#warbreaker

[cam-pteryx]

The sixteen original shards of Adonalsium

Whimsy, Mercy, Endowment:

Cultivation, Honor, Odium:

Virtuosity, Ambition, Reason:

Autonomy, Invention, Valor:

Preservation, Ruin:

Dominion, Devotion:

This took me quite a long time and I'm not even finished: I want to draw the current status of the shards, including the double shards Harmony and Retribution. But I am really pleased with how this came out.

I tried to go with canon information when available, but there is almost no information on some of the shards so I just went with my own vibes. So then, I decided to go with a "stained glass" look, as if the creator of this piece is an in-universe artist, who knows of the shards but hasn't seen them in person. Hopefully this will age nicer if it turns out my designs are far from canon.

What do you think?

[inolienkiki]

By far the best and funniest introduction to an immortal character I’ve ever read was in Warbreaker, where Vasher is consistently presented for the first 400 pages as a grumpy, disheveled, ambiguously moral vigilante, who is competent enough at everything that it’s clear he’s an experienced guy, but has no social graces and barely any reputation except among a few people. He wears rags and ties his pants up with a piece of rope and his closest personal relationship is being a dad slash cleanup crew for a very cursed talking sword with memory issues.

Then, more than 2/3 of the way through the book, he finally has a conversation with another one of the main characters, who asks him about how the magic works. He proceeds to spend the next four pages giving a highly technical explanation of how all of the previously mentioned elements of the magic system function and fit together into a larger whole, explaining what is not known about the magic and detailing numerous edge cases and theoretical situations. His audience is understandably confused about where and when and *why* he got a PhD??

Later he explains how he is also three other apparently unrelated historical figures and a zombie. Of course he has a PhD, he’s old enough to be five different people.

[echoingcave]

Nightblood: Draw me! Draw me! Can you draw me please?

Shallan: Sure!

Nightblood: Really???

[5 minutes go by]

Nightblood: ...didn't you say you were gonna draw me?

Shallan: I'm working on it. Almost done!

Nightblood: ...but how are you going to draw me from all the way over there?

Shallan: [holds up her sketchbook] with this, of course!

Nightblood: ...

Shallan: ...

Nightblood: ...

Shallan: ...you're a sword. Oh. I get it now.

[coolerhope]

Every time Hoid makes an appearance in a book, my brain immediately just thinks of this post

[aondorsmitethisguy]

“Oh I asked chatgpt-“ well I asked Nightblood and it told me to “Destroy Evil”

[madebytaylorursula]

My odes to Brando Sando so far 🫡

(Also, these are for sale via my Etsy! Rebinds are just pricey bc they’re made by hand, as a heads up 😅)

[starling-illu]

I designed my own version of a cover for Warbreaker, for fun and for practice

[mageglassess]

Ok guys

Guys you gotta hear me out

Hear me out on this one

Guys

If/when the cosmere gets an animated series, they GOTTA do this thing

Make every planet have different artstyles, like in spiderverse's different dimensions

Every shard influences the people it has power over differently

And you can see what planet worldhoppers are from, but this doesn't affect the plot

Guys please spread my genius