem to have a release schedule anywhere between 5-9 months. The Original took the longest, being announced in the State of the Sanderson 2019 and releasing that September 2020 after a noted delay. Lux was shorter, with about seven months between the announcement of the first draft being done and the book coming out. Sunreach was the shortest at five months.

All of this doesn't give us an exact timeframe, but depending on the length of this project it could be released any time between March and July of next year. I'd bet on April/May, but that's just me. Whatever the project, we're sure to find out when it will be released by the State of the Sanderson this year!

I didnt know a digital copy was out, 10 months ago I was still reading the Stormlight Archive readying myself for the new book. So my first experience with this was when sanderson announced the books release in stores, so I basically just read it yesterday. It might be my all time favorite story so far. I really like stories where its from the bad guy's perspective and the lines between evil and good are skewed. That appears to be what the Dark One series will be about based on what Sanderson mentioned on his weekly updates. I am excited to learn there is more to how we got here and this subreddit will be a good place for me to start looking for more Dark One information.

As the title says, is Dark One a part of the Cosmere? I thought I had read a long time ago that it was going to be.

This is an update on my previous post: https://www.reddit.com/r/DarkOne/comments/hj7n6y/about_qa_livestream_email/.

I reached out to Vault store, and they told me as the title says, contact them here regarding the stream (if you preordered the book).

I got a copy of the email they sent, which has a link to the questionnaire. They will send the stream link when it is ready.

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Kind regards,

So I read a post on r/Brandonsanderson (https://www.reddit.com/r/brandonsanderson/comments/hizlh6/psa_dark_one_private_qa_livestream/) mentioning that an email with the private livestream details had been sent (it will be tomorrow).

Question is, has anyone who preordered the digital version also got that email?

I did preorder the digital version, but haven't received such email (I did got the email with the extra stuff download links, and for the comic itself). I am a little worried that I am missing the stream.

Also, I checked on WayBackMachine and even if you preorder the digital version, it still mentions access to the livestream:

https://web.archive.org/web/*/https://store.vaultcomics.com/products/brandon-sandersons-dark-one (select, for example, 18th of June).

Thanks!