February 19, 2020 - 12 Years ago, I was commissioned by Tor books to create the cover from Brandon Sanderson’s novel ‘Warbreaker’. At the time, no one quite knew just what a phenomenon Brandon Sanderson, and his entire Cosmere, would become. Over the course of the past decade, Brandon’s literary universe, the Cosmere, expanded and I began to fall in love with it more and more. When I created the original Warbreaker painting, I was only familiar with a small part of this universe. But as time went on, I could begin to see the larger picture, and how themes of this particular book echoed throughout his others. It gave me a new appreciation for the novel, and a deeper understanding of how it worked within the larger scheme of things. I treated the original job like any other,…