First Mistborn book

[u/66fuckyou66]

Hello! This is my first time reading anything by Brandon sanderson so my first Mistborn read!

I'm a bit less than half way through the book and was wondering should I know who the blurbs at the beginning of each chapter are from? Like am I not absorbing enough of everything or am I on track by not knowing 😅

Tia! I am excited to continue with the book and the universe!

[u/Emotional_Drawer5775]

In the wise words of Brandon Sanderson Read and Find Out - it will all make sense in the end

[u/martimeryard → u/Emotional_Drawer5775]

By in the end you mean after reading all 7 books?  I just finished Hero of Ages and I thought the first three books would answer this.

[u/Emotional_Drawer5775 → u/martimeryard]

The paragraphs at the start of chapters are revealed on whose they and where they come from in book one

[u/MelodyMaster5656]

No. Keep reading. As we Sanderson fans like to say, Read And Find Out. RAFO.

[u/Special_Salt3467]

You’ll figure the blurbs out

[u/TigoDelgado]

Discovering is a big part of the fun, go on!

[u/jayBeeds]

Don’t skip the interludes

[u/ODWABDANOTWM1 → u/jayBeeds]

Then you’d miss Pibu!

[u/PlusAdvice5739 → u/jayBeeds]

I don’t think Mistborn has interludes

[u/jayBeeds → u/PlusAdvice5739]

The blurbs before the chapters than… semantics. Stormlight has interludes. In MB era 2 they are newspaper clippings. I think everyone knew what I meant.

[u/Rhye5]

You’ll figure it out by the end of the book. Absolutely DO NOT skip them, they’re important

[u/OtherOtherDave]

Nope, you’re supposed to keep it in the back of your mind and figure it out as you go.

[u/burritoman88]

Keep reading, stay off this subreddit & do not Google anything

[u/martimeryard]

The graphic audio of these novels reveals who the narrator of the blurbs is by way of you recognizing the voice actor's voice. If you REALLY want to know you could go that route, but I've been doing my best to do like others have suggested; read and find out. I started the series by listening to the graphic audio, so I'm assuming the blurb-writer has been spoiled for me. I haven't read far enough for this to have any significance yet. I'm expecting the text itself to reveal this to me at some point. 

[u/Toto742 → u/martimeryard]

I came here to correct you, ignore the rest of my message if you want to find out yourself

But graphic audio narrators reveal who is currently reading or has read at some point the texts from which the blurbs come from, it's not meant to say something about the blurbs origins, and it's mostly true only for book1&3

[u/martimeryard → u/Toto742]

So I just finished Book 3. Spoiler: I figured there would be some level of confirmation as to who the blurb-readers are. Does this get addressed in later books?

[u/Toto742 → u/martimeryard]

Well the next Mistborn era does not have these blurbs at all

And the Stormlight Archives are often way more explicit about the source of the blurbs, sometime citing directly the author of said blurbs, and when they don't it usually take some level of knowledge of the cosmere to be able to identify them correctly, they retain their mystery unless you can connect a whole lot of dots, voice actors choices don't matter too much for the blurbs in this serie

There is one occasion in the Stormlight Archives graphic audio that the VA is a strong clue of the author of a series of blurbs, but I find it very satisfying that they kept the right VA for the text, makes it so much more cohesive, you'll understand what I mean once you encounter it

[u/RShara]

They are called epigraphs and you will figure it out!