Cosmere Compendium

Planetary Directory

• 01

  The Elantris Cycle

  EL·2 volumes·2005–2016

  Brandon Sanderson's debut Cosmere novel and its planned trilogy. Set on Sel, in and around the once-luminous city of Elantris, whose god-like inhabitants now wander it as cursed half-living things.

  • Elantris

  Novellas: The Hope of Elantris

• 02

  The Stormlight Archive

  SA·7 volumes·2010–2024

  A planned ten-book epic fantasy series set on the storm-battered planet Roshar, following sworn knights who bind storms and broken people who bind oaths.

  • The Way of Kings
  • Words of Radiance
  • Oathbringer
  • Rhythm of War
  • Wind and Truth

  Novellas: Edgedancer, Dawnshard

• 03

  Mistborn — Era 1

  MB1·3 volumes·2006–2008

  The original Mistborn trilogy. A thousand years after the Lord Ruler conquered the world, a crew of thieves discovers that Allomantic ash burning can do more than steal.

  • The Final Empire
  • The Well of Ascension
  • The Hero of Ages
• 04

  Mistborn — Era 2 (Wax and Wayne)

  MB2·4 volumes·2011–2022

  Three centuries after the original trilogy. Scadrial has railroads, electric lights, and revolvers — and a former lawman in the city of Elendel learns the past is closer than he thinks.

  • The Alloy of Law
  • Shadows of Self
  • The Bands of Mourning
  • The Lost Metal
• 05

  Cosmere Standalones

  STD·5 volumes·2023–2022

  Cosmere novels that stand alone — single-volume stories not part of a connected series. Currently Warbreaker and the four "secret projects" published in 2023.

  • The Frugal Wizard's Handbook for Surviving Medieval England
  • The Sunlit Man
  • Warbreaker
  • Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
  • Tress of the Emerald Sea