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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 Prime'', they were intended to explore the setting and Hoid's backstory in greater detail and borrowed the magic system from another unpublished work, ''[[Aether of Night]]''. At this point, Brandon's plan was to release a total of seven Dragonsteel books, including the two prequels and a five-book main story arc beginning with ''The Eternal War'', which would be a rewrite of Dragonsteel Prime.{{wob ref|7825}} Brandon wrote all of ''The Liar of Partinel'' and had outlined ''The Lightweaver of Rens'', but was unsatisfied with the result and decided to put the series on hold while he worked on finishing Robert Jordan's [[The Wheel of Time]] Series. He then shifted his focus to revisiting ''The Way of Kings'' instead, which he went on to publish in 2010, and Dragonsteel was rescheduled to be written after the Stormlight series. Of this attempt, Brandon has said that "every chapter was a chore to write."{{wob ref|7609}} He also felt that the characters did not quite work and does not share this book with fans because it will give them a wrong impression of certain characters.{{wob ref|7142}}
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.
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