Elsecaller_17.5 Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 What's everyone's favorite cosmere twist. Mine has to be the whole OreSeur TenSoon debacle. It just blows my mind how well it was played out. Never saw it coming! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fezzik Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 All of the Taravangian reveals. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Karger Posted February 23, 2020 Report Share Posted February 23, 2020 I think Vin's earning takes the cake. It makes perfect sense, is explained without us even knowing what is going on, is demonstrated twice, and then when it actually happens it makes perfect sense. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elegy Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 There's so many, I can't even hope to gather them all. But the TenSoon twist is probably the most ingenious "Whodunit" twist I've ever read. I spent the whole book thinking Brandon wouldn't be able to surprise me since the group of suspects was so small, so I thought he either had to go for an obvious choice or cheat his way out, but damnation. What a boss. Then the finale of Hero of Ages has two of my favorites. The obvious one is the reveal who the Hero of Ages actually is, which is brilliant not primarily because it's unexpected, but because it utilizes something that has been present since book 1 (the ancient Scadrian religions) in such a meaningful and beautiful way. I also love how it works as kind of a thematical summary of the Cosmere series yet. It's all about different perspectives - that seems to be the most all-encompassing theme in these books. And having someone reforge a whole world based on all the different perspectives on what that world once was, from different people who valued different things, is just a beautiful, beautiful thing. The other one is the atium misting thing, which completely blew my mind. I think it's one of the best examples of a well-done fantasy twist. There's just no way you could do something like that outside of fantasy. I think that's both the challenge and the opportunity of the genre: You can establish whole new sets of rules, which is a blessing, but you also have to make them plausible and make them work without them seeming convinient, because then that's lazy and cheating. This is just an amazing example of how to do it right, because of how amazing the build-up is: You know of mistings, you know of atium, you know of snapping, and the Deepness being dangerous has also been established long before. But you never connect all these things up until that moment, and from one page to the other you have basically an army of the most powerful mistings possible, that's just - man, I loved how that played out. The big Shadows of Self twist also deserves a mention. I predicted it in the middle of the book and still urgently wanted it to happen (which, in my opinion, is a sign that this twist is the right decision for its story). Then it happened and I was still surprised by how strong it felt. It's another proof that predicting a twist doesn't have to ruin it. Now, these are all Mistborn, and I'll go ahead and say that Mistborn has probably had more brain-twisting reveals than Stormlight yet, while Stormlight has better character development, and there's more surprising decisions rather than surprising revelations in there, if that makes sense. That said, the identity of Odium's champion was something that really got to me just because of how devastating it felt at that particular moment. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aneonfoxtribute Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 (edited) Sazed being the Hero, by far. Kelsier being alive is up there, though, if only for the way it was revealed. Edited February 24, 2020 by aneonfoxtribute Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elsecaller_17.5 Posted February 24, 2020 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 I love how these are almost all mistborn Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Harrycrapper Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 17 minutes ago, Elsecaller_17.5 said: I love how these are almost all mistborn I'll take it upon myself then to do the Elantris one. Hrathen siding with Sarene and the Elantrians over Dilaf was very unexpected given how devoted to Shu-Dereth he was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantus Posted February 24, 2020 Report Share Posted February 24, 2020 Spoiler free and in no particular order: Sazed's whole Crisis of Faith and it's resolution. Lightsong and his Priest. Paalm. Adolin and Sadeas. The True Voidbringers Nale's outlook Nightblood (and Friends) cameo Dalinar's Memory Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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