Hoid spotting. There he is, there he is, there he is, there he is, there he is. Hi internet, I'm Steve and this is Raffo. So why is the Decroywood Trapho Attack at Misswa the best Cosmere reading order ever? Because everything is connected and this is exactly how. Spoilers for everything, elantris, warbreaker, Mistborn, Stormlight, everything. Only watch this video if you've read the entire Cosmere or if you don't care. The Decroywood Trapho Attack at Misswa or definitive Cosmere reading order if you want to read and find out all the things and notice connections in the most satisfying way, roughly follows publication order while grouping most stories that take place on the same worlds. At the beginning of Brandon's publication journey, when the Cosmere was mostly a behind the scenes thing, there were only small and occasional hints as to the larger scope. With each new published book, he could tie things back to previous stories, creating threads that careful readers could follow. Basically, everything builds to the next. The more books you read, the more things you'll notice. Starting with, elantris. Again, spoilers. Hoid shows up as a beggar helping Serene with food distribution in the city and in the epilogue talking to a skase. And Naush has an annotation on the map which mentions the Rose Barbarians. The Lake near elantris is actually a shard pool or perpendicularity. The old elantrian that reo'd an engalladin drop in doesn't just dissolve. Hope of elantris is basically a deleted scene that ties directly into elantris. Not much cosmically significant is happening. The Emperor's Soul! Hoid is in a semi-canonical prologue that I've linked in the description and is at least canonically mentioned as the Imperial Fool who steals the Moonsector. A few nations from elantris are mentioned and Shy writes an an on reo where her first painting was. It's the first place we hear of the Magic Resistant Metal Raul-Kalast, which is just aluminum. And when Shy is running through the palace, we actually see a durethy priest in passing, someone in red armor. Also, this novella has the best explanation for Romatics until we get to Stormlight. White Sand, one through three, has Hoid in the background multiple times, and he sings a song at the end. This is also the origin of Chrisala, Chris, who writes all of the R's arcaneums and is seen multiple times elsewhere in the Cosmere. Also, Bayon is introduced here. A construction form, a known as Trell, makes an appearance, and of course it's where all of the white sand that we see later is from. Not all sand that is white, but all white sand. Shadows for silence and force of hell has shades, and because of Shadows for silence we know that silver is significant, but we don't know why yet. The evil in the homeland might be related to ambition, and the star belt mentioned that illuminates the planet instead of a moon is the same astronomical feature as the red rip in Mistborn, and Tullen's scar in Stormlight. One way we know that everything happens in the same dwarf galaxy. And Threnady is named after something. Mistborn, the final empire, Alomantic Metals do things! We meet Kelsier, Saisen talks about trelligism, where members worship the stars as the thousand eyes of Trell. We first meet Demo, and see Hoyd as a beggar informant. Also, Kelsier dies. That's important later. Well of ascension, we meet Felt, the venture spy. Hoyd is apparently with the terrace, and we get more info on Farochemmy. The footprints Vin sees at the well are from Hoyd's previous visit. This is where there's validity in the argument to read Secret History before Era 2, because there is overlap. I just say you can get that on rereads. In Hero of Ages, if you're paying attention and have read Secret History, you can see lots of Kelsier's mebbling, including preventing Vin from meeting Hoyd and talking with Spook in Ertow. This is really the first we see of Shardic intervention too, with both Ruin and Preservation fiddling with stuff. Of course, Saisen ascends and becomes Harmony, who writes some letters to Hoyd in the Stormlight epigraphs. His epigraphs here reference Adenalsium and Romantic theory. Spook, of course, becomes the Lord Mistborn. There's Udels and Udels of foreshadowing all through Mistborn, telling you exactly what's going to happen at the end, which is completely disregarded in your first read through. Going through all of that is another massive series in and of itself, but my absolute favorite is the fact that on page 1 of Final Empire, it says, they say I will hold the future of the entire world on my arms. Which points directly to what happens at the very end of Hero of Ages. Brilliant. Genius. I love it. The eleventh metal is basically a prequel, but you can see how touched by Ruin both Gamel and Shesler are. Then we get to Aera II, Alloy of Law, which is 341 years after Mistborn Aera I. So important characters are referenced as historical figures, and Marsh actually shows up at the end. Spook's Eastern Street slaying has become High Imperial, which is hilarious. Miles is a follower of trellism, which may or may not be connected to the trellism of Aera I. We get the first mentions of Kelsier surviving death, which if you haven't read Secret History, you basically just disregard. Wax is descended from Breeze, and lots of other previous Noble Houses are mentioned. Demo Promenade, Tequila Tower, the Yoman Wedding Reception, which is potentially between a pair of world hoppers, which Hoyd actually attends. Miles' last words are apparently intentionally similar to Death Rattles in Stormlight, probably because he was more than normally invested at the moment of death. Oh, also Wayne was apparently reading Watership Down. The short story, Alamance or Jack in the Pizz of Altenia, is all about a legend of Kelsier transcending death, and Sazid made it so Coloss at their own species. Shadows for Self. Hoyd shows up as a carriage driver. Harmony speaks directly to Wax for the first time, and Trellium, presumably another god metal, is introduced. The broadsheets are also troves of connections. We've got Sunni Pups, Nikki Savage meets some Southern Scattery and Neuroperpendicularity, another snippet of Alamance or Jack story, and my personal favorite, a hero for all ages, the musical. Someone write it, please. Bands of Morning. Hoyd gives Wax the unsealed metal mine, and is referenced in the Nikki Savage Broadsheet story, which also prominently features Naage with a Shade Gun, which Alamance at Chromium is able to affect. Chris talks with Wax at the party in New Serran, and also has an advert in that same broadsheet, apparently asking after Nightblood. We meet the Southern Scatteryans with their masks and flying ships. Wax sort of dies, and meets Sazid, who gives an overview of Trell's encroachment on Scattery. And the red-eyed, fake-less immortal at the end, there's a good chance it's not from Scatteryl. Potentially it's a sprochus from Cell, evil spirits that can take over the bodies of the living. Mistborn Secret History. Kelsier ain't dead. Golly, this story is connected to everything. Many events of the original trilogy are seen. Kelsier's death, the Lord Ruler's death, then finding the well, then the downfall of the world in Hero of Ages, all in our first real venture into the cognitive realm. He gets a thrashing from Hoyd, called Drifter by Kelle and Safandrius by Larus, who then travels through the well and steals a bead of Lerasium. After being freed, Kelsier meets Chris and Naaj. Takes and then loses Naaj's silver knife, learns of the Southern Scatteryans, figures out he can talk to crazy people and steal the souls of objects, and then travels to probably close to interplanetary space to the fortress of the Iri, an organization of pre-reod Allantrians, which means they left Cell at least ten years before Allantras, hundreds of years before the final empire. There, Kelle is spotted and suspected of being a Threnady shade, but the alert or fabric they have doesn't go off. He steals their connection juice, and the survivor is doctrine in era two that mentions Kelle holding preservation before Vin turns out to be true. When 80 appears in the Scattery and Cognitive realm, he wonders if it's Vax. A different planet we know virtually nothing about. The ending is glorious, and he and Spook get to experimenting with hemalergy. Gotta find Kelsi or a new string, eventually writing the book that Marsh gives to Maris at the end of alloy. Then, sixth of the dusk, we saw elementically powered proto-spaceships in bands of mourning, hinting at the identity of the ones above. So, yes, my theory was wrong. They're not Rocharen. But also kind of right if you read the excerpt from Kingmaker. Anyway, AVR are introduced. I guess you could call them colorful chickens. Finally, we get to Warbreaker. Hoyd is the storyteller. He's not using light weaving or actual white sand here. And Lemix's nurse is a terrace woman. Lemix was the original spy from Idris that was poisoned by Demp. I have a theory that she shows up again in rhythm of war. And then a million things with Stormlight. Seriously, there's as many if not more connections of everything to Stormlight as there are everything to everything else. What was initially going to be one video has turned into four, maybe five, as the connections are thick in rhythm of war. Please support me on Patreon if you want to peek at the research I've been doing for these videos. I got a big little deeper. Or even watch rough edits of them early. The next ones are diving fully into Stormlight. So, if there's anything you need to catch up on, go read and find out. Where is that Hoyd? The Cosmere's Biggest Medler. I don't know. We'll see. Stop!