Hexagonce Posted April 14, 2014 Posted April 14, 2014 Hi, I'm Rachel. I've recently become obsessed with Brandon's books and I saw this site and was like perfect! so yeah, what's up?
Observer Posted April 14, 2014 Posted April 14, 2014 (edited) Welcome to the 17th Shard! We hope you'll enjoy your time here on the forums, theorizing, making jokes, doing stupid stuff and generally doing what people on forums do. The rest of this post contains major-to-minor spoilers for Mistborn, which you may or may not have read already. If you have, this following should be pretty much old new to you, but I'll copy-paste it all anyways: If you're not already Cosmere-aware, take a look at the Cosmere 101 thread, found here: http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/491-cosmere-101/ As I said before, this contains minor to moderate spoilers for Mistborn, so I guess in the name of long story short, this is what you'll get out of it: (Warning, poorly-explained paragraph of stuff you may already know and that could be explained way better in the link if you don't mind spoilers) All of Brandon's books take place in a shared universe, and there's a ton of "Worldhoppers" running around forming a background plot arc, hidden inside all of the series. If you heard about a guy called Hoid, he's a worldhopper who appears at least once in every Cosmere book, and we're honestly not sure where his allegiances lie. Forever ago in the Cosmere there was this huge powerful thing called Adonalsium, and it broke into sixteen pieces called Shards, each with functionally godlike power and an "intent". They can be picked up by people, granting them a form of immortality and crazy amounts of power, but also warp their minds to fit the Shard's intent. Like the Shard Odium changes the holder to feel and think of nothing but hate. Most Shards have attached to a planet and sort of run things there, though a solid number of Shardworlds have nothing but dead and broken Shards to watch them, like the Elantris and (Kind of, kind of not) the Stormlight Archive world. I hope you'll stick around here with us, it's always great when we get new regulars. EDIT: Hi, I'm Observer, the person who's computer refuses to let line-breaks work unless specifically formatted to do so, a fact that I just cannot make myself remember. Edited April 14, 2014 by Observer
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