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The Fires of December: Plot Breakdown & Extended Cosmere Lore

That One Nerd Girl

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Welcome back, Gentlefolk and Rapscallions of all persuasions!

In this video, we're diving deep into the newest installment in the Cosmere, The Fires of December.

In the first half, we'll walk through the main plot points and characters. Then, in the second half, we shift gears to focus entirely on the nuts and bolts of Cosmere lore and everything this book teaches us about the wider Cosmere, hidden connections, and what it all means moving forward.

Let me know your favorite moments and theories in the comments below!

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Relevant Coppermind Links:
https://coppermind.net/wiki/Splinter
https://coppermind.net/wiki/Nahel_bond
https://coppermind.net/wiki/Spren
https://coppermind.net/wiki/Luhel_bond
https://coppermind.net/wiki/Aether
https://coppermind.net/wiki/Invested_Art

The Article about Shadows for Silence
https://reactormag.com/story-review-b...

00:00 - Intro
01:50 - Plot Summary
07:11 - Detour to Hoid
08:42 - Cosmere Lore Begins
09:10 - Valor and Fortune
10:00 - Negative Investiture
11:43 - A Rant about Foreshadowing
13:08 - The Big Reveal
15:13 - A New Bond
17:21 - A New Creature??
18:22 - Outro

6 Comments

@ThatOneNerdGirl Creator 2 weeks ago Pinned

I want to thank everyone who is putting up with my continued journey to fix my sound quality. The audio filter I used this time cut off parts of some of the words, so I went through and manually added subtitles to this video to help clarify what is happening.

@advanced-cosmere-studies 2 weeks ago

Good contrast between end-negative arcana and negative Investiture.

@Apollo9898LP 10 days ago

Little fun fact about the Luhel Bond: The main time we've seen it is with the spores in Tress, but it's also implied that the Aetherbound have a more advanced Luhel Bond, it's clear that Sand Mastery on Taldain is also a kind of Luhel Bond since it also involves giving water to control the white sand, and according to a WoB the Shades of Threnody are using a mechanic similar to the Luhel Bond when they drain water from their victims.

@trace_minerals 2 weeks ago (edited)

Good take. I really liked how there were a lot of "payoffs" in this book for having spent time learning the Arcanum. It felt to good to be like... "Oh, that's an --- on that spike", and and be right.

@dracmaster 8 days ago

Well put! I kept hearing vasher was the profit but kept missing the why. Probably because I listen to these things while working. Thank you for putting it so clearly even my distracted self finally caught on