misc thoughts on isles of the emberdark

[Mystic Syn she/her]

recently finished listening to the book while i was at work (sorry i’m late to the party), and i liked it and thought it was rather interesting to basically have a time jump to the next era in the cosmere. ofc i have thoughts on it besides the obvious ones that everyone else has been talking about, but i haven’t seen many (if any) people talk about some of the small implied things, so here we are. 

disclaimer: as i implied, i have only listened to the book; i don’t have the physical copy. so please forgive any misspellings and if things don’t quite make sense bc i’m going off of what i heard/remember.

 

1. the only scadrians mentioned are the malwish; no mention of the people in the basin

y’all probs already noticed this and talked about it but it’s still interesting. for me, the malwish becoming the galactic power hungry warlords in the cosmere makes sense from what i can remember reading about them in second era of mistborn (it’s on the “to-reread” list but i’m beginning with Elantris rn, so this might be a misremember).

what was very interesting to me was that even though we saw and heard what the malwish were doing, nothing was said of the basin. so i’m very intrigued of what happened to them, bc we now know that it aint pretty. i wouldn’t be surprised if the malwish did something along the lines of slavery bc allomancy and scadrial is no stranger to slavery, but i also wouldn’t be surprised if they looked at the basin and then their technology and said: “bet we’d win.”

not only that, but there was nothing said about any allomancers (twinborn or not). it could be a slavery thing like i mentioned earlier, but i also had the idea that the allomancy genes might’ve faded out if that makes sense (there’s a scientific term but idk it). like we already saw some of it in the second era of mistborn (especially compared to the first era of mistborn), so that might’ve happened if the malwish conquered them, which is a high possibility.

honestly for me, it’s an either/or for the slavery or the just faded away with genes or whatever the scientific term for that is called.

anyways, interested to hear any thoughts abt that.

 

2. Sazed probably still has the Shards

not too sure abt this one tbh, bc i remember someone in the book mentioning that they were a pathian (idk how it’s spelled), which made me intrigued since that’s Harmony’s thing and blah blah blah. however, just bc they follow the Path doesn’t mean that Sazed still has the Shards; could be someone else for all we know, but i don’t think that would happen without the scadrians knowing.

there was also no mention of his Intent changing from Harmony to Discord, so that could’ve also happened with what we saw in the epilogue of TLM.

my reasoning isn’t strong with this one, but it does make me think.

 

3. only seeing skybreakers??

pretty sure that someone (i won’t say Sanderson bc i can’t remember and don’t want to misquote) said that the only order of knights radiant that would continue if everyone else died out would be the skybreakers. so only seeing the skybreakers represent the rosharians was interesting to me.

idk, i don’t have much to say abt this one besides that it was interesting to me. maybe i should actually sit down and read WaT and not the synopsis before saying anything abt roshar rn but idk.

 

but those were some of the implied thoughts i had. none of these are ground breaking or life changing as others, but things that made me think a lil bit and i wanna hear some thoughts from yall.