Last year, Brotherwise Games published a set of three tabletop role-playing game books set in the world of Brandon Sanderson’s epic fantasy series The Stormlight Archive. The company quickly followed up the project by announcing an expansion to the Cosmere RPG based on Sanderson’s Mistborn setting, and the new books reveal the true scope of the company’s ambitions.

The Mistborn Handbook, Mistborn World Guide, and Mistborn Legacy campaign are spread across two eras representing the two series Sanderson has written set on the planet Scadrial. It’s also laying the groundwork for Sanderson’s next trilogy in the setting.

“There was actually a moment about a third of the way into development where we might have had to just do Era One,” Meric Moir, co-lead designer of the Mistborn World Guide, told Polygon in a virtual interview. “Brandon Sanderson was really starting work on his Era Three novels, and as he got a clearer picture of what he was planning, he was very concerned about anybody adding to Era Two, and wanted to be very clear that we shouldn’t box him in.”

The Brotherwise team worked closely with Sanderson and Dragonsteel Books to expand some content for Era Two — which is set in a period akin to the Gilded Age — without interfering with the upcoming series, which will push the world’s timeline into the equivalent of the 1980s. They were able to add to the lore of how the godlike being Autonomy first became aware of Scadrial and established a secret organization called the Set.

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