WARNING: Massive spoilers -- The Hero of Ages (Book 3)

[Glacialis]

You've been warned. This thread could ruin* your enjoyment of the series.




*No pun intended.














No really. If you ever plan on reading the series, please leave! You'll love me for it later.













What are your biggest "OMG!" moments from HoA? I'll probably not return to this thread until my wife and I finish reading HoA (long commute, we read to each other) but I figured we needed a place lest the uberness spill over to other threads.

[Agent 333]

My biggest OMG moment? When Spook started suddenly kicking so much ass. I mean, go Spook! He and TenSoon were my favorite characters in this one. Everyone else's storylines seemed so... flat compared to theirs.

Oh, and was anyone else kinda peeved that they left the last two metals completely unexplained? I guess its so there's still some mystery and whatnot, but it seems kinda.... lame. Even if the story proper didn't deal with it, having it in the Ars Arcanum would have been nice. As well as a better explanation of the Kandra Blessings. It's fairly easy to infer what the others do based on what TenSoon tells us, but it'd be nice to have a full description....


Oh, and did anyone else figure out that Vin's earring was causing problems waaay earlier than she did?

[Glacialis]

Yeah, Spook turned awesome. And he ended up Mistborn! That's perfect for him.

There were so many "!!!" moments I can't really pick one. The biggest one was of course "Sazed?!", but I figure everyone had that reaction.

[MilitiaJim]

I'm still going along through, but yeah, go Spook! 

I think his "elevation" offers view of an excellent game mechanic to ease keeping player power levels congruent.

[Forcegypsy]

Just finished. Hooray. Spook and definitely the Kandra storyline.

[MilitiaJim]

I finished it this morning.  And...holy crow hemalurgy!  Wow.  Very bad guy stuff, but hella cool.

[Aldus Vertten]

i went straight ahead to the end of the thread, jumping whatever spoiler u have written before,  to be able to say...

wow...

i'm just on page 266, i just read about the koloss being humans... great surprise, i'm reaally enjoying the book...

just needed to say it... now i'm back to it...wont be back here till i finish it in a few days...

al

[Aldus Vertten]

Okaaaay, finished at last!

Great reading, i enjoyed it a lot. Hemalurgy is great, and loved how everything seem to falla in place. Sazed introspection got a little tiresome after the first chapters, it took him a loooong time to understand something quite obvious about faith...

Spook story was probably the best, i agree. And it's funny when i think that in his first chapter i was thinking that i wasn't very much interested in him...

About the last two metals, i liked that they din't use them. And i liked even more that Sanderson is making a poster with all 16 metals, explaining a little about the last two... I think we will learn more about them in the rpg...

[Agent 333]

Aldus, not everyone finds faith easy. I personally saw Sazed's journey throughout the book to be of the appropriate length, and it gave him something to do while the other characters were doing things.

[Aldus Vertten]

Aldus, not everyone finds faith easy. I personally saw Sazed's journey throughout the book to be of the appropriate length, and it gave him something to do while the other characters were doing things.

Agree, not everyone, but someone who has been preaching 500 diferent religions, that always tries to find the proper one for the person he aproaches should be more aware of the nature of faith, in my opinion.

I understand what sazed is going trough, my problem is that it keeps going in circles around the same questions again and again and again.

It's a problem more related to the writing than to the story. In the second book i felt the same way about the doubts Vin suffered, after a few chapters i was tired of the same idea repeated again and again. It gives the character depth, ok, but at the expense of interest. In the first book you could find the same about Vin and his relationship with the crew, about being able to trust somebody, but there it didn't feel as forced, maybe because the character evolved a lot since the story started till the end, gradually. Here and in WoA the change came in the last chapters, to quick and after too much "whining"


by the way, shouldnt atium explode when it's close to somebody using allomancy? (i'm not sure if i asked this yesterday... i need to sleep more...)

[MilitiaJim]

Knowledge of many religions and having faith in any of them are entirely different.  While it did take Sazed quite a while to see the need for a leap of faith, I can see why, as a scholar, it did take that time.

I think a lot of the frustration we have with Vin, and Sazed, are problems that we cause our friends and families as well.  You just want to shake them by the shoulders and shout in their face, but at the same time you realize that is unlikely to actually help.

[Aldus Vertten]

But at first he states that he believes in all the religions, that all hold some kind of truth... which i found ironic because in the end it's the conclusion he arrives to...

I think a lot of the frustration we have with Vin, and Sazed, are problems that we cause our friends and families as well.  You just want to shake them by the shoulders and shout in their face, but at the same time you realize that is unlikely to actually help.

I think that resumes my feelings  when i was reading the book.

[Agent 333]

The crystals that atium is extracted from explode near allomancy, but the actual atium nuggets themselves don't.

[MilitiaJim]

Yoinked from the thread on books 1 & 2:

If Atium Mistlings existed, the Nobility would know.

It was hidden, but they do exist.

[Krensky]

Yoinked from the thread on books 1 & 2:

If Atium Mistlings existed, the Nobility would know.

It was hidden, but they do exist.

Yeah, yeah...

I completely failed to account for the level of "Way To Go Serge"¹ involved with both Ruin and Preservation along with the extent and depth of the Lord-Ruler's plotting and planning. I also assumed there was a bit more Atium in circulation then it seems and that the noble houses were a bit more independent and scheming then they were.

¹ Rule 168