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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Countdown
« on: October 08, 2008, 06:53:42 PM »
I have nothing to say against it. The world being held frozen, perhaps just a bit before it's all supposed to end because of the deepness.
Max is a Shadowblade, a supernatural--and supernaturally competent--warrior bound to protect her witch Giselle. As a Shadowblade, Max doesn't age. She is better, faster, stronger than any ordinary human being. And she hates it. Giselle betrayed her trust to make Max what she is, and though she is magically compelled to protect Giselle and follow orders, Max works against her witch in every way she can. Continue reading Bitter Night
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Chapter 3
In her mind, she thought she heard a voice whispering to her. Reen's voice. Fool! Ruthlessness—it's the most logical of emotions. You don't have any friends in the underworld. You'll never have any friends in the underworld!
Chapter 4
If you let someone get close to you, it will only hurt more when they betray you, Reen seemed to whisper in her mind.
Chapter 7
Vin almost smiled back. Reen's training came to her rescue. The man who wants you to trust him is the one you must fear the most. Her brother's voice almost seemed to whisper in her head. It had grown stronger since she'd met Kelsier, as if her instincts were on edge.
Chapter 8
Vin took a seat in one of the stiffly upholstered maroon chairs, tucking her feet up beneath her. She knew what the problem was. Kelsier had been showing her too much respect, making her feel too important. She was beginning to think that she deserved to be part of his secret confidences. Reen's laughter in the back of her mind discredited those thoughts, and she sat, annoyed at both herself and Kelsier, feeling ashamed, but not exactly certain why.
Chapter 16
They're fools, Reen's voice whispered. This entire plan will end in disaster—and your death will be your own fault for not leaving when you could.
Chapter 20
Is that a good enough reason to let them get you killed? Reen's voice asked.
Chapter 30
However, a voice from within—a voice she had nearly forgotten—began to speak. Of course he left you, Reen whispered. Of course he abandoned you. Everyone will betray you, Vin. What did I teach you?
I never came back for you, Reen whispered. He won't either. The voice felt so real—it was almost like she could hear him beside her.
Chapter 31
You should just be angry at yourself, Reen's voice whispered. You're the one who let them get close. Now they're all just going to leave you.
Chapter 34
Then he towed her away. Vin continued to struggle weakly, but she was growing numb. In the back of her mind, she heard Reen's voice.
See. I told you he would leave you. I warned you.
I promised you. . . .
Epilogue
A whispered voice came from the back of her mind, speaking in Reen's voice. Go back.
That makes some sense; if holding the power lets you know what it can do without telling you the best way to do it, that's quite possibly what happened. I think that could be an argument for Ruin being the power that TLR touched. Things have been changed in a way that, while they still work, they're wrong. Like Koloss, no Flowers, Ashmounts, etc.
However, I believe that the Lord Ruler sort of froze the world in time (see my last page, or the MB1 Prologue Part Two annotation), and that seems awfully more like Preservation to me.
Are we still theorizing? How would everybody respond to the theory that Kandra and Koloss were humans that the Lord Ruler changed to use as his spies and soldiers? Evidence for this would be
1) the koloss think they are human
2) they have natural reactions and emotions that have been muted but not completely destroyed
3) their basic biology must have come from somewhere; the changes in the world seem to have been generally for the worse, and it is difficult to imagine that TLR somewhere got the knowledge to create things ab inito and produced something functional yet so fundamentally wrong
That seems much more likely to me. I don't know if you have the "why" part of that equation down. Kandra are still very mysterious. I'm not sure why the Lord Ruler would create them, only to have the ancient Mistborn hunt them down.
I think Allomancy is related to the balance between Ruin and Preservation, and hemalurgy is the disblance, the hemalurgists can be influenced (I say influenced not controlled, Marsh is still fighting, and Zane was in control), by either one.