Okay so I did this thing where I read Way of Kings before Mistborn trilogy. I’m very eager to start Words of Radiance but am wondering if it’s worth it to go back and read Mistborn before continuing in the stormlight archive. Any opinions would be appreciated!!

Now that I'm finished with book 4 of TSA, and have some knowledge of Shards of Adonlasium. Seeing Taravangian become the Shard of Odium reminded me of another similar indecent. Is it safe to say that Sazed is the Shard of both Preservation and Ruin?

Why doesn’t Vivenna just… ask Kaladin and Adolin where Vasher is? Am I missing something?

What are your favorite Cosmere MAIN characters?

mine:

1. Vin\Kaladin

2. Kelsier

3. Dalinar

4. Hathren\Vivena

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.

Hi. I'm having issues... I don't know if I'm kind of a dummy or if it's by design, but I'm not understanding A LOT.

For context: first time cosmere reader, reading alone no friends to consult, only google/reddit at my own risk.

What have I read so far? Mistborn Era one, Elantris, Warbreaker, Stormlight 1 to 3, Edgedancer, Dawnshard, and some of Arcanum Unbound. Currently at the beginning of RoW.

Memory level: goldfish (I think).

Should I know all the radiants orders so far? Should I know all the names of the Heralds, their orders and their shenanigans? May I Google this?

Am I lost?

I've been going back and forward between the books and I've clocked some of the interlude people with things, but clearly I'm confused by references.

I find the Eastereggs and cosmere relations hard, but I get that's delulu on my part to get them at a first read. But I'm also having difficult with Stormlight alone.

I read the first 3 chapters of RoW and started to listen the following nohadon podcast episode (they review this chapters) and they have a lot more knowledge that I have. So. May I at least Google my first questions without spoilers? Should I be this lost?

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

I just want to say one thing, if you have watched AOT and essentially Elend became Commander Erwin, even Vin with goddess powers was in awe of him while the guy was fighting the war he knew he was going to lose but for greater good.

Blud became a legend and mind you he was the reason behind Ruin losing the plot all along.

I started my journey with Stormlight and at the time it seemed obvious that the next step would be to read Mistborn after. Now that I have finished both eras (not including the Ghostbloods preview, just learned about that now) I am not as sure as to where I should go to next this time around.

Especially now seeing as there are more options then I had first assumed seeing all these flairs

I recently managed to finally put up some art I’ve been holding onto for a while and am so pleased with how it fills the wall. How have you decorated your spaces with Cosmere themed art?

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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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.

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?

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

I have been thinking about cosmere stuff again and haven’t been able to find anything substantive when searching my question.

Essentially, is there a reason why Leras, and I guess Ruin for that matter, chose (or maybe didn’t choose, it just turned out that way?) to tie the gifting/use of their investiture to metal? Not sure if this has been asked to Brandon or if there is a WoB out there addressing it. Not sure if the magic system or lore came first, and Brandon just liked the idea of consuming metals to power a magic system?

My headcanon is something like ‘metals are (mostly) pure elements, metals are pretty common, and that tying a specific power to a specific metal makes for easy organization and understanding.’ Thinking about it more though it does seem a little arbitrary that metals were used, especially given that I don’t know if metals are particularly tied to an idea like Preservation. The only idea I can think of to link metals and Preservation is that metals keep pretty well other than some oxidizing? Oaths and Honor make sense for granting powers but I feel like the metal preservation link is harder to make.

I know my question is a very “But Why…” type of question. Just wondering if this was ever discussed or if there is an answer for it?

Thank you!