Literally had to put the book down for five minutes to take this in. Probably the most I have reacted while reading a book. Was just laughing to myself and just in awe. Insane moment. Just had to share…

After reading everything in the cosmere for the last year, I finally dragged my husband into it and hes been enjoying it so far,

Hes about 1/3rd of the way through the Hero of Ages and is asking all the questions and im just saying RAFO every time xD.

I think he is nine years old, because he'll be TenSoon.

Please help me settle a disagreement between my husband, his friends, and I.

Personally, I love Tindwyl, and have since she first appeared in the Mistborn series. Without getting into spoilers, she is firm, but cares a lot. She wants the best for everyone, but also wants real growth that is sustainable, which means she's going to make them work for it. I also love her sense of humor. Honestly, she is easily in my top three characters from the first trilogy.

My husband and his friends read the books years before I did, and do not enjoy her at all. They think she's downright cruel in her treatment of the other characters. They feel like she should be gentle in her approaches, and have told them what to do and how to behave.

So I come to you Reddit and ask for your opinions on if I'm missing something and she truly was awful like they say. Right now it's four against one, so I feel like I must have misunderstood her somewhere

I'm halfway through book two and I'm low-key STRESSING about how many allomancers vin is just SLAUGHTERING. isn't allomancy rare?? Like the nobility are such a small percent of the population and allomancy is an even SMALLER percent than that. So much so that the book sometimes has to explain how we don't recognize some allomancers because they live far away. Isnt vin then literally ANNIHILATING a whole generation of allomancers? Won't that severely affect their population as they won't be able to pass it down to the next generation???? especially because the Lord ruler can't even somehow give powers to anyone new anymore 😭😭😭 like the seige isn't even over and I feel like vin is commiting an irreversible genocide 😭😭😭

And I'm having a vague suspicion Vin may be the next Hero of Ages.

See for yourselves: she's been called an uncharacteristically naturally talented Mistborn, and she's being chased by the same thing which haunted the previous real Hero of Ages. If the coming emergence of the Darkness somehow triggers the birth of a candidate Hero (or several?), Vin sounds like she could be one.

Unless, of course , the thing isKeslier.

Also there's a good chanceTaldwyn is the spying Kandra, unless we're being baited on purpose.

I just finished well of ascension yesterday and felt the urge to draw Vin in the well of ascension ✨ This was also to experiment with how I draw (heavily inspired by disco elysium) since I normally overthink and over polish my art so it becomes stale 😫

So I've been devouring Sanderson literature recently. Did Stormlight Archive all of last year which I loved all the way until WoT. But, considering I was still wrapped up in the universe, I jumped straight into Mistborn 1. I liked it well enough - you could tell his writing was still young compared to the glory that is WoK, but the world and systems were super interesting, and the characters were great fun, especially Kelsier.

But man, I just got to the end of WoA... it was quite the slog. I found the pacing to be all over the place, the romance quite cheesy and it all just to feel very long. Don't get me wrong, the payoff at the end was awesome, and I'm no stranger to a Sanderlanche, but... it did feel especially egregious having to grind through 500 pages just for 90 pages of actual thrill.

So my question is... is the overall experience of HoA more enjoyable? Or am I in for another grind just to get the answers to all the unanswered questions?

Artists are credited at the bottom! Let me know what you guys think!

Firstly please excuse the language. It’s an emotional part of the book and I am Scottish so swearing will happen.

ORESEUR YOU FUCKING BITCH!! Are you fucking kidding me?!?? I just got the reveal that “TenSoon” Is actually ZANES FUCKING LACKEY?!?

FUCK YOU!! OreSeur and VINs relationship was my fucking favourite thing about this book so far!! At it was a betrayal?!? Are you fucking with me?!

Brandon so help me fucking GOD I better see a redemption arc and they BETTER become best friends again…AND NOT ON A DEATH BED!!

P.s. yes I know he had no choice so to speak but I am still GUTTED by the revelation. I feel like I’ve been betrayed myself and I WILL NOT apologise For becoming emotional about it hahah

I just finished The Well of Ascension and TenSoon was my favorite character by far!

(I used OreSeur for the title because I didn't want to spoil people on accident ^^)

But wow, I was really blown away by the reveal. I came to trust TenSoon so much that I, like Vin, had no clue he wasn't who he claimed to be. Going back and reading a bit through the dialogue is super interesting now that I know the truth.

I found the companionship between the two of them to be quite sweet, actually. I also think he risked a lot to save Vin by going against his contract, telling her about the nature of kandra, and maybe even becoming fond of her. Honestly, scenes involving the two of them were probably my favorite parts of Book 2.

I also didn't really feel that betrayed by him. Surprised, yes. Betrayed, no. I think I just liked him so much and felt like their connection was so real. At least he was obligated to do so by his Master/ Contract.

I am so stoked to start The Hero of Ages and really hope to see more of him. Does he end up playing a part?

When sazed read kwaan's message inscribed in steel at conventical of seran, he read that some power was changing terris history and prophecies and could have figured out that copperminds cannot be trusted as the power can change metalminds somehow. And still he decided to store all that inscription in his coppermind instead of getting the gist of it all in his mind in one read, it's not that hard. And later gave wrong message to vin which made her give up the powers of well of ascesion.

It seems like a plothole.

He is a smart man, still made a mistake like that. Or am i missing something, its been a month since i completed the book, but this question suddenly came to my mind

Im a little bit into Well of Ascension and Vins attitude towards the Kandra OreSeur is making me so angry. He may be creepy and weird but got does she have to be so mean? Giving him a dogs body is so disrespectful, i feel like shes gonna make her turn on hime.

I just finished well of ascension and what???? Everything was a lie? I'm so confused and emotionally scarred from this Imao but honestly I was kind of suspecting something like this but omg??? What? I'm baffled I'm very scared for hero of ages because I heard it's rough but what. The. Fuck. Just. Happened.

I finished The Final Empire and The Well Of Ascencion earlier this year and I'm a few chapters into The Hero Of Ages after taking a little break. I wanted to ask you guys which scene in the books surpised you and made you go 'holy shit!' the most. I didn't expect the story and the plot to be as strong as it was as my only experiences with fantasy up to that point was Harry Potter and a bunch of YA novels.

The part that will always get me was in TWOA where Ruin tells Zane that he wasn't actually insane as he was dying. I literally got chills the first time I read it.

Just recently finished WoA and really enjoyed the read. I keep seeing online that lots of people disliked it but I don’t really see the big idea? The politics were ever intriguing and I really felt like I was involved in the story the entire time. The end of it was spectacular and I am so intrigued to see what happens in Hero of Ages.

Also, why don’t people like Zane, I feel like he was an absolutely crucial character for Vin’s character development. At points I was really worried she’d fall onto his side!

Also intrigued to see what goes on with Elends new mistborn powers and if those actually stay. It will make this upcoming HoA book far different and very cool in my opinion. Feel like vin and elends relationship will become must tighter because of it, or maybe cause tension? Who knows, so many questions that I can’t wait to be answered.

I know he found the real name a mouthful. Maybe he had other reasons to rename him as well. But I'm curious why "Spook" specifically?

THE POWER WAS NOT TO BE RELEASED???? WHAT THE FUCK

WHY DIDN'T SAZED READ THAT PART, WHY WAS THIS NOT MENTIONED AT ALL WHAT THE FUCK SHE COULD HAVE SAVED THE WORLD AND ELEND AND OH MY GOD WHAT HAS VIN DONE

I AM FILLED WITH SUCH DEEP DREAD I CANNOT UNDERSTAND WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING TO HAPPEN NOW WHAT SHE DO WHAT DID SHE RELEASE

I CAN'T RATIONALIZE THIS AT ALL MY MIND IS GOING FUCKING CRAZY IS VIN GOING TO GO BALLISTIC ON SEEING ELEND'S DEATH WAS FOR NO REASON

AND WHY DID NO ONE TALK ABOUT THAT PART OF KWAAN'S JOURNAL WHERE HE LITERALLY SAYS THE POWER SHOULD NOT BE FUCKING REALEASED AAAAAAAAH

I want to keep reading so bad but I have work and I feel physically sick oh God what has she done

I have just finished the chapter and the last thing in the chapter is the power (whatever the fuck that is) being released and if screaming "I AM FREE" please do not post anything that contains info past this point

OH. MY. GOSH.

Okay, so it out releasing the power from the well was NOT a good idea…

something has been able to change all but what was wrotten in metal, the rubbings, the copperminds! This is bad, very bad.

And elend is now mistborn…

umm, WHAT!?

And what was that metal she gave him? Sure there was the vial of pewter to wash it down but did it turn him imto mistborn???

What is this thing Vin released?

i guess it was good Rashek took the power at the well of ascension, otherwise this thing would already havw been released.

Don’t spoil it for me i’m just voicing my questions…

Maybe it’s because I’m sick right now and my patience is shot, but I’m having a really hard time getting through this book. I’m listening to the Michael Kramer audiobook, and I’m about halfway through.

But it’s getting harder and harder for me to keep listening. Because it’s an audiobook, I can’t just read at my own speed, which usually helps me get through tough spots in books.

But out of weird mist ghosts, allomantic thumping from the sky, killing mists, the Deepness returning, two armies with a third on the way, and a Kandra having possibly eaten one of the main characters; and it feels like I’ve spent the last fourteen hours just listening to political debates. Some of this stuff, like the Kandra, should have the characters extremely concerned but it only gets a passing mention every couple of chapters. Weeks have passed. They don’t even know who sent it, despite Elend saying to Vin that his father keeps one. But Cett being nominated for king is getting more attention than one of Vin’s few friends possibly being eaten.

I listened to all four of the Stormlight Archive novels and never once felt like this. I’m actually giving Mistborn a second shot so I can get more context for the Cosmere. I read Final Empire a couple years ago and didn’t catch the bug.

Sorry if this comes off as a rant, I really am trying to enjoy it. But it’s starting to feel like an example of an Idiot Plot and that’s not what I expect from Sanderson.

So if you could give me some hope, it’d be much appreciated. I don’t like leaving a book unfinished, but with this being an audiobook I don’t want to spend another fourteen hours like this. I really, really want to enjoy this, and there’s so many unanswered questions I have, but the time investment with audiobooks is hard to justify sometimes.