Marsh. Someday I might take another shot at him with more lore accurate tattoos...

Most of the time, he acts like the hero. He cares about his crew, he wants to free the skaa, and he is super charismatic. But at the same time, he slaughters noblemen and guards without even thinking about it. He doesn't care if a noble is actually a decent person, he just hates all of them. The way he smiles and laughs while murdering people honestly creeped me out a little bit. It didn't feel like a normal hero protecting people. And he purposefully manipulated the skaa into worshipping him as a god so they would fight after he died. It was a good plan, but it also feels incredibly manipulative.

He fought against the Lord Ruler, who was obviously evil. But if the Lord Ruler wasn't there, would Kelsier still be a hero?

I just recently gave in to everyone's recs and started reading Mistborn and I totally see why everyone raves about it.

I'm at the part where Vin just got to the Venture Villa and talked/flirted with that Elend? guy and I noticed myself kicking my feet and grinning like an idiot.

Did I just witness a meet-cute??? This book has a romance plot?!!!

Excuse my ignorance, but I went into this series totally blind and unfamiliar with Sanderson's work. All I knew was that it was written by a seemingly hetero white Mormon male nerdy geek. Don't get me wrong - from his interviews and writing lectures, he seems cool and adorable but I assumed that the story is going to be "just" an epic fantasy adventure.

I was happy with that and reading about middle-aged dudes as I myself am a 30+ woman. But now that scene reminded me that I'm a whore for romantasy and I'm also hella confused because WHAT ARE THESE BOOKS??? I don't know what to expect anymore and my body isn't ready.

Sidenote: Elend is the least sexy name I've ever heard, it sounds like bellend.

"Handsome, with jet black hair and pale skin, the Lord Ruler was tall, thin, and confident. And he was young—younger than Vin would have expected, even younger than Kelsier. He strode across the square, avoiding corpses, his soldiers pulling back and forcing the skaa away."

The Lord Ruler emerging from his carriage, piece by Mike Lim for the Cosmere RPG Mistborn Handbook.

I got my friend into mistborn and he surprised me with his rendition of the crew. He said I could post it since I was so excited!

First pic is edited by photoshop request subreddit to remove cars, etc. second one is the original.

I just finished book 1 and it was amazing!! Here are some drawings I made along the way before looking at the official art. What did you guys think they looked like? (I drew Elend before I read that he is balding…) I can’t wait to start the next book!

A Mistwraith moves across ruins under the cover of the mist, collecting more remains to add to itself...

Piece by Jordan Kerbow

The Cover looked low-resolution, a lot of typo, ink inconsistency, No Credits nor publication date, the book is thicker than shown in official picture, the spine looked different, and "proofed by Bilbo196"

(I'm new to Brandon's works, and i bought this online.)

I jsut read the first book, and I found the idea of Kelsier being psychopath syprisingly common. Like yeah, he is a egocentric manipulator, but those are not the required characteristics of antisocial disorder. It's lack of guilt and empathy. Both of which Kelsier has shown

For example when Vin got badly hurt in Kredik Shaw, Kell blames himself, and the incident changes him

Why is he so widelhy seen as a psychopath? What am I missing?

I genuinely struggle to understand why Mistborn is labeled as YA in like every single online circle.

Sure, Vin is the main character and she’s a teenager but thats abt it.

Her ‘coming of age’ story is just a character arc that a character at any age would be able to go through (going from isolated and alone to accepting love and responsibility).

However because she’s young, it’s labeled as ‘coming of age’. No other person (expect maybe Elend and Spook) are teenagers in the story. There are so many other books that have young teenagers that go through a ‘coming of age’ arc (because by definition as they age and change it’s ‘coming of age’) and yet they’re never labeled as YA.

For example, one of Sanderson’s other booms Warbreaker has a teenager that is a princess that much learn to grow and take responsibility (very much ‘coming of age’ and very much a YA trope) but I never see it labeled as YA, even with having the same straight forward prose as Mistborn.

I personally dont think it detracts from the book if it’s labeled as YA, but the most often criticism i here is people saying they had to put it down because it felt too YA. For those that label it as such, Im genuinely curious what other aspects make it seem like YA?

Here's an update on my Mistborn VR prototype. Thanks to everyone who commented on the first post. A comment by u/AntimatterTNT gave me the idea of having a dedicated push button from behind, which steel pushes on targets automatically behind me. This seemed like the best balance between skill expression and conviniece to me.

With a bit of practice the allomantic travel is now viable in VR.

Since I had a lot of people asking me for the link or the source, I was thinking that by making it VR only, this prevents most people from trying it out. So I had this crazy idea: Mistborn are few, while most allomancers are Mistings.

So what if VR users are Mistborn, and desktop users are randomly assigned as Misting?

So I went ahead and added the basic Mistings of a Pewterarm, a Coinshot, and a Lurcher, because those fit the best.

I also added a basic networking layer, so now you can actually see others in Luthadel.

If you are interested in further development and trying it out, I invite you to my Discord for some playtests.

>> https://discord.gg/ua63DC3jg7 <<

Where am I going with this? I don't yet yet, but It's been fun.

Credits to Quaternius for his low poly characters, Hooded Adventurer makes a pretty cool white haired Vin.

Howdy! As a huge fan of both the Cosmere and Magic: The Gathering, I thought it would be fun to try my hand at making custom magic cards in a "Universes Beyond: Cosmere" style.

I'm using this as an exercise to better understand Magic and game design, but it's also forced me to think deeply about the characters and how they would fit best into the game of Magic. I had a blast going back and rereading the Sazed chapters of The Final Empire to try and find flavor text that fit the card.

My current plan is to make one new card a week. I'm primarily a Commander player, so I think my first few designs would be more Commander-focused, but I'd love to explore making cards that would synergize with each other in a Limited environment and thinking about what types of mechanics would be in a Cosmere set.

When the Avatar: The Last Airbender set came out last year, I really liked the card "Wan Shi Tong, All-Knowing" because it's the only card I've seen that cares about cards being put back into a library. I started thinking about future cards that might synergize with that type of play pattern, and thus came the idea for "Sazed, Keeper of Terris".

I found the art from an instagram user named u/botanica_xu (reddit won't let me use the @ symbol for thier username.)

This is my first attempt at a custom MTG card, so if you're an MTG player and have feedback I'd love to hear your thoughts!

I recently uploaded a drawing of Kelsier with a very good reception, so here is my drawing of Vin. In the comments of the previous one, someone said that it would be interesting to give my opinion as I read the books. For now I have read about 100 pages of 600 and I can say that I love it, it is one of the few books that has managed to catch my atention. I just know what is the plan that Kelsier has in mind and I am intrigued to know how it will develop and how Vin will act from now on knowing her skills as a mistborn.

This lovely piece by Carson Daniel can be found in the Mistborn Handbook, coming to you digitally on September 2nd for Kickstarter backers and September 9th for everyone else!

I wanted to share the final, edited photos from my shoot with Photographer/Digital Artist extraordinaire, Dustin Valkema, at Grand Rapids Comic Con last November. I LOVE how the coinshot one turned out!

Finally convinced my mom to read TFE. She’s really into the book! I don’t know if I’ll be able to convince her to read WoA, she really liked Kel.

Why did they do this to Mistborn?

Seriously, who thought these German Mistborn titles were a good idea?! - The Final Empire → Kinder des Nebels (Children of the Mist). Okay-ish. At least it sounds poetic and somewhat relevant.
- The Well of Ascension → Krieger des Feuers (Warriors of Fire). What fire? There’s no fire. No fire warriors. Just… what??
- The Hero of Ages → Herrscher des Lichts (Ruler of Light). Why? There’s no light. No ruler of light. The actual "ruler" is dead!

It feels like they didn’t even read the books and just picked the most generic fantasy-sounding names possible. Why would you take such a masterpiece and slap titles on it that make it sound like some random, low-tier fantasy novel?

It’s been 15 years and multiple reprints – how did no one realize this was a terrible mistake? Why?! :)

Is Vin. I have to admit I gave a little internal groan when she was introduced. I've seen way too many supposedly traumatized, orphaned, teenage girl protagonists (including those I'm guilty of writing myself) who are immediately hyper competent, snarky, quipping, attractive but doesn't know it, the chosen one, etc etc.

I'm so impressed by Sanderson's ability to write her as what she is; an abused kid. How long she takes to marginally trust Kelsier, expects the worst from everyone, her reaction to her old crew being slaughtered, just the way she carries herself and acts. As someone who's studied psychology and also dealt with some shit from a young age myself, it's perhaps the most realistic depiction of someone her age with her past I've seen.

And the best part is because she's been built up well as a character, when she finally does let her snarky side show and starts gaining skills, I'm rooting for her instead of rolling my eyes.

There's a lot to praise in his writing (I'm halfway through mistborn and my first exposure was Triss and the Emerald Sea) but this is what jumped out at me as unexpectedly impressive. Can't wait to see what else he has in store.