#i had to edit the original post because i meant to say kwaan instead of alendi? i think? THERES SO MUCH TO FOLLOW

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also also i realized that i think whether vin is the hero or not this plot line will be resolved by the end of this book and she will get to the well of ascension and do whatever it is people do there to claim its mystical world saving/destroying powers. i remember someone on tiktok saying that this book had one of brandon’s best ever endings in a book and also it’s literally called the well of ascension so brandon cannot trick me again like either the final empire when i thought the plot of just that book was going to take us the whole trilogy. i was a little slow on the uptake but it is clear to me now that vin will go to the well in this book (hence its name, and also the fact that she’s preparing to go to terris and there’s 200 pages left) and the next book - the hero of ages - will follow the fallout of that with her being the new lord ruler figure / in charge of the whole world? and maybe probably she isn’t actually the hero and dealing with the pressure of that? i’m not sure she might be the hero but my girls mental state isn’t really equipped for that either way so we shall see

like once i stop being so engrossed in the story and step back to think about the titles and pacing and a realistic arc of a story then these things become more clear to me lol. i’m just so used to fantasy plots being wayyyyyy more dragged out and i love that brandon doesn’t do that. it’s so talented that he can manage to do that without the plots feeling rushed AT ALL. he doesn’t slow things down just for the sake of having a longer page/word count which i really appreciate. he genuinely crammed SO MUCH story into these three books and did it so flawlessly. i understand the hype now and he deserves all the praise and applause he gets

i can’t decide if it’s TOO OBVIOUS that vin is the hero of ages….like obviously all the signs are there and she’s the Main Character so it seems right that she would fulfill that “chosen one” role but then again is it so obvious that’s just want brandon wants us to think so he can pull the rug out from under us? also if that isn’t the case it would parallel the historical events of everything being all muddled (and sazed filling alendi’s role since now he also believes that vin is The Hero)