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Hi all! I hope we're having a lovely day. Really I just wanted to make this post to share my thoughts and feelings. And to share that I was honestly very pleasantly surprised with the level of representation in the cosmere from the LGBT+ community and different cultures. After reading Lotr and the Witcher (they are both really good ofc) I was basically expecting no rep in the cosmere and was on board mainly from what I'd heard about the magic systems. But wow I was so happy to see on page in Canon stuff. So that's very cool

Hi! I hope you're all having a splendid day! I apologise if this is the wrong thread for my topic I'm still learning my way around. But. I don't know if its only me but does anyone else prefer not reading any extra cosmere material outside of published books? I absolutely understand the desire for answers and tidbits on where this is all heading, alas I think I just prefer to read books as they come and let it all unfold before me. Unless I'm being dumb and need to ask here for clarity which I can assure you will become more common. With all that said I do something get git with some mild anxiety about whether something will be answered at all from time to time

So i was thinking about if you could make an awakened arm type structure (Like a prosthetic) and then incase that in an aluminum shell, could you then attach it (and with the right commands) have an aluminum arm that could basically just grab shardblades and nightblood?

Hi! I'm Valerie or Val for short! I'm new here ofc. Don't really know what to say about myself other than I love fantasy and even more so the cosmere. I'm almost fully caught up after I finish Yumi and I'm so excited for Stormlight 5!! Oh I should also add I haven't read the Sunlit man as I'm waiting for the standard release I hope you're all having a lovely day!

OK. So I'm partway through Yumi (no spoilers please) and have noticed a recurring theme in cosmere books. Now I'd like to state here, clearly that I am simply curious as to if anyone else has noticed and nothing I say is ever intended as a slight on Brandon. Now with that said, has anyone else noticed there's a lot of bathing scenes??? It's a big part of Yumis daily life, vin has a bath scene, as does siri in warbreaker and Shallan and jasnah in stormlight. I think maybe serene had one in elantris as well but could he wrong.

Hello, Fello Dougs! I'm a long-time lurker and first-time poster. WoK hooked me, Realmantic theory fascinates me, and characters like Teft and Sigzil keep me invested! Figured after nearly ten years I should get around to making this post!

21 fanfic authors got together for a Cosmere fanfic gift exchange with a femslash theme! All fics focus on at least two female characters from across the Cosmere. Fics range from General to Explicit ratings. The fanfic reveal was on Sep 26th, 2023 - Bi Shallan confirmation day! You can find fics for pairings like Shallan/Tyn, Navani/Kalami, Shan/Vin, Azure/Jasnah, pairings from Yumi and Tress, and more! Check out the Collection here.

I am just curious about the Rithmatist's place in Brandon's works.

I have fond memories of playing this game, and it appears that both the original thread and the resurrected thread have died, so I have created this one! If you don't know how to play or don't know how it translates to a forum game, the original thread by Herowannabe should tell you all you need to know. We'll start by playing with random pages filling the board, but if we want we can start doing themes, images, or even noncosmere codenames! I will be the first Blue Spymaster, whoever wants to be the Red Spymaster, claim it in this thread, then I'll PM you with our keycard (there's a link to a random keycard generator in the board sheet). The Game Board

I don't think I have seen a fully Cosmere-aware timeline of Roshar so I decided to make one for myself and I'm also posting it here. Please correct anything I messed up! I love this world and I want to have the most accurate information available about it. Enjoy! Pre-Shattering So in the beginning, there was a capital-g God. And his name was Adolnalsium. Among other things, he created Roshar. He made the Highstorm and the spren and the chasmfiends and the Dawnsingers and little cremlings and shalebark. He made it all to work together perfectly. He made the highstorms, and the Stormfather, and spren; and he made them to have bonds with the creatures of Roshar. With chasmfiends that are too light. And with ryshadium, with the Dawnsingers, with lots of things. Post- Shattering And then, Adolnalsium was shattered and Honor and Cultivation came to roshar. And they kind of did nothing. They kept the status quo. They left what Adolnalsium had created, and they just let it flourish. Eventually, Rayse got trapped in the Rosharan system by Honor. Somehow. Humanity Then Rayse, Odium, went to Ashyn and he created humanity. Eventually, they found surgebinding and destroyed their planet. And, (presumably, Odium helped them with this step) they traveled to Roshar. The dawnsingers gave them Shinovar. And they lived there for a while. They planted the grass and strawberries and basically founded the Shin. At some point, humanity decided that Shinovar wasn't enough and so they expanded over. That was the First Desolation. For a while, the humans were winning. So the dawnsingers went to Odium for power and he gave them The Fused. Then. The dawnsingers were winning with Odium's help. So humanity went to Honor, who gave them the Honorblades. Now, with that power. The humans can fight back. There's still losing though. So, they formed the Oathpact. They make a pact to trap the souls of the Fused and the spren of Odium on Braize. Weird thing about that deal, the Harolds had to go with the forces of Odium to Braize. This means they could be tortured into breaking their Oaths (because humans can break their Oaths) and returning everyone on Braize to Roshar. They let the Voidbringers return to Roshar. The Heraldic Epochs That happened for a little while. The heralds would try to prepare humanity for the Desolation. And then voidbringers would slowly start to come over like we see happen in Oathbringer. Then, there's kind of a full-scale war. Like we see in Rhythm of War. At some point, humanity realizes that they're going to lose. They can't beat the Voidbringers this time. So they talk to the heralds and they're like, "all right, it's time. We're not going to be able to win this right now" (like we see Jasnah propose in RoW). To answer that plea, the heralds all die one way or another to all return to Braize together so they can keep back the voidbringers from Roshar. Eventually, they discover the Knight's Radiant, which helps in all of that. Eventually, the heralds decided that there might be a better way. So they leave Taln to fight for himself on Braize. And they all stay on Roshar and it works. For six thousand years it has worked. The voidbringers and Odium can't get off of Braize. The Era of Solitude The Era of Solitude is the 6000 years without Taln on the planet, from Aharietiam to the Coming of the Everstorm. The Rosharan records of this time are much more complete than the previous histories so it isn't as much of a mystery in the Cosmere what happened during the Era of Solitude. False Desolation Around 2500 years after Aharietiam, Ba Ado Mishram (an Unmade) Connected with all the Singers on Roshar. She gave them all forms of power, much as Odium did. But she was not as powerful as Odium so she was able to be trapped in a gemstone, severing her Connection with the Singers. This made nearly every Singer on Roshar into a parshendi. I say "nearly" every Singer because a group ran away just before all of Ba Ado's drama went down. They named themselves the Listeners and settled in Natanatan. The Recreance The Radiants had handicapped an entire race of people and that tends to shake up Oaths from people who consider themselves of Honor. Around the same time, Honor was losing his mind due to unknown actions from Odium. He started to speak of the First Desolation and the destruction of Braize. He told the Radiants that their powers had already destroyed one planet and that they would destroy this one. For those reasons, the Knights Radiant and their Spren decided to abandon their Oaths and their powers. This became known as the Day of Recreance. All bonded Spren (save Highspren) became deadeyes. Nearly all of the Honorspren and several other varieties were wiped out in a day. The Spren will remember this pain for generations to come. The Death of Honor We know very little of what caused Tanavast's death and the subsequent shattering of Honor by Odium. We do know that he was losing his mind in the time leading up to this. We know that he knew it was coming because of his actions regarding the Stormfather. Up until this point, the Stormfather was just the Spren of the Highstorms. A very powerful Spren but not directly related or Connected to a shard of Adolnalsium. But when Honor was dying, he kind of took over the Stormfather. Put some of the power of Honor into the storm. He left the Visions that Dalinar and others see before the True Desolation. He prepared for his death and the coming of the Everstorm. I believe Honor's death and shattering happened in the location that would become the Shattered Plains. I think that when Odium shattered Honor, it created such a strong force that the plains broke into thousands of symmetrical plateaus. The True Desolation Eventually, forces of Odium on Braize work around Taln. They create their own Everstorm. This storm acts as a portable perpendicularity. A source of Odium's power and a way for his troops to walk back to Roshar. This storm only existed in the cognitive realm (as that's as close as they could get it to Roshar while they were stuck on Braize). Then, they sent Ulim in a gemstone to the Listeners via a world hopper. Ulim worked with a Listener to discover Stormform and summon the Everstorm. This act caused the deaths of almost all Listeners. Then, the events of Oathbringer, Rhythm of War, and Knights of Wind and Truth.

So, I had this genius thought: Lifeless require a breath to make, right? And the investiture keeps it alive, right? What happens if we put either: Another type of investiture in place of the breath? Sentient investiture (I was thinking unmade) in place of the normal breath? Different Investiture alongside a breath? Divine breath as well as a breath? I think that if other types of investiture could be stuffed into a corpse, it would be very important in the future. Note: these aren't cognitive shadows, nor stapling on a CS to a body, since it's just investiture in a long dead body. Any thoughts?

Ok so I was in an internet rabbit hole trying to learn more about the Cosmere because I am only 13 and my father has a limited amount of money. I now have more questions than I did before and I was wondering if any of you could try to help more than just saying, "ROW". Here we go, Is Wit Adonalsium reborn? Who hold the Dawnshards? Can Adonalsium be reborn? How was Adonalsium splintered? How did Odium splinter other Shards? Did people collect those Shard's, Shards? Were there even shards from Shards? What are God Metals? Are the HonorBlades MADE of Honor? If so then doesn't Odium need to destroy them and their blades to be rid of Honor's restraint? If Dalinar and the Stormfather killed themselves wouldd Honors power over Odium be gone or would Odium be trapped forever? I have other questions but these will do for now. Please help.

As of right now, we know of 15 of the 16 Shards. I have a theory about the last Shard's Intent. We know from WOB that there's a shard that "just wants to survive." There are also WOBs that could contradict my theory for sure. "Survive" sounds like it could be an Intent but we know that it's not. Shardic intents seem to sometimes go to extremes of their areas: "odium" could be considered extreme hatred, "ruin" could be extreme decay/destruction, etc. So what if "survive" is the less-extreme version of this shard? The Shard I propose is Ferocity. When I think of something that just wants to survive, I think of a cornered animal. A cornered animal is ferocious, but not malicious. They'll do anything they possibly can to survive, maybe even escape. But there's no malicious intent. Just a need to survive. An aluminum-foil hat for sure, but what do people think?

This topic is simply to talk about criticisms or thing you think Brandon Sanderson could have done better in the Mistborn saga. This includes Era 1, Era 2, and Secret History. No Cosmere spoilers if you can help it, but if it helps your point then go ahead.

before the events in Warbreaker and after the Manywar? It's mentioned in the text he couldn't have returned earlier, implying he was in another world until the events of the book. I tried to find any WoB that might reference this but without any luck.

I spent the past 18 months of my life reading through all of the Cosmere novels/novellas and binging all Cosmere-related media on YouTube. I comfortably consider myself a shardcore Cosmere enthusiast and I feel prepared to start contributing to the community. Happy to join you all!

I just read this WOB, and it got my brain churning. is there a potential for us to be seeing gunslingers with the express intent to shoot peoples invested abilites right out of their soul in combat? we know that being spiked is already seriously damaging to a person, and i just can't stop thinking about how utterly devastating this could be in combat. and if this is the case, i could see it being a pretty efective method against some of our top teir invested type peoples (Higher oath surgebinders, Compounders, Fullborns) while i doubt it would be enough on its own, if combined with other abilities, even if they could heal their soul, I can't imagine it would be immediate. it would certainly make characters on these power scales far more vulnerable. Do yall think this stuff is popping up in era 3? or 4?

Hey every one I was wondering on your thoughts on the matter of when Tress of the Emerald sea takes place in the Cosmere timeline and where did the rocket come from? My thought is that, like sixth of dusk, it has to be pretty late because of the space ship. If I understand correctly Scadrial is the first to reach the space age and is the only one we know of to do so. The only other explanation is that one of the organizations of world hoppers could have invented them before scadrail. What do you guys Think?

First Post, if I didn't tag anything correctly, I apologize. I did try, I think. Anyway, I'm midway through relistening to Oathbringer and heard something that probably doesn't tie into The Lost Metal but figured I'd ask because I couldn't find anything about it via Google search. In Oathbringer, Chapter 107, The First Step: Dalinar is discussing battle strategies with the leaders of the other kingdoms of Roshar and this quote just caught my attention. Is it possible that there is relationship to army that Marasi sees in The Lost Metal? I realize the colors are reversed, and assume that it is intentional, but I just heard it and couldn't ignore it so I have to ask. I have a strong feeling that I know I'm probably grasping at straws, but I've kind of been doing a lot of research lately and itching to post something. Also, how much free range do I have to spit ball random theories? Should I create a new post for each one or can I just pop off in the replies section to this post? Gracias