Really enjoying it so far. The worldbuilding is immaculate and the characters are incredibly engaging. I'm about to start book 3 after devouring the first two over a week (no spoil pls)

edit: turns out the author is a mormon lmao

  • anaesidemus [he/him]
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    2 years ago

    I just re-read Mistborn after having been further radicalized and for me it was a fun insight into the lib mindset.

    spoiler

    The people in power are endlessly agonizing about doing the things they need to do to to stop the literal god of Ruin. "Ohh no I took power without the consent of all the people" "Using my superpowerful mistborn assassin wife is cheating"

    Except for Vin, she just does things, which is cool.

    Even after they put a new god in power who fixes things so they get a fresh start on society they go straight back to a parliamentary republic with noble houses and sweatshops. I'm hoping for some radical elements in book number 4 but there will probably just be some cosmere stuff happening.

    TSA is a bit different, to address one thing, in the later books there is some nuance of the "Asiatic horde dark-skinned orc slaughterfests" thing, we see the why and how

    • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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      2 years ago

      The Wax and Wayne Mistborn subseries is, sadly, a lot less radical than the original trilogy, from my recollection of it (I too was still a lib the last time one of them came out, which was the last time I read that series).

      • anaesidemus [he/him]
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        2 years ago

        there are tantalizing hints of class conflict IIRC, but that is mostly in the background of the story to spice things up, i'm doing a re-read of that as well, I might post about it.

        • Sphere [he/him, they/them]
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          2 years ago

          Pretty sure all that action was in service of maintaining the status quo, though. But my memory of it all is pretty hazy too.

      • anaesidemus [he/him]
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        2 years ago
        more mistborn spoilers

        Looking back at all the abuse of the skaa i would picture something like the Haitian Revolution instead of just meekly transferring power to the Only Good Noble. The only place where they actually got some justice, Urteau was subverted into a corrupted fascist regime that practiced purges based on eugenics because Ruin was manipulating the man in charge.

        Sanderson even had a historical precedent in the french revolution and Robespierre.

        And this is all before we get into the character stuff like you point out.