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Blightfall, the first book in the new Riftwake trilogy by Brandon Sanderson and Janci Patterson, will release on September 1st! Also: US and UK cover reveals, blurb, and a sample chapter.

We continue sloooowly going through Dragonsteel Nexus 2025 Words of Brandon, where we talk about all sorts of magical science, and I really had to resist putting Pauli Exclusion Principle in the title.

Now with Diceborn Season 2 coming out, check out the incredible Season 2 character by the incredible Shuravf! 
 

In Season 2 Episode 3 of Diceborn, the crew reassembles and attempts to sort out their next move in the aftermath of the attack at the bookstore and the resulting revelations. 

In addition, check out the incredible Season 2 Character Art by Shuravf!

Oh man, there's just a few WoBs we haven't gone through yet, so now we are doing so! We are going through WoBs from the second half of 2025, going through Nexus WoBs. Today, Brandon just spoils the end of Horneater, and we discuss critical characters like Daggon and Tukks, and spiritual watersheds.

In Season 2 Episode 2 of Diceborn, the crew explores the age old question: what does it mean to be arrested?

We had some big news this week, where Apple TV got rights to Mistborn and Stormlight adaptations, and so we wanted to get in and discuss it!

Today's a huge news day for Cosmere fans: Apple TV has bought the rights to the entire Cosmere, and Brandon has an insane, unprecedented involvement.

Welcome (back) to Diceborn, the 17th Shard Actual-Play campaign using the Mistborn Adventure Game from CraftyGames. In this episode, we return to the story of Dervish, Hallie, Luka, Marelyn, and Royce. 

Today we're talking about the reading of The Fires of December, the cosmere book coming out in for Nexus 2026, and the Hoid Storybook Crowdfunding Campaign. We are incredibly stoked for the book and we delve right into complex lore topics almost immediately! Full cosmere spoilers are contained within. 

Welcome to the New Year! We're back with a new full Who's That Cosmere Character episode, and may just be our best one yet. Enjoy Ben's deviousness as well as inability to hear or recognize the characters guessed, as well as some incredible guesses from our contestants.

We're doing our annual State of the Sanderson live Shardcast! We start by talking about Dragonsteel Nexus, and the news there, before getting into the SotS news topics.

At long last we are finally ready to release more episodes of Diceborn, starting Sunday January 25, 2026!

Well, we learned a bunch about the Sleepless in Isles of the Emberdark, so it's time to finally talk about them in detail. We talk about them on Roshar (with a long digression on the Dawnshard), as well as them in space age, and we end talking about the Grand Apparatus.

We are finally back to talk about the lore from the Stormlight RPG Handbook and World Guide! We go through all the Ideals and some odds and ends too. 

A topic too great to be contained to a single episode, the deep-dive into Cosmere dragons continues! It's time for all the things we didn't get to in the first episode, as the cast gets progressively more manic the longer this marathon recording continues. 

It's a big topic, and one too great to be contained by a single episode. Today we're doing a deep dive on all the info we have about dragons in the Cosmere, talking about lifecycles and abilities. (And a slight diversion into the Spiritual Realm, because who doesn't love a Spiritual Realm diversion, right?)

We've been wanting to make this episode for a long while and it's finally time. Let's talk about the planet Threnody and the different kinds of evil that stem from there!

Today, we are taking another look at the Death Rattles: which are resolved, which are still outstanding, and more. We talk about Moelach's poetry skills, Broken One theories, and got... very unhinged.

In 2021, we had our first Staff Review on the 17th Shard, with the intention of it being an annual occurence. We did it again in 2023, and now in 2025, so it looks like it's become a biannual event instead!

The Cosmere RPG has come out to digital backers, so we wanted to talk about our initial thoughts, talking about the systems, and squeeing about the amazing art! 

We got a lot of Shadesmar in Isles of the Emberdark, so there's some stuff to talk about now! This episode is part discussion, but also part explainer for things.

It's time for a new Sanderson book yet again, this time it's the HIGH-COSMERE CONNECTIVITY Isles of the Emberdark! We discuss what we thought of the book, and just scratch the surface on everything else. 

This movie has been keeping us in check, keeping us obsessed, and we've been playing on repeat!  Today we're chatting about KPop Demon Hunters on our occasional show where we talk about things that aren't related to Brandon Sanderson for a change. 

It's our Words of Brandon episode for our recent Brandon interview, where we talk about Brandon's thoughts on Wind and Truth, that big post-WaT talk, and a bunch of other things!