Bort he/him Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Understandably, the entire sequence of Cosmere books will take place over thousands of years, at least. Maybe millions. This we know from the prologue of Way of Kings "4500 years ago...". I am rather curious though, how the various Cosmere novels tie into each other's timeline. Take, for example, Mistborn. Brandon has said that Scadrial will be the setting for three trilogies set at different eras - The Final Empire, 300 years later, and further into the future. Technically, all of these could take place in the 4500 years between the Recreance and modern day Roshar. Perhaps the starspren are in fact allomancy-powered spacecraft from Scadrial. Or Warbreaker. Vasher appears on Roshar, having been there for, I believe it was said, around 50 years. So Warbreaker happened at least that much sooner than Way of Kings. Even sooner when you consider Nightblood will be a sequel. Is there an overall timeline for the Cosmere, to give us an idea of when things have played out? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quiver he/him Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Maybe this would help? http://coppermind.net/wiki/Chronology I have no idea how accurate that is; I'm rather iffy on the timeline stuff myself. Still, might be a good starting point (and if it's wrong, bringing it up means someone can edit it). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bort he/him Posted January 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 Thanks Quiver. That's not bad, but for the way the timelines from the various books meet just seems to be speculation, rather than anything supported by WoB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 The chronology page is, somewhat, supported by WoB which have been decidedly imprecise. Elantris takes place "hundreds but not thousands of years" before the Mistborn trilogy. TES takes place sometime after Elantris. (Mistborn trilogy) Warbreaker takes place sometime between Hero of Ages and The Way of Kings. Stormlight takes place before Alloy of Law (though likely fairly close to it, as previously they were described as contemporaneous) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted January 20, 2015 Report Share Posted January 20, 2015 We did the best we could with the Chronology, Elantris is the one we're still not sure where it exactly fits in and it has been changed a bit already so it's definitely not fixed even when we do have a reasonably solid WoB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gjustice99 she/her Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Vasher has been on Roshar about 12 years Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WeiryWriter he/him Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 Vasher has been on Roshar about 12 years This keeps popping up but that is /not/ what Brandon said. He said that Vasher was in the original draft of The Way of Kings, so he's been on Roshar 12 years "our time". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ROSHtaFARian2.0 Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 We also do have WOB that White Sand is set pretty early on in the cosmere, possibly even before Elantris from what I recall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calderis he/him Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 (edited) This keeps popping up but that is /not/ what Brandon said. He said that Vasher was in the original draft of The Way of Kings, so he's been on Roshar 12 years "our time".To put it in a different wording so that maybe it sticks a little better, Brandon was saying that the idea of Vasher being in SA was 12 years old.That obviously has no bearing on how long Vasher has been on Roshar Edited January 22, 2015 by Calderis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewStirlingMacDonald he/him Posted January 22, 2015 Report Share Posted January 22, 2015 We know that Vasher was on Roshar long enough to train Adolin when he was six, and WoB is that he's been on Roshar far longer than anyone else on the planet would suspect. Also as an addition, WoB on Sixth of the Dusk is that it is farther along in the chronology than anything we've seen yet. I've heard a ton of speculation that it takes place during the 4th Scadrian age because of reasons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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