Hi there! I’ve been listening to The Reckoners series with my 6th grade son when we’re in the car together for drives to school/soccer practice/etc.

We’re nearly done with Calamity and I plan to start some other Sanderson series with him eventually, but I don’t think he’s quite ready for Mistborn or some of his other work.

While I’m waiting for him to grow up a little bit more, does anyone have any suggestions for similar stuff to The Reckoners series?

I haven't read book 3 yet. I'm trying to decide if I should finish the series. David being a hypocrite, and making what I saw as bad decisions in book 2 was annoying to me. I understand character flaws, and how they make stories better, but it got to the point where I wanted Megan or Prof to be the new MC(main character).

Is there any character growth in book 3?

PS: I'm aware the MC isn't going to change. I just didn't care for him as the lead anymore.

My money is on Steelheart as his energy blasts are way more powerful than Homelander's laser eyes. Homelander is also secretly a coward so he wouldn't be unafraid of Steelheart.

I just finished Steelheart and I really enjoyed it. I finished the first Mistborn book last year and while reading Steelheart I noticed some odd parallels in the plot between the two. The premise of both books is the main character is an orphan in a dystopian society ruled by people with superpowers. The main character joins a secret resistance to take down a powerful and completely unkillable tyrant no one has ever defeated. Most of the story is them planning their operation to overthrow him while trying to figure out how to kill him. The villain is a heavy presence throughout the book, but doesn't really appear till the end. At the climax all their theories on his weakness fail, but at the last minute find his weakness and succeed in killing him. The next book focuses on the aftermath of his death.

This is a repost because the first time I posted it there was a spoiler in the title.

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David almost died when he killed Steelheart.

When David killed Steelheart (by getting Steelheart to cause the explosion because he could only be hurt by someone who didn't fear him and Steelheart didn't fear himself) Prof saved him with a force field.

Explosions happen very quickly. So there's no way that Prof would have been able to save David if he hadn't already been protecting David before the explosion started. (Prof's healing is powerful but not enough to save someone who has been exploded).

The reason Prof was already shielding David with a force field before the explosion started is that Steelheart was about to shoot him.

Prof didn't know about the explosion (David had just thought of it, he thought that Prof was dead, and he couldn't let Steelheart know that he was about to kill him).

If things had gone even slightly differently, David would have died.

If David had realised Steelheart's weakness and somehow stopped being afraid of him, he'd have detonated the explosion himself and died. (Maybe Prof was already using the force field or maybe David would have just shot Steelheart but still.)

The protagonist almost dying but getting lucky isn't rare, there were a bunch of other times David almost died in that same fight, but I thought that this was an interesting one.

So I just finished Calamity and whooo, that's a hell of an ending! David's really come a long way since the battle with Steelheart, huh?

Megan learning more about her powers and facing down the darkness inside was really emotional for me, for reasons I can't quite put my finger on...but it was cool, anyway.

Prof is an Epic, and a ridiculously powerful one at that! Noice! But then Regalia's shenanigans actually work on him, boo.

And Calamity itself. Damn.

What about y'all? Any fun theories or anything y'all wanna gush about?

I just finished reading Calamity and I am thoroughly confused. Can anyone explain what Calamity is?

In Steelheart, when Abraham reveals that he's a member of the Faithful, he's described as having a stylized S shaped item.

Maybe it's me being a big fan, but I immediately imagined the Superman logo. Anybody else?

No spoilers for beyond that point, please, I literally just read that bit.

With all the novels and comic books that are being made into movies or shows I'm amazed that some studio hasn't given Brandon Sanderson boatloads of cash to use the Reckoners series. I mean imagine how great it could be on screen.

I am currently in the process of making a homebrew ttrp adaptation of the reckoners series and was looking to make a table for Epic abilities and powers, though I ma struggling with finding an extensive list of some Epic abilities across the series, if anyone would be keen on highlighting what a couple prime invincibility's would be or other powers such as Steel hearts power blasts, all would be appreciated (Also some more minor powers like infinite bullets for a gun aren't out of the question)

The Reckoners Series is a YA fantasy. But do you guys think a mature audience, in their 30s or 40s, would enjoy this series too? Or do you think it's mainly targeted to YA audience? I haven't read any of the books, so it would be nice if there were no spoilers, please :)

Hello, I'm new to Brandon Sanderson books. I'm trying to decide what book I'll read next and The Reckoners Series seems very interesting, but I saw some complains about the last book, Lux. So I'd like to know if it would make sense to read just the first three books and stop, like a trilogy. What do you guys think? Please, no spoilers, if possible :)

Hey there! I got this commission made of Megan by the comic artist Emanuela Lupacchino back at New York Comic Con 2019, based on what we had on her physical description (she had not read the series).

What do y'all think?

Personal project I've been working on for a while now, fan art of Megan Tarash. I've heard the audiobooks by Macleod Andrews so many times now and every time I listened I thought I had to make a little tribute to this amazing world and characters. Hope you like it!

https://preview.redd.it/k7qmwasw8oac1.jpg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=f0de034289ba65a3d0690008fd33ed334b366a8a

https://preview.redd.it/coc2qv969oac1.jpg?width=1500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=617a40d92d5085130d25873ca5f22288f41729ca

You can find more pictures with some small easter eggs here: ArtStation - Reckoners Fanart - Megan, Justo Figueroa Ruiz

Anyone else think that might make for a cool game?

Your character is a reckoner in a city divided into districts. Each district has several epics in it you have to fight. If you f die they might gain new powers or even turn into high epics.

High epics would have to be fight with brains and not brain with missions gdedicated to finding their weaknesses and a final mission to take them out for good

Dies that sound fun to y’all

So is the symbol of the faithful supposed to be the Superman symbol, like is literally supposed to be the symbol from the comic books? It would make sense since Superman is the ultimate version of what a good epic would look like.

If not is it because comics don’t exist in this world or is the symbol markedly different from the Superman.

Or is it not the Superman S because of copyright issues

So Larcener(Calamity) took prof's power from him. Then how did prof got his powers back?

Megan separated her powers from the darkness but she still had her powers. but prof had no powers then how?

Hey there!

I am new to the BS world and The Reckoners is my first series by Brandon Sanderson. I just finished Calamity and am currently missing the characters - especially Megan, who ended up being my favorite of them all.

Out of curiosity, I ended up looking into character wikis online to learn more. I saw that Megan's surname is Tarash. However, I cannot recall her name being mentioned in the books - ever. I remember that, amongst the Reckoners, David, Abraham, Mizzy and Prof's surnames being mentioned, but not Megan's.

Am I missing something?

Considering his spidey sense in combination with his super human agility and speed, would you consider that a prime invincibility as categorized by David?

So David coined the name Limelight for a fake epic before knowing prof was an Epic. Later prof claims that name to help sell the story. So than why does prof have powers that actually emits green lights? I can't remember did the "Tensors" enit green light when used and David used that as part of devising the fake story?

I just have to say my mom got me the Reckoners board game as a Christmas/late birthday present, and it is SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I will forever be amazed on how Brandon Sanderson managed to turn a silly weakness of Kool Aid as a door to what the Epics’ weaknesses were: their fears. Because of this weakness, it’s interesting to theorize how the previous Epics acquired their fears.

Starting with Steelheart, before he became Steelheart, he was Paul Jackson, a high school track star that had a penchant for hurting his teammates and being an asshole. I’d like to think that Paul’s teammates and some of those teammates’ friends made a plan to jump and severely beat Paul for a variety of reasons. The beating probably left Paul damn near death and gave him the weakness we now know.

For Nightwielder, his weakness was UV light. My theories for why that is his weakness varies. Either he had some sort of disease that made him allergic to sunlight, got attacked in broad daylight, or was just a that bad of a recluse (like Hikikkomori)

And lastly for Refractionary, the only reasons why I’d see anybody fear smoke is if they were in a fire and/or had medical problems due to firsthand/secondhand smoke

I've just finished Steelheart and this is mentioned this at least 5 times.

So I thought I'd remind people who may have forgotten just how subtle Abraham's accent is. It's subtle.