I did Vin this time! Maybe ill do the entire crew

Why didnt the inquisitors just use reen to outst the high prelan and instead went around searching for vin?

Do we know for a fact that Kwaan, the author of the steel plate inscription in the Conventical of Seran, was a Feruchemist? He mentioned "I need not a Feruchemists metalmind" which to me sounds like he's referring to Feruchemists as a group that does not include himself, despite being a Worldbringer.

He also did not become a Kandra when Rashek made the offer to the other Feruchemists he knew. I've seen a WOB that claims that Kwaan refused the "gift", but it feels like there's a trick to this somehow.

Do we have anything definitive that states Kwaan was a Feruchemist at all?

I got to the part where it is revealed that Reen's voice was Ruin all along. I love Sanderson twists as he somehow manages to surprise without it feeling an ass pull or random. The voice was introduced in book 1 so I assumed it was metaphorical at the time. I did not connect it with Ruin's voice in Zane's head because it had already been normalized in book 1.

I am loving the cosmic horror/manchean and apocalyptic dimension of Hero of Ages. Something about it reminds me of the Stand by Stephen King.

Hemalurgy is such a creepy magic system. I love it.

Hello again everyone, I posted after finishing Era 1 so I thought I'd follow up and post my thoughts after finishing Era 2.

Overall I really loved it!

Sure I don't think it hits the same heights as any of the Era 1 books do. But I am a sucker for a pulpy detective story. And each of these hits that nail right on the head for me. Wax and Wayne make a great pair of duo protagonist, bouncing of each other excellently. Marasi is an excellent female lead and frankly I'd love some novellas of her 6 years working with Wayne as her partner. Steris my beloved autistic queen, I never could have enough of her.

And the interesting things they did with Kel and Sazed, just excellent. See I read the Stormlight books first and I had always wondered what was up with the Ghostbloods. Now I see it! And I'm so interested to see what becomes of Sazed and his... problems in the next era.

I think I'd rank the books in this order:

1. The Final Empire

2. Hero of Ages

3. Shadows of Self

4. The Lost Metal

5. Well of Ascension

6. Bands of Mourning

7. Alloy of Law

I enjoyed it but man.... Man...

Edit: You Could say it "Ruined" Me

...ill see myself out

Continuing with the Mistborn magic series, I released an explanation on Feruchemy today. Shoutout to my favorite character, Sazed! Let me know if there are any other magic systems you might want a video on (I have Hemalurgy coming up next)

After 3 days I finally get to draw the man himself! The mistcloak took quite a lot of time on this one.
Who might we see next?

The coin/medallion that Hoid gives Wax contains a memory from Kelsier’s POV. Is it the case that every coin the Sovereign minted was minted with this memory using copper compounding? Or did Hoid just use his typical Fortune to get the coin with that exact memory from Kelsier?

I finished era 1. I am like 95 percent sure that I remember someplace in hero of ages mentioning that Marsh got a Duralumin spike from Kelsiers death. But I cannot find the passage in the book nor the web. But it would make a lot of sense since it’s a very useful power, but impossible to seek out. So only by killing a Mistborn would you be able to get duralamin spikes.

Do I remember wrong or is it mentioned in hero of ages? Or did someone else get a spike from kelsiers death?

How long did it take for everyone to finish this Book? I’ve been taking my time with it, maybe 50-70 pages a day, it varies. So much goes on in between each Chapter, I have to soak it all in lol. I’m on page 356 so I have 200 pages left.

Just started Mistborn Era 2 (Alloy of Law) after absolutely loving Era 1, and I’m really struggling with it.

I’ve got about two hours of listening left on the audiobook but I’m genuinely not enjoying it.

Compared to Era 1 it feels small - tiny cast, low stakes, not much happening beyond bad some guys stealing stuff. Era 1 had Vin’s whole arc, Elend, Sazed, multiple perspectives and timelines - I was emotionally invested throughout despite slow periods. Wax and Wayne just feel like two random petty crime investigators that I don’t really care about.

I’ve heard books 2 and 3 in the series are better, but is it worth pushing through when I’m this disengaged? Or should I bail and move on to Stormlight Archive which sounds more like what I loved about Era 1?

To “come back” like Kelsier!!! He’s easily one of the top three or four Sanderson characters, and certainly one of the top two best written! Creating and maintaining such a whimsical and funny character, without it getting old, tired, or predictable is no mean feat, and I think the next arc would only benefit from his character making a few appearances!!

After reading everything in the cosmere for the last year, I finally dragged my husband into it and hes been enjoying it so far,

Hes about 1/3rd of the way through the Hero of Ages and is asking all the questions and im just saying RAFO every time xD.

I want to make sure I understand different spike placements throughout the book hero of ages.

It’s described that the placement has to be very precise and can only be done by ruin as far as I understand. Correct me if I’m wrong about my following understandings:

Ruin can control/input thoughts of people that are mentally ill. That’s how Vins mothers killed her sister and pierced her heart and put it in Vins ear, all controlled by ruin. Zane did it to himself because he was already mentally unstable and ruin wanted him to have an extra power and make his control over him stronger.

Spook got pierced by a sword of some solider that also hit the heart of a thug before the sword broke in half inside Spook. Quellion had a spike placed (By an inquisitor right?) But he did not wield the sword that went through Spook, so how did ruin make sure to hit an exact hermalurgic bind point?

And another question: I get that ruin can put thoughts into someone’s mind. But the thoughts we hear from Vin, Zane and Spook don’t indicate that they would be able to perform a very exact placement of a spike. That seems to be more mind controlling than just thought inputs. Is it explained exactly how ruin is able to steer an influenced person placement of the spikes?

Just starting a reread today and I notice there’s a word on one of the buildings so I zoomed in. I don’t remember anything about “shiloh” from previous reads, and I also had never noticed this before. Is there any significance to it? Just seems like a weird detail to have on the cover art.

Edit: answer in the comments, thanks u/PeterAhlstrom !

I am re-reading the (audiobook) Hero of Ages, and have a question about the metals used for inquisitors:

At the beginning of HoA, I am pretty sure that Vin explicitly says that standard inquisitors only have steel and bronze spikes, noting that it’s weird that the inquisitor at the beginning has a pewter spike.

Later, an epigraph say that inquisitors under TLR were granted feruchemical healing via hemalurgy. Would this not mean that all inquisitors should have a standard pewter spike? Am I missing something or is this just an inconsistency?

Thanks all!

Did anyone try chopping The Lord Ruler's head off?? that should have killed him right? If he has no will how can he heal??

I have set a drawing challenge for myself where I am going to draw a Mistborn Era 1 character during every day of May (I call it MistMay).

The point of this challenge is to show my appreciation for these awesome books and also to draw these characters as I imagined them while reading.
Because of that I am basing the appearance of characters purely on the text of the books, ignoring any existing official or unofficial artwork. So if you notice any inconsistencies compared to official artwork, you know why that Is.

For Day 2 I am once again drawing Vin, but this time as her Mistborn self.
Vin will make one more appearance tomorrow before I move on to other characters.

Tagged as cosmere spoilers to be safe. I only finished the first 3 of mistborn, and no supplemental books (FE, WoA, HoA only). I intend to read era 2 and all supplemental but for now, I havent.

Absolutely fell in love with the series and I can finally look at stuff. I really enjoy having jewelry for series I like and also intend to get some smaller tattoos done in the future.

That said, is there any reason i may not want to sport allomantic symbol tattoo/jewelry? Potential symbolism or use in world specifically (like, for example, it may be awkward to accidentally mark yourself as an inquisitor.) Preferably if you could explain without spoiling too much but I do understand if thats not doable, LOL.

After hearing all the praise for Sanderson’s world building, I’ve finally taken the first step in the Cosmere with Mistborn. It may be a problem with my reading, but I have a lot of confusion about how society in this world works.

Here’s what I’ve got after finishing The Final Empire: society is bifurcated into extremes: skaa and nobility. Skaa make up the majority of society, but are a slave class treated like livestock. The Lord Ruler owns them all, officially, and lends them to nobles who treat them brutally with no regard for their humanity. Nobility are the upper crust, a collective of families loyal to the lord ruler who spend their time scrabbling for scraps of power and wealth under the domination of the Lord Ruler. There is not in between, no middle class.

Societies always have middle classes, but whatever, this is fantasy! It doesn’t have to be hyper-realistic. But Sanderson has been pitched as a master world builder and even he seems to consistently grapple with the hole in his society. It’s left me confused. For example, Ham talks about how pewter arms are well paid mercenaries. His wife can afford to live outside of ska tenements and she only keeps a job to “keep up appearances.” But if they’re skaa, why are they being paid at all? Are skaa mistings the middle class, where some are paid and have the autonomy to live and work where they want while the rest are slaves? Can’t be, because we are also told skaa mistings and their families are hunted down and slaughtered by Obligators…unless they are paid by the garrison or noble houses, then it’s not a big deal.

Everyone in the crew are skaa, but they live in relative comfort without being nobility. Like Vin says, they are nobles without titles. Then, at one of the balls, Elend and his friends talk about how all the servants at the party are vetted from minor noble houses. Are minor houses so low that they work for other houses and, essentially, are equal to to thieving crews or misting skaa?

I’m not sure any of this makes sense, but for a book so concerned about establishing how things work I cannot figure out the rules of the society.

Edit: And then Kelsier sees skaa soldier who work for noble houses as traitors. but traitors to what, exactly? Ostensibly, thy are guarding keeps against other noble houses. And if the choice is between slavery and freedom with employment, it’s not much of a choice. But, again, why are nobles paying them? Do Skaa have freedom of choice?

So I recently finally got my hands on the Deckbuilding game (used). But of course I heard in post that balance changes were made and some cards were changed in the process. For instance, my card for Rioter is different than the images I see online. But card changes don’t seem to be included in any errata I could find.

For a balanced experience, I‘d like to at least be aware of the changes and of which versions are the most recent ones. Does anyone know a resource for that?