History Creator / BrandonSanderson

* TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers:
--> '''Skip:''' Just today, I've heard the word dragon spelled 'dragoon,' 'daragon,' 'dragen,' 'deragin,' and 'blarsnaf.'\\
'''Sorceress:''' Er... 'blarsnaf?'\\
'''Skip:''' That was from Pug the cook. He speaks Lukarvian.

** An unnamed fifth Secret Project.

*** ''Literature/MistbornSecretHistory'' is a companion piece to the original trilogy, taking place mostly during the events of the second and third books.

*** ''Literature/{{Edgedancer}}'' is a novella set around the end of ''Words Of Radiance''. It is included in the short story collection ''Arcanum Unbounded''.

*** ''Literature/{{Dawnshard}}''

** ''Literature/TressOfTheEmeraldSea'', a standalone novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

** ''Literature/TheSunlitMan'', a standalone novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

** ''Literature/YumiAndTheNightmarePainter'', a standalone novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

* ''Literature/TheFrugalWizardsHandbookForSurvivingMedievalEngland'', a standalone science-fiction novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

* ''Skyward'', a science-fiction series [[spoiler: set in the universe of ''Defending Elysium'']].
** ''Literature/{{Skyward}}''
** ''Literature/{{Starsight}}''
** ''Skyward Flight'', a novella trilogy set between ''Starsight'' and ''Cytonic''. Cowritten by Janci Patterson.
** ''Literature/{{Cytonic}}''
** ''Literature/{{Defiant}}''

* [[http://brandonsanderson.com/defending-elysium/ "Defending Elysium"]], a standalone SF story.

** ''Literature/TheSunlitMan'', a standalone novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

A prequel story to ''Literature/MistbornTheFinalEmpire'', covering Kelsier's training as a mistborn.

* TheVerse: ''Literature/{{Elantris}}'', ''Franchise/{{Mistborn}}'', ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive,'' ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'', and several unpublished novels are in the one universe—Literature/TheCosmere (individual planets are known as Shardworlds). Much of what is known about the Cosmere comes from WordOfGod, and the hints about it in the books themselves tend to be less than obvious. A recurring character called Hoid has appeared subtly as a [[Literature/{{Elantris}} beggar]], [[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy an informant]], [[Literature/{{Warbreaker}} a storyteller]], and (most notably) [[Literature/TheStormlightArchive the king's]] [[DeadpanSnarker Wit]]. Hoid's exact importance, motive, and true role is unknown, but he can definitely travel between worlds and knows more about the Cosmere than most other characters. He is, according to the glossary of the third novel of Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy, "A mystery yet to be solved." It is pretty much confirmed he was there at the shattering of Adonalsium as well, which means he must be thousands of years old. Brandon has confirmed that Hoid uses Shadesmar, an alternate plane of reality also called the cognitive realm, to travel from world to world, and that he has some way of both slowing down time and living longer than a normal human should. He will play a major role in the Stormlight archives, and many more hints were dropped down in the second book.

** In RealLife Sanderson is a huge fan of Creator/HughJackman, with visitors to his personal theater reporting repeated viewing of ''Film/TheGreatestShowman'' in particular.

** ''The Sunlit Man'', a standalone novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

* AuraVision: The cytonic sense allows an experienced user to actually "see" colours as vibrations (white being the brightest, black being an absence of vibration). Jason, who's blind, uses it to compensate.

Jason Write is a psychic member of the Phone Company, humanity's only source of FTL communication. He arrives at Evensong, the farthest human space habitat, for a routine pickup, to find things aren't as simple as they seem.

* AlmightyJanitor: All light speed communication is handled exclusively by a phone company, without anyone else on Earth knowing how it is done.

* BluffTheEavesdropper: Jason and his handler, Lanna, work out right off the bat their communications are being tapped. They have prerecorded conversations just to mislead the eavesdropper, at least until they learn who he is. Afterwards they just cut the signal.
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* HandicappedBadass: Jason Write is [[spoiler: completely blind]] but definitely not someone you should mess with.

* MissionControl: This is Lanna's job - we only get to see her in person after [[spoiler: Jason gets back to the base]].
* PsychicPowers: MindOverMatter and [[spoiler:PsychicTeleportation]], but not {{Telepathy}}.

** ''Yumi And The Nightmare Painter'', a standalone novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

[[caption-width-right:212:[[Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy We writers need not make sense. It’s beneath us]].]]

* ''Literature/TheFrugalWizardHandbookForSurvivingMedievalEngland'', a standalone science-fiction novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

* ''Literature/The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England'', a standalone science-fiction novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

* ''The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England'', a standalone science-fiction novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

** In ''Literature/TheWayOfKings'', the Parshendi initially appear to be the villains, but ''Literature/WordsOfRadiance'' shows them to be [[AntiVillain sympathetic figures]] and, [[spoiler: at the end of the book, they’re all but exterminated - all part of the plan of the real BigBad, Odium]].

** ''Yumi And The Nightmare Painter'', a standalone novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.
** ''The Sunlit Man", a standalone novel crowdfunded on Kickstarter.

*** For that matter, religions in general. Most of his created settings include intricate theologies, most of which represent a partial or flawed version of the real metaphysical truth. The way people struggle with and interpret (and reinterpret, and misinterpret) their faith is a constant theme.

*** And later, in ''Literature/RhythmOfWar'', [[spoiler:[[DragonAscendant Taravangian]] kills Rayse, becoming the new Odium and the FinalBoss of the fifth book]].

** In ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'', perhaps the most extreme example, God King Susebron is built up as potentially worse than the Lord Ruler, [[spoiler: but he's actually a perfectly kind and friendly figurehead. His secretary Bluefingers is the villainous mastermind]].