RyFighter

I agree that an animated series would be the best option for most of the cosmere. Most of the cosmere would end up with terrible CGI if it were a movie or live action show. But, I do think some of the cosmere novels could actually make a decent live action showing. Warbreaker would make a great movie and all they would really have to do for CGI is zombies, high contrast, and some flying scarves for awakening. Elantris could also make a good movie since makeup could be used for most of the movie with only a bit of CGI peppered in at the end. The only one that I could see as a good adaptation to a tv series is Wax and Wayne. The setting in Mistborn era 2 is relatively Earth-like, sure there are still mists at night but that wouldn't be hard to do with a fog machine and the ash mounts are gone so no ash to worry about. They could easily film it in the midwest. I think you are right about mistborn era 1 being impossible without a stupid amount of CGI that would end up cheesy. Unless we have a huge advancement in CGI tech in the next few years I would never want to see Stormlight in live action. It has to be animated, and I think you are right about the avatar style for it. I saw a live action fan casting for stormlight and they cast tom hiddleston as Wit, which I think is as close to perfect as I can think of

I don't know if this has been suggested before but I have a theory as to what Hoid is up to. I think his quest is to reforge Adonalsium by traveling to each of the shard worlds, collecting a splinter of each shard, and then combining them. I think this would then either cause a cascade effect across the cosmere or create a new cosmere (mini verse) with him as the vessel for the Adonalsium. I do think it's more likely the former because of some of the things he has said on Roshar. He said things like "though I care for this world I will watch it burn to get what I need". I think this implies that he would ascend into the current cosmere and be able to restore the planet in a similar fashion as Sazed when he ascended to become Harmony. Thoughts?

I like the theory that there are opposites, in allomancy and furrochemy there are 16 metals, or 8 sets of 2. So it would make sense that the 16 shards of the cosmere would follow a similar pattern. One thing, I've been thinking for a while, is that there is a subtle influence on scadrial that has only been tangentially referenced. A third shard called "anonymity". Its influence would obviously be subtle because it doesn't want to be known and it's foil could actually be devotion. I think we see some of its influence in era 1 with the characters' need for secrecy and in era 2 with identityless metalminds and the mechanical metallic arts.