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Do we have an approximate release date?  Is it 2012? 

This guy has so many projects.  I was waiting for the next WOT and Way of Kings book.  I had no idea he would put out another Mistborn so soon.

I read the warbreaker 2.0 chapters 1-37 from the download at the top of the bulletin board, but all the rest of the chapters there are V1.0.  I think I saw that V4.0  is available on the main BS site, but I want to stick with finishing V2.0.  Where can I get chaps 38 to the end?

You are absolutely right.  Nathan Fillian from Firefly would be a great Kelsier.  Mal's  personality was how I envisioned Kel, and the appearance would work.

 Summer Glau was how I pictured Vin all through the books.

Now I need to think up an Elend.

Ahh.  I  also had the impression that the Deepness refered to the mists.  I will search for another name...

So how much do we really think the Evil Well Spirit of Doom (EWSOD) that Vin released has been able to accomplish?  I do not use the name Deepness because I am still not sure as to what the Deepness is, as I explain below.   This creature must have some incredible telepathic ability.  Perhaps it did not do all of the below, but I would guess most of them:

1) Created the Hero of Ages prophesy to the Terris hundreds of miles away either by direct visions or by alteration of their religious literature.

1a)It can alter reality, specifically changing religious texts to suit its needs.

2)It maintained the prophesy of the Hero of Ages despite Lord Ruler's efforts to elliminate the entire Terris religious system.  Admittedly this may have been the fault of the Lord ruler for keeping the Logbook and Steel plaque.

3)Mind controlled the Inqusitors and Marsh to kill all the remaining Terris/keepers.  I am unclear as to if this was the work of the EWSOD or perhaps some final order of the Lord Ruler in the event of his death.  The advantage to the EWSOD would I suppose be to prevent the formation of another immortal Lord Ruler which could keep it captive longer.  Also, the elimination of the Keepers would remove those best able to counter the EWSOD's literature alteration ability as they had the best memories and might recall that Steel cannot be altered.  However, if the EWSOD can mind control, why not do it to those most susseptible: get a Kandra or  Koloss to open the well?  Maybe because it required a powerful allomancer to open the Lord Ruler's secret door?

4)Does the EWSOD control the Killing Mists?   It would seem so, but if that is so, then locking it in a well did not seem to prevent the destruction of most of the world.  And why were the dominances spared until now?  Did the Lord Ruler somehow use Atium to keep the mists at bay?  Is the EWSOD the Deepness?  Or is the Deepness just the Killing Mists?  Neither seemed to be "conquered" as the Lord Ruler claimed, only staved off for a time.   Can Vin draw power fom the mists simply because the EWSOD wished to aid her in the downfall of the Lord Ruler?

5)Did the EWSOD cause Vin's mother to go insane?  Her mother stating that Vin would become a Queen showed some prophetic inkling; perhaps the EWSOD desired an ultra-powerful mistborn to be separated from the Lord Ruler's control in order to increase its liklihood of release.

6)Did the EWSOD cause the voice in Zane's head?  (or was it just heavy metal poisoning from not burning off his metals before sleep...can you say 'Mad as a Hatter!'?)  The voice speaking to him as he died implied that he was not insane,  but what advantage would be gained to the EWSOD or anyone else by keeping Zane mentally unballanced I do not know, except if the EWSOD can see the future, and knew this was necessary to accomplish its release.  This  leads to the next point:

7)Can the EWSOD see into the future?

8)Did the EWSOD's presence in the well cause people to become Allomancers just by osmosis (kind of like the Demon in the Xanth books)?  Or was the Allomancy bloodline strictly a creation of the Lord Ruler when he first used the well?  I am still confused by what happened to Elend at the end: did he just Snap and gain his powers then in the usual way, or was it that pellet Vin gave him, or something else?  Their discussion later indicated that he and Vin understood it, but I didn't.

What do you think?

I can't seem to find it.

Specifically, do we know the name of the third Mistborn book yet?

This brings to mind what might be at the opposite pole; whether there is another well there?  In between there is a world covered by mist.  I am unsure as to the climate effects of a world of mists.  Global dust clouds (such as due to volcanic ash, or asteroid impact)  would result result in global cooling and ice age.  Vapor clouds of water or other chemicals which might increase atmospheric density (H2SO4, CO2 on Venus) I suspect would cause massive greenhouse effect and global warming.

In MB1 my favorite scene was a tie between:  1) The Crew dumbfoundedly discover that Kelsier planned his martyrdom, cultic rise  and had organized their roles to complete the revolution despite his being dead and all hope seemingly lost.

2) Sazed rescues Vin from the Steel Ministry jail cell by allowing himself to be captured.

In MB2:  1)Vin leads the charge to defeat the armies surrounding Luthadel.
2)Sazed rereads the plaque at the end of MB2...Very chilling.