#the bands of mourning

[onlycosmere]

[just-cosmere-fan]

[despondentnuzzy]

Steris my queen, my beloved, my shining baby girl.

Every single fucking thing she does delights me.

Hello hotel here is a list of things that could happen, this is not a test it's a survival guide.

Hello Wax, I am going to vomit to help you, fuck the state, here is a gun.

Like Wax I get you miss your wife (he misses her a lot). But I'm so Glad he's getting over his problems and realized how much autistic rizz she has.

I want to talk about this book a lot but I'm not done. MB Era2 is hitting much more than Era1 for me. Not to say it wasn't great, but my god this Era is a vibe

[madxmellon]

Day 4: Frozen

MISTBORN BANDS OF MOURNING SPOILERS

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This prompt made me think of Wax trying to hide from his Uncle in Bands of Mourning, surrounded by frozen mummies 🥶

[lavenderleahy]

Waxillium Ladrian really said I'm gonna do the most romantic thing I'm gonna carry this woman in my arms and push past the mists so we are above EVERYTHING and we can see the SKY and why does he do it? Oh he *thinks* it's just to thank her for being an absolute badass, but then he looks at her in the arms and realizes he has a strong affection for her and maybe just maybe *that's* why he took her to see the sky because he actually cares for this woman and then in that moment of heightened realization he KISSES HER

[ezhrndle]

Just finished The lost metal

[wyndlerunner]

This post script is a lot funnier now that we know he wrote so many books between Oathbringer and Lost Metal

[koravelliumavast]

Era 2 might not be people’s favorite but you cant deny the comedicness of the bands of mourning chapter ten where everyone is just being themselves and the innkeeper is like shocked because they’re a lot and Marasi goes to her and says like you have nothing to worry about and the innkeeper says like you’ve gotta get away from these people and Marasi goes mhm yep they’re fine just tired now where’s the nearest graveyard?

[mapas-fantasticos]

Map of the Basin and the Southern Continent from the Bands of Mourning by Brandon Sanderson.

[rrenarinn]

My favorite moment in the bands of mourning is when Wax dies then speed runs therapy with god

[thestormlightnetwork]

i finished the bands of mourning!

i gotta hand it to sanderson, i really thought wax was going to die in the sanderlanche.

the book was great and it ended in a wonderful spot for the protagonists (ugh i love it when it happens (every book i read)) AND THE EPILOGUE WAS SO INTRIGUING???

THE GHOSTBLOODS (well i think they are, yeah?) KILLED EDWARN, THEN WAX TAPPED INTO ONE OF KELSIER'S MEMORIES AND HE HAD A HEMALURGIC SPIKE THROUGH ONE OF HIS EYES WHICH WOULD EXPLAIN THE STORING MEMORIES BIT BUT AHHHH WHATTTTT

[onlycosmere]

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[marvelousmagicalaura]

Thoughts on Secret History Part 1: Empire

I've finally started Secret History. I've heard it's very important to Mistborn and the Cosmere, so this is something I want to take my time reading. I'll be posting my reactions to each part, starting with Part 1: Empire. This part was short but had a surprising amount of info.

I'm beyond happy to see Kelsier again. "I am hope" always gets me and I SCREAMED in the final scene of book 6. It seems like Secret History will reveal different sides to Kelsier's personality. Here, I saw his fear of death and unwillingness to pass away, his drive to discover the truth behind secrets, his justified lack of faith in God, regret for hurting Vin and the crew. And the absolute BALLS to punch God then finesse God! That was totally unexpected, comedy gold right there! 🤣

The words Spiritual Realm and the capital C word - Connection - showed up. I remember from book 6 that Connection is a Spiritual Realm property, includes Connection to lands, and includes Connection between people (i.e. Connection between Handerwym and koloss). I'm confident the magic system of The Emperor's Soul manipulates the Connection within the souls of people and objects. Guess I shouldn't be shocked it's in the workings of Allomantic malatium (gold too?).

Here I bear witness Rashek's final moments. It's honestly depressing. I would've loved to seen Rashek's personality from his POV or the Firsts, people very close to him. And even though he was a scumbag, he was essential to Preservation's Plan. I like to theorize Rashek was either religiously motivated or had a duty to protect Scadrial once he glimpsed Preservation’s Plan. But lost his sense of devotion after so long. I don’t think Rashek just starting out would’ve silenced Fuzz or called him an impotent mouse 😂

I’m surprised to learn Ruin was attacking Preservation even before his release. So the hologram must be showing a representation of Preservation taking Ruin’s attacks and losing his mind. The passage about Ruin’s alterations is pretty shocking as well. At this time, no one knew about the Terris Prophecies or religion outside of Alendi’s logbook and kandra. But there were the Steel Ministry and the 600+ religions studied by Keepers. We know from WoBs and book 3 implications that Preservation wrote the Terris Prophecies and hid gems from Ruin in all of humanity’s religions. IIRC those gems were hidden to help the Hero of Ages his gambits would lead into. My speculation is Ruin wasn’t just altering Sazed’s rubbings. He was altering Alendi's logbook, the Keepers’ copperminds, the Keepers’ texts, and the Steel Ministry’s texts. And it appears Preservation has been actively writing stuff that Ruin altered. Pretty hypocritical for Pres to dislike Ruin for “making the religion all about him” even though Pres did the same thing 💀

A lot about Preservation in this section. Fuzz is a living contradiction. He's the god of stasis, yet he accepts that death is the natural progress of things... Though, The Plan is a contradiction to begin with. And it doesn’t seem like his planning was as certain as I thought. When I look back to the Mistborn Trilogy, one of my personal gripes was Preservation and mortals outsmarting/overcoming Ruin around the time he appeared to Vin at Fadrex. But it turns out I might be wrong lol.

Fuzz didn’t foresee that Kelsier would have a 100% chance of dying by letting the Lord Ruler kill him, or at least didn't foresee it as a likely possibility. He even said futuresight is cloudy - made of many possibilities. He didn’t understand why Ruin let Kelsier use malatium. And all these distortions are definitely because his mind has been degrading for millennia. It seems like Fuzz - Leras - Preservation - knew the Well of Ascension wouldn’t trap Ruin/Ati forever, that he would break free eventually. So he set up gambits that **might** eventually come to fruition, like the army of atium Mistings preventing Ruin from regaining his full power.

I have to respect the fact Fuzz’s mind has been dying for millennia, yet he has the cognition to manifest holograms that move and have conversations wiyj every dying soul. As well as the cognition to watch the fight between Kelsier and the Inquisitor.

Going back to Rashek, my theory is Fuzz's anger at Rashek's death is an instance of Preservation not remembering this part of the plan. The way I see it, Rashek needed to die for many of Pres’ gambits to come to fruition, cuz Rashek would’ve killed or captured the pawns like Vin, or Sazed, or the mistfallen. But Preservation can’t remember this.

There's the magic number sixteen! The mistfallen! I remember that Harmony said Preservation hid clues about the number sixteen, before he imprisoned Ruin. Guess this means Preservation set up the snapping Mists before the imprisonment, planting unaware Allomancers over the course of thousands of years. Setting up the gambit of Allomancers who can burn Ruin’s atium.

To close off the post, I gotta call crap on Fuzz's claims. There’s no way Kelsier is the only person in history to punch him or beg for revival. I suspect whatever he did to Kelsier is a gambit that’s part of the plan... which I don't remember well lmao. Was the plan made when Fuzz was smarter the Terris Prophecies and the Hero of Ages?

[despondentnuzzy]

I previously commented on Wayne ruining Waxs Wedding. While I do not forgive him I do hope that him achieving canonical monster fuck status less than 100 or so pages later is a sign of him going in the right direction.

Also I will drive a hemalurgic spike through BranSan's groin if Steris does not get a happy ending. Autistic fucking queen.

[lavenderleahy]

Can some knowledgeable cosmere folks help me out? I keep seeing references of Kelsier and the well of ascension. Bands of mourning explicitly says he held the power of the well. My question is when did this happen? Was it in a mistborn novel or is it alluded to elsewhere in the cosmere?

If in the first mistborn series, I'd appreciate a detailed explanation. If it's alluded to elsewhere, please just point me in the right direction. I don't mind spoilers but I enjoy finding things out for myself :)

TIA

[ezhrndle]

This MIGHT be mistborn era 2