That's true. In his worlds, the religions are provably true, which simplifies certain things and complicates others. Kind of reminds me of the Amazon show Kaos. They're all just what regular people would really be like if you gave them cosmic powers. - ThreadSky

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jasonwiggins.bsky.social • 104 days ago

That's true. In his worlds, the religions are provably true, which simplifies certain things and complicates others. Kind of reminds me of the Amazon show Kaos. They're all just what regular people would really be like if you gave them cosmic powers.

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j-leaulite.bsky.social•104 days ago

Kaladin and Dalinar especially state that the Almighty wasn’t Honor, which likely isn’t true but they use their faith frequently. It doesn’t escape me that the concepts of shards gels well with Mormon faith

jasonwiggins.bsky.social•104 days ago

Hmm... You know, the many ways you can divide the Abrahamic religions really comes down to which part of the teaching you lean into the hardest. Combine the various parts of those teachings, the shards, and you get their Almighty, which I'm leaning toward believing is Adonalsium.

j-leaulite.bsky.social•104 days ago

I mainly look at Odium’s “give me your pain” which is a bastardization of evangelical God’s similar offer. Dalinar’s frank rejection is fascinating. Ironically Cultivation actually DOES take the pain to allow Dalinar to grow. Again, so many points to make.

jasonwiggins.bsky.social•104 days ago

I haven't had a chance to read his new one yet. It's next on my list. I hope he does it more justice than mistborn era 2. I just felt massively let down by that entire story arc.

j-leaulite.bsky.social•104 days ago

To be fair, era 2 wasn’t even supposed to happen. We weren’t supposed to see Mistborn until era 3 which is Cold War era. So I can forgive it not being super fleshed out when it was supposed to be a couple short books

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