How did you find out about the Cosmere?

[Atilium she/her]

for myself, after finishing WoK I looked up fanart, which led me to the Coppermind and... BOOM. Mind blown. A little while later I joined 17thshard (: 

[SmurfAquamarineBodies he/him]

After I had read Mistborn and Warbreaker I noticed Hoid, thought he was just a cameo for one of his friends so I looked him up then found this site, lurked for ages, read WoR then joined.

[Tien'sPetLurg she/her]

I saw it mentioned in an article about WoR. I almost Died. <- Ok that's a little overly dramatic, but it was pretty exciting.

[Voidus]

It was the HoA release for me that did it for me I guess, but then visiting 17th Shard was what made me really aware of what the cosmere is.

[Theorymaker he/him]

After I read HoA I looked up what Adonalsium was, which led me to the Coppermind, which eventually led me to the 17th Shard.

[Reiyeka she/her]

I had been planning to read Mistborn, but after getting the very highest of praise for WoK from my SO, I read WoK as my first Sanderson novel. I poked around in the wiki during my read and found this small note about Hoid at the bottom of one of the pages. Felt like I uncovered some epic secret and I even looked around the room to make sure I was alone, haha! Cosmere achievement unlocked, I eventually found this place and lurked for a long time. I read more books and started having an uncontrollable urge to make fan art and here we are.

[Curiosity he/him]

Heh… I saw Adonalsium/universal 16 concept/rudimentary realmatics in HoA and started to suspect something was up.

 

The AoL Ars Arcanum was what really started me guessing… (… three primary manifestations of Investiture on Scadrial… , … As compared to Sel, where all magics are form-based…, … Hemalurgy is of the greatest interest to others…, etc.). I already guessed that Sel was Elantris' world, and a couple of things in the Warbreaker and Mistborn annotations gave me more support. 

 

I thought that I was really onto something. Until I read Tor's WoK reread where they mention Ishikk's interlude as being "pure cosmere-building." And Galladon was there. On Roshar. ?!?!? So that led me to The Coppermind. And from there to the 17th Shard. 

[Kobold King he/him]

I'd read Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker, and The Way of Kings. I was pretty psyched about that "Brandon Sanderson" fellow, so I took a look at the Coppermind wiki.

 

I saw a word which flabbergasted me. A word that seemed to have ties to the Stormlight Archive, yet was used as a sweeping term for entire planets.

 

One simple, compound word.

 

That word was "Shardworld."

[Mistdork she/her]

Spotting that Hoid fellow. He led me down a virtual rabbit hole called the coppermind wiki and I haven't been the same since...

[Dellexe he/him]

I had read all four Mistborn novels, Elantris, Warbreaker, and the Way of Kings. I had noticed that some things seemed similar throughout, but I assumed it was just Brandon using the same methods/terms when writing. I had noticed Hoid was in both Elantris and Mistborn, but didn't think much of it. Then I read Words of Radiance. My brain did a bellyflop at the end. IS THAT WHAT I THINK IT IS?!?! DO I RECOGNIZE MY ABSOLUTE FAVOURITE CHARACTER FROM

WARBREAKER

?! I hopped onto the internet, and after going onto the Coppermind saw one word that changed my view of Sanderson's writings forever. COSMERE. I started reading wiki article after wiki article, then I read and reread every Cosmere novel I owned, and then bought more. Then I joined 17th Shard and learned even more.

Edited July 24, 2014 by Kal Dell

[Fatebreaker he/him]

Hoid told me.

[Lightsworn Panda he/him]

Because a website called "Coppermind Wiki" with a page called "Shards" was way too attractive for me. 

Edited July 25, 2014 by Lightsworn Panda

[Botanica she/her]

After reading Elantris I decided to have a look at all of Brandon's fantasy books, then I finished Mistborn but still didn't get the interconnection… (Stupid me) Until I began to read WoK, which is my first non-translated Cosmere book, I found Coppermind Wiki where I did the keyword search when meeting things I couldn't understand, then… BOOM! The Cosmere and a guy called Hoid! I was totally mind-blown by that and immediately made up my mind to become a dedicated Sanderfan =)

Man, it's hard to find clues in those translated copies because the translators and publishers are all different and some translators may even not know the existence of Cosmere, sigh! (It's a bit interesting that “Hoid” has been translated into three different names ) We really need something like a Complete Guide to the Cosmere!

Edited July 31, 2014 by Botanica

[Erai Sedai he/him]

I read WoK and WoR thinking i had to wait until the next release for another awesome story, before finding out that there was a bunch of other books that were connected.

BEST.DAY.EVER