Noblehunter

Nothing stopping him from adding a line saying "btw, my bracers can give out awesome powers." If he had a couple of thousand years, why take the risk making the bands now? And if they did exist, why not give them to a successor? These bands of mourning legends sound too good to be true. Though I also don't know where the legends come from. Unlike a lot of the other mythology, there doesn't seem to be a source in the first trilogy. The Lord Ruler's bracers barely get a second though, IRRC.

If he was storing something for his successor, why wasn't it mentioned on the metal plates? I'm incined to think we've moved beyond his contingency planning. I also think the connection to the Lord Ruler is a red herring from the reader's point of view. We're familiar enough with the Lord Ruler's post-Well plans that there isn't room fo rmagic bracers.

Yeah, I seriously don't trust VenDell guy. Not that he's gone dark side but he might be a tad too creative about what he thinks Harmony wants him to do. I'm wondering if we're supposed to infer something about his character from the bit about the hands and skull. He seems a bit... materialistic for a Kandra. And I think we have some people here who were right about how Identity and Investiture might work. I'm not one hundred percent clear on but the ramifications are huge. Not to mention the questions: can someone wearing the bands or band-like bracers make more? Will descendents of a Band-based Mistborn inherit potential for allomancy? Is this the root of allomantic technology? I think reading one chapter at a time does good things for my ability to consider details but it's too excruciating to try when I actually have the book. I'm also starting to wish that Sanderson had managed to write book three by accident as well.

Two extropolations from the Kandra approaching Wax right before the wedding: he was under a time constraint that prevented required him to show up then and pursue the faint hope that Wax would help OR the kandra was ordered to to approach Wax but actually didn't want him on the job so picked a terrible time to ask. Then when Wax refused he could go to his real choice: Marasi.

The mention of identity makes me think that whatever the Bands are, they may actually be useable (their owner being centuries dead and all). I don't see how whatever's stored in them could be worth significant effort though.

Strictly speaking, Sazed isn't around anymore. I'd like to see him again but we're stuck with Harmony. Marsh seems likely to be a good source for infodumps and he suffers from fewer restrictions than Harmony.

Is Sanderson writing these chapters knowing they'll be teasers? Because that last line is just mean. I'm faintly surprised that Steris' backup still means the wedding is delayed. I'd have though she'd have 100% redundancy, just change the venue and they're all set.

I'd guess because either T-shirts are ubiquitous and disposable or they have significant meaning but limited avenues for use. I couldn't very well wear a Sander-shirt to work for example. Plush toys are more likely to have inherent emotional value and don't have significant limits on use. I mean, I couldn't take my soonie pup to work either but it wouldn't really interfere with me enjoying it.

Damnation. I was hoping this thread was about progress towards getting soonie pups. Instead it's another chorus of unfulfilled longing. WANT.

Steris certainly doesn't seem to be neurotypical. I'm not sure autism/aspergers are a good way to describe it though. She was hilarious at the party though. Wayne doesn't seem dissociative just mutable in his speech and thinking. He's definitely got PTSD.

If the Southerners do invade I expect it to be more like the initial European expansion overseas where local power groups are co-opted in order to make up for the paucity of the initial force and lack of timely reinforcements. If there is fighting, there's no way to sustain the ammo-use involved in WW1 style warfare. The machines and artillery would shoot themselves dry inside a day.

Rather be able to save them. It's jarring to see a god restrained by something other than principle. Though Harmony does still have principles

I found Harmony to be too utilitarian in his justifications. While his ability to know the know the future solves some of the epistemological problems with that philosophy, it's unsettling for a god to be so straightforward about it. It comes very close to saying that life only has value in its consequences. It seems like he should save people just for the sake of saving them, not after performing some cost/benefit analysis over their future. Regarding Lessie specifically, I don't think we know the whole story nor do we have sufficient information on Harmony's limits. In his defense, I suspect they are more arbitrary than reasonable. It may be that in order to intervene as strongly as he did here, gratuitous cruelty was required into order to maintain balance.