MISTBORN Sample Chapters

[EUOL]

First one is up and kicking:
http://www.brandonsanderson.com/page.php?id=16

[Shrain]

Whoo-hoo. That's cool.

Hey, EUOL, I keep forgetting to thank you for WELL. I read the whole e-ms. in 2 days back in Dec!! Couldn't stop myself.

Sorry I didn't get to it sooner. But it was worth the wait to plow into it w/ no disruptions. (Of course, I had to restrain myself from giving comments since it seemed like you'd gotten all the feedback you needed by that time.) Anyway, thanks a bunch!

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Tin? Is that a change?

[EUOL]

Yup.  I finally bowed to peer pressure on the silver/pewter thing.

[Shrain]

Hmm. So will the nickname be Tineyes for Mistings who Burn it?

[Tink]

Yup.  I finally bowed to peer pressure on the silver/pewter thing.

What pressure was that? Was there something wrong with silver?

[Peter Ahlstrom]

The problem is that pewter is not an alloy of silver like Brandon was using it as. He tried to get around it by saying "Allomancer's pewter" was different from "Jeweler's pewter"...

That would be funny if having a tin ear meant the opposite of what it means in our world.

So anyway does this mean silver is not used in the allomantic system at all? It would seem an odd omission...

[EUOL]

It isn't.  I just couldn't find a good Alloy of it to use.  Except for Electrum, which is already being used!  

[Tink]

Well, I have to say, I don't like TinEyes. It doesn't have the roll that Silvereyes has.

[Peter Ahlstrom]

And the people could think the same thing and still choose to say Silvereyes...Tin is kinda silvery, right??

So do people mention that no use has ever been found for silver?

Electrum could be used for Silver, and Orichalcum (Tumbaga) (which some say the Golden Plates must have been made of) for Gold...

Of course, Sterling could be used for Silver as well...

[Tink]

And if their eyes looked silvery, that would make sense, but since their eyes are Silvereyes (or were) because they used silver to see better with, how could they stay silvereyes when it's tin that they use to see with. Doesn't have the right sound. And who's going to know that pewter and silver don't go together? Some jewelers? I didn't know. Had no idea.

[EUOL]

Well, I have to say, I don't like TinEyes. It doesn't have the roll that Silvereyes has.

I had to go with Tineyes.  It's already done, so no use arguing.  I'll agree that it was very sad to lose Silvereye--it was the very first of the Allomantic Misting names I came up with, and I really liked how it rolled.  That's why I resisted changing for so long.  

There are a number of metals that don't have any Allomantic properties.  Lead and mercury are two that come to mine immediately.  So, it's not odd that silver doesn't have one.  

[Peter Ahlstrom]

Tineyes  just seems the opposite of what the average English speaker would think it would mean... Oh well.

So did that one part in book 2 get changed as well?

[MsFish]

I learned the terms off the new revision of Mistborn 1, so I learned Tineye first, and like it much better.  It's probably just a matter of what you got used to first.  

[Archon]

In a lot of cases, it is how you say Fish, but I never read either one, and I like Silvereyes much better. I think it is just a matter of aesthetics. I'm no synesthete, but when I hear silver, I see it shining bright white, but when I hear tin, it calls to mind a darker grey to me, and it just doesn't sound as good. But that's me, and I am, decidedly, quite insane.