#cosmere adaptation

[koravelliumavast]

I think in a cosmere adaptation Hoid should break the fourth wall for funzies

[beginnerblueglass]

So I’ve done the math

Animated Stormlight Archive adaptation is the only option. I don’t make the rules, that’s just the way it is.

[thestormlightnetwork]

canon-complient mistborn adaptataion where everyone are talking in a HEAVY french accent.

the lord ruler speaks british english.

[andromeda-lv]

The best thing about being young is a higher probability of seeing an epic high budget Stormlight TV series. In this essay I will -

[emrystheedgedancer]

I feel like one of the only people who just straight up doesn’t want any film or tv adaptation of Stormlight made. Period. Not a movie, not a series. The only exception would be an animated series in the vein of Arcane, Trigun Stampede, Vox Machina, etc and even then I still am not super enthusiastic about that.

I just do not want it. I don’t trust any Hollywood person to get it right. And I’d just rather have the books without the disappointment. There is so much in Stormlight that would be nearly impossible to convey without all the internal thoughts being right up front. They’d make it into a flat story that only focuses on one aspect and I just don’t want it.

[ofthebrownajah]

Not to shittalk Sanderson again but like they're both good shows? Idk why one being a closer adaptation automatically makes it inherently better. Also Brando you didn't even watch WoT, a show you consult on, but somehow made time to watch One Piece that you don't have any involvement in? 🤨

[piano-hoarder]

I think it should be anime, but I'm curious to know what you all think.

[marvelousmagicalaura]

I've been having a lot of discussions and thoughts about Ruin's future sight, Preservation's plans, and Harmony's knowledge.

Because of this, I have a good basis on how to write Ruin in my Mistborn AU. Sanderson has hinted that Ruin is the power of change and entropy, so I really want to lean in that direction. Rather than portraying him as the entity of death and destruction that Sanderson wrote him as, I want to write him as the God of Decay and Entropy. Everything we associate with canon Ruin would be parts of his desire/methods of ensuring that all things degrade and decay. Death and destruction are parts of his Intent, but they aren’t forefront in the Intent. The forefront of Ruin’s Intent consists of degradation, entropy, and chaos. To enhance this idea, I may write that AU Ruin pushes people to embrace uncertainty and change.

For example, we know that Ruin canonically pulled the strings behind Kelsier’s rebellion and the discovery of the Eleventh Metal. I would enhance this idea, so that Ruin is responsible for the rise and fall of pre-Rashek empires and kingdoms, war, the advancement of technology, and rebellions. In the Final Empire’s context he would be responsible for guiding its various rebellions, and for advancing technology in the less controlled Dominances.

Ruin weaves and executes multiple, branching schemes to ensure the subtle, slow downfall of Scadrial and its empires. He knows there are countless ways his Intent is present in the Universe, and will execute them through any avenue. I would significantly expand on his actions throughout history.

I desperately intend to expand upon Ruin’s precognitive abilities. It doesn’t feel right downplaying Ruin’s future sight when the only WoB we have about it came from 2012, way before Sanderson truly incorporated precognition into the Cosmere. Not only that but the Mistborn trilogy was written before he solidified Cosmere-wide mechanics. I think that once a Mistborn adaptation comes out, we will truly see his abilities in action.

AU Ruin’s future sight would still be inferior to Preservation. It feels slightly wrong LMAO, but it’s necessary for the ending. But it’s far better than Elend’s future vision and Odium’s future sight.

I haven’t read Stormlight yet, but I heard that Odium definitively has future sight. Going by the IRL definition of the word “odium,” I believe canon Ruin’s Intent of causing death and destruction requires a lot more foresight/planning than inducing hatred.

AU Ruin would also be so much more destructive when released. I want to give Ruin more influence over the world by creating more natural disasters - earthquakes with more impact, floods, earthquakes, blizzards, thunderstorms, tornadoes and hurricanes, scenes of Luthadel’s death etc…

Right now I plan to say that weakened Ruin w/ Preservation’s presence can manipulate phenomena that already exists in Scadrial's natural science. He can manipulate and create anything on the planet to his liking, but he can't _completely_ destroy its structure. He can't do feats like reduce the continents to nothingness, boil the oceans in their entirety, or burn the planet down until nothing remains.

But he can do everything the Lord Ruler accomplished during his Ascension. Weakened Ruin can move the continents or split them apart, move the planet, boil the oceans so they’re absurdly hot, and make the planet hotter or colder.

[ultimateinferno]

Anyways. Finished Yumi atNP. The Realmatic theory wheels are turning so I'm doing a singular post vomiting my thoughts. Major spoilers. Not a book review.

So assuming the Machine (or even cosmere at large) didn't just schlorp most of Yumi's investiture upon its destruction, which is a valid assumption since she nearly died, she technically still is Very Fucking Invested. According to Design, Elantrian level.

Which side note, interesting how we got confirmation that Elantrians have more magic than Returned. The bastards have to die, see the future, come back and eat souls to persist, meanwhile the silver people just automatically get the cool shit with no maintenance. Making up for the 10 years a zombie, I guess. Is Endowment stingier than we thought?

This, honestly explains how Nikaro was able to bring her back with his painting given there's a direct correlation between the amount of investiture a cognitive shadow has and how long they persist upon death.

That does bring me to the thought of if the Machine's repeated amnesia prevented... let's go with the term Sprenification of Yumi's cognitive shadow. As Vasher explained to Kaladin, as cognitive shadows persist in time, they more they're made to embody core aspects of their Identity in order to survive. Yumi has been dead for 1700 years.

You can rationalize this as the Machine pruning her Cognitive development. Then again, her mastery of stacking (which honestly very fun talent, love that for her). I haven't read TLM (despite having it digitally), but it's been discussed that Kelsier may already be undergoing that process, and he's been dead for only <400 years, so 1700 is a lot.

If not, I wonder if Yumi is now immortal because she is (was?) more invested than a Returned. That does mean she might eventually undergo Sprenification, if it hasn't occurred already.

Speaking of, I like how... a lot of the magic is just... not really elaborated on. Unlike other Cosmere books, where their fight scenes live and die on how meticulous use of the magic by our protagonists, and Sanderson likes to stress that there is a correlation of an audience's understanding and narrative problem solving regarding magic. It's... a big reason why there was that pre-Sanderlanche exposition dump. I'm wondering if there was a better way to relegate that information.

Anyways, the pre-existing magic system's primary basis is built on the pre-existing foundation of Realmatics and Perception. Expectation and perception shapes outcome. If you image the Nightmare as bamboo, it is bamboo. If you shove the soul of a 19 year old highly invested yokihijo into the body of an art school drop out, shit dude, that's her's now. With the dissipation of the Shroud I'm curious as to how art can influence the world from there. Can paintings more readily dictate the shape of spirits, due to their similarities to the Nightmares? This magic system I think is the softest of the lot, and I actually find that pretty cool.

Lastly before I wrap this up, while Sanderson has introduced cosmere soceities inspired by non-european cultures, (on multiple planets, no less), it feels especially palpable with this setting. While Roshar is decidedly not European but it's also familiar enough that whitewashing is an active problem within fan spaces. Meanwhile, here, it's so in your face about being not European that people have no excuse (as if they had any to begin with), but maybe I'm too much of a weeb that catching details was easier for me than others. It's cool, though,, we get to see snapshots of the culture as it develops through time, which is only really exemplified in the Mistborn novels so far. Not really relevant to magic but a musing nonetheless.

[cosmereplay]

I'm all for an animated Stormlight adaptation, but if we had to have a live action adaptation I would jump for joy of it was done with all practical effects.

Built sets. Muppet spren. They don't even have to be muppets, they could be something brand new. There's another Jim Henson out there who could change the way we use puppets in media if they just got a platform.

Imagine fabric anticipationspren. Anxietyspren that were wrought iron x's embedded in plastic spheres that were weighted to wobble in place. Idk I think it would be amazing artistically.

Plus maybe a renaissance in working with unionized staff? A reappreciation for practical effects? Artists and craftspeople getting some fucking respect?

[yettofindaname]

Talking to my friends about Brandon Sanderson's books, a sentiment I had and they echoed is how much it reads like action anime - I've read other action scenes, but something about the action in mistborn feels so like, readable, it's weird. By that time I had only read Mistborn and Warbreaker, and so imagine my surprise when I started reading Way of Kings and the world has literal manga SFX as visible lights and colors as a physical thing the characters interact Anyway the first thing that came to mind

The menacingspren

[koravelliumavast]

I want whatever the cosmere adaptation is (if it’s live action) to be well lit. I’m talking like lotr style well lit. I want to be able to see what’s going on there.

[wyndlerunner]

A podcast notification has never given me so much joy before

[thestormlightnetwork]

imagine getting cast as gavilar in a stormlight adaptation (animated, or live action i'll be happy with both).

He has two minutes of screentime. he turns out to be a douchebag by season four. he is dead by the first episode. yeah you'll be a perfect fit for him.

[kainekron]

I tried to sleep then I got a notification and it was basically Daniel Green yelling about Henry Cavill being now free to act in a mistborn adaptation either as kel (hell no) or the lord ruler so that's a fun thing to sleep on

[zibus]

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