Mistborn
I mostly listened to Mistborn while on a road trip and dumped my notes into a group chat so these notes may be a bit more chaotic than previously experienced.
Or if you’ve only read Mistborn and this is the first set of notes of mine you’ve read… well, my apologies.
Spoilers for Mistborn
Mentions of, but no spoilers for Twilight, Game of Thrones
These notes are from June 2024:
Aw he dedicated this one to grandma
Eye tattoos mean tattoos around eyes or like eyeball tattoos?
Sanderson fashion descriptions are always delightful because I often think of the lady who wrote twilight who is also Mormon and she put her characters in the fugliest clothes
Does … does everyone have Mike Tyson tattoos?
Lots of proper nouns in my fantasy book
I am once again wondering about population size
I agree with Vin that all of that in the Ministry went far too smoothly.
Steel Inquisitor fan art asap what the fuck.
As they’re dropping lore I vaguely remember discussions of magic being tied to metals and I’m thankful we have a character who also needs to learn the magic rules so I can learn the magic rules
Hmmm cool. If each metal equals a specific power then that means you get all of them and not just one proficiency. When do I get a power wheel that shows me what metals counter each other
We are learning Allomancy from our magic dad and it’s not one metal to one power? Mostly people just have one form of Allomancy?
Oh it’s literally one or all.
Just a casual rebellion meeting, NBD
Vin: this dude is crazy
Also Vin: but, he can still be my teacher
Brandon Sanderson really just wrote fantasy Ocean’s 11
Is Kell using metal to websling through the city?
This entire chapter has just been them sitting in a room writing on a chalkboard
Yeden being upset about noble murder when he hired guys to overthrow the government is SO funny
Is there like a Mistborn alliance or something. Where do these cloaks come from
Also is the Steel Ministry like the military?church? Main body of government? All of the above?
I finished part 1. Is say-zed/keeper/steward man like the chain people in game of thrones?
Also as someone who used to read a lot of young adult I like that Vin is acknowledged for her strengths and weaknesses without the drama. Like yeah of course the entire thing doesn’t ride on one teenager.
I’m making progress but it’s hard to keep track of mental notes since I’m listening while driving but Vin is def crushing on Venture bro, Kel taught her to use Atium which I guess, is just turbo mode for Allomancers?
Also did Kel just make up this metal can kill god ruler? Is this some sort of stupid con?
And surely Lord ruler is a Mistborn right? Like he can’t just be a regular dude. He’s just a Mistborn with unlimited Atium?
Don’t worry Vin, we’ve all fallen for a college boy that was nice to us when we shouldn’t have. You’ll be fine.
Oh his wife DID betray him but he couldn’t not love her. I think this is supposed to be sweet but I’m actually more suspicious. Another check mark for Kel being a bad man.
I do think it’s interesting that we learn through creeping on boy Ventures books that the current system in place only works cause it creates less problems for the super ruler and not cause it’s a good system cause tbh it doesn’t sound that great of a system. Like all it takes are Mistborns to topple it amirite? So we practice eugenics against “half breeds” cause ska having power are the real problem
The government being corrupt oh no
Who could’ve ever expected
Not to mention it raining ash all the time sounds massively inconvenient
Other query: if they’re using metals for magic is there not an end to this eventually? How renewable are these resources?
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And Vin’s steward is… A homunculus? A robot? A robot human hybrid? They still haven’t explained what his people are but everything I do know rn is that he can remember way more than what feels reasonable for a person and he saved her from an Inquisitor
Mmmm, Kell just rigged a fight between soldiers to rile them up for winning and I’m supposed to think he’s the good guy? Another point for that’s a bad man
And Mr. Ham is like “dog what are they gonna do once they take the city? The rest of the empire is gonna wax them” and Kel just goes “not our job” 🤷
Allomancy is like kinda cool but Feruchemy sounds way cooler
But also if you’re storing like future energy, aren’t you just borrowing your own life
But that’s fine cause magic should have consequences
OH MY GOD VIN’S JUST TELLING ELLEND ABOUT SKAA
WHY DID THEY INCLUDE A TEENAGER IN THE REVOLUTION
But also he gave her a handkerchief 🫣
It’s pretty on brand for me to root for the bad boy to be good and the “good” man to be bad
But how good was the guy who sold his services to a rebellion anyway
Vin cried to Ellend and he had to admit he wasn’t a bad noble and Sazed was impressed she got another handkerchief
Vin got Dox’s sad back story, got a night with the family, and got to hang out with Ham which was all very ominous cause there’s always a calm before a storm
Ham just agreed to roll out with garrison man cause apparently there’s a rebellion????
Just gonna count down the pages until Ham definitely dies
But also, all this magic and no sort of improvement on communication when information is so important to war
Super execution time and we didn’t even get to see the Lord ruler and have an “oh no he’s hot” moment
Gold burning sounds rowdy if your life is filled with trauma
Marsh has found out some very useful things about the structure of the military/church/government and maybe lord ruler is just a symbol
Oh, Ellend likes her for real
they control the mines
surely Vin doesn’t give that info to Kell
oh my god Ellend’s homeboy had Vin followed and now Ellend’s gonna have Vin followed
house war begins
Vin goes sicko mode on Shan who is also a Mistborn
Also not daddy Venture letting his son get waxed
Does this mean Elend gets to join the revolution 🫣
I finished part 4 and Kel is dead and idk how I feel
Disappointed?
He gets backhanded after beheading an Inquisitor?!
I have completed the book
Rashek being super god was a fun development.
Killing your own people so you could be the only Feruchemy Allomancer is wild behavior
The deepness must uh, be very deep
The answer to killing the Lord ruler being in the logbook is kinda ironic
Inquisitors having an easy button feels like flawed design but sure
I’m glad nothing bad happened to Sazed that would’ve made me mad
I get that 17 and 21 isn’t the worst age gap romance media has given me but Mr. Sanderson, please
Listening to an hour of content and then going back to write notes really made rereading these pretty hard. Though the audiobook was fantastic. Just not easy to try to remember all my notes between driving stops. I was traveling a lot during my Mistborn era so there will be further dips in joke quality.
