Brandon Sanderson's Cosmere

[Andre]

The next Cosmere project is up. The Cosmere RPG. Whilst I'd like everything, I'm not going to get a group together to play the RPG (board gaming more my thing), but will likely back at the level to get the Stormlight World Guide and Mistborn World Guide.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Not long now until the new Stormlight Archives book.

Man, I wish I was as productive as this guy.

 

[Andre]

Not long now until the new Stormlight Archives book.

Man, I wish I was as productive as this guy.

Yep. Such a contrast with GRRM. Manages to get regular books out of all his current series, plus additional ones. Despite running multiple Kickstarter campaigns for figurines and an RPG. GRRM meanwhile - 'had to advise on an episode of a show, book delayed another 3 years'.

 

[Andre]

Anyone else picked up Wind & Truth as a Christmas present to themselves?

 

[gaskin]

I thought about it but I am not ready to read it yet. I am in the middle of a WoT re-read that I am going to finish before even contemplating picking it up.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

Anyone else picked up Wind & Truth as a Christmas present to themselves?

I'll be picking it up on Boxing Day if it's not already under the tree!

 

[Andre]

I thought about it but I am not ready to read it yet. I am in the middle of a WoT re-read that I am going to finish before even contemplating picking it up.

Can't ever go wrong with a WoT re-read. The Stormlight Archives is my favourite series currently being written, but WoT remains my all-time favourite series. I long ago lost count of how many times I've re-read the earlier books, as I waited for the next (got in fairly early, when The Dragon Reborn was the latest out, so experienced 20 odd years of waiting from starting to reading the end of it).

 

[gaskin]

Can't ever go wrong with a WoT re-read. The Stormlight Archives is my favourite series currently being written, but WoT remains my all-time favourite series. I long ago lost count of how many times I've re-read the earlier books, as I waited for the next (got in fairly early, when The Dragon Reborn was the latest out, so experienced 20 odd years of waiting from starting to reading the end of it).

I'm on my 6th re-read. I'm lucky in that I started reading them in the time between Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Light being released so I never had to go through that long wait for the next one.

 

[Andre]

I'm on my 6th re-read. I'm lucky in that I started reading them in the time between Towers of Midnight and A Memory of Light being released so I never had to go through that long wait for the next one.

I got into Sanderson from his completing the Wheel of Time. Going back and reading his earlier work, compared to The Stormlight Archives you can see how much he's gotten better as an author.

 

[Ambrose Burnside]

I got the first three books of WoT last Christmas. Haven't read them yet At least I know it ends, got so many series on the go with no end point yet.

 

[wannabewinner]

Anyone else picked up Wind & Truth as a Christmas present to themselves?

Done and dusted pre Christmas. He is a planner and delivers on his schedules. Highly productive - with the mistborn trilogy, the was having trouble with the the middle book, so went away and wrote book 3 first to help him with book 2.

Either way, he’s proposed the following publication schedule on his website.

• Fall 2025: Isles of the Emberdark (Crowdfunding fulfillment)
• December 2025: Tailored Realities
• Early 2026: Isles of the Emberdark (Tor release)
• Spring/Summer 2026: Skyward Legacy One (?)
• December 2026: Dark One or Isaac’s Cosmere Novel
• Sometime 2027: Dark One or Isaac’s Cosmere Novel
• December 2028: Ghostbloods 1
• Summer 2029: Elantris 2
• December 2029: Ghostbloods 2
• Summer 2030: Elantris 3
• December 2030: Ghostbloods 3
• December 2031: Stormlight 6

 

[Andre]

Finally had the time to finish Wind and Truth. I enjoyed it, although it wasn't the heights of the first two. I'd probably order them 2, 1, 3, 5, 4 as my most to least favourite. Not a concern for me, but if book 4 was the first Cosmere novel where you really got lots of mentions of other worlds, rather than hints, then book 5 I'd put as the first Sanderson book where you really needed to have read series based on other worlds, or you'd miss a lot of what's really going on.

 

[gaskin]

Finally got around to reading Wind and Truth and I really don't see why there is so much hate for it. There were parts that genuinely sucked, IMO, like the whole Kaladin acting as Szeth's therapist arc but then there were some great parts like the Spiritual Realm and Adolin in Azir.

With the next era of Mistborn being set in a 1980s style world, the whole time bubble thing around Roshar is quite clever from Brandon if Retribution is going to have some part to play in all the Cosmere stories going forward.

 

[Andre]

I think some will appreciate these. My Stormlight RPG stuff arrived (didn’t get all the GM stuff as won’t get to play, more for the world info). Mistborn books are due next year.

 

[gaskin]

Is that supposed to be like a Stormlight themed D&D?

 

[Andre]

Is that supposed to be like a Stormlight themed D&D?

Yep, not D&D as the system, but yes, a Cosmere RPG. Initially Stormlight / Roshar, but Mistborn books come out next year, with other Cosmere worlds likely to follow. They may not be full world guides like the two 'main' ones, but at least able to adventure in them, with their ways of using Investiture (Stormlight, metals, breathes etc.)

 

[gaskin]

The rights have been picked up by Apple. Mistborn will be films while Stormlight will be a TV series.

Brandon speaks a little about it here:

 

[Andre]

The rights have been picked up by Apple. Mistborn will be films while Stormlight will be a TV series.

Brandon speaks a little about it here:

That he's got a lot of creative control gives hope it won't be a steaming pile vaguely wrapped in an existing IP like Wheel of Time, Seeker of Truth, Rings of Power, Star Trek Academy, etc. Hopefully that control extends to casting. Mistborn up first, so hopefully a Vin that looks like Vin on covers and art done already, not something foisted on him, to 'appeal to modern audiences'.

 

[Andre]

Latest backerkit is for the Hoid Storybook collection - https://www.backerkit.com/c/project...ybook-collection?ref=bk-discover-user-profile
Hoid stories along with his latest Cosmere standalone novel - Fires of December.

Why must he keep taking my money? I just paid a bit over $200 for the next part of the Cosmere RPG, the Mistborn world guide, core book, plus adventures, now this. I think his favourite Shard is either Odium or Ruin.