Well of Ascension error

[+Harrycrapper]

I was recently doing a reread(or rather a re-listen as im doing the audiobook) of Well of Ascension and I noticed a weird mistake. At some point after Vin discovers the mist spirit and is sensing the Well of Ascension(though she doesn't know it) and she asks Clubs to burn bronze and see if he senses anything which he replies that he doesn't. But Clubs is definitly a smoker so he shouldn't be able to burn bronze. I'm guessing it's an error and I'm pretty sure it isn't just on the audio file as sometimes things get mispronounced but never something on this scale.

[WeiryWriter he/him]

Yeah it's a mistake from the original Hardcover edition (which is the version that got read for the audiobook).  Brandon talks about it in the annotations:

 

 

Error in the Hardcover edition

 

I forgot to mention it in the appropriate chapter (I think it was way back in twenty-six) so I’ll mention it here. Maybe I’ll move this eventually.

 

Anyway, the hardcover edition of the book had of the more embarrassing typos in the series. (I think we got it fixed for the softcover.) It relates to Clubs and his Allomantic abilities, which is why this scene made me think of it. Way back in chapter twenty-four, I mistakenly (during one of the very last drafts of the book) mention Clubs as being a Seeker, not a Smoker, and burning the wrong metal.

 

I knew I’d do this some place in the series. The thing is, Clubs was originally going to be the team’s Seeker, with Marsh being the Smoker. I swapped this before I started writing, but there is still some latent belief on my part that Clubs is a Seeker. And, because of that, when writing quickly and smoothing over rifts made by re-arranging chapters, I wrote the wrong metal down. (And it isn’t just a single word typo; I think I even talked about him being a Seeker, and being able to sense what metals people are burning. Something like that.)

 

All I can say is. . .whoops!

 

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