The Cognitive Realm
Brandon Sanderson's newest Cosmere novel The Fires of December is here. Read the first eight chapters for free on The Cognitive Realm.
You won’t find elves or dwarves between the pages of a Brandon Sanderson novel. What you will find are thoughtfully constructed creatures, with decades of literary history and intentional interconnectivity breathing life into them.
Ryan Cahill’s dragons are like his fantasy: deadly, grounded, and deep. The Bound and the Broken is his series of epic fantasy novels, chock full of dragons, magic swords, and tearjerking character moments.
Ash fell from the sky. Two decades ago, this iconic line started the story that set the Cosmere in motion. The world of ashfalls and allomancers, of kandra and koloss—the world of Mistborn reaches its twentieth birthday on July 17th of this year.
Accounts and depictions of dragons are as varied as the dragons themselves. Dragons have remained a staple of fantasy literature since Tolkien, and with the translation of the fantasy genre to new media, dragons too have been translated. One thing is certain, though: When the smoke clears from any nerd argument or deep lore discussion, here, there be dragons.
What we don’t know is why, 10,000 years ago, the shards decided that Adonalsium needed to go. And we don’t know how the conflict between them is going to end.