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Let's see, going from memory here so the order might be slightly off...

- Vaeria is the way it is because two godlike siblings had a spat over who was better, they did Very Stupid Things to try and win and it backfired for both of them.

- Oh wait, one of the Fell Twins is in Raeth's head?!

- Hey, Raeth's power is the inverse of the Vo-Dari, that's handy!

- RUN AWAY, RUN AWAY!

- Oh, the Vo-Dari are betraying us, that's just storming great.

- The Forgotten are created from Night-bonded Dari that Agaris has touched and the Irae have been forming this army of them in secret for a long time.

- The Proto-Shardpool Agaris is trapped in is right here? Aren't these powers perfect opposites? That gives me an idea!

- Raeth pulls a Vin several years before Vin, but Makkal is nice enough to get out of his head first and teleport him away. KABOOM.

- We'd better temporarily relocate our capital since our last one is now a huge crater.

- Oh, the senate saw through the whole Raeth/Hern ruse and were playing along.

- Hijinks straight out of Shakespeare's comedies as the political situation gets resolved and the bridal choosing reaches its inevitable conclusion.

- And they lived Happily Ever After!

- Oh wait, sudden sequel hook, but you can basically ignore it because that sequel's never getting written.

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On 16/10/2020 at 1:36 AM, Weltall said:

- Oh, the senate saw through the whole Raeth/Hern ruse and were playing along.

- Hijinks straight out of Shakespeare's comedies as the political situation gets resolved and the bridal choosing reaches its inevitable conclusion.

- And they lived Happily Ever After!

aside from these specific points, I actually really love the ending to this book. 

Though I could see that this could've been split into two separate books, with the first ending slightly after they defeat the Forgotten at the city walls, with the final scene being the sequel hook of them climbing back out of the pool, and the second book follows the few day rush they had to confront the, now much more threatening, Forgotten attack that is imminent, with much more space on the pages to fit in the exposition of the world and the proto-Shards that were in the story. I would also have liked to see the other three sort-of-Shardpools for the Aethers, to see what they look like and such. This would make it very similar to the first two books in Mistborn Era 1, with the "We've defeated the threat! Oh wait, there's a bigger one", then the "Well now that that is done, can you fare against the whims of the Twins?" being very similar to "You've defeated The Lord Ruler, now deal with the consequences of your actions" followed by "You've united the nations and formed a peace, but you also accidentally released The Big Bad, good luck!"

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Yeah, the resolution at the end had some... issues <looks at Alean>.

As far as splitting the book goes, there's plenty of worldbuilding Brandon could have done and the setting seems to have been written as one he could have come back to repeatedly given the little details sprinkled here and there, but I'm not sure Brandon actually had enough plotted out at the time to even know where he was going next with that sequel hook, much less to have a second book worth of expanded material. We know he jumped from this to his stillborn plan for a mega-series that never amounted to more than a few pages of material in the form of Climb the Sky, which may have jettisoned most of the earlier worldbuilding anyways based on what little we know about it. So yeah, as a general solution to the problems the book has I'm more inclined to pare down than expand. But if we're dreaming about alternate universes in which Brandon did invest more time in Aether and had enough material for multiple books... yeah, ending the first book with 'we won for now but there are all these questions we need answers to' and then raising the stakes in the second would work pretty well. If we're limiting it to two books then the Twins being freed a la the sequel hook would work better as an act one ending so there's time for it to be developed without rushing the conclusion.

Taking an idea from an older topic on 'fixing' Aether, you could have the second book start with Laene staging a coup at the urging of the Patriarch (setting the former up for the comeuppance he didn't really get in the original) and the protagonists dealing with that, culminating in the release of the Twins. That would give everyone a very strong motivation to learn all the information they get from the Former in AoN as they figure out what to do about the godlike beings making a mess of their planet and generally would be a good opportunity for worldbuilding.

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