Mistborn Era 2 Recap | Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, and The Bands of Mourning 

Also, I think we are meant to think that the person we see at the end of Bands of Mourning is Kelsier, but the reveal will be that its actually Spook. He was the only mistborn we knew of existing post Catacendre, and we dont know that he died, only that stopped being the Ruler of Elendel after a hundred years or so. I think it's possible he went searching for Atium with knowledge that it would be needed to fight anyone who discovered the bands of mourning (and got his scars at the pits of hathsin), or he scarred his arms to pay homage to Kelsier, who he looked up to. If he was able to find atium, he could have lived several hundred years to the time of Wax and Wayne with feruchemy, compounding it with allomancy like the lord ruler. Of course, Spook is not a Feruchemist, but he could have used hemalurgy to obtain Atium's feruchemical power. This seems plausible to me because we know he was interested in hemalurgy due to the book given to Marasi, and it would explain the Spike through the eye he has in the statue, on the coin, and the half-ironsight vision in Wax's metal mind flashback.

Yess, I'm a new reader that's binging so I knew the name was familiar right off the bat, I managed to remember it while reading

I agree. It is so helpful!

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I love the puppet theater part!

That was so so creative!

I love the puppet theater thing...

@@patrickwallen5065 That was such a cute idea

thank you for adding more info!

@@merphynapier42 you’re welcome

That is very interesting!

Book 1: Aw shit Wax has to marry Steris but he's really gonna fall in love with Marasi.... Book 2: Oh, maybe not?... Book 3: OMG Steris is the best, Wax and Steris fall in love and its perfect, and Sanderson has once again upended my expectations

Steris shines in book 4

Yes!!

the combat reads much better to me too. less repetitive and just feels more fun to read

The comedy in era 2 is exactly my type of comedy.I had a blast.

Wax and Wayne are the homies. Possibly my favorite character relationship in the cosmere! If only their series had longer books

Read Elantris and Warbreaker before storm light archives.

@@AJ7Preston thanks for the tip but I actually jumped right into The Way of Kings and I just started Rhythm of War yesterday. Im moving fast cuz I also have the audible versions. But im gonna step back and read the companion novels also. The ones you listed plus Edgedancer and Dawnshard. Im enthralled by the Cosmere

This video was posted at such a perfect time because I will be starting this series in about a month! I have been thinking about it a lot recently.

Mistborn is a superb series

I have wanted to try Brandon Sanderson books for a while now. I will be starting with this trilogy!

@@britneynicole8903 The complete Mistborn series (6 books so far) are great & so is The Stormlight Archive series. I love them both.

@@12Chris6 Oh. There are six books in the series? I thought it was just a trilogy! Yay!! I am even more excited now!

@@britneynicole8903 the first 3 are set in the medieval/castle Era with Vin as the main protagonist. The next 4 (including the new one next month) is set around the industrial revolution with wax/Wayne as your main protagonists. It's a kind of a sequel-ish

it's the opposite as I'm sure you've figured out by now

Did you read Secret History?

@@amandahalverson4904 yup

if you're missing my dedicated book reviews, my second channel (linked in the description) is basically dedicated to that :)

She has definitely gotten me back into reading again! I am loving it!

I know I say this all the time … I am so excited to start this series!

That was so cute!

I’m just imagining all the jokes Wayne would make about ‘the crab people’ and him trying to disguise himself as one 😂

yes. this

SA is before Era 2, but The Sovergn saving the Southerners happened just after Era 1 ended because he made it so they could stand the climate change. Alec said that The Sovergn had been dead some 300 years. The reason we think/believe/are lead to believe its Kel is because of the scars on his arms. The metal spike in the eye is likely how Kel was attached to the body and is able to be in the physical realm. I doubt he posseded Spook since he was busy being Lord Mistborn for a century and very much in the publc eye at the time THe Sovergn was in the south.

Aha... I don't know why that didn't occur to me. That clears up the chronology, but it would mean that Kelsier would lose his connection to Harmony if he went off world (hence why he cant leave Scadrial). Feruchemy seems to work off world, but maybe hemalurgy doesn't? If that is the case, how would he be able to even make connections across the cosmere? How did he get his old body back? Is it his old body? Regardless, he has been building the Ghostbloods since being the Sovereign. So many damn questions with this that boil down to an understanding of what is, and isn't, possible with investiture and why Kelsier cares about the cosmere as a whole.

@@danbourlotos5188 I'm thinking whatever body he attached himself to took on the physical appearance his cognative shadow saw himself as. Just like Kal's Shash scar not healing, Kel sees his scars as a part of him, so his physical appearance conforms. Or, maybe he hyjacked a Kandra using his old bones, though that has its own implications I don't even want to think about right now. Could Kel in a body go to a different world? Maybe via a perpindicularity, othewise maybe he would need to get a spike to a different world and do whatever they did before on the new world? I think, as a cognitave shaow that temporarily held preservation, he is too tied to the land and that's why he is stuck where he is in Shadesmare.

I'm all for Kelsier still kicking around, Hell, I would love it if he were an antagonist for the SLA crew. I am just struggling with how that can actually happen (has happened). Yeah, there is a lot going on here mechanically. You brought up some ideas that I will have to think about more. Thanks!

Mistborn Era 1 is (imo) the most cohesive, fun, swashbuckling, and accessible branch of the Cosmere. Start there, get hooked, and do the inevitable and read the whole thing ☺️

@@Jonathan-ug9yu I am very excited! I am going to be starting it in December.

Can you remind me what Kelsier does/how he appears in era 2?

@@amandahalverson4904 he makes an appearance right at the end of the bands of mourning. Wax touches a coin and has a memory from Kelsiers point of view taking place after the end if the hero hero of ages. Havent been able to read the lost metal yet, so no idea if he actually will make a proper appearance. If you havent read it, mistborn secret history has a bit of idea what he was up to

Era 2 isn’t branded on the cover or anything like that, but Brandon has consistently called the Wax & Wayne series era 2 of Mistborn.

@@Syvak Oh okay! Thank you!