RShara she/her Posted November 24, 2022 Posted November 24, 2022 I think that Kelsier is the one who had the Bands drained. He wants to promote tensions between the N and S in order to force technological advancement, and realized that the North "secretly" draining the Bands would cause major bad feelings between them. He was in the South just very recently and was on an airship back North when Marasi and Moonlight tried to contact him. And Kelsier is the Survivor in the North, head of a major religion, and the Sovereign in the South. If he wanted to, he could easily get both continents to work together. But having them at odds works better for the future of Scadrial (in Kelsier's opinion). 2
Isilel Posted November 25, 2022 Posted November 25, 2022 Yes, except that I don't think that they are drained, because it would mean that they are completely destroyed as anything other than a piece of metal. IMHO, they were either already switched previously, because TenSoon is a creature of habit and Kelsier figured out their hiding place, or some kind of dampening device, as seen elsewhere in the cosmere, was employed to make them temporarily unusuable. I also don't think that promoting conflict was necessarily Kelsier's reason - he may have just wanted them out of the hands of kandra and Harmony, who'd just hide them away forever if they could, and back in his own. We can be confident that this was not his desired result for the whole temple + rumors shenangians. We also know that at least the feruchemical part of them must have worked for him, because of the coppermind that Hoid threw at Wax in BoM, and he wants powers.
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