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Marsh

This book was amazing! I can't wait til Bloodline comes.

I thought it was amazing.

My wish is that the game will go back to what it once was.

I think that Scadrial would have a red Harmony symbol against a blue background.

I'm in.

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This is the reason why I took me so long to start reading his books and how surprised I was when I started them.

The Final Empire. Heroes of Ages is right below it.

I think they are a new type of kandra. For Paalm had a trell spike and she was not like those things at the end of BoM

With Marsh it seemed that Kelsier caused a small opening for him to rip off Vin's earring not his actual willpower overcoming ruin. I also loved the new info we learned of the Cognitive Realm and the Cosmere. Also, Kelsier sure does deserve the name Survivor.

I believe that there is a WoB that said if you mixed Lerasium and Atium together you would become a full feruchemist, I think this is what being invested by Harmony would be.

Original Title: This ruined part of the original trilogy for me. First, don't get me wrong I still love the original trilogy, the Wax and Wayne quadrilogy, and the novella, but the novella did squander parts of the original trilogy for me. There were three events from the trilogy that were hurt by this novella and most likely ruined those moments for me. The first thing to be really changed my thoughts on the trilogy in a bad way was Kelsier's death. The scene is not ruined for me but the impact it had to the story has lessened. The moment was important to me because this was the first time I actually felt a true sadness for a fictional character's death. This was the same time that I feel in love with Mistborn and started citing to other people that this is a unique series. The way Bands of Mourning ended implied, to me, that Kelsier was resurrected in some way and was going to become a bad guy, this novella changed my thoughts on that occurring. Bands of Mourning left me satisfied with Kelsier's return but SH changed it for me that this going to be the same Kelsier only with bigger goals. To me Kelsier's death was a purely unique moment that impacted the story in a great way and would have rather let his return be left a bit more ambiguous. The next two events both take place in Hero of Ages and this is when Kelsier takes up Preservation. In the third book, we see Marsh struggle for hundreds of pages and multiple chapters against Ruin and his control over him. This internal conflict was one of my favorite parts of the third book that led to him gaining enough will, enough for one second, to rip out Vin's earring. We know that this led to the saving of the entire world. The novella shows us that Kelsier used his power to give Marsh the ability to rip out the earring. To me this ruins Marsh's arc through the third book and in reality he was just the vessel for Kelsier to save the day. Honestly I don't like that and I wished that stayed the same, for it feels that Marsh really does nothing through the third novel. This one really impacted me the most and it happens in the Epilogue of SH. Spook was one of my favorite characters in Hero of Ages; I loved the side character's quests more than the actual main story. In the third book we see Spook overcome Kelsier's shadow over him and he becomes his own man. The Epilogue ruined this completely for me. He overcame Kelsier's shadow only for Kelsier's literal shadow to come back to him. Spook even states, "He was his own man now! He didn't need to just do whatever Kelsier said." This quote hit me really hard, probably because of how I felt so connected to Spook. In Hero of Ages, we did not just Spook become his own man but he became his own character. I would have liked Kelsier's return to be left to the unknown and while I thought Secret History was an interesting read but when I reread the trilogy I'm going to leave this novella out when it comes to these events in the story. I know this is kinda long and if you got this far thank you for reading this.

Nice theory, it makes a lot of sense.

Maybe he wants to be Adonalsium.