#mistborn marsh

[marvelousmagicalaura]

(Art by Arthur Mósca for Brotherwise Games)

NOBODY HERE IS TALKING ABOUT CANON PRE INQUISITOR MARSH ART?!?!

[uinferno]

Death in the Year 500

Cyberpunk Marsh. To be more incognito, I thought he'd wear a thick sweater and pair of aviators to hide spikes, plus grow out his hair to hide the tattoos (and spikes from the rear). Not seen easily because of the colors, but he's graying as he coasts along in his 50s because I think silver fox Marsh is what everyone deserves.

Tangent: ever since I saw Ben McSweeney's official portrait I can't not see Marsh as fucking yoked.

[ghastlybespoke]

sometimes your favourite guy in the books is a dude you and your friends refer to as 'kebab face' who was forced to commit highest treason by god, is one of the best examples of foreshadowing you've ever read about, and he deserves a little pat on the head for his 300 year redemption effort

[beginnerblueglass]

Mistborn headcanons

After having these rolling around in my brain for months, I remembered that tumblr exists ^_^

Marsh is the first one who met and became friends with Sazed. Marsh recruited Sazed while he was the leader of the skaa rebellion and helped free him from the stewardship program. I think Mare was involved too, since Sazed met her before he met Kelsier (I'm pretty sure? idk I'm rereading the books rn). Maybe she posed as a noblewoman and bought Sazed, freeing him to become a rebel agent if he so desired. He met Kelsier later through Mare.

Era 2 Marsh/Ironeyes lives in a house outside a little gothic mountain town on the edge of the Basin, populated with mostly Sliverists (people who revere Ironeyes). There's a family in this town charged with serving Ironeyes and making sure he can live there in peace. I just want him to have a nice comfortable house, maybe a garden, maybe a cat or two. I wish Brandon could have written more about Sliverism.

(More of an observation than a headcanon) Paalm is definitely not her full name. KanPaar, TenSoon, MeLaan, ReLuur, ???-Paalm. It just makes sense.

[overworkedblorbobattle]

Overworked Blorbo Battle Round 1 Poll: 35

[cake-apostate]

But where does Ironeyes sleep?

According to Marsh, Steel Inquisitors need to sleep most of the time because of the sheer strain Hemalurgy has on their souls. Even though he can Compound Bronze (wakefulness), he still needs to sleep sometimes. But given that Old Ironeyes is known as Death Himself, where can he sleep?

The easiest answer is that the Kandra own property and he can always crash with them. But speculation is fun. 

Given that there’s a whole religion that reveres him, I think that every temple dedicated to Sliverism is obligated to house him if he arrives. Every temple keeps a room with a bed, a pitcher of water, and a plate or bowl of food, and if Ironeyes doesn’t visit (which is most of the time), the food is donated to the first beggar who comes to the door before it can go bad. 

Eventually, too many softhearted acolytes despair at only being able to feed one person a day, and organize this into a soup kitchen. They make a big batch of soup or whatever every day, put the first portion in Ironeyes’s room, and the rest goes to the poor. At the start of the next day, Ironeyes’s uneaten food becomes breakfast for whoever cleans the room. I get the feeling that Sliverism will appreciate the invention of the fridge and the microwave (or maybe just a box that reheats things) a little more than other religions.

However, they don’t house people in Ironeyes’s room. Sliverist temples are supposed to reserve the room for him; the soup kitchen works because they’re still giving him food, but they don’t want to have to kick people out in case Ironeyes shows up. It turns out fine anyways because nobody wants to sleep in Death’s room. 

That said, I think it would also be funny if he just... went to inns and asked for rooms. And people are too intimidated to refuse. I’ve also seen a theory that he can walk around unnoticed because he’s storing Connection, so maybe he lets innkeepers perceive him just enough to get a room, but they can’t remember who it was or what they looked like. But there’s a record of a dude named Marsh in that room and he clearly paid, so whatever. 

And now, spoilers for the dude who links Mistborn and Stomlight, the one who’s super spoilery. You know the one.

Marsh sleeps in Ghostblood hideouts. Kelsier made him an honorary member; Marsh can stay there as long as he doesn’t reveal their secrets, but he’s not under any obligation to follow orders. Marsh, for his part, just lets Kelsier do his thing; he’ll yell at his brother if he doesn’t like something, but he won’t sabotage their operations. 

The Ghostbloods know that he’s Kelsier’s brother, and they generally let him be. 

[madxmellon]

It’s October, which means Cosmere Inktober is officially here! I’ll be combining prompts for 3 days at a time, because I don’t think I could survive making one drawing a day 😅

The first three prompts were: Puppet/Weapon/Glass

[tentamist]

MARRRRSSSSHHHH

[comiclysmic]

It's Crop Top Weekend, Lads

[itmakesssenseincontext]

Marsh being mentioned in Tress of the Emerald Sea in the chapter The Survivor is so funny to me. Marsh is never escaping his little brothers shadow, even as a death god on multiple worlds

[rainhaunted]

not a day goes by without me thinking about this wob

[runmienn]

Compilation of mistborn art I’ve made so far while reading the books (I haven’t finished the hero of ages yet so please please please be careful with spoilers!!)

Vin, OreSeur, Kelsier, Marsh and Sazed

[uinferno]

Cosmere Inktober Day 21 - Rust

[zephyscosmere]

Ruin is such a drama queen in HoA I love him. There's twice where he just fuckin screams 😭 And I mean c'mon. Did Marsh have to be shirtless for the fight in Luthadel? Absolutely not. But Ruin cares about aesthetics goddamn it.

[brothermouse-skeleton]

*Scadrian Youth Pastor voice* I've heard a lot about the Ides of March, but have you thought about the Eyes of Marsh? Let's rap about what happens when you die...

[seawolfdesigns-blog1]

Considering the fact that Kelsier has died (he got better) but Marsh never has, I hope to the gods that Marsh uses it to tease Kelsier.

Like, Marsh may be an old man physically, mentally and spiritually, but the amount of digs you can make at a man called the Survivor for not surviving is quite big.