Is this Cosmere summary accurate?

[Ammanas]

So I was first introduced to the cosmere by the article listed below. All of the information seems fine to me, but I am not very good with the small details of the Cosmere. I know that Tor did a cosmere article recently and many found holes that I could not find. The article is a little old, but I was wondering if the information was correct?

http://thewertzone.blogspot.com/2014/03/a-rough-guide-to-sandersons-cosmere.html?m=1

[cloudjumper he/him]

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• An unknown shard: held by a man named Bavadin and located on the planet Taldain. Bavadin is regarded, like Rayse, as an antagonist. White Sand will apparently explore his role further.

This part is not correct; it should be Autonomy.

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• The Emperor's Soul: Hoid, disguised as the Imperial Fool for the Rose Empire, betrays Shai to arrest and imprisonment for reasons unknown.

I believe the reason was to steal the moon scepter for himself.

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• The Hero of Ages: Hoid acts a street informant again, this time in Fadrex City. Vin goes to him for information, but an overwhelming feel of dread fills her and she decides not to talk to him. It's been theorised that Vin had been touched by the power of Ruin at this point and this may have given her the feeling of antipahy towards Hoid.

Spoilers for SH

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Actually it was Kelsier

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• The Alloy of Law: Disguised, again, as a beggar, Hoid attends the wedding of Lord Yomen and Lady Ostlin. He also appears to have directly written the book's appendix.

Haven't read AoL for a while, but I believe that Khriss wrote all of the Ars Arcanums.

 

But yeah, most of the info is correct.

Edited June 19, 2017 by cloudjumper

[The One Who Connects he/him]

10 minutes ago, Ammanas said:

The article is a little old, but I was wondering if the information was correct?

Here we go:

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The Cosmere itself is a collection of various planets all linked by a shared extradimensional realm known as Shadesmar.

Article fails to grasp the 3 Realms, but is still technically correct.

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Apparently the highstorms of Roshar are a manifestation of Honor's power and splintering. The Stormfather appears to be a former servant of Honor, if not a splinter directly. The ten magical forces represented by the Knights Radiant may also be derived from Honor.

Multiple inaccuracies, but they are all due to assumptions. Highstorms predate Honor's arrival, but he did co-opt them at some point. Similar statement for the Stormfather, as he existed prior and later merged with Honor's Cognitive Shadow. The Surges probably existed before Surgebinding did, but the KR method of accessing them is derived of Honor and possibly Cultivation.

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According to some reports, he is imprisoned on the planet Braize (one of Roshar's sister-worlds) and seeks to escape with the help of human servants on Roshar.

I cannot actually dispute this, but I also have no idea where they got this idea from in 2014.

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An unknown shard: held by a man named Bavadin and located on the planet Taldain. Bavadin is regarded, like Rayse, as an antagonist. White Sand will apparently explore his role further.

Pre-White Sand, so not really their fault, but Bavadin is Autonomy.

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He also writes a letter to the Seventeenth Shard that is periodically referenced in the book.

By all accounts, Hoid wrote this letter to Frost.

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Khriss: an as-yet unseen character named by Sanderson as the most experienced worldhopper out there. Some fans have speculated that he/she is the leader of the Seventeenth Shard and is the person exchanging letters with Hoid in the first two Stormlight books.

I have never seen a theory about her being the author of the second letter.

As mentioned, Khriss is the writer of the Ars Arcanum's (Arcani? Arcana? How does one plural this?)

[Weltall]

Yeah, that was written before the above facts became known (pretty sure, as far as WoB's go and definitely sure for things like Autonomy's existence) so it's accurate for when it was written but it's no longer completely accurate to what we know now; We learn a lot each year via Words of Brandon even without the books themselves adding to our knowledge in huge, glorious chunks. xD

Another thing one could mention would be that gender is sort of a tricky issue for Bavadin (Autonomy's Vessel) and something we shouldn't get too hung up on, but officially speaking Bavadin is female.

Other small points include that the description of future Mistborn series no longer track Brandon's terminology (the Wax and Wayne books have become 'Era 2' so the 'Modern' and 'Sci-Fi' trilogies have been bumped up in number as a result) and Dragonsteel is now likely to be a shorter series than Brandon's original conception, in the three to five book range rather than seven.

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Endowment: a Shard located on Nalthis. Its holder is unknown. Its influence is felt in Warbreaker.

We've since got WoB that Edgli is the name of Endowment's Vessel and separately, that Edgli is female.

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Shards can be 'splintered', which appears to dissipate their power amongst lesser forms, but it is unclear if they can be recombined later on.

We've had a WoB here too, telling us that splintering isn't necessarily permanent so this line is no longer completely accurate, even if we haven't seen it happen for ourselves.

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The Well of Ascension: Hoid, disguised as a Terrisman, spends the book hunting for the Well in Terris before backtracking to Luthadel and briefly meeting Elend and Spook outside the city.

Secret History has retconned Hoid's purpose in going to Terris in WoA from 'looking for the Well' to... something else. But we didn't know that in 2014.

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Blunt: Blunt is a companion of Galladon and Demoux's and, like them, originates from another world. According to Sanderson, we will meet Blunt (presumably under his real name) at an earlier part in his life in a novel yet to be published.

Since happened, in White Sand. Looking at the dates, we got WoB that 'Blunt' was Baon about a week after that article was posted. Missed it by that much. xD

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Khriss: an as-yet unseen character named by Sanderson as the most experienced worldhopper out there. Some fans have speculated that he/she is the leader of the Seventeenth Shard and is the person exchanging letters with Hoid in the first two Stormlight books.

Khriss has since been seen and her gender is no longer unknown. We've also got WoB that she's not the leader of the Seventeenth Shard.

@cloudjumper Right, Khriss has since been confirmed to have written all the Ars Arcana.

EDIT: And @The One Who Connects, the plural of Arcanum is Arcana.

Edited June 19, 2017 by Weltall

[Calderis he/him]

25 minutes ago, The One Who Connects said:

As mentioned, Khriss is the writer of the Ars Arcanum's (Arcani? Arcana? How does one plural this?)

I think it would be arcana? 

[Ammanas]

Always amazes me you guys remember all these details. Great work! Upvotes for everyone!

[Pattern he/him]

11 hours ago, The One Who Connects said:

Ars Arcanum's (Arcani? Arcana? How does one plural this

Correct Latin: Artes Arcanae

Btw.: The correct singular would be "Ars Arcana" since ars is a feminine noun and we have the adjective arcanus, -a, -um.

Edited June 20, 2017 by Pattern