I really enjoyed these books! The characters were by far my favorite part, but I also liked the magic system. I'm not usually a hard magic kinda reader, but I found that Sanderson used it really well here. It was fun to see what allowancers, especially Vin, could do with the limitations the magic possessed. I used to think hard magic would be boring, but this series totally converted me.

[[Spoiler Alert] Just my personal opinion on the series

I’ve seen many BookTokers and online reviewers talk about how the ending of The Hero of Ages completely destroyed them and evoked a massive wave of grief.

Frankly, for me, it felt more empty than sad. Because I already knew Elend and Vin were going to die at the end, their deaths weren’t shocking. However, when I reached the epilogue and saw Spook and the rest of the crew find their restored bodies holding hands in a flower bed, it really hit me. After following these two characters through three books and two months of reading, it truly felt like a closed chapter.

Given how Vin and Elend had always been the emotional core of the series, having them die while Sazed became the true Hero of Ages felt a bit strange as a reader. It’s sad, in a way, that they could only find their happy ending in death—though it is satisfying that they both finally achieved what they set out to do. Regardless of how the final twist landed, the epilogue itself was brilliantly placed.

Overall Thoughts:

Book 1 (The Final Empire): Felt like a complete, standalone story. Realistically, you could easily stop there if you wanted to.

Books 2 & 3 (The Well of Ascension & The Hero of Ages): I honestly almost DNF’d both books midway through because the pacing dragged. That said, the final 200–300 pages of each book ramped up so intensely that they ultimately made the books worth continuing.

And.ita being maddening the arc of straff army and the assault in Luthadel because, why didn't Vin kill him/try him the moment he arrived in the outskirt? Or after the parley? I honestly cant remember the reason why not, but in the end she still kills him after the assault and they lost so many, so the indecision seems mot. A waste of time or acting because the plot, because after the first assassination attempt, she should have ultra murdered him

Was because Elend didn't want to kill him because he was "idealistic"? Even after all the minologues about how utterly reprehensible he is and he would kill Elen and everybody for his ego?

Was because of Zane? Who also didn't kill him because he was insane?

It just, after returning, the entire Straff arc reads like padding and to hava a forced plot for the Mistborn SUBVERSION the book is making about heoric fantasy/ya of 21 years ago. Like the three way romance or the Kwaan entries.

He really grew outna lot for the stormlight saga huh?

Hero of ages Spoilers: RIP Vin you would’ve loved Goddess by Laufey

Heard this song recently again shortly after finishing HoA and it just feels like it works so well for Vin! More specifically how she feels Elend views her during WoA and her struggle with being deified. No idea how much of a cross over between Cosmere fans and Laufey fans there are but just felt the need to share!

I am in Well of Ascension now and I am enjoying the story so far! Loved Vin, lived the crew, loved Kelsier, loved how The Final Empire ended. There is just one tiny thing: I just cannot seem to connect with Elend? 😭 I know he has a good heart and a good vision and all and Vin thinks he is a good man but I just cannot stand him. I hope this gets better.

At the beginning of this week I started The Final Empire. Now I am at chapter 15, liked it so much up until now I decided to buy the rest of this saga and Arcanum Unbounded. As good as spoiler free I'm just starting this cosmere journey.

Hello all, I've read much of Sanderson's work, but am finally getting around to finishing Mistborn, Era 2. I absolutely loved Era 1 years ago, even some of the grittier, more violent elements. That being said, some of the content in the second era has surprised me in terms of its graphic nature. I just read the beginning of Bands of Mourning and was uncomfortable with the scene described at the end of the prologue. Could anyone tell me if the rest of the book contains similar moments? I'd just like to know what I'm getting myself into! Thanks so much and sorry in advance to anyone who reads much more violent content than Mistborn and thinks I'm a wimp lol

For some reason, no matter how much of the books I get into, I know they’re tall humans, I cannot get this view of them out of my head.

Today I was with my kids at a children's museum and popped in an ear bud to get to the good part of The Lost Metal, ended up listening to the end and had to keep it together in public...

Will carve later

Joined the Cosmere Inktober challenged this year - (everyday you need to draw or sketch a piece inspired by the daily theme)

So I drew some Mistborn fanart for the first time 😌
One piece was more of a experimental style 😬

Instagram: TheLastFairry

I'm in the middle of Allow of Law, and in Era 2 Feruchemy becomes much more common. And reading Sanderson describing how Wayne stores his health, I got this doubt of how it works exactly. Because "health" is not a measurable thing, right? Like weight or even age. Health, as I understand it (and I could be wrong, I'm not a doctor, feel free to correct me), is the absence of an unhealthy condition. So you get a cold because of a virus in your body. My guess is when storing health, the misting is actually toning down their immunological system? Does that make sense?

Or maybe that's just one of those things that we shouldn't think about too much

Not sure if anyone else felt like this, but The Well of Ascension was a painful read. There was little to no new character development the only person worth caring about is Vin. Does Hero of Ages pick up or are these books just slow burns?

Apologies😔

Trell (Autonomy) and Bleeder (Paalm)

This artwork was done for this year’s Cosmere Inktober. It covers days 10-14 - promise, landmark, skeletal, mystery, above

Just started Mistborn today, about 10 Chapters in so far, and I say no spoilers but leave some things down here that I will find funny and/or upset me as I finish books! Thank you in advance :)

Hi,

I've been rereading the first trilogy (last time was over a decade ago and I have a blast right now) and was thinking about gold allomancy.

Is there any use or advantage of burning gold besides self reflection and some shenanigans with other magic systems? I would love to read your opinions and theories about it.

This isn’t really a serious post, I just wanted to share what came to my mind as I tried to visualize these characters in my head because I thought they were kinda funny.

1. Kelsier - Sly Cooper

I know Skaa are supposed to be identical to nobles in terms of appearance, but when I read the prologue, I really felt like they were some other species. And because Kelsier was introduced there, it always stuck in my mind that he would look something like Sly Cooper. Only thing missing is a Mistborn cloak

2) Vin - Kimiko (from The Boys)

To be honest I didn’t really try to visualize the look of Vin in my head until after I finished the book. I feel like Kimiko is a good fit just due to her slender build, dark hair, and overall the fact that they both came from really harsh upbringings and has super powers that they gained later in life.

3) Lord Ruler - Ganishka (Berserk)

Ganishka is a tyrant who controls a massive empire, based on Indian / South Asian / maybe Persian culture. Interestingly, Ganishka has the power to turn himself into mist to cover entire cities and battlefields, and control the weather and winds. He literally engineers demons and stuff in his army through gruesome human experimentation and stuff, and as a whole I’d say he’s actually way worse than the Lord Ruler, but they do share many similarities.

4) Sazed - Jabaloma (Jujutsu Kaisen Modulo)

This dude is literally an alien from the spinoff series of JJK. He’s like a diplomat sent to earth to negotiate with humans, and he’s very crafty and intelligent, so personality wise he’s not really a good match for Sazed. He’s also sort of an antagonist, but not necessarily evil. At least in terms of appearance, he looks very religious (the aliens in this story are very religious and spiritual, that’s sort of the core conflict — humans on earth are killing evil spirits that the aliens recognize as gods). I know that terrismen don’t look THAT different from other people in the Mistborn series, but they are at least distinguishable, similar to this alien guy.

5) inquisitors - Doki (Tayuya’s Summoning from Naruto)

At first, I thought steel inquisitors were like giants or something, so this is the image that I contrived for them. In Naruto, these demons have no intelligence, and are simply creatures controlled by a girl (antagonist) named Tayuya who plays notes on a flute to control them and attack her enemies. In Mistborn, inquisitors are actually smart and even crafty, basically usurping the obligators towards the end. So again, not a great match personality wise.

6) Breeze - Monopoly man (lol)

they really emphasized “dressed like a noble” so I imagined Breeze with a top hat and cane. Interestingly this might actually be more of Docksons look, but I never really conjured an image for him.

Hope you enjoyed this post!

Fanart of Tindwyl from Well of ascension made by me (Etholia) in Clip Studio Paint