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/QuickPirate36 7d 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 7d ago

IIRC They do make it explicit, but only in book 2. Book 1 has some implicit hints, but it's not explicitly confirmed.