Kingsdaughter613

Does this help? Leras dies: “You’ve lost Leras!” Vin ascends: “NO!” I headcannon Ati looking like Arvis.

Edelgard is a lesser copy of Arvis. She even has a variant of his epithet. ‘Flame Emperor’ to the Emperor of Flame. Her entire story is taken from his. You think you can equal me, little copycat? I am the original! VALFLAME! Claud is the most original character. Oh, and the gods don’t end up ruling anything in Claud’s route. Instead the people are headed toward a more open, egalitarian, merit based society. And Byleth is in charge.

Claud is the true hero. He’s the only one who’s truly good throughout. Edelgarde is too much like Arvis; good intentions, evil actions. I never said Kell would be GOOD for Dmitri; I just think the reactions from the crew would be hysterical.

Lol. I still think it’s funny that they resemble each other so much. Can you imagine the reactions if Kell brought the kid home?

Marsh doesn’t smile either, and they are. Besides, who said anything about genetics? (Worth noting that Kell doesn’t smile because he’s happy. It’s a coping mechanism and a mask. He doesn’t smile much when he’s alone.)

Neither did Vin, and she’s Kell’s daughter (as far as he’s concerned.) Maybe smiling skips a generation?

Blond, one eye, likes spears, charming, reckless, has homicidal tendencies... No chance Dmitri is related to a certain Scadrian?

Mistborn Era3; Mom with a child with a TBI. I’d like to see that explored more. Also possibly Sel, where Shai lives, so that my daughter’s brain could have been reforged back when she first got sick. Then she’d be fine...

Note that Brandon did not say no. He dodged around the question. It’s possible someone who did know helped Kelsier, or gave him the means but not the secret. Or Kell managed it without knowing how, due to misunderstanding the problem. Specifically, we have a WoB that having a body would help Kell worldhop. If Kell mistakenly thought not having a body was the issue, got one, then went worldhopping, he could ‘not know’ the process for getting a CS offworld, while accidentally managing it anyway. It’s possible that the two processes (CS offworld and Stormlight offworld) are unrelated. It’s also possible that this answer was in reference to SH Kell, who definitely did not worldhop. I’d want to see the context of the question.

Kell left South Scadrial centuries before BoM (which takes place between SA5&6). So centuries before SA. Shallan is implied to be able to recognize Restares, not Thaidakar. Of course, she could have met a one eyed, Shin-looking, blond years before. I think the Ghostbloods are more being setup for SA 6-10, so having a major offworld character being behind them makes sense. Especially since Mistborn Era 3 is supposed to be written alongside those books, and Era 3 requires the Elantris sequels to be written, which heavily implies some crossover. Regarding 1: That’s why I said it depends heavily on circumstances. Self-defense is fine. Personal power is almost certainly a no. For the greater good is allowed, but not preferable and should be avoided if possible. (Kell was willing to directly seriously risk the lives of multiple people he cared about for a greater goal.) Yes, Shallan is definitely the one stalling and Mraize is being very fair. I wish she’d hurry up so we can MEET Thaidakar already. As an aside, I don’t necessarily agree that Kell is running the Ghostbloods. Just that he feels like the person who WOULD given the opportunity. (Which WoB confirms.) Of the characters we’ve met in canon, he’s the one who’s personality is most suited to Thaidakar’s role. Which doesn’t mean Thaidakar is Kell, just that he has a similar personality.

Kell probably knows more than Marsh, actually. He was Preservation, is a Mistborn, seemingly managed to become a feruchemist and definitely had access to the Fullborn power set, and somehow manipulated Hemalurgy to return to life and was behind Spook’s studies on it. He was also rather set on learning everything he could about the Cosmere. He may not be at the table, but he’s likely the more knowledgeable of the brothers.

They note that that’s not exactly encouraged. Also that Tyn wasn’t a GB yet, just a hopeful. And Kell was perfectly okay with killing a member of the Rebellion to make a point. (Demoux disagreed.) He later was willing to risk Elend’s death to avoid having Ruin freed. He also risked Spook and Marsh later. Not even counting the hundreds (thousands?) who died because he was conning Ruin. And he was probably behind Spook’s ideas about spiking the dying... So yes, I think Kell would be okay with it, but the circumstances would be important. And it would be different for ‘full’ crew versus ‘periphery members’ versus ‘wannabes’. I doubt such behavior occurs often within the group itself. Sacrificing another member for the good of the whole is okay though. And, again, WoB does say that Kell would join the Ghostbloods. They just feel like a team he would run.

Exactly. There’s something more going on. While I do think there has been a warping of intents, Taln’s madness doesn’t quite fit. It’s not just the trauma, because the joining of realms healed him, albeit briefly. I wonder if Taln has a similar issue to what the Singers had... its definitely different than the other nine.

No one calls Dalinar ‘Brightlord Blackthorn’. Blackthorn and Mink are titles, not nicknames. On the other hand, Scadrial gives us two titles, with the latter acting as a name. It’s not that it isn’t used elsewhere; I just haven’t seen the convention utilized. I don’t know that I can explain it. It’s just the feeling I got from the GB was very like Kell’s crew. They FEEL similar, if that makes sense. And WoB does say that TFE Kell would join and take over the GBs, so I think I’m probably right about that feeling.

Actually, that can be argued to be one of the big flaws in Kaladin’s self image. He cannot see that his surviving where others fell as a source of strength. His pain and grief and suffering DID shape him, but so did the trust, faith and support of those who followed him. Acknowledging the first half means accepting his losses though, and he’s still incapable of doing that. Kaladin struggles with turning loss into a source of strength. Contrast this with our Scadrians. Kell turned his death into a source of strength for the entire Skaa population. On a smaller scale, the various members of the team have turned their past griefs into sources of strength. They keep going for the sake of those who’ve fallen. It’s one of the reasons I love Mistborn so much more than SA; where the Scadrians internalize their grief and move forward, the Rosharans tend to get stuck.It’s very interesting thematically. Loss can be a remarkable source of strength, and it always forges us. Whether we become stronger or end up warped depends on how we process and move on. Kaladin cannot move on, cannot move forward. That’s a weakness. He can’t live for Tien. He can’t live for his lost squad. He cannot even live for himself. He lives for the living, and so struggles to live when they leave him behind. That’s why, although Kaladin’s griefs have shaped him, they cannot be anything but a weakness.

Cultivation could have caused the pregnancy.

Funny thing, I came to a similar conclusion from a different angle. I see Autonomy as the idea of God in the Singular, Unique. So Autonomy wants to be ‘the One’, by having everything be Itself.

You’ve read Nightfall, I take it?

Just throwing it out there as a crazy idea but... I’d love to see Mistborn given to Wonderstorm. I’ve been rewatching Avatar and watching The Dragon Prince, and I just kept thinking that it would be awesome to see Mistborn done that way. I think animation could serve Mistborn really well, and the Wonderstorm team has experience with unusual and unique worlds and fantastic magic systems. They also do complex, multi-season stories that resonate on all levels and deal with some pretty horrific things - while still ostensibly being for kids. No, I don’t know how they do that. It would also mean could be Elend voiced by the same guy who voices Sokka and Callum. Which would be nice.

Practically perfect, but Midius needs to be added in as a name somewhere...

But that doesn’t explain Taln...

It took me forever to fix my head picture. I still can’t see him with yellow hair, which may be why I like the SH cover so much. I used to go with strawberry or copper blonde, but now headcannon the ash blonde he has there.

Not really. Machiavelli was being sarcastic. Alethkar does not seem to practice human chattel slavery. So the children are already born free. Slaves get paid and can already buy their own freedom, so two is already in force. That leaves one and three as options, and ignores the problem of criminal convictions. Of course, she could do a thirteenth amendment and allow for the enslavement of convicts...

I like your reasoning, lol. My choice of ash is for similar thematic reasons - and because it suited him well on the SH cover. It also means his hair resembles the mist... I honestly think Copper is too close to red/brown for Vin to think of it as blond. Otherwise I love that color for him, as it’s basically red-gold. One of the most stunning hair colors out there, IMO. Gold definitely fits him. In the mist he’d almost look like he had a halo. Lol.

The Meiji would be a significant exception.