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November 18, 2016 - May 5, 2018
“The Ashmounts are violent this year.”
I'm guessing the Ashmounts are "always-on" volcanoes that are the cause of the daily ash, and maybe the mist too.
Physically, there was little difference between noblemen and skaa.
Seems like anyone who is not Skaa are noble. But that doesnt account for those nobles that fall out of favor. Do they end up running the streets too?
The Steel Ministry was not just the force of bureaucracy and legal authority in the Final Empire—it was like a noble house unto itself.
nobility wasn’t just about money. It was about lineage and history; the Lord Ruler was immortal, and he apparently still remembered the men who had supported him during the early years of his reign. The descendants of those men, no matter how poor they became, would always be favored.
Well, answers my question poor nobles.
stand like watchful gods over this land of green fertility.
These chapter intros may be flashbacks, since they speak of green fertility. Everything up to this point has been ash ridden.
Allomancy. The mystical power held by the nobility, granted to them by the Lord Ruler some thousand years before as a reward for their loyalty.
“Many high noblemen only have access to a single Allomantic skill. People like that—those who can only perform Allomancy in one of its eight basic aspects—are called Mistings.
The Lord Ruler was a force, like the winds or the mists. One did not kill such things. They didn’t live, really. They simply were.
Steelpushing and Ironpulling were the first things that Gemmel had taught him.
First reference to a mentor. Was this before he escaped Hathsin?
There’s always another secret, Kelsier thought.
He had saved them from the Deepness, then had brought the ash and the mists as a punishment for the people’s lack of faith.
May confirm that chapter intro excerpts are from the Lord Ruler’s perspective.
He’s a powerful Allomancer, but by no means omnipotent.”
And yet, he’s supposedly immortal...
Kelsier still found it hard to believe that his brother had given up leadership of the skaa rebellion. He had always been so passionate about his work.
Now we see why Yeden was so excited.
Despite what she did…sometimes I wish that you hadn’t been the one to survive the Pits.”
Did Kelsier take Marsh's biddy??
Hopefully, he would be able to encourage the skills while helping heal the scars.
Providing empathy and support while not taking the burdens on to himself.
Ministry doctrine—something rarely shared with skaa—claims that the Mistborn are descendants of the only men who remained true to the Lord Ruler during the days before his Ascension.
“There are two metals for every power,” Kelsier said.
People used to be able to look up and see them every night—that was before the mists came, before the Ashmounts erupted ash and smoke into the sky.”
“They’re all Seekers—I’m not sure if that’s because Seekers are chosen to become Inquisitors, or if the process of becoming an Inquisitor grants the power.
in both Allomancy and life, the person who can best judge the consequences of their actions will be the most successful.
The dark mound—perhaps ten feet tall and twice as long—lurched forward in a strange, shuffling gait,
The right belief is like a good cloak, I think. If it fits you well, it keeps you warm and safe. The wrong fit, however, can suffocate.”
People are valuable, Mistress Vin, and so—therefore—are their beliefs.
Allomancy can’t let you read minds or even emotions—in a way, you’re as blind as anyone else.
By overthrowing the Final Empire are we doing something good, or are we doing something bad?”
“Actually,” Breeze noted, “the Lord Ruler is only a piece of God. He is the Sliver of Infinity—not omniscient or omnipresent, but an independent section of a consciousness that is.”
Tyrian, closest of the Ashmounts.
