Finished the Cosmere (Mostly) COSMERE SPOILERS
Last night at 3am, I wrapped up my Cosmere journey (for the most part. I did not read White Sands as I'm not super into graphic novels.)
After reading the Stormlight Archive last year, I started Mistborn on Jan. 1 and went from there. Full reading order will be below if you're curious. I ended early this morning with Yumi and The Nightmare Painter and honestly was really happy with that decision. The epilogue (can't remember if it was first or second one.) about stories felt perfect to wrap up the current Cosmere.
It was bittersweet ending the current Cosmere, but I've already been listening to Stormlight again when I'm driving or working around my apartment since it feels so long ago and for sure missed a lot of Cosmere related pieces.
The Cosmere got me back into reading and I love the grand scale of the universe and just excited to be up to speed with everything and begin theory crafting and reading deeper into meanings of certain books and implications of events on certain worlds.
I already have Fires of December on pre-order and will defintely be reading that when it comes out.
For fun here are a few top 5s (This was off the dome and not organized beforehand so it may be a little bit all over and missing a few here and there.) and my reading order if you're interested:
Top 5 Characters:
- Kaladin
- Wayne
- Dalinar
- Dusk
- Shai (MB Era 2 and Emperor's Soul)
- HMs: Spook, Lightsong, Hoid in Tress, Painter (Nikaro), Szeth, Syl
Top 5 Magic Systems:
- Surgebinding
- Forging
- Twinborn (IDK if this counts but the concept is so cool to me)
- Awakening
- Allomancy
Top 5 Favorite Scenes: (This was hard)
- "Honor is dead, but I'll see what I can do." - The Arena scene in WOR
- Wayne.... and ya know what happens :(
- Kaladin VS Szeth
- The Emperor's Soul plan reveal/execution
- The Unoathed
- HM: Dalinar "YOU CANNOT HAVE MY PAIN", Seers and Elend fighting Koloss, Lightsong giving his breath, Nikaro and the Painters defending against the Nightmares
Top 5 Saddest Moments:
- Teft's death to Moash (read this in an Uber and cried)
- Wayne's death
- Vin and Elend dying
- Elokhar death to Moash
- Lessie/Paalm second(?) death
Top 10(yes 10!) Reveals:
- Shallan killed her Mother who was a Herald thus causing the Final Desolation. TALN NEVER BROKE
- Sazed being the Hero of Ages
- Denth being a "bad" guy (I really liked Denth)
- Yumi living the same day over and over
- Bluefingers was behind everything
- "We. Chose" Maya to the Honorspren
- Vin's earring
- Koloss once being Human
- Paalm is Lessie
- Dilaf is a Dahkor
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I def. missed some in all of these, but this is just what came to mind when writing this post.
Reading Order:
- The Way of Kings (Jan. 2025)
- Words of Radiance
- Oathbringer
- Rhythm of War
- Edgedancer (Didn't know the Novellas existed)
- Dawnshard
- Wind and Truth
- Mistborn: The Final Empire (Jan. 2026)
- Mistborn: The Well of Ascension
- Mistborn: The Hero of Ages
- The Eleventh Metal
- Secret History (Really liked it here because I wasn't done with Era 1 mentally)
- The Alloy of Law
- Shadows of Self
- The Bands of Mourning
- The Lost Metal
- Warbreaker
- Elantris
- The Hope of Elantris
- The Emperor's Soul
- Shadows of Silence in the Forests of Hell
- The Sunlit Man
- Tress and the Emerald Sea
- Isles of the Emberdark
- Yumi and the Nightmare Painter