Lazarus52980

I'm 34 and have a bunch of kids in school. (I also never went to college). Do I count?

Yeah... I forgot about that. The 1st part of the book deals with the lord raping one of the Skaa women and then having to kill her when he is done. There was really no getting around that, so we had to have a brief discussion on what rape is... It's been all good since then though.

I have recently started reading Mistborn to my 9, 8, and 7 year old children. All three of them seem to like it so far (we are about 6 chapters in). I would love to know what the forums think of this. Do you think this is a good book to read to "younger" children?

This "weapon" is mentioned. This is interesting. I wonder if those who opposed Adonalsium realized that since he/it was the power of creation and had created everything, that they could not kill him, or at least could not kill him without destroying the universe...Thus they found a way to create a weapon that would split him apart to make him easier to "manage" or get around. Getting philosophical here, it seems likely that "killing" Adonalsium would be something that was done in hatred/jealousy. If something is done out of hate near the "shard" of hate (Odium), do you think he might be able to have an idea about it? Is it possible that Odium was able to follow the hatred and find the weapon? Maybe he has this "weapon" that was used to shatter Adonalsium and is using it to shatter other shards? In an attempt to counter my own argument, if Odium, as part of Adonalsium, would be able to sense that hatred and its actions, logically Adonalsium would have been able to sense it as well and avoid it... hmm...

This is something that I think all have wondered about. We know that Hoid was there at the time of the breaking, but we also know that while the first 16 shardholders were from the same planet as him, Hoid did not take a shard. There has to be a reason because (as Sazed proved) it's possible to hold more than one shard, so why didn't one person take them all up? Why split it? This makes me wonder how some people ended up with shards at all. We know that Ati was generally a nice guy, and he ended up with Ruin, but Rayse was a horrible person, and ended up with Odium. This makes me question if the shards themselves chose someone, since I could see Odium choosing a hateful person, but why would Ruin choose someone "nice" for destruction? However, reverse the same logic and it doesn't make sense if someone was "handing them out" since why would that person give Odium to Rayse? I seem to remember a quote from Mr. Sanderson saying that there was a "force" that was opposed to Adonalsium, and that said force is still "out there". Could it be influencing people? Maybe just trying to sew chaos? Too many questions...

First off, Hi! First post here. Having read all of the information in this post and the links that were provided earlier, I now have to wonder if the bracers were part Larasium. One of the questions asked of Brandon was if the Lord Ruler took a bead of Larasium and Brandon said yes. However, another question said that he did not USE Larasium to become an allomancer, but made himself that way using the well of ascension. Maybe he somehow forged an alloy of Larasium and Atium in his bracers (1st generation Harmonium?) Thoughts?