would LOVE to hear you yell about mistborn influencing tlt if you have the time, i love both series but have never really thought of that before

pinging @ianthetridentariyes, @fire-swift, @violaeade, and @daughterofsarenrae who also sent me asks about this!

THANK YOU for asking!! For anyone who doesn’t know, Mistborn is a series of epic fantasy novels, the standalone original trilogy published between 2006-2008. I have NOT kept up with the sequel series, but the OG trilogy is a classic favorite of mine. anyway….. cracks knuckles:

Immortal God-King who was once only a man (Rashek, John) that legend says ascended over a Great Evil that he locked away (Ruin, Alecto) to allow founding of the kingdom. The God-King now rules over an unrealistically culturally stagnant kingdom (1000 or 10,000 years with little technological change) that is structured based on his original followers gaining demigod-like power (Mistborn, Lyctorhood) and each founding a “House” that still stands in the present day timeline (the original Lyctors each founding one of the Nine Houses, Rashek’s friends creating the Ten Great Houses).

The plot involves a relationship between a prince who wears white and a girl who wears black (Elend/Vin, Gideon/Harrow). The girl who wears black has repeated episodes of hallucinations and it turns out she’s been on some level possessed by the Locked Away Power who speaks to her in a disguised way (Ruin speaks to Vin in Reen’s voice, Alecto speaks to Harrow as The Body). She also has Extra Powers due to infant sacrifice (Vin’s younger sister killed with the copper hemalurgic spike, Harrow being 200 murdered children).

Also, the entire kingdom was founded after the world was destroyed and it Came Back Wrong, being put back together by guy who was trying to save it and was Unqualified (Rashek tried to save Scadrial but almost destroyed it by moving it too close to the sun and then had to compensate, John ate the solar system when he was trying to save the world and now it’s thanergetic).

Jesus is there (Kelsier, Gideon Nav).

There are probably a few more #connections (and this feeds into my other very tinfoil hat theory that John Gaius Moved the Solar System) but this post is already long enough ldsjfldskfj

I made a chart:

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