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Yes, Brandon's books are all related. Read here to find out! (spoiler free)

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Eerongal:

--- Quote from: Ottilie on December 17, 2010, 09:20:48 PM ---Wow, I didn't pick up on this at all from reading Sanderson's books! This makes me even more fascinated by his stories, which I didn't think was possible.

If I may ask; where did this information come from? Cosmere and Adonalsium? Were those mentioned in his books? Did Sanderson talk about this in an interview or blog post?

EDIT: Never mind, I found a post about it :)

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Yeah, most of what we know is from what's been teased out of brandon through interviews, but there's subtle bits in the books than you can link together to figure some bits out.

One major clue is hoid, since he's in pretty much all of 'em in some capacity.

Xegnma:
It was one of the first things I noticed about his books. I have seen a similar experiment conducted by the now defunct comic book publisher called Crossgen(1998 - 2004). Each title formerly published by Crossgen focused on a specific world in its cosmos with the pivotal character(s) of that world bearing a special mark of power. Their powers shared the same source but would manifest itself differently per user. There was this grand overarching story that served as an undercurrent to all the books. Pity the publisher went bankrupt. Fortunately though, Disney bought the rights to the characters and plan to revive them through one of the many lucrative properties they also own...namely Marvel Comics.

But I digress :)....

I'm keen on seeing Sanderson explore this aspect of his books. In a way it validates the similarities we see in his magic systems. I read some comments where some people believe Sanderson is rehashing/retooling his magic systems from series to series. Frankly I see nothing wrong with an author getting as much mileage out of a concept as he can. But I don't think that's the case here. I think those similarities are there because the author fully intends them to be there.
Sanderson is a strong proponent of magic systems being governed by a palpable sense of logic. It only stands to reason then that if these magic systems occupy the same cosmos (and possibly come from the same source) that they bear some semblance to each other. Its all by design.

Edit: If any of you are curious look up crossgen on wiki-pedia.

andygal:

--- Quote ---I'm keen on seeing Sanderson explore this aspect of his books. In a way it validates the similarities we see in his magic systems. I read some comments where some people believe Sanderson is rehashing/retooling his magic systems from series to series. Frankly I see nothing wrong with an author getting as much mileage out of a concept as he can. But I don't think that's the case here. I think those similarities are there because the author fully intends them to be there.
Sanderson is a strong proponent of magic systems being governed by a palpable sense of logic. It only stands to reason then that if these magic systems occupy the same cosmos (and possibly come from the same source) that they bear some semblance to each other. Its all by design.

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Brandon has actually said that there is an underlying logic to all the Cosmere magic, so yeah, it's not surprising that we have the same kinds of abilities showing up in different books, because they are all working off the same internal logic.

Unfortunately I forget exactly where he said this.

Hoidbringer:
It makes sense.  Each of the magic systems stem from relatively the same source, or part of the same source.  The differences and similarities are fairly easy to understand.  They are affected by the nature of the shard and the nature of the culture they develop in.  Something similar to a concept Brandon used in Warbreaker with the returned, but I don't want to go into details on that theory here in the unspoilerish thread.

socom-delta:
Vin makes a description of the mist near the end of the Hero of Ages that sounds an awful lot like Stormlight, how the Mist appeared to leak out of her (moreso when she breathed), but then went around in a stream and went right back into her. It reminded me quite a bit like Stormlight.

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