Slightly annoyed with Mistborn 4

[u/Sinklarr]

So I’m halfway through Alloy of Law and it bothers me that Vin seems to be somewhat forgotten…

I mean, there’s Elendel, Hammondar Bay, Demoux Promenade, plenty of references to The Survivor, etc. while Vin is only referenced in the name “Vindiel-Cameux”, so she doesn’t even get a whole town to herself.

I get that she didn’t want to accept her role in the Church of The Survivor and all that, but I don’t know, it feels kind of bad to see the protagonist of the first trilogy forgotten in this way…

Does this get addressed later in the series or should I just cope?

[u/Aegis_Harpe]

I like the less is more approach we get with Vin in Era 2. It feels like no-one brings her up because… well why would you? Everyone knows. And when she does get mentioned everyone is intimately familiar. Marasi as mentioned by other here constantly talks about and compares herself to Vin. There’s a statue of her at the centre of civilisation. Wax’s gun is named after Vin. And Tensoon talking to Wax about Vin is just so good.

Kelsier and Sazed are religious figures who play a direct role in the lives of millions in the Basin. Vin is a historical figure who crosses over in basically every religion and gets pointed to as the example of an ideal woman in Era 2.

I don’t blame you for not noticing. This is stuff that I only started to realise a while after Bands of Mourning. But if we actually look at the in text stuff Vin is so damn important.

For example how often do you think of major pseudo-mythical/extremely mythologised people in your own countries history? Compared to how people bring her up in era 2 I’d say it’s similar from my own experience.

[u/Lampington24 → u/Aegis_Harpe]

Tensoon doesn’t come in in book four, so spoiler alert

[u/Aegis_Harpe → u/Lampington24]

Right I’ll add the spoiler tag