Bands: What Happened?

[+robardin he/him]

2 hours ago, Stormtide_Leviathan said:

There was a very imminent threat of an apocalypse on scadrial and no other apparent outs. I think, even if there was only one use left on the bands, Kelsier would be willing to use them to avert the apocalypse even if it means losing access to the bands.

Well, here's the thing. We all sort of agree (I think) that Daal's true goal - with or without the GBs involvement - was to wait for a moment when the Elendel government would be in a crisis deep enough to persuade the kandra to put the Bands into play, and then to demand alternating possession to avert war with the Malwish.

So, how would he have known the "bombship" was going to be that crisis? One that would happen in the near future? He'd only just arrived to Elendel a little while earlier.

The timing of it all is quite suspicious to me. For such a plan to work, it feels like he'd have to have an ally, or at least a tip, from a number of groups or people involved who might be in the know beforehand; who was it?

• Kelsier/The Sovereign and the Ghostbloods
• Kandra/"TenSoon" (on his own)
• Kandra/"TenSoon" (under direction of Harmony)
• Trell and the Set (but why?)
• Yet Another Secret To RAFO

Adawathwyn seems like a likely ally, whatever her group alliance may have been. Or maybe she was just a fairly easily manipulated patsy.

TenSoon actually being TenSoon seems legit, but could also be called into question - mainly because presumably only TenSoon would know how/where to get the Bands from storage.

Furthermore, the fact that the Bands were drained didn't seem to surprise Daal. He wasn't furious, only sarcastic ("perhaps it is piety that makes them work, yah?"); his initial accusation that the Basinfolk had been using the Bands all this time seemed more perfunctory than genuine.

[Frustration]

1 hour ago, robardin said:

Well, here's the thing. We all sort of agree (I think) that Daal's true goal - with or without the GBs involvement - was to wait for a moment when the Elendel government would be in a crisis deep enough to persuade the kandra to put the Bands into play, and then to demand alternating possession to avert war with the Malwish.

So, how would he have known the "bombship" was going to be that crisis? One that would happen in the near future? He'd only just arrived to Elendel a little while earlier.

The timing of it all is quite suspicious to me. For such a plan to work, it feels like he'd have to have an ally, or at least a tip, from a number of groups or people involved who might be in the know beforehand; who was it?

• Kelsier/The Sovereign and the Ghostbloods
• Kandra/"TenSoon" (on his own)
• Kandra/"TenSoon" (under direction of Harmony)
• Trell and the Set (but why?)
• Yet Another Secret To RAFO

Adawathwyn seems like a likely ally, whatever her group alliance may have been. Or maybe she was just a fairly easily manipulated patsy.

TenSoon actually being TenSoon seems legit, but could also be called into question - mainly because presumably only TenSoon would know how/where to get the Bands from storage.

Furthermore, the fact that the Bands were drained didn't seem to surprise Daal. He wasn't furious, only sarcastic ("perhaps it is piety that makes them work, yah?"); his initial accusation that the Basinfolk had been using the Bands all this time seemed more perfunctory than genuine.

There could be a chromium ferring, or medallion that told them what to do.

[+robardin he/him]

2 hours ago, Frustration said:

There could be a chromium ferring, or medallion that told them what to do.

That would fall under the RAFO category, IMHO, being as we have yet to see what tapping a chromiummind would be like!