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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 Skyward series, and everything else Brandon? You've come to the right place! We have 4326 articles and we're expanding frequently!

Discovering us for the first time? Did you know that almost all of Brandon's adult fantasy works 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 the magic, and more. As such, there will likely be spoilers for other series in the articles you read, since a lot of it is connected! If you'd like to learn about the cosmere, check out:

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

Elantris Mistborn Warbreaker Stormlight Archive The Emperor's Soul Tress Yumi and the Nightmare Painter The Sunlit Man White Sand Sixth of the Dusk Alcatraz The Rithmatist The Reckoners Skyward Frugal Wizard

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.

About Us

Visit our about page to learn more about who we are. You can talk to us directly on the Coppermind forums or on Discord. Past news related to the Coppermind can be found on our old blog (2014–2018) and in the on-wiki archive (2011–2014).

Featured Article: Kalak

by Magali Villeneuve

Official depiction of Kalak.

“I am a blur. A smear on the page. A gaunt stretch of ink, made all the more insubstantial with each passing day. ”
—Kalak

Kalak, also known as Kelek'Elin in Vorinism, is one of the ten Heralds of the Almighty on Roshar, and the patron of the Order of Willshapers. Like all Heralds but Taln, he abandoned the Oathpact at Aharietiam. Currently, he lives in the honorspren city of Lasting Integrity, acting as their High Judge. He also leads the Sons of Honor under the name Restares.

Appearance

Though not from Alethkar, Kalak appears Alethi. He's a short man, with thinning, wispy hair, a round face, and a small nose. When he wishes to appear serious, he puts on a set of violet robes; ordinarily, however, he dresses more casually. Vorin artwork tends to present him as a young man, though in person, he looks more like a city administrator.

Personality

“They deserve better than you, son. They deserve better than me. I could never judge them for refusing to bond men. How could I?”
—Kalak

Back in the early Desolations, he was known for being decisive and authoritative, and he would often be approached whenever problems appeared for counsel. However, as Desolations wore him down, he became terrified of dying and returning to Braize to be tortured. By Aharietiam, he has vivid, painful memories of the torture that sometimes cause him to briefly lose his grip on reality. When given the choice to abandon the Oathpact, he's aware of and terrified of the consequences. However, by this point his fear of torture far outweighs his sense of duty.

By the True Desolation, this develops into paranoid and erratic behavior. Kalak vacillates often, and finds making even the simplest decisions difficult. He often follows what the crowd wants instead of his own internal moral compass. He seems to have trouble focusing, or at least paying attention to time, even when others are waiting for him. He believes humans are dangerous; he's unsettled by their presence, with Bondsmiths, and people associated with them, seeming to provoke the strongest reaction. A visit into a human city makes him jittery to the point where he runs away at the sight of another person. It's likely that he prefers to live in Lasting Integrity for this reason. Even there, however, unexpected commotion can quickly make him panic. In this state, he is near-insensate, crying, covering his ears and curling on the floor. He recovers extremely quickly, though, and with no outward sign that he's been disturbed.

Read more! · Other exemplary articles

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-Welcome to '''the Coppermind''', the comprehensive wiki about [[Brandon Sanderson]], [[:Category:Books|his novels]], and the [[cosmere]]. Want to know more about [[the Stormlight Archive]], [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn]], [[Elantris (book)|Elantris]], [[Warbreaker]], the [[Alcatraz]] series, and Brandon's numerous short stories? You've come to the right place! We have [[Special:Statistics|{{NUMBEROFARTICLES}}]] articles and we're expanding frequently!
+Welcome to '''the Coppermind''', the comprehensive wiki about [[Brandon Sanderson]], [[:category: books|his novels]], and the [[cosmere]], by the official Brandon Sanderson fansite, [http://www.17thshard.com/ 17th Shard]. Want to know more about [[the Stormlight Archive]], [[Mistborn (series)|Mistborn]], [[Elantris (book)|Elantris]], [[Warbreaker]], the [[Skyward (series)|Skyward]] series, and everything else Brandon? You've come to the right place! We have [[special: statistics|{{int: article count}}]] 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:
+Discovering us for the first time? Did you know that almost all of Brandon's adult fantasy works 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 the magic, and more. As such, there will likely be spoilers for other series in the articles you read, since a lot of it is connected! If you'd like to learn about the cosmere, check out:
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-{{columns|
 *[[Cosmere]]
 *[[Adonalsium]]
 *[[Seventeenth Shard]]
 *[[Shard]]s
-*[[The Letter]]
 *[[Realmatic Theory]]
+*[[Splinter]]
 *[[Hoid]]
-*[[Shardworld]]
+*[[Investiture]]
-*[[Chronology]]
+*[[Perpendicularity]]
+</div>
-}}
+Looking for something in a specific book or series? Check out:
-'''Want to help''' with the wiki? Scroll on down to the [[Main Page#To Do|to do section]] for some guides and some places to start.
+<div class="series-overview">
-==Featured Article: '''[[Shadesmar]]'''==
+[[:category: Elantris|Elantris]]
+[[:category: Mistborn|Mistborn]]
+[[:category: Warbreaker|Warbreaker]]
+[[:category: Stormlight Archive|Stormlight Archive]]
+[[:category: The Emperor's Soul|The Emperor's Soul]]
+[[:category: Tress of the Emerald Sea|Tress]]
+[[:category: Yumi and the Nightmare Painter|Yumi and the Nightmare Painter]]
+[[:category: The Sunlit Man|The Sunlit Man]]
+[[:category: White Sand|White Sand]]
+[[:category: Sixth of the Dusk|Sixth of the Dusk]]
+[[:category: Alcatraz|Alcatraz]]
+[[:category: The Rithmatist|The Rithmatist]]
+[[:category: The Reckoners|The Reckoners]]
+[[:category: Skyward|Skyward]]
+[[:category: Frugal Wizard|Frugal Wizard]]
+</div>
+'''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]].
+== About Us ==
-[[File:Shadesmar (TWoK).jpg|thumb|right|text-top|300px|x200x|alt=Shadesmar|Map of Shadesmar, the Cognitive Realm]]
+Visit our [[Coppermind:About|about page]] to learn more about who we are. You can talk to us directly on the [http://www.17thshard.com/forum/forum/10-the-coppermind-wiki/ Coppermind forums] or on [https://discordapp.com/invite/KEv3fhN Discord]. Past news related to the Coppermind can be found on [https://harmonys-coppermind.tumblr.com our old blog] (2014&ndash;2018) and in [[Coppermind: Welcome/Archive|the on-wiki archive]] (2011&ndash;2014).
+<div class="cosmere-overview">
-'''Shadesmar''' is the [[Cognitive Realm]]. So far the only known characters to travel there are [[Hoid]], [[Shallan Davar]] and [[Jasnah Kholin]]. Hoid's method for travelling there is not yet known, though he uses it to travel from world to world. It is possible other worldhoppers use Shadesmar similarly.
+[[File:17th shard.svg|center|x100px|link=https://17thshard.com]]
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-===Appearance===
-{{quote|... a place with a black sky and a strange, small white sun that hung on the horizon ... Flames hovered nearby ... Like the tips of candles floating in the air and moving with the wind ... An endless dark sea, except it wasn't wet. It was made of the small beads, an entire ocean of tiny glass spheres|Shallan Davar, {{bref|WoK|c|45}}}}
+== Featured Article: Kalak ==
-Geographically it appears to be a reflection of [[Roshar]], with its inland seas corresponding exactly to the shape of the land of Roshar.
+{{image|Kalak Endsheet.png|side=right|width=300px|Official depiction of Kalak.}}
+{{quote
-===Uses===
+|I am a blur. A smear on the page. A gaunt stretch of ink, made all the more insubstantial with each passing day.
-Shadesmar can be visited by those with an inherent Soulcasting ability. Entrance to it is granted by beings that Jasnah calls a type of [[spren]]... '''([[Shadesmar|see more!]])'''
+|Kalak
+}}
+'''Kalak''', also known as '''Kelek'Elin''' in [[Vorinism]], is one of the ten [[Herald]]s of the [[Almighty]] on [[Roshar]], and the patron of the [[Order of Willshapers]]. Like all Heralds but [[Taln]], he abandoned the [[Oathpact]] at [[Aharietiam]]. {{nosnippet|Currently, he lives in the [[honorspren]] city of [[Lasting Integrity]], acting as their High Judge. He also leads the [[Sons of Honor]] under the name '''Restares'''. }}
+=== Appearance ===
-==Coppermind News==
+Though not from [[Alethkar]], Kalak appears Alethi. He's a short man, with thinning, wispy hair, a round face, and a small nose. When he wishes to appear serious, he puts on a set of violet robes; ordinarily, however, he dresses more casually. [[Vorin]] artwork tends to present him as a young man, though in person, he looks more like a city administrator.
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-===Cat CAPTCHAs!===
-So, it is extremely annoying the amount of spam we have been getting. We'd all really like to get to a point where you can edit the wiki without needing to log in, and especially without needing email verification. Pretty annoying. For whatever reason bots/spammers are really good at breaking RECaptcha.
+=== Personality ===
-So, now when you register, you should see a much more delightful spam thing: namely, you have to select cats from dogs. It's pretty freaking adorable and almost makes me want to do CAPTCHAs even more. Barely.
+{{sidequote
+|They deserve better than you, son. They deserve better than me. I could never judge them for refusing to bond men. How could I?
+|Kalak
+|side=left|size=250px
+}}
+Back in the early [[Desolation]]s, he was known for being decisive and authoritative, and he would often be approached whenever problems appeared for counsel. However, as Desolations wore him down, he became terrified of dying and returning to [[Braize]] to be tortured. By [[Aharietiam]], he has vivid, painful memories of the torture that sometimes cause him to briefly lose his grip on reality. When given the choice to abandon the Oathpact, he's aware of and terrified of the consequences. However, by this point his fear of torture far outweighs his sense of duty.
-I do believe the cat CAPTCHA works fine, but if you are having trouble logging in or you get an error message, can you email me at [email protected] and let me know? -- [[User:Chaos2651|Chaos2651]] ([[User talk:Chaos2651|talk]]) 19:05, 8 July 2012 (EDT)
+By the [[True Desolation]], this develops into paranoid and erratic behavior. Kalak vacillates often, and finds making even the simplest decisions difficult. He often follows what the crowd wants instead of his own internal moral compass. He seems to have trouble focusing, or at least paying attention to time, even when others are waiting for him. He believes humans are dangerous; he's unsettled by their presence, with [[Bondsmith]]s, and people associated with them, seeming to provoke the strongest reaction. A visit into a human city makes him jittery to the point where he runs away at the sight of another person. It's likely that he prefers to live in [[Lasting Integrity]] for this reason. Even there, however, unexpected commotion can quickly make him panic. In this state, he is near-insensate, crying, covering his ears and curling on the floor. He recovers extremely quickly, though, and with no outward sign that he's been disturbed.
-===Wiki Downtime===
-Hey guys. I'm sorry about the wiki downtime that we recently had. Basically, it turned out that the wiki was using most of our server resources, so in order to save the site I had to take it down temporarily. We've now done some performance tuning so it should roll faster now, and I hope we don't have to do it again. -- [[User:Chaos2651|Chaos2651]] ([[User talk:Chaos2651|talk]]) 18:51, 8 July 2012 (EDT)
+; [[Kalak|Read more!]] · [[:category: exemplary articles|Other exemplary articles]]
-===Email Validation Required to Edit===
-We've been hit with some pretty serious spambot action for a long while that the CAPTCHAs haven't seemed to block. For this reason, we are now requiring you to validate your email address before being able to edit pages. This also goes into effect for all current wiki accounts. If you are trying to edit now, you'll get an error and say that you need to validate your email. You'll be directed to your profile and supply an email. Soon, a validation email will appear, so just click the link in your box and you are good.
+== Want to Help? ==
-Unfortunately, this has the effect of requiring you to register a wiki account so your account can be validated at all. I apologize for the annoyance--I know I liked for guests to edit, with the security of a CAPTCHA, but we need to do email validation to stem the flow of spambots.
+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]].
+Please also check out our [[Help:Guidelines|guidelines]], now updated with our new AI policy.
-If we come up with a method to reduce bots another way that is less annoying, we'll do it. However, we thought our other options were even more annoying. We're very sorry for the inconvenience. We'll keep you updated of any changes. -- [[User:Chaos2651|Chaos2651]] 05:47, 23 March 2012 (UTC)
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-==To Do==
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-====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 edition, 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 the Interview Database 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====
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-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]], or perhaps more usefully, there's a big list of wanted articles sorted by series in [[Project:Articles to be written]] (lots of Stormlight ones there, if you know a lot of Stormlight).
-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.
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-Happy editing! Feel free to talk on our [http://www.17thshard.com/forum/forum/10-the-coppermind-wiki/ Coppermind forums] if you have additional questions.
+Happy editing! Feel free to talk on our [http://www.17thshard.com/forum/forum/10-the-coppermind-wiki/ Coppermind forums] or our [https://discordapp.com/invite/KEv3fhN Discord] if you have additional questions.
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