Thoughts on Kelsier* [bland]
Enough with "monstrous" Kelsier* [Pros: follows the theme of a previous thread "Enough with the Moash thing". Cons: tacky, currently intend to focus on two other characters for comparison rather than just Kelsier, not a reference, possibly coming across as prescriptive]
I don't know if I am just very late into Mistborn characters' morality discussions if these things were really just sadly overlooked. While Stormlight characters have multiple topics analyzing them, I've found very few doing the same for Mistborn characters. The title, of course, comes from the one character who seems to be the exception to this, Kelsier.
The reason why Kelsier's characterization is still a popular topic/has seen a resurgence is because of this WoB: [ ]. There have been prev topics discussing the WoB in the context of defending Kelsier such as: [Kelsier is not a monster]*? So, I won't rehash those and instead move on two other characters who I believe should also be discussed within the same frame: the main couple, Vin & Elend
[quoted from DM with Michael Marssen]
Vin
[collected quotes from Vin "executioner"]
[the slaughter alongside Zane & her thoughts regarding the incident]
[thoughts on Reen]
Elend
[the two executions, the army]
[change in narrative style post WoA, where we start seeing him from the outside after his training]
Kelsier
[comparison with main couple, the stakes for context, suicidal intentions, relativism (time), contextualizing his hatred]
Kel: tl;dr: one & half books worth of info on char, stop flanderization over one meta comment
2)
Cultivation's Magic
Collection of select WoBs regarding Cultivationlight, "fabrials are part of it", Old Magic, "Lift+no one onscreen", Adonalsium & fabrials, fabrials & medallions*, Vyre's knife possible connection
3 & 4)
Pre-Splintering Selish magics
Take from Who Built Elantris?
(another topic exploring the possibility of the Ire being the original builders of Elantris, which was option 2 that got overshadowed by the out-there option 1)
Existence of Aons within Seons during Aona's death / Devotion's Splintering; how magic manifests on Sel (shape/form)
5) Shardic Intents
It always felt to me that a Shard's Intent should be spread across all three Realms, translating into Physical, Cognitive and Spiritual.
Like Honor should be about rules and bindings in the Spiritual, all the interpretations of the term 'honor' that the Orders exemplify in the Cognitive, natural laws in the Physical.
Similarly Preservation should tend more towards being more unchanging, static sense of the word in the Spiritual, and more protective sense of the word in the Cognitive, and in the Physical translate as the Law of Conservation
And Ruin should be entropy in the Physical, the raw embodiment of time, translating as the idea of destruction and decay in the Cognitive and the end of the cycle, breaking down into fundamental parts in the Spiritual.
And Cultivation stand for growth and change,: Physical, Cognitive and Spiritual. Manifesting as natural selection or artificial pruning in the Physical, personal growth in the Cognitive and the fundamental idea of change directed towards optimal or desired results in the Spiritual.
Odium be the idea of anger and hatred in the Cognitive, lack of Connections, self-centredness, repulsive in the Spiritual
Endowment personify the cyclical nature of life and death in the Physical, rebirth, new things arising from the old
We haven't seen Ambition, Devotion and Dominion so hesitate to speculate but I see them as the drive to improve and be above others, to serve other above and below, to be above others and have them serve. I currently don't have any theories as to how their Intents might manifest in the three Realms
Like the Shards aren't discrete components of Adonalsium but rather functions.
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