Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Eighty Part 2 Sazed Sees Mistwraiths I worry that I didn’t get to show mistwraiths very much in this book. It’s not that big of an issue—they’re only a minor world feature, and are only tangentially important. Still, they’re a part of the kandra past and culture, and I want readers…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Eighty Her Eyes Lingered Fondly If you’ve been keeping track, this Terriswoman is, indeed, the romantic interest I promised Micah DeMoux by the end of the book. He said he didn’t care if he ended up with an important character—that didn’t matter to him. He just wanted Captain Demoux to find…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Seventy-Nine The Mists Chose Someone There’s a lot more going on behind the scenes than even the author of these epigraphs knows. Reasons why Vin was chosen, and why the power of Preservation needed a new mind to control it. The author is right in that Preservation did need someone to…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Seventy-Eight Sazed’s Second Time in Prison The other time Sazed was imprisoned was, of course, when he was thrown in jail in an attempt to get close to Vin and rescue her. That was way back at the end of book one. It strikes me as very amusing that the kandra…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Seventy-Seven Elend Inspects Kredik Shaw A short Elend chapter here, again as kind of a slowdown between larger events. I’ll be curious to see what people think of Vin’s god scenes. It took a lot of playing around and work to determine how exactly I wanted her to interact and think…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Seventy-Six The North Pole One of my big challenges in the geography of this world was figuring out how we could have a kingdom set at the pole of the world while at the same time maintaining a normal day/night cycle. My original plan was for the Well of Ascension to…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Seventy-Five The Second Generation Seizes Control This chapter is another indication of my attempt to space out the climaxes in my books. We’ve had the big Vin fight with the Inquisitors; now I’m going to back off from things just a tad so that the reader has time to catch his…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Seventy-Four Allomantic Secrets Some people have asked me why the Lord Ruler was so careful to keep secrets about Allomancy. What would it have mattered if he let out that there were atium Mistings? Some of the secrets offered a sizable tactical advantage. Keeping back duralumin and aluminum gave him and…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Seventy-Three Cinematic Writing I sometimes wonder just how much writers from my era have been influenced by the visual media of entertainment we’ve experienced. How do I imagine things differently because of my childhood watching television and movies? What have the improvements in special affects done for my ability to visualize…
Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Seventy-Two Part 2 Marsh and the Earring Also, here we get a Marsh viewpoint. It’s almost our last one. (I think there is one more in the next chapter.) He didn’t get much screen time, but I hope that what he did get led you to this climax for him. Spook’s…
