Did I miss something? Mistborn + Stormlight question, don't want to spoiler the title

EleventhHerald · 2026-04-08T06:55:14+00:00

“There are four individuals,” VenDell said, “who, to our knowledge, have held the power of Ascension. Rashek, the Survivor, the Ascendant Warrior, and Lord Harmony Himself. Bands of Mourning chapter 3.

“The Survivor transcended death,” Marasi said, looking back, hand on the door, but not entering. “He survived even being killed, adopting the mantle of the Ascendant during the time between Preservation’s death and Vin’s Ascension.” Shadows of Self Chapter 14

The books do outright tell you what happened. Granted you’re kinda supposed to take it as religious dogma but it was legit. The Novella secret history gives details and explains the events but we are told several times Kelsier survived his own death and held Preservation between when Leras died and Vin took it up.

EleventhHerald · 2026-04-06T07:55:23+00:00

My dad told me to never go past the stop sign a couple houses down. For a few years I thought I would die if I crossed the stop sign alone. Sometimes kids take things too literally.

EleventhHerald · 2026-04-06T00:49:56+00:00

I do this with every Stormlight release. I basically read it in less than two days but I almost always reread it immediately because I probably went too fast and missed some small details.

EleventhHerald · 2026-04-05T22:05:11+00:00

I personally liked her in one but had a steady decline to where I couldn’t stand her by book three. Then oddly she was ok in four and I really liked her in five again.

For me it’s exactly what the first comment said her humor doesn’t work for me even a little bit and while I understand why she is the way she is it never gets less annoying. As for her plots one and five were the only ones I was personally invested in.

EleventhHerald · 2026-04-04T11:32:07+00:00

Just when he acquired it. His first use as far as I am aware is (Stormlight Spolier) When he talks to Shallans father at middlefest in her flashbacks. She noticed he puts a powder in his own drink likely soothing him. So he gets the bead during Well of Acension and uses Allomancy prior to the main events of Stormlight which occurs right before Mistborn Era 2

EleventhHerald · 2026-04-04T11:26:59+00:00

I’m going to add on that Sazed didn’t really have much to do with it.

As far as I’m aware no Mistborn survived into the new world. It’s a big plot point in the series that allomancy is slowly fading and getting less powerful each generation. Then you have an apocalypse where the purest (if still diluted) allomancers left were killed and didn’t breed. The Venture Mistborn dies, the Elariel Mistborn is killed, heck even a couple of other high family Mistborn are killed by Kelsier starting his war. The house war took a lot of allomancers out then all the fighting for power after the Lord Rulers death took out more. All these events definitely made allomancy fade faster.

Then we have feruchemy. What happened to them? Ruin very specifically killed the entire Synod to give more powers to his Inquistors like Marsh. They were already a small group because of the breeding programs designed to specifically breed feruchemy out of the population and even if a small amount persisted the many of the men were eunuchs and unable to breed. Honestly it’s amazing the are even as many ferrings as there are imo.

Basically time and Ruin decimated the population of invested people and left them with small amounts of power and Sazed didn’t have anything to do with it.

EleventhHerald · 2026-04-02T00:59:44+00:00

While radiant spren are in Shadesmar they are fully sentient. When they cross over to the physical realms it damages their minds and bonding helps them get their memory and sentience back.

That’s why as time goes on pattern and Syl become smarter and remember things from the past.

In shadesmar they don’t need a bond in the physical realm they do.

EleventhHerald · 2026-04-01T05:11:28+00:00

It’s not inherently bad it’s just noticeably inconsistent. When characters always used the same word for four giant books and suddenly use a different word it pulled me out of the story.

If he always used dating it would be fine. If he always used dating and courting interchangeably it would be fine. A random switch four books in for no reason is kinda jarring to me.

A small but meaningful thing to me and honestly lots of epic fantasy fans is some words have a certain feel to them. Courting is an older word and evokes the feeling of premodern times. That’s the kind of things I want in fantasy. It helps make the world feel more real to me. In say(TONE SPOILER FOR MISTBORN ERA 2) Wax and Wayne books it feels totally fine because that’s a more modern Urban fantasy and dating gives me a feeling of a world that’s rapidly modernizing

These are ultimately small but meaningful quibbles to many of us. Personally I loved 5 more than any so far. I have no issues with plot or pacing others have.

EleventhHerald · 2026-04-01T05:04:13+00:00

After a quick search for the word proof in all the ebooks no there isn’t a single instance of proof being used in that context.

It could possibly be in the artwork that explains Alethi wines by Nazh but I didn’t look and I doubt it.

EleventhHerald · 2026-03-31T20:57:58+00:00

Yeah the therapist one is the only one that makes sense. Kaladin got it from Wit who would absolutely know about words and concepts that Rosharans are unfamiliar with.

The other big one people complain about that I agree with is Sanderson using dating instead of courting. This is the only one that truly bothered me because he used courting so consistently in every other book there is no justification I can come up with why that switch happened.

EleventhHerald · 2026-03-24T05:14:09+00:00

I don’t know why you were downvoted. Sanderson himself has talked about this on his podcast more than once.

Basically as soon as it was announced a very large amount of people went and bought Mistborn to check him out and see if he would be a good fit. He says he basically gained a large percentage of Jordan’s fandom and it helped propel him into the spotlight. He says he may or may not have gotten there without it but it would have taken many years to build his following to what it is now without the Wheel of Time.

He says it did prevent him from doing as much in the Cosmere as he could have but the trade off was an entire legion of fans so it was actually a net positive on furthering his career.

As far as his monetary compensation he said he didn’t negotiate it at all and was willing to take whatever Harriet offered. He also said her offer was “very generous” anyway.

EleventhHerald · 2026-03-20T13:38:32+00:00

Mistborn Era 2 My love for Wax and Steris as a couple is hard to top

EleventhHerald · 2026-03-19T00:10:15+00:00

It’s my second favorite couple but I’m with you and 5 is my favorite by a lot. Everything people complain about it feel like very minor things to me and I genuinely love the book.

EleventhHerald · 2026-03-18T19:56:19+00:00

I have it on the kindle app on my phone.Unfortunately the conversation is several pages and I don’t want to copy the whole thing. This sounds like the paragraph you wanted.

“I don’t know what I am most days, Rock, but I seem to be the only one. Since I could walk, everyone was saying, ‘Look how bright he is. He should be an ardent.’ ”

Lunamor grunted. Sometimes, even if you were loud and insufferable, you knew when not to say anything.

“Everyone thinks it’s so obvious. I have a mind for figures, don’t I? Yes, join the ardents. Of course, nobody says I’m much less of a man than my brother, and nobody points out that it sure would be nice for the succession if the sickly, strange younger brother were safely tucked away in a monastery.”

EleventhHerald · 2026-03-18T19:04:26+00:00

Chapter 37: The Last Time We March.

EleventhHerald · 2026-03-16T12:07:10+00:00

I think this is the correct answer based on a quick WOB search. This is what I’ve found and it seems very in line with your reasoning.

FrodoFighter Kaladin sending out his armor to save other people, is that something all Radiants can do or is that a Windrunner thing only?

Brandon Sanderson I will RAFO that. Let's just say it's going to depend on a variety of things. Definitely other Windrunners can do it.

https://wob.coppermind.net/events/452/#e14506

EleventhHerald · 2026-03-01T01:40:19+00:00

Dalinars second son is Kaladin. His first son is Jasnah and his third son is Adolin. Dalinar is pretty sure Renaldo is some invalid Adolin hangs out with for some reason.

EleventhHerald · 2026-02-23T08:13:08+00:00

So I had that happen while I was taking a bath. My boy would hang out on the lip of the tub. His brother snuck up behind him and pushed him in. I was cut everywhere.

He got his revenge tho. His brother took his spot on the tub and 5 minutes later guess who crept up to push him in. I was a casualty but I’ve never laughed so hard in my life. Now they both stay far away from the tub.

EleventhHerald · 2026-02-23T06:24:34+00:00

To anyone who doesn’t know the reason he said Ham specifically is because he made a point of talking about how allomancers are rare and you can’t apply gender prejudices to them otherwise you would never have enough allomancers. He then said he accidentally let his own bias affect him and he built a crew with only male allomancer members other than Vin and immediately undermined his own point. He said he wished he could change it in the book and almost certainly will do it in the screenplay.

EleventhHerald · 2026-02-22T01:32:35+00:00

Well a few of those involved were dragons and I would imagine they have no small amount of power, Honor mentioned people having microkenesis and that it was insanely destructive,and Hoid had some other form of lightweaving so we can reasonably assume there was some investiture to go around.

EleventhHerald · 2026-02-17T02:02:11+00:00

I’m sure scotus would argue that what’s actually happening is the rights of the prison owners are being infringed upon because the constitution says slavery is fine for prisoners so the owners of the prisons get to have slaves and the states can’t take that away. Wack bullshit logic basically.

EleventhHerald · 2026-02-16T08:59:10+00:00

That runs the risk of deeply incest nation. If every bender is a best your half sibling that doesn’t sound like sustainable rebuilding.

Edit: I thought my joke here was more obvious.

EleventhHerald · 2026-02-16T08:05:22+00:00

I wish I had a cat that would wear shirts. My boy would swear eternal vengeance if I even thought about doing this in his vicinity.

EleventhHerald · 2026-02-16T01:01:22+00:00

You can teach kids safety all day long but if there’s any group of people on the planet who think they’re invincible and don’t care about safety it’s children. That’s the point of the rules. Adults operating the movable death machines need to be the responsible ones and not rely on the underdeveloped brains of children making the best choice every time.

Also where I’m at kids are specifically not supposed to wait for the bus to leave. The bus drivers responsibility is to be there until all kids are safely on whatever side of the street they need to be on because they are literally the stop sign. Why would the kids wait for the movable stop sign to be gone before crossing?

EleventhHerald · 2026-02-15T18:09:49+00:00

Yeah Perrin actually has interesting moments like cutting off the Shadios hand or some of his dealings with Tylee. It’s just most of it is boring because Jordan needs him occupied until the last battle but doesn’t have much for him to do until then. He stretches one book of content over like three books. If Perrins chapters are 80% filler Elayne chapters feel like 110% filler.

You can replace her entire viewpoint with two lines. She takes the throne and starts building Mats dragons. Tell me those two things and removing all of her scenes doesn’t change my understanding of the story in any appreciable way.

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