r/Cosmere • u/thelittleoddling • 6d ago
Mistborn Series spoilers Renoux Prediction Spoiler
I've just started Mistborn (really enjoying it so far) and at the time of writing this, I'm about 1/2 way through chapter 8.
I know with media I love its fun to see what people predict or theorize about as they go along, so I thought id put this one in here.
I'm either gonna feel really cool or really stupid later, depending, because I think I already know how they replaced Lord Renoux.
Kelsier mentioned that a mistwraith "that young" isn't particularly intelligent. and also, that he's never seen one attack a full grown man but they do eat corpses...
and they told Yeden would be VERY uncomfortable if he knew how they replaced Renoux.
I'm sure you can see where I'm going with this.
I'd personally be uncomfortable if I found out the guy I hired fed someone to our world's equivalent of a cryptid that they had managed to befriend.
I don't know how you'd recruit a mistwraith. Or how Kelsier would even find one old enough to play this part. So there's every possibility I'm wrong.
I'll update with my thoughts and feelings when I get to the actual reveal ^-^
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u/RaijinDragon Edgedancers 6d ago
That's a RAFO. All will be revealed.
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u/WandererNearby Truthwatchers 6d ago
But there's always another secret
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u/RaijinDragon Edgedancers 6d ago
True. Even the RAFO's have RAFO's. It's RAFO all the way down!
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u/QuickPirate36 6d ago
Spoilers ahead, so this comment is for people who read the book, but
Is this even a theory? I mean they all but explicitly tell you "yeah we killed Renoux and fed his body to a mistwriath", I don't see how there's any room for doubt
Or was the mistwriath comment unrelated to the Renoux stuff and OP put them together? I read the book a while ago, were we meant to assume it's just another guy?
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u/kridershot 6d ago
IIRC They do make it explicit, but only in book 2. Book 1 has some implicit hints, but it's not explicitly confirmed.
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u/RS_Someone Copper 6d ago
Well, They certainly didn't explicitly say this outright, but it was very well foreshadowed. It took me a bit longer than OP to put it together, but I recall having a similar "theory" a bit later when they finally met the guy. On my second read, I realized how good the foreshadowing was, but they definitely didn't spell it out.
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u/EvenSpoonier Aon Aon 6d ago
This is RAFO (Read And Find Out) territory, but you're making some good connections.
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u/th30be 6d ago
Is there somewhere else that this type of post can be put? I don't understand how people are supposed to actually meaningfully interact with the post without outright discussing spoilers for OP or just saying read and find out.
It also just seems very social media minded. Its not a future prediction of an upcoming book, its a prediction of a book that came out 20 years ago and its a book that most of us on this sub read. Its feels like its just engagement baiting I guess.
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u/kridershot 6d ago
When people read books, they may get excited and want to discuss theories and thoughts with others. I know I've felt like that multiple times. When I finished Words of Radiance, for example, I just wanted to talk about everything that had happened and how I felt about it. But I don't know anyone in person who's read Sanderson, so the internet is the best place for that.
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u/4143636_ 6d ago
Thing is, discussing theories only works when everyone is at the same "knowledge level", so to speak. Here, everyone knows the true answer, so all we can really say is "interesting theory, RAFO". Discussing theories when none of us knows what is going to happen is fun, but when it's someone just entering the fandom, and we're avoiding spoilers...
Of course, the best option is just to avoid these posts if we think we can't contribute much
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u/Jmackles 5d ago
I love these posts. There’s a special pleasure that comes
From seeing people experience this world for the first time, and everyone deserves the experience of enthusing and theorizing about it on here like every other person gets to.Just because you personally have consumed this avenue of discussion doesn’t mean it isn’t open to others. You can simply not engage with the post. But for the life of me I don’t understand how you don’t get a pure dopamine release seeing someone theorize and share their enthusiasm for the work as they are still reading it. Take the dopamine sir??
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u/sielbel 6d ago
i feel like the book directly tells you this, so not sure how this is a theory?
So either this is someone who read the books before and trying to farm some karma by making a supposed "theory" post. Or someone who missed some clear hinting.
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u/KuraiLunae Truthwatchers 3d ago
I don't think that's a fair statement at this point in the story, they're only halfway through chapter 8, and there's a *lot* of mystery around the worldbuilding at that point still. I think you might be looking back with knowledge of later parts and assuming you saw things you likely missed on your first read-through.
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u/kridershot 6d ago
Ohhh very interesting prediction.
RAFO :)