TheWarriorPoet

Just for the sake of speculations had anyone thought this Trilogy to be a war between two titans, harmony and Marsh? Since the earring was given to wax by a kandra (supposedly loyal to harmony) which enabled harmony to interact with wax (like ruin and Vin, a voice in the head). I say this because after reading some posts here I know how Brandon likes to live clues and his telling that a kandra gave the earring to wax after which he mentions how harmony interacted with wax seems like a clue enough. Why I mentioned Marsh is simply because of his appearing at the end, since he is the only one who is both a allo and feru (which made TLR almost immortal) that also makes him possibly the most powerful thing alive. Appearance of Bloody tam is another reason to point out marsh's involvement because at this point in the story I beleive the only one who knows about hemulargy on scadrial so if bloody tam used hemulargy then he probably had someone who taught him. Since Marsh is powerful enough and with power comes desires. probably he is planning to overthrow the current government and establish himself as The Ruler of Empire. Now another question might arise that why he waited for 300 years, how about applying the Kelsier theory of Atium production starting again after 300 years, since the only one with the knowledge of Atium I believe this is the thing that will give Marsh an edge over others and is worth the wait. I read someone mentioned that now Atium will not grow because harmony now carries the power of ruin but what harmony controls is what was remaining of ruin(-Atium) because ruin hadn't reclaimed atium it was burned away by elend and others so hopefully that power was spread around the universe and is now returning in the form of atium. Since harmony now have no human form he needs a human to stand against Marsh, wax makes for an obvious choice as he is a allo and is from the bloodline of breeze, old friend of harmony. I don't know from where it all came from, I guess too much of alcohol can do this to you. The only thing which I am not able to figure out is the kidnapping of women but since they all are from the bloodline of spook I beleive that the reason behind kidnappings is connected to allo.

Don't know if it was discussed or not so started a new thread. Well my favorite characters in the book is Kelsier and I would love if Brandon do a short story on him. I know it was a important part of the story to kill him but he seems to be the only character who was larger than life in the book. And was most charismatic then any other. A short story on him would be awesome

Exhibit A - He didn't even knew what is hemulargy hell no one in the whole world knew about it except TLR and inquisitors. Exhibit B - Firstly he didn't knew it was source of power of some god, secondly I think he helped Vin and elend when he destroyed those pits because every Lord who attacked luthadel was after Atium and if the pits weren't destroyed then they would have taken control of pits and then it would have been a cakewalk for ruin to aquire his power back. Exhibit C - Kelsier planned to kill TLR, didn't actually killed him, then again No one even knew about ruin so thinking of kel doing anything to help ruin is very unlikely. Exhibit D - He just asked his brother to be an obligator and look for a way to kill inquisitors, which he eventually did and helped rebellion by killing many of them. Sorry i didn't read annotations so I don't know if any of them were already rendered false by Brandon, this is just based on simple reading of the books

Well just as you said they are all speculations. As far as wedding is concerned I doubt wax will marry steris now because saving house ladrian won't be on his priority list now. The book Marsh gave to marasi can be either his or sazed's. I mentioned spook because the women kidnapped were traced back to Lord mistborn (spooks). Maybe in second part we will also get to know about koloss blooded because first Trilogy said koloss can't reproduce so it's hard to understand koloss blooded allomancers origin. I have a feeling that Marsh is the main character behind the set and kidnappings have something to do with mistborns because breeding a army from 5 women is indeed a very long term plan and I don't see that happening.

Just finished alloy of law and for shadow of self I think Brandon left some clues in epilogue, like vanishers were not part of the whole plan they were used only for robberies and kidnappings and as it was mentioned that since tekeil are on bring on collapse and there stocks are going for pennies I think the plan there was to buy cheap shares and then let house tekeil recover and take indirect control of house tekeil with majority shares. Second thing is the return of Marsh who is almost as powerful as Lord ruler because he has both powers allo and feru, I suppose it is his plan to kidnap ladies who are directly related to spook to see if any of them is a mistborn, who is able to kill him. I hope that the mastermind behind "The set" will be revealed at the end of part 2. I have some theories about wix and the girls but that I will post later