Greetings,
New to the board, I am. I'd thought that by now, having entered my fourth decade of life, that I'd be immune to Fantasy-based excitements (huge WOT fan, but as the series has languished over the last few years so had my interest in Fantasy in general...) and yet, here I am now reading these most excellent novels by Mr Sanderson, pulling all nighters and fighting carpal-tunnel syndrome and far-sightedness for holding a big, heavy hardback book over my head in bed with the little book-light and all -- not to mention the crisp voice and arched-eyebrow of my wife the next day when I wake up just in time for supper...
Anyhow (ahem...) I do, in fact, have a question concerning The Well of Ascension. It has to do with the cans of food found in the room below the Lord Ruler's study. Anyone else thing that maybe there be "spinach" in them? As in Popeye... as in the secret of his strength... as in Antium?
I don't have the book with me, but I seem to remember that the epilogue takes place two weeks later, with Elend and Vin speaking on the ramparts. Now, I'm guessing that she would have mentioned something about finding cans and cans of Antium. Yet, there is a strong possibility that with all the tending to wounded, rebuilding, and general anti-entropic activity taking place at the time that the one person who would have had access to the place (Vin), would have been much too busy to go about opening cans of what she would assume to have been foodstuffs. It is also possible that many of the cans were indeed food, with Antium buried amongst them.
Any thoughts?
