As he does, he sees into Preservation's depths and feels his pain and love for his people, so he winds up hugging him in sympathy. When he asks Preservation to help him stop Ruin, Preservation tells him to head across the ocean for help. Here, Kelsier finds Vin, but he is unable to get close enough to tell her anything about Ruin's plan, as Ruin is using his power to keep Kelsier away. In short, this isn't the place to start your journey into Mistborn (though if you have listened to the trilogy - but it has been a while - you should be just fine, so long as you remember the characters and the general plot of the books).

Leras explains that Kelsier saw into the Spiritual Realm when he flared the Eleventh Metal and saw Rashek's Connection and past. As such, it contains HUGE SPOILERS for the books Mistborn ( The Final Empire), The Well of Ascension, and The Hero of Ages. I was also honored to be able to complete the final three volumes of The Wheel of Time, beginning with The Gathering Storm, using Robert Jordan’s notes. So I have to confess I didn't read this until well after I read the first trilogy because the name misled me. Kelsier decides that stealing the orb from the vault would be too risky and difficult, so he merely waits until they come out with it.Definately do not read unless you have read at least the first Mistborn trilogy, and preferably also all the Wax books. It was a good, clean punch, thrown from the shoulder while he brought his other arm up to block a counter strike. At the novella's beginning, Kelsier is killed by the Lord Ruler but refuses to pass on to the Beyond, and instead becomes trapped in the Cognitive Realm, between the Physical and Spiritual realms. This story is often recommended to be read after The Bands of Mourning, but can be read anytime after The Hero of Ages.

Y es una novela necesaria para entender el Cosmere y les juro que les va a cambiar la forma de ver la primera era de Mistborn. The Lord Ruler: A seemingly immortal being who rules the Final Empire, and has oppressed the people for a thousand years. I've seen it said that this is a very Kelsier thing to do, and I agree, but I also kind of wish Sanderson would let a few more characters stay dead. Senna and Vax seem to be people known to Ati and Leras, and likely are relationships that predate their Ascension. I'm curious about this whole affair, but even more so about Raoden and Galladon's perspectives on it, if they're still around.Brandon Sanderson continues to be one of the authors I try to read as soon as he publishes something, and he very rarely disappoints! He's made the argument to Wax that if he started interfering to preserve life, there's no good place to draw the line - and that the consequences of Preservation can be Ruin. Possibly this means Threnody is close to Scadrial, but even then that suggests that shades can travel away from their home planet via the Cognitive, which is interesting. If there are any other Mistborn fans out there like me, who loved the first trilogy, and enjoy the Wax and Wayne books but think they are missing that old flavor of the first. As such, it contains huge spoilers for the books Mistborn (The Final Empire), The Well of Ascension and The Hero of Ages.

Overall, a, really great and revelatory companion piece to Mistborn, and one that only whets my appetite for more. According to other readers (bare in mind I have only read Sanderson's misborn books so far, so I cant speak for the rest) this novella even had some ties to other Cosmere books. Goradel, a messenger with Kelsier's warning about spikes, travels from Urteau to Fadrex, while Kelsier watches, but Ruin sends for Marsh, who kills Goradel and reads the message aloud to Ruin. The third era of Mistborn is slated to be written after the first arc of the Stormlight Archive wraps up.Definitivamente no es la de mayor calidad, eso está claro, pero por cómo me hizo sentir, Mistborn: Secret History es de lo más extraordinario que he leído. Kelsier rummages around and finds a book describing a device that can enable someone to Ascend when Preservation dies. For some reason, I was postponing reading this novella and then it totally slipped out of my mind since I didn't have it on my kindle. Finds a bunch of Elantrians trying to take Preservation's power, and decides that "stealing dreams" is his purpose in life now.

It's an extremely fun exploration of Kelsier's character that recontextualizes the original Mistborn trilogy and that, at the time of its release (and maybe even still), was so meta within the cosmere that it felt like a cipher of some sorts. What’s most strange is the inclusion of Hoid in this story - Is he really a malevolent agent within Scadrial at this time or is that just Kelsier’s unfounded assumption? I’m a big lover of the original trilogy, but I like the Wax and Wayne bantering in The Alloy of Law even more and I didn’t feel completely comfortable when that series came to The Bands of Mourning. Preservation: A god force on Scadrial with powers that can preserve what already exists, but cannot destroy or create. Okay, so I completely and promptly started to lose my ever loving mind when I realized that this novella was going to star Kelsier in the in-between.Once you step behind the curtain and see the actors as the people they are, it becomes harder to pretend the play is real. And that epilogue with Spook made me want to run to my bookshelves and pick up The Alloy of Law immediately. There may be more installments to the Secret History story, showing more of what Kelsier is up to behind the scenes with Spook and during the Wax and Wayne books.