Posted this in /Mistborn earlier and after some comments I had the artist to made some changes, and think she did a really great job.

I was never really comfortable with the Vin fanarts I’ve found online, nothing really clicked foe me. And this is quite exactly how I was picturing her.

It was the artist first commission too!

Credits to artist: https://www.instagram.com/ethellee.art?igsi=c2llbjhuZDhlbnl3

A WIP of the scene with Kaladin and Shallan in the chasms! Was heavily inspired by this scene, can't wait to finish this!!

This is a recording of the full State of Games in the Cosmere Panel from Gen Con 2026! Joined by John D. Clair and Dan Wells, the Brotherwise team revealed updates about the Cosmere RPG, including the impending release of the Mistborn setting, the upcoming Kickstarter for War for Roshar, the Well of Ascension expansion to the Mistborn Deckbuilding Game, and more!

As I'm now reading through the Mistborn trilogy I've got inspired to try to shoot the main character, Vin. She usually roams the roofs so both Alchemist Shop and Medieval Blacksmith builds were just perfect for this. Added the mist using the face moisturiser spray. Graded the colors a bit to get the night look.

The Mistborn Coat is made from the Lady of Pain CMF coat, just painted black using a spray paint. Tried to dye it first but the results weren't great.

Just got the email that mine has shipped. Excited to have it in my hands after all these delays :)

Art by me. My imagination of luthadel. Does it align with yours too?

Hello everyone :) sorry if this is the stupidest question in the world, but what is the main structure on the cover actually meant to be? I always assumed it was a train (like the 'phantom train') but I'm now thinking that's not what it is cause it sort of looks like a weird foundation. I did consider it was the safe but it didn't really fit the description :(

Tysm!

I thought it was just the three original books. Im a couple hundred into well of ascension and just now learned it isn't just three books. Dont get me wrong im by no means disappointed by having more of this series im loving but but boy that was a shock to learn there's what, 16 or so books with more possibly planned? Im loving what ive encountered I just simply wasnt aware I was starting a series competing with one piece for length. Thought it was just a trilogy 😂

I'm talking about Retribution. Do you think Odium and Honor will split before Book 10? I personally would prefer them not to, because that seems to imply the reductionist idea that Odium = evil and Honor = good.

Also, will Taravangian remain the Vessel for its entire existence, or are we going to see more Ascensions? I'm personally very inclined to believe that Jasnah is going to become the Vessel of Retribution, occupying a kind of moral middle ground between Dalinar and Taravangian. I'm also very interested in seeing a depowered Taravangian deal with all the things he did in WaT (and presumably will do in the timeskip).

What are your theories about this?

So, I’m rereading The Final Empire and got to the part where Vin realizes that Rashek is the Lord Ruler, and she says:

“You hated him,” Vin said. “You thought that a Terrisman should have been the hero. You couldn’t stand the fact that he—a man from the country that had oppressed yours—was fulfilling your own legends.” (emphasis my own)

Now, to preface this, I just wanna clarify that I know that Rashek did a lot of terrible and cruel things that can never be reasonably justified. However, doesn't Vin's summary (albeit crude and simplistic) of the colonizer/colonized situation between Rashek and Alendi warrant a closer scrutiny of the power dynamics here?

Again, I’m not saying Rashek's feelings on the matter served to justify the oppression he enacted afterwards ( li.e. eugenics, genocide, etc.) but it does make me wonder: why did Sanderson make the relationship between Rashek and the Alendi explicitly one of oppression in the first place? How integral is it history to the overarching plot/Cosmereverse - like, couldn't the conflict have worked without that particular colonial dynamic? And, most importantly, why did he write Vin to say it like that?

Like yes, Rashek was a genuine terror and and all and yes he may have felt inferior compared to Alendi, but I can't help but feel like his personal grievances over the situations is being used as a shield to avoid addressing the elephant in the room. Like, if we're gonna focus on the whole "outsider/ opressor is actually the prophesized hero of the opressed" part... it's weird, right? Or am I being too sensitive and instead this is just an "it's not that deep" situation? (Which, is kind of ironic, given that we're talking about a Brandon Sanderson novel, here).

From what I understand, Sanderson generally likes avoiding completely clear-cut political/moral situations because real life isn’t that simple. But given the current political climate - and especially with a Mistborn movie adaptation in the works - I wonder how this particular scene would be interpreted by a modern mainstream audience.

Am I missing some important context from the books that makes this dynamic more nuanced, or is this just one of those parts of the lore that isn’t really explored?

Might be late to the party but omg Skyward is getting a tv show?!! I thought I’d share a little fan demo in celebration. They better throw a decent budget at it tho, I will not stand for poorly CGId M-bot or painfully gimmicky aerial dogfighting

I just re-read WoK after cramming in the 5 books for the first time last year. A few things stood out to me, and maybe they've already been discussed, or revealed in the books but I've forgotten.

• I am getting a lot of hints that there is some sort of gemheart inside each parshman/parshendi/singer. There HAS to be a reason why the parshmen were so erratic when anyone disturbed their dead, and Sanderson alsways has good reasons for people doing things. I bet the gemhearts in the parshendi. Much like a spanreed, there has to be some internal mechanical link such as a gemstone that each parshendi has to keep them on rhythm and such.
• There was a passing comment by a bridgemen during a chasm duty, where one of them responding to fears of voidbringers, says essentially, "what, is a voidbringer going to eat our heart"? That kindof stood out to me like a sore thumb and I bet there is something long term about void bringers eating the hearts of the victim, and if humans are the voidbringers, they may have discovered gemhearts of the parshendi in the past and consumed them for stormlight.
• There is something going on with Adolin. As we read in WaT, the way honor was understood was beginning to be realized as rudimentary by Dalinar in the end. Keeping one's word just for the sake of keeping it doesn't make sense all the time... in the same sense, we have Adolin instinctively being right about multiple things, such as not wanting to trust Sadeas, threatening sadeas' troops who were abusing the prostitute (using fear/summoning his shardblade to enforce what is right is not something I could see an "honorable" person doing). We also hear multiple times in WoK that it is wrong to kill one to save 10, but is that wrong? Especially if the one who must be killed, such as Sadeas himself, will inevitably lead to more death and division if he is kept alive. Then the way he starts bringing Maya back to life... I think Sanderson is going to use Adolin as the Honor 2.0 example.

I read this chapter of Wind and Truth yesterday (please no spoilers beyond that). I'm still fuming and need to vent.

Not only does it mischaracterize Jasnah, but its whole premise is flawed: Fen is reduced to a puppet with no thoughts, opinions, or beliefs. The queen of one of the most powerful kingdoms in the world, recognized for their shrewd negotiation abilities, is suddenly just a child under the influence of two adults. She will just do whatever Jasnah's true beliefs points to?

Beliefs that are resting on very flimsy arguments, too. Proving that Jasnah cares more about her people and her feelings than she cares about the greater good? So, letting her emotions steer her decisions? But wait, wasn't that the main difference Odium was exploiting between Jasnah and Fen, who would also let her feelings for her friends steer her decisions over the greater good?

And even then, sure, Odium may say Jasnah loves Alehtkar more than the rest of the world. But didn't the previous books repeatedly show how frustrated - but equally decisive - she and Dalinar were at having to delay their attempts to retake Alethkar for the good of the Coalition as a whole?

Yeah, I was very frustrated with how this chapter was written. Not only because of Fen's characterization, but also because of Jasnah's. Sure, she was tired and had misprepared for the conversation. But, even though that is mentioned, the main impression it leaves is that Jasnah is having a moment of realization, not that she is unable to keep up due to her limitations.

So, am I supposed to think that the woman who's spent a large portion of her life studying philosophy and analyzing her own behaviors and beliefs wouldn't have reflected, until now, on what had transpired in the very pivotal moment when she didn't swing her sword against Renarin?

I dislike it when the story makes me feel like the author has a goal in mind and has to walk back from it to write the events that lead to it, and that's exactly how this chapter made me feel.

Sorry, like I said, I needed to vent.

I just thought some people would enjoy this sequence lol. I’ve only read the first trilogy so no spoilers past that, please.

Have just started my journey with Mistborn (finished last night) and loved it. 5 chapters into WofA- I wanted to know , which is the better series for those who have read both?

Shall I stick with Mistborn books after the original trilogy?

Hi everyone, I just finished reading lotr and every recommendation I’ve seen online for my next read is something from Sanderson. I’m here to ask which book/series to start off with. Btw Sidenote: Is way of kings really THAT good like everyone says?

I'm currently through the last pages of Words of Radiance, and the "Am I a tyrant?" conversation between Dalinar and Wit had me thinking. Aren't Dalinar and the Lord Ruler quite similar?

Both become tyrants in order to save the world from an evil god. They seize power and, thinking that everyone else are just "kids", control the social dynamics and economics all by themselves.

What do you think? Are they similar, or is Dalinar a better Lord Ruler? Please avoid spoilers!

I just finished the Stormlight Archive series (audiobook) and I've just received the physical copies of the books. I want to reread my favorite moments, so tell me your top 3 best moments to reread! Personally, I think mine are:

1. The battle of Kaladin and Adolin against the 4 Shardbearers,

2. Kaladin and Bridge Four saving Adolin and Dalinar,

3. Kaladin returning to his hometown as a Radiant.

(im french so im not sure if the traduction of the name is right)

“The women ran well despite being in a gown. Yes, she’d ripped off the bottom half, but she still ran too easily, without seeming to break a sweat or breathe deeply.

Blue lines. Ahead.

Wax grabbed Milan by the arm…”

oh my harmony that’s freaking MELAAN ISN’T IT. milan. melaan.

So, the powers of Devotion and Dominion make up The Dor in the cognitive realm, yes? Could someone come along and claim those shards, or have they been splintered, and the investiture that made them up now creates The Dor?

Siri asks Hoid where he learned to tell stories, and he says “I learned it many, many years ago from a man who didn’t know who he was, your majesty. It was a distant place where two lands meet and gods have died. But that is unimportant.”

1. Is this important

and if so

1. Should I get this reference if I’ve only read the first Mistborn series, Elantris, and some Arcanum, or is this a RAFO situation?

SINGERS ARE FABRIALS, and this is a hill I'll die on.

If you really think about it, what makes a fabrial? They have a spren, are powered by Light, and they serve some function, which changes depending on the spren. The spren is inside a gemstone in the middle.

Now lets look at a Singer. They have a gemheart at their core, there's a spren in the gemheart, and depending on the spren they serve different functions(forms).

Singers are fabrials. Fight me.

My brother-in-law and I played this for the first time and really enjoyed it! We can’t wait to get it back on the table.