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'''''The Silence Divine''''' is an unpublished [[cosmere]] work by [[Brandon Sanderson]] about humans gaining magical powers from diseases.{{bwssots ref|state-of-the-sanderson|State of the Sanderson|date=Jul 24, 2013}} It was originally planned to be a standalone novel. However, Brandon has since downgraded it to a novella a lalike ''[[The Emperor's Soul]]''. It will be renamed.{{bwssots ref|state-of-the-sanderson-december-2014|State}} ofDuring the Sanderson[[wikipedia:COVID-19 December 2014pandemic|date=2014COVID-12-18}}19 As of January 26pandemic]], 2018 it might possibly be trunked. Brandon says about the premise: "What if viruses and bacteria evolved to give people magical talents when you caught the disease. This ideasaid that ahe bacteriagot doesn’tmuch actuallymore wantinterested toin killworking you,on or''The aSilence virus doesn’t want to kill you. It wants you to live and spread it. You getting sick is a side effect. What if the side effect is, you got the common cold, all the sniffles and everything,Divine'' but you could fly as long as you had the common cold? What would that do to society?keep Whathimself happensfocused whenon someone invents penicillin and can wipe out half''[[Rhythm of theseWar]]''.{{wob magical talents? What happens if people start catching a disease that makes everything they touch start on fire?ref|13755}}
 
== Description ==
So it was a story about basically fantasy Jack Bauer, who’s a member of the fantasy CDC, who tries to stop diseases and the problems thay cause. But in order to do his job, he has to keep his immune system terrible, like this weakling who can barely get up the steps, so that he can quickly catch diseases to get the powers he needs to with the outbreaks of these things."▼
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|What if viruses and bacteria evolved to give people magical talents when you caught the disease. This idea that a bacteria doesn’t actually want to kill you, or a virus doesn’t want to kill you. It wants you to live and spread it. You getting sick is a side effect. What if the side effect is, you got the common cold, all the sniffles and everything, but you could fly as long as you had the common cold? What would that do to society? What happens when someone invents penicillin and can wipe out half of these magical talents? What happens if people start catching a disease that makes everything they touch start on fire?
 
▲So it was a story about basically fantasy Jack Bauer, who’s a member of the fantasy CDC, who tries to stop diseases and the problems thaythey cause. But in order to do his job, he has to keep his immune system terrible, like this weakling who can barely get up the steps, so that he can quickly catch diseases to get the powers he needs to with the outbreaks of these things."
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== Setting ==
It is set on the [[shardworld]] [[Ashyn]], in the [[GreaterRosharan Rosharsystem]] solar system.{{17swob ref|post|62280|Q&A at Spokane Barnes & Noble|date=09 August 20139847}}
 
The magic system involves illnesses granting people powers as long as they are sick.{{qawob ref|460|11|Do7041}} youThe havepremise newof ideas?|date=Novthe 7thstory involves someone developing penicillin, 2009which could potentially cause Ashyn's floating cities to crash down due to them being held aloft by groups infected with a certain disease.{{wob ref|12271}}
 
It is currently set to take place around the time of book 8 of [[The Stormlight Archive]], but this could change in the future.{{wob ref|11901}}
 
== Behind the Scenes ==
Brandon wrote, and read, a few test scenes while touring for ''[[Words of Radiance]]''.{{bwssots ref|state-of-the-sanderson-december-2014|State of the Sanderson: December 2014|date=2014-12-18}}
 
== Trivia ==
* The book's title comes from the fact that the disease that gives Ashyn's inhabitants the ability to keep their cities afloat also causes hearing loss.{{wob ref|12271}}
 
== Notes ==
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