MeLaan in Wind and Truth????

[Wit Beyond Measure]

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How dare Kaladin claim to protect, when he defended the highborn who murdered? He was a pawn. How dare he not admit it? How dare he serve them?

When it was finished, the agony throbbing through Moash, he lay in a sweat, ragged and used, like an old pair of shoes worn on far too long a walk. They’d done something with his empty eye sockets, something that should have killed him. But as he lay there, wondering at the point of it, he …

He saw.

Not as he had. Outlines of light, the people specifically, and … gemstones, infused. Living things. No color, but … spren. He could see spren. All around.

“That should work,” a new voice said, feminine. “Look at his response. It’s functioning. He can see Investiture.”

Sanderson, Brandon. Wind and Truth: Book Five of the Stormlight Archive (The Stormlight Archive, 5) (p. 527). Tor Publishing Group. Kindle Edition. 

If you are reading these words, nothing about this scene screams MeLaan except for the tangential fact that we are using hemalurgy and steel inquisitor techniques to create a gem inquisitor. But if you listen to the audiobooks, you will hear Michael Kramer's distinctive MeLaan voice when he says these last lines, as if Odium's assistant in the hemalurgical tranformation of Moash is MeLaan, spy of Harmony sent off-world on a mission where she was last seen in Shadesmar near land with red haired people dressed strangely and presumed to be Horneaters (Lost Metal, Epilogue 6).

Now, Kramer has used a voice similar to MeLaan's before. He seems to use that voice for several sultry women, but there is nothing sultry in this singular appearance of this unnamed character in all of the Wind and Truth interlude, her only appearance.

Chances are, I am wrong. This is nothing. Merely coincidence. Nothing to see here. But if I am right, then Sazed has a spy in Odium's camp. Thoughts?

[a Faceless Immortal he/him]

It would be absolutely wild if this was how we found MeLaan.

It would be equally wild that she's stabbing people through the eyes with crystal.

However, I was under the impression that this was Battar, as I believe Taravangian's earlier conversation included him asking her to perform certain services with crystal spikes.

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

I don't believe that the timeline matches up for this, at least I'm pretty sure, like 80~ish percent.

Here are the facts, Mistborn Era 2 happens after the first half of Stormlight Archives, and MeLaan only worldhops in the epilouge of The Lost Metal. 

Even with the world-wide slowness bubble, it still doesn't match up. This cannot be MeLaan.

And it was Battar who came up with these Gem Spikes, she may have, oh who am I kidding, she absolutely got inspired by Hemalurgy, but I sincerely doubt that MeLaan has any involvement whatsoever within Wind and Truth.

[Wit Beyond Measure]

Thank you, both! I missed the Battar references. I seem to lose track of her and most of the other female heralds.

[Isilel]

1 hour ago, JustQuestin2004 said:

Here are the facts, Mistborn Era 2 happens after the first half of Stormlight Archives

 

It happens between the Stormfall and Shallan's chat with Kelsier, due to massive time dilation immediately after the Shard fusion and Cultivation's exit. Kelsier referred to a _crisis_ that they had recently, which can only refer to Autonomy's incursion, and in TLM his inner circle still thinks that Iyatil is alive. Hoid's epilogue happened before Shallan's last appearance, because he is on Scadrian time after his desintegration, while Shallan spends months in the slow-time  bubble at it's peak.