Alonin he/him Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 So, I've only recently started getting into the cosmere. But I'm wondering how time relativity worked out. Are the stories all happening simultaneously, or are some happening before and after others. One main question I have regarding the chronology is on Sel. Did Rayse kill Aona and Skai before the Events of Elantris or after? Has Sel felt the effects of their deaths yet? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperity he/him Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Elantris, maybe Warbreaker, and the Mistborn trilogy all take place around the same time. Alloy of Law and Way of Kings take place 341 years later. http://coppermind.net/wiki/Chronology Also iirc, a year on Roshar is 1.1 Earth years. (500 days per year and 23 hours per day) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windrunner he/him Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Not quite. Elantris happens and Emperor's Soul not long after. Mistborn Trilogy happens centuries later and then Warbreaker a while (300 years?) after that. Then TWoK and Alloy happen about concurrently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Observer Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 As for Aona and Skai, they're dead as of Elantris. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperity he/him Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 Not quite. Elantris happens and Emperor's Soul not long after. Mistborn Trilogy happens centuries later and then Warbreaker a while (300 years?) after that. Then TWoK and Alloy happen about concurrently. Oh yeah didn't Warbreaker happen around the same time as WoK/AoL? That Chronology page must be wrong then. I was going off memory. Sorry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe ST he/him Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 The Chronology page is probably out of date, we're still figuring out how we want to organize it. :\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Ninja he/him Posted October 22, 2012 Report Share Posted October 22, 2012 (edited) You’ve mentioned before that all your books so far are in chronological order (Elantris, the Mistborn trilogy, Warbreaker, Stormlight Archive). 1). Alloy of Law takes place about 200 years after The Hero of Ages. (Right?) Does this put it chronologically before or after Warbreaker? The Alloy of Law takes place around 300 years after The Hero of Ages and several hundred years before the events in The Way of Kings. That does put it around the same time as Warbreaker. sourceI think I read elsewhere that Warbreaker happened before Alloy of Law. But I can't remember where. All I can remember is that he decided for Cosmere reasons that one had to happen before the other. Maybe it's a Hoid thing. Also, Roshar days are 20 hours long, and their hours are a few minutes shorter than ours. It works out to: 365*24*1.1/500/20*60=57.816 Earth minutes per Roshar hour. But that's only if 1.1 Roshar Year = 1 Earth Year is exact. And to clarify the original question: Aona and Skai are dead well before the events of Elantris, but I'm not sure if we know just how long before. If Seons and Skaze are their post-death Splinters, then it was so long ago that people don't remember when it actually happened. Edited October 22, 2012 by Cheese Ninja Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardbearer he/him Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 When Hoid took off for a bit in WoK did he go to Scadrial for AoL? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Ninja he/him Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 When Hoid took off for a bit in WoK did he go to Scadrial for AoL? I think Hoid was still on Roshar. I get the impression that trips between worlds are not to be taken too lightly. Also, Brandon stated AoL is several hundred years before the events of Way of Kings. I quoted and linked to that in the post directly above yours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shardbearer he/him Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 I think Hoid was still on Roshar. I get the impression that trips between worlds are not to be taken too lightly. Also, Brandon stated AoL is several hundred years before the events of Way of Kings. I quoted and linked to that in the post directly above yours... Ah, must have missed that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Windrunner he/him Posted November 4, 2012 Report Share Posted November 4, 2012 That quote is out of date Cheese Ninja. Brandon had to shift the timelines of the books around substantially, due to a behind the scenes conflict. Warbreaker is still before TWoK and AoL but now those two happen almost concurrently. I think AoL may be a hair later, but don't quote me on that. Brandon's said he's not going to answer anymore timeline questions for a while now, because he wants to work on his a bit to make sure no other conflicts will arise. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lDanielHolm he/him Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 Hoid is in Alloy of Law, at least according to this footnote (though the beggar in question appears in chapter 4, not chapter 5). Brandon has corrected the timeline; Alloy of Law happens AFTER the Way of Kings: ZAS678 (MON FEB 20)We have conflicting reports on chronology. Is this right, or is this right? BRANDON SANDERSON (MON FEB 20) The second. I revised my placement of KINGS relative to HERO after realizing a behind-the-scenes conflict. ALLOY had to happen after KINGS for Cosmere reasons. I had two timelines arguing, and in plotting Stormlight 2, I fixed this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cheese Ninja he/him Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 Hoid is in Alloy of Law, at least according to this footnote (though the beggar in question appears in chapter 4, not chapter 5). Brandon has corrected the timeline; Alloy of Law happens AFTER the Way of Kings: Thanks for correcting me there, I knew that he had to reshuffle the timelines at some point, but I couldn't remember how, and all I could find were the older interviews. So, I think that Stormlight in its entirety will happen before AoL and its sequels then. We were told that Hoid used Shadesmar to jump Scadrial in WoA, but haven't learned how much work goes into jumping between worlds. What do you guys think? So far I've gotten the impression that Hoid doesn't like to leave a world until he's completed his business there at the very least. He'd accomplished most or all of his Mistborn goals by the end of Well of Ascension, and just seemed to stick around for no particular reason in HoA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asperity he/him Posted November 5, 2012 Report Share Posted November 5, 2012 Thanks for correcting me there, I knew that he had to reshuffle the timelines at some point, but I couldn't remember how, and all I could find were the older interviews. So, I think that Stormlight in its entirety will happen before AoL and its sequels then. We were told that Hoid used Shadesmar to jump Scadrial in WoA, but haven't learned how much work goes into jumping between worlds. What do you guys think? So far I've gotten the impression that Hoid doesn't like to leave a world until he's completed his business there at the very least. He'd accomplished most or all of his Mistborn goals by the end of Well of Ascension, and just seemed to stick around for no particular reason in HoA. I wouldn't say SA would be completely before AoL since we don't know what exactly the gap between 5 and 6 will consist of. AoL could happen in that period. Maybe modern Mistborn will occur after all of SA. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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