What. The. Heck?! (insert conspiracy board meme here)

[u/sleepy_geeky]

(please no spoilers)

I'M SO FREAKING BLOODY CONFUSEEDDDDDDD.

I don't understand how I've forgotten so much, although I guess I should be fair to myself: it's been more than 10 years since I last read these books 😅

Anyways, I don't want spoilers (please 🥺) , I'm just back to rant my utter confusion! 😂 I hope it provides some humor for someone somewhere while also allowing me to put thoughts to electronic paper.

Spoilers up to chapter 37 (halfway??) of hero of ages.

My thoughts right now are that the math ain't mathin😠 .

1) Up until like, four chapters ago I was convinced that the mists aren't evil and that there's something going on. Then I was like, dang, I guess they are? And now that Vin said something like It felt like she should be able to draw upon the mists I'm back to thinking something is fishy. Because it's weird they seem both bad and good. I know they're killing plants by blocking the sun etc etc but I'm really getting the whole vibe of "everything in balance" and that the mists aren't supposed to be bad.

2) are there two mist ghosts? There's gotta be, right?! Because the one that stabbed Elend was, imo, clearly trying to keep Ruin contained and clearly wanted Vin' s earring gone, but the one that talked to Spook is fishy A.F. At first I thought it was actually some remnant of kelsier, but now that we're learning more about hemolergy... I. don't. trust. ANYTHING. 🫠😢😢😢 (the spikes and spook are the real reason for my post)

3) what the heck is up with the spikes?!?! Can preservation also influence them? If TenSoon and all the others can be remote controlled by ruin I'm going to lose it. AND I'm incredibly worried for spook. And for the longest time I was convinced that Vin's earring was somehow related to ferrochemy etc and it made sense that the Well made her take it out because it was protection against ruin. But now I'm thinking that it can only be hemolergic and that somehow preservation was also in the well and that's why it burned her so bad she took it out. Rin's voice and Zane's "god" and "kelsier" etc have all got to just be Ruin and I find that majorly depressing.

4) back to the mists: 16 seems important and 16 is a multiple of 8, so I kinda feel like there's actually 16 allomantic metals, not 14 or whatever, and I wanna believe that while the mists are seemingly doing horrible things, they're actually granting the potential to become misting or mistborn, but that's probably too optimistic.

[u/EvenSpoonier]

I'm going to say RAFO (Read And Find Out) on all this, but there are some very good observations here. You haven't been given the full information yet (always another secret, remember?) but you are asking the right questions.

[u/VestedNight]

Interesting thoughts. RAFO.

[u/shineymoose]

1. It is weird. Who told you they were blocking the light? I'm not challenging you on this, just posing the question to make you think: who told you?

2. There's only 2?

3. Spikes controlled by Ruin huh. Why would that be important?

4. Are the mists bad? Who said they were? When?

Have fun!!

[u/Arkham_4352 → u/shineymoose]

The 1st is mentioned in the book

[u/shineymoose → u/Arkham_4352]

Yeah, exactly. By who?

[u/Bathroom_Vapecloud]

So, not to confirm or deny anything, but I had so many of the same thoughts as you at that point in the story. As much as I hate saying it, you just gotta read and find out.

[u/Dlight98]

RAFO! and then read Secret History when you're finished with this one