SA, Mistborn, and Elantris timings

[TNTman20 he/him]

Hey all, I had a question about the timing during these three books in the title of this topic.

So, we know Galladon and Demoux are in Stormlight nicknamed Grump and Thinker respectively.

Thus it leads me to think that these three book series are taking place about a few years or so apart.

That is all I could find out.

What do you guys think?

[Weltall]

Galladon is an Elantrian and effectively immortal and Brandon has stated that Demoux uses the same method that most of the Seventeenth Shard uses (we don't know what it is) which doesn't stop the aging process but slows it considerably. We know that all the books through The Alloy of Law are published in in-universe chronological order, after which it breaks down. Mistborn Era 2 takes place during the planned timeskip between the first and second half of Stormlight Archive, meaning that it happens some time after The Way of Kings. Era 2 itself happens about three hundred years after the end of Era 1, which means that Demoux has been around for several centuries by the time he appears as 'Thinker'. We also know that Baon (the third worldhopper in the Purelake trio, the one Ishikk calls Blunt) is from the chronologically earliest story to date, White Sand, making him the oldest of the three in relative terms.

We don't know exactly how much time passes between the events of White Sand and Elantris, or Elantris and Mistborn but Brandon has mentioned that we've seen the nearer of a thousand years worth of events we could place on a timeline (not counting 'certain inciting events' that go as far back as ~10,000 years) which gives us a rough idea how far back White Sand and Elantris can take place, if you put them at one end of the timeline and Sixth of the Dusk at the other. Brandon has confirmed that the Prelude at the start of Way of Kings (and consequently, some of Dalinar's visions that predate it) happen before anything else we've seen so far. Presumably the former falls under the 'certain inciting events' caveat from the WoB I mentioned.

Edited February 26, 2018 by Weltall

[RShara she/her]

Here's a pretty good timeline with our best guesses and what hard data we have on it.  Be warned, there are full spoilers for all cosmere novels in it, though.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1JJtJhHwpKdow01n2-bsT3scVvqJd6lZh4uvpNwcslv8/edit#gid=0

[TNTman20 he/him]

Thank you both, and thank you all powerful RShara.

This information is very nice to have.