#ghostbloods

[mrmeeps3654]

YES EXACTLY. HES A DOUBLE EDGED SWORD BUT HES STILL A SWORD

every time Harmony talks about needing a Sword, to do immediate Ruin for long-term Preservation, I do kind of want to take him by the hands and say, Sazed, my love, you have an ENTIRE Kelsier. Both your predecessors somewhat cattily identified this as his primary function and mode of operation. I know he is, as a person, a sentient rogue nuclear missile addicted to convoluted manipulation plots and defying every authority up to and including the physical and spiritual laws of nature, but you literally have the same fundamental goal of protecting Scadriel, so I am begging the two of you (@Kelsier YOU TOO, BUSTER) to just coordinate your fucking plans for five minutes.

[zephyscosmere]

Imagine your goal being to live forever and you die over and over again in the first chapter I fuckin love it. Rip Gavilar

[theskytraveler]

Taravodium is giving his PowerPoint presentation of what he believes is the greater good for the cosmere and asking Jasnah if she would let Roshar be destroyed to protect all the other planets and honestly he's having this conversation with the wrong person. Can someone please bring in Kelsier? Mr. "I founded a secret organization with the sole purpose of protecting Scadrial from all threats" would thrive in this discussion. And he'd also slap Taravodium square in the face because that's his brand and personally I'd love to see that

[thaidakar-is-hot]

The other cover that @solarfry painted for me <3 This time it's Thaidakar <3 My idea for Thaidakar is heavily inspired by @botanicaxu's idea for him, with his long hair <3 <3 Seriously the hottest character in the Cosmere, bar none.

[little-cute-pink-horrible-being]

Very serious prediction for Wind and Truth

*during some sad scene in part 4*

Shallan: oh, all hope is lost

Kelsier, suddenly appearing: it was never on your side to begin with

I did not read the previews, so don't tell me if it already happened

[l3st1b0urn3s-707]

I swear Shallan is one of the best stormlight characters because you could tell me she's done the weirdest and probably most dangerous thing you could posibly think of and I'd belive you. Like, she seriously snuck in the ghostbloods base all by herself? And they didn't even recognize her until relatively later?!

Shallan's being one of my favourite characters to read in Wind and truth so far, chaos just seems to follow her arround. Or maybe it's the other way arround... But more seriously, the ghostbloods thing was awesome. Mraize was even proud of her, and he didn't seem to want to kill her as much as Iyatil did (this could lead to some conflict between the two of them in the future, and I'm so in for it).

Yeah, wow, Shallan's so cool, Mraize's also so cool (I'm sorry, I know he's bad and all but he's just such cool character and the way he calls Shallan "Little knife" just does something to me), and the whole ghostbloods plot is so interesting!! I'm really excited to see how the story will continue.

[abalidoth]

This is my favorite flower, I just think it's pretty. I sure hope that my husband doesn't use it as the symbol of his interplanetary criminal empire for hundreds of years after I'm dead!

[lamaery]

have you read The Lost Metal yet? would you consider doing Twinsoul for an Inktober?

I have and I did. :D

27 - spores 

Since Prasanva or Twinsoul kind of fit the inktober prompt, so yeah, why not? This here obviously took some inspiration from @botanica_xu s version of him. He is a lovely and pleasant character.  His tea cup ended up looking a bit like Tress‘ ones and from that the story was spun of Hoid at a paint your ceramic thing shop, making a series of cups to present random nice people in the cosmere. And how he probably gave that to someone in the Ghostbloods because he suspected it would piss their leader off, if he knew it was a present from him. 😄 maybe there’s a cup in for every colour. I wonder who has the others.

-------------------- image description:

Charakter sketch for Prasanva or Twinsoul from the waist up, depicting him as a small, old, wiry man, with brown skin and a fluffy white beard around his mouth and chin. He as a receding hairline, but here are still, a short mane of wavy, white hair wafting of the back of his head. He wears a dress shirt, neck tied with a yellow ascot, under an orange vest with a paisley pattern. A long necklace of pink stone beads hangs around his neck. In one hand he olds a tea cup with a small pink butterfly over a pinke ocean waves. The other he holds up over his head, long, rose colored crystals jutting from his thumb and index finger holding a tiny ball of metal between them. He critically gazes at that ball through specs made form the same crystal, which have formed on his face, crystalline vines leading like veins up to the construct glasses.

[wyndlerunner]

Maybe other people are just smarter than me, but I’m just now realizing that Iyatil is from Southern Scadrial. I missed all of the world building about the masks until now 😆

[whimsicallywiddershins]

I know everyone is laughing at Hoid wearing a Hawaiian shirt to defeat Riina, but I feel like the actual shirt implications are lost on a lot of people. (Spoilers for a lot of Stormlight and Mistborn!)

Those are the Marewill flowers. The Ghostblood symbol. Hoid has a shirt of those flowers purely to mock Kelsier. Mare's flowers. I have a feeling Kel has no idea, but once he finds out there may be a small war on a planet that has no idea what is happening.

[asteroidfieldgame]

Well, the Ghostbloods did it. They found a way to bring investiture off of Roshar.

[tanoraqui]

Unironically delighting in the timer Wind and Truth just set in the Cosmere. 10 years on Roshar (and Braize, etc) and ~80 in the rest of the cosmere, then some variety of all hell breaks loose. In the meantime, the Ghostbloods will have some sort of spy thriller involving hacking, innovations in hemalurgy, and I bet the ‘emptied’ Bands of Mourning, and probably the invention of Allomantic/Feruchemical spaceflight. Kandra are loose like horses in a hospital and could be anyone. There are two known Dawnshards wandering Shadesmar, one of whom has a very nice sailing ship, and two still hidden. Hoid is now putting real effort into accumulating every kind of Investiture. Back on Roshar, the Unoathed in Azir are the one known patch of sunlight on a planet of storm, but there’s also Lift the only remaining empowered Radiant (so long as she has enough to eat) and Jasnah rebuilding a life philosophy in Urithiru and the Singers rebuilding a people on the Plains, above the Well of Retribution and Adonalsium only knows what else…

10 years, ~80 years. Then Retribution moves, some number of other Shards move against Retribution, every other faction that’s been plotting moves, and who the fuck knows how the all collide.

And that’s just Stormlight #6-10! (Actually, I bet you can get an entire book #6 out of everyone trying to get a jump on everyone else by setting their plans in action just before the timelines fully resync, and then those first steps all collide…)

And all this won’t even be the mistborn space opera yet.

[zephyscosmere]

Something I find so interesting; we see Kelsier as a Mistborn in tFE but that's not who he is. He's only Mistborn for like two years. In SH we see the real Kelsier; a man obsessed with the power of knowledge and very adept at getting it.

[azure-sorceress]

I love Marasi so much for not joining the Ghostbloods. She met the cool and nice members of the Ghostbloods in Codenames, TwinSoul and Moonlight and not the creepy exploitative kind that Shallan meets, and still told them no. She still was able to see through them. Even if there were some good people on their side, ultimately their values did not align with hers.

"I won't keep secrets when the truth could save lifes". Exactly. They are more interested in keeping secrets than helping people when they can. They seek power, not making the cosmere a better place. And it would have gone against Marasi's whole character if she had accepted.

[thaidakar-is-hot]

I realize it's been awhile since I posted this

This is a big ass document I made while I was relistening to SLA to find hints of the Ghostbloods and other overarching Cosmere shit, mostly to prove they aren't as bad as they are made out to be by the fandom.

Some of my takes are wrong/bad here btw! I leave them to show how much I've come to learn about the Cosmere.

[little-cute-pink-horrible-being]

Mistborn era 3