it's finally here! the year of the Sanderson has begun! oh hi I'm Steve and welcome to RAFO
just today I got a package! this is the first Swag Box sent out from
Dragonsteel in celebration of the Year of Sanderson. because of supply chain issues,
the deluxe hardcover of Tress of the Emerald Sea is being sent out during the rest of this month,
but they already had the Hoid box packed so they sent those out and I'm gonna open it up!
that was incredibly graceful! I got a slicer for Christmas so I actually can
open things now. and so as you can see this is year of the Sanderson
this is the Hoid box with a lovely little image of Hoid from The Stormlight Archive
chapter arches. oh I need a better slicer. well I got the one on my wall! all right!
packaging on this is really lovely. oh actually yeah let's talk about the box. nice black box,
it's got dragon scales on the side with the Dragonsteel symbol on the sticker,
Year of Sanderson with Hoid and then also Dragonsteel symbol right there
.and as always "Err on the side of awesome." which I believe they did. let's pop this open
(Zelda opening chest music)
"the purpose of a Storyteller is not to tell you how to think but to give you questions to think
upon." appropriate that we get a quote from Wit in the Hoid box. spoiler warning this box
contains over 125 Hoids. a Hoid mouse pad with the art from Howard Lyon. this was also in the Tress
of the Emerald Sea digital art pack. this is the main art for the kickstarter as well. some Hoid
sticky notes with actually Wit on them and the cosmere symbol. cosmere character pin; of course
it is it's another Hoid, with his flute. this is the Hoid for President t-shirt. I'm already
thrilled. this is great. Hoid for President, that's very good. got the cosmere symbol key
right here and then the lute over his shoulder. Hoyid gold seals, okay they're multiple. we've got
"Hoid was here" with the same symbol as the "one can have a Wit" coin and also "contains
100% pure nonsense." if you got these stickers be nice with them; don't put them on things
that people will be offended if you call stuff nonsense. and then a special note from Brandon:
"thank you I have the best fans in the world you've proven to me time and again you are
awesome you are amazing and you have incredible taste in books." well we do try "Brandon Sanderson
and team Dragonsteel" over 125 Hoids oh if we're counting all of the Hoids on the sticky notes I'm
not sure if that's fair. oh actually there might be another type here. let's pop open the sticky
notes ah "dream big idiot" so it was, what did I math, 12 13 14 15 over 125 Hoids. these are
actually posted brand Post-it notes. whoa, fancy! so if there are 60 Post-it notes in each of these
which I think they're more there's all of the numbers. happy Year of the Sanderson! of course
Hoid managed to sneak in two months earlier than he was supposed to. I'm not unconvinced
that he didn't cause all of these supply chain issues. maybe we can blame Hoid for the pandemic;
secretly feeding people bats. obviously the highlight here is, for me at least, the character
pin. I am a big fan of pins. if you can tell from my hat I like pins. and this shirt actually is
a really nice quality. it feels very soft and comfy. oh limited edition art by Corey Miller,
but obviously inspired by this Hoid. it's very soft material; this is going to be real comfy.
I'm excited to wear it. so there is everything that came in the Hoid box! if you are wanting
to pick up a Hoid box, there are limited amounts available on dragonsteel's website for pre-order.
once they complete all of the fulfillment for the kickstarter backers, pre-orders for the Hoid
box just on their website will be sent out. these are excellent things: again shirt, pin, two dozen
stickers, couple stacks of Post-it notes, and a high quality mouse pad - or a teeny tiny playmat.
I will post a link to the Hoid box pre-orders as well as anything else that you may be interested
to get from the dragonsteel website in the description. check it out, and if you missed out
on the kickstarter, you still have a chance to get all the things! as soon as I get the Tress of the
Emerald Sea deluxe hardbound book, I will also be showing that off in a video. I just recently got
the leather bounds for Alloy of Law and Shadows of Self, so I will be doing an unboxing of that
as well. my cosmere connections video for the Lost Metal is going to be coming soon. I've got
that basically edited, I just have to put in all of the graphics and stuff. if you want to watch
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get out of my way you thing ow that hurts my back okay