The Cosmere 101 | All Known Worldhoppers

If you’ve read a fair amount of Cosmere books by Brandon Sanderson, you may have picked up that some characters appear in more than one of them, despite the two books being set in completely different worlds. When I first noticed this back when I was woefully unaware of the Cosmere and it’s larger workings, I thought Brandon Sanderson may have made a mistake or just included an easter egg. But then it happened again and I realised something is up here.

If you’re like I was then you may not have realised that the Cosmere is a connected, shared universe for his stories and that there are individuals and organisations within the Cosmere that can travel between worlds. These people and organisations are called Worldhoppers and a lot of them are widely unknown to us as readers.

So in today’s Cosmere 101 video, I’d like to briefly discuss the different Worldhoppers in Brandon Sanderson’s works and give some insight into these mysterious people and organisations...

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[RavensRants]

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[cobleen]

When I realized a certain person was in each book it blew my mind and I immediately googled some answers, spoilers be damned

[brightdarkness]

technically nightblood is also a worldhopper

[mags]

I started reading stormlight again after reading a few novels. And then I heard "Let's destroy some evil" and I was looking at this sentence for a while thinking something ain't right. And then I googled it. So now I'm here searching for cosmere explained lol

[Blastnikov]

I read White Sand before I read most of Mistborn and Stormlight and I’m very glad I did. It was nice to know Khriss as a cute dorky scientist duchess before I knew of her as the cool Cosmere researcher most people first met her as.

P.S.: I know White Sand has a reputation among some fans, but I really loved the Graphic Audio version of it! If you weren’t crazy about the comic, it’s definitely worth a listen!

[dunnejos]

I'm really hoping Shallan will join the world hopping people soon! She would be the most likely too given she has a (minor spoiler ahead) Seon now and knows the truth about the Ghost Bloods. God I hope she becomes a Rosharan world hopper ❤️

[marlymarly]

Reading the cosmere when you don’t know about worldhoppers and realmatic theory: huh

When you do: HUH

[SoulfulKira]

I suppose you covered it when you mention the 17th shard, but I think Demoux deserves a special mention since he's a semi-prominent solo character throughout Mistborn who then later joins the 17th shard for unknown reasons, more than likely with the help of Harmony since he's _most likely_ being fed atium in one form or another through this avenue.

[hiiipowerbass]

I am astounded every single time at your sub count. you are going to BLOW up

[Dragonited]

You mentioned that we do not know where Vasher and Vivienna are on Roshar, but we definitely do. Vivienna is in Shadsmar looking for vain for Nightblood that's given to Szeth, and Vasher calls himself Zahel and is the sword master that is among the Ardents in the Kholin war camp and later in Urithiru

[dullerdog]

Sigzil is also an independent worldhopper (Wit's apprentice in/before stormlight archive) :_)

[craigwhitley]

Along with the creation of the Cosmere itself, the inclusion of world, hoppers was absolutely brilliant and probably like most people here.Brandon quickly moved to the top of my favorite fantasy author list.

[adeyemioyemade]

My guy missed Demoux, and Galladon (they showed up on roshar in the pure lakes)

[joshhoehne]

I’d be interested to see some deeper spoiler filled (clearly labeled, of course) dives into some of these subjects. At some point. I know you got a lot on your proverbial YouTube plate.

[matthewletexier]

Hmm. We have the constellation map for seeing the worlds, but what is the perspective of that star map? Where is looking up in the sky and mapping that labeling each of the world's?

[Walpurgis]

Which book is the info on Silverlight and Khriss from? I believe that the Ire was from Mistborn: A Secret History but can't remember Silverlight. Also, which organisation is the map maker Nazh in?

[ThreiasFB]

Want to avoid spoikers in a worldhoper video? What a lad

[iveybullard]

Thanks again for the video Raven! I finished Bands of Mourning the other day. How is your era 2 read going?

[hiiipowerbass]

Request: link the videos mentioned in the description?

[noelhann]

Its weird to think about how all 3 dead members of the 5 scholars where all killed by Vasher