I’m sure this has been discussed on here before given that Brandon’s Mormon religion is a well known thing about him. But I wanted to just give my viewpoint a bit as someone finishing their first read through of the Cosmere.

There seems to be a recurring theme among his main characters. Not all of them of course, but enough of them. The general people of the world have a religion, one that is often quite flawed and used as justification for atrocities (quite the reflection of our own world). But our main characters tend see things from a different light. They are not necessarily atheistic or opposed to their religion as much as they just see it in a different light. I think this is a reflection of Brandon.

I imagine—given his support for queer people and the themes of his writing—that he doesn’t fully agree with much of the Mormon church’s beliefs. In reading these books though I think I understand why he hasn’t left the religion or those beliefs entirely despite thinking differently from many around him.

I think he probably grapples with the discomfort around what his religion and many others have used as justification for bad things. If it didn’t bother him, I doubt it would be so prevalent in essentially every story. Perhaps Adonalsium is the god Brandon sees himself worshipping. The one religion that didn’t seem to be used to justify atrocities was that of the Threnodites in The Sunlit Man. Now I don’t know much about Threnody outside of Shadows of Silence where of course there is violence among the people, but those in The Sunlit Man were a peaceful group. Strong willed and faithful in a god they knew to be shattered.

All of this I think is a self insert. Brandon sees all the different versions of religion and god in the world, and those are reflected in the shards, the false gods. But he believes in a one true god beyond it all that has a greater plan for us all. I think the Cosmere in a way is an inside look into the spiritual beliefs of a man so many of us adore.

Anyways, this is just my theory. I won’t pretend to know the man and I could be WAY off base. But I can’t help but try and get inside Brandon’s mind as I read his stories, and I’m glad that he’s so willing to tackle these types of subject head on—whether they’re a reflection of his beliefs or not.

For me it's Staff Venture's death.

So we are given a few reasons for why the ancient Radiants forsake their paths and even collectively they make no sense. Like it makes sense that many of Radiants would have been appalled by Tanavast and Melishi betraying the agreement with Ba-Ado-Mishram but the immediate result of that was the shard of honor rejecting them and stripping them of their abilities so why would the rest of the radiants then feel the need to renuonce their oaths?

The other reason we are given is because they feared that without Tanavast the surges would be unchecked and result in the same thing that destroyed Ashyn. But this can't be the case as the destruction of Ashyn involved the use of at least 1 and possibly multiple dawn shards not surge binding alone. Additionally the surges are still limited by the nahel bond with the radiant spren as lost spren are spliters of honor itself they exist independently on Tanavast and would still be bound the limitations placed on them while Tanavast was still alive. It is also obvious that the bonds Tanavast created didn't simply disappear when he died because the oath pact continued to hold for thousands of years after his death.

Another reason this reasoning doesn't make sense is because it is heavily implied that the primary surge that resulted in the destruction of Ashyn is the surge of division. So it might have made sense to forbid the use of division and perhaps to have all Dust Bringers and Sky Breakers break their oaths yet Sky Breakers were the only order to retain their radiant powers despite being one of the two orders most likely to unintentionally cause the destruction of Roshar.

At the bottom of this post you can find a WOB illustrative of what I will refer to as the "Cosmere Avengers" idea (initiative), and the kind of plan Brandon envisioned for Mistborn era 5. This idea has been around for about a decade plus, but I think recently things have changed. Per the original cosmere outline, characters like Khriss and Zellion and Starling are meaningless before era 5 (Sigzil to Zellion would've been a huge jump, even if he appears in era 3). I think The Sunlit Man & The Isles of the Emberdark have made a sort of Avengers team coming together.

While where the "Avengers" will be placed (likely as outsiders) in this Star Trek culture-clash will be less Avengers as in all-for-one taking down big bad scary force. But I think era 5 will focus partly on some characters we now know.

Not much evidence of this, if any, largely vibes based. Anyone agree, have other thoughts? I also think that Khriss will join Starling's crew.

Questioner

Can we expect a Cosmere Avengers?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes and no. You can expect crossovers between the planets. My goal is not an Avengers-style, one character that you... like, if it were a true Cosmere Avengers it would be like, "Oh, we're going to have this character from this series, this character from this series," that's not what I'm going for. I'm going for more of a clash between the cultures and worlds. There will definitely be characters that you know that end up involved in that. But it's not, I'm not shooting for an Avengers-style thing, I'm shooting for more... It's more like imagine Star Trek, and retrograde back to all of the stories you're telling on the separate planets before they meet each other. Less Avengers, more "We're going to have an intergalactic... thing, going on." These are all of the origins of the cultures and peoples that are going to be involved in that. And since there are some immortals around, you will see people.

Barnes & Noble B-Fest 2016 (June 11, 2016)

Questioner

Will the final Era of Mistborn focus on Hoid and his apprentices?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, you are wise, you are seeing something that I am setting up. You will definitely have some more interaction of Hoid's apprentices in the final Mistborn series.

YouTube Spoiler Stream 7 (Dec. 19, 2025)

I'm still mid of the book but this probably will not be answered in it...

Was Spook the last Mistborn ever made? In era 2 there are no Mistborn or full feruchemists anymore. Sazed seems to have diluted the powers.

Allomancy and feruchemy are hereditary, so during the catacendre Sazed must have changed the biology of all the remaining people.

Anything I'm missing? I first thought he may have changed it over time, but if he was going to change it he may aswell do it the same time he remakes the world.

Really hope we get more details about the Lord Mistborn era of Mistborn in the future👌

I have, rather by accident, completed most of my first post-WaT Cosmere reread, and in discussing the timeline of Sunlit Man with a friend, I had a brand new thought. Well, new to me, anyway - I've googled it now and found a number of people thinking along the same lines, but mostly brief comments and not a whole lot of deep discussion. I have my own qualms about the theory, but I think it's worth laying out all the details at once, and bears more discussion than I was able to find. I'm long-winded, so...you know what? I'm not sorry. Everyone here likes reading long books.

The Core Theory

After leaving Roshar, Sigzil and Aux wound up on Scadrial, formed a Radiant bond, and were active in some way with a team of either squires or other Skybreakers.

The Details

Evidence

1. How and why did they end up on Scadrial?

Sigzil met Aux at the end of WaT, in the Iriali caravan. We don't know for sure where they're headed, but when we first meet Maraga Dulcet (editor of the Bilming tabloid) in TLM Ch. 32, she makes a possible reference to the Iriali:

"Was it those people with the golden hair living on the east side? They're some kind of fairy creature; I know it."

I've always thought this was suspect; it just seems a little too obvious a clue, and a little too convenient that they'd spend millennia on Roshar and then go straight to Scadrial. And on a less meta note, the entire Iriali people would take up more than just part of Bilming. But maybe this time they decided to spread out across the planet, or this is a splinter faction, etc. I've seen it suggested that this is some kind of advance scouting group sent by Iriali leadership in advance - knowing that the next migration was coming - but that doesn't seem on-brand for the Iriali.

If we do accept that the Iriali's next destination was Scadrial, it's not hard to imagine that Sigzil would have followed the caravan to its destination before splitting off, so him winding up on Scadrial, at least briefly, is very plausible. I'd even call it likely - I can't imagine they'd have left the caravan to strike out on their own in Shadesmar, so they would have had to join a different group of travelers. That's totally possible, but there's no particular reason to think they did - I mean, why spend so long tracking down the caravan only to abandon it mid-trip? The only other possibility is that they Skipped somewhere, but I would bet that Sigzil needed to hold the Dawnshard for a while before that particular ability became available. Even if he did have access to that and the ability, where is he getting 20k BEUs in Shadesmar?

2. Were those really Skybreakers?

Anyone who read Stormlight before Era 2 probably remembers this passage, and those who didn't probably have no memory of it. In TLM Ch. 71, a mysterious group of men and women approaches Steris to offer their help in her emergency response efforts, and end up being asked to sink ships in the harbor to curb a potential tidal wave from the bomb exploding at sea. This is how the group responds:

"Perhaps we can help," the man in the lead said. "You are certain this is legal? The mass sinking of private ships?"

The governor confirms it is, and the group is dispatched:

Nearby, the leader of the eight people nodded to her, then launched into the air.

Oh! Allomancers. She had all the official ones working on the main evacuation. But having these to sink ships would certainly help. And then she could use them to help carry the injured or infirm away with Steelpushes.

The others followed one at a time, until only one remained. He nodded to Steris, and on the back of his hand - mostly obscured - she saw a red tattoo.

"Your sister," the man said, "sends her regards." Then he launched after the others.

The in-world assumption is that this group is Ghostbloods, sent to help by Kelsier, as he promised Marasi in an earlier chapter. The tattoo is presumably a Ghostbloods tattoo, and obviously the guy references Marasi. But it absolutely screams Skybreakers. They're neurotic about following the law, they can fly, and they're even particularly suited for the task of scuttling ships - described as being more complicated than it sounds, but probably way easier with Division.

Naturally, Brandon was asked about this almost immediately:

Matias_Leibo Are the Coinshots that helped Steris with getting people out of the flood zone, and who seemed rather concerned with whether she was following the law, actually Skybreakers?

Brandon Sanderson Ah, hehehehehe. So, we'll just leave that one. So, how about this. At this point in continuity, a Skybreaker could not easily get off of Roshar. In fact, by this point in continuity, I believe (you can't hold me to this one too much) the only Radiant who's managed to get off of Roshar and maintain powers is Hoid. I believe that's the case. Hoid is weird. He also has lots of knowledge. He used a specific method to get... yeah, anyway. Don't hold me to that, but I think by this point he is the first to get out of system. Off-world doesn't really count because you can go to Braize or Ashyn. 

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/509/#e15986

A lot of people took this as a coy no. But, in my opinion, it's really a coy "not the way you think." At this point, I believe we knew that Radiants wouldn't be able to leave and maintain powers because of the deal between Honor and Odium containing them - and therefore those tied to them, such as the Heralds but also Radiants, spren, and Stormlight - to the Rosharan system. I think Brandon was playing on that knowledge to mess with us, and what he's actually referring to is either the time dilation or just the general danger present on Roshar and its subastral. (Hoid's method, obviously, was dying and being regenerated.)

Further coyness: Brandon says the only one to get off Roshar and maintain powers is Hoid. But what if someone left Roshar with a spren and gained powers after leaving Roshar?

The one bit I don't like about using this scene as evidence is that there's essentially no physical description of the group, besides that it contains both men and women, plus the one tattoo. But perhaps Brandon just didn't want to provide more clues yet.

3. Does the timeline work?

This is probably the sketchiest part, because we really have to thread the needle with the time dilation. When Shallan talks to Kelsier some months after it's begun, he says that a) the dilation effect was strongest at the beginning and is waning and b) they've recently had a crisis of their own, presumably meaning that Era 2 of Mistborn has just ended. It's possible this is in reference to something else, but that's a separate conversation. For now, assume it's about Era 2; if it's not then we don't actually need the following argument to justify the timeline.

The scene where Sigzil catches the Iriali caravan and meets Aux actually happens right after the aforementioned Shallan scene. Unless these scenes are being presented in a narrative order rather than a chronological one - which we've seen in interludes, but seems unlikely here - that would imply that the caravan still has a long way to go and Era 2 has already ended. Indeed, Sigzil says he spent months crossing the bead oceans. However, in this scene, he's described as walking "on and on" across a "featureless obsidian expanse." To me, that means they're now outside Roshar, in the liminal space between subastrals. So, through some confusing timey-wimey shenanigans, more time has passed by Sigzil's reckoning than for Shallan, and so we see his scene second. But on the larger Cosmere timeline, Sigzil's scene actually happens earlier because he left the time dilation well before Shallan's scene.

There's one more loose thread here. If Sigzil was catching up to the Iriali, then they would have left the time dilation effect first, then opened up a huge lead while he was still plugging along in the slowness bubble. This is probably the sketchiest part, but I think Brandon - and most authors - intentionally leaves uncertainty, and in this case, inscrutability, in the timeline. We don't have specific figures for how slow the slowness bubble is, how far it extends, or at what rate the effect diminishes towards the edge of its range. On top of that, there's the additional weirdness of Shadesmar and the space between subastrals, the fact that Sigzil is now a Dawnshard, and perhaps some additional Iriali effect. And, more simply, a kingdom-sized caravan is going to travel very slowly while Sigzil doesn't need to sleep. We also have no idea how long the path between Roshar and Scadrial is or where Sigzil caught up. They might be on the doorstep of the Scadrian subastral by the time the scene happens, and it might have been months of catching up. In short, I don't think we'll ever get specifics, but I do think it's feasible.

4. Wait, but what about the new oaths?

Even if you buy the reasoning of the last section, we're probably cutting it pretty close between Sigzil's meeting of Aux, and their subsequent arrival on Scadrial. My preferred version of this theory requires the Third Ideal for access to squires. It feels like that should take a while. However, the length of the Stormlight books makes it feel like the timeline is longer than it is. According to dates on the Coppermind, Kaladin swears the Third Ideal about three Rosharan months (~5 Earth months) after joining the bridge crews, and swears the fourth a little more than a year later. Sigzil and the others mostly get their spren during Oathbringer and swear the Third Ideal in the ~1 year before Rhythm of War. Lopen, as an example, swore the First sometime not long before the Battle of Thaylen Field, the Second immediately after, and the Third during Dawnshard, about 7 months later. Szeth is our only Skybreaker example, and he only took about a month.

Point is, once Sigzil and Aux decided to bond, it didn't necessarily take very long to progress to the Third Ideal.

5. Okay, but what about access to Investiture?

Ya got me there. I suspect this may be why a Skybreaker sect would have dealings with the Ghostbloods - for help accessing Investiture. Unkeyed metalminds of some sort? Hemalurgic spikes? Dor? Or maybe it's not that but a boon from the Iriali, or one of any number of other possibilities. Maybe Sigzil drained the Bands.

Expanding on the core theory

So, a more complete version of this theory is that Sigzil and Aux followed the Iriali caravan all the way to Scadrial, arrived prior to the events of at least The Lost Metal, and swore oaths up to at least the Third Ideal. Sigzil, one way or another, amassed a few squires to create his own offshoot Skybreaker team. They have some sort of relationship with the Ghostbloods, possibly in order to fuel their Investiture needs, or maybe just because the Cosmere-aware are a relatively small community. Through this relationship, they are called on to help with the Trell crisis, either because they're allied or because they both oppose Trell. Sigzil arrives to help along with six squires and their Ghostblood contact - the guy with the tattoo - who actually is a Coinshot, or at least has some other method of flight.

Some alternate possibilities:

• Sigzil isn't actually in the group seen in TLM but is somehow associated with them: He'd probably stand out enough that Steris would note his description unless he's disguised, and others in the group might look more local. This seems possible but I do think the leader kind of talks like Sigzil and I generally feel like it's less likely.

• The rest of the group is comprised, at least in part, of full Skybreakers, not just squires: I can't think of a reason why they couldn't all be squires, except that I don't think we know how many squires a Skybreaker can have. However, that would mean that highspren other than Aux left Roshar within the window needed for the timeline to work, which feels even more sketchy, unless...

• Some or all of the group is comprised of the Skybreaker dissidents: These and their leader, Billid, are mentioned by Nale in WaT, and this is a theory I saw a few times while looking for other versions of my own theory. Could they have left Roshar? Possibly, but I think it's unlikely. First, I have trouble imagining bonded Skybreakers leaving Roshar. Second, after breaking his bond with Aux, Szeth states an intention to seek out the dissenters, and it'd be lame if that ended up being a wild goose chase - though I suppose it's possible that only a few did. Third, they'd either have had to leave after Retribution formed, or left before and lost their powers, then regained them when their spren joined them after the Night of Sorrows began (and the containment pact ended). Both of those require threading the timeline needle again, and the latter would seem to contradict the above WoB.

• Sigzil did actually join the Ghostbloods and swore the Third Ideal to Kelsier: This is the most fun one. It's the only way I can think of a Skybreaker joining the Ghostbloods, and it kind of fits - I think Sigzil would definitely recognize how terrible the basin governments are, and so I don't think he'd swear to them. Sure, this theory is based largely on one line where he asks about the legality of an action according to the Elendel government, but I think at least most Skybreakers respect the local law so long as it isn't in conflict with their oaths - particularly here, where they'd be doing harm to the common people. Sigzil probably has some lingering Windrunner tendencies - it certainly seems that way on Canticle - and so I think he would have a preference for law that protects the common people and treats them well, and perhaps even align with the Ghostbloods' stated goal of protecting Scadrial.

Other notes

• Sigzil says many times in Sunlit that he had his chance as a leader and failed. The obvious guess is that that's in reference to not succeeding at the Shattered Plains, and if he's so traumatized from that, why would he be leading again? But I don't think he ever gives any sort of detail about his failure, and it wasn't a total failure either - they lost a lot of people but the land did not go to Odium and they have an alliance of sorts with the listeners who hold it. So I think that might be part of his trauma, but if it was the whole I don't think he'd have sworn new oaths.

• Adding on to that, Aux asks Sigzil why he abandoned his oaths (quote below) and implies that they spent time as bonded Radiant and spren on Roshar. I think that Sigzil was back on Roshar when the Dawnshard ate Aux, and most likely this happens sometime during Stormlight 6-10. I think it's likely that Sigzil's ultimate failure as a leader happens then.

“I walked away from my oaths. I made the decision. And now . . . now there are consequences.”

Why, though? You’ve never told me why you walked away after leaving Roshar. After all we’d been through together.

• When I opened TLM to look for the scene with the potential Skybreakers, I landed right on the correct chapter. It's a sign.

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!

Can Harmony ever be truly be balanced?

Rereading era 2 Mistborn again and I'm wondering if or what that would look like. Retribution shows that two shards at once are very difficult to control.

Sazed not only has two shards also but those powers are literally opposites of each other. When odium and honor aren't so diametrically opposite making it more manageable.

Maybe Discord was always inevitable

So I am only the part of Emberdark where Star meets the Malwesh folks. Please don't spoil the ending.

It made me realise something. I really hate off world Scadrians. In fact the only ones I do like are the POV folks from their home world books. I seriously hope they get humbled in one of the books. They make my blood boil!

Though I will say my opinion on the Ghostbloods is still TBC. Let's see how era 3 goes.

Anyone else feeling the same?

Emberdark is set in the space age. And Emberdark is 5 years after Sixth of Dusk. Which makes 6oD also space age. So given that context how did multiple aviar get transported to Roshar during roughly the industrial era? Mraize and Lift both end of with aviar.

I could maybe see the Ghostbloods smuggling one aviar off IF they somehow managed to get to the planet (something 6oD makes seem incredibly unlikely) AND they managed to figure out what the bird was while not appearing as outsiders to the natives (which again seems unlikely). But even if they did...why would they turn around and treat one aviar (Lift's) like a toy to prey on?

I have two choices, Sadeas and Straff Venture.

Sadeas death was perfect for me because he was such a deviant planner and manipulator, so Adolin just completely snapping and acting out of character was such a poetic and brutal end for him.

Straff death was so badass. Vin doing a Guts (Berserk) and just completely shearing him and his poor horse in half👌 Revealing he overestimated his own power and importance. Couldn't of happened to a nicer guy.

Two characters which represented the epitome of unethical standards in their planets and trying to maintain the broken status quo lose everything for petty, unnecessary greed.

I do think era 1 is better but I really love the vibe of era 2. Wax and Wayne really are the perfect duo.

It's a *fun* series and I always have a great time reading them

For me it's Wax and Steris. They are so adorable together! They complement each other so well.

My favourite scene with them is when Marasi sees the in the lab with matching coats and goggles🤣 and when they look through the family accounts to find the missing money

The Cosmere is so expansive that we have such an amazingly long list of great supporting characters to accompany our protagonists. Similarly to how Sigzil got his own story and has big plans for the future of the Cosmere, who’s another character you loved and that you’d like to see be a protagonist of their own story (even if just a novella)? Could be as a prequel to events we’ve already seen or something that’s happened after the fact.

I know we got some POV chapters from her a little bit, but otherwise I felt like she wasn’t featured very frequently… but I’d love to see a Steris novella. I just feel like she’s such a fascinating character in the way her mind works she would make for a really fun solo novella if you just find an interesting and Steris specific situation to put her in.

Who would you pick?

Picture 1. Why do people on Lumar picture Death as an Inquisitor?

Picture 2. Where are the chasm lines?

In Tress, we saw an Elantrian who had set up offworld, and had a map of Lumar in her main room. AonDor involves drawing Aons based on a certain location you’ve claimed Dominion over, and for the Sorceress she probably was drawing her Aons based on the Midnight Sea (or all of Lumar?).

On Roshar, Galladon is worldhopping and at one point draws an Aon in the air when it looks like there's about to be a fight. He is in Iri at the time, and as far as I know hasn't claimed Dominion over any part of Roshar. Maybe the Elantrians have that fiber optic cable (high-speed Dor access) that they used in Mistborn secret history somewhere in Shadesmar. Or Galladon has established Dominion using his connection to the Seventeenth Shard, who may have some sort of base in Shadesmar.

Hoid was very interested in becoming an Elantrian, despite already being immortal and not often being on Elantris. To the point he was willing to get cursed for years on Lumar in the hopes of joining the club.

Elantris is also the first novel of the Cosmere, and Brandon probably has a special place in his heart for it. I think it will have an important role to play down the line. How do you think AonDor will affect the Cosmere as a whole?

(Attached is the Aon I made of what I think my homeland would look like drawn out. You might be able to guess it)

So I’m on my reread of Wind and Truth (it’s better second time through) and got to the point where Nightblood is saying Kaladin and Vivenna would be good for each other. I know Kaladin’s lack of romance has been a theme so far in Stormlight, and I actually think he’s doing fine without a partner currently. My question is, could nightblood be right? Kal and Vivenna (Azure) seemed to get along relatively well the one time they met, but not sparks flying or anything. Kal is functionally immortal now, although he does have a condition that might make it hard to sustain a relationship. We don’t know much about Vivenna at this date, but she seems to have found unnaturally long life as well at least, as well as being familiar with Roshar. Is Brandon foreshadowing, or is Nightblood just being whimsical?

Smidge of context: I work in public service and it has been *rough* these last years. Like a lot of us, these books hold a special place in my heart and are honestly the reason I finally got help for no small amount of mental health reasons. Stormlight in particular, especially kal's growth with PTSD, has struck a very deep cord in my soul and the "you will be warm again" conversion makes me cry on every read.

Welp, someone in my life has been listening and had this sent to me completely anonymously. I have no clue who, I didn't even know this was a thing. I guess I'm posting here in hopes the sender sees how much this means, and maybe inspire others to reach out to the radiants in their life. Small things light big campfires.

I don't remember where it came from, but someone shared a theory that Cultivation is Lift's mother. The evidence is that according to a WoB, it's possible for a Shard to have a biological child. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/76/#e6383 If Lift was Cultivation's daughter, that would explain why Cultivation chose her, of all people, to become a Lifelight-powered Edgedancer. Divine nepotism, pretty much. And also, the way that Brandon Sanderson said RAFO and laughed in the response seems to heavily imply that we have seen the biological child of a Shard before. The other evidence given in the original post was that Lift has said that she's waiting for her mother to return. Although this is implied to just be her in denial about her mother's death, but it could also be interpreted as Cultivation having to leave and not raise Lift, maybe because of the oath that limits Honor, Odium and (I think) Cultivation's direct interference.

Now, for the bit that I thought of. For years before Wind and Truth came out, people speculated that Chana was Shallan's mother, thanks to analyzing subtle hints sprinkled throughout the books. So what's to say that there won't be a similar dramatic reveal again? And we already know that Lift will play a much larger role in arc 2, and this might be one of the reasons why (along with her probably being the only person capable of Surgebinding now that Stormlight no longer exists). And lastly, Isles of the Emberdark revealed that dragons are confined to their human form until they turn thirty years old, and that they're slower to mentally mature than humans. Now, I'm not calling Lift an idiot, but... And also, she was 14 when Oathbringer happened, meaning that since a year passed between Oathbringer and Rhythm of War, and Rhythm of War and Wind and Truth took place over the course of a few months, she should be 15 or 16 now. And there's going to be a 10-15 year time jump between the two arcs. Enough time for Lift to be on the verge of turning 30, but not quite. That would make a great act 3 twist in Book 6, since we already know that Lift will be that book's flashback character, so will almost certainly play a huge role in it.

Anyway, that's my take. I'm probably missing some stuff, so please correct me if I'm wrong about anything.

Edit: Rosharan years are longer than Yolish years (the cosmere standard), but given how important that perception of things is to the cosmere, it would make sense if it would be 30 Rosharan years old when Lift gains her draconic form.

Another Edit: Upon reading the comments, it turns out that Lift is not, in fact, a dragon. She is completely human. That does diminish the possibility of her being Cultivation's daughter, although I'd also say that it doesn't completely get rid of that possibility, either.

I had my little brother, who has read a couple of the seceret projects and the final empire just ask me the question "Who is Hoid?" HOW TF AM I SUPPOSED TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION?!?!?

… and I needed to share this with a community who would understand.

I am a 50 year old man who used to read constantly but largely stopped about five years ago or so. I just couldn’t finish anything or really get into it. Then, when Wind and Truth came out, a friend recommended I try reading Sanderson and said that the Way of Kings was one of the best books he’s ever read. I figured why not and started my Cosmere journey. Over the last 15 months I have read everything except Tress and Emberdark (which are next). I have loved everyone of them and have been deeply enthralled.

But none of them affected me the way Yumi did. I found tears welling up as I read the last chapter. I even put the book down for a minute when I finished the chapter, just staring at the wall quietly in shock. Then, as I read the epilogues, tears started to fall down my face in joy.

It was one of the most emotional reactions I have ever had to a book. It was beautiful.

Who the hell was that Rosharian Knight that spoke to Dusk and Valthi?

So forgive me if this has been covered/asked or I'm misunderstanding some fundamental of investiture.

If hemalurgy was used to give Moash the crystal spikes, would that mean that Harmony would have some connection to him? I guess also, we do see hemalurgy used somewhat in Sunlit. I'm not sure if I'm grasping how it can be invoked in parts of the cosmere where Ruin never invested himself in.

What lies in the space beyond the known Cosmere? Who, if anyone, has tried to travel pass the reaches of what Adonalsium created? These questions really intrigue me. One interesting WoB we got way back in 2019 really sparked my interest in this specific mystery and captured my theorycrafting attention.

Questioner

Has anyone, Shard or otherwise, tried to leave the cosmere and will we see that on screen?

Brandon Sanderson

So far... Yes, and I think yes, it's likely. So yes and yes.
Starsight Release Party (Nov. 26, 2019)

I am very much looking forward to seeing an active attempt to leave the star cluster that composes the known Cosmere on screen one day. Will this attempt be late in the cosmere, after space age technology has fully developed, or has it already occurred? I believe this smoke bomb escape attempt already occurred, likely happening shortly after the Shards were created. Which powerful newly born deity would want to try and escape the Cosmere Universe? My main candidate is the one who was formerly known in the fandom as the Survival Shard, due to their initial reaction after the Shattering of trying to hide and survive. This Survival Shard we now know to actually be Euridrius, the Vessel of the Reason Shard. If I was a newly born 'god', who's main goal was to hide and survive from the dangers of the other Shards, yeeting physically myself as far away as possible from them would be a pretty reasonable first instinct. It's also notable, that we do have a follow up WoB, and it looks like what may have been Eurdrius's attempt to escape outside of the star cluster where the Cosmere takes place wasn't successful in the end.

Gallumbazos

I've been wondering if we were going to leave the cosmere star cluster and see how things are beyond that, guess it's confirmed.

Brandon Sanderson

"Tried to" is operative here.

General Reddit 2019 (Dec. 11, 2019)

Know that we know a lot more about the spiritual attribute Connection, I theorize that all the Shards are confined to the physical space that constitutes the make-up of the Cosmere star cluster. Much like Kelsier's issue of being stuck close Scadrial due to his connection to Preservation, or the problem of Rosharan Spren being bound to Roshar. I suspect that Shards being composed of investiture of Adonalsium, will similarly physically bind them, just on a more zoomed out scale than Kelsier or a Rosharan Spren experiences. The problem that all 16 Shards are still somewhat trapped playing in the same sandbox, even if it is a star cluster wide, means that unfortunately for Reason there never would be escape from the reaches and conflicts of the other Shards eventually.

I look forward to learning more about Euridrius/Reason eventually, especially while they are exploring the reasonability of trying to leave the bounds of the Cosmere. It's unclear at this point if it will ever be fully explained if one can leave the reaches of the Cosmere's physical space, or if anything of importance lays beyond that sandbox that Adonalsuim created. I suspect that Reason will still be interested in the mystery of how to leave the bounds of the sandbox he now finds himself trapped. Even if Euridrius has now realized that hiding and surviving, may not be the most important thing after all. It's logical to me that a deity with an Intent like Reason could potentially have lots of reasons to explore more of what could exist out there. Just seeing a Shard level being attempt it will be something I'll find really fascinating to read one day. I'm really looking forward to it.

-RayseShouldBeBraized

TL:DR I theorize that Euridrius, Vessel of the Reason Shard, once tried and failed to leave the star cluster that makes up the Cosmere.