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I’m making my way through the Cosmere. I’ve read, in the following order, Mistborn Era 1, The Eleventh Metal, Elantris, Hope of Elantris, and The Emperor’s Soul.

I was planning to read White Sand and Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell before both from Arcanium Unbounded, before going into Mistborn era 2 next.

Question, is the White Sand graphic novel omnibus a must read when I have some of it in Arcanium Unbounded? I realise / assume there’s more in the omnibus, but I’m not really a fan of graphic novels, and it’s a bit expensive for me to justify buying when that is the case.

I’m a bit of a completionist when it comes to book series hence why I’m on the fence.

Thanks!

Cognitive shadows in general require continual Investiture to keep existing, with the only exception seemingly being Kelsier and the Shades. I just wanted to see if I might be wrong about the latter, and if there was any confirmation as to how they stick around.

(I wasn’t sure if I should spoiler tag since it technically relates to the book’s content? Anyway)

Which editions of Yumi and the Nightmare Painter have the illustrations in them? I’ve been told differently by different people, and want to make sure I get one which contains them. Thanks a lot!

(Also I haven’t read the book yet, so non-spoil answers are greatly appreciated!)

I’ve been wondering what people think of Demoux being alive still in the interludes of WaT. Most reasons I see are “worldhoppers have methods of immortality”. Does that mean some type of compounding of atium? Or maybe he’s a cognitive shadow? I was just curious what everyone’s thoughts were because it’s confusing that he’s alive in WaT. Kelsier, in the last Era 2 book, said there was only, what, 2 or 3 of his original companions alive still? Is that Harmony and Marsh? Or are there others alive somehow?

What is the inspiration behind Roshar?

I'm almost finished Way of Kings. For context I started my journey through the Cosmere with the first Mistborn trilogy, Warbreaker and Elantris. I have every single other book on my TBR but work and family circumstances haven't really allowed me to read as fast as I'd like.

While all of the worlds I've encountered in the Cosmere fascinate me, not one has sratched my history/culture/science nerd being as Roshar has. From the culture of the Alethi people to the mysterious history and dare I say magic of Shinovar, I believe Roshar has become one of my favorite worlds of fiction.

It is my understanding that Brandon Sanderson not only has inspired his work on real life cultures, but he's also been hugely influenced by popular fiction worlds (such as the ones from the Final Fantasy franchise, which has not gone unnoticed on my end).

Aside from being amazed and crediting much of this to Brandon Sanderson's intricate worldbulding and imagination. I would like to know more behind the creation of Roshar.

Do any of you have credited sources of inspiration or have noticed interesting parallels with other worlds that you'd be willing to share?

Thanks in advance. ✨🙌🏻📖

So, I was thinking, the worldbuilding of Sel is funny. I say that because it's the first book that Sanderson got published, and in it he had a world we only saw a single frame of. That's not remarkable for a first book, but we never saw any more.

Which I find really funny, because we've received the entire cosmere. I mean, sure, he wrote that short story, but the world of Sel is still largely unexplored. I just find it ironic. I'm sure this won't be an issue that we have for long.

I know his other stuff is better, but I do think it'd be great to see more of it. Don't you?

1. The Lord Ruler implies that he was holding back the mists and the timeliness of his death coinciding with the mists starting to come during the day and kill, before Ruin was released certainly lend credence to that implication. I don't recall ever having the mechanism of him doing that be explained, so how did he? Every magic trick he pulled during his rule was due to him being a full twin-born and his knowledge of Hemalugry which would not explain an ability to affect the mists. The only thing I can think of is that the mists would have done that as the well regained full power regardless, but I don't understand why that would be either.

2. Why does Preservation's power behave differently in the original trilogy than other shards in the Cosmere? I know that Preservation was hampered by Leras being slowly killed, but why was his perpendicularity something where people could take up the power of Preservation? Why was it only temporary? I was thinking that perhaps Rashek had too much of Ruin in him to keep the power initially, or perhaps it was because Leras still held the power, but then that begs the question of why two people could hold the power at the same time, yes?

3. How could Preservation's mists kill so many people, not to mention crops and livestock? It seems totally counter to the power of Preservation to do this, even if it is in service of countering Ruin.

4. Who stabbed Elendi's man, Preservation or Ruin pretending to be Preservation? Why?

Spoilers Disclaimer: Mainly Stormlight (Wind and Truth) but also Mistborn Era 1.

As referenced above, **What do Ruin and The Wind Share in common?!**

In W&T ch. 103, "Weathered," The Wind speaks to Kaladin about how Nale "is just weathered, like that stone you sit upon," and gives him a time-lapse vision of the stone he sits upon having once been "a masterwork statue thousands of years ago." She tells him that the things she loves, she nevertheless ends up weathering. A couple chapters earlier, we hear the Stormfather/Tanavast describing the function/Intent of the Wind being "to protect," in a wat that even he does not quite understand. This obviously connects to the Ideals of the Windrunners (and explains Kaladin's deep Connection with the Wind, at least from a narrative-thematic perspective), but also leaves a weird Connection dangling loose - that the Wind seems to be about *protection,* (ostensibly an Intent similar to Preservation) but also *weathering* (which to me **heavily** implies Ruin, given what we learn that actual Intent identifies with, in both WoA and HoA).

So the question arises, as the Wind seems to embody (by Her own words) both protection and weathering/Ruin: What (else) do Ruin and The Wind and Ruin share in common?

This is less of a theory post and more of a conversation-starter and actual question to all of you worldhoppers. What do you all think about this seemingly contradictory combination of Intents? Is The Wind, as a splinter of Adonalsium (rather than of a Shard), more nuanced and holistic in Her Intent? or conversely, is there some clue here about the geometry (sic) of Shardic Intents? What does this weird and mostly obscure revelation bring to mind for you all? Am I falling into a fever dream of Connection? Am I, like our heroes, caught in a swirling web of nebulous Spiritual/thematic Connections? Or is there actually something **tangible** here that we can grab hold of?

I feel as though there are many parallels between both the primarchs (wh40k) and the heralds and I was wondering what people's opinions would be who would come out victorious in a fight between the two.

In this scenario we assume:

All heralds get their honorblades and all primarchs are in their pre-heresy state

The fight takes place in an uninhabited region of scadrial (equally unknown landscape to both sides)

Hello everyone, I started my Cosmere journey this year and so far I’ve read:

-Elantris
-The Hope of Elantris
-The Emperor’s Soul
-Mistborn Era 1
-The Alloy of Law
-The Eleventh Metal
-Allomancer Jak
-Shadows of Self
-The Bands of Mourning
-Secret History

I’m currently reading The Lost Metal. Everything so far in Era 2 has been great and self explanatory. However, Marasi and Moonlight just made it to Codenames and Twinsoul and I have no idea what a lot of terms being thrown there mean? I’m I missing something? Was there something else I needed to read before Lost Metal?

Hello everyone.

I am starting a little project and I need your help.

Tl:dr: need sources for biome and rock descriptions to do a geologic mapping of Roshar.

I am a student studying geology and a massive Stormlight Archive fan. So, to combine my interests I want to do a geologic mapping of Roshar.

Goals

·         Make a geologic map of Roshar

·         Overview of tectonic history

·         Make qualified guesses on where some biomes not described in the books can be found

·         Make qualified guesses on where resources like coal can be found on Roshar

 

Sources and how I need your help

I need sources, sources, souces!

If you want to help you can comment rock and biome description below. This is not going to be a professional level research paper so ‘when I read Rhythm of War, I think I remember Brandon describing strata in Urithiru’ is a completely valid source for me. If you have page numbers, even better.

If you remember a Brandon quote about rock descriptions in a panel or interview I would also love that. Though if it conflicts with the words on the page, the books take precedence. (I don’t think there is enough information on this that there would be conflicts but still)

 

Thank you in advance for any help!

Journey before destination!

I was thinking of ways to keep the coin with me in way that it wasn’t just in my pocket. I saw people turn them into necklaces but didn’t want to drill into it. This was a 5 coin holder keychain thing from Amazon for those interested.