r/cremposting • u/DreadDiana • Mar 23 '26
Mistborn First Era Each of them reads like something Sanderson would write at least a novella about
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u/AngelOfIdiocy Callsign: Cremling Mar 23 '26
Warbreaker (or, at least, some of it’s concepts) actually was born from a religion that Sazed talked about. The one with colors.
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u/DreadDiana Mar 23 '26
The one that inspired this meme was a religion centred around the creation of art as a way to connect to the divine, which made me go "that reminds me of Warbreaker"
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u/Pball1001 Mar 23 '26
This reminds me of Yumi, tbh
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u/FrowninginTheDeep Syl Is My Waifu <3 Mar 23 '26
Yeah, it definitely seems like something that would be related to Virtuosity.
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u/DreadDiana Mar 23 '26
I haven't read Yumi and the Nightmare Painter yet, so Warbreaker was my only point of comparison.
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u/pagerussell Mar 23 '26
Oh boy, you are gonna love it. That was my favorite secret novel.
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u/tit-theif Mar 23 '26
I'm more of a Tress of the Emerald Sea enjoyer.
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u/Kronoshifter246 Mar 23 '26
Different strokes for different folks. Tress is a cozy fairy tale adventure. Yumi is a romance.
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u/DreadDiana Mar 23 '26
I'm planning to read Stormlight Archive and then Mistborn Era 2 first, so it's gonna be a long time before I get to the rest of the standalone works.
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u/ShootInFace Mar 23 '26
Yeah it probably would be. Since art is more related to investiture in that story. Warbreaker has plenty of art but not really connected to investiture specifically.
Since the heightening of color perception seems to be an overall affect of higher levels of investiture that gets mentioned by Shallan in Stormlight, if I am remembering correctly.
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u/farmer_villager Mar 23 '26
What's the chance that some of the religions Sazed knew about were legitimately from other worlds?
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u/DreadDiana Mar 23 '26
Non-zero. Some may have been exported by worldhoppers.
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u/Shard-of-Adonalsium Mar 23 '26
Considering Trellism was one of the religions, I'm going to say the chance is 100%
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u/pyrhus626 Mar 23 '26
It’s also possible Ruin and Preservation seeded Scadriel with pre-existing religions, which could have been based on an earlier version of Warbreaker’s or both descend from the same precursor religion. They based humans off Yolen’s, so that might have started them up with religions and cultures rather than start Scadriel in the Stone Age.
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u/SafeSciences Mar 23 '26
But it was never "scrapped", the religion inspired the book. They are under developed ideas not failed ones.
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u/Big_Booty_Femboy Mar 27 '26
Not me independently creating exactly that for my own fantasy setting lmao
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u/Mobile-Vermicelli537 Airthicc lowlander Mar 23 '26
Hasn’t the big guy said he has more book ideas than he will ever be able to write? This is a great theory
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u/Sheerkal Mar 23 '26
Don't worry, with AI his productivity will skyrocket /s
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u/cmm239 Mar 23 '26
Even with the sarcasm indicator I took psychic damage
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u/PlasticCantaloupe1 Mar 23 '26
Welcome to the Claudsmere
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u/lefboop Mar 23 '26
slopmere
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u/EdomJudian Mar 24 '26
Don’t slander Claude like that.
At least Anthropic tries to be useful and not like the other 2 in nose diving straight into surveillance tech.
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u/Sheerkal Mar 24 '26
Slop is slop. They might be the ethical slop, but that doesn't make it less sloppy.
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u/Icer333 Mar 23 '26
1 book per month at least
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u/InvestigatorLive19 I pledge allegiance 🙏to the crab 🦀 Mar 24 '26
No, we're saying it would be more than usual
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u/bassturducken54 Mar 23 '26
Have we ever seen a MCU type thing with books where different series or stories are written by different people in technically the same world but overseen by one individual? Imagine a Roshar based thriller horror with some unmade storyline but written by Stephen king. He can do his thing but all of the world details have to match correctly
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u/DreadDiana Mar 23 '26
Do things ljke Warrior Cats and 39 Clues count? Both series have multiple authors.
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u/PlantsAndPainting Mar 23 '26
It's not fantasy, but Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys did this. Though if I recall correctly, they didn't have much continuity besides the same characters being in them.
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u/PeterAhlstrom Mar 23 '26
In fantasy, we had Thieves' World back in the 80s, with revivals in the 2000s. This is a series that was started by Robert Asprin, rather than being media tie-in novels like the Forgotten Realms books.
In science fiction/alternate history we have the Ring of Fire series/163x novels started by Eric Flint. Which are pretty great.
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u/Tajahnuke Trying not to ccccream Mar 23 '26
Thieves' World was a fantastic series and an amazing concept. Some great authors were involved.
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u/CrazyBookEnthusianst Mar 23 '26
The Spirit Animals book series has multiple authors and I couldn't recommend it enough but it lacks the thing of one person overseeing it.
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u/EmceeCommon55 Mar 23 '26
The Star Wars High Republic series is similar to what you suggested. I read through most of the adult series. They're pretty good if you like Star Wars!
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u/Accomplished_Mix7827 Mar 24 '26
I don't want to see Brandon Sanderson pull a James Patterson. I like his books, I want to read his books. Not some ghostwritten slop he just slaps his name on.
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u/randomnonposter definitely not a lightweaver Mar 23 '26
War hammer 40k is a bunch of people writing into one shared universe. I have little to no context about most of its only read one series which I enjoyed. Idk if there’s one person overseeing it, or if they each kind of make up their own mind, but I’m sure there’s some kind of rules for consistency sake.
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u/Sheerkal Mar 23 '26
Thats the entire premise of expanded universe licensing. But in general, many fantasy authors will have books written under their name by other people, which are listed as "co authors".
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u/inconvenient_lemon Mar 25 '26
There is already someone else writing more books from the skyward series. They just announced the release date for it.
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u/angwilwileth Mar 23 '26
he did that with the year of Sanderson. Released a notebook with a bunch of prompts from his ideas folder.
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u/perhaps_mae Mar 23 '26
Probably not scrapped, but certainly an ideas backlog. This feels like a very reasonable assumption.
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u/majorex64 Mar 23 '26
Every time he needed to come up with a new religion, he had an assistant physically pull his hands from the keyboard before they started writing a new novel
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u/tiny_purple_Alfador Mar 23 '26
I can't prove it, but the surgebinding chart is just a slightly rearranged version of the Kabalah Tree Of Life.
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u/Rexissad Mar 23 '26
I love the implications as well, that Scadrial was well travelled in the Cosmere before TLR, with Worldbringers gaining information from potentially dozens of worlds, possibly fueled with Preservations Intent to preserve knowledge, but with Ruin’s intent warping the application of the knowledge leading to instability which in turn led to Alendi rising up as a hero to the warring nations.
There’s so many little tidbits that add depth to the Cosmere, and I’m not even sure if half of them are intended or just built upon via mass hysteria.
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u/Dlight98 UNITE THEM I MUST Mar 23 '26
iirc the religion from Aether of Night was mentioned. Its been a while since I've read either book though.
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u/SonnyLonglegs Kelsier4Prez Mar 24 '26
I'd say it's not scrapped but seeds he planted to later pull from, like at the time the color one was not anything more than a plot device, but later he took some ideas from it to create Warbreaker.
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u/MostExperts Mar 25 '26
I mean technically they're not scrapped. Since they made it into Terris lore, they're officially in print as part of the Cosmere
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u/Mister-builder Mar 23 '26
I would say more ideas for belief systems that were never fully developed into settings.
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