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Announcing: An Interactive Map & Timeline of Roshar


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After several months of intensive work, we're happy to finally announce our interactive map and timeline of Roshar! Use it as a refresher on the events of the books before Rhythm of War is released or simply explore the world of Roshar. If you have any issues using the map or have suggestions for us, feel free to comment here, use our feedback thread, or approach us on Discord. Read on to find out more about the map's creation, its features, and what the future holds! Watch this trailer to get a visual overview of things instead:

The project came about when our amazing staff member @Jofwu approached me, Paleo, about creating something similar to Netflix's map of The Continent for their Witcher series, based on his detailed timeline of events in The Stormlight Archive. We promptly set out to get the basic map and timeline functionalities done, while coming up with additional neat features to implement along the way. User @Stoneward13 kindly let us use his HD map remakes of both Roshar and Shadesmar, which made the detailed map feasible in the first place. A huge thanks to him is in order! We worked out how we wanted to display which information, gathered art for the various entries, and then integrated it all into the web application. We'd like to thank all the artists who granted us permission to use their works for this endeavor at this point. Thanks also to our own @Otto Didact for helping out with his cartography expertise.

Once we felt confident enough to share our work with some more people, we entered a closed beta phase with our Patreon supporters, who provided valuable feedback and helped iron out some leftover kinks. Additionally, we approached @Ysondra of cosmere.es about translating all the information into Spanish. She, @Vanahian, and @Bea did so in a monumental effort over the course of only a few weeks, all the while identifying and fixing issues with the original English text as well! With this and finishing touches done, we were ready for release.

Features

This of course leaves us with the question of what features the map and timeline actually bring. The following list gives a rough overview:

  • Fully labeled, explorable map of Roshar—including Shadesmar
  • Detailed timeline of the history of Roshar, spanning from pre-history to current events in the published books upto Oathbringer
  • Summaries of events, locations, and characters including links to related items and further details on the Coppermind Wiki
  • Localized content, currently available in the following languages besides English:
    • Spanish
  • Layers on top of the map that can be enabled at any time, displaying useful additional information
    • Overlay the borders of the historic Silver Kingdoms
    • Show color indicators of the allegiances of various nations
    • Map out the ten Oathgate locations
  • Powerful filtering and customization capabilities
    • Filter timeline events by tags
    • Display a timeline separately from the rest to identify a single character's or book's events
    • Lock navigation controls to a separate timeline to follow only its events

Upcoming

We do not consider this project finished by any means! We'll be delivering improvements as we come up with them and will of course fix any bugs that have found their way into the code. Translations into more languages are forthcoming, albeit with no ETAs as of yet. We appreciate any kind of input and actually have ways in which you can contribute. The project is open-source and hosted on GitHub, so feel free to have a look at the code or report issues there. You can also submit bug reports and suggestions through the forums or Discord in the #17s channel, of course. If you'd like to help out with translations you can also approach us for some pointers at where to start. Artists who want to help out with filling in some of the gaps are also invited to contribute, but please come talk to us for coordination first!

It should be noted that the timeline is only current with the events of Oathbringer right now and will stay so for at least a few months. Once timelines for Rhythm of War and Dawnshard are finalized, we'll be updating the app and will release the new content—with a note about upcoming spoilers published ahead of time.

We hope you'll have as much fun with this map as we had developing it! If you'd like to support our work and want to get early access to projects like this if they come up again, consider becoming a patron.

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Is there another fan wiki for anything that compares to the Coppermind, WOBs, and now this?

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Man, this makes me happy to see fully released. I made those two maps just for fun and to see them linked to a project of this scale is really just the most amazing thing. Huge props to everyone that worked on the project, it is amazing :)

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The biggest question is when we can expect a holistic Cosmere map that displays the universe, planets, etc? Nice work guys!  

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53 minutes ago, Ghanderflaffle said:

Anybody else unable to get it to open?

Can you provide a description of what's happening in the feedback thread? Along with the other information requested in that first post.

If you're on an Apple device, note that we're having some issues with Safari that we're working through now.

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This looks so good, guys! Amazing work! So excited to have my art included (Shallan and Kaladin in the chasms).

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This is soooo amazing! I'll probably lose a lot of time browsing the map until either Rhythm of War or Dawnshard releases.

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This is just an insane example of the incredible fandom that is the 17th Shard.  I didn't get to grow up in the era of JRR Tolken, George RR Martin's books were drawn out over such a long time (still waiting), and Harry Potter was incredible in so many ways (but not on the level of theorizing and interconnectedness I love).  Brandon's Cosmere is like the LOST of our generation, and this map shows that his fans SHOW UP with their A game.  Thanks for making this incredible ride even more fun with this map!

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This is amazing! Thank you for being as awesome as you are, guys!

Nazh would be proud.

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The comment regarding Moash made me laugh. 

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This is amazing! Y'all are awesome! This is truly wonderful! And heh, that Moash comment though.....oh the shade!:lol:

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I have a question about the timeline.  The side carry is shown to happen before the chasmfiend hunt, though it occurs a full part after in TWOK.  How did the varying timelines match up?

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This is such wonderful work! What a gift!! Thank you all for making it!

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