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(EDIT: Just noticed - to see the whole tables on the mobile page, you have to use the horizontal mode! Sorry for not seeing that earlier ) So, I finally pulled this through: This is a statistical analysis of word count of stories and POV (point of view) characters in the Cosmere, pre-Rhythm of War. It's based on those on the Coppermind both in concept and data, so it was not as much work for me as it looks like (still a bit ). So, I necessarily followed the analysis conventions of the Coppermind, which means that I didn't include the following sorts of text: Ars Arcanum entries essays epigraphs Graphic Novels (naturally) chapter titles, generally text outside of the actual POVs (like text on illustrations and, in one of the short stories, footnotes) These explain why these word counts are generally a bit shorter than information on other sources might imply. On top of that, every new chapter is automatically a new POV (even if the character remains the same), while it's still the same POV if it's a new scene within the same chapter with the same character. The analysis is also limited to the canonical Cosmere, so no Aether of the Night, White Sand Prose, etc. This means that White Sand/Taldain, despite being canonical, are not represented in this statistic at all. I plan on doing another analysis that is the same but with White Sand Prose included. Since White Sand Prose is only allowed to be discussed in its sub-forum, I will post it under my Statistical Analysis of White Sand Prose there, once I find the time to do it. So, there we go: 1. Series Story (8) POV Characters (98) % of POV Characters Word Count (2,818,129) % of Word Count The Stormlight Archive 44 44.9% 1,276,934 45.31% Mistborn Era 1 20 20.41% 731,642 25.96% Mistborn Era 2 14 14.29% 337,427 11.97% Elantris 10 10.2% 208,212 7.39% Warbreaker 6 6.12% 196,014 6.96% The Emperor’s Soul 3 3.06% 31,925 1.13% Sixth of the Dusk 1 1.02% 18,083 0.64% Shadows for Silence 2 2.04% 17,892 0.63% I counted the two Scadrial Eras separately, as well as Emperor’s Soul. This is mostly because it’s easier to just add the separate datas together. I counted Secret History as Era 1, and Allomancer Jak as Era 2. The character numbers don’t add up because two characters have POVs in several stories. They count in every story they're in, but only once in the total character number. --- 2. Single Works Book / novella / short story (19) # of individual POVs (all characters) (1,423) % of Total POVs Word Count (2,818,129) % of Word Count Oathbringer 273 19.18% 454,440 16.13% Words of Radiance 178 12.51% 398,238 14.13% The Way of Kings 123 8.64% 384,265 13.64% The Well of Ascension 147 10.33% 244,371 8.67% The Hero of Ages 131 9.21% 225,372 8% The Final Empire 74 5.2% 210,103 7.46% Elantris 122 8.57% 201,372 7.25% Warbreaker 110 7.73% 196,014 6.96% The Bands of Mourning 83 5.83% 127,456 4.52% Shadows of Self 70 4.92% 110,019 3.9% The Alloy of Law 36 2.53% 94,652 3.36% Mistborn: Secret History 26 1.83% 44,981 1.6% Edgedancer 20 1.41% 40,660 1.44% The Emperor’s Soul 21 1.48% 31,925 1.13% Sixth of the Dusk 1 0.07% 18,083 0.64% Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell 3 0.21% 17,892 0.63% The Hope of Elantris 3 0.21% 6,840 0.24% The Eleventh Metal 1 0.07% 6,815 0.24% Allomancer Jak and the Pits of Elantia 1 0.07% 5,300 0.19% The word count for The Hope of Elantris is not exact but based on word count per page of the other Arcanum Unbounded stories without chapter division. I think it might be a bit less than indicated here, but it's close anyway. --- 3. Shardworlds Shardworld (6) Works (19) % of Works Word Count (2,818,129) % of Word Count Roshar 4 21.05% 1,276,934 45.31% Scadrial 9 47.37% 1,069,069 37.94% Sel 3 15.79% 240,137 8.52% Nalthis 1 5.26% 196,014 6.96% First of the Sun 1 5.26% 18,083 0.64% Threnody 1 5.26% 17,892 0.63% --- 4. Complete Character POV Analysis (spoilered for length)

Kipper recently noted that the 17th Shard has over 9000 members...to which Chaos chimed in to say that that number would change if we banned all of the spammers. Well, turns out, there is information on the 17th that leads me to assume that I can calculate the total number of banned Sharders and thus determine the total number of non-banned Sharders. The front page of the forum tells us that we have, as of this writing, 9521 members of the 17th Shard; however if you look at the data behind the "Overall Top Posters", we only have 7606 members, including those who have never posted before. Thus, we have a grand total of 1915 banned users. The following pie chart shows this break down in percentages: Percent of Banned Users This chart implies that our mods here at the 17th deserve a HUGE shout out for the work that they do on our behalf. If we assume that the vast majority of these banned users are spammers and that each of these spammers have created at least 2 spam threads…then our mods are working tirelessly to ensure that our corner of the internet is extremely user friendly for active users. So: With that said, the sort/search function within the “Overall Top Posters” is actually quite rich, and as a result I am able to determine even more user statistics. Of the 7606 non-banned users, 49.6% have NEVER posted a topic. That means that roughly half of our users are lurkers!o Lurkers who see this, please feel free to contribute to the community, or at least introduce yourselves! We don’t bite, but some of us do spike a lot. Since WOR was released, 56.1% of our user base, or 4265 users, have been active on the 17tho Active is defined as simply logging on and viewing the forum o Thus 43.9% of users have not been active or could have abandoned the 17th Shard since the release of arguably Brandon’s biggest book to date! o 36.5% of Sharders have posted at least 1 time somewhere on the forum since WOR was released In 2015, only 1887 users have been active on the 17tho Roughly only 24.8% of our total user base o 17.1% of Sharders have posted at least 1 time in 2015 During the month of July, 2015 only 737 Sharders were activeo This is roughly 9.7% of or total user base o Of these active users, 519 have made at least 1 post, or roughly 6.8% of our user base [Note: While I wrote this, we had two new Spammers join the 17th! This means we’ll get to increase the percent of banned Sharders soon!]

I was pondering RAFOs, and wondering if and how it might be possible to derive useful information from them. I realized a few things, which are pretty obvious. 1. It's significantly easier to derive information from RAFOd yes/no questions than from RAFOd questions with more than two answers. 2. If the answer to a question has no/very little significance, Brandon is unlikely to RAFO it, no matter what the answer, because it won't affect the plot and is less likely to be revealed in a book. 3. If the answer to a question is extremely significant, Brandon is extremely likely to RAFO it, no matter what the answer, because it will affect the plot and is more likely to be revealed in a book. 4. If a question is confirming/denying only one theory from a large pool of theories, Brandon is less likely to RAFO it. 5. If the answer to such a question is no, Brandon is less likely to RAFO it than if the answer is yes. This is because removing one theory from a pool is less significant than removing all theories from a pool. So, using only this information, on average more questions that are RAFOd will turn out to be true than false. The margin expands when we narrow the parameters to "yes/no questions that refer only to one theory out of a pool". However, it's likely that Brandon knows this, and RAFOs more questions than he might otherwise, in order to make it more difficult to analyze. As such, more information is needed to fully analyze RAFOs. I haven't been around here that long, so I don't know much about which questions were RAFOd. So I need help. If anyone remembers any questions that were originally RAFOd, but were later answered by some means, could you post them? If all goes well, I hope to be able to find a pattern among the data which will help determine the quality of evidence provided by RAFOs.