Andy92

Wayne is one of my favorite Sanderson characters. His personality always jumps out on the page. Glad he got such a heroic ending, but also sad because he seemed like a perfect vessel for Whimsy.

There is a possibility Wax will live the rest of his life not knowing he’s a full Mistborn. The book ends with Sazed telling Wax he will finally let him live his life. I’d expect him to retire fully, and as some others have guessed, father another child who’s a future full Mistborn. In one sense Wax’s story is done, but his bloodline is still going to have a major impact on the future of the planet. The character left with the most unknowns is Kelsier, but with him being known as a future player in what’s to come, I didn’t find that very surprising. And if Brandon writes Era 3 between Stormlight 5 and 6, we won’t have to wait terribly long to find out what he’s up to.

When the line of a Herald dying was mentioned (most likely Chana from the years of fan theories), I was sold on Gavilar ascending as a Herald on his death bed after Szeth left him. Guess he ended up just being a blowhard lol

I usually chalk it up to Alethi culture not exactly being real life diplomacy. It’s part of why Dalinar is seen as such a hypocrite by a lot of the other nation’s leaders when he tries to make peace deals.

There’s a more recent interview where he confirmed we’ll know in the next book. https://wob.coppermind.net/events/466/#e14695 It’s likely that the consequences will be explored a lot more in Era 3 while we’ll still learn an identity of some sort in the Wax and Wayne finale.

I watched it tonight, and I have never read any of the books beforehand (only knew there were sand worms). But even with no knowledge of the series I thought it was an awesome film. I can’t speak for book accuracy but the movie had a lot of world-building/lore going on and seemed like it was handling a large plot well. It interested me enough that I may give the books a read in time. Not sure if I want to spoil the series before sequels come out or not though lol

Before you added in all the Kelsier stuff I was following this theory to think you were going for Dalinar symbolizing humanity and Elhokar symbolizing the singers/listeners. An ending where the two sides learn to live as one within the world they both knew is cool to me.

Like someone else mentioned, it already had quite a few twists in the original trilogy. The big reveal at the end was that it all pointed to Sazed. To find out years later that it really wasn’t pointing to Sazed feels like a bit of a waste. I’m fine with Kelsier being around and potentially even holding a Shard at some point, but calling him the Hero of Ages is a stretch to me that takes away from the original trilogy. It’s why the way Star Wars handled its newest trilogy went over so poorly with fans. The way they wrote the story made all the events from the original films feel pointless.

It’s been a while since I read WoR so that’s probably more clear than what I recalled lol. The difference between what Shallan is saying in this scene and what actually happened though is that this blade is Testament, not Pattern. I’m assuming the Testament blade just disappeared all the same though. I just never got why the blade didn’t disappear until after it got put in the box and not before.

The scene at the end of WoR always confused me. 1) If the blade was locked up before Shallan broke her oaths, why didn’t it just disappear back into spren form at some point? It doesn’t make sense that Shallan would be in the state of mind to keep it actively summoned. 2) How big was that safe if it could hold an entire Shardblade lol. Maybe Testament manifested as a shorter blade for Shallan so she could hold it properly but I don’t know. 3) Shallan is the most unreliable narrator I’ve ever seen. One of these days we’ll find out her dad put the One Ring in there.

It could happen but from a story standpoint: 1. I don’t want to lose Taravangian after one book. 2. Spoilers for another Cosmere story:

My first Sanderson series was the Mistborn trilogy. It’s so good when you read it for the first time. If you want to get into the Cosmere as a whole I’d recommend something like this after you read Hero of Ages: 1) The Way of Kings (Stormlight 1) 2) Warbreaker (Stand-alone novel) 3) Words of Radiance (Stormlight 2) 4) Edgedancer (Stormlight 2.5) 5) Elantris (Stand-alone novel) 6) Oathbringer (Stormlight 3) 7) - 10) Mistborn books 4-6 (Wax and Wayne novels) plus Mistborn: Secret History novella after Mistborn 6. 11) Dawnshard (Stormlight 3.5) 12) Rhythm of War (Stormlight 4) This gives you a break between the more massive Stormlight books while also giving you some insight into some of the Cosmere Easter eggs that appear in the Stormlight novels. Enjoy all the new material!

I tend to agree with this. I’ve heard Brandon talk about a writing concept with sequels in that you want to make sure you don’t undermine the events of earlier books and make them kind of pointless. Having a different Hero of Ages years after the original trilogy tends to undermine the entire purpose of what Sazed went through.

When Wax learns Lessie’s true identity.

She comes to terms with the part of her past that Veil protected her from, but Radiant is still around.

I just wish the advertisement was a sticker. Embedded in the print is so stupid lol

I believe that’s the smaller mass market paperbacks. I’m looking at the more full sized trade paperbacks. The publisher did a print of them all in that format once AMOL released. This is the one for New Spring. https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/1250774365/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?ie=UTF8&qid=1628125386&sr=8-3 They printed a new run of these in 2020 with the Prime Video logo and now I can’t track down the 2013 prints. They’re the exact same art without that logo. I didn’t know if it was a sticker but I think it’s embedded.

Lol that’s funny on the search result. Appreciate you taking the time to look. I think it’s probably embedded as well since it’s showing up at every bookstore and not just Amazon. Might have to see if I can track down some of the older trade paperback prints before the 2020 run…

I’ve been reading this series on and off for a couple years and am currently on the 6th book (no spoilers please, I’ve tried to avoid reading other thread titles in this forum lol). I have been collecting the books in trade paperback format and when I went to order a new one, I noticed there’s a logo on the covers now advertising the Amazon tv show. My question is…is this emblem actually embedded in the print or is it a sticker? Looks like this is a 2020 reprint from the publisher but I’m not having much luck figuring out if that logo it permanent. If it’s not a sticker that’s a bummer, and I’ll probably end up trying to go through the used market to complete the collection best I can based on the original printing of the trade paperbacks in the US. Thought I’d check here to see if anyone knew and could give some insight.

The line you quoted from OB when Dalinar opens the portal to Shadesmar and Kal sees the huge rush of wind also ties in nicely to Odium presumably seeing Honor’s power alive once more.

If this was a standalone series without a second season planned then I’d agree on the finale ending kinda weird. But knowing that they’re coming back, it ended a bit more like Infinity War left me feeling (the shot of Loki looking at Kang’s statue overlooking the TVA in his new timeline was ominous). As far as how it fits into the MCU moving forward, I think it’s actually the most essential show we’ve had since Endgame. The multiverse is about to become the staple plot line of Phase 4. Season 2 of Loki will obviously explore this more, but so will Dr. Strange 2 (I mean…Multiverse of Madness), and Ant-Man 3. I think other movies like Thor and Spider-Man are going to see their fair share of consequences based on what just happened. Because this finale was so dialog heavy and didn’t have much actual action, I can understand the initial feeling of “huh?” But the creation of the multiverse and introduction of Kang the Conqueror is gonna be the staple plot line of Phase 4 imo.

The show was one of my favorite MCU related shows/movies in general. Can’t wait for Phase 4 to really get going now.

So Episode 6…

I really enjoyed it overall. Thought this was gonna be a tough movie for them to pull off in a really meaningful way just because of what we ultimately know about Natasha from Endgame, but I really enjoyed her relationship with Yelena. The joking about the hair flip pose cracked me up lol I was a bit underwhelmed by the Taskmaster. That’s a villain I was really looking forward to that just wasn’t in too many meaningful scenes. The way they set up the villain also reminded me a bit of the villain from Ant-Man and the Wasp so the idea felt like a bit of a rehash. An AI enhanced fighting suit programmed to copy moves should have been pretty difficult to actually disarm due to its ability to predict attacks as well as perform them, so if I had a gripe with the movie it would be that.