The Hero of Ages (Mistborn, #3)

by Brandon Sanderson

The nature of the world is such that when we create something, we often destroy something else in the process.

It is called Ruin, Vin thought. It will destroy everything.

They never understood that without the microbes and plants Rashek had developed to break down the ash particles, the land would quickly have been buried. Though of course that did eventually happen anyway.

Burned alive is so cruel. This is a dictatorship bruh

This should not be Kel’s legacy

WHATTT!? Kel?!

6-7!!hehe

What’s that

Lestibournes. Lefting I’m born. Street slang for “I’ve been abandoned.”

Dang everyone had tragic backstories

“I never did like him,” Kelsier whispered.

Interesting…?

Is this what happened to spook? He still have that blade in him

“I am human,” the large beast said quietly.

Brooo what in the attack on titan is going on

And so, a kandra granted the Blessing of Potency is actually acquiring a bit of innate strength similar to that of burning pewter. The Blessing of Presence grants mental capacity in a similar way, while the Blessing of Awareness is the ability to sense with greater acuity, and the rarely used Blessing of Stability grants emotional fortitude.

Adonalsium.

Never let your life depend on the competence of someone whose life isn’t also on the line.

WHAT HER BROTHER?

When you’re alone, no one can betray you, a voice whispered in the back of her mind. Reen’s voice. The voice she heard sometimes, almost real, like a conscience. She’d taken it for granted that the voice was merely part of her psyche—something left over from Reen’s teachings. An instinct. Anyone will betray you, Vin, the voice said, repeating a bit of advice it commonly gave. As it spoke, it slowly slid from Reen’s voice into that of Ruin. Anyone. I’ve always been with you. You’ve heard me in your mind since your first years of life.

I need explanations nowwww

“A man is what he has passion about,” Breeze said. “I’ve found that if you give up what you want most for what you think you should want more, you’ll just end up miserable.”

She’s gonna die isn’t she

So now is it actually Kelsier or ruin speaking to spook?

This can’t be the Kelsier I know

I KNEWWWW IT. You deceitful creature!

Then he slid down to the ground, alone with the cold and blackness.

NOOO SPOOOOK

Poor sazed…

Belief isn’t simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief—what is faith—if you don’t continue in it after failure?

Lmaooo shadeeee

Omg Elend is gonna be surrounded by Koloss he can’t control anymore.

Yeah yall might be cooked

Clock it Sazed!!!

I have hatred for you ruin. How dare you

“They weren’t killing us, Yomen. They weren’t making us sick. They were Snapping us. Bringing us power. Making us able to fight.”

THE ALLOMANCER ARMYYY. The puzzle is coming together

“It sounds to me, young one,” Haddek said, “that you’re searching for something that cannot be found.” “The truth?” Sazed said. “No,” Haddek replied. “A religion that requires no faith of its believers.”

“Faith isn’t about logic, son,”

Literally shut up

“Please…” Vin whispered, reaching toward the mists. “Please, please, please…”

Vinnn!

There is at least one other case of a person who could pierce copperclouds. In her case, however, the situation was slightly different. She was a Mistborn from birth, and her sister was the Seeker. The death of that sister—and subsequent inheritance of power via the Hemalurgic spike used to kill that sister— left her twice as strong at burning bronze as a typical Mistborn. And that let her see through the copperclouds of lesser Allomancers.

Six and seven.

Dang another six seven hehe

Dang, making me hate the lord ruler less now

The life of a person is more than the chaos of its passing. Emotion, Ruin. This is your defeat.

The axe took off Elend’s head.

Bro this can’t be…

Once Vin died, the end came quickly. We were not prepared for it—but all of the Lord Ruler’s planning could not have prepared us for this. How did one prepare for the end of the world itself?

Again what is this endinggggg

A small body lay beside his. Sazed fell to his knees, grabbing Vin by the shoulders. Near her, atop the pile of koloss, lay another body—of a man with red hair whom Sazed did not recognize, but he ignored it.

“I am no Hero,”

So it was Sazed all along

Omg the way everything comes full circle is insane. I’m impressed. Truly

But a Hero who would span the ages. A Hero who would preserve humankind throughout all times. Neither Preservation nor Ruin, but both. God.

Wow

Of all of us who touched it, I feel she was the most worthy.

“No, I’m not troubled. In fact, I think that everything is going to be all right. Finally.”