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Again, spoilers for everything I've read, which is all Cosmere except the three non-Tress secret projects:
SpoilerStormlight and the true Cosmere are two different moral universes, incompatible, and hardly even mutually intelligible. The true Cosmere is harsh on characters and loves places, Stormlight is harsh on places and loves characters.
Kelsier's drive to protect Scadrial is every bit as righteous as Kaladin's drive to protect his loved ones. Stormlight-first readers can never, and will never, understand this. There are many things that Stormlight-First readers cannot understand, but this is one of the most important.
In the true Cosmere, a world is not such a nothing as to be mentioned only in one paragraph, as Obrodai was.
Sanderson did not become a success on his characters, but on his worlds and magic systems. All his excuses and insistence otherwise, all his disavowals of anything but Character Character Character, do not fool any of us who know that his first novel was named for a place, his second novel was named for a place, and his third novel was named for a place.
I hope that Stormlight resolves to reveal that it is actually a true Cosmere story, just cut off in the middle. I would hate to see the soulless pragmatism of the Alethi devour all other vibes in the Cosmere, but the author's favoritism is endlessly obvious.
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I'm not sure plot armor is a real thing; I think it might be a tautology where any character who dies at the beginning or middle gets retroactively classified as "not a major character" and any character who doesn't die gets retroactively classified as invincible for not dying.
Besides, the Fused were never the villains, Frus. The Radiants always were.
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I've mourned too many favorites to ever complain about plot armor (also, deaths near the end of the book still count).
And, besides, my investment in Cosmere isn't usually "will this main character survive", it's more often "will this minor character I love survive?", "what will happen to the setting?", "will these nameless innocents all over the place be okay?", "will this main character have to endure seeing this thing happen that should not happen?", or "will the book run out of pages without giving me the joy of seeing Navani Kholin get shoved into a woodchipper?".
