#Harmony Mistborn

[sscaredssheep]

Sazed

[hoidmadeittoearth]

just finished shadows of self.

and.

(tw spoilers for shadows of self and also it says who thaidakar is sort of)

what the FUCK BRANDON FUCKING SANDERSON WHEN I CATCH YOU

IT WAS LESSIE IT WAS LESSIE THE WHOLE FUCKING TIME LESSIE IS A KANDRA LESSIE IS BLEEDER AND WAX FUCKING KILLED HER SHE SHE WAS A KANDRA SHE WAS LESSIE IT WAS FUCKING LESSIE LESSIE WHAT THE FUCK BRANDON FUCKING SANDERSON I AM CRYING RIGHT NOW AND I AM GOING TO BLAME YOU FOR ALL MY FUTURE SFFERING BECAUSE THIS. YOU CAN NOT DO THIS TO AN INNOCENT READER WHO JUST WANTED AN ENJOYABLE READ AND TO NOT HAVE THEIR FUCKING HEAR WRENCHED OUT BECAUSE WAX KILLED LESSIE BUT FOR REAL THIS TIME

AND HARMONY KNEW THE WHOLE TIME THAT IS WAS LESSIE BUT HE DIDNT FUCKING TELL WAX BECAUSE OH WHY WOULD HE HES <ugh> SAZED WHEN I CATCH YOU

BRANDON WHEN I CATCH YOU

I THOUGHT LESSIE WOULD BE THE CENN OF MISTBORN CAUSE SHE DIED IN THE FIRST CHAPTER (stormlight reference) BUT NO FWIBWGI[UWHRGIEURGJOWRGWGRHHRGGRUHRUGREUGRERGEHUIRGUEHIGRHIURGEUHGRHUIREGIUHRGHUIRGHIURGHUIE

THIS IS THE MOST. THE MOST EVIL THING THAT YOU HAVE DONE TO US BRANDON. NOT EVEN THE FUCING NIGHT OF SORROWS AMOUNTS TO WHAT YOU DID TO US AT THE END OF FUCKING SHADOWS OF SELF!!!!!!!!!!!!!

oh HARMONY

oh fucking HARMONY

SPEAKING of harmony that lying bitch~

I AM ACTUALLY GOING TO STRANGLE BRANDON CAUSE WHAT? SAZED THE FUCK?????

also is the "other god" meLaan mentions in the last few pages possibly thaidakar? (ive already read wind and truth and secret history so ik the spoiler sort of)

OH CAUSE TRELL IS KELL

Wait yall the back of bands of mourning says there's always another secret...

[dinodivider]

I love that out of all the letters I’ve seen in the epigraphs of Stormlight Archive so far, Sazed is the only Shard to respond to Hoid with a genuine desire to help. Everyone keeps telling him “we don’t consider Odium a problem as long as he’s trapped in the Rosharan system. Have fun with that and fuck off” but not Sazed. Sazed tells him “Hey man, I don’t agree with them. I want to help you. The only reason I haven’t yet is because my Shards physically stop me from doing so. I’m working on it though”. I love that. Sure, it can be written off as his relative youth and naïveté but he’s done this before! His whole life was fighting men that were larger than life, oppressive, and destructive. Of course he’s the one guy willing to fight against Odium!

I’m excited to get to Mistborn era 2 and possibility see him as Harmony outside of just these letters

[thekinglemingle]

"His name will be Discord, but they shall love him for it"

The resolution to W&T provides a way out of the trap Sazed has caught himself in. War with another shard allows him to Ruin other Gods' people to Preserve Scadriel. He can fulfil both Shardic intents and be loved by the Scadrians for it

[blowfliesorangeeyes]

I am So incredibly normal about characters with voices in their head and wax's 'i spoke to god... and the thing is, he spoke back' evoked NO significant reaction from me whatsoever

[vins-paranoia]

Something something Ati being as much of Ruin's puppet as Marsh was Ati's something something Harmony manipulating Wax just as Ruin(and Preservation) manipulated him something something the cycle of abuse

[foxoftamriel]

Mistborn AU where Ruin is the protagonist and Preservation is the antagonist

Ati was able to control Ruin a little bit more, channeling its Intent to destroy things that harmed humanity. But Preservation still did not like this destruction. He would rather humanity be harmed, but not destroyed, so long as everything in the universe stays stable with all its processes working smoothly. In his mind, Ruin is messing with the natural order of things, so he locks Ruin up. Preservation in this AU is more stable, so he continues to affect things around Scadrial to keep everything The Same. But Ruin was still trying to get out. Alendi and all that stuff happens, but Preservation uses Rashek killing Alendi for his own goals, manipulating him to create an empire without change. It doesn’t matter if people suffer, so long as everything is The Same.

Flash forward to the books, and Ruin manages to get enough of his power into the world to infuse Kelsier with some of it (fun morally good destruction guy, Ruin loves him). Kelsier notices he has some weird powers that he shouldn’t have, and it excites him, but it also freaks him it since he has no idea where it comes from. Eventually, an Inquisitor “accidentally” spikes him so Ruin can speak to him, explaining his plans. Kelsier is excited because a god trying to kill The Lord Ruler? Awesome! So he works with Ruin to kill Rashek. He still dies in this AU but becomes a Cognitive Shadow with Ruin’s Investiture, not Preservation’s.

Ruin figures out that in order to stop Preservation, they *both* need to be destroyed, so most from here on out goes similar to canon, with Harmony/Discord being created. Vin still has to take the power of Preservation to defeat Ruin, which really pisses Kel off.

[kaladiner]

someone has definitely done this before but i couldn’t help myself

art: shayndl_art/IG

[roeoftheemeraldsea]

”his name will be discord, and they shall love him for it” in chapter EIGHT of the final empire is crazy

[marvelousmagicalaura]

Thoughts on The Bands of Mourning

Everything about this book is a bundle of pure fun. It’s just like an Indiana Jones adventure!

The breakout character this time is definitely Steris. I was shocked to find out a character could develop so much in such a small amount of pages. But, Sanderson did it with Steris. And to me, she’s insanely relatable. I was literally saying aloud “SHE’S JUST LIKE ME FR 😭” So much I could gush about her omg.

Wax x Steris is better than Vin x Elend. There, I said it. I also started to become a fan of Wax’s character arc - his arc of finding his true position in the world. Wax’s arc feels more subtle than the Era 1 characters and his personality is definitely more rigid than them, but I think I can appreciate it.

Allik was hilarious. Wayne x MeLaan was pretty wholesome and fun. Marasi is always great ❤️

The highlight of this book’s plot was definitely the Southern Scadrians and their Metallic Arts technology. A complaint I’ve had about the Mistborn Saga is that its world and history either feels too small or too shallow, even though there are reasons. This book definitely didn’t eliminate it, but it did mitigate it. The Southern Scadrians’ mask culture sounds intriguing, AND THEIR TECH!!! I’m so excited to find out more about them.

Another highlight of the plot, even though it came during the Sanderlanche, was the conversation between Wax and Harmony. This helped me realize that Sazed is still Sazed, but a Sazed that realizes the complexities of being God. Apart from the issues behind the Shard of Harmony mentioned in book 5, it seems like he’s trying to be different from Preservation. Even with Sanderson’s hazy writing of Era 1’s themes, I felt Preservation was indirectly portrayed as a coddling force. Much like the Lord Ruler, it could be a force who wants to protect, keep things stable, and keep the status quo even at the cost of change and lives.

Granted it’s fuzzy because of The Plan, so I could be reaching lol. Anyway, those attributes clearly aren’t Harmony or Sazed. Harmony is representative of a perfect balance with Ruin’s attributes, and Sazed wants to change Elendel and drive innovation. I love that Sanderson made this clear. I also love the mention of Harmony’s futuresight and his insight into Wax’s mind. It shows he really thought about all future possibilities before deciding Wax needed to go through pain for Paalm and the world’s sake.

And I’m pretty confident Harmony placed Wax’s group in place to stop the Set from getting the ettmetal bomb and Bands. His lines about Trust remind me of what Preservation did throughout his several thousand year long plan, but moderated/expanded with the Shard Ruin’s attributes and Sazed’s outlook.

Harmony’s speech about choices made me cry 😭

I’m shook by the Sovereign twist lmao. Kelsier is the Sovereign?! What the hell is going on?!

I have several theories but I’m sure some will be answered in Secret History and Lost Metal.

[zephyscosmere]

"But even still... things will change." "That is the nature of life, Mistress," Sazed said. "The world must change." - tFE chp. 29

Y'all... we all know about Brandon Sanderson's superb foreshadowing. I'm not sure if this conversation was meant to foreshadow Sazed's ascension at the end of the series, but it really stands out to me. Ruin is entropy, Ruin is change. Change certainly isn't of Preservation. And Vin - who is Preservation's planned successor - is very uncomfortable with change.

It's a subtle moment, but I love it so so much.

[cmchill]

I want to go to Scadrial post Catacendre. I want to obtain one of those special earrings followers of Harmony get.

And then I wanna pop it in and chat reeaaal casually with Sazed and hear him get flustered by someone (me) knowing WAY TOO MUCH hehe

[nozomi-mats]

Commission work featuring Harmony and Kel done for the @17th-shard patreon!

It was a pleasure working on this one. This is the scene from the epilogue of the Lost Metal.

[nerdylizard5]

This Mistborn tryptich set is one of my favorite things I’ve done art-wise recently! (Also selling as bookmarks and prints!)

[shayberri789]

Still thinking about how much of the cosmere is about critiquing the concept of "for a greater good"

[shoccoe]

I’ve heard so many vague, ominous things about the Lost Metal that I almost don’t want to read it. I like liking Kelsier, I like liking Harmony. But I catch these hushed whispers that people hate them after reading that book and I’m just…

:(

No!!!