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== Placement of information of Ghostbloods ==

I am personally of the strong belief that they should be placed before the True Desolation section, due to the fact that the Ghostbloods had a major cosmere-wide role *before* there fight against the Set, and were involved in the True Desolation. I feel it is weird to mention their formation as an afterthought in a section after they played a role, and I don't see any reason to do it like that. It just makes no sense chronologically, or in terms of formatting. It would be sort of like waiting till the Trell section to mention Sazed became Harmony, it is just, really out-of-order. It is why I repeatedly placed it in the Catacendre section, because it is the important cosmere event that happens after the Catacendre but long before the True Desolation, and I am just curious why you keep moving it. [[User:Firesong|Firesong]] ([[User talk:Firesong|talk]]) 23:44, 4 Feburary 2023 (UTC)

: So, I have a couple thoughts on the subject. One is that I don't think the founding of a worldhopping group is, by itself, likely to be so significant as to merit mentioning in the History section of the cosmere page&mdash;for example, we don't mention the existence of the Ire, say, around the paragraph on the Splintering of Devotion and Dominion, even though they are later relevant in the Ascension of Harmony subsection. The fact that the creation of the Ghostbloods helped bring Autonomy's influence to Scadrial, however, adds a little more relevance and also pretty strongly counsels in favor of placing that mention of their creation together with the information about Trell. Another consideration is that, while the Ghostbloods are active on Roshar during the True Desolation, they haven't done anything significant enough to merit mentioning in the True Desolation subsection, so there's no real need for them to be established for that section. Beyond that, it also keeps the Ascension of Harmony/the end of Era 1 as the cutoff for the subsection titled, well, "The Ascension of Harmony." As long as we're grouping events by world/series (and I think that's the best way to organize the section, at least until we get to events in the space age), there's probably always going to be some fuzziness around chronology in the History section.

: --[[User:Stargazer|Stargazer]] ([[User talk:Stargazer|talk]]) 18:03, 5 February 2023 (UTC)