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Brandon Sanderson / Vin's Mom
« on: July 09, 2008, 09:53:08 PM »
The account of Vin receiving her earing and the sacrifice of her sister is one event that puzzles me.
From Reen's account, Vin's mom heard voices that told her to kill her sister and stick the earing in Vin's ear. When people hear voices in their heads (Vin, Zane, Marsh) it is because they have hemalurgy and Ruin does the talking. So does this mean that Vin's mom has hemalurgy?
I have a few theories, but none of them sit well.
1) Vin's mom has hemalurgy, she saw what happened when she got it and she passed it down to her daughter by instruction from Ruin.
2) Reen's account was incorrect. This was a complete set-up by the steel ministry to overthrow the obligators. They followed the prelan, saw that he didn't kill off the mistress, they gave Vin hemalurgy which drove the mom crazy seeing her other child be massacred. A big hole in this theory is hemalurgy != allomancy, but I like the idea of this being a complete setup by the Steel Ministry to overthrow the obligators. The Inquisitors were being guided by Ruin in what they thought was for the better good, but Ruin was setting up another hero of ages to gain freedom.
3) You don't have to have hemalurgy to be controlled by Ruin.
From Reen's account, Vin's mom heard voices that told her to kill her sister and stick the earing in Vin's ear. When people hear voices in their heads (Vin, Zane, Marsh) it is because they have hemalurgy and Ruin does the talking. So does this mean that Vin's mom has hemalurgy?
I have a few theories, but none of them sit well.
1) Vin's mom has hemalurgy, she saw what happened when she got it and she passed it down to her daughter by instruction from Ruin.
2) Reen's account was incorrect. This was a complete set-up by the steel ministry to overthrow the obligators. They followed the prelan, saw that he didn't kill off the mistress, they gave Vin hemalurgy which drove the mom crazy seeing her other child be massacred. A big hole in this theory is hemalurgy != allomancy, but I like the idea of this being a complete setup by the Steel Ministry to overthrow the obligators. The Inquisitors were being guided by Ruin in what they thought was for the better good, but Ruin was setting up another hero of ages to gain freedom.
3) You don't have to have hemalurgy to be controlled by Ruin.