Brandon Sanderson/Cosmere Thread!

Oooh, there's some bad international ones for Warbreaker, too-

Spoiler

This is an actual scene that happens, but there's something amazing about the fact that someone looked at this book and went, "Ah, yes, that is what this book is about, two large buff men."

excuse me sir are you lost, the Vampire: The Requiem meetup is over there.

"Shit, I sent them the cover for the wrong book. Ah well, it's all fantasy, I'm sure no one will notice."

 

Holy heck how did I miss this!!!!!

oh right i was in the hospital

But those covers are making me laugh so much, oh my god.

 

:::333

 

So I read the first few pages while waiting for a friend of mine to be ready to have more Kencyrath read to him. I can't say what my feelings on the prose will be just yet, but it does seem to show promise? In terms of being pleasant to read. So that is nice. I'm also hype that there appears to be a religiously based caste system. I love those. A lot. Like sincerely. Religiously based caste systems are just the fucking greatest. AND THIS WAS HAS SLAVE PLANTATIONS WITH WHIPS AND SHIT. That is my jam, yo. The bit of text before the chapter proper is also my jam. I am hoping these prove to be regular because I like such things.

 

Are they ever. The whole Mistborn OT has them, as does Stormlight.

Spoiler: Technically a spoiler, but vague

One of the earliest ones in the first Mistborn book straight-up tells you the trilogy-ending plot twist and even knowing that the odds of anyone figuring it out are low and I love it.

I love Sanderson's foreshadowing in general because I can reread the books and go "OH DAMMIT I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE" a lot.

 

oh goody

Just like the opening to my favorite animes and jrpgs. "Wow those two pink haired girls sure are stylish. You are very stylish TWEWY." *hours later* "HOLY FUCKING SHIT."

 

Stormlight also Does The Thing with the chapter headings, because a bunch of them are explicitly prophecies. There were several of them that it took me like 3-4 readthroughs to get and I went "OH GOD DAMMIT."

Me going "OH GOD DAMMIT" during Sanderson rereads happens a lot.

Spoiler: Less vague Mistborn spoiler

Second time through Mistborn I caught that Sazed mentions offhand that the language the Final Empire speaks is a dialect of Terris and "Kredik Shaw" is a Terris word and I had to make a snarky post about it on Tumblr to express my mixed rage and admiration.

Lord Ruler: “I’m Alendi. Hero of Ages. From Khlennium. Where we spoke Khlenni. So my empire is going to speak Terris. The language of the people I hate and oppress. While my native language falls into obscurity, known only by me and the Keepers, who I’m trying to exterminate. This is totally what is happening. I’m Alendi.”

 

Woman with weird mind control-esque powers who is also a thief.

-tosses vin in the pile with jame-

i am collecting them

In other news I am pleased that there is a structure to the magic system. One very different from the kinds of structure I tend to think of with fantasy and my favorite kinds. Which is to say I really dig things like Tolkien's magic or Kencyrath's magic. Lots of magical poetry, gods maybe doing shit for you if they damn well fucking feel like it, dancing is probably the best thing ever. This Allomancy madness though is making me hope we're going to get a Daoist magic sort of situation going on. This remains to be seen but the bit with tin leads me to be hopeful.

 

:3c I'm hoping you continue to enjoy them, I'm very interested in hearing your thoughts!

 

Kelsier is a prick by the way. That is my other thought. I approve of trouble makers who are assholes but also helpful.

Granted that might be due to my religious affiliations BUT I MEAN

 

Sanderson is kind of famous for complicated hard-magic systems.

Kel is a disaster, I love him.

 

-continues to hope vaguely for like some sort of elixir formula type shit-

 

Kelsier continues to be a fabulous dick but he's a fabulous dick with friends. Or at the very least business partners. He's also apparently a Mistborn which is a Misting on steroids. Steroids entitled "happy genetic accident and also inbreeding". These are good things. Vin, unsurprisingly, is also a super Misting. I am fine with this because AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA CONSUMING METALS EACH ASSOCIATED WITH A PARTICULAR FUNCTION THAT IS BURNED IN INTERNAL FURNACES AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA DAOISM AND HINDUISM. You may here note that Aon has an obsessive love of magic systems involving such things. If this continues I am happy.

Also the Steel Inquisitors are neat. I have no actual idea what these things look like because my ability to picture things in my head is basically broken. But they sound horrifying and therefore neat.

but we are consuming elixirs made of metals to power our super magics

Camon is a cunt. I've nothing nice to say about him. I hope he gets his ass beat. Violently.

 

I wouldn't be surprised if that was involved in his inspiration somewhere. The dude clearly loves religion of all flavors. (Up to and including lurking on an atheism forum for three weeks so he could write Jasnah Kholin without being a dick to atheists.)

I could probably dig up some fanart if you want? Not immediately because my internet is ass right now, but.

Spoiler

He does.

 

Oh thank the gods. I can't stand that man.

AND YES FANART WOULD BE RAD.

also if sanderson loves religions of all kinds up to and including lack of religion then he and i will have fun i think

bring me your religions sanderson

BRING THEM TO ME

 

Wait until Sazed starts trying to sell everyone on thousand-year-old reconstructed religions. :::PPP

 

I PRACTICE A RECONSTRUCTED RELIGION!!!!!

!!!!!!!!!


!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Here's the one that's illustrating the wiki page:

(In the process of looking this up I also accidentally discovered that the wiki makes a point of mentioning the extremely important canonical detail that the Lord Ruler has a swivel chair.)

 

I LOVE THE BIG MISTBORN TWISTS i figured out one of them like two pages before it happened and it was like!! oh shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit

Spoiler: SPOILER

the earing

 

well i mean obviously

swivel chairs are of vast import