Your name is the COSMERE FANDOM and while you may not be the biggest fandom around you are STILL THE BEST FANDOM.
Your interests include THEORIZING, SHIP SPARRING, and CRYING OVER JUST ABOUT EVERYONE. You've weathered some pretty heavy feels over the years. The end of HERO OF AGES nearly took you down and JUST TIEN IN GENERAL is a good way to reduce you to a puddle of tears. Thankfully you've always got LIGHTSONG to make you laugh and FORGERY or AON DOR if you need a REALMATIC puzzle to work through. Not to mention, what's up with SURGEBINDING? You swear you've almost got it figured out...
You don't make as much noise as some of the other fandoms around, but boy do you know how to have a good time on FRIDAY NIGHTS (and occasionally the OTHER DAYS of the week too...) You like talking about NON-COSMERE things too, like WORD WARS, and WORLDBUILDING, and BOILING WATER. You know, the important stuff.
You've got the best ships though. RAODEN AND SARENE are just so perfect together and VIN AND ELEND could take down the whole universe if they wanted to. SIRI ANS SUSEBRON are cuter than any couple has a right to be and DALINAR AND NAVANI send you into fits of squeeing every time. Poor RENARIN, you just can't decide who he should be smooching. KALADIN maybe? Or should he be with SYL? Maybe RENARIN and SHALLAN would be cute? But then who's going to be with JASNAH? And why are you thinking about HOID as a possibility?
One thing's for sure, WORDS OF RADIANCE can't come out soon enough. Or SHADOWS OF SELF. Or NIGHTBLOOD. You just really need them all RIGHT NOW!
What will you do?
I've been kicking around the idea of doing the Cosmere fandom for fandomstuck and seeing the prompt on the request meme just sealed the deal. She's got something from every known shardworld right now - an aon from Sel, a mistcloak from Scadrial, the royal locks from Nalthis, and a safehand-covered dress (in Kholin blue!) from Roshar.
okay okay I've been meaning to write out how the ancestors fit into my mistbornstuck so I guess I'll do it on tumblr and move it to the doc later
(I have an 8+ page long doc filled with worldbuilding for all the trolls, kids, and how i've managed to stick trolls into Scadrial because I come from the Brandon Sanderson school of writing, dang it, and if you don't have twice as much backstory as actual story then you're not doing it right)
under a cut
so the Condescension under the Lord Ruler was a nominal figurehead instead of an actual person and was made up of a bunch of highbloods He directly controlled to subjugate all the trolls, instead of personally Soothing the poop out of the koloss at once.
but there is Her Condescenion, Fef’s actual ancestor, and The Condescenion, the bunch of highbloods the Lord Ruler personally controlled and used to control all the trolls but I don’t want to think too hard about Her Condescension or The Condescension that’s enough worldbuilding for me there (I have it all backed up in my head I just don't have it on paper gimmie a bit)
Dualscar was one of the first highbloods (post harmonization) to work out a contract with humans for sea rights and protections by being a giant arse and stalking their ships and refusing to help till they listened to him. First gen seadweller, he actually lasted a fair bit longer than the rest of them and is part of the reason why there is even caste stratification, bc without the highbloods bloodcolor wouldn't even have been that big of a deal (and the highbloods only did it bc of the Lord Ruler who only did it bc of Ruin so it all comes down to Ruin sucks dick) anyways between him and the other purples they set up little troll fiefdoms around the Tyrian Sea and his is still the strongest (and what Eridan is heir to). He built the embassy in Elendel and bullied the Lawdomaination (legislacerators and other bureaucracy people) into codifying troll/human behavior into something easily controllable by the highbloods
the GHB was the strongest, scariest troll under the Lord Ruler (besides HIC) and basically LR used him as a giant terrifying club to keep all the other trolls emotionally volatile so they could be soothed/rioted and the GHB motherfudgin' LOVED IT all that lowblood FILTH gettin all up an angrylike and the plains drenched in the MIRACULOUS RAINBOW OF TROLL AND HUMAN BLOOD and it was glorious ten bucks said Vin killed him and that was the only time he felt anythin but laughter. he laughed anyways.
Darkleer was a tool. Kinda literally. Plays basically the same role he did in canon. E%ecutor of the heretic, straightest arrow and faithful servant of the highbloods, RANDOM PALE ATTACK and wow what he actually was the longest lived and best propogator of the cult of the Signless oops he "recanted and repented" and got to return to highblood society and spent the rest of his life spreading the teachings of the peace of the Signless but he was still a tool
Mindfang was the first victim of the generation brought up by Dualscar's clutches' manipulations. She was the first landdweller to captain a ship and make contact with humans on her own terms. This usually happened when she was demanding a "token of gratitude" for protecting them from sea monsters. She was known for taking on the biggest and baddest challenges and winning by the skin of her teeth and an incredible amount of luck. She was also one of the first troll Ferrings, storing Chromium just like her descendant. With her exploits, daring and an incredible amount of threats and bribery, she was able to leverage out at least some representation for the landdwellers with humans (for bluebloods, anyways). No one knows if she did this for her own gain (well, duh) or if because she was secretly a Signless cultist (also duh).
Neophyte Redglare is pretty badarse. Yes, she is responsible for much of how the current Lawdominionation functions as a whole, particularly the dysfunctional relationship between bureauterriacy and the cruellest bar (the law makers and interpreters, respectively) and most of the precedents that keep lowbloods from getting culled all the dang time, instead of maybe once a sweep to make an example (as she recognized back then that there would never be more trolls than humans so they should probably not be killing each other all the time (this was also because she too was a Signless cultist) (spoiler alert like 60% of the ancestors are)). Even the humans knew her as sort of a troll anti-hero, after her dogged pursuit of a particularly vicious greenblood who got loose in Elendel and went on a killing spree, and for her careful accumulation of evidence against her probable kismesis Mindfang, who led her to her death (because Mindfang is a douche and not at all quadrant material no matter how hard she tried and wanted to be a good black justice and her own bad decisions kept tentadick-blocking them (along with a really old, reely hot Dualscar using them to right the power balance (it kind of backfired eventually))). Basically Redglare helped protect the lowbloods right under the highbloods noses and most talked about among the humans.
The Dolorosa was one of the oldest and wisest jadebloods by the end of the Lord Ruler's rule. She probably knew the most about Hemalurgy outside of the Steel Ministry. I'm still working out the differences between trolls/koloss while they were Hemalurgically bound, so basically all I can say is she raised the Signless and she was cool and also probably really scary and had a very close relationship with Ruin (I will get to that l8r).
The Sufferer goes here because this is where limebloods would go. I haven't decided whether limebloods still exist or if they've all been exterminated or if they should be here but they all end up mutants and get culled. Anywho. The Signless/Sufferer is Troll savior of all trolls from Ruin except you know the Warrior Ascendant. Because of magic he can talk to Ruin and Preservation and he's just like "oh **** ruin wants to kill all of us mom I thought you said he was ****ing nice the **** do you think that's nice are you ****ting me woman (/gets smacked) okay now for some reason I actually like my species of shard-cursed halfarsed grubsmushers so I have to get all of them to stop being glibbering ****nuggets and ****ing listen to me because I, for some crazy reason, know how to save everyone WOULD YOU FUDGEARSES STOP FUDGING KILLING EACH OTHER I SWEAR TO THE SISTERS" and he spends the couple of years between the Lord Ruler's death and Ruin going ****hive maggots on everyone wandering around with his mom and some friends collecting trolls and spreading the word on where to go wait out the coming calamity, from high to low alike. You can't be picky when you're trying to save your species, but he did have enough clout to make sure everyone followed his "if you try to kill each other I will open up a can of whooparse on you the likes of which would awe Troll-Mr. T," rule. We're all trolls and we're all about to die anyways why fight about blood? (that was like the extent of his teachings at this point) After Harmonization, as they blinking step into the sun, and there's more to see, than can ever be see- sorry not a good time for a song. When they step out into the sunlight, far, far away from the humans (thanks Harmony. You're welcome, Kankri. THE ****. Your people will need this and they will thank you. In time. That's even more reassuring Mr. Ominous Head-Voice. [sad chuckles and this devolves into a long philosophical discussion about what just happened and what the trolls should do now and Harmony just does his now typical this-is-your-path-to-make schpeel and Kankri comes up with ~EQUALITY~ all on his own]) he gives them all a big long lecture on okay this is new scadrial and harmony's not gonna do shoot for us like the sisters and the lord ruler did so we gotta police ourselves and gotta do it fairly and STOP FUDGING KILLING EVERYONE YOU BUNCH OF ROCKS-FOR-BRAINS FUDGETARDS because he is so smart and sweet like that and the highbloods (Dualscar young and fresh and unscarred among them) were like okay you saved us hooray but wtf is equality we're gonna outlive y'all three times over we ain't got time for that shoot also you're a mutant so yeah lol murder time and I mean really the trolls collective are dumb and still easily controlled that's what they just spent a thousand years doing and a mob happened and turned on their savior and killed him and subjugated his friends but his teachings made it out and Harmony does actually talk to people and confirm this is what he'd like but he has no power over you so whatever and so they keep spreading around into a cult. The Signless cult is not exactly proscribed, but if the subjuggulators catch you like, actually preachin' it, you'll find yourself strung up and culled on something like the example of how not to start a revolution you are
The Disciple's favorite activity was telling the Signless that he's a fudging idiot, because he kind of was. Loved him anyways, but dude if you try and give a speech like that they will kill you, you can do that for this group but not these guys, phrase it this way honey and then you won't die I kind of like having you around. He was the first troll he'd ever met besides his mom and thank heavens for that. Yeah the Dolorosa was full of arcane wisdom and stuff but not really good at troll social dynamics, which is like the Disciple's freaking specialty. She was very, very good at either getting people to shut up and listen to her bc logic, or getting people to spill their guts (uh, metaphorically, but she's done that literally too) for her and give her any information or promises she needs. It got them out of more than a few sticky situations and kept her alive so she could run after his death. She wrote down everything he said, completely accpurrate, and it was only after Darkleer took it and spread it around did things get kind of diluted and culty. They didn't lose the spirit or anything, but it got a little more hardcore than the Sufferer and Disciple would have ever wanted.
The Psionic is long dead by the time of our story, sorry kids. Under the Lord Ruler, he was just some troll powerhouse, like their version of siege weapons. In the chaos following His death, he broke free of the contingent he was in and wandered until he happened across the Signless. Who kind of fell off a cliff onto him (it was a small one). And almost got them both killed within five minutes of meeting each other. And they saved each others arses. And then bickered about it for the next sweep. He was the Signless's friend though, first and foremost, his staunchest defendant and their posterboy for "ii wiill do whatever the **** ii want and not be a ****iing 2lave sisters dang it" which is what made him end up as Dualscar's motor for the rest of his days (which wasn't more than ten or twenty sweeps. Dude was already old by Harmonization).
The Summoner was an idiot. Despite the lessons of one successful revolution and one initially unsuccessful but now a reasonably strong cult, his totally sucked. It was also the closest to winning anyone's gotten since Kelsier, but it sucked and got way more people killed than it needed to. It's not like he really wanted to start a revolution, he was just tired of getting stamped on by highbloods. He pitched a fit when he was young and got sold for his troubles to old-but-hot Mindfang, who liked his spunk (ehehehe) and also his mind control powers (and his rockin' bod). She taught him how to weave webs of intrigue, but that never really interested him. He's a bit like Perrin in a way, and particularly devious because he's so forthright. He got away from her, back on land, and started a violent uprising. He'd heard of the Sufferer but that passive stuff obviously wasn't working you know? Sometimes you just had to kick arse. His rebellion almost made it to the spawning grounds, the linchpin, but a wave of seadwellers (and Mindfang- they had an epic last battle and he killed her evne though neither of them really wanted to fight in the first place) swept in and massacred them. His last stand was in an alley that they totally could have defended from the rooftops but instead hid behind a barricade of chairs and wood against psionic canons the fudge man and met an extremely muddy end, ripped limb from limb by some subjuggulator.
The Handmaid is the most mysterious of any of the ancestors. She was the Lord Ruler's personal troll... consulate? Her psychic abilities were strong, and he used her as sort of a focusing lense. Whenever she showed up, it was under his direct control, and only death and destruction (on both sides) followed in her wake. She was the closest thing to a troll Inquisitor they had. She was probably friends with the Dolorosa because of this.
shhhhhh i'm about to make a post on tumblr but I still have four ancestors to go and I think I've added like two new pages to the doc with this and FOUR TO GO I officially have too much worldbuilding and not enough writing (bc there is no writing being done) and I really just need to plot out the first story but I keep getting distracted mainly by trolls and historical dynamics and their fallout in modern times
Your name is MARSH and sometimes you really wish you weren't GOD TIER. Unlike most of the others, you started developing your powers early, long before your TRANSFORMATION. You had a knowledge of the ends of things, and you dedicated your life to the SKAA REBELLION, knowing it would someday bring down THE FINAL EMPIRE. Then, of course, you give up just in time for your YOUNGER BROTHER to steal your VISION and accomplish it yourself.
You should have realized you wouldn't be the one to accompish the task. You now know that being a SEER is a PASSIVE role and that while you wanted to be the one who made things happen, but you're just there to help others acheive your dreams. The irony that becoming a fully fleged SEER meant that you had to lose your eyes was not lost on you either.
Now it's happening again. You always wanted a more ACTIVE role in bringing the end of the world. Now, you're on the front lines, but of the wrong side. You can SEE exactly how the SECOND EMPIRE is going to fall. But once again, you're not pulling the strings.
Someone's pulling yours.
You are now a fully realized SEER OF DOOM and your planet is the LAND OF SPIKES AND OBSIDIAN.
Your name is LESTIBOURNES SPOOK and you are going to save this citÿ, no matter what. You have taken the people's passion for yourself and you are using it to fuel your drive to help them. You are going to help them throw off their oppressors, just like KELSIER did. You have kind of COMPLETELY RIPPED OFF HIS TITLE as the new SURVIVOR , but you are a THIEF, so stealing things is nothing new to you. You think you might have taken your aspect a little too literally and burnt your GOD TIER outfit. From now on, you think you are going to avoid BLAZES of all kinds from now on.
Unless someone needs rescuing from a burning building or something, you guess. That might warrant an exception. And knowing URTEAU, there's probably going to be more burning buildings around.
You are a (slightly more than) fully-realized THIEF OF BLAZE and your planet is the LAND OF PYRE AND SENSATIONS.
Your name is SAZED and while you've been a FERUCHEMIST player all your life, this level of GODHOOD is new to you. You never felt like you were much use to your team, which your research about the game has told you is common for PAGES such as yourself. Now it's up to you to protect everyone. Thankfully, with your new powers, you know exactly where everything is, where everything needs to be, and you can move it there.
Before your ASCENSION, you liked studying religions and generally doing the opposite of whatever the SYNOD told you to do. Not out of a rebellious spirit (though you would probably disagree) but because something needed to be done, and you were tired of sitting in the background and waiting for the world to change itself. Now you've got all the world-changing abilities you could have ever asked for.
You are now a fully-realized PAGE OF SPACE, and your planet is the LAND OF RINGS AND FAITH.
What will you do?
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