What book(s) are you looking forward to most about the Cosmere?

[Turos]

So, ya, what do you want most?

[Straff Venture he/him]

Stormlight is amazing but Hoid has always been the ultimate mystery of the cosmere. I can't wait to find out how he came to become such an interstellar stalker

[Cracknut he/him]

Hoid interests me most too but without all the mystery about him I doubt he would be that interesting and he's going to be in most of the upcoming books(if not in all). I don't think his parts will be same after his story is revealed. Better to learn more about him with little hints here and there than just read his story. Stormlight Archive has most of him at this point so there will be more of those little hints and interesting stuff. I choose Stormligh Achive, not just second book but all of them. Then Mistborn books. After that Liar of Partinel and Dragonsteel. Standalone books in between.

[Observer]

The rest of the Mistborn books. It's my favorite of all his series, and I'm looking forward to the rest of it.

[Voidus]

The third mistborn trilogy when we finally get a cosmere story!

[Observer]

The third mistborn trilogy when we finally get a cosmere story!

This. If there will ever be a cosmere story, it'll be this one.

[Chaos he/him]

It's a toss up between the future Mistborn Trilogy and Liar of Partinel. Both of which are both the oldest and latest stories in the cosmere. I voted Mistborn, simply because I'm an ultra-Mistborn nerd, but I am deeply interested in Hoid's background and how Adonalsium was Shattered.

[Aethling he/him]

As much as I loved SLA1 and am awaiting SLA2, Warbreaker 2 just seems to pull me more.

[Cones For Eyes he/him]

Elantris 2 here. I really want to find out how all the magic systems arise on Sel and how they are related to each other. Future Mistborn and some of the other books are a bit too far away for me to be too excited just yet.

[Observer]

Which is kind of funny, considering your name.

Since Brandon's never been the type to leave his magic systems alone and unexplained, I'm expecting to learn the rest of the hemalurgic properties, as well as the new alloys of Atium.

[Straff Venture he/him]

Which is kind of funny, considering your name.

Since Brandon's never been the type to leave his magic systems alone and unexplained, I'm expecting to learn the rest of the hemalurgic properties, as well as the new alloys of Atium.

I wonder if the alloys of atium and larasium will be related to the pair in the powers they give, or if they'll each be relatively new. Either way I think it will be great to see the new metals in later trilogies

[Observer]

I wonder if the alloys of atium and larasium will be related to the pair in the powers they give, or if they'll each be relatively new. Either way I think it will be great to see the new metals in later trilogies

I felt like Bendalloy and the other kind of came from nowhere in AoL. I guess that's just me preferring an in-story discovery, but oh well.

[Straff Venture he/him]

I felt like Bendalloy and the other kind of came from nowhere in AoL. I guess that's just me preferring an in-story discovery, but oh well.

I agree with you. The discovery of something new in one of Brandon's stories is always better when you have the story actually with it. Like the mystery surrounding the eleventh metal was pretty cool.

[Observer]

Also, has Brandon Word of God 100% confirmed that Midas is Hoid? Because I don't know about you, but Midas seems to care quite a bit about Hoid, contrary to the quote he gives Kaladin in the SHattered Plains.

Oh what I would give to see Theus turn "good" and wind up being Hoid

[Quantum Toast he/him]

What I've seen of Liar of Partinel left me wanting to know more.

Edited September 18, 2012 by Quantum Toast

[LevenThumps]

This is the hardest choice I have ever had to make. I'm going with the Stormlight Archive Book 2, mainly because it is the next cosmere book coming out.

[Asperity he/him]

I was interested in The Liar of Partinel but then it got scrapped so that's disappointing.

I want to read The Silence Divine because the story is intriguing, and Warbreaker 2 to find out about Nightblood and hopefully this Warbreaker/Stormlight converging that was hinted about in Sanderson's Q&A.

I think Alloy of Law got me confused about which Mistborn books will be released, so based off this thread, is there going to be a future trilogy too? The modern one will still be crazy, I'm sure.

And of course, Dragonsteel for pure Cosmere-relation.

Seriously, this whole Cosmere ideal is basically my fetish. Blending in stories and worlds just intrigues me like no other.

[Straff Venture he/him]

I think Alloy of Law got me confused about which Mistborn books will be released, so based off this thread, is there going to be a future trilogy too? The modern one will still be crazy, I'm sure.

I'm pretty sure there will still be a futuristic trilogy. The Wax and Wayne books are separate from the main sequence as far as I know.

[Voidus]

Yeah, there are still the three main trilogies AoL was a side-project.

[MasterGhandalf]

Let's see- at the moment, I'm actually probably looking forward to Emperor's Soul the most, but that has less to do with the book itself and more the fact that it's about to come out . In terms of the actual content of the books, probably Stormlight 2- can't wait to see where the plots and characters WoK established go- but the second (and ultimately, third) Mistborn trilogy and Dragonsteel are definitely up there too. For purposes of the poll, I voted Stormlight 2.

Edited October 6, 2012 by MasterGhandalf

[Lightflame he/him]

I voted SA2, but I'm really looking forward to White Sand. A whole new trilogy with a brand new magic system, and new characters? We finally learn Bavadin's Shard? Sounds awesome.

[MasterGhandalf]

I confess to finding White Sand extremely intriguing, for essentially the reasons you outline (and Silence Divine too, for similar reasons). However, it looks like a looong time before we'll be seeing either of them (based on what Brandon and co. have said, I'm not expecting WS or TSD in the next ten years at least, though if anyone's heard differently I'd love to be corrected), so I'm not letting myself get too excited.

[Voidus]

White Sand and Silence Divine were both 'someday' in the recent Q&A so yeah, not anytime soon, probably after SA is done.

[Moru she/her]

It was so hard for me to decide. I picked the modern mistborn trilogy, but I really want both of those ones. Mostly just because I'm so obsessed with Mistborn. haha

[Samh9]

Not Hoids origin story. It's much more interesting to figure stuff out on your own using the tidbits Sanderson gives you. Looking forward to SLA because it seems the most connected to the cosmere, and it is so awesome.