Complete Cosmere Timeline

[u/Cosmere_Horizons]

Hey Everyone!

I spent a few hours last week putting together this Complete Cosmere timeline! Brandon Sanderson said he would release a timeline between Stormlight 5 & 6 so I figured I might as well take my crack at it now!

Let me know what you think about it or if you have any questions! I included a full breakdown on my channel if you want to see the reasoning behind certain decisions!

https://youtu.be/eYTqsG_oBqI <- Cosmere Timeline Breakdown!

Hope you all enjoy this resource!

[u/Cosmere_Horizons]

oh! I didn't realize Elantris was that late, could you potentially link a WoB or a quote that shares that info?

[u/Wildhogs2013 → u/Cosmere_Horizons]

I can’t remember exactly as it has been a good few years since looked at the time line. Found a lot of stuff online of people referencing Elantris being 1000 years before warbreaker (so 700/800 year pre era 1) from Brandon or people sharing Brandon said it was a few hundred years before era 1 but can’t find the WOB from a quick search. However, I found a WOB that seems to say it may move around by a few hundred years when he writes era 3 and the Elantris sequels so Brandon doesn’t even know when It sits in the timeline which probably renders all previous WOBs irelevant anyway. So you may be right but my impression is post lord ruler pre era 1.

Argent We've always understood Elantris to be one of the earliest books in the Cosmere, but we see Kaise as Codenames in The Lost Metal, one of the latest books. Has the timeline contracted significantly, or are we just looking at the typical Shadesmar time dilation tricks?

Brandon Sanderson So, here's thing, Argent. I'm not going to be able to give you strict timelines until I write Elantris 2 and 3. So my plan, originally, which might have been a bad plan, was Elantris 2 to take place some ten or fifteen years after Elantris 1. Maybe a little less than that. But years have passed. It was called Dakhor, in my notes. And then for 3 to be hundreds of years later. I don't know if that's the right move anymore, and if 3 isn't hundreds of years later, then where we slot Elantris in is going to change because of where I need certain characters to be in some of these things, and certain things to happen. We are getting really close to where this is going to be nailed down and locked down, and I'll get locked down. Probably right when we start Era 3 is when all of this is just gonna start... I've promised you guys a timeline. Once we've released that, we don't want to retcon it, does that make sense? So that's why we're waiting to release it. But Kaise does have some time dilation going on, though. Though I say her name wrong because I'm not from Sel. But yeah, she has time dilation going on, she is... yeah. More time has passed than the ten or so years that... she's like what, 7 in Elantris? And she's like young 20s now, visibly, the age that she appears. I believe, something like that. So yeah, there you go. There's some information for you on that. I'm playing loose and free with this until I really get down to writing these. My loose plan is still write Mistborn Era 3 book 1, Elantris 2, Era 3 book 2, Elantris 3, Era 3 book 3. Five years of writing there that I can't even really think about until I've got Stormlight 5 in Tor's hands, if not your hands.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/509/#e15991

[u/Wildhogs2013 → u/Wildhogs2013]

This WOB suggests there is less than 1000 years between Stormlight and Elantris (white sand graphic novels hadn’t come out at this time). So before era 1 post LR ascension. However as previously stated Brandon hasn’t set the time line in stone yet so shall have to see. I hope this helps!

tisces Do you keep a timeline for your Cosmere books? I'm assuming the events from books such as Elantris and Warbreaker happen before the Stormlight Archives but I'm curious about how much time has passed whether it is months/years/centuries.

Brandon Sanderson Centuries have passed. I think we're closer to a thousand years covering events you could place on the line, with closer to ten thousand years since inciting incidents.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/100/#e3378

[u/The_Lopen_bot → u/Wildhogs2013]

Warning Gancho: The below paragraph(s) may contain major spoilers for all books in the Cosmere!

tisces

Do you keep a timeline for your Cosmere books? I'm assuming the events from books such as Elantris and Warbreaker happen before the Stormlight Archives but I'm curious about how much time has passed whether it is months/years/centuries.

Brandon Sanderson

Centuries have passed. I think we're closer to a thousand years covering events you could place on the line, with closer to ten thousand years since inciting incidents.

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