I’ve just started reading Wind and Truth after reading Sunlit Man, and I’m a bit confused on why it’s recommended to be read before Wind and Truth?

I’ve not got there yet, but the mention of Sigzil using the Dawnshard feels like a major spoiler for the upcoming fight?

In Wind and Truth while going through visions in the spiritual realm we see that its not possible to make a simulacrum of Hoid, he's too old and too experienced not to realise he is fake, but it was able to create a simulacrum of Tanavast, a literal Shard? Why do you think this is?

Full fan-made parody film out on November 22nd!

Anyone know if there is art prints for various locations around the cosmere? Id really love some to put up around my room. Especially with my growing cosmere collection, oh and if anyone knows good merch to get thst isn't super out there but good for people in the know. Thatd be awesome. Australia btw if that chnages things. Also sorry if this is wrong subreddit if there is a better place please tell me. Cheers!

hey everyone, I thought I would share this wip of a piece I am working on for Dragonsteel Nexus. This will be my first time exhibiting at the show and I wanted to have a new stormlight piece to debut there.

I have always wanted to do a painting of the convergence when the highstorm and everstorm clash at the end of WOR, and with dragonsteel nexus fast approaching was the perfect incentive to get my but in gear.

The plan is to have prints and unlike my Kaladin piece here there will be playmats.

I stream all of my work live on twitch, and if you are interested in popping in, checking out the progress and talking all things stormlight I will be working on this piece every tuesday-friday 3pm est-8pm until the piece is finished.

Twitch

And for all of you going to dragonsteel nexus, I hope to see you there!

Just randomly wondered how different planets in the Cosmere would react. My first thoughts were:

Scadrial: Would either trust or completely or hate it depending on if computers or phones counts as being written in metal.

Sel: It can be used to make make an outline for functional Aons so new gens would become reliant on it and everyone else would be against it.

Komashi (Yumi and the Nightmare Painter): Painter: Bamboo (AI) works 🤷, everyone else: No.

Please keep in mind it is very difficult to combine abstract concepts into a unique word befitting of (what we know) of both shards, and that many words would work for multiple combinations, but I managed to find a unique term for each of the combinations.

Ambition/Autonomy-Conviction

Ambition/Cultivation-Tenacity

Ambition/Devotion-Zeal

Ambition/Dominion-Conquest

Ambition/Endowment-Munificence

Ambition/Honor-Integrity

Ambition/Invention-Perfection

Ambition/Mercy-Altruism

Ambition/Odium-Spite

Ambition/Preservation-Bureaucracy

Ambition/Reason-Legitimacy

Ambition/Ruin-Disruption

Ambition/Valor-Aptitude

Ambition/Virtuosity-Audacity

Ambition/Whimsy-Hedonism

Autonomy/Cultivation-Individuality

Autonomy/Devotion-Instruction

Autonomy/Dominion-Sovereignty

Autonomy/Endowment-Liberty

Autonomy/Honor-Discipline

Autonomy/Invention-Genius

Autonomy/Mercy-Governance

Autonomy/Odium-Defiance

Autonomy/Preservation-Stasis

Autonomy/Reason-Profession

Autonomy/Ruin-Anarchy

Autonomy/Valor-Strength

Autonomy/Virtuosity-Prestige

Autonomy/Whimsy-Fancy

Cultivation/Devotion-Nurture

Cultivation/Dominion-Subjection

Cultivation/Endowment-Sustenance

Cultivation/Honor-Endeavor

Cultivation/Invention-Innovation

Cultivation/Mercy-Forgiveness

Cultivation/Odium-Malignance

Cultivation/Preservation-Evolution

Cultivation/Reason-Acquisition

Cultivation/Ruin-Succession

Cultivation/Valor-Legacy

Cultivation/Virtuosity-Practice

Cultivation/Whimsy-Imagination

Devotion/Dominion-Balance

Devotion/Endowment-Faith

Devotion/Honor-Fealty

Devotion/Invention-Ideal

Devotion/Mercy-Compassion

Devotion/Odium-Control

Devotion/Preservation-Tradition

Devotion/Reason-Merit

Devotion/Ruin-Pity

Devotion/Valor-Protection

Devotion/Virtuosity-Tribute

Devotion/Whimsy-Delight

Dominion/Endowment-Administration

Dominion/Honor-Mastery

Dominion/Invention-Dystopia

Dominion/Mercy-Authority

Dominion/Odium-Malice

Dominion/Preservation-Enmity

Dominion/Reason-Inevitability

Dominion/Ruin-Devastation

Dominion/Valor-Triumph

Dominion/Virtuosity-Propaganda

Dominion/Whimsy-Fetish

Endowment/Honor-Generosity

Endowment/Invention-Progression

Endowment/Mercy-Charity

Endowment/Odium-Deceit

Endowment/Preservation-Antiquity

Endowment/Reason-Benefit

Endowment/Ruin-Corruption

Endowment/Valor-Camaraderie

Endowment/Virtuosity-Inspiration

Endowment/Whimsy-Fantasy

Honor/Invention-Peerage

Honor/Mercy-Justice

Honor/Odium-RETRIBUTION

Honor/Preservation-Chivalry

Honor/Reason-Deduction

Honor/Ruin-Stagnation

Honor/Valor-Glory

Honor/Virtuosity-Achievement

Honor/Whimsy-Pageantry

Invention/Mercy-Rehabilitation

Invention/Odium-Conspiracy

Invention/Preservation-Containment

Invention/Reason-Perpetuity

Invention/Ruin-Contamination

Invention/Valor-Ascension

Invention/Virtuosity-Improvisation

Invention/Whimsy-Comedy

Mercy/Odium-Rebuke

Mercy/Preservation-Benevolence

Mercy/Reason-Triage

Mercy/Ruin-Neglect

Mercy/Valor-Hope

Mercy/Virtuosity-Benediction

Mercy/Whimsy-Levity

Odium/Preservation-Oppression

Odium/Reason-Judgment

Odium/Ruin-Desecration

Odium/Valor-Supremacy

Odium/Virtuosity-Defamation

Odium/Whimsy-Affront

Preservation/Reason-Curation

Preservation/Ruin-HARMONY

Preservation/Valor-Stalwart

Preservation/Virtuosity-Sanctimony

Preservation/Whimsy-Nostalgia

Reason/Ruin-Resignation

Reason/Valor-Hegemony

Reason/Virtuosity-Artistry

Reason/Whimsy-Supplication

Ruin/Valor-Sacrifice

Ruin/Virtuosity-Decadence

Ruin/Whimsy-Abandon

Valor/Virtuosity-Collaboration

Valor/Whimsy-Contest

Virtuosity/Whimsy-Abstraction

Does anybody else feel like most of the antagonists throughout the Cosmere franchise are getting killed off too fast? I understand that Brandon likes to write more optimistically and hopeful (#notGameofthronesgrimdark). I understand that after each novel you can pause the Cosmere which usually means that a good way to close certain arcs is to end the story of the current antagonist. And I understand having singular book antagonists for standalone novels. But some of the standalones have sequels planned that could’ve developed the bad guys better. And I feel like for an epic high fantasy like this it’s kind of objectively cool having a large recurring amount of antagonists for certain eras of the timeline. Maybe it’s not the demise of them (because their exits are written very well) specifically but maybe their physical appearance beforehand wasn’t enough at times.

In a hypothetical scenario in Stormlight: Rhythm of War where Odium has an alliance council of Sadeas, Amaram, Raboniel, the Unmade, Vyre, and Lezian I can imagine that to Brandon feeling a little too council-of-evil fanficky but imagine Dooku dying in Attack of the Clones or HYDRA never coming back after the first Captain America film. I like the Cosmere antagonists because even the most villainous ones feel like a product/victim of their corruptive upbringings. So it’s a shame when most of their character arcs are dwarfed by the heroes who have a lot more to do in comparison of their character development. Does anyone else feel the same way?

[ADDED IN EDITED NOTE] I’m not meaning I’d like every single major threat to be Shakespearean in quality. It just felt that most of them right when they got pretty cool or engaging, the story almost immediately says ‘and now you’re dead’. Not necessarily a rug-pull but just too short-lived. Again it’s all written very well and I give Brandon all the support for his work. Taravangian is a good example of what I wanted. He started kinda standard (it’s for the greater good blah blah blah), but he got better and better as the story gave him more time to shine. Hrathen’s the only standalone antagonist where I was fine with what was done with him because his arc truly had a beginning, middle, and end (plus he was present for literally a third of Elantris).

Hey I’ve always wondered this.

Is the nalthis magic system that everyone on that planet is given an innate quantity of investiture that they can give away, and a nalthis “drab” is equivalent to a baseline human on any other planet?

or is it that everyone in the cosmere has an innate quantity of investiture and the Nalthis/Endowment power is being able to give it away? Meaning a drab can only ever exist on nalthis and is weaker/sicklier than a baseline human?

Had this thought while looking at a cosmere powerscaling discussion somewhere else. This is a big question for the relative power of nalthians versus other planets going forward.

If it was up to me - I like the second. “Endowment” by definition - the shard isn’t endowing everyone powers, it’s giving them the ABILITY of endowment, the ability to give the greatest part of yourself to somebody else. And of course humans use it to oppress and consolidate power, and create gigaton weapons made of thousands of souls, which is poetic to me.

One of my hobbies is world religions, and I consider myself moderately knowledgeable about Mormonism in particular. So I can identify some things in the Cosmere that clearly stem from Sanderson's religious background (e.g. themes of theological restoration, apotheosis, essential knowledge being inscribed on metal plates and being hidden underground for preservation, etc.).

But there are certainly other things I'm missing, either particularly esoteric LDS theology or cultural references that only an insider would catch.

So what are the most obscure Mormon references you've found built into the Cosmere?

Today, my wife and I were talking about what type of radiant we would be if we could be any!

We’ve discussed this before but I wanted to see if the broader community had any thoughts.

Which order of radiant will be considered the most valuable/ powerful in the (metaphorically) shrinking cosmere?

While all the orders are extremely powerful in their own right, I would argue that elsecallers or willshapers will be highly sought after. The ability to transition in and out of shadesmar without a perpendicularity. I mean, how many times in these hoid storybooks is he like ‘it was a backwater planet with little to no connection to the broader cosmere…etc etc.’ Just because it has no perpebdicularity. We are seeing time and time again that rare and valuable forms of investiture or other resources are on these planets but there’s no easy way to get to them. Not to mention the scholarship aspect of being to visit and study planets that don’t have a preexisting perpendicularly.

Truthwatchers if the ability to see the future becomes more refined and common amongst them as well.

The Envisagers are so fascinating to me, but, save for a few mentions, I can't find anything on them. I haven't read Mistborn Eras 1 or 2 (except for Final Empire) or Warbreadker, but I've read almost everything else and they never show up. I find them the most interesting of all the secret societies but all I get are crumbs :(

I'm reading WaT right now and I'm hoping for something to pop up, but if y'all know anything I've missed or just haven't read yet, I don't mind spoilers, I'm just so curious on what they did and how they operated and I feel like I'm missing a key piece there.

Nightblood, being the only sword, (as of now), that can kill a shard, could play a significant role in the final ending of the cosmere series. I personally think that anyone with enough investigure could use Nightblood to kill a god, so that brings up an interesting question: Did the people on Yolen use a Nightblood like object to kill adonalism?

Also, i'd like to mention the fey wilds, which appear breifly in Dragonsteel Prime. Are we going to see more of the Fey wilds in future books, and are they going to play more of a role in the cosmeres future?

that Sazed is the Hero of Ages. When he burned atium and duralumin. Along with some other things. I was skimming through Secret History and obsessing about Preservation’s plan (as always), and remembered the part where Kelsier and Elend see Sazed Ascend to Harmony (glares at Discord).

“But it seemed there was yet another secret.

“It’s him,” Kelsier whispered. “He’s the Hero.”

Elend Venture placed a hand on Kelsier’s shoulder. “You need to pay better attention,” he noted. “Kid.” He pulled Kelsier away as Sazed reached for the powers, one with each hand

Kelsier stood in awe of the way they combined. He’d always seen these powers as opposites, yet as they swirled around Sazed it seemed that they actually belonged to one another. “How?” he whispered. “How is he Connected to them both, so evenly? Why not just Preservation?”

“He has changed, this last year,” Elend said. “Ruin is more than death and destruction. It is peace with these things.”

We already knew he foresaw Vin’s kamikaze attack and sacrificed his life for it. But it seems he used this tiny piece of Ruin’s future sight to also foresee that Sazed is the Hero of Ages. He also Connected to Ruin and realized the depths of its Intent.

Elend the GOAT. I talked about this years ago, but I think it’s such good writing that he followed through on possibilities Ati underestimated. I think this shows how far Ati’s kindness had degraded, how much Elend grew as a person, and how the processing of future possibilities can differ between Vessels. Even Vessels who hold the same power.

I’m also guessing that while Kelsier knew through Preservation’s history that the prophesied Hero is someone who could take up both Preservation and Ruin, his unstable hold over Preservation meant he couldn’t grasp the full plan or Hero’s identity. Similar to how Vin learned the true reason for Leras creating humanity, but due to inexperience and lack of time she was surprised by the atium Misting army.

And on a smaller note, I do wonder if Ati secretly had the small fear of what the Hero of Ages potentially could be. We know from Leras that Ati knew Vin has a frail chance of defeating him, and thus got the earring into her. Along the same lines of logic, this could be partially why the Inquisitors wiped out all the Feruchemists and Ati tried to mentally break Sazed.

Storms, I need to finish book 1 of Stormlight already. That will get me theorizing for a long time.

I want to know about the moons, is there a list of names, colors, spore effects?

Hey everyone,

I'm taking a voice and public speaking seminar, and we were asked to bring a short text of our choice that we can recite freely and by heart. It forms the basis for several exercises, so I'll be saying it a lot, in different tones, volumes and tempos.

The requirements:
- About 80 to 100 words
- Something I personally enjoy reciting
- It has to make sense completely out of context, since nobody else in the room has read the books

Obviously, I'd love to use something from the Cosmere.
What would you pick? I'm especially interested in passages that:
- Work as a standalone piece
- Are fun to perform out loud

Thanks in advance!

So I was browsing trough my usual webshop as a source of books and I saw that Tor and Cassell are both gonna release it in the end of the month.

I got the Tor hardcovers for Way of Kings and Words of Radiance so I'm gonna buy probably that.

I also saw that it is gonna get full color illustrations, or is that just for Dragon Steel?

The stormlight archives series uses the word "riddens" to mean something like "the light rain/humid mist at the very end of a heavy rainfall or storm". As I was reading, I fully accepted this as a real English word I had just never heard before. Lo and behold, as I went to Google something related, Google corrected me to "riddance" (i.e. "good riddance"), so I looked deeper and found out this is a bona fide Sanderson original! I got got!

Does anyone else have any similar experiences? (remember to keep it spoiler-free or use appropriate spoiler text markdown)

In

https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/how-to-design-sets-for-expansive-properties, Magic the Gathering Head Designer Mark Rosewater mentions one challenge for Universes Beyond sets (making a Magic set from a non-Magic property):

A very common problem is not enough fliers, because most properties don't need the amount of fliers that a Magic set requires.

This article describes the skeleton set: https://magic.wizards.com/en/news/making-magic/nuts-bolts-13-design-skeleton-revisited-2021-03-22.

A typical Magic set requires

• Small white fliers

• Medium white fliers

• Small blue fliers

• Medium/large blue fliers

• Small black fliers

• Possibly a red flier

• Possibly rare fliers in all colors or multicolored (e.g., a cycle of 5 legendary dragons)

How would you fill out the grid with flying creatures from the Cosmere?

My next Cosmere planetary insignia is done! And now I have more jump rings for the next few too.

The is the first one that doesn’t have a little gold in it - I’m wondering if I should just add a single gold jump ring for the top of the hook to match the colors of the others?