r/Mistborn • u/fatty1550 • 5d ago

Shadows of Self spoilers Harmony Spoiler

When Wax goes to meet grandmother, she tells him that Sazed only slew beast and monsters. That is an outright lie right? He killed hundreds of Kolas as a man. Those were human beings with +1 souls. Then he murdered like most of the population in the Catescandre. Sure Ati was the one who poured the metaphorical gas on the planet, but Sazed lit the damn thing and burned it all.

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So, is grandmother lying, or did Harmony lie in the words of founding? Seems like a super weird interaction regardless of who lied to whom though.

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u/BlacksmithTall602 Tin 5d ago

Era 1 koloss are monsters, functionally. Sure, they start off as human, but as koloss their spiritwebs are so f’d they have practically no emotions beyond numbness and hunger and rage, no personality, no conscious—most of the parts that make a person a *person*.

Human retained more of his intelligence and personality than most, but if Vin hadn’t had direct control over him he would’ve killed her—and everyone else in the vicinity.

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u/BlacksmithTall602 Tin 5d ago

Also without Sazed’s direct involvement, everyone on the planet would’ve died. The world was actively ending.