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What are these "Prime" novels? Are they like, pre-rewrite drafts of what eventually became the published novels?

Awesome, thanks! *goes off to read a bunch of annotations...*

Ahh, I had not considered that there could be pre-Elantrian AonDor users. That seemed impossible, given that Zombie Elantrians couldn't make Aon Dor work. But now that you mention it, I realize that they couldn't use it because of the Chasm Line being missing from their Aons; not because Elantris was broken. I can't recall... did anyone manage to successfully use Aon Dor w/ Chasm Line before Roaden fixed Elantris? If so, that would be pretty good confirmation. EDIT: Oh cool, RShara also posted a comment while I was writing mine. And I did not know that Elantris had annotations! I'm totally going to go read those. I friggin loved the ones in Warbreaker! Do any of Sanderson's other novels have annotations?

Hi all, I'm new! I recently finished getting fully caught up on the cosmere novels (holy rust, Oathbringer was amazing!). I feel I have a pretty good grasp of the cosmerre, especially after having wiki-dived through The Coppermind. However, one thing still bothers me, and I haven't found an answer to this question anywhere: If the very shape of Elantris itself (a gigantic Aon Rao) is what allowed the Shaod to turn people into Elantrians, what did the Shaod do before Elantris was built? Aon Rao being broken by the Chasm is what caused the Shaod to start turning people into Zombie Elantrians (as I like to call them), so I don't understand how normal Elantrians could have been created before Elantris was built.

There's one specific plot thread that I think is important to read in the following order: Mistborn 1-7 (Everything up to the end of The Bands of Mourning) Mistborn: Secret History (contains some suuuper important details about the Cognitive Realm, as well as some insight into something very important that Odium says in Oathbringer. But reading it before The Final Empire, Hero of Ages, or Bands of Mourning is a HUGE spoiler for those books (for different reasons)) Oathbringer (the Cognitive Realm plays an important role here, so knowing more about it from what we learn in Secret History is pretty nice) I wouldn't say that this is at all necessary, but I do think you'll be able to much better appreciate Oathbringer if you read Secret History first.