Perlmutter Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 (edited) PLEASE NO MISTBORN SPOILERS I've read the two books in the storm light archive and am just getting into the first book of mistborn, and I realized through this forum that there connected. Is it a big deal that I read storm light before Mistborn? Edited October 25, 2014 by Perlmutter 1
Aleksiel Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 No, the series don't spoil each other, so don't worry.
Unknowingly he/him Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 Yeah, there is no problem as connections are minor and unless you are paying attention and know what to look for you probably will not even notice. 2
Moogle Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 (edited) You should notice some pretty reasonably big Stormlight/cosmere connections by/in Mistborn #3 (well, I'm thinking one), but it doesn't matter plot-wise and they are easy to miss. Off-hand: When Vin takes in the mist, it radiates out of her skin like Stormlight. The same word is used, even: the mist 'leaks' out of her. She even has to take a deep breath to take them in. Ruin/Preservation is very very similar to Odium/Honor, Mistborn basically introduces the concept of Shards. All mentions of the three Realms in the epigraphs. Addictive properties of Allomancy/Stormlight intake. Goldmind healing being similar to Stormlight healing. Edited October 25, 2014 by Moogle
Guest Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 The only spoilers you may get on this section of the forum is regarding SA (obviously) and Warbreaker (to a lesser extend). So enjoy your reading
king of nowhere Posted October 25, 2014 Posted October 25, 2014 Sanderson intends for all his books to be readable without reading previous books (unless they are prequels, of course). So, no cosmere references are needed to ready any one book (and if they are, they are introduced in the same saga), and no book spoilers any other book, even if they are connected. For example, there is one character in words of radiance who is a worldhopper native from nalthis (the world of warbreaker), but there is no real way, when you read warbreaker, to recogize him. And there is a character in the way of kings who appeared in mistborn, but he's a minor ccharacter and the only thing matching is the physical description and the only conclusion you can draw from it is that the character survives and becomes a worldhopper - which is hardly a spoiler, the guy is not important enough for his survival to count as one. So, feel free to read all sanderson books in any order. On the other hand, on the forum you'll find plenty of spoilers, and many of them are just tossed around casually cause they are assumed common knowledge. So, even if this is technically the sa subforum, most people writing here will just casually refer to events in the end of the mistborn trilogy without really thinking that there may be some new guy who hasn't read it yet. So, be very careful about it. If I were you I'd stay away from the forum until the end of mistborn 3. The other books are also spoilered, the most cosmere intensive are mistborn and sa, finding spoilers from other books used casually is rare.
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