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Welcome to the Coppermind, the comprehensive wiki about Brandon Sanderson, his novels, and the cosmere, by the official Brandon Sanderson fansite, 17th Shard. Want to know more about the Stormlight Archive, Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker, the Alcatraz series, and Brandon's numerous short stories? You've come to the right place! We have 4,861 articles and we're expanding frequently!

Discovering us for the first time? Did you know that all of Brandon's adult fiction entries are all set in the same universe? It's true! They are all in a universe called the cosmere, sharing the same mythology, rules to magic, and more. Some reading you might want to check out as an introduction:

Looking for something in a specific book or series? Check out:

Elantris	Mistborn	Warbreaker	Stormlight Archive

The Emperor's Soul	Alcatraz	The Rithmatist	The Reckoners

Want to help with the wiki? Scroll on down to the help section for some guides and some places to start. Also check out the Editor's Corner.

Oathbringer Is Out + Spoilers

Oathbringer, the third Stormlight Archive book, is out. There's so much to do with it and stuff to update. It's hard to know where to start!

First up, remember if you make an edit adding Oathbringer information, add spoiler tags! Use this tag at the top of your article you are editing.

What can you start with in updating stuff? Main characters like Kaladin and Shallan will need a lot of help; maybe work on their history sections! There's lots to do on the Oathbringer Summary page.

Here is a list of articles that need to be updated with Oathbringer stuff!

Lastly, come on our Coppermind Discord if you want guidance on what to edit, or if you have questions on how to edit, come in there! (If you'd like to nerd out about Oathbringer and general chatter, come into the 17th Shard Discord.)

Featured Article: Feruchemy

A table of Feruchemical metals and their properties by Isaac Stewart

Feruchemy is one of the three prime manifestations of Investiture on Scadrial. The natives of that world consider it one of the three Metallic Arts.

Lore & Background

Feruchemy came into existence contemporaneously with the other Metallic Arts, Allomancy and Hemalurgy, as a result of the interactions between the Shards, Preservation and Ruin, and the planet Scadrial itself. Unlike Allomancy and Hemalurgy however, which are each closely attuned with one of the Shards, Feruchemy is equally attuned to both and represents the balance between them. Feruchemy was also the only art in widespread use prior to the Ascension of the Lord Ruler. The ability to use Feruchemy emerged among the Terris people but due to their insular nature and reluctance to interbreed never spread to the general population of Classical Scadrial. During this time there was a holy order of Feruchemist scholars known as the Worldbringers, who served as teachers bearers of knowledge throughout the world.} Not every Feruchemist was a member however, with many having much more mundane vocations, such as being herders or mountain guides.

During the Ascension of the Lord Ruler every living Feruchemist (although not those with recessive Feruchemical genes), with a few notable exceptions, were transformed into mistwraiths by Rashek, a Terris herdsman and Feruchemist.} Rashek, having discovered Allomancy and transformed himself into a Mistborn and claiming to be the Hero of Ages, declared himself a god and launched a campaign to consolidate the world under his control. As part of this Rashek instituted policies to heavily restrict the Terris people which eventually grew into a breeding program designed to exterminate all genetic traces of Feruchemy. He did this specifically because he feared the prospect of the genes for Feruchemy intermixing with those of Allomancy and potentially creating a rival of comparable power to himself. Despite this the Terris resistance worked tirelessly to thwart the efforts of Rashek, then known as the Lord Ruler, in a variety of ways. The two main avenues of this were tricking the breeders into including people with hidden Feruchemical talents, in order to ensure their continuation in the population, and the formation of the Keepers an order of Feruchemists dedicated to finding and securing knowledge from before the Lord Ruler's rise to power.

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-'''Want to help''' with the wiki? Scroll on down to the [[#To Do|to do section]] for some guides and some places to start. Also check out the [[Coppermind: Editor's Corner|Editor's Corner]].
+'''Want to help''' with the wiki? Scroll on down to the [[#Want to Help?|help section]] for some guides and some places to start. Also check out the [[Coppermind: Editor's Corner|Editor's Corner]].
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 '''Feruchemy''' is one of the three prime manifestations of [[Investiture]] on [[Scadrial]]. The natives of that world consider it one of the three [[Metallic Arts]].
-== Lore & Background ==
+=== Lore & Background ===
 Feruchemy came into existence contemporaneously with the other Metallic Arts, [[Allomancy]] and [[Hemalurgy]], as a result of the interactions between the [[Shard]]s, [[Preservation]] and [[Ruin]], and the planet [[Scadrial]] itself. Unlike Allomancy and Hemalurgy however, which are each closely attuned with one of the Shards, Feruchemy is equally attuned to both and represents the balance between them. Feruchemy was also the only art in widespread use prior to the [[Ascension of the Lord Ruler]]. The ability to use Feruchemy emerged among the [[Terris]] people but due to their insular nature and reluctance to interbreed never spread to the general population of [[Classical Scadrial]]. During this time there was a holy order of Feruchemist scholars known as the [[Worldbringers]], who served as teachers bearers of knowledge throughout the world.} Not every Feruchemist was a member however, with many having much more mundane vocations, such as being herders or mountain guides.
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 For news related to the Coppermind see the [http://harmonys-coppermind.tumblr.com official blog]. Very old news can be found [[Coppermind: Welcome/Archive|here]].
-== To Do ==
+== Want to Help? ==
-Would you like to help the Coppermind to get better? There's plenty of room for improvement, but where to start?
-==== Book Pages ====
-Many pages on book pages themselves could use serious expansion. The Mistborn trilogy's book articles are serious stubs, as well as [[Warbreaker]] and [[Elantris (book)|Elantris]]. When editing book pages, a couple sections you may want to consider:
-*Main characters
-*Plot Summary
-*Magic
-Avoid pure lists, give each of these sections some meat! :)
-On these articles, it'd also be appropriate to include some information about Brandon's process of writing the books (similar to many Wikipedia articles on movies having a "Production" section), if you know some fun factoids.
-==== Main Characters ====
-Of character articles, there are some pretty serious holes. Think about expanding main characters, as those should probably be the most extensive of all character articles. The Stormlight Archive main characters are okay, but think about editing [[Vivenna]] or [[Sarene]]. In addition, Mistborn characters like [[Kelsier]], [[Vin]], [[Elend Venture|Elend]], and [[Sazed]] could use some section breaks for clarity.
-==== References ====
-If you are editing for the first time, don't worry too much about adding citations for every fact--content always comes first. That said, if you're one of those people who stares at Arcanum a lot, you might want to help adding citations to the many [[:category: articles in need of citations|articles in need of citations]].
-==== General Tasks ====
-Check out [[:category: Articles in need of attention|articles requiring urgent attention]], articles that should be a top priority in expanding or fixing.
-There are a great deal of wanted pages--that is, those wiki links that are in red instead of blue, which represent articles that don't exist. Check out the page of [[special: WantedPages|all wanted articles]].
-And, if you want to enter the realm of torment, you could always expand one of many, many [[:category: stubs|stubs]].
-=== I need some help! ===
 Not to fear! We have some guides to help you through the editing process. Our [[Help:Getting Started|New Editor's Guide]] has information on editing for people of any experience level. We also have more in-depth pages explaining [[Coppermind:Style|style]], [[Help:Article structure|article structure]], [[Help:Discussion|discussion]], and [[Help:Speculation|speculation]].