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Actually they're one and the same. The latter is just a translation of sorts for the Japanese readers so they know what 'Mistborn' is supposed to mean, more or less. The Japanese titles for Well of Ascension and Hero of Ages (Mist Spirit and Mistcloak respectively) have similar dual titles. On top of this, each of the three volumes those books was divided into for publication got its own subtitle.

I own those and can confirm that yes, they're authentic. You can even see the cover art on the gallery page at brandonsanderson.com. Japanese translations frequently play around with titles and with longer books that need to be split up you can get situations like Mistborn where each individual volume has its own subtitle. Hence you get the following breakdown in Japanese: Mistborn The Final Empire became just Mistborn in three volumes titled 'The Ashen Empire', 'The Blood-red Sun' and 'Dancer in the White Sea' Well of Ascension became Mist Spirit, divided into 'The Remaining Power', 'The King's Trial' and 'The Hidden Words' Hero of Ages became Mistcloak, divided into 'A New Savior', 'The Ancient Voice' and 'The Eternal World'.

@Figberts Brandon would never do something like that to his fans... oh wait.xD

Nale can be accused of hypocrisy for some other things too, but we don't know how much of his 'Law>Everything Else' mindset reflects how he was when the Oathpact was in force versus how much of it developed in the intervening 4500 years. We do know that the Heralds weren't bound by the same oaths as the Radiant orders they served as patrons to so on that basis we can't say for certain that Nale is a hypocrite but we also don't know what specific oath or oaths go into the capital-o Oathpact and anything else that might have existed between them and Honor. @Spoolofwhool It can't have been too recently because Szeth and Taravangian's conversation in WoR makes it apparent that at least since the former has been a Truthless the Stone Shamans were only holding eight Honorblades. He responds Taravangian's lie that Kaladin must have been using a stolen Honorblade with "one of the other seven?" and he hasn't been in contact with his people so Nale must have retrieved his blade before Szeth recieved Jezrien's. That means that Nale retrieved his before most (possibly all) of the current proto-Radiants started manifesting their Surgebinding and would have already had it when Gavilar was assassinated.

I think Scadrial was first mentioned in the annotations for Well of Ascension. Brandon seems to have first mentioned Harmony at a signing in March of 2011 and then the sample chapters released in June, July and August contained plenty of references to Scadrial's new god, before the book itself came out in November.

That is the most over-detailed version of that problem I've ever seen. xD But assuming a 'generic' Radiant has all that information, here are my guesses: Windrunner: Either the father or the revolutionary. We know that their oaths compel them to protect people they might find repulsive as long as it's the right thing to do, so how nasty the people are wouldn't factor into it as much, my guess is they'd preserve the others based on numbers rather than what the workers might do in the future. And I can't decide between the remaining two because the Windrunners unlike the Skybreakers might be willing to entertain the revolutionary's long-term ideas as 'right' and we don't know enough to be sure. Skybreaker: The revolutionary, being someone going against the laws they're obliged to put before all else. Dustbringer: Given that they apparently blow things up with their powers, I'm going to say they pick the bomb option. Edgedancer: I'm pretty certain that 'not the workers' is a reasonable assumptin because of their 'I will listen to those who have been ignored' oath, which leaves the three individuals and of those, I suspect they'd pick the revolutionary. Truthwatcher: Depending on what they see with their power, they could probably pick any of the options. Lightweaver: They've got no special moral code so we can't narrow things down with them. However, with the First Ideal including 'journey before destination' I suspect the revolutionary would be a safe pick for them because they'd see the bloodshed as not being worth the end result. Actually that same analysis applies to all the Orders, it's just most apparent when we have the group with nothing else going for them, morality-wise. Elsecaller: Can we not just pretend they Elsecall the trolly into the Cognitive Realm or Soulcast it into delicious cake? No? Okay, then probably the revolutionary for the generic reasons above. Willshaper: All we know about them is that they were apparently the Order that was the hardest to assign any kind of generic personality type to so they might vary wildly on a case by case basis. That said, barring future revelations about their remaining Ideals I'll go with revolutionary here too. Stoneward: They could probably stop the trolly with their own body and survive it... but again, revolutionary. Bondsmith: Since we do have more insight into this Order, either the father or the revolutionary as they're the ones most obviously in opposition to the Bondsmith ideals and more likely the latter than the former.

@Figberts Spoiler: Graves' real name is Ishmael.

Welcome to the Shard! And yes, if you desire to become a Cosmere Grandmaster you'll want to read all the Mistborn books eventually. There's a lot of theorizing around here that assumes knowledge of Era 2 and Secret History, with the former starting to bring 'big picture' elements to Scadrial and the latter being very significant in terms of what we learn about the whole cosmere. SH shouldn't be read until at least you've finished Hero of Ages, though for best effect you might want to wait until finishing Bands of Mourning. As noted too, the Era 2 books are just fun. And they do expand our knowledge of Scadrial's native magic systems as well in very important ways. And one of the big elements of Scadrial is that the world is dynamic and we're getting to see it change over a long timeframe so if that sort of worldbuilding interests you then it's an extra reason to eventually dive in. And in the longest of long-term senses, the final Era of the Mistborn series is supposed to be where the biggest crossover elements happen and is going to be the 'big finale' to the story of the cosmere, so there's another incentive in case I haven't given you enough already. xD

Graves being a Radiant is somewhat less probable than him happening to have a secret identity: The Diagram cautions Taravangian to prevent Radiants from emerging (by trying to identify candidates and avoid putting them in situations that would strengthen their spren bonds, this was part of what Graves was even trying to do with Kaladin) and to be ready to use 'the secret' to destroy them if necessary.

The Dragon is implied to be one of those things that got passed down from Age to Age, long past the time that anyone remembered where it came from. Though somehow it also managed to survive (sort of) in Artur Hawkwing's full name (Paendrag>Pen Draig>Pendragon) again without anyone apparently remembering what it meant. This is officially on the list of questions Brandon Will Not Answer, along with 'Who is Nakomi?'. According to Brandon, the pipe was part of Jordan's notes and he doesn't know anything more about it than we do. We can speculate that he got some sort of permanent reality-warping powers like he and the Dark One were using at the end to show each other possible worlds (given that he could already do it unconsciously and even invoked his probability-manipulation on a couple occasions in the last few books) but we don't know for sure and never will.

[Pedant] Anime and manga are just formats, they can be as varied as any movie, comic/graphic novel, written story, video game, opera or [insert other format here]. [/Pedant] Anyhow, you could do Mistborn really effectively in that format but you could also make it work as a movie or a television series. Stormlight Archive is really the only one where I'd think a movie might be the weakest format, but only because there's so much going on that there would inevitably be huge sacrifices in order to get a book into a single movie. But it could still work. Now, there are various co-productions where a Japanese studio has lent a hand in animating things (the Valerian and Laureline series comes readily to mind) so something like this isn't impossible in a hypothetical sense but I doubt it would ever actually happen. I haven't done extensive digging into how well read Brandon's works are in Japanese (it's on my 'to do' list) but I do know that there haven't been new translations of his works since Way of Kings and they don't have Warbreaker so I'm guessing there isn't a huge demand for something like that they could produce for their domestic market as well as the primary English-speaking audience. But like I said, I haven't done much looking into the subject yet. I do have the Japanese translation of Mistborn TFE (in three volumes) which I need to read at some point to see how it handled various things. Nice cover art by the way.

Yeah, Miles admits that he's 'practically immortal' but notes that he still needs sleep and he still ages. Realmatically speaking, it probably has to do with your Spiritual age still clocking up (you need atium to alter that) so your body 'knows' that it's getting old and eventually you'll die of it, though you'll probably be in excellent health until the point you keel over.

Yeah, I'm not even sure we'll even get information on all possible atium and lerasium alloys and I really don't see Brandon trying to work out anything beyond that, except under exceptional circumstances like maybe clarifying exactly what properties 'Trellium' has in the Metallic Arts. Even there, coming up with thirty-odd names for metal alloys that may or may not see much use onscreen is a lot of work for a small detail. Not that anything like that's ever stopped us from wondering of course. xD On that note, we know from WoB that atium alloys all have temporal effects in Allomancy and we know that A-Lerasium in an alloy creates uber-Mistings so it's possible that these alloys share a common thread in their Feruchemical and Hemalurgic applications as well. Once we learn what F and H-Lerasium do we might be able to predict the alloys with some degree of accuracy and then refine it if we get specific knowledge of alloys. Telling us what F-Malatium and H-Malatium do would be a great start as well.

In order to not further derail the Aesudan topic, I'll respond to some comments directed at me on the subject of Liss here. Possibly for a similar reason that Nale is working as a freelance constable, taking some of their previous duties/divine attributes and using them in a way that's twisted from their original forms. Assassination instead of fighting bravely (if you imagine Liss is Chana), Shalash destroying examples of creativity that relate to her... We don't know how each Herald's insanity manifests so it's possible one or more can put on a good show of sanity until something causes them to snap. Fair point, though any ability to use Stormlight would be an improvement over not having it, so the Honorblade would be an upgrade either way. And I didn't know about that AMA response, very interesting.

Oh storms, what madness have I wrought? @Gavin-son-son-Odegard @The One Who Connects I've responded to your replies to me in that other topic to not further derail this one.

One possible explanation for why Liss might take the blade: She's a Herald. She would know what an Honorblade is and might be inclined to grab one, if only to get access to Stormlight healing again. I thought it might be possible to speculate on which Herald she could be until I realized that Taln's blade shares no Surges with those possessed by the female Heralds, so whichever of them picked it up they'd be getting powers they'd never had access to before. Though based on the idea that the Herald's personal insanities are related in some way to their former nature, Chana might be the most likely. Anyhow, one more possible wrinkle given how many other Heralds seem to have been hanging out in Kholinar at the time. As for why Jasnah was considering having Aesudan whacked and then changed her mind, it might be less that she was uncertain about Aesudan and more uncertain if this was a good time. Wait and see how the treaty affects things, maybe even wait and see if the woman improves some rather than moving immediately. There's probably something Jasnah knows that we don't informing her decision but it's at least possible she was just questioning the timing of assassinating her sister in law and then when Gavilar died she had other things to occupy her time and didn't think killing the then-queen would be in her family's best interests just then. Really a better question is: What happened in the past couple of months that made Aesudan change so rapidly? Because Navani obviously thought the capital was going to be in decent enough hands enough to leave and it's hard to imagine she'd fail to see the disaster looming if Aesudan was acting that way before she left. Unmade, involvment with a secret society (you can't swing a dead chull around on Roshar without flattening half a dozen members of one), deliberately poor advice from someone who wanted things to deteriorate and cultivated her paranoia about the Almighty's opinion of her...

Plate is harder to hide but we see Moash manage it when fleeing with Graves at the end of the book so it's hardly impossible to hide multiple sets of the stuff. If you can't hide it that easily and you get really desperate (and have access to a lot of Stormlight) you could even hack the Plate up with your Blade, dispose of all but one piece that's easier to conceal and then use that to regrow the entire set over time. As long as nobody finds any of the other pieces first and starts regenerating it before you do, you could 'hide' a set of the stuff fairly easily. Actually, this could become a pretty handy infiltration tactic if you need to slip a set of Plate into a location where you will be searched somewhat more thoroughly, have a safe location to leave most of your Plate and enough time and gemstones to restore the set from a seed piece once inside the security perimeter before you need to do whatever brought you there. As for Graves' possible identities, Shardbearers are pretty well-known so and so are their shards. If Graves was really someone prominent, his Blade would give away his true identity to anyone who saw it and survived to describe it (the Plate less so since that can be painted and ornamented). This doesn't necessarily preclude him from having a double-identity but it's a risk factor that should be considered when analyizing whether or not it's probable that he has one. Ditto Shardbearers themselves being celebrities, so Graves would have to be very careful about who sees him to avoid the risk of blowing his cover. I think that until given a good reason to suspect otherwise, it's safe to assume that he really is an unaffiliated Diagrammist who just happens to have a full set of shards, just like Taravangian happens to have an Honorblade and at least one soulcaster he's not supposed to.

In addition to Vasher being able to give away all his Breaths other than the one that keeps him alive, Brandon mentions in the annotations (here) that a sufficiently skilled Awakener with the right commands and mental vizualization could give away some of their Breath with the 'My life to yours' command without giving away everything they have.

Yeah, my interpretation is that they're aware of Khriss and Nazh (and that the latter is the one that does all the dangerous work) and want to take precautions against them showing up at such a sensitive time, just in case. If the story in the Bands of Mourning broadsheet is even loosely based on reality, Nazh has access to Shade-based technology so detectors attuned to those would be ideal for spotting him if he tried anything. Khriss in AU mentions petitioning the Ire to share information on multiple occasions and getting rebuffed so if these attempts at contact predate the events of Secret History, they've got some justification for being paranoid where our favorite arcanist duo is concerned.

I asked Brandon some mechanics questions about the use of 'fortune' (which F-Chromium stores) at my last signing and he's keeping those cards close to his chest but he did say that his conception isn't necessarily what we're imagining it to be. I too am looking forward to however it works out but at this point we can only speculate as to its effects.

We know that it's possible for F-Nicrosil to store other abilities but we don't know how it would work in terms of mechanics. We also know that storing Stormlight in metal is difficult in some way. So the process of storing is probably more complex than just 'Have F-Nicrosil and Surgebinding, inhale Stormlight from gems, store it in Nicrosilmind, repeat' and might require some sort of advanced application or a system hack.

Unfortunately we don't really know anything about Darkside except what Khriss tells us in that essay and the scattered things that come out in the first volume of White Sand. The plants might look like that in terms of coloration (as would apparently most other forms of life) but for the specific shapes and such we haven't a clue. Just in terms of their form, some of the plants in that picture wouldn't be out of place on Roshar, a world whose flora and fauna resemble a coral reef that just happens to be above water.

We know that the Vessel can interpret the Intent they have to work with (to a degree at least) so that one person holding Honor might express that differently than Tanavast did for example. It's quite possible that Bavadin has a sufficiently flexible understanding of the concept that she can do all sorts of things without ever coming into conflict with that Intent. It doesn't hurt that Autonomy is itself a pretty loose concept when compared to something like Preservation or Odium. Yeah, but after thousands (I assume) of years setting up your system just so, flipping the bird to celestial mechanics and basking in the sun of your own awesomeness, you get this woman who's gone offworld and could bring back corrupting influences like tarachin or instant noodles. You'd want to keep her out too.

Frost is the individual with whom Hoid is exchanging letters in Stormlight Archive and he's about the only person in the Cosmere who is older than Hoid. Oh, and he's a dragon. First, this thread was seven months dead. Just might wanna keep that in mind next time. Second, we have WoB that there three Shards in the Rosharan System, which rules out the presence of a fourth. We also have the implication that Frost isn't a Vessel and hasn't worldhopped which means that he's still on Yolen. Khriss' essays in Arcanum Unbounded makes it clear that she's studied the history of the Rosharan System and knows something about Yolen and she'd have said something if there was even a hint that the two were one and the same. Oh, and this is key: Braize is uninhabited in the Physical Realm, per AU. We know Yolen has life because Khriss points out in the present tense that life on Scadrial resembles what you will find on Yolen, minus the fain parts. Ergo Yolen is still believed to be inhabited by both normal and fainlife and cannot be the uninhabited Braize.

The room isn't Invested though, Nightblood is. And Stick is of course Stick. TES