Timewaster's Guide Archive

lol lets stay on topic here darxbane. anyways i think that vin just figured out a way to 'see' atium shadows without burning atium. like when both mistborn are burning it theres a bunch of shadows because each is seeing what could happen which changes what they will do which changes what the other person will do and so on. vin just found a way to create the same effect of determining what the other user will do and thus changing what she would do without burning atium.

and anyway darxbane i don't think that we can attribute all of vin's advantages and cleverness to the well spirit. we have to give her more credit than that i think...

well i'm gonna go and steal the theory of balance from wot here just for the heck of it. for every good there must be a bad to compensate (or vice versa if you're the glass half empty type). anyways it would make sense to me that the well must have both ruin and preservation but it then becomes up to the "hero" to determine how it is used. so you could say that the lord ruler preserved the world by pushing back the mists. and in a way you could even say that he used nothing but preservation since it seems likely that Rashek considered his actions justified. but thats not my main point. what if the well spirit is ruin and the mist spirit is preservation? the mist spirit struck me as an ally of sorts. he tried to get sazed to stop vin, stabbed elend so vin would take the power rather than release it, and when that didn't work helped vin to save elend's life. he seems like the perfect avatar for preservation. imo.

i think vin being a hemallurgist is a pretty strong point. the fact that the well spirit (or whatever it is) is able to "speak" to people with a spike in them is too strong to overlook. i'm wondering if maybe the voice of Reen in Vin's head is really the well spirit.