Timewaster's Guide Archive

First, Mists causing Snapping, Sazed as HOA. I called it. Them. Both of them.


What did happen to Cett?

Who were Ruin and Preservation? I mean, when they died, they had bodies, like Vin. And you went as far as to describe their hair color (Red and Black, respectively). Preservation even had a prominent nose. Why describe their dead bodies, if they weren't at one time mortals themselves? They created humans, but were at one time human themselves?

I'm  sad Ten Soon never got to talk to Vin again, since it was apparent they both missed each other.

Lemme guess, the "Mistborn" following Vin was actually Ruin, since Elend never actually saw him, and he disappeared every time Vin got close? Why did Ruin give off Allomantic Pulses? Because Preservation did and they're two sides of the same coin? Allomancy is of Preservation, so I figured that's why he did...

A modern world  update for a future mistborn trilogy prolly wouldn't involve as much metal, unless mistings were rare, which apparently will not be the case. I'm thinking more like plastics, ceramics, fiberglass, and silicon. I mean for cars and guns and all that.

Case in point. Thank you, Comatose.

It varies from person to person; I have never cared whether I knew an ending before hand or not. I do enjoy trying to figure it out and such but yeah. However, one of my brothers hates it when you tell him how it ends. It just varies on opinion.

Final Theories by me, then:

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The Hero of Ages
Sazed. He has the most growth to come in this next book, assuming he doesn't end up a tragic figure. He's already a rebel to his people's cause, but as the last living Keeper, he's also their ruler now. He's also proven the fighting power of a Feruchemist (given time to prepare, of course) and he doesn't even know how to fight. He has the "future of the world on his arms" in the form of his Metalminds, which will allow for the rebuilding of the world after what happens in the next book. There's a lot more prophetic fulfillment that I won't go into now.

The Deepness
The Lord Ruler broke the world. The deepness is mist, and so the Lord Ruler moved the planet closer to the sun, making it inhospitable, so he created the Ashmounts to block it out, which choked the world, so he changed life (people, plants, animals) so it could exist in such a polluted state. But there are two mists. One that kills, and one that doesn't. I'll come back to that.

Zane's spike
Brandon said in his annotations that this is a big deal in the final book. This could have been what Vin prevented when she had the Koloss kill the Inquisitor. Or, alternatively, Zane is actually Vin and Reen's older half-brother. This would mean that the mother was a mistress of Straff (and we know he doesn't seem to care too much about rules and killing mistresses if it suits his purpose), which could work, and it could also explain why Zane has a spike. His mother gave it to him.

Hemalurgy
Gaining life and power through sacrifice. You gain the life energy of a sacrifice and add it to your own (or whoever is being worked on). The different metals store different powers from the victim, as the metal effectively stores the person's blood. Thus a misting, given the blood of another misting, would gain full allomantic powers. Add more misting blood, and they would gain more strength in allomancy. Give them the blood of a keeper, and they can utilize Feruchemy, though not as well as Truebloods can, given as their state requires them to rest so much more (so they're limited as to what powers they can use).

The Mists
There were more than one kind, but when the planet went closer to the sun, it burned up all the lighter mists, which is why they needed the Ashmounts to protect them from the sun's heat. The mists come, perhaps, from the metal lake. Like evaporated water makes fog? Something like that. The Mists at night were kept benign by the Lord Ruler, who was holding the world as it was. Like a key to the machine, his life kept everything in place. But the mists create Mistborn. Somehow. Make them Snap or die. That's why some die, and some are just shaken, while those without the blood are left alone. Mistborn burning the mists would keep it from attacking people?

Kandra and Koloss
Created by the Lord Ruler. The Koloss from humans, the Kandra from Mistwraiths. The Kandra tried to revolt, or run away; blend into society and never be found, but they were found and hunted by Allomancers, so they came up with the contract.

The Mist Spirit
An avatar of the beings responsible for the Prophecies in the first place. A guardian trying to keep the world in balance, but limited in abilities to avoid interfering too much. Has difficulty affecting Hemalurgists because they repel mist, of which it is made.

Alendi's Piercings
Old Hemalurgy still involved sacrifices, and was a part of Terris Religion (which was lost before the Keepers were formed), but rather involved the sacrifice of animals. This still allowed an increase in some abilities (explaining Alendi's survival rating), but not all the ones the inquisitors have now, which is more of a corrupted version of the original. Like the Dark Arts version.

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I'll prolly revise a bit of this when I think more about it, but that's all for now.

That would go with his trying to eliminate all the keepers, who had said knowledge. Also we should remember that 1000 years is a really really long time. Tons of knowledge has been lost in the real world in that period of time. Granted, this storyline has Keepers and such, but you notice we haven't heard anything, hardly, of all the other prophecies from the other cultures. Which were referred to by Tindwyl in WOA.

I think that may just be kind of like flexing muscles as they are used. Giving them more strength and durability also created an unconscious tensing of the muscles.

EDIT: Random Theory: What if the TLR was actually Kwaan? No basis for it, except:

• Rashek didn't necessarily have to take the power right after killing Alendi; he could have reported back to his uncle. However, when Kwaan took the power and went against the prophecies, then Rashek could have turned on him, thinking he'd gone mad or something.
• That way, TLR doesn't have the prejudice against the people of Khellenium, but might have one against his own people, knowing that they are susceptible to Ruin's influence, and how none of them supported him when he turned against Alendi.
• He would know more what he was to do with the power than Rashek
• He would consider it a burden rather than the right to rule.

So, yeah. Random theory.

Heh.

Darxbane, you know there's a difference between knowing someone likes the book and hearing all about it before you get to read it.

Or you could tell yourself that I just have better timing, take your pick.