#mistborn book one

[underthetree845]

Kelsier meeting Vin: Oh it’s adorable! Vin: Everyone will abandon you in the end. Kelsier: Oh it’s traumatized.

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(I love them more than I can put into words)

#this book broke me #Mistborn #Mistborn series #Brandon Sanderson #reading #reader things #final empire #Mistborn final empire #Vin #Kelsier #the survivor #the lord of the mists #Vin Mistborn #kelsier mistborn #mistborn book one

[superlintball]

One of my absolute favorite things about the Mistborn series (era 1, specifically) is the bait-and-switch of the overarching plot.

Like, you go into it and you're like, "Yeah, okay. I'm reading one of the Big Fantasy Trilogies of the modern era. Hell yeah. What's this all about?"

And so you read. You get introduced to the characters, the magic system, and, most importantly, the central conflict: it's an assassination plot.

Clearly, the whole trilogy is going to be about finding a way to kill the god-emperor of the cruel and oppressive regime, and the final book will have them overthrow him and everything will Be Good.

"Of course that's what will happen," you think to yourself. "That's a pretty standard narrative structure."

So you keep reading.

But as you read the book, something doesn't feel right. The pacing seems... Off. Isn't this book moving too quickly?

And then, as you get around the second act of the book, it hits you all at once.

"Are they... Are they gonna successfully assassinate the Lord Ruler?? IN THE FIRST BOOK??"

It sure looks like it.

SO WHAT THE HELL ARE THE OTHER TWO BOOKS GONNA BE ABOUT.

#cosmere #mistborn #brandon sanderson #okay but like #this is one of my favorite things about the books #AND I CAN'T TELL ANYONE #because it's such a spoiler for the first book and no one in my life has read it

[sleepinglionhearts]

@vinosscum introduced me to the first Mistborn book,

#doodles #mistborn #the final empire #cosmere #mistborn art tag #yeah this won't be all that comes out of my horrid little hands of course #vin mistborn #elend venture #kelsier mistborn #ok so i finished it earlier this evening and I'm already going to go bother local library staff about book 2 #anyway Vin sweetie ur doing great #amazing how one girl can attain So Many Dads in such a short time #I haven't had too much time to look for like. proper illustrations or anything so here have my mental image #of the girl herself while I was reading #and the slightest hint of kel in the you're my dad meme #anyway. yay! books!! #this totally won't destroy me in any way!!!

[redscrawl]

i think i took the Oreseur/Tensoon betrayal in WOA harder than anyone ever

#i was literally weeping #SOBBING #idk why i’m so attached to him #same with kelsier death #my book was stained with tears #The Well of Ascension Spoilers #mistborn spoilers #mistborn #mistborn era 1 #cosmere #brandon sanderson #also i’m still currently reading WOA so pls no spoilers for any of the later books or this one

[dont-tell-mom-and-dad]

#fandom #fantasy #fandom thoughts #cosmere #brandon sanderson #george r.r. martin #cosmere memes #asoiaf #a song of ice and fire #valyrianscrolls #bookblr #reading #mistborn #stormlight archive #the cosmere #started reading #elantris #the other day #and i love it #so if it's one of sandersons weaker books #i know #i'm in for a ride #I don't hate #grrm #but I can rely on sanderson #to actually #publish #books #and not spend more than ten years #on one

[hamletthedane]

Fuck it. Have some Mistborn Series memes:

Re-read The Final Empire this weekend and made some memes

Bonus:

…more to come as soon as I finish TWOA

#mistborn #the final empire #sorry these are mostly Vin-focused she’s just the funniest character #BREAKING NEWS: LOCAL ANGRY WET KITTEN MURDERS GOD #Did anybody else read this series?? just me?? #no spoilers on the remaining books as I never finished them but am now planning to read them ASAP #Reading this again the fact that Vin slowly obtains more and more dads as TFE progresses is the funniest plotline in any fantasy novel #Chap 1: zero dads. in fact a negative number of dads #Chap 50-something: average person has one dad. Spiders Vin who is adopted by everybody who meets her and has 10000 dads is an outlier

[mellkellyismyhero]

Spoilers for Tress of the Emerald Sea (this is a meme but it does spoil something)

#tress of the emerald sea #brandon sanderson #cosmere #i finished this book in one sitting like an hour ago and i am still in shock #secret projects #i knew this would happen eventually bc thats where mistborn is heading but i am still so SURPRISED

[tbookblurbs]

The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era 1, #3)

5/5 - Satisfying conclusion, excellent discussions about faith, intensely vivid world-building

Spoilers below!!

This book deserves high praise for its commitment to the plotline alone. Many books (and tv series) that I've read(/watched) find themselves unwilling to commit to the ending that they've set themselves up for. As heartbreaking as it is, sometimes the events set in motion have to result in major character death and despair. Anything else would be unsatisfying.

I can still remember how I felt the first time I read HoA and even knowing the ending, you still feel this sense of dread. How can the characters survive this? How can you fight the end of the world? And yet because I was so used to seeing most of the main characters survive, I remained convinced until the end that Vin and Elend would make it, which makes their deaths all the more heartbreaking. The imagery of Sazed piecing their bodies back together and laying them in a bed of flowers makes me tear up every time.

On the topic of Sazed, I think the bait and switch of Vin or maybe even Elend as the Hero, only to have Sazed fulfill that role is a really earned and satisfying conclusion. It feels good to see that only Sazed could save the world and bring everything back to what it should have been because he's a scholar. Conflict and death couldn't resolve everything in the end.

The journal entries should have tipped me off, honestly. The first time, I thought that maybe Elend or Vin was writing them later on, old and able to look back on these times with more of a curious eye, or maybe that Sazed and the pair were creating it together. But now, reading this for the second time, the hints of Sazed were there the whole time. He's got such a distinctive voice and way of looking at the world.

From a pulled-back perspective, Sanderson is really good at writing the end of the world. I felt similarly reading the Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler (which everyone should read!) and that same sort of sadness and hopelessness bleeds through the page here. However, just like in Butler's work, there's this pervading sense of hope. It's desperate and crazy at times, but it's still there. And that's one of the things I really like about Sanderson's novels. He seems to really believe in the potential for people to be good and hopeful and trusting in one another, which I vastly prefer over the "all humans are evil" schtick that a lot of other authors have going (GRRM).

#this book does drag a little bit #but I think it needs to be this long #the desperation wouldn't feel real if it was solved any sooner #like yeah we're stuck in fadrex city and guess what. the characters are ALSO stuck in fadrex city. we're pissed about it together #kinda makes you feel as one with the characters #vin venture #elend venture #literally can't talk about vin/elend in this book without getting so sad. they deserved to live and be happy in peace #sazed #brandon sanderson #the hero of ages #mistborn #mistborn spoilers #mistborn era 1 #book review #fantasy #high fantasy #cosmere

[swagspren]

Keystone to Sanderson healthy relationship is one party was illiterate when they met. Therefore, I feel it is my responsibility to let everyone know that Waxillium Ladrian cannot read

#at least in book one #your honor hes faking #cosmere #mistborn #stormlight archive #mistborn era 2 #brandon sanderson

[do-you-know-this-adhd-character]

Do you know this (noncanon) ADHD character?

Evidence below the cut!

Submitter says: she is generally hyperactive and gets a lot of shame from not being able to finish things. Kind of stereotypical kid adhd character, but written pretty well so balanced out.

Mudkip says: Saw this while getting this image from her fandom wiki, felt very ADHD so figured I'd add it:

Lift doesn't usually decide to do things; she usually just does things. She takes challenges as they arise, goes places for no reason other than that she hasn't seen them before.

#poll #noncanon adhd character #stormlight archive #the stormlight archive #brandon sanderson #lift stormlight #stormlight lift #stormlight is one of those series i want to get around to reading and havent #i loved the mistborn books though #ive read those

[titsthedamnseason]

for some reason trying to work out the timeline of these books is headache inducing to me it feels like rocket science

#so book one takes place over a year or so i think? maybe a bit longer #but then there’s an ambiguous gap between one and two i don’t remember how long #and now the start of hero of ages feels like it just punched me in the gut #elend is now a fully capable mistborn and the lord ruler died more than two years ago ?! #what’s going on!!!! #mine #mistborn #juli reads the cosmere #elend and vin emperor/empress era is everything to me by the way #THEY ARE SO POWERFUL

[spacetimeaccordionfolder]

Reading The Hero of Ages (Mistborn #3) and I feel like the Always Sunny in Philadelphia conspiracy board meme trying to figure out the little vignettes at the beginning of each chapter.

#I've just started I'm only on page 100 ish and ahhhh #who are you mystery person #I have my theories of course but ahhhhh #i'm sorry lord ruler did what to the planet??? he moved it??? why do you know that. How do you know that one conversation. Who are you. #It's got me rereading the ending of book one trying to figure out what exactly lord ruler said and admitted to #please no spoilers #mistborn

[shavynel]

I am a fucking artist.

@girlgeniusevents Day Three: Jagerkin & Crossover

wayne just has absolute jäger energy.

in the middle of a fight he stops to shop clothes off the guy he defeated

he believes in hats

his relationship with hats is unmatchable

book 1 plot is he loses his hat and tries to get it back

he's undyingly loyal

eager for a fight

knows how to start a bar fight

brawler in an age where there's shooty things

thinks getting shot at is a form of affection

absolutely would go up to someone and say "nize hat" (and eat it off their head)

inspired by one of my favorite panels of girl genius.

oh, and if they weren't stick figures, wax would be pulling him back by his suspenders.

#mistborn era two #wax and wayne #cosmere #wayne terrisborn #girl genius #girl genius event week #day three #jagerkin #crossover #this is probably not what was meant by crossover #but wayne is such jager energy #hats are the most important words a man can find #shadows of self #hoid #cremposting #i have an entire wayne gets adopted by jagers crossover that maybe one person is aaking for #really this is my propaganda campaign for gg people to learn about wayne #also book 1 is sort of actually book 4 ... so it's an investment to get to know wayne unfortunately #waxillium ladrian #shavynel scribbles

[gardenvarietycrafts]

Day 4

Once again, I'm not quite done working on this for the night, but I put it on a longer cord to measure it before I got too much further, and it fits really well! I'm thinking around 11 more inches of the body before I start the ribbing, but we're definitely getting there. Around halfway through yarn ball #3, which based on meterage, puts me approximately a quarter to a third of the way done. So far I'm having a great time with it!

#description in alt text #knitting #knitblr #knit #sweater #reminder that this is my first ever knit sweater #and ive only successfully crocheted one the other i stopped before i got to the sleeves #pattern is flax by tin can knits and im using their app to follow along with the pattern #yarn is wool ease in arrowwood #and what im listening to while knitting is the first mistborn book the final empire

[redemptiionss]

Oh and I just finished reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter and I'm going insane, it was so good. This was my first Sanderson book lol I'm going to have to read his other books too for sure

#txt #now how do i write a review that's going to encompass my feelings for this book #i think my next read may be tress of the emerald sea #i also want to read the sunlit man but i think that one is cosmere heavy???? #so i may just buy and hold it till i've read more of the cosmere universe #i'll def start with the mistborn trilogy too

[iaerys]

just finished mistborn the final empire and... it's unclear to me how you guys kept going after this

#like?????? #i had to google just to check if it was true and IT WAS??? #and i SAW there are more deaths #i cannot do this #this type of heartbreak i cannot deal with #he was my beloved #i now think wind and truth will leave NO ONE alive you guys im so scared #how can anyone start branderson with this slap of a book i would have never made it to stormlight #vin is everything i love her #what a fucking depressing friday #mistborn: the final go fuck yourself #mistborn