Rashek was a whiner
"You don't know what I do for mankind. I was your god, even if you couldn't see it. By killing me, you have doomed...."
That dying speech is twenty-five words long.
"There's a hole in the basement almost full of an evil god's power. Use it up or you're all boned" is only twenty!
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Started my cosmere reread with the final empire. I haven’t read mistborn since 2018 and I can’t believe the amount of foreshadowing Brandon put in there. “Oh look all the steel inquisitors are seeker, coincidentally my brother is also a seeker!” “They used to call him ironeyes cause he’s got stern eyes but they stopped cause it’s rude.” Skas gossiping if kelsier is actually human or if he’s dead and something is wearing his face. Kelsier contemplating maybe he should found his own religion…..like the list goes on! I’m having so much fun finding these little hints!
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couldn’t find a screencap of him gazing comfortingly at his best friend (loml behavior) or looking mournfully at maarva’s hologram (my poor himbo meow meow), so i settled for a blurry picture of him killing fascist cops with his bare hands (husband material).
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Lemme just point out how awesome Kelsier's fight with the inquisitor at the end of The Final Empire is. There are constant descriptions of his amazing allomantic skill, and his general grace, with him being a blur on the battlefield. He avoids being crushed by a cage wagon by jumping INTO the cage and pushing all around him. He distracts and hurts the inquisitor by keeping a constant swarm of small metal shards flying around it by expertly pulling and pushing, even using the inquisitor's own allomancy against it. And then, he ends the fight with the only technique that could possibly beat all of the above: Break face with rock.
Truly, a legend
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The Final Empire - Brandon Sanderson (Mistborn Era 1, #1)
5/5 - fabulous characters, heist novel, Vin my beloved!! start of a truly fabulous trilogy, really innovative magic
SPOILERS BELOW!!!
This was the first Sanderson novel I read and it really captured my heart (as it probably obvious). As such, it holds a special place of honor To Me as one of his superior works.
The Final Empire is excellent for a number of reasons. First, it's a heist movie in a book. Think Ocean's 11 (2018). The crew is all very likeable and they come together to put together a truly insane plan. The best part is that, at several points in the story, key elements of the plan go completely wrong. It's delightful. Nothing is better than watching characters who are supposed to be clever actually act clever.
TFE is also distinct amongst many trilogy consisting of a fight against an evil overlord in that the fight happens and succeeds in the very first book. It doesn't take them the usual first attempt, minor success, second attempt horrific failure, and third attempt actual victory that usually happens over the course of fantasy trilogies. This also means they actually have to have the philosophical discussions that usually get tossed to the wayside regarding what to do after a revolution succeeds. Delicious I tell you.
Sanderson is also a master of describing places that are foreign compared to Earth and then sells these concepts by changing the way that characters behave. People thinking plants being green would just be weird? Extra notes of importance on the color white because of all the ash? The world doesn't only look different, which is common in most fantasy settings, but the characters feel like they're from somewhere totally different, which some books are not successful at.
Allomancy as a concept is also something that's super distinctive to me. Sanderson is pretty well-known in fantasy circles for defining "hard" and "soft" magic and he abides pretty strictly by those rules.
And the cherry on top of the cupcake is Vin. My beloved. Her struggle with identity, trust issues, her own power, it's just everything to me. She goes through a whole "I'm not like other girls" arc and yet she's still struggling. She's immensely powerful and yet so inexperienced. I love her. I would do anything for her.
Also Vin and Elend's romance is just so cute. You have to feel for Vin the whole time. They have my whole heart.
Now having read The Secret History, I still harbor some conflicted feelings towards Kelsier. He's such a good father figure to Vin (which makes him dying so heartbreaking) but his whole religious arc still leaves me feeling weird.
PS: If you would like some really good Vin art, or good Sanderson art in general, I highly recommend @lamaery their Vin design and their costume design is !!! crazy good
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