Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Sixty-Three Part 2 Vin the Politician Vin sells herself short sometimes on her ability to influence people and deal with political situations. She, perhaps, forgets that she began her career as an Allomancer by using the emotional metals, not the physical ones. Long before she was leaping through the mists, she…

Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Sixty-Three Ruin and Preservation Were Human Ruin was human once. Vin implies it, and I’ll just come out and say it. Ruin and Preservation were both people, unconnected to the powers they eventually took upon themselves. I can’t say any more on that at this point, however. Ruin Helps Destruction Along…

Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Sixty-Two Part 2 Betrayal and Trust Sazed’s discussion on betrayal and trust here is very important. It harks back to Vin’s conflicts in the first book, as well as one of the major interactions between her and Kelsier. Kelsier believed that it was better to trust people and be betrayed than…

Some Notes

Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Sixty-One What Happened to Janarle We finally get a brief mention of Janarle in this chapter. He is a side character who became a side side character. It’s important that he bowed to Vin at the end of the second book, but he quickly became someone I didn’t have time to…

Vin Defends Herself before Yomen

Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Sixty Silver, the Useless Metal I’ve annotated about this before, but I figured I’d mention it again. As you probably know, in book one, tin was originally silver. I swapped it out for various reasons. However, that left silver having no Allomantic powers. That feels strange to a lot of people…

Annotation Mistborn 3 Chapter Fifty-Nine TenSoon Visits Urteau The fact that TenSoon is out of the homeland without a Contract is an important point, one I myself didn’t consider up until now. Always before, anyone who wanted to hire a kandra left a message in a designated place in Luthadel. The kandra found you—a creature…

Spook Wrap-Up