Who Would Win a Cosmere Hunger Games?

[Honor is Wayne]

Who do you think would win a Cosmere hunger games, and who would be the first to die?

[IcedOutPenguin He/Him]

Is it all POV characters, or just major POV characters 

[Qianweilian He/him]

Or is it just everyone in the cosmere?

[Nitpicking]

Well, Hoid can't die and has thousands of years of experience. Also, he's an eloquent, manipulative person with (depending on the era) magics borrowed from many planets. And he has powerful allies, like Sleepless and a Dragon. And he helped kill a god once.

Unless Shards can participate ....

[DoctaDajman]

If it was structured on a random draw basis, and each planet were its own version of a district, I would say the majority of wins would go to Scadrial just because they are the most likely to be powered even if it is considered a weaker power. 

Other things to take into consideration would be what planet the fight is on and if the participants are all acclimated to the different gravity and air composition. Rosharans will be at a large disadvantage on any other planet just because they are used to being pampered by low gravity and higher concentration of O2.  

POV characters would make this different of course. And there is no guidance on investiture usage and fuel opportunities. 

If they go out naked and have no access to immediate fuel except for their innate investiture you have to tip your hat to Nalthians. They will all have at least 1 breath to go on and they are elevated at a baseline over everyone else in the cosmere without needing external sources of Investiture or metal. 

In fact... I may have to change my thoughts originally. Nalthis could be a strong running for the most wins on average year after year. You could be gifted other breaths from your community and have a serious advantage right from the start. 

 

If the players all started with only the clothes on their back, and weren't Hoid, but had to race for metals or stormlight then the Godking bodies them all as his investiture is innate and he can simply ranged& silently command all clothing to crush the others before they make it to their fuel for kinetic investiture use. 

In before bondsmith using no investiture to open a perpendicularity and suddenly have infinite investiture. Maybe they wouldnt have time if the crunch was strong enough by a mental command. 

Fullborn, if a full belly of metal and body packed with metalminds is allowable from the start. 

 

[Qianweilian He/him]

16 hours ago, DoctaDajman said:

his investiture is innate and he can simply ranged& silently command all clothing to crush the others before they make it to their fuel

16 hours ago, DoctaDajman said:

bondsmith using no investiture to open a perpendicularity and suddenly have infinite investiture

16 hours ago, DoctaDajman said:

Fullborn, if a full belly of metal and body packed with metalminds is allowable from the start

On 9/24/2025 at 2:42 PM, Nitpicking said:

Hoid can't die and has thousands of years of experience

These are all interesting arguments (sort of why "who would win" and "power levels" are kind of pointless), but if I remember correctly, these characters could only be in a hunger games once (ignoring weird quarter quell stuff) and they would need to either get selected randomly or volunteer, making it so that most (but not all) games would have somewhat skilled, invested individuals, but not these death combos.

Edit:

If it is a big free-for-all with everyone alive in the cosmere, with immortals/shadows ineligible, then I bet Wax wins, due to having mistborn powers + iron feruchemy + guns, considering all the radiants are helpless and most other big candidates (heralds, hoid, returned, fused, etc.) being ineligible. If it's everyone at any time, with immortals/shadows ineligible (but old Kelsier/Kaladin before death eligible), then I think Rashek wins due to being a fullborn, or potentially one of the Heralds before the oathpact. If it's everyone ever in the cosmere except Hoid, Shards, and Aethers, I think Taln wins, with Rashek and Ishar fighting for second.

Edited September 26, 2025 by Qianweilian

[DoctaDajman]

6 hours ago, Qianweilian said:

These are all interesting arguments (sort of why "who would win" and "power levels" are kind of pointless), but if I remember correctly, these characters could only be in a hunger games once (ignoring weird quarter quell stuff) and they would need to either get selected randomly or volunteer, making it so that most (but not all) games would have somewhat skilled, invested individuals, but not these death combos.

Edit:

If it is a big free-for-all with everyone alive in the cosmere, with immortals/shadows ineligible, then I bet Wax wins, due to having mistborn powers + iron feruchemy + guns, considering all the radiants are helpless and most other big candidates (heralds, hoid, returned, fused, etc.) being ineligible. If it's everyone at any time, with immortals/shadows ineligible (but old Kelsier/Kaladin before death eligible), then I think Rashek wins due to being a fullborn, or potentially one of the Heralds before the oathpact. If it's everyone ever in the cosmere except Hoid, Shards, and Aethers, I think Taln wins, with Rashek and Ishar fighting for second.

Yeah it is impossible to say who would be there and what power sets they may carry nor how the investiture would work in that case. 

In the hunger games there is incentive to getting your district to win more often than others. So if it is one person pulled from each planet at random with 2 weeks to prepare as they go I would vote that Nalthis wins the vast majority of these games. 

The Nalthians would likely treat the chosen individual in a way that they may endow that person with a good store of breaths before they leave. If Nalthis can pull together a 25,000 breath store each year (it could be given back to the leader of the nation or whatever after) then that contestant would be able to arrive and ranged command every other contestant into nonexistance via strangulation before anyone makes it to the cornucopia. 

But this is strictly how I think a society would handle it.  

Scadrial could gather a collection of spikes to pass from contestant to contestant as well and almost promise that they arrive with spikes acting as metalminds filled to use as well. 

But again how do the rules set things up?  Nalthians and innate investiture just act differently and its impossible to really make any magic based rules that dont either make or break them in this. 

And the way heightenings work... a 9th or 10th heightening awakener could be made and trained in a moment of minutes following the announcement of who is chosen.

If Scadrial created a full blown inquisitor everytime a person got chosen that would be terrifying as well. I mean steel blitz and pewter strength could make quick work of the awakener. Although your inquisitor would be forced to fight through their clothing trying to tie them up and murder them. 

Granted... if the awakener can pull off Vashers trick it may give them the moment needed to off even an inquisitor.