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dangermousie · 16 hours
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"Prince Raoden of Arelon awoke early that morning, completely unaware that he had been damned for all eternity." -Brandon Sanderson, Elantris
This is still my favorite opening line of all time. And that's how my love for Sanderson's books started - I read that line on some list of best opening lines and knew I needed to find the book it was from. I did, fell in love, and that was it.
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onlycosmere · 4 months
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probablycatastrophic · 9 months
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every normal fantasy author goes to Q&As and they get questions like "hii i love your writing! where do you get inspiration for all your amazing worlds and characters?" and then the author will respond like "I go on frequent woods walks and I like to watch history documentaries :) it gets me really inspired" and then brandon sanderson will go to Q&As and get a question like "if you had a nicrosil compounder, could they burn the stored investiture and then store it again to generate infinite investiture? and if so, could you use that to generate infinite stormlight, provided the nicrosil compounder was also a knight radiant? and using the infinite stormlight, could you establish a perpendicularity using bondsmith powers, travel through the cognitive realm at high speed with the infinite stormlight, go to sel, and use nightblood to eat the entire Dor, permanently disabling the magic of Elantris?" and then brandon responds with "RAFO. You'll find out in Stormlight 5"
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piano-hoarder · 5 months
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Cosmere books as bad news headlines
• "Young woman of questionable parentage kills god after eating copious amounts of metal"
• "Apple voice assistant marries mute rainbow god after sister defeats army of undead alongside hobo and talking sword"
• "City of zombies saved by angry man in armor and friendly chef's niece"
• "Depressed people snort lightning, use it to fight lobsters the size of battleships." (idea credit to @Elisabeth_Wheatley on YouTube)
• "Cowboy makes deal with the new god"
• "Girl and mouse boyfriend undo curse on cabin boy"
• "Man cheats death by stabbing his own eye, forms intergalactic gang"
• "Young woman stacks rocks to destroy computer"
• "Dehydrated young man unites senators against himself"
• "Man with PTSD breaks All the Rules, upsets mentor while running from sunrise"
• "Man(??) avoids eternal punishment from several sources while roasting everyone in existence"
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murderousjelliebean · 6 months
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Sanderson characters are such drama queens. (I'm using "drama queen" to mean any person of any gender as long as they're super dramatic.) Hoid is the obvious one, he's so dramatic that Siri noticed it in Warbreaker. But we also have people like Kelsier, who have this entire monologue to the Lord Ruler in front of hundreds, if not thousands, of people, starting his own religion as a result. We have Hrathen, who makes himself into a spectacle to advertise his religion. And then... Kaladin. He's the king of drama queens. "Honor is dead. But I'll see what I can do." And then he jumps into an arena with FOUR SHARDBEARERS. AND WINS.
Hoid knows he's a drama queen. He's a Lightweaver, they're all pretty dramatic. Kelsier probably knows how dramatic he is. That's probably half the reason he did that monologue. Hrathen's entire reason for the poison was drama. But Kaladin doesn't even try. He just gets these dramatic moments going about his daily life. He doesn't care about causing drama, he cares about helping people. If that means drama, then so be it.
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Still reading Cosmere books and I recently finished Elantris.
BrandoSando tricked me into thinking I was safe making my favorite character the guy who dies on page one. What more could happen to him? He gets a stubbed toe?
That's on me, though. I should have known better.
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wafflelovingbatgirl · 3 months
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Introducing the Cursed Cosmere Reading Order, the only wrong way to read the books:
Strict reverse publication order. If he puts out a new book, stop where you are and begin again.
I suspect it will become much more popular during the haitus between Stormlight 5 and Mistborn era 3 because there will be fewer forced resets
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king-of-the-oreo · 1 month
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Brandon Sanderson: Fantasy vs. Sci-Fi
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Almost all of BrandoSando's books straddle the line between the two genres, and after seeing @approximateknowledge's post here, I wondered how they would lay out on that chart. I was also inspired by this fascinating WOB about Skyward's genre. These are just my opinions, so let me know if you agree or what you think you'd change!
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lamaery · 6 months
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7 - seethe I didn’t feel like drawing spores, so instead I wondered which cosmere character was the most seething. And decided to go with Dilaf. Sceptical Hrathren on the side.
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cosmereplay · 2 months
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I'm rereading Elantris and thinking about similarities between Sarene and Adolin:
Considered embarrassingly old to still be unmarried (mid-twenties); Adolin was forced to import a potential bride and Sarene was forced to export herself as a bride, both times to someone they hadn't laid eyes on yet.
OH ALSO both of their failures in courtship sound ludicrous. No man in Teod wants to marry the princess because she's tall and outspoken? Seriously? No woman in Alethkar can stand Adolin, cousin to the king? Really? As the Americans say, come on.
Forced to spend time in a bloodthirsty court that they hate, with people who hate them
Love swords and duelling
Trained diplomats
Blond(e)
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libralita · 4 months
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Brandon gave a roadmap of his cosmere plans going forward:
SA 5 finished by June/July
6 months of outlining Era 3
Slotting in side projects (only mentioned white sand prose verison)
Era 3 and Elantris 2/3 written straight through and will only be release when gotten Era 3 1-3 done.
SA Arc 2
This makes me think that that the Elantris sequels and Era 3 will be really entwined narratively. I have a theory that Kaise's role in Era 3 will be fairly important and this is just reinforcing it.
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onlycosmere · 4 months
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by JasnahKohen
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tygertyger137 · 10 months
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Makes me sad that all the deaths and the large time frame that the Cosmere takes place on prevents a proper crossover.
If Dalinar had known Tindwyl all of Oathbringer would be 2 chapters bc the coalition of monarchs would have no choice but to listen to her
Imagine Mistborn and Windrunners flying around, showing the other the intricacies of how their flight works
Adolin, Elend, and Raoden would be the triumvirate of Good Boys while their slightly insane wives could get together and have tea or smthn
Lightsong and Wayne will never get to compete for title of Most Insufferable
Imagine Hrathen learning of the shards and varying religions of the Cosmere and having another crisis of faith
Imagine introducing Scadrians and Rosharans to Nalthis, a place that has Good Plants and Nature
Steris and Renarin bond over being autistic in a world that is hard to navigate even when you’re neurotypical
Combining fabrials and allomancy to give Mistborn a new type of flight
Syl being drawn to Vin for how similar she is to Kal (read: grumbly with a severe case of rbf)
Vin showing off her koloss sword to shardbearers
Rosharans seeing aviar and losing their minds over the variety of chickens
Rosharans seeing any animal that isn’t a crab or slug and losing their minds
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mochihero · 7 months
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Brandon Sanderson really said “this man is so idealistic and his girlfriend is going to be so f@cked up”
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cosmerelists · 10 months
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The Rules of the Cosmere
And by “rules,” I mean tropes that crop up repeatedly in Sanderson’s books, that one could consider “rules” in a nonserious, please-don’t-take-this-too-seriously type way. 
Spoilers for pretty much all of the Cosmere!
1. Don’t feed the children
As seen in: Elantris, Oathbringer, Warbreaker
If you see a hungry, homeless child in a Sanderson book and you’re tempted to, say, give them food--don’t! Raoden tried that. And the poor child was horribly mangled by the men who wanted that food. Shallan tried it. And it turned out the child was being coerced into accepting the food by gang leaders--who ended up killing the child. Vivenna didn’t exactly feed them willingly, but the urchins did, like, beat her and steal her food while she was living on the street. So that wasn’t great.
Exception that proves the rule: Stump. She fed lots of orphaned children, and she was only almost killed. So the message is: if you want to feed the children, have a Lift around to protect you.
2. Once Marriage is On The Table, Breakups Don’t Really Happen
As seen in: Mistborn Era 1, Mistborn Era 2, Stormlight Achives, Elantris, Warbreaker
Once characters get to the point of marriage, be they engaged or in an arranged marriage or just solidly A Thing, it is rare for them to break up. Sometimes a breakup is floated--like when Adolin told Shallan she could go ahead and leave him for Kaladin or when there was Wax/Steris tension or when Zane tried to break up Vin and Elend--but in the end, the original relationship tends to hold strong. Siri and Susebron were married before they had even met, but they ended up happy together. Even “death” couldn’t stop Sarene and Raoden’s engagement--Sarene did try to marry someone else, to be fair, but that second marriage did not actually happen and the original marriage reigned supreme.
Exception that proves the rule: Elend’s first engagement did not work out. Vin killed the fiancée. So it is slightly riskier to be engaged if you’re not a viewpoint character, if you’re secretly evil...or if you’re in Vin’s way.
Although...did Elend and Shan actually break up, or was their engagement only canceled by Shan’s death? I guess either way, it didn’t work out!
3. Your enemy will save you...if the sexual tension is high enough
As seen in: Elantris, Rhythm of War
Perhaps appearing in two books isn’t quite enough to call this a rule...but if I had a nickel, etc. Hrathen was Sarene’s enemy...but in the end, he kinda fell for her and ended up killing himself to save her. And in a strangely similar manner, Raboniel used her dying moments to save Navani...after Navani was the one to kill her. Then there’s Lewshi and Kaladin--neither sacrificed themselves to save the other, thank goodness, but Lewshi does help save Kaladin and/or his men on several occasions and their romantic tension is off the charts.
Exception that proves the rule: Even sexual tension doesn’t seem to be enough for Moash to not try to drive Kaladin to suicide. 
4. Your fave is (accidentally) queer
As seen in: Stormlight Archive, Mistborn
Sanderson has a tendency to write characters that he innocently believes to be straight...until readers point out how incredibly not-straight they are. Take Shallan, who is as bi as the day is long--which Sanderson admitted, I believe, once it was pointed out to him. Veil is canonically into women, at any rate. And Sanderson has said that both Shallan & Adolin would be open to adding Kaladin as a third, so Adolin is presumably bi as well, to no one’s surprise. Many readers--me included--read Kaladin as some flavor of ace, although again, that seems to be unintentional, canonically speaking. There’s also Lewshi, a woman inhabiting a male body, whose transness is not really talked about as such but is very present. And in Mistborn, there’s Wayne and his gender-fluid SO MeLaan, a queer relationship that I don’t think is ever really identified as such. 
And yes, there are also canonical queer characters in actual queer relationships, but so many more seem to be accidentally queer.
Exception that proves the rule: Sanderson insists that Moash is canonically straight...somehow.
5. Don’t trust the underling priest!
As seen in: Way of Kings, Warbreaker, Elantris
If there are suspicious things going on, look no further than your nearest, seemingly loyal underling priest. In Way of Kings it was Kabsal, who turned out to be an assassin. In Warbreaker, the seemingly helpful and awkward Bluefingers tried to sacrifice Siri on an altar. And in Elantris, while Hrathen never exactly trusted Dilaf, he did believe that he had him handled...which turned out to be a mistake, and Dilaf ended up being one of the big bads. The big bad? It’s been a while since I read Elantris.
Exception that prove the rule: Kadash seems like a good dude. I will be genuinely shocked if he tries to, like, murder Dalinar or something.
6. Hoid is there
As seen in: All of them.
Hoid has a supernatural ability to be present at all important moments in the Cosmere, so he can expect to find him in whatever book you’re reading. If there actually are Cosmere Rules, this would have to be one of them.
Exception that proves the rule: I don’t think he’s in all of the Arcanum Unbounded stories--like Shadow for Silence or Sixth of Dusk. So maybe if your story is short enough, you can escape Hoid?
It could be the only way.
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