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I've edited the The Way of Kings Prime cover to make covers for a few other unpublished works, as I thought the cover looked rather nice, and that the other unpublished novels needed covers anyway. The Pimp My Aether thread explains how to convert the Word files to eBook formats and attach covers. White Sand: Aether of Night: Dragonsteel Prime: Liar of Partinel: Mythwalker: Mistborn Prime: Final Empire Prime:

Definitely lower quality than the published books, but not as bad as it seemed people said. I'd be curious to see what exactly happened at the end, but Peter's predictions in the final annotation all make sense to me. His comparison of Hess to Preservation is interesting. I didn't catch any similarities, but Preservation as the bad guy and Ruin as the "good" (or less bad) guy could be cool. Now, for some thoughts about what is written (not in any particular order or grouping): As Peter said many times in the annotations, there weren't a whole lot of downsides to the power, as long as it wasn't too diluted. I do actually think a system like it could be interesting to see, but it would need a lot more limitations. The main character being able to just instantly pick up on any skills needed doesn't make for an interesting challenge. I kept misreading the doubled consonants as single consonants (with the exception of Vvenna, because I was used to Vivenna from Warbreaker already). The fact that Mistborn has "koloss" probably doesn't help lol. Prisoner-to-romantic-interest always feels icky to me. While it didn't get to a romance stage, I have little doubt that it was going to become one. So I'm glad I didn't have to read that. Also, Devin making a joke about her being too tall to rape was... no. Sanderson's romances in generally usually aren't amazing to me, but I'm so glad he's at least improved, and even has a couple I like in his more recent books. Aether is actually the main one where I really hated some scenes (I didn't mind the relationship in the book, but that first scene was just weird), but as I mentioned, the whole trope this book's romance followed is one I hate. Siri's plot is I guess basically lifted and moved to Warbreaker without too many changes, the obvious exception being that she's not in disguise in Warbreaker. I accidentally clicked Chapter 22 first, so I got spoiled that Hime dies. But that's not exactly a shock. I think I probably would've expected him to die at some point even without it (the only real way for his Oath to end was either for him to break it or him to die due to it). And the King's betrayal was pretty expected as well. Peter complained about Vvenna's character in the annotations (or at least I think I remember him doing so). I agree that Vivenna in Warbreaker was better, but I really didn't mind Vvenna much, even at the more boring parts. Felt kinda necessary for her arc, so I just thought "well, presumably she'll start to understand eventually". I do agree that I liked Warbreaker Vivenna more. Took way too long to reveal the powers imo. It was... kinda obvious, and I assume intentionally so. I'm surprised we never got any explanation or rumors of what the Mythwalker actually was. Perhaps he was trying to do something similar to what he'd later do in Aether, Sanderson of course got in his obligatory "maladroitly"s. I STILL have yet to hear the word used outside a Sanderson work, as far as I can remember. Was Siri's bethrothed (whose name escapes me) intended to be Dalinar but dead the whole book? I definitely got Dalinar vibes off him (or well, hornier Dalinar vibes). I see that's a sort of trope Sanderson really likes (which isn't surprising, since iirc wasn't he from Sanderson's very first novel he wrote as a teen, before even White Sand?) I did get kinda bored for most of the book, and honestly as I got towards the last chapters I figured I wouldn't mind the lack of an ending, but the final written chapters did make me want more. Although, Warbreaker offers a likely end to Siri's plot, and I feel like I can predict a potential end for the rest (assuming Sanderson didn't have some crazy twists planned). In addition to the things that were transplanted to published books, a few things felt like possible inspiration for things in Aether as well (though most are different enough that they're probably just based on similar ideas than actually based on Mythwalker): So far, I'd say Way of Kings Prime is the best of his unpublished works, followed by Aether, with Mythwalker in third. Although I haven't actually gotten to reading White Sand Prose yet, and haven't gotten my hands on Mistborn Prime or Final Empire Prime (which I've heard he occasionally will email out?), and of course have not read Dragonsteel Prime. Aether is still probably my favorite though, even if I couldn't tell you why. And as usual for my posts, I'm tired and typing on a phone, so apologies for typos or weird phrasings.

Ive done these for Aether of Night and Way of Kings Prime and figured id do Mythwalker as well. Its a unfinished novel but it has a decent chunk written, so I decided to do an analysis anyway. Unique POV Breakdown: Character (11) # of POVs (77) % of Total POVs Word Count (129,722) % of Word Count Devin 36 46.75% 80,641 62.16% Siri 17 22.08% 26,419 20.37% Vvenna 10 12.99% 11,170 8.61% Talla 4 5.19% 2,548 1.96% Vevvin 3 3.90% 4,168 3.21% Brene 2 2.60% 1,317 1.02% Sarn 1 1.30% 417 0.32% Mila 1 1.30% 509 0.39% Dunn 1 1.30% 1,619 1.25% Voko 1 1.30% 446 0.34% Narrator 1 1.30% 468 0.36% Chapter by Chapter Breakdown