Vin's precognition (The Final Empire spoilers)

[Brightness Enna she/her]

Perhaps a low burn of bronze alerted her to Hoid's many Investitures, and freaked her out.

 

So does bronze detect any kind of investiture, or only allomancy? As far as I know, Hoid didn't have allomancy at this point.. if he does at all. Being able to detect any investiture sounds like it might have cosmere-wide applications.

 

I think that, in this instance, Vin's uneasiness was credited only to her innate instincts, the same ones that helped her know how to burn metals without being taught. There might have been something about her father being an important obligator, too. Are their genetics any different from other nobles? Maybe obligators were surreptitiously bred by TLR to have an instinctual understanding of allomancy, and perhaps feruchemy, so that any Inquisitors made from them would be inherently more efficient.

Edited December 4, 2015 by Enna

[Rellar he/him]

Theres another when she doesnt talk to Hoid in... is it book 2 or 3?

 

I think thats street instincts, but there may be something more going on.

why couldn't we get Hoid and Vin banter :c

Edited December 4, 2015 by Shotgunsalesman

[Thermophile he/him]

So does bronze detect any kind of investiture, or only allomancy? As far as I know, Hoid didn't have allomancy at this point.. if he does at all. Being able to detect any investiture sounds like it might have cosmere-wide applications.

I believe that Brandon said that bronze could detect Feruchemy if one was good enough, but it may only be because of the partial Preservation nature of Feruchemy.

[Yata he/him]

Bronze may detect anykind of Investiture. But some are easy to detect than other and of course without knowing the "pulse" of something you may detect but not notice.

More than all the Feruchemy is an inner power (don't take power from any outer source) therefore there is less "pulse" than something like drawn Investiture from the Spiritual Realm (Allomancy).

 

Now that I think about, detecting Atium-burning will be quite difficoult for the same reason.

[Brightness Enna she/her]

Haha! Found a relevant WoB!

 

... that's also a spoiler for WoA and HoA

 

 

NEVERKNOWSBEST

In Mistborn 3, what spooked Vin off from meeting Hoid? (My theory is Ruin's influence, because he didn't want Hoid interfering(sub question that just occurred to me. Was Ruin aware of Hoid on Scadrial?)

BRANDON SANDERSON

Ha. Well, by this point Hoid had been to the Well--getting there just before Vin--and had retrieved something from it. That should have been enough to get him to leave the planet entirely, but he got involved in events. (He tends to do that.) It's pie in the sky, but I would someday like to do parallel novel to the Mistborn series with Hoid in the background like they did in the second(?) back to the future move. I don't know that I'll ever be able to do it, but we shall see. I would answer this question there.

FOOTNOTE

Brandon has since confirmed that the thing Hoid took from the Chamber of Ascension was a bead of lerasium.

 

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So was Hoid only on Scadrial for that bead? How did he get involved in events, besides being an informant?What would he have said if Vin had gone down to talk to him? Would the book have ended differently?

 

I guess Vin could sense that metal because of its powerful connection to Preservation, and it was likely very different from what she was used to, and maybe Ruin influenced her subconscious a little to make her averse to the weird patterns.

[Stormgate he/him]

He has Feruchemy, and we still don't know how someone gets that. Maybe he split the bead, forged the half-bead with atium, and got Feruchemy.