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The Final Empire was my first Sanderson book I read, but I think my favorite is Warbreaker (my top 3 are definitely Warbreaker, Words of Radiance, and The Final Empire - number one kind of depends on my mood).

First book I read was The Final Empire. I had been talking to a friend about any good books he'd read lately, and he actually recommended Way of Kings to me. The only thing I remembered from the conversation, however, was "Sanderson", so I looked him up and for whatever reason Amazon or Google or whoever made it seem like the Mistborn trilogy was a better known work by him. I *really* liked The Final Empire. The allomantic magic system especially intrigued me. At some point early on in The Well of Ascension I poked around on the wiki and discovered The Cosmere. Finding out the story was part of a greater whole was kind of like taking something awesome and slathering it in bacon and guitar solos. I love huge complicated world-building epics (I initially started reading Sanderson to fill in the void between A Song of Ice and Fire books), so my discovery of The Cosmere had me hook, line, and sinker.

So you still have to contact customer support to get the updated version? I just checked and my cover art is the 10th Anniversary Edition, but the content is still the old version. Merciful Domi, why didn't they just push the update to everyone as soon as they found out it was an issue?

Uh, why are there so many Ooklas?

Ah, gotcha. Yeah, I was forgetting that you could use the generated youth to generate youth.

Thank you very much, that was extremely helpful.

Well, full disclosure, I was a math major in college - I may be overstating this. But say you only have finite life from which to draw (which everyone does, since we are all mortal), call it X. Then say X (normal life) yields Y (enhanced life) from Atium compounding, where Y is exponentially greater than X. That still means in order for Y to be truly infinite, that X would have to be infinite as well - i.e. the person would have to have infinite life to keep Atium compounding going indefinitely. Which would be redundant, since if you are already immortal, you wouldn't need compounding. Anyway, math nerdery aside, you did answer my question (that it is limited), so thanks! Jakamav - I guess I missed something or didn't ask my question well enough. Jakamav is obviously throwing his and Adolin's friendship in the garbage can here, but is he doing it for the Shards or is he doing it because he no longer respects Adolin / thinks he's crazy like Dalinar is? Or maybe a little of both? I guess this just kind of struck me as out of the blue when it happened.

Thanks, I hadn't seen that Q&A compendium - that's awesome!

Hey guys, I just got through all the Cosmere books and had quite a few follow up questions. Sorry for the ponderous tome, but thanks in advance! COSMERE: - In Elantris, Galladon is a grumpy Dula we all know and love. Next we hear of him in the Cosmere, he's a worldhopper on Roshan going by the name Temoo. Do we have any information connecting those two points yet? As in, what makes a person a worldhopper? Do they just kind of figure out how to manipulate the Spiritual/Cognative realms or does someone have to actively recruit them or what? - How do worldhoppers live for such a long time? Do they all have significant caches of Investiture that gives long life, or are they just time hopping so much that they are still living relatively regular length lives? - I don't think I have a very good grasp on the difference between the Spiritual and Cognative realms. What's the difference? Which one would you use for worldhopping? MISTBORN: - The Lord Ruler kept himself immortal by compounding Atium to store age. Wouldn't there be a functional limit to the amount a person could compound, though? I mean, besides the infinite supply of Atium, you'd also need a infinite amount of life to compound, wouldn't you? If so, does anyone have any idea how long The Lord Ruler could have stayed alive, theoretically? - When Vin hears whispers and 'has bad feelings' in general, can these all be assumed to be impressions she's getting from Ruin? Specific case, when she gets a bad feeling about meeting with Hoid, can we assume this is Ruin urging her not to interact with him? - There is a lot of stuff in general about Kelsier I feel I'm just... missing. Specifically after he died. It sounds like he stuck around in Cognative/Spiritual realm and is interacting with Scadrial and maybe even Preservation? Can someone fill in the blanks here? WARBREAKER: - How is it the Royal Family is descendant of Returned if Returned only have stillborn babies? - Since all Returned have a Splinter of Endowment in their Divine Breath, does that mean the Royal Family contain a splinter of a splinter of Divine Breath? Or does the Divine Breath simply not pass on genetically like that? - If Vasher and Vivenna fell in love on their little vagabond after Warbreaker, how weird would that be? STORMLIGHT ARCHIVES - Why/how does Jakamav agree to fight Adolin in the 4v1 duel? - Syl doesn't particularly like Pattern. Is it normal for spren to not like other types of spren? Is it just because of the differences in their outlooks/constitutions in life, or are some spren inherently "good" vs "evil"? - Same question goes to Heralds. Nale certainly seemed to be an antagonist at times. Were some of the Heralds at odds with each other? - How in the hell does a skyeel fly?

Alright. Shadows of Self is finished and I'm all caught up on the Cosmere. So... any suggestions on what to do next? There are a ton of fan theories and miscellaneous quotes from Brandon about tidbits here and there, where does a person even begin to explore the "extra" stuff from here?

Hey guys, I'm new to the board, hopefully not posting anything here I'm not supposed to, but when I read Shadows of Self and came across the new God metal / Trell stuff, my immediate thought was Trell = Odium. (Insofar as Trelagism could have been a legit religion pre-Catacendre, but those who think they are worshiping Trell post-Catacendre are actually worshipping Odium, who decided to join the fun on Scadrial) Plausible? Already debunked a trillion times over somewhere else?

I like Sanderson's magical systems enough that I'll probably check out the non-Cosmere stuff in due time. Right now I have a real itch to re-read to find all the connections I missed the first time through, though. I love the complexities and I feel like I'm still missing a big part of the puzzle even after reading them through once. The worldhoppers in particular really intrigue me.

Yeah, I can't get myself too excited for the non-Cosmere stuff, to be honest. Some of the descriptions look interesting, but the connectivity of the Cosmere is a big part of the draw for me. Maybe I just need to dive in instead of thinking about it too much, haha. Not much to say for Shadows yet - still in the early part of the plot staging. I love the western-themed metalborn fight scenes in the Era 2 books, though. Coinshot + guns = winning.

Thanks! Books I've read: Elantris Hope of Elantris The Final Empire The Well of Ascension The Hero of Ages Warbreaker The Way of Kings The Alloy of Law The Emperor's Soul Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell Words of Radiance Sixth of the Dusk Through Chapter 5 of Shadows of Self

Hey guys, how's it going? This summer I was looking for something to read while waiting for the next A Song of Ice and Fire novel to come around and a friend recommended Sanderson to me. About halfway through the first Mistborn trilogy I discovered this thing called the Cosmere and... I've been hooked ever since. All the individual stories are amazing and the overarcing meta-plot is so intriguing. I didn't want to make an account here until I was finished reading all the books to avoid spoilers, but I couldn't quite hold out - still only halfway finished with Shadows of Self. Anywho, I'm mostly here to read through fan theories and deeper insights and re-reads to better undertand all the awesomeness I just got through. Kolo?