I only had two books in Cosmere I hadn't read. The Lost Metal and The Sunlit Man.

I am rushing through The Lost Metal now, will do the same with The Sunlit Man once I finish the former, to prepare myself for Stormlight 5.

Damn the cosmere connections exploded around 50% mark and I am giddy with excitement.

As of now, I am 70% of the way through and TwinSoul is my favourite so far. His magic system in intriguing. Moonlight is delightful as well.

I am rushing so much that I am afraid I missed many connections to cosmere. Will have to hunt down the connections video.

I am planning to watch YouTube Recaps for the rest of the books before the 5th book release.

There is no way I could go through the stormlight books, let alone the entire cosmere books. I will burn myself out. I will re-read one book per month the next year after the finish the 5th book.

What about you? Have you caught up yet? Or relying in Youtube recaps?

I'm rereading first stormlight after Rhyme Of War and the prose is so not right in first book or its just my feeling?

I’m here in part because I’m loving Era 2 so far, so much more than I thought I would.

Not that I thought it would be bad, but it’s definitely got a different feel to it compared to the traditional-esque “castles and torches” style/setting of the Final Empire while still being, of course, very much Mistborn.

I just got past chapter where Wax is >!Riding in his carriage, talking to Sazed about Bleeder, ‘hearing’ Sazed talk again since the finale of Hero of Ages’ epilogue!< has my heart so absolutely warm and fuzzy I had to come here to talk about it a bit before going to bed.

I haven’t read Secret History, as most told me to read it after Era 2 so please don’t spoil anything.

I hope my spoilers formatting worked, Reddit mobile might not do me any favors but it should be correct if I read it right.

I'm re listening to final empire and vin makes a comment to sazed about having turned 17 a few weeks ago after he remarks her as being 1 year older than a 15 yr old spook.

He completely ignore this and continues the convo.

Wouldn't it be the response among friends to Immediately ask why she hadn't said anything?

Makes me wonder if they celebrate birthdays?

In Tress of the Emerald Sea, Tress (I think asks one of the other pirates about the “Devil with nails in his eyes”. Is this a reference to >!Marsh since he is thought of as the devil of Scadrial?!<

You know how some fantasy properties have magic items or artifacts that characters can pick up to gain more or new powers? Some examples would be the one ring, Harry Potter's cloak of invisibility, Dr. Strange's eye of agamotto etc.

I've been trying to think of such examples in the Cosmere. The two items that come to mind are Nightblood and the bands of mourning.

But then I realized that Brandon Sanderson is big on creating magic tech. So combining fabrials, metalminds, awakening, aons placed on objects, and regular tech, you could probably come up with some really cool and powerful magic items. So what would be some such "artifacts" you would like to see?

Here are mine:

• Perpendicularity opener - An item that would allow anyone to open a perpendicularity like Dalinar does.
• Matter/energy/investiture transformer - Matter, energy and investiture are connected and can be transformed into one another. So this would be a device that allows you to feed it matter or energy and turn it into investiture you could then use to power your magic.
• Fabricator powered by investiture - Similar to the previous example, but in reverse, this would be a device that you feed investiture and it transforms it into an item for you. We know spren can transform into different things you could use, so this would be copying that process. Imagine you feed this device with a jar of the dor and it transforms it into a shardblade. This is similar to what the chorus does on Canticle, but better and more powerful.

What are your examples? You don't have to explain how they would work, just give us cool ideas.

This is only when people hate him for his nonviolent beliefs. Yeah he's a pretty radical pacifist but it's nothing compared a lot of the people at any given Quaker meeting.

I'm on chapter 75 of RoW, and originally my schedule had me finish it by today then read Sunlit Man this week to be ready for WaT on Friday but that's not gonna happen.

However, I could still finish RoW by Friday, should I take the time to read Sunlit Man or just jump straight in with the rest of the world?

Sorry for the bad title. So do you think Rashek sent Kandra south to the southern countries? Keep tabs on them and such. Was the south hinted in earlier books by chance?

Okay. So. I have no idea what it means, why it would happen, or any of the implications if I am correct. I just have a few very explicit examples of relationship dynamics that feels way too coincidental to be an accident by Sanderson.

1. Both Shallan(radiant technically) and Adolin kill their respective gendered Sadeas.

2. Dalinar and Navani both become bondsmiths even though Rlain is CLEARLY the best choice. I understand this also involves moments of necessity but coupled with the surrounding information it lends credence to my theory.

3)Dalinar has explicitly stated that the Alethi war machine is comprised of a strong scribe(wife) and general (husband) to make up an ideal war oriented force.

4)Parshendi group together in war form with their once mates.

5. thought of this while typing do Wit and Jasnah fit into this dynamic? Seems like they could.

No idea why any of this could be important or how it could drive what happens in the next 6 books.

Would love to know your thoughts.

I'm rereading Oathbringer and while it is lampshaded with Navani it is interesting how Melata is really just used in rotation for opening the oathgates.

Outside of the one time Melata talks to Shallan, there's no interaction with her, nor any from Dalinar, Kaladin, his squires, or any of Shallan's people.

Lift at least gets interaction with Dalinar.

But Melata is just on the outskirts.

My idea is that you would have to use a metalmind fabrial. >!Specifically a duraluminmind that is somehow linked to a Stormlight Invested gemstone, the duraluminmind would store the Connection to Roshar then it would be able to be taken off world.!<

!Further off this idea for Radiants is kinda like a DnD genie in a bottle. Stick the radiant spren into the gemstone, though you would have to use a nicrosolmind too, you could store the spren in the gemstone and the Surgebinding Investiture and the spren and knight's Connection to Roshar. This could completely store everything about the Knight's Radiant so it could very dangerous getting off world but as soon as you escape the Rosharan system then you get the Connection and Investiture back, release your spren, and get to destroying worlds-I mean bringing honor to the wider Cosmere! Just an idea but it might not work due to the Connection's that would need be stored could completley destroy the Nahel Bond or if a Radiant spren is stored within a gemstone it could could also destroy the Nahel Bond or could make them a deadeye.!<

Ok bear with me this is my first time flagging spoilers so if this doesn’t show up right I apologize. Also this is very spoiler heavy for warbreaker and mistborn and therefore for the rest of the cosmere.

[Cosmere]>!Ok so I finished reading warbreaker and I just learned about how hemalurgy works. I have come to the conclusion that nightblood must have turned from steel into either a god metal(atium maybe) or perhaps nicrosil.!<

!I’m thinking seeing as it is sentient and imbued with investiture it may be itself a hemalurgist or feruchemist. I think this especially holds up if you remember vasher mentioning putting bones inside of an object to help awaken it.!<

!Forging of metals includes adding carbon to make it stronger which in history has literally meant adding human remains so perhaps the blade was forged with the remains of a feruchemist.!<

!think this would make the sword both a feruchemist and hemalurgist and thus able to use a metal like nicrosil. I also want to note that Nightblood absorbing breath during use sounds very much like hemalurgy….!<

Thoughts?

How would black holes manifest in Shadesmar? A pit ? a giant spire?

What would happen to a Bound Cognative Shadow or a Sliver if someone got a Duralumin Hemalurgic spike and ripped out their Connection to their respective World.
Or if they had someone with Ishars honorblade come over to their world and manipulate their connection, ether removing it or connecting them to another world?
Would do you think would happen, death? Them being yanked into another world?

Kelsier. I’m starting to think it’s actually maybe a Brandon thing than the character himself.

We know that Brandon has had trouble reconciling Kelsier and his pure dedication to “the ends justify the means” by him openly labeling Kelsier a sociopath (which by definition he is not) because at least in my opinion, he had a morale dilemma with creating this incredible character that was morally grey.

Anyway, it just doesn’t make any sense to me that the person (Sazed) that described Kelsier as “one of the best men he ever knew” wouldn’t be helping and guiding him to get his body back and protect Scadriel (and maybe even the cosmere as a whole now that he has the lay of the land from holding shards)

He lied to him directly after he took up the shards and talked to Kelsier in the cognitive realm which never sat right with me and continues to avoid helping Kelsier it seems. Granted I’m only half way through TLM but that’s what I’m grasping. I don’t know maybe I’m bitter because I LOVE Kelsier and I really really liked Sazed but I’m starting to think he was the completely WRONG choice to become God.

Reading the lost metal and I can’t help but think the guy asking if it was legal first indicates that these guys are skybreakers who are with the ghostbloods. Then again radiants stents supposed to be able to leave roshar so idk.

I’ve been wondering for a while now what made Brandon pick these particular names / natures / characteristics for the Shards of Adonalsium. I would expect a shattered deity to break into sub components that are still pretty primal in nature - i.e. core concepts, emotions, or components of the human experience. Along these lines, Ruin and Preservation made complete sense to me (though I’d have gone with Creation and Destruction) because they are primal forces. Autonomy also kind of makes sense (but I’d have gone with Freedom). With those as starters I’d have continued with things like Love, Fear, Hatred, Joy, Grief, Order, Chaos, and so on.

But the rest seem…I don’t know, just like..not obvious choices? Or just a bit off center? Like instead of Love we get Devotion. Instead of Hatred or we get Odium…except Odium more broadly represents “passions?” And then the rest just feel strange. Invention? Endowment? Virtuosity? WHIMSY?

To be clear, I’m not criticizing his choices - merely confused and curious why THESE names and THESE attributes. Brandon doesn’t make decisions like that lightly. So why?

Hello all, was just commenting elsewhere about Ash being Jezrian's daughter and all, and how much it would suck to watch each other die and be tortured for centuries together.

Anyway, I was wondering who might be interested in a dedicated short that took place there, during one of their times in Damnation. The novella would be short-- maybe as long as Secret History or Emperor's Soul, but would stand out in it's morbidity. Written on par with Blood Meridian or something, like really messed up.

I'd read it. Anyone else?

Is Tonk Fah a worldhopper or just a sleeper build? I’m rereading everything in preparation for WaT, like everyone else, and Vivenna notes that his muscles seemed to grow when they were at Grable’s restaurant. I know it’s unlikely that he’s actually a Terris keeper tapping strength in the moment but it would be nice to confirm the worldhoppers throughout the Cosmere.

So I recently finished reading sunlit man and there is one question that has been bugging me. If the world is getting burned up everyday how is there any water on the planet? Wouldn’t all the water be evaporated and even when it rained the ground almost certainly absorb most of it, resulting in net loss of water. Is this something that has been discussed before?

I have read all the books in the Cosmere and am wondering if there are any characters in the Cosmere, other than Shards, that could take on Rashek (Lord Ruler).

We are not talking about Rashek when he is overconfident, but when he intends on killing the other person as quickly as possible.

From what I understand, there is not really much that is on his level, he would certainly have been able to stop the army at the end of Warbreaker on his own.

Also, as a Sliver he will probably be heavily invested, so shardblades or other abilities won't be able to do much, or at least less. His ability to compound steel and iron alone could be enough to take over entire planets.

The only things that come to mind off the top of my head would be Nightblood or Dawnshards, but maybe I forget something...

Of the all the 16, is Odium the most powerful?

If yes, why so?

If no, how was he able to kill 4 shards - Dominion, Devotion, Ambition and Honour? He won 2v1

And why is he going on rampage to kill all other Shards? One would imagine, a Shard like Ambition or Ruin would be more intent on doing so…

So I first read stormlight archived and loved it, but noticed there was a couple references that I just didn’t understand. Learnt that there’s a whole cosmere needed to understand it so I started mistborn.

However, I wasn’t super into the final empire. Thought I might enjoy well of ascension more and I did until that last act, where a lot of the narrative beats felt a bit contrived to me.

Just wonder what order you’d go from here. I’m fairly keen on going straight to book 5 of stormlight but if book 3 is important to the cosmere then I’ll go for that

I just finished Words of Radiance and I’m currently on Edgedancer. I’ve heard that you should read Warbreaker at some point, but I’m too invested in the Archive right now and I don’t want to shift my attenttion from it.

I don’t mind taking my time to find out things as I read the Archive, however, I want to know if Warbreaker has any new info that is not present on the Archive and if it would be worth diverting my attention from the main series.

Yesterday I finished WB, so today I started WoR. Note that I've read the Sunlit Man too early, but I'm going to reread it after I've finished the rest of the Cosmere. This is my thirteenth novel I'm reading.

I've seen that reading the RAFO way is the best way to gain knowledge thereof. Now I'm diving back into WoR. Have a pleasant sunday, y'all. And it's december 1, FFS, time's flying when you're having Cosmere fun.

Morgana

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In Yumi and the Nightmare Painter, we see painter's people make contact with UTol via space craft. Is this the earliest, that we know, of interplanetary travel without using the cognitive realm?

Elhokar’s order.

I have never seen people talking about this on here, but I personally liked Elhokar’s character, so I decided to ask. What do you think Elhokar’s order was going to be when he almost spoke the First Ideal? Maybe that is already known and I just missed something, but basically that is my question.

Oh man I really didn’t think this one would be a tearjerker 😭. And for most of it, it wasn’t. Auxiliary was being fun, so many references, I love threnodites and their resilience. But god that sanderlanche man. The sisters embracing, the death of aux crushed me big time. I knew it was coming but it still hurt. The whole “ending up in the same place but a changed man” got me. And now I finished all of the Cosmere, took me about 2 1/2 years. After WaT there’s not gonna be any next book to immediately pick up, so I guess that signals it’s time to start Alcatraz or the rithmatisr or finally getting around to Defiant.

My one disappointment is that rebeke and sigzil didn’t get to fuck I won’t lie. Like let my man have freaky canticle sex 😔