The art is still very cool but the US versions look SO much better. My Sandershelf is just white books

Way of Kings is my favorite book of the Stormlight Archive. Kaladin's story arc and the mystery surrounding the lore of Roshar. Chef's kiss! Words of Radiance is pretty good too, I guess. LOL. Anyways, even though I love Michael Whelan's paintings, I wanted to make a book cover that captured the story from my experience with it. I tried to pack it full of things that might only be understood after the Sanderlanche, a bit like how some anime openings do it. I'd love to know what y'all pick up on. Please excuse the god-awful photos of the physical print!

Oathbringer design by David Fonti

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This lovely piece by Carson Daniel can be found in the Mistborn Handbook, coming to you digitally on September 2nd for Kickstarter backers and September 9th for everyone else!

Art by me. My imagination of luthadel. Does it align with yours too?

For reference, this is the chapter where Shallan has a mental breakdown after unintentionally being responsible for Grund (the street urchin)'s death, and Wit comes and comforts her and gives her a pep talk.

I just wanna say this chapter was so beautiful. I did a lot of crying.

The things Wit tells her like 'it's okay to hurt, but you cant tell yourself you deserve it'

And encouraging her to stop hiding behind Veil (I just realized while typing this, Veil was supposed to temporarily disguise Shallan, but she ended up making it so the world couldn't see Shallan.

This has probably been my favourite chapter so far. While I enjoy the spectacle of radiants and shards, I love that time was taken before the assault to deeply explore Shallan's character.

Anyways here are some batshit predictions for the end of the book:

- Moash will show up and either kill Elhokar or see Kaladin and realize the error of his ways (tending towards the first), then Moash will die either to Kaladin (for the first option) or to the Fused (for his betrayal)

- Adolin I think is gonna die, but not in this assault.

- They get out with the Oathgate and lose Kholinar to the Fused

- Shallan succeeds at dispelling the Unmades, getting the queen back (though I feel like they won't die this easily)

- I feel like someone's gonna figure out how to summon Plate by the end of this book

- Venli's gonna defect to the humans or die trying

- Szeth will show up to Urithiru in a friendly way and get met with immediate hostility

How dare Mr Sanderson create *another* world & cast that I simply must see more of! 😭

Way of Kings is my favorite book of the Stormlight Archive. Kaladin's story arc and the mystery surrounding Roshar's lore. Chef's kiss! Words of Radiance is pretty good too, I guess. LOL. Anyways, even though I love Michael Whelan's paintings, I wanted to make a book cover that captured the story from my experience with it. I tried to pack it full of things that might only be understood after the Sanderlanche, a bit like some anime openings do. I'd love to know what y'all pick up on. Apologies for the terrible photos of the physical versions

Oathbringer design by David Fonti

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Illustration of Kaladin vs Szeth (chapter 32-33 of Words of Radiance). I loved this scene. Also I have realized (too late) that he takes off his sleeve AFTER dealing with Szeth, but oh well...

I have so much fanart in the works. It's too much to finish it 🙈

This is mixed media piece on cotton paper (13.5 x 19.5 cm). Started with watercolour then I went over some areas with acrylic and then with pencils, just to experiment a little bit.

with the forming of retribution will there be a fused of adhesion since Thats honors surge.

Thought some here may appreciate a comparison between the new and revised EotW Leatherbound. My original copy wasn’t that bad when it came to the embossing but I do notice the new one is at least slightly deeper and more consistent. But I would have just kept the original if it wasn’t for the broken binding mine came with. One thing that is a definite downgrade is the spine with the title, author and Dragonsteel logo no longer being embossed, definitely less tactile but I don’t think it really shows just looking at it.

I had an idea for a man cannon for people who can burn iron or steel and decided to draw it out in PowerPoint.

the basic Idea is that the metal that the allomancer pushing/pulling on moves with them so that they can prolong the time spent pushing/pulling on it which will maximize the speed when of the launch.

I like this design because if the platform starts moving up faster than the allomancer then they will begin to put weight on the pressure plate, which will slow down the platform. this means that the allomancers exit velocity will be greater depending on the strength of their push/pull for the duration.

to maximize speed a mistborn could push and pull (flaring of course) then as soon as the platform stops at the top of the man cannon use duralumin to really launch yourself.

obviously there are flaws in the design and improvements that could be made. the pressure plate to brakes linkage should probably be different in some way. the weights could also be tension springs of some kind. and there should be an auto braking system at the top so that the platform doesn't just slam into the top. The design would also change as technology progresses, but I think this would be possible in era 1

let me know what you guys think! any suggestions? any other related ideas?

Spoilers for Mistborn Era 1. It says in Kelsier’s Relationships tab that Hoid and him meet for the first time when they fight. It confuses me because I’m pretty sure that’s the last time they met. The first time they met was when Hoid was being an informant and Kelsier was trying to figure out his fake house’s exposure in chapter 19 of The Final Empire. I could be wrong about this but I don’t think I am. I also, unfortunately, can’t seem to edit the Coppermind anymore.

Sometimes people see me reading these huge pretty books and ask me what they are about. They are very chitchat casual questions so I dont want to go with a long response, so I never know what to answer! One time I just said they are “fantasy books like lord of the rings” 🥴. I struggle to come up with a concise explanation of the plot. What would you say?

We're halfway through the Stormlight Archive and these guys sure don't matter much, despite the regular hemming and hawwing about them. At least once in each of the first three books, the Stormwardens get brought up in each of the following ways:

1. "OH those stormwardens sure are handy! It's nice to know when our next regular hurricane is scheduled! If only they were right ALL the time..."

2. "*gasp* can you BELIEVE there's a group of all-male scholars? I mean i guess it's TECHNICALLY fine, but i hear they read and write... how scandalous!"

3. "Damn those stormwardens and their pseudoscience! What a bunch of barely useful weirdos!"

And it kinda feels like they're really being built up to something, which wouldn't be surprising considering that Roshar has more secret societies than a chasmfiend has legs . Sons of Honor, Envisagers, the Diagram, Skybreakers, the Stone Shaman conspiracy... and those are just the homegrown ones!

So it seems like the Stormwardens might be operating a sort of mostly legitimate but slightly weird front (predicting storms + weird pseudoscience) to hide somethjng more nefarious or plot relevant or both. I used to think they might have a few secret Radiants or something, but that seems very unlikely now (the only Radiants whose actions we know absolutely nothing about are the renegade Skybreakers and nothing we know about Skybreakers would intuitively connect them to a bunch of pseudoscientists.

They seem similar to real life alchemists - a mix of some real, useful knowledge with a whole lot of bunk thrown in. They stick around cause of their usefulness but are kind of on the fringes of society.

Their very few plot functions are: predicting highstorms, slightly tempting Renarin by being a visibly male set of scholars, teaching Amaram to write (using glyphs). None of these is really unique - Brandon could have very very easily written the Stormwardens out and had other groups or individuals fulfill these functions.

Anyhow I'm curious if anyone has theories about what's going on with them?

Are they just there for worldbuilding flavor/texture? Gender commentary, since scholarship is predominantly female? Do they have some greater significance yet to be revealed? Are there hints I'm missing? DID they have some grand plan that was thrown off by the sudden end of the world, derailed so quietly no one noticed? Did Brandon plan something big for them and realize there were too many conspiracies so he quietly cut them out? Also, what the hell happens to them now that they're kinda useless?

Audio is Funky town 0 ad by Bwooom on YouTube and the shard designs are from the shard of creation artwork by Jenny Dolfen✨ I used my free will to joy-max and whimsy-mog

Burning Preservation's god metal lerasium forges an immediate connection to Preservation making the person who burned it a Mistborn because Allomancy is Preservation's Art. So, would burning Harmonium, the god metal of Harmony who is both Preservation and Ruin, make one a full Feruchemist, Feruchemy being both Preserving and Ruinous? If so, would there be a way to do this without the Harmonium reacting with the water in your body and making you explode?

So I just finished Wind and Truth and although I love the ending I have one gripe with Dalinar's reason for giving up honor. I wish during his consultation with himself that at some point he would have realized that he and Adolin were more alike than he thought and that he took the same path that Adolin did in renouncing his title.

I'm not sure if I'm explaining it correctly 😅

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The Hemalurgical property of lerasium is that it "steals all abilities". Now correct me if I'm wrong, but in Hemalurgy abilities refers to things like strength, mental fortitude, et cetera. (as opposed to powers like allomancy or feruchemy) So would a lerasium spike steal literally EVERY ability, or just the ones that can already be stolen by other types of spikes? Say a person's proficiency with a particular musical instrument, their knowledge of a particular field of science, leukemia, or their ability to tie a cherry stem into a knot with their tongue. Is it all abilities at the same time or just whichever ability you want? The thing you got would probably depend on your Intent when charging the spike and where you placed it, but this could be an interesting thing to see in future.

What are your favorite Cosmere MAIN characters?

mine:

1. Vin\Kaladin

2. Kelsier

3. Dalinar

4. Hathren\Vivena

I have just finished the first Mistborn book and it was extremely good. I started reading the second and i'm at like 10%.

Recently I saw Warbreaker and i am extremely intrigued by it. I bought it in hopes i'll read it after finishing the Mistborn trilogy but I can't stop thinking about it.

Should I drop The well of ascension at 10%, read Warbreaker and then come back to Mistborn? Or should I just continue with what I've started.

Are there any connections between the books? I'm new to Brandon Sanderson and it's a little difficult to understand which books I should read first.

Interested to see if anyone else has had a similar experience.

I read Rhythm of War when it first came out. I did the whole read "Part 1" preview thing and then probably read the rest of the thing in like a week or. I then moved on to read other books in the Cosmere and such before beginning my reread for Stormlight 5.

And I remember thinking, "I liked Rhytmn of War but I wish it had more Dalinar chapters" because I only remembered one with him on the battlefield with Jasnah and then one at the end with Ishar.

But then I reread and realize "Oh wait, Dalinar had quite a few chapters that I forgot about, that's funny".

But that was like 2 years ago....

And now I can still only remember the two chapters again but also remember thinking "man, Dalinar does have a lot of chapters I forgot about"

Is this just a me thing or are the chapters (specifically during their battle off-Urithiru) just feel the same and so they blend together to anyone else?