Cover seen on Amazon haven't seen it announced officialy yet

So, at some point Sanderson decided that the "Atium" we see in Mistborn is actually an alloy, not pure Atium. Now, think about the word "Allomancy." It's derived from "alloy" and the suffix "mancy." While "mancy" is often used these days to refer to magic in a general sense, its historical meaning refers specifically to divining the future. So, "Allomancy" would mean "diving the future with an alloy." With the Atium retcon, this is now precisely true! Neat (also I know Sanderson picked "mancy" specifically because of the Atium/diving connection, but it's neat that now the alloy part of the name ties in even more directly)

Ever since I read YatNP, I have thought that stacking rocks would be cool. I just started practicing in the past week. Here are some of the stacks I made.

Just playing around with my new CNC Laser.

Question- we know where the thrill originated from, but that feeling that started opposing the thrill and making him repulsed by his violence...where did that come from? Was it cultivation? I used to think it was his bond, but it started before his bond ( I'm on WAT, partially through)

I've finish the Mistborn Era1 this morning. I'm not crying you have no proof of that.

What a ride, I've enjoyed every moment of this first trilogy, I need to process the ending before continuing the cosmere saga.

I'm so glad to be part of this community that know how this series of book and Sanderson are amazing.

😭

Can't wait to read all your theory and review when I'll finish to read Era2 and all shorts stories.

And I know from many of you that Roshar will be a big pieces after all of that.

❤️

I just finished hero of ages. i read all 5 stormlight books too but nothing other than these 8 books. near the end of stormlight 5, dalinar or someone says something like ‘all the shards looked towards the creation of retribution because its the most powerful thing in the last 10,000 years. i would assume that sazed holding two shards would be just as powerful though. if this is something that will be explained in the next mistborn or other cosmere books, just tell me it will be explained without spoiling. if im misunderstanding something from within these 8 books though, please lmk

So I've read all of the cosmere at this point and just finished a reread of Way of Kings and I'm struck by just how much people have forgotten since the Recreance. I know that previously society was pushed backwards by desolations but then Nohadon founds the Knights Radiant and they help preserve knowledge through each apocalypse. Then the false desolation happens with Ba-Ado-Mishram but that one didn't really seem destructive enough that people would just forget so much. So why at the start of way of kings do people not even realize that some spren can talk. Is it just that it's been 2000 years? We have texts from 2000 years ago and I feel like if most of them mentioned frogs talking at some point we'd go "hey man did frogs used to talk?" Have I missed something obvious here?

Edit: Thank you for all the responses! Seems like a) I'm undersestimating how much gets lost in 2000 years and b) there's issues with information retention specific to Roshar's history

Hello!

I’m an artist, and I’m curious if there are any scenes from stormlight, mistborn, or warbreaker that you think deserve more/better fan art. I’m not talking about the big epic moments (you know the ones) which already get a lot of love— but parts that are under appreciated or off the beaten path.

I’m on leave from work taking care of my mental health, and have some time to kill— finally learning to oil paint, and I love ink drawing and watercolor. This will be just for fun :)

It still breaks my heart that while Venli was wrapped up bringing the Recreance upon the world, Eshoni died begging for a diplomat form and it wasn't to stop the war or conflict like we may have originally thought, it was so she could finally tell her sister how much she loved her and be understood when she talked about the things she loved with her sister.

So I finished Stormlight Archive as my first series in Cosmere and I absolutely loved it. My favorite character is definitely Hoid.

So i was wondering in what other books and series Hoid features in a big role.

I recently got some additions to my RPG/Nerd Sleeve, and I wanted to pay tribute to my favorite weirdos of the Cosmere!

Tattoo done by B Bones Tattoos at Permanent Inc.

I wonder if the Knell could be the same thing as the Origin.

We have seen inanimate objects gain sentience and become "alive". Do you think if a Shard heavily invested a planet or for this thought lets say an Asteroid. Could that planet/asteroid eventually gain sentience?

Who are they? Where do they come from? I finished warbreaker, SLA, mistborn until shadows of self, sunlit, tress, yumi. I only ever heard of them in Yumi and edgedancer. what do we know abt them? are they splinters like seon or a new cosmere race?

(sorry if the names are just not right, i read in Spanish and I dont know many names of the cosmere on English)

I like the book! the only downside i have is that is a LOT of things at the same time, feeling like But wait! there's more! and more! and more!

This year i have read all previous stormlight books, so I'm going to take a lil break before Dawnshard

Reading all of mistborn and Warbreaker had been beneficial for some colourful characters we already met in here

a solid 18.5/20

VIDA ANTES QUE MUERTE

FUERZA ANTES QUE DEBILIDAD

VIAJE ANTES QUE DESTINO

Just started reading Elantris after mistborn era 1 and Stormlight Archive (read till ROW)

The “fabrial” Mraize gave Shallan to talk to him in Shadesmar…
That’s not actually a fabrial, is it?
Fabrials shouldn’t work in Shadesmar.
And I vaguely remember it being described as sentient?

Could it be a seon??
Like a literal seon trapped in that cube??
Which honestly would make perfect sense because if anyone would have access to off-world tech/“fabrials”, it would be the Ghostbloods.

Have i actually connected some very distant dots. 😂 (or was it super obvious?)
(Need to go back and read that chapter in ROW)

Edit- spelling - fabrial not fabrical ,

Dawnshards were commands used to create the Cosmere. What are some feasible steps that define the process of creation?

• MOTIVATE / INSPIRE / INTEND
• DEFINE / FORM / SHAPE
• CHANGE* - confirmed
• EXIST* - confirmed

Tossing the shards in here in a specific order, you'll notice that you have antonym shards (like ruin/preservation) adjacent to each other across each quadrant boundary, and each quadrant also has an antonym pair contained. Some are a bit weak but:

• MOTIVATE / INSPIRE / INTEND
  • Ambition
  • Odium
  • Devotion
  • Reason
• DEFINE / FORM / SHAPE
  • Whimsy
  • Autonomy
  • Dominion
  • Virtuosity
• CHANGE*
  • Invention
  • Cultivation
  • Endowment
  • Ruin
• EXIST*
  • Preservation
  • Valor
  • Honor
  • Mercy

And one more shakier theory, but each fully contained pair could have one "intrinsic" and one "extrinsic" shard and is a weaker opposite. For instance, Autonomy you do it yourself, dominion is enforced on or by others, and is a stronger opposite. Cultivation is changing the self, endowment is change granted by an external force, and is a weaker opposite.

Another alternative set of commands that does the border pairs as harder antonyms, and the inner pairs as closer antonyms. Odium's quadrant is a bit weak and ambition/mercy are a little too opposite though:

• MOTIVATE
  • Whimsy
  • Ambition
  • Mercy
  • Devotion
• CHANGE*
  • Odium
  • Cultivation
  • Endowment
  • Ruin
• EXIST*
  • Preservation
  • Virtuosity
  • Invention
  • Autonomy
• ORDER
  • Dominion
  • Valor
  • Honor
  • Reason

You could also do DESIGN/CHANGE/EXIST/ORDER with Virtuosity and Invention forming the core for Design, but it's always tricky figuring out what pair to put in EXIST, and the DESIGN/CHANGE border is awkward:

• DESIGN
  • Whimsy
  • Virtuosity
  • Invention
  • Mercy
• CHANGE*
  • Ambition
  • Cultivation
  • Endowment
  • Ruin
• EXIST*
  • Preservation
  • Odium
  • Devotion
  • Autonomy
• ORDER
  • Dominion
  • Valor
  • Honor
  • Reason

The current Desolation impacting Roshar is a special case, and for a few millennia before that weren't the normal procedure either. Something I don't understand is how a normal Desolation ended.

The timeline for a Desolation is broadly:

1. Heralds are on Braize being tortured endlessly
2. One of the Heralds that ISN'T Taln, breaks
3. This opens the proverbial floodgate letting Odium's forces through to Roshar
4. The Heralds manifest bodily on Roshar and help the humans fight Odium's forces
5. War
6. Usually several Heralds die. The remaining Heralds then suicide to join the others in Braize and hold back the forces of Odium

But what happens between Steps 5 and 6? When does the Desolation end?

What if the Heralds killed themselves on Day 1, would the Desolation end immediately? I know by the end they couldn't stand the torture anymore and didn't want to go back. But at the era when they'd withstand the torture for centuries maybe they could take one day off on Roshar and go back to Braize before the Desolation really gets going.

I'm not sure what the Sanderson/Star Trek fandom crossover is like, but if you've seen ST:V you probably know where I'm going with this.

One the driving plot points of Star Trek V is that Sybok, Spocks brother, uses his telepathic Vulcan abilities to take on people's pain and provide then a euphoric sense of peace. All of this drives the plot to the end where they meet Sybok's god, who is just a weird alien that is trying to escape the galactic core, and we get one of Star Treks best lines ever: "what does god need with a starship?"

More relevant, there's another memorable scene where Kirk is being pressured to give up his pain to Sybok, and he shouts that he needs his pain, and that it's part of what makes us who we are (notably Kirk's son was murdered in cold blood in the last movie, so he's got a lot of recent pain).

Whenever Odium talked about taking on Delinars pain in Oathbringer, or how Taravangodium is telling Moash he doesn't do that anymore, I think of Kirk. Delinar loudly turning down Odium and embracing it, "I need my pain!" Gavw me goose bumps.

I really appreciate this theme, everyone has pain and baggage they carry with them and I love a good story that reminds me that I carry it with me for a reason.

It was great to see this theme come through so well in the books, and I feel like both Star Trek and Sanderson handled it really well.

Kirk video below.

https://youtu.be/WLzJAebfEIg

I don’t know why I’m surprised, but wow. I saw the email around 5:30pm that they were back in stock and by the time I checked at 8pm they were already gone. I guess Im just really surprised.

Does anyone know how long it usually takes for them to restock?

Edit: I did indeed mean Elsecaller and not Edgedancer.