Mistborn Liveblog 26

Chapter 25

This chapter ends the third of five parts to the story. I'm getting so deep that unless there's a clear literary or authorial point that I can find, there's not much I can discuss spoiler-free. And I'm trying to be careful about the points I draw because I don't want to even hint at things that could lead to spoilers. So, I've got to be careful.

Today, I'm going to stick to a review of my little project here. I'm now five weeks in and over halfway. I didn't realize how much effort this was going to take, but I'm glad I'm doing it. First off, I have a really hard time with consistency, but this has helped me with that. True, sometimes I write an entry a bit early, but I've made sure to have an entry every weekday, just as I planned. More than once, I've thought that it would be okay to just let a day slip, but I remind myself that I made this a goal and it's out there for anyone to find, whether I succeed or whether I fail. And that keeps me going. It's not about readership, it's about meeting my goal for myself. And so far, it's going pretty well. My next goal is to apply this kind of consistency to my current work in progress.

Onto some spoilers:

Well, at first glance it appears that my thoughts from the previous chapter are incorrect. After Kelsier and Vin run to the battle, which turned out to be a long distance away, not just at the other end of the city, they found most of the army dead-- including Yeden. They go to find any left in the caves and there Kelsier meets the same old man from the prologue, Mennis. I was really happy to find him tied back into the story. I don't really care if this is the only time we see him again, I just liked the tie-in.

This is certainly building into an actual setback for the plan, and the fact that the end of the chapter was in Kelsier's view and he didn't mention his other plan leads me to believe that it wasn't part of his plan. There's still a skeptical part of me that wants to believe that Brandon is trying to just cover it up somehow, but I can't really see how right now.

So far in the story, there have been a few setbacks to the plan-- Vin's injury is probably the most prominent so far, plus the low recruitment numbers, and now the majority of the army is wiped out. And with Yeden gone, the question arises about what will happen after Luthadel is captured (I'm still sure that they'll capture the city one way or another). The plan was for Yeden to be in charge of setting up the new government, but with him gone, the question of who will take his place becomes fairly big in my mind. I don't expect that question to be addressed very soon-- I bet their minds will be on what to do without an army-- but I hope they get to it soon.

More tomorrow. Happy reading.

Jameson