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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #270 on: October 07, 2008, 08:29:35 PM »
Yeah. Once October 14th rolls around, I'm not even coming onto the boards until I have the book finished.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #271 on: October 07, 2008, 08:41:34 PM »
I'm debating on whether or not to keep checking the main boards on the 14th (well, the 15th since the best I could do from Amazon was one day delivery), but I know I probably won't have the willpower to not glance down to this forum. Darn my lack of willpower.  ;D
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #272 on: October 07, 2008, 08:45:23 PM »
I have a theory I came up with that I"d like thoughts on (sorry if it's one that's already been discussed.  I tried to find it but didn't have any luck.)

What if there are two wells -- one for ruin and one for preservation?  I provide the following for support:

WoA, page 719, pb
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The mist figure stopped a few feet in front of him and raised its right arm and pointed.

North.  Away from Luthandel.

WoA, page 740, pb
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"A map?" Elend asked.  "That's the Final Empire."

Indeed, a map of the empire was carved into the metal.  Luthadel was marked at the center  A small circle marked another city nearby.

"Why is Statlin City circled?" Elend asked, frowning.

What if the Hero has a chance to release only one of them, or else has to release both of them?
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #273 on: October 07, 2008, 09:55:11 PM »
I believe in your first quote, the mist spirit is just trying to guide Vin away from the Well to prevent releasing Ruin.

In your second quote, I doubt that Statlin City is the location of a second Well. It's been a year since MB2, and so Elend and Vin probably already investigated it. Not much important stuff occurs off-screen like that.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #274 on: October 07, 2008, 10:38:21 PM »
Agreed but the city could still hold significance. We have yet to have any good background on what has happened over that years time. They could have found some significance in the city or some thing of significance could still happen.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #275 on: October 07, 2008, 11:14:23 PM »
What Chaos and Green said. However, there are a number of us, myself included, who feel that there could be two wells.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #276 on: October 07, 2008, 11:29:39 PM »
The Mist spirit came to Elend after Vin left, so it's possible that there was another closeby well and it wanted to be released before Vin could release Ruin. I don't know why it wasn't more persistant though.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #277 on: October 07, 2008, 11:36:34 PM »
Quote from: GreenMonsta on October 07, 2008, 10:38:21 PM
Agreed but the city could still hold significance. We have yet to have any good background on what has happened over that years time. They could have found some significance in the city or some thing of significance could still happen.

Oh, I'm not saying it's insignificant. It's significant--I'm thinking there are one of those storehouses there--we just don't know exactly why.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #278 on: October 08, 2008, 12:30:16 AM »
In Aether of Night, there were two wells, one light and one dark.

OK, that is officially my last cryptic comment on Mistborn before the book is released. Now, it's everyone's job to go out and buy and read Alcatraz 2 and start coming up with wacky theories about the third Alcatraz book.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #279 on: October 08, 2008, 12:57:40 AM »
Well... I'm probably not going to have a chance to read Alcatraz 1 until after MB3. I really, really want to read it, though.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #280 on: October 08, 2008, 05:44:55 AM »
Just posting to let people know that Sam Wellers has sold out of signed numbered copies of MB3.
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #281 on: October 08, 2008, 03:17:09 PM »
It's so frustrating to know the answers but not be able to say anything. Some of you guys are way off and others are right on the mark. You get a lot of answers only twenty pages after the sample chapter with Elend/Vin. One word to describe this book, WOW!!!
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #282 on: October 08, 2008, 03:18:00 PM »
It won't be much longer for you lowly Americans to catch up to Canada ;D
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #283 on: October 08, 2008, 04:12:48 PM »
It's not nearly as frustrating as you teasing us on every post, Coof.    :(
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Re: The Countdown
« Reply #284 on: October 08, 2008, 05:24:19 PM »
Hey, I treasure Coof's opinion, because he likes the book. That means I won't be frustrated by it (probably. Ookla still says some people won't like the ending), which is great.

And I assume that the answers happen after the sample chapters because then you get to more clearly understand what happened at the Well, like what is meant precisely by "the origin of allomancy". You don't get those in the sample chapters because we get a sweet action sequence.

Not long now, though...

What did everyone think of my theory about Preservation (see the bottom of the giant post on Page 16, theory #3)?
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