#cosmere future

[onlycosmere]

The Kickstarter goes live tomorrow!

When Brandon Sanderson began working with Brotherwise Games on the first adventure for The Stormlight Roleplaying Game, he considered how it could help him fix holes in the narrative of his bestselling fantasy series. He settled on a mystery from the first Stormlight Archive book, The Way of Kings, that will have big implications for the fifth book in the series, Wind and Truth, which will be released in December.

The Stormlight Archive is set on the planet Roshar, where 10 heroes known as Heralds spent millenia protecting humanity with the help of highly magical swords dubbed Honorblades. All of them abandoned their duties except Taln, the Herald of the Common Man. Despite Taln’s best efforts, the forces of the vengeful god Odium have returned. Taln was left maddened by his ordeal and soon after he first appears in the books, his Honorblade goes missing. Its whereabouts remain unknown.

“The adventure is answering that question,” Sanderson told Polygon. “What happened? Where did it go? What’s going on? And you get to be part of the story. We were looking for an adventure you could do that would intersect with the canon of the books in an interesting way, and allow you to fill in a hole yourself.”

The Kickstarter for the d20-based game goes live on Aug. 6 along with a beta preview of the rules and a first level adventure meant to walk players and game masters through the setting and core mechanics. The hardcover Stonewalkers Adventure, where players encounter Taln and learn what happened to his honorblade, will be released in 2025 along with the Stormlight Roleplaying Game Handbook and World Guide.

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Players will hunt for Taln’s honorblade across Roshar, from the Shattered Plains where much of The Way of Kings is set, to the magical forest of the goddess Cultivation, where bold souls can receive both a boon and a curse. There are a mix of dungeon crawls, puzzles, chase scenes and prison breaks. As they choose how to approach the problems they face, player characters will be able to attract the attention of spren, spirit-like beings who can bond with like-minded people to bestow them with incredible abilities. Completing the mission can allow them to join the newly re-founded ancient order known as the Knights Radiant.

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The PCs can meet major antagonists from the books, including the twisted Herald of Justice Nale and the traitorous General Meridas Amaram, and learn how the talking sword Nightblood first featured in Sanderson’s 2009 book Warbreaker wound up on Roshar. As they move through key moments from the series, like the emergence of a raging storm that brings Odium’s most powerful lieutenants back to the world, Sanderson welcomes players to reshape his narrative.

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“There’s a lot of cultural details being filled in, but at the same time, we dig a little bit further into what each order of Radiants’ oaths, spren, and motivations are,” Sanderson said. “There’s some new stuff there that I think fans will really enjoy.”

[thestormlightnetwork]

i'll be honest i still don't understand what jasnah's prologue was about

Brandon Sanderson starting KoW with another POV of Gavilar's assassination:

[hydrogenandhelium]

Shallan isn’t going to third wheel, she’s going to wingman

Shallan third-wheeling the Truthwatcher boyfriends let's GOOOOO

[kiridune]

Also, isn't there something about how before the Recreance breaking bonds didn't kill the spren?

Maybe Honor's response to the Recreance sparked that change.

"Dalinar will reforge Honor" "Kaladin will take up the shard" nah bro, if anyone is going to piece together Honor's shard and take it on then I think it'll be Mr. Taravangian himself

[onlycosmere]

Questioner: When are we getting more Renarin? Brandon Sanderson: You will get the most Renarin you've ever gotten so far in Stormlight Five.

Now, let me warn you, he's not a main main character yet. He won't get as much as you want until, like, book six through ten.

But for now, you're gonna get more than you've ever gotten.

[supreme-leader-stoat]

Hello! I've been trying to get into Brandon Sandersons books but I haven't known where to start. Is there any specific book or series that you'd recommend? :)

I've actually got a suggested reading order that I put together!

Mistborn Era 1 (The Final Empire, The Well of Ascension, The Hero of Ages)

Elantris

White Sand if you can find it. It's a comic book and not a novel or short story.

Warbreaker

Stormlight Archive Era 1 (The Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Edgedancer novella, Oathbringer, Dawnshard novella, The Rhythm of War, Wind and Truth)

Mistborn: Secret History (you can read this any time after Elantris if you want, but its basic premise spoils parts of the Stormlight books)

Emperor's Soul short story

Mistborn Era 2 (The Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, The Bands of Mourning, The Lost Metal). At the very least, do not read W&W book 4 until you read everything above this on the list. It's a very Cosmere-heavy book.

Shadows for Silence in the Forests of Hell short story

Sixth of Dusk short story

Tress of the Emerald Sea

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

The Sunlit Man

Sunlit Man's kind of an odd duck because it takes place long after Wind and Truth (and pretty much everything else on this list) but was published before it, almost as a sort of teaser. If you want more "Oh, so that's what that meant!" moments, move Sunlit up and read it just before Wind and Truth. If you want more "Hey, it's that guy!" moments, save Sunlit for last.

[gnecroticart]

My Cosmere mini bang piece for @hazekiller16 's fic "Next Time, My Songling"! It's a very well-written fic and I had a great time illustrating a scene from it, I highly recommend checking it out! Here's baby Eshonai making flower crowns with her dad 😊

Image description: a young eshonai and her father sitting outside. Eshonai is wearing a flower crown and is looking up at her father with a broad smile, and her face is clearly illuminated. Her father's face is turned away from the viewer and is partially in shadow, and he is holding out a piece of green fabric to his daughter, and his other hand is partially behind her shoulder. He has gemstones in his beard. The lighting indicates that this scene takes place in late afternoon, and most of the light is centered on Eshonai.

[thedragion]

I NEED to know what future Cosmere Urithiru looks like and how it functions

Give me my 2700 ft tall 180 story cyberpunk tower city

[scienter]

There's a fifth Secret Project. Brandon wrote another book.

[natavinsmoke06]

This is just a what if, so if we asume if the direction of the Cosmere as a whole is an arms race, if Roshar eventually catches up and the radiant knights are now upgraded to fleets there's a great chance that the first Wind runner spaceship it's called Bridge 4

[kaladinstormblessed09]

The sunlit man spoilers below

I’m so emotional about this 😭

[coffeeworldsasaki]

"this book is a gift for you, the readers" he says, and then the book ends in a way that left me crying and extremely sad

[nightblood]

I know that Sigzil feels like he failed. Especially because he had to renounce his oaths AND retreat from the Shattered Plains.

But he did save Vienta, even if she was hurt by his actions. She didn't even become a Deadeye.

And because of his actions, and his deal with the Listeners the Shattered Plains remained one of the only parts of Roshar that Retribution wasn't able to claim.

And despite how awful it's going to make his life, getting the Dawnshard off Roshar is a good thing!

I just hope that one day, maybe after becoming Zellion, he learns that his actions did matter, did help and he doesn't need redemption because of what happened.

[lizzystormblessed]

IM SCREAMING

The theory of Iyatil having a corrupt elsecaller spren... this is bad. Maybe that is the reason for her being unbothered by Mishraam at all.

[onlycosmere]

Stormlight 5

Brandon Sanderson: Stormlight Five is the end of the first arc of the Stormlight Archive, right?

I've been saying that since the beginning, since Book One, but then I went and I ended Mistborn, and people are expecting it to end like that. That's not what I mean by the end of the first arc. This is more like an anime arc than it is like the end of Mistborn One.

And I need to start preparing that for people, because one of the things I'm getting from beta readers is: number one, it's going really well, people are really liking the book. Number two, they're like, "Oh, I thought this would be an ending like end of Mistborn Three."

No, it's more like the end, as I said, of an anime arc.

The end of the Stormlight is Book Ten. You are going to get some decent resolutions on things I've been promising for a while, but you're not gonna get resolutions on everything, because it's not the end, yet.

[riverbeatsaber]

look i love Shallan & Radiant & Veil but also The Three is not a very good system name. it is just not

(i am not saying that it should have been more Aesthetic or Descriptive or whatever. but specifically for practical purposes it does not account for change in either direction in the number of people in the system. like are they going to rename themselves The Two after RoW?)