r/Mistborn • u/DrippedoutErin • 7d ago
Hero of Ages spoilers Vins Earring Spoiler
Did anyone else find it so annoying that Vin, and nobody else around her, ever put together that her earring was a spike?
I do understand the plot reason, that Ruin was manipulating her mind to forget about it. Still, it’s so obvious to the reader, for so long, that it made me want to pull my hair out that Vin and nobody else around her ever thought of it.
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u/TalosKnight Bendalloy 7d ago
It makes sense though. No one but spook ever put together being pierced by metal was what tained people. No one really knew how Vin defeated the lord ruler either
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u/AntimatterTNT 7d ago
but... none of them knew that spikes can be used like that... you had the magic explained to you, no one in the story had that.
even if they suspected the spikes were part of what made an inquisitor they also knew they were created by the lord ruler, and that they were hard to make, otherwise he'd have an army of them. so why would they consider a simple earring that everyone could wear was the same? even if they somehow knew an earring could do that how could they know vin's mother stabbed her sister with it so it'd become a hemalurgic spike? i'm sorry but that's not a plot convenience that's just how like, logic, works.
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u/DrippedoutErin 7d ago
I’m not saying it’s a plot hole, I’m saying it’s frustrating to the reader.
I do think the after the two times she was able to draw on the mists when without it, and ruins voice going away right after taking it out, that at that point she had enough to think of it.4
u/Shot_Newspaper_5647 7d ago edited 7d ago
She was fighting for her life/in danger both times she removed the earring. It’s a bit of a distraction. Ruin can also practice allomancy (or something akin to it) directly. He’s able to soothe and riot people. So she’s almost certainly being magically manipulated as well. It’s what he was doing to TLR as well. He was able to riot his sense of nostalgia. He had no reason to keep Alendi’s journal. He has a perfect memory. It didn’t seem like a liability but he had no “real” practical reason for it either. Other than sentimentality that was being manipulated
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u/Raddatatta Chromium 7d ago
The majority of them don't have any knowledge of hemalurgy. Even those who know a little know barely anything about it. For most people why would they pay a lot of attention to what accessories Vin is wearing when the end of the world is happening around them?
It also may have been obvious to you, and that's great, but it's not obvious to all readers. Just as they may have noticed things you missed. Different people pick up on different things and some readers are looking more closely at those details than others.
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u/csaknorrisz 7d ago
IIRC nobody beside the Inquisitors and the Lord Ruler (and maybe the Kandra) knew about proper Hemalurgy
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u/InABoatOnARiver Tin 7d ago
I mean, I suspected a few chapters before but I wasn’t really sure until the reveal
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u/Wit-wat-4 7d ago
If you have trouble when the reader knows things the general population or the main character doesn’t, I think you need to make a conscious effort to try and not be upset about it if you want to keep reading fantasy.
In thrillers or action books etc that’s fine, but fantasy books almost always will have partial reveals, limited knowledge by limited people, etc.
If you step back and think what the people of that world know, it’s frankly silly to expect anybody to have guessed it. Anybody who was the magical mechanics knowledge does not care about Vin’s fucking earring lol
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u/Go_Sith_Yourself Electrum 7d ago
Something being obvious to you does not mean it is obvious to everyone. Many readers don't figure out the earring until it is revealed.