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I've got a few questions pertaining to the physical shape of the Cosmere, and I'll try my best to stray from RAFO territory. 1. Threnody and Scadrial have a common starscape in which there is an unusually bright patch of stars. Threnody and First of the Sun are both minor Shardworlds. Scadrial will likely have ships to travel in future Mistborn books. First of the Sun claims The Ones Above have visited them. Is it reasonable to assume these three planets share their own planetary system? 2. Is it possible that Yolen, Nalthis, Taldain, and Sel share their own planetary system. One orbiting around Sel's yellow sun perhaps? 3. We're told there are other uninhabitable planets not mentioned in the Greater Roshar System. How many?

Did we ever find out what was up with that machine at the end? What it's purpose entailed?

Well, It's confirmed that Threnody isn't part of the Greater Roshar System, so I don't know how drastically different the star system would look from the different planetary systems. But I guess it's possible. Hopefully I can succeed in making a 2D "map". Then we'll worry about throwing another dimension in there.

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The introductory paragraph to <a href="http://coppermind.net/wiki/Scadrial#cite_note-qa-727-60.7D-1">the Scadrial page</a> and the section under Astronomy of the <a href="http://coppermind.net/wiki/Threnody">Threnody page</a> cite very similar occurrences. I cannot cite further into the text as I'm not entirely sure where this is written. Thanks!

Oh wow, that's a good 47 mins in length. I'll have to give it some attention. Thanks for the link.

Hey guys. New to the forum. I've been doing a ton of research on the physical structure of the Cosmere and both the 17th Shard wikia and forum have been a ton of help. For a while now I've really wanted a visualization of the Cosmere. A rough map, at the very least. I've attached a photo of a VERY rough sketch of the Cosmere as it makes sense to me via the info I've found online. And really, istead of notes I just drew out the ten known planets as I went along. Tomorrow I hope to blow up the scale quite a bit, give it a ton more artistic flare, and make some semblance of sense of it. But as it is, from what I've gathered, there are two discernible planetary systems, although I'm sure there are more. The Greater Roshar System has been confirmed to include Roshar, Ashyn, and Braize. Visible to this system is a swath of "red stars," known from Roshar as Taln's Scar. There is definitely a second planetary system that includes Scadrial and Threnody, as we can assume both planets share the same sky. Both share an unusually bright patch of stars. In Threnody this is known as the Starbelt. Sanderson has mentioned that both Threnody and First of the Sun are Minor Shardworlds. That doesn't mean they're in the same system though. I can assume that First of the Sun literally means it's the closest planet to the star it orbits. I just don't know which star that would be. Sel is said to orbit a yellow star. Other than that, the other planets aren't extremely well mapped. For now I'll probably place Nalthis, Sel, Yolen, Taldain, and First of the Sun randomly on the map, clearly distinguished outside of the two other "known" systems, and/or perhaps as their own system. Unless someone has more information that I've yet to come across. I'll be including known moons. Correct me if I've mis-counted each planet's known moons, or just plain missed them. Roshar: 3 (Salas, Nomon, Nishin) Braize: 0 Ashyn: 0 Nalthis: 1 Threnody: 0 Scadrial: 0 Sel: 1 Yolen: 0 Taldain: 0 First of the Sun: 0 Are there any other Celestial bodies I should be aware of? Uninhabitable planets, star systems, etc.? And I've been able to find decent maps for the general layout for Scadrial and Roshar. But other than that I'm rather in the dark. If you have any knowledge of existing maps of any of these worlds, that'd be extremely welcome. Thanks guys. Depending on how this goes, I'd like to continue updating the map in the future as more information on planet system locales, and celestial bodies is forthcoming. This'll be the 2015 edition. Edit: Here's a more complete image, mapped out. Just beginning the inking stage.