#mistborn secret history

[asteroidfieldgame]

The real funniest Cosmere character is Riina (the Sorceress)

She shows up, plans to gain ultimate power on a planet that isn't even aware of the wider Cosmere, and gets beaten by someone who barely knows who she is and doesn't even know what an Elantrian is.

Then she does it again in Tress.

She's the only main villain of a cosmere book to survive her series.

Can't wait for her to be the villain of another book she's barely in

[zephyscosmere]

Kelsier being a good dad and not getting mad at Vin when she calls him out in tFE about being a nobleman or in Secret History when she asks him how much of the plan was about him. Kelsier being a good dad and being proud of Spook and Vin, asking Sazed to heal Spook and make him mistborn.

I love him.

[tyresw]

Leras: I'm sorry Kelsier but in a few moments you will pass into the Beyond, I cannot save you.

Kelsier, eyeing the Well: Well, first of all, through Investiture all things are possible, so jot that down.

[sunflowerangel16]

So I was rereading Mistborn Secret History and I saw this.

Riina? As in Riina the sorceress from Tress of the Emerald Sea?

Yes. The Sorceress first appears in Mistborn Secret History as a member of the Ire. Such a tiny detail that Sanderson made sure to say her name specifically and she came back as her own character. Mind blown.

[strangerlittlethings]

Only kelsier would punch 'god' in the face as the first thing to do when get to heaven 💀💀💀💀💀 what was that

[onlycosmere]

Brandon Sanderson: Nazh was born, as a character and as a concept, out of Isaac annotating maps, and wanting to have somebody... 'Cause Isaac was our original cartographer, been doing the maps ever since Mistborn, of basically all of the Stormlight books, until he started bringing some people in to do some of them.

Not just Stormlight, but all of the Cosmere books.

So if there's a map, or (particularly in the Stormlight books) ephemera, Isaac has had his hands in those, and he likes to add little easter eggs, and he came up with this persona of this character who was doing this. And we knew we wanted these to be in-world artifacts, but we also knew that we needed somebody who was kind of recovering these for some thing, and I'm like, "Well, this works very well with Khriss, probably compiling these and finding artifacts from planets and bringing them back to Silverlight."

And so, that's kind of where Nazh was born. I borrowed him once before for Secret History; he makes a small appearance in Secret History. Larger appearance here. Isaac and I have talked through his history and his future, and as early as years and years ago (probably seven, eight years ago), I'm like, "What about this?"

And that's when Nazh joined Starling's crew in his current incarnation.

Isaac Stewart: I think it was with Alloy of Law where we realized we need somebody annotating some of these, now and then. One of the reasons was, when you're doing a map of a city the size of Elendel, we couldn't really put these tiny street names, and things like that.

So we're like, "Well, we need somebody annotating this." And many things crashing together, but that was one of them.

[rotheninth]

the real mistborn question is what kel era is kelsier fortnite from. is that eleventh metal emo king? married man kel? vin era? southern scadriel ghostblood? stormlight/era 2 thaidakar? which of these men is doing the victory royale on peter griffin

[marvelousmagicalaura]

Something I’ve come to appreciate about Ruin’s writing, despite my many issues, is that Ruin is change. However, Ruin doesn’t represent the typical definition of change. If Ruin wasn’t around Preservation, if not the Lord Ruler, would forever keep the world stagnant. Ruin transforms things, this is seen through Hemalurgic constructs. But Ruin doesn’t create, invent, or make things grow for the sole sake of those purposes. He does those things with the ultimate goal of decaying or breaking things down. Ruin is decay and entropy.

Ruin creates/invents a web of information which guides people towards a situation where a useless metal kills an immortal ruler. He helps Spook grow into a competent revolutionary, with the goal of having him cause the destruction of Urteau.

But if Preservation and Ruin are together in one Shard, it becomes a force that understands the necessities of BOTH stagnation/stability AND decay. A force that understands why both are necessary in the cosmere and society. And understands how to implement them. Harmony/Discord cares for the Elendel Basin, but knows its stagnation and coddling must eventually be removed for its society to grow.

[etrelibre]

kelsier really is just That Bitch

[stardustravens]

Mistborn: Secret History is one of the greatest works of fiction ever because it starts with a guy getting bitchslapped to death, then proceeding to punch a god whilst clinging to his last moments before moving into the afterlife, and ends with him haunting one of his former crew members to found both a cult and a religion that follows him, but between that there’s a heartbreaking reunion with his adopted daughter and her husband, more god punching, desperate attempts to aid the war that he inadvertently started against the crumbling gods of his planet as little more than a ghost, and him irritating an immortal cursed to do no harm enough for said immortal to find a loophole in this curse and beat the shit out of him.

[danhn10]

[dalenthas]

Just saw this, wanted desperately to reply to it but I know I can't because I don't want to spoil anything for this poor soul:

[zephyscosmere]

*for a very brief time and not really accomplishing very much

No but this bothers me so much?? Like he was so close!

[l3st1b0urn3s-707]

Kelsier: I'm going to kill the lord ruler, a piece of god who has been ruling the final empire for 1000 years, in revenge of my wife' s death

Also kelsier: Dying? Seeing my dead wife in the afterlife? Nah, let's explore the secrets of the cosmere

[murderousjelliebean]

Actual scene from Mistborn: Secret History

(Sorry for the bad editing)

[its2-40pm]