No... Why? Like, I just got introduced ti Wax and Lessie. And then HE accidentally shot her dead. Not even the first part of the book.
I had to put down the book and I'm currently processing this traumatic event😭. Like Sanderson please I just started💔
if anyone plays Crimson Desert and has better suggestions for making a Survivor of Hathsin fit lmk!
I read book 1 and loved it and now I am 25% in book 2 and it kinda feels the same does era 2 get better???
I finally completed The Final Empire and I was shook how well the story was twisted towards the end and realising it made me a huge fan. Jumping straight into The Well of Ascension and I just know a great new journey awaits for Vin.
What was your favourite moment from the Final Empire?
I have set a drawing challenge for myself where / 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.
I am finally tackling the heist crew starting with Dockson on Day 7! All of the other members will follow soon!
I wish honestly we could've had maybe two books taking place in the Final Empire. I found the bureucracy and function of the Empire increadibly interesting, I wish we had more time with it honestly
I read era 1 a while ago and bought the trilogy too but UK versions, ever since seeing the US versions I have always loved them a lot. Recently I wanted to get new wallpapers for my phone and my thought was to use those book covers.
My faves are specifically
I managed to find pictures of secret history and all of era 1 (the versions without text) and choose to use secret history, (the one you can see on top)
If I could find another one I would gladly do the same as I really love the series but cannot find the covers.
If anyone could find any era 2 book cover us version without the text it would be super appreciated, thanks!
If not, any other ideas on good high quality backgrounds, I prefer not faces and stuff and that is why I very much like the era 2 ones with shilouettes. In general I prefer pretty simple minimalist ones in short.
Thanks!
This is the website where I found the era one and secret history covers: https://www.dannyschlitz.com/work/mistborn-brandon-sanderson
just finished mistborn era 1 and the lack of female characters pmoooooo
vin (falling for some guy 5 years older than her), tindwyl (>!dead!<), and allraine
that's it. did i miss something or. is that it.
vin is the protagonist but having a female progagonist doesn't absolve you of fleshing out a balanced population for your book? you're telling me not one other woman, during the course of this revolution, did anything consequential. pmo.
“Unfortunately I’m the hero of Ages”
I didn’t see it coming but it makes so much sense 😭
At the start of the Hero of Ages, Vin and Elend start to lay siege to Fadrex City. Their camp gets attacked by a small force while Yomen kills half their koloss with trebuchets. During that fight, Vin battle a mystery mistborn that she suspects is Yomen's. But I don't remeber Yomen having a mistborn later. Was that Yomen's mistborn or someone else? Do they show up again?
I’m so so sad to say I’m struggling through Mistborn
I’ve been saving it to read for so long and I’m gutted it’s not gripped me
I’m about 65% / chapter 25 - my question is is there a fast pace action packed ending? If so what chapter roughly does the pace pick up?
No spoilers please!
And I'm in the chapter where >!Sazed and Tyndwil!< are discussing the relationship between Kwaan and Alendi.
Some wording messed with my head and now I can't shake the feeling that we're actually reading science fiction instead of vaguely Renaissance manapunk fantasy. Specifically the Deepness continuity by the late Vernor Vinge.
So, the world the events are happening in is on the very verge of the Slow Zone. Millenia ago, someone used nanites of some kind to terraform it and populate with humans. Problem is, the nanites he used were designed for the Beyond. Since the border of the Zones is naturally fluid, the world eventually slipping into where the nanites would ceaze to function properly was a given. The Hero of Ages is a failsafe, a human operator enhanced with nanites probably before birth if not on conception, tasked with doing something, activating and controlling some mechanism designed to push the border of the Zones back (which would require technology beyond conceivable in the Beyond, then again, nobody living in the Beyond would go to such ridiculous lengths to colonize a world balancing on the edge of the Slow Zone in the first place... while some crazy Power could).
The mistake of the creator of this circus would've been denying humans agency. Over the millenia, the knowledge from a series of Heroes leaked, eventually forming the core of the Terris relugion. Resulting in someone like Rashek compromising a real Hero and accessing the Well of Ascension themselves, believing it to be a source of unimaginable power... which resulted in the world slipping into the Slow Zone since Rashek didn't have a kindly voice in his head telling him which keys to push in which order. While some of the terraforming mechanisms still work, producing a breathable atmosphere and things like Allomancy and Feruchemy, other have failed or malfunctioned. Hence the eruptions and the mists.
At the start of the Hero of Ages, Vin and Elend start to lay siege to Fadrex City. Their camp gets attacked by a small force while Yomen kills half their koloss with trebuchets. During that fight, Vin battle a mystery mistborn that she suspects is Yomen's. But I don't remeber Yomen having a mistborn later. Was that mistborn Yomen's or someone else? Do they show up again?
Is it just me or does When You Were Young by the Killers give you major Kelsier vibes
Hello again everyone, just wanted to post a quick update that the daily Mistborn drawing posts may experience some additional delays in the coming week due to a busy schedule, though I am still definitely planning to complete all the drawings.
In the meantime, I wanted to share with you my full plan for this drawing challenge for anyone interested, as well as this Kredik Shaw fanart I drew.
Just a reminder, that all the characters I draw rely mainly on my own interpretation of the books’ text and not on existing official art or fanart.
I just finished reading the era 1 trilogy. Why the hell did sazed let the koloss live. At the end its said that he allowed the koloss to choose if they wanted to stay as koloss or return to human form. We already know that the koloss are stupid and if they retain any of their human minds its like 1%, so they probably dont have good judgement to this decision. But if sazed was able to tap into their dormant human consciousness and ask their human selves this question, who in their right mind would choose to stay as a koloss?
Why didnt Marsh try to hunt and kill the rest of the inquisitors of the final empire. He killed 10 inquisitors at Kredik Shaw the day the lord ruler was killed--simply by pulling the sealing spike when they were all sleeping-- which was half of all the inquisitors in the empire at the time i believe. But after killing the lord ruler 📏 , he didnt pursue to kill the rest of them, which undoubtedly still posed a threat to Vin and the crew. Now that I think about it, he could've not had free will to do what he wanted as its said he was killing the terrismen. That leads to my next question (which maybe i should make a new post for but am too lazy to) could Ruin fully control Marsh before he was released from the well? And if he could, how? Ruin was imprisoned and so any power he had would be very little.
Kelsier is kinda ruthless, determined, but i don’t think he is remotely morally grey. Everything he did was justified. When the evil in question is that big, is necessary to be unstoppable to have a chance in winning.
...and am I the only one who doesn't like Elend turning into a Mistborn? Especially his allomancy being "stronger than it should be" according to Vin? I just feel like it's lame. Elend and Vin were a subversion of power dynamics, with Vin being the strong one, and Elend the strategic one. They both had their insecurities, but now that Elend is technically a more powerful Mistborn than Vin I feel like that dynamic doesn't really work anymore. Vin can't even be "his blade" anymore, now she's just his "second blade" I guess. Idk, it just feels like shounen power creep. Vin was already strong enough by the end of WoA, I don't feel like a second Mistborn was necessary.