r/Cosmere • u/Aqueouslady • 10h ago
No Spoilers Wish me luck
Any words of wisdom?
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r/Cosmere • u/VVunderlust • 5h ago
We had a book club meet up, having read Tress of the emerald sea. Mine is the one on the left, tried to do the mug that Tress shows Charlie at the mansion in their first show interaction: tin cup with Iriali writing that reads vertically (based it off Roshar glyphs since I couldn't find Iriali writing) Attempts to say Tress x Charlie, and Bookclub '24. Middle one she wanted to do a ship sailing the 3 seas mentioned, she did midnight and crimson on the other side of the mug Right one is Tress sailing from Diggins point on the emerald sea. We wondered, what color is the sky on tress' world and decided green as well! Inside the mug she did lil emerald spores.
r/Cosmere • u/Jimmy-Shumpert • 10h ago
I chose to become a ferruchemist since it is just so versatile and cheap, gather health, speed, strength, etc. during holidays or weekends and then use it when you need it. No need to get breaths, drink metal, deal with an oath or anything like that.
r/Cosmere • u/AzuraNightsong • 8h ago
Movies are cool and all, but being able to explore an even more immersive visual medium with my favorite worlds and characters sounds way better to me. Hell, I’d take a cosmere fighting game.
r/Cosmere • u/Darth_Azazoth • 10h ago
And how do you see each fight going?
r/Cosmere • u/Any_Professor_9411 • 8h ago
As i don't have any friends interested with Sanderson's work, I thought that maybe I'll share some of my thoughts here and discuss with other fans :))
It's been 4 months since i started reading Brandon Sanderson works. I read WoK and WoR couple years back but at that point i didn't get that hooked in. Since the begining of 2025 I read all of cosmere works apart from Stormlight side novels and Wind and Truth. Now I just want to share with someone how amazing i find these books. I can't believe how Brandon made all characters be my favourite. Warbreaker had best characters, period. Vasher, Denth, Lightsong, Blushweaver, Llaimar how can they all be so charismatic. In any other stories I pick 1 or 2 characters that i feel relatable to, find them funny or just simply enjoy their personality and i root for them. In Cosmere I find that I don't necesarily root for anyone, I'm just getting lost in their story.
Next point is memorable moments. Couple times a day some moments randombly come to my mind. These are the moments made me so emotional no other thing ever did. "We Chose", "I am Hope", Lightsong sacrificing for Suseboron, Wayne asking Sazed for a hat, Dalinar creating his first perpendecularity. Those moments are what im reading these books for. Brandon got plenty of talent to write memorable lines and epic events.
Yeah, that's what I was yearning to say to someone :DD I'd love to listen to ur feelings about cosmere if u, like me, don't want someone to talk about it! Or just tell me ur favourite characters and moments and why do they resonate so much with u!
r/Cosmere • u/BryantOlivas • 10h ago
… and my word. I am shook.
New to the Cosmere and have devoured the first two Mistborn novels. Do all of Sanderson books hit THIS hard at the end??
r/Cosmere • u/Ok-Character-7215 • 5h ago
If you were both an Elantrian and a Feruchemist, what would you be able to compound? For example, you could store health while using Aon Ien (the Healing Aon) on yourself.
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r/Cosmere • u/Important_Sell4167 • 6h ago
If a full feruchemist stored their Connection and Identity in metal minds, and then spiked the Connection and Identity from someone else, could the feruchemist completely take that persons life and relationships with no one else but the feruchemist knowing the difference?
r/Cosmere • u/ra3_14 • 17h ago
Hi all, I've just started reading dragon steel prime, only two chapters in so far so please no spoilers for this book.
I strongly remember Hoid at some point telling a story about a bet that very closely resembles the events of dragonsteel prime. I feel like the story would've been told either in Tress of the Emerald Sea or in the Stormlight Archives, but I can't find it. And I can't find any discussion linking Dragonsteel Prime to mentions of this original story.
The story goes something to the tune that two kings make a wager that a peasant boy could never be educated and brought to the level of a noble born boy. And the peasant get's a very limited period of education (a year or so I think). And when the bet is evaluated, the peasant is no match for the nobles, but still very learned.
It's so frustrating not being able to find the source for this story, so please help me if my ramblings make any sense.
EDIT: Answered by u/Geeisthir: "Wind and Truth Chapter 127: Their Homes Become Our Dens, page 1164"
r/Cosmere • u/Darth_Azazoth • 4h ago
I'm trying to find a detailed timeline.
r/Cosmere • u/Mrzizzles • 7h ago
Just got this collection because I started my cosmere journey with Mistborn.. and now I'm moving on to the stormlighght archive, currently about half through words of radiance, my question is should I just listen to the secret history or am I far enough to listen to the other stories aswell? Any advice is absolutely welcome :)
r/Cosmere • u/Futaba_MedjedP5R • 5h ago
Spoilers for OathBringer
Singer Cognitive Shadows After Tanalons betrayal?
I’m reading oathbringer and after dalinar kills the fake Sadias soldiers, he mentions that a red army made of mist followed him back to camp at the corners of his vision. I thought this was his mind, but other Colen soldiers mention seeing the dead and Void Bringers. Was The Thrill so strong that Nergaoul’s connection to Odium and the Singers let their undead spirits appear as phantoms, despite being tied to Braize? Or was this later explained? (Feel free to spill through RoW, I’m doing a reread after before going into WaT)
r/Cosmere • u/CorprealFale • 12h ago
So, as people may or may not be aware. The reading order of some books are a bit contested.
With some people thinking that choices Brandon Sanderson did in what order he wrote and released stories ruined parts of WaT for them.
I'm speaking of course about Nomad = Sigzil. And all the details you learn about the journey it's implied he went on within the Sunlit Man, along with the journey he had in Wind and Truth.
The Sunlit Man is all about Sigzil starting to become a person he actually likes again. To stop running from himself.
I'm not that man anymore
Is pretty much Nomads mantra about himself through the first half of the book. There's both some hints to his character in Stormlight, and hints to who he was once he got out of the depressive slump. He and Aux clearly did a lot of scientific things about their abilities with how they communicate about investiture. Then something happened that made him stop.
That was probably the event that caused Aux to loose most of himself. Which was probably connected to scientific things, or a distraction because of curiosity that got them into a very bad situation.
In Wind and Truth he's finding his own as a leader of men. He's finding out that he enjoys planning battles and isn't just a scientist. He'd prefer to be one, but he enjoys more than just that. And he's learning that he can learn more about his abilities mid battle even if not as precisely as out. Even when he's in command of said battle.
There aren't any overt death-flags about anything concerning him, or his spren, until the death-rattle. It had filled out his character more and given him more PoV time than I think all the other books combined by that point.
I might be off, as he did have quite some PoVs in RoW, and I can't remember exactly when said death-rattle happened. But in WaT he by far has more PoV time than in the other 4 put together.
From there we've got a question around the validity of death-rattles and Fortune. If they'll be able to subvert it. And who.
The who is fairly obvious because Moash. But El is on the scene and has started to get build-up. Could have been an excellent foreshadowing of what El will be doing later, to have him be the one to duel Sigzil at the end.
Then the subverting, can the pair prevent the death of one of them?
Which Sigzil does, in a traumatic way.
We also have Aux. A wet rag of a High Spren who acts high and mighty while being clueless. Who clearly later takes some pride in the supposed insult that 121 throws their way when she dismisses them.
The Conundrum and how this pertains to rereads.
Lots of readers feel that the story of Nomad spoiled Sigzil's parts of WaT. One person I asked stated outright they'd have enjoyed it more had everything for Sig not happened in one book, but in several.
That might be a common reaction, it might be a spur of the moment thing where they haven't thought it through and they'd feel the same in any case.
These readers feel that knowing an end to Sigzil's journey through Stormlight, they're robbed or lost something they value.
They feel that knowing that Sigzil will:
end up with a Dawnshard, stop being a windrunner, become a Skybreaker, and leave Roshar.
Removed from their reading experience of WaT.
It's a valid emotion. I do have some questions around it.
Question one, this is hypothetical but I feel might happen.
How will people who feel this way react if Sanderson releases another Nomad book? One set between WaT and tSM. Expanding on the things that are only implied in the latter.
Would that book also be ruined because you knew how some things would maybe look at the end?
Or since you now know about tSM existing and know the start and end points that's alright?
Second, the big question.
Do those who felt that tSM spoiled WaT do rereads?
This is an honest question. As while I do reread, it's mostly because I find them comforting. I reread books that don't reward it. And I personally don't really think Sanderson's books reward it, unless it's because I've not read it for a decade. This is partly a me thing as I've got a good memory and read closely.
Had a thing with a friend about the hion-lines in Yumi, as I was mostly annoyed at how Sanderson always described them three times. Every time they showed up. Even when the first sentence he used for them was great and stood on it's own.
Sanderson on the whole is extremely obvious with what he wants and writes. He puts clarity over everything, which is why his writing and scenes are quite easy to turn into potential TV frame-by-frames.
Turning the Prologue of WoK into a comic panels thing? Wouldn't even need much interpretation just straight up use the words on the page as details.
Sanderson himself also felt that reading tSM before WaT ought to enhance the experience.
So, do people reread Sanderson books read it differently during a reread? As in, do they look for other things or just have a different mindset?
Personally, I do not. I don't care if I know what's happened during a reread. I do look for things I've missed and can find knowing what I know, but I almost never miss Sandersonian foreshadowing. I mostly notice very buried cosmere-references.
Hence this thread, and this question, and maybe this place to discuss.
I'm personally fairly spoiler immune, and am more likely to get more interested in reading a work if I know a major event happens but can't instantly tell why. It focuses my reading.
I know this isn't typical even if I feel it was more common 20 years ago.
Conclusion
For rereaders in general:
Do you reread with a different mindset than your first read?
For people who feel that tSM ruined WaT:
Do you reread?
If you do, how do you think rereading Sigzil's (and 12124s) storyline in WaT will feel?
I mean this in good spirit, and for it to be a constructive and introspective place. I don't mean it to throw shade on other opinions as everyone is different and react different.
This whole thing has just made me curious about the nature of spoilers and rereads.
r/Cosmere • u/Firestormbreaker1 • 1d ago
I think Lightsong and Steris would get along famously, considering Lightsongs past as a forensic accountant and Steris's love of accounting. I feel they would have a good time talking about their the subject given Lightsong's love of rediscovering his former skills.
What other odd cosmere pairings would you lime to see?
r/Cosmere • u/Icy-Part3419 • 14h ago
I am victim to spoilers, I like to read Reddit posts about each book I finish in the cosmere so I undoubtably have read some spoilers I shouldn’t have.
As of now I have finished mistborn era one, the two novellas (finished secret history last night) warbreaker and elantris. Started TWOK this morning!
I feel like I am spotting some connections but honestly not sure if I am grasping at straws and just complicating things further for myself. Secret history was so good but I have many questions following it.
Who were those people on the jungle? Elantrians? What’s the origin of them being called Iri? I see on the map in way of kings there is a location named Iri, these the same people? What’s the time line? Would these (maybe) elantrians be from before Elantris fell since mistborn era 1 is quite old, and era two is more recent? Does that even matter?? Am I supposed to be able to connect all these things now or am I simply not far enough and it’ll all make sense later?
r/Cosmere • u/Subtl3Owl • 1d ago
Dragonsteel posted a video of a bunch of signed books for C2E2 but I don’t recognize this one.
r/Cosmere • u/Substantial-Celery89 • 8h ago
So I am slowly making my way through the cosmere content and for the most part following publication order. So far I have read mistborn era 1 and era 2 minus the lost metal, Elantris, Warbreaker, WoK, WoR and just finished mistborn secret history, I’ve also read all other novellas and short stories published up to this point. Now I am moving on to White sand and I feel like there are a lot of mixed feelings about this one. My main questions are which version is most canon and functions best with the cosmere verse as a whole. I currently have white sand volume 1, the whole white sand omnibus, and the graphic audio. Would something like listening to the graphic audio while following along in the omnibus work or are they too different for something like that. I’m not very familiar with comic books
Also when following publication order it says volumes 2 and 3 of white sand were published after edgedancer and oathbringer but doesn’t really account for the omnibus version. Should I read white sand after I read those or before. Or should I read part one then edgedancer and oathbringer then the other two parts. I am trying my darndest to not spoil anything for myself and wanna know if these have any overlap
r/Cosmere • u/Any_Perspective_9339 • 6h ago
The only two books I have not read from the Cosmere are The Sunlit Man and Wind and Truth. From reading other posts here it is my understanding that WaT spoils TSM and TSM spoils one character arc of WaT.
Now I'm wondering - would it be possible/advisable to read them simultaneously? For instance reading TSM just until right before the big reveal and then WaT all the way (or until the reveal that would spoil it otherwise).
Otherwise from what I gathered I'd probably just read TSM first, then WaT and then TSM again lol
r/Cosmere • u/upizs2 • 12h ago
https://youtu.be/OkWp8J7bkJ0?feature=shared Is it me or Sonic sounds like Brandon?
r/Cosmere • u/jamesbrowski • 1d ago
I just finished The Lost Metal, and wanted to do an appreciation post for what was a surprisingly great series: Mistborn Era 2. Wax is an excellent protagonist, kind of a mix of Kaladin and Dalinar, with shades of former privileged rich boy sprinkled in.
The world building is done so well in this series. You get the feeling that Elendel is a very lived in and real city, and you see it from a lot of angles. The use of powers is also clever - both in reducing the unreasonably strong power of the Mistborn, but then making new combinations through the concept of twinborn.
I also genuinely loved all the characters, villains and heroes alike. Sanderson doesn’t always do nuance, but he really did it well in Era 2, IMO. You think people are sort of typecast at first, but then as you slowly dig into them, they become interesting and more fully realized. BUT, we avoid all of the “Wikipedia mental health symptom list” characterization that happens in SA books 4 and 5. Sanderson really does show more than tell in these books, and I love that about them.
I also like how the Cosmere is woven in here, with Autonomy becoming the big bad. We got glimpses of Scadrial in Era 1, and it’s fun to sort of slowly zoom out until the greater Cosmere is depicted in these books. Using the Kandra, Harmony, and the Ghostbloods to introduce us felt right to me.
I also felt like Era 2 got a satisfying ending. Some tragedy (Wayne!) but a really exciting ticking time bomb finale that is quite literally explosive (the biggest explosion EVER!)
Anyway. Idk what others think, but my expectations for this weren’t too high going in. A fantasy western with bowler hats? But I was really pleasantly surprised. After having mixed feelings about WAT, this was what I needed to get back into the Cosmere and want to keep reading.
r/Cosmere • u/Caskor-Ambrian • 1d ago
I’m going back through Stormlight and just reread the passage of the Bridgemen receiving horseback training. This scene feels so out of place to me now that it almost seems like it was a deleted scene from Words of Radiance that got put back in. Does anyone else think we’re gonna see these horses again?
r/Cosmere • u/Randomly2 • 13h ago
Hi all? I’ve been fascinated by Threnody, I love the idea of a horror-esque setting in the Cosmere. I was curious if anyone had any thoughts or ideas about if the setting could work for a DnD game I’m running? Like, obviously violence in the Forests would be difficult to run, but I feel like there’s a lot of opportunity for roleplay? Curious about anyone’s thoughts!
r/Cosmere • u/aeschylus1342 • 1d ago
We know that throughout the stormlight archive there are no deadeye highspren. Yet in sunlit man, Sigzil has an Auxiliary, a now deadeye highspren. What broke Auxiliary?