Honorless

Definitely! When you come back to Wax and Wayne after the heavier stuff elsewhere, you'll be in a position to appreciate it much better

I'd say Wax and Wayne is the one where I actually looked forward to the romance more than any other Sanderson work.

Not that Trell was wholly inaccurate in that context

Give it time. It's the series I've found myself rereading the most often. But after era 1, when I first started trying to read it, it felt... shallow, frivolous, tacky. But that's because the tone is different, the setting is no longer quite the same and the old characters are (mostly) gone. Again, give it time. It's a superhero free-to-read-online webnovel. It's like a mature rated Reckoners. It's really lengthy (more than A Song of Ice and Fire... and just as violent). It's known for being grimdark but the action sequences and character development are terrific.

That reminds me, since you like Reckoners so much... have you heard of Worm?

Let's start with magic then Magic in the Cosmere functions as conversion between matter, energy and Investiture. Our world (supposedly?!) only has matter and energy but the Cosmere also has Investiture, which facilitates conversions between the three. You can see Investiture as fuel or potential energy. Investiture also connects the three realms: There are three planes of existence in the Cosmere: the Physical Realm, the Cognitive Realm (the realm of the mind, perception, where beings like the spren & "ghosts", or Cognitive Shadows dwell) and the Spiritual Realm (the realm of the soul, where space-time is one, everything is connected, this is where souls aka Spiritweb or sDNA exists and where the Shards dwell. The Shards are, simply put, gods. They are pure Investiture, with an Intent. That means that they want to use Investiture oriented towards a certain theme. All Investiture is divided up amongst the Shards. But it wasn't always so. There was once a being called Adonalsium, who created the Cosmere. Shards typically require Vessels: people who hold the Shard's power and direct it. The original Vessels took up the power of Adonalsium after an event known as the Shattering. There are 16 Shards: Preservation & Ruin, gods of Scadrial (Mistborn) Honor, Cultivation and Odium, gods of Roshar (the Stormlight Archives) Devotion and Dominion, gods of Sel (Elantris and the Emperor's Soul) Ambition, god of Threnody (Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell) Endowment, god of Nalthis (Warbreaker) and others of whom we know very little as of now. Hoid knew all of these original Vessels and was present at the Shattering.

Welcome to the Shard! Understanding the Cosmere... the mods recently updated their Intro into the Cosmere topic, I'll link you to it As long as you're caught up to all the released works, you can dive straight into the Coppermind Wiki, and feel free to ask questions here: https://www.17thshard.com/forum/forum/81-cosmere-qa/

¡Hola! Bienvenido al... Shard We have too little fanart of Ruin and Preservation, I'd love to see more of that!

Then his readers eagerly await the day we gain true knowledge of Hemalurgy

Who doesn't?

¯\_(ツ)_/¯ use these. There are emoji restrictions so you're only allowed to use the ones that are offered by the Shard but you can still use all-symbol emoticons.

Welcome aboard! Yeah Secret History is best read after era 2. But I'll also recommend not jumping straight to era 2 right after era 1. There's a big disconnect there. Read Warbreaker or Elantris or Brandon's non-Cosmere books in the middle. And Emperor's Soul is always the right answer.

Hiya there! Welcome to the Shard!

Y'all will love A Practical Guide to Evil if you like the idea of narratives as a force. Imagine tvtropes as a force of nature

Maybe it came from recording the Rhythms...

I think that refers to ability to access Investiture

I'd say it's more of a question of what counts as an Ascension, but I do agree that Unity is Dalinar's interpretation of Honor's Intent

Welcome to the Shard, Jony!

Welcome to the Shard! I see you've already got on with the theory-crafting!

Whoa, that is rare

How about Heartsmiths, or Lovelace/Lovelorn or the Unfettered or Untethered?

Wow, what a solid way to begin! Did you have trouble getting into Elantris like many people tend to if they read it later than other Cosmere books?

How did you discover Sanderson?

He's up there, so is Sadeas & the Bridgecrews managers Hashal and Matal, there's also Dilaf the crazy priest. I never liked Elhokar either. There's also Ais the Trackt, if you've read either versions of White Sand

So you think Dova isn't Battar? There's an unconfirmed (no attached photo or audio) WoB regarding Pailiah being in the Palaneum, iirc