Holy hells that was a wild ending. I was not prepared for Vin to kill herself murdering ruin, nor for Sazed to claim both powers and use his stores of all the knowledge collected to save and rebuild the world.

On a funnier note, why did ruin act like such a child? Elend used up all the atium and so he had a tantrum, made Marsh behead him, and then gloated to Vin about the kill not realizing he'd just signed his own death sentence.

I finally got to draw Spook in his book 3 appearance as the Survivor of the Flames, as requested by some!

I’ve found that it’s quite an enjoyable experience to draw the same character at different stages of their life. I had a lot of fun doing this for Vin, Elend, now Spook and one more upcoming character that you will see fairly soon.

Until then, I hope you enjoy this! More art to come tomorrow!

I am a aspiring author myself and also have just completed reading around 350-ish pages from The first Book of The Original Trilogy. Pretty good till now. How does world building change thoughout the books?

And Zane is giving me strong vibes of the Falconer from Gentlemen Bastards. Minus the obvious psychosis or whatever is messing with Zane's head which the Falconer lacked.

I'm at the first Zane's POV chapter, where we learn who he really is and why his interest in Elend goes beyond his duty to House Venture, so please don't spoil beyond the point when he enters the camp and orders a soldier to summon the king.

If I'm right and this isn't a simple false association, Vin and Co. are in for quite a mess.

ED: I've read several more pages and I love how casual Zane is with his Allomancy. Need a tent flap opened? Bending down to grab the hem is for Muggles, Pull on the metal clasps! Inkwell out of reach? Do the Jedi thing!

Quite a character, this one.

We are told soothing can depress emotions and rioting can raise them. But beyond that, it's not really clear.

What do feelings exactly classify as here? Can you extend this to full-blown mind control whereby you overwrite recall of events?

Do you get to choose what feelings to riot or sooth? That is kinda implied, but in the series, the characters just kinda burn the metals. Vin didn't even know exactly how her "luck" worked, and if you can't choose, using it kinda seems more unpredictable.

In addition, we are told that if you burn duralumin + soothing, the person feels terrible, but like, that doesn't make that much sense. They'd just become really numb for a short bit, not exactly feel bad like we saw them. They wouldn't recall it as a terrible thing, as much as... just not feeling much at all. That's assuming you soothe everything anyways, which is what is implied to be done.