Ember

Do you like destruction? Whump? Angst? Passion turned to pain? The Cosmere is the perfect place for it. Come join us in ruining relationships, destroying mental health, and rending apart flesh and bone!

To participate, create a Cosmere fanwork to break hearts--written, art, music, craft, all are welcome.

The Shipwrecked Collection on ao3 will open on August 1, 2026 and close two months later on Sep 30. Add your work to the Collection at any point during that time. You can also post it on tumblr and tag @shipwrecked-event or submit it here!

Is this event shippy or not shippy?

Both! You can wreck a ship, but it doesn't have to be shippy.

What rating?

All ratings from G to E are welcome! If you are making explicit art, you can upload it to a site like imgchest.com and link to ao3 and tumblr.

Can I write my favourite shipwreck Ati/Leras?

Of course! This isn't just about Stormlight. You can draw from Mistborn, Warbreaker, even Isles of the Emberdark for your inspiration!

Kaladin is so funny, this man is ALWAYS scheming, but all of his plots are like, planning how to be nice to people and encourage them 😂

Been wanting to try some limited value portraits forever and this duo ended up being perfect for what I wanted.

THIS IS WORSE. It’s so much worse.

When you hear “there’s no AC” you probably are thinking like…oh that’s rough, but still I’ve dealt with those temps. My old place didn’t have AC. It can’t be that bad.

NO. The lack of AC trickles down into every facet of dealing with the heat in a way that slowly and quite literally boils you alive. It’s not just “oh my apartment is hot this sucks”, it’s “there is nowhere you can go to cool down and if you overheat there is no help available”

For most there’s no AC anywhere. Anywhere. The coolest place available is maybe your local church, or a shopping center. Both will kick you out around 8pm, the hottest part of the day. In France and Spain in particular, the time zone is wrong (Hitler’s fault—we’re still aligned with Germany instead of the UK) and the sun doesn’t set until 10-11pm. Heat is still being actively pumped into your living spaces at 10pm.

And the temps do not meaningfully drop overnight. (Which you might expect if you’re from the American west. Southerners do understand this.) Many people live in stone walled buildings that just keep heating up. This is very literally the experience of being in a stone oven. And there’s no way to drop the temperature. You can’t escape it.

If your body temp climbs to unmanageable levels and you start experiencing heat exhaustion, you can call the hospital…most of which also do not have AC. I’m not sure how they’re treating people, I guess with ice packs? There’s already been a handful of deaths in my city, and that’s before any kind of post-wave reporting. These are real time reported deaths.

Anyway I want you to really, really internalize the sense of panic that starts to set in when you’re in these circumstances. The animal brain really starts to go wild when there’s no options and no escape. That’s why Europeans are posting about suffering.

Kaladin Stormblessed