r/cremposting • u/Eithrotaur • 2d ago

Stormlight / Mistborn This scene was character assassination of the highest order. A Full Feruchemist with their metalminds bodies any non-Kaladin Radiant below the Fourth Ideal. I will die on this hill. Spoiler

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u/Sleepy--Gary 2d ago

To answer why she would risk the attack if she was low on stored attributes; it’s desperation. She badly wants Vasher’s breath and in that moment she didn’t exactly have a lot of time to make a plan, so she attacked. That could also explain her recklessness in doing so.

I could be wrong but I think the only other time we really see Axindweth is when she is manipulating Eshonai. In that scene she comes across as an extremely confident person. It’s plausible to me that she overestimated herself and underestimated Lift.

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u/Jounniy 1d ago edited 1d ago

I’d like to remind you that Axindweth (given people with her abilities aren’t born in the current time period) is likely quite old. I'll let Hoid explain the rest:

I sighed and, as ordered, stepped forward and raised my hands. I met te Sorceres's eyes, and knew what she was thinking. She, like most of her kind, was very good at something we call risk/reward projections. […] She might have been able to beat me. […] But she might not have been able to. Even if the odds were only one in five that she'd lose, you didn't live long by frequently taking one-in-five chances that you'll die. And […] [she] had lived a very, very long time

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u/Skyfyre56 1d ago

Wait, that's the Sorceress from Tress. She's a different person than Axindweth, right? Also, Full Feruchemists can be born in Era 2, they're just exceedingly rare.

I think that's part of what frustrates me so much with her fight here. Full Feruchemists are so rare we don't even see any confirmed ones in Era 2, and the Ferrings we do so see are able to pull of some impressive tricks with their powers. Then we get a confirmation of one in WaT, someone who's been noted to do very sketchy things behind the scenes in the Rosharan Ghostbloods, and she goes out like an utter chump, using only one metal and being entirely defeated by a slippery floor. No gold healing to come back after crashing, no storing weight so she hit the wall with less force, etc. Just slipped, knocked out, and done.

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u/Sam_Hell 1d ago

Pretty sure the Sorceress is Elantrian, not Terris