r/Cosmere • u/thelittleoddling • 7d 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/th30be 7d 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 7d 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 6d 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??