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Thank you DarkJester, that kind of helped me understand the whole idea behind the two books better. Elantris sounds really cool, but I'm gonna read Mistborn first. Partly because it's predecessors are already out. 

Mistborn sounds really cool, I think I'll check that one out first. After I read it, I'll read Elantris. What should I read next?

17 minutes ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

Elantris was his first book that got published.

Ah, thank you. I usually like to read books in the order they're published, not necessarily chronologically. Unless the series doesn't make sense to do it that way. 

But, can I get a quick synopsis for both Mistborn and Elantris? Seems like it doesn't matter, really, which one I read first. I'll just pick based on whichever sounds better. Maybe not the best way, but oh well.

5 minutes ago, Hemalurgic_Headshot said:

I started with Elantris, then Mistborn.

Mistborn is a very good place to start for the Cosmere, but Elantris is a great place to start for Brandon's fantasy style.

Really? Which one came first? I think I remember reading about which came out first, but I've forgotten. 

4 minutes ago, bleeder said:

Read the Mistborn books, then we'll tell you. 

Bit of a spoiler.

Oh, I see. I figured it was something like that. Guess I'll have to add Mistborn to my very long list of books to read...I think I'll put it near the top. 

Thanks guys for the tips. I read on Sanderson's site that I should start with Mistborn, but I just wanted multiple opinions first. I'm like that usually. 

Also, is there an explanation for the cookie warning? I've read through a couple other topics like mine, and it seems everyone does it. 

Hello, even though this is not my first post, I felt like introducing myself. I discovered Sanderson because of the Infinity Blade books he wrote, since I was an avid fan of the games. I still haven't read those books yet....

Anyway, it wasn't until a year-ish later that my middle school librarian recommended Steelheart to me...I was amazed, and picked up the second book, too. Then I had to wait forever for Calamity. But it was fine, because I discovered The Rithmatist. Then I was sad again, because I'd have to wait forever (and still am) for the next book. By then, I still didn't know about Sanderson's Cosmere books, and I forgot that he wrote the Infinity Blade books. Then I discovered this forum actually really recently. 

Now, I've come to you Sharders (as I've heard you like to be called) for help. Where should I start in the Cosmere?

That's a pretty interesting idea. I do think Prof would'be told David, but, at the time, I'm not sure David would've believed him. He probably would've thought of it as a joke at first. If he did believe it, he wouldn't be as open to Epics being good as he is later in the book(s). He might've retaliated against Prof. Who knows. 

Original Name: Nathan Stancer

Appearance Pre-Calamity: Nathan was a 16 year old high school student, about 5 feet 10 inches tall. He was white, but also very tan. He had coarse, dark brown hair cut short on the sides and kept somewhat long on the top so that it swooshed to his right, like a wave almost. The long part of his hair was the shade of green in the corner of this picture. He had dark brown eyes, but if you looked at them closely, you could swear they were gold. He had a round nose and a slightly rounded face to compliment it. He normally wore basic everyday clothes, though he would wear something fancy if he thought the occasion called for it. 

Primary Power(s): He is able to create forcefields in a shade of green similar to that of his pre-Calamity hair that can be used defensively, offensively, and for transportation. No matter which version of his forcefields he uses, they disintegrate anything they touch, except himself. The defensive forcefields can be as simple as just to protect himself, or they can be up to 100 cubic feet in volume. These forcefields take the shape of a dome around him, with him as the center. If he happens to be in the air and using a forcefield, it will form as a sphere around him. The offensive forcefields take the shape of a circle and can range from 1 square inch to 15 square feet. He launches them at enemies, and has slight control of them while they fly, but the trajectory is harder to change the bigger the forcefield. When he uses the forcefields as transportation, they take the shape of a hexagon roughly 3 feet across, but he can increase the size to a max of 6 feet. The side of the forcefield he is standing on does not disintegrate, but the bottom does. He creates these in the air, and they hover there and he uses them to build staircases in mid air. He can summon and destroy any form of the forcefields at will. He can also use any of them in any way he chooses, such as trapping an enemy in a defensive forcefield and shrinking it down so as to completely disintegrate them, or luring opponents up his forcefield stair case and then flipping the forcefield they're on so the fall into it and disintegrate. He could also create a tiny forcefield around his hand and use it like the tensors. However, all of his forcefields can eventually break. Maybe if you hit them with a nuke, or some similar destructive device. He can also set them to last a certain amount of time, or until something happens.

Secondary Power(s): He has the ability to heal; not just himself, but others, too. He can heal any basic injury or illness, such as a shallow cut from a sword or the common cold, in little to no time; however, injuries like being stabbed in the stomach or losing a limb are time-consuming and require lots of energy. He has to consciously heal himself, it doesn't act automatically. A loss of a limb would take at least a week, maybe more to heal. It is possible, that as long as enough of his brain is left to be conscious, he could begin regenerating himself, but the process could take months. If he is injured without his powers, he can still heal those wounds (if they don't kill him), he will just have a nasty scar when he heals the wound. When healing others, he must touch his hand to them, and while he heals them his hand glows green. He cannot bring people back from the dead using his healing, however. 

He can create solid matter out of thin air. He has a limit of approximately 100 lbs per day that he can create, and he can only create objects that weigh exactly between 3.14 and 21.109 lbs. His creation ability is limited to inorganic matter, and he must know what he wants to create looks like, what it's made of, and, if it is more than just a simple object, how it works. Of course, he can also invent objects out of whatever he likes. All he must do is imagine it, and his power will do the rest. Of course, it will compromise when necessary to make it within the weight limit. 

He also has reflexes five times faster than that of a normal human, along with enhanced senses, strength, and endurance to go with it. He can see up to a three miles away, can hear from twice that, smell from two miles away, can taste something and discern all of its ingredients, and can touch something and know what it's made out of. 

Weakness: He was only truly afraid of death before he became an Epic, and now his weakness is that if he sees anyone die, be it whether he kills them or someone else kills them, his powers are weakened for the next five minutes. If he sees someone die within the five minutes, his powers grow even weaker, and the five minutes start over. He can hear them die without being affected, however. If he sees someone he cares for die, he loses his powers completely for exactly 3 minutes and 21 seconds. If you mention death, his powers will weaken very slightly for 30 seconds. This works the same way for when he sees someone he doesn't know die. 

Epic Name: My original idea was Enforcer, but I don't know. I'm thinking something like Geneside fits with his creation ability and how he's a murderous Epic. Or Forcedecay, a combination of his forcefields and disintegration ability. Forcedecay is his name, but the others would work.

Appearance Post-Calamity: He now wears a full body suit made of titanium that he has slowly created over time. There are thin, weaving lines of unbreakable glass across the suit that have a green glow underneath them. That glow is actually energy generated by the circuitry within the suit as a side effect of the temperature regulators he has within the suit. He lets it show through the armor because he thinks it looks cool. His mask looks sort of like this, except it is all titanium, has the green lines flowing through it, and has a green visor over the eyes without the line in between each individual eye. He carries dual blades made of titanium with the green lines through it on his back at all times. He wears all the gear to hide the fact that he is now scarred. When he went through his Rending, he immediately went after his sister. He backed his parents and older brother up against a wall with a forcefield while he slowly disintegrated his sister. When he finished, his forcefields failed, and he lost his powers. Both his brother and his dad had grabbed their guns, and shot him, one shot from each of them. His dad hit him in the right eye, and his brother hit him in the left shoulder. His mom yelled at them to stop shooting and they did. But that allowed Nathan to crawl away, when they could have easily killed him right then and there.

Manifestation of Evil: Since he can't see someone die without losing his strength, it makes it quite hard for him to go on evil rampages. But, the mask he wears let's him see until he is about to kill someone, and then closes off the eye holes on the inside, so no one can tell he isn't actually seeing the death of his victims. Because of this, he has grown ruthless, and now rules over Dallas, where he has used his forcefields and creation ability to slowly shape the Reunion Tower into a towering (heh) fortress. He has several weaker Epics, and even some stronger ones, working under him. He keeps them in line by letting them believe his forcefields truly are indestructible and activate automatically, when in reality it is just his reflexes, and that his healing power works automatically for himself. He almost never takes off his mask and armor, and only to shower, sleep, etc. But when he does that, he puts a forcefield around whatever room he is in so no one can sneak in and see his scars...or worse, attempt to assassinate him. He mainly rules his city through his Epics that serve him, but if he hears about rebellious citizens, he hunts them down and kills them all. When he does go out of his fortress besides to hunt rebels, he walks around downtown, and disintegrates anyone who even looks at him. He cuts people that attempt to talk to him in half. Of course, he only goes out when he's mad, so...pretty much, he's a badass douchebag with awesome armor and swords, but he isn't that terrible. Dallas runs better than before, and besides his victims, crime is down.