Timewaster's Guide Archive

So here is my first submission for Perfection, a fantasy murder mystery. Just warning that there is sexual references and violence. Also Perfection is only a working title, and named after the fact that the murderer was a perfectionist in the original story which predated this version. I have included two chapters this time as the first one is really short.

Anyway enjoy!

Ch 1: We meet the first protagonist, an assassin Jason on his first contract kill.

Ch 2: We meet the second protagonist, Chief Inspector Daniels, as he discovers the crime scene left behind by Jason. We also return to Jason's PoV, as he thanks the Goddess for his fortunate life.

In one of the epigraphs from Mistborn: Final Empire there is the quote:

Like it's [the mist spirit] made out of black fog. Or mist, perhaps

I'm sort of confused. 
I thought Preservations mists were white, and that this mist spirit that Alendi sees is a shadow of Preservation. But if the mist was black, then that would make the mist spirit Ruin. Any ideas?

Found this quote in the Mistborn 2 Annotations:

I can't even begin to understand how it must be for authors who write series longer than trilogies!

I just had to sit back and laugh, knowing the Brandon has already started writing a series with a planned 10 books. 

I was just doing a re-read of mistborn: the final empire, and I came across this reference on the epigraph of chapter 33:

The lake that Fedik discovered is below us now - I can see it from the ledge. It looks even more eerie from up here, with its glassy - almost metallic - sheen. I almost wish I had let him take a sample of its waters.

Perhaps his interest was what angered the mist creature that follows us. Perhaps...that was why it decided to attack him, stabbing him with its invisible knife.

I was wondering, does anyone know anything about the origins of the lake? This reference makes me think of the lake in Elantris, which is infused with a shards power. Maybe the reason it is described as metallic is because it is infused with the power of ruin/preservation?

I can't help shake this feeling that Dalinar's visions transport his spirit back in time, so that he does not just experience past events, but influences them.

If it was just a recount of the past, Dalinar wouldn't be able to act like himself, but would act like the person he possessed. However he does act like himself - he fought off the smoke creatures, which surprised the wife of the person he possessed, as well as the Knights Radiants. He told Nohadon that he would write a book, which surprised Nohadon - I can't help but think that this line maybe influenced Nohadon later, making him write the Way of Kings.

Anyway, the fact is that these visions don't just feel like a recount of the past, it is as if Dalinar is in the past, experience the events as they happen.

I have been sitting on this theory for awhile.

Anyway, I read this quote from the Prelude:

Less frequently, he passed cracked, oddly shaped hollows where thunderclasts had ripped themselves free of the stone to join the free.

and I begun wondering, assuming thunderclasts are not voidbringers, is it possibly that thunderclasts are animated stones. Maybe through voidbinding, the voidbringers can bring stone to life, creating creatures like thunderclasts, that rip themselves free of the very stone that they were once a part of.

P.S. When I think of this I always picture that scene from Galaxy Quest. You know the one, with the stone creature fighting Tim Allen's character

Ati, the assumed name for Ruin is also an Aon meaning hope. We know that Ati was a good man before he was corrupted by the shard. Is there a connection or is this only coincidence?

From WoK, we know that the Almighty can see vaguely into the future:

"I cannot see the future completely. Cultivation, she is better at it than I. It's as if the future is a shattering window. The further you look, the more pieces that window breaks into. The near future can be anticipated, but the distant future...I can only guess."

In Elantris, we also know that the Wyrn also has the ability to look into the future, as can be seen by the placement of Fjon in Teoin in order to kill Hrathen. Brandon himself says:

I definitely meant to imply that Wyrn managed to see, limitedly, into the future and sent Fjon to the place where he'd be able to slay an important traitor to Fjorden.

My question is: does Wyrn have access to a shard or a shards power to access the future? Or is the power to access the future not exclusive to a shards power?

EDIT: I believe Preservation also has some ability to see the future in Mistborn.