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Brandon Sanderson / Re: "Death" of Ruin and Preservation
« on: July 06, 2010, 11:07:07 PM »Something I'm hoping to see, eventually (and perhaps even sooner than later), is a timeline placing Elantris, Mistborn, Warbreaker, and The Stormlight Archive chronologically for us fans. I imagine the Master will make us wait until he's revealed more about the events surrounding the Shattering and Hoid's plot, but it never hurts to dream.
That might be difficult if relativity holds in Sanderson's cosmology.
Even if it did, wouldn't the story have a chronology from the perspective of Hoid, the Shards, and any other forces involved?
Yes, but those chronologies might have the same things happening in different orders. If Hoid is getting around FTL and relativity holds, then time travel gets thrown in the mix as well. Time gets funky on Galactic scales, and Vin could have been in an entirely different galaxy than Lightsong for all we know.
Agreed, but there is so much we don't know that I don't think we can come to that conclusion yet. For one, we don't know what Hoid's mechanism for traveling is. I've read some decent theories about him jumping between the 3 Realms and pulling himself out at different locations. I tend to feel that Relativity in the sense you are implying would break down under such circumstances.
And again, it would all depend on your reference frame. I've gotten the feel so far that Hoid isn't jumping through time, or, at least, he's not jumping backwards at any point thus far. If I were less lazy, Id' find annotations and other forum topics to cite and such.