The three Cosmere secret projects from the Year of Sanderson Kickstarter all take place in the far future. But how exactly do we get there? Time travel. Hey internet, I'm Steve, the Cosmere knot, and welcome to Raffo. I was originally able to figure out a pretty solid timeline just based on how everything lined up with the five scholars. You can see that video here. Since then, we've gotten a lot more information about the future of the Cosmere, and actually more hints to its past. Let's get a timeline. This video should be fairly safe if you haven't read everything. I'll refer to important events by the book, so if you know, you know, and if you don't, Raffo. Way back in the way back when there was God. Probably. In the Cosmere, they were called Ada Nalsiam, and they used the four primal commands known as Dawn Shards to create all the things. At least Rochar, but also probably a bunch of other stuff before that. Life was cool for at least like a thousand years, and then 16 people plus Hoid decided to shake things up and kill God. Not the only time something like that happens. I'd have two Nichols. That event is known as the Shattering of Ada Nalsiam, and we're going to use that as kind of a year zero. It'll probably get covered in Brandon's eventual reworking of Dragon Steel, which is Hoid's origin story. Boom. Shattering. The 16 folk that snagged bits of old Ada said, see, you never except JK and spread around their little galaxy. Most apparently transplanting humans to existing planets, but a couple making both humans and planets out of whole cloth. The city of Elantris likely was built during this time, fairly soon after devotion and dominion got there, but then was abandoned, probably by the Irie for some reason. Odeum, the Shard of Divine Hatred, decided to follow through with that and went to take out some of his competitors. He initially couldn't find ambition, so he won two punched devotion and dominion on cell and stuffed their dispersed power into the cognitive realm, eventually catching up to ambition near Threnady and messing things up there. Also mercy is scary. Honour and cultivation check up together on Rochar, and Odeum joins the party and gets locked down with the oath packed. Then he has a tizzy and starts the cycle of desolations. Those were all on for about 3000 years until the Prelude to the Stormlight Archive in way of kings happens. A harietium or the last desolation are earliest bit of footage from the Cosmere, technically in black and white because it's just words. Lately about the same time, the city of Elantris was rediscovered by the people of Arolon. They moved in and a few years later people started to turn into Eilantrians. Shoooooood! Humanity trucked along on Rochar for about 2500 years after the Stormlight Prelude, until the Recreants. At the latter end there the events of white sand probably occur. That's the earliest actual book in the Cosmere and Chris has to get out pretty quick. Gotta found Silverlight sometime. Soon after that, the Ryoad happens on cell. Then 10 years later, the story of Elantris happens. Fairly soon after that, Emperor Soul probably happens too. At this point we start to really get some concrete dates nailed down. About 9,000 to 9,500 years after the shattering, the Lord Ruler ascends and begins his reign on Scadreal. That's exactly 1222 years before the beginning of Mistborn. But we've got other worlds that we know about. Two to 300 years after the Lord Ruler starts ruling on Nalthus, Vo, the first returned returns. 200 years after Vo, Awakening is discovered on Nalthus. The five scholars go a hopping and 100 years after that, the Many War happens. And things happen in the Many War. Happy Birthday to Nightblood. Within the next century, the Hierocracy ends on Roshar, with the War of Lost led by the Sunmaker. Between the Many War and the events of Warbreaker, we have the entirety of Mistborn Era 1. Not difficult, there's 300 years there, and all of Era 1 happens in like 4. Pretty soon after Mistborn and everything happening with Scadreal, we need to have Warbreaker. As that has to go down several hundred years before Stormlight, and Mistborn Era 2, 341 years after the end of Era 1, takes place between the two five book arcs of Stormlight. Likely also between Mistborn and Stormlight, the evil invades the homeland on Threnady. And then a hundred years later, there are shadows for silence in the Forest of Hell. 4,500 years after the last desolation on Roshar, but before Labor Day, that Sun Sunvolano, truthless of Shinovar, war white. The first arc of Stormlight finishes up within about 8 years, then takes a break for 10 to 15. I'm worried about that break you guys. Again, with the Wax & Wayne series happening in that time. At this point, the roads between worlds are starting to get wide. Then we'll come the second five book arc of Stormlight, probably spanning its own rough decade. Technology level wise, we can assume Mistborn Era 3 would be a hundred to 200 years after Era 2. It was initially pitched as a Cold War era type story. No idea how long it'll take Scadreal to hit faster than Light Technology. I don't think very long, but another 100 to 200 years is a good bet for Mistborn Era 4. Before that though, but not too long, six of the dusk needs to happen. I get the feeling TRESS happens earlier in the far future of the Cosmere, probably soon after 6 of the dusk, with Yumi in the Nightmare Painter and probably Secret Project 4 well into the space age. And that's the Cosmere! Big thank you to the 17th Shard and all their work on the Copper Mind. It's an absolutely invaluable resource, one that Brandon himself uses. Specifically, thank you to Could Be Fire on the forums, and Bescar Comerks' incredible timeline spreadsheet. I disagree with you on a few points, but solid. Also thank you to my patrons, without whom I wouldn't be able to dedicate the amount of time I do toward making these videos. Doug, Matt, Steve, DataGremlin, Alec, y'all are the BEST! If this video was helpful to you, or any of my videos really, please support me on Patreon. If you joined before Dragon Steelcon this year, you'll be entitled not just to my eternal gratitude, but also exclusive merchandise. Act fast, though, because after the con, I'm planning on changing how swag is going to work. Sign up now! If you aren't able to join my Patreon, thank you for being here. I just hit 10,000 subscribers, which is a really cool milestone. Congratulations to our comis-13, who won the Metal Viles giveaway in my celebratory stream. If you'd like a set of Metal Viles yourself, I'll have some at my booth at Dragon Steel, as well as a bunch of other merchandise that I'm really proud of. At this point, once Brandon's done with Knights of Wind and Truth, still not sold on that title, his next goal is to finish the Alonthus sequels. Those will probably take place soon after the first book, but at this point, who knows. He typically writes chronologically with some notable exceptions, so Alonthus 2 and 3 may be concurrent with Waxen Wayne, I don't know. And there's always the possibility that Brandon will get bored one weekend and accidentally write a new series. Plus, whatever Dan is working on. He did tentatively promise an actual canon timeline before the second half of Stormlight comes out, so we'll see how accurate our communal detectiveing turned out to be. Until then, we'll just have to read and find out. Here's me saying stuff and things in an excited way. At the end.