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== Development ==
Brandon began work on the ''Dragonsteel'' series with ''[[Dragonsteel Prime]]'', which was written as part of Brandon Sanderson's Masters Thesis and has provided source material for some of his later work, particularly ''[[The Way of Kings]]''. Brandon regularly reminds readers that he wrote this version of the story when he was a much younger author and that it isn't his best work.{{wob ref|8601}} After positive response to his release of ''[[The Way of Kings Prime]]'', he has discussed a possible release of this draft as part of a "Sanderson Curiosities" series.
In 2007, Brandon attempted to rewrite the series for publishing, this time beginning with prequels ''[[The Liar of Partinel]]'' and ''[[The Lightweaver of Rens]]''. Taking place five hundred years before the events of ''Dragonsteel
In his 2019 State of the Sanderson post, Brandon published an updated outline of the cosmere in which Dragonsteel was reduced from seven books to three. By this point, significant parts of the original Dragonsteel story arc had been used elsewhere, and so the series was envisioned as a tighter story about Hoid's origins and the Shattering. A rewritten Dragonsteel series is still not planned for release until after book 10 of ''The Stormlight Archive''.
It is currently planned to be written in first-person. It is the only series in the cosmere planned to be done in first-person.{{wob ref|4165}}{{wob ref|14646}} Two of the 2023-released 'secret project' novels, ''[[Tress of the Emerald Sea]]'' and ''[[Yumi and the Nightmare Painter]]'', were written in Hoid's voice partly as practice for telling this series in that fashion.{{wob ref|15474}} As of 2024, it is still in development and is planned to be a trilogy.{{wob ref|16540}}
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