Mistborn Fans: Don’t Forget to Pick Up Today’s Edition of The Elendel Daily

Thu
Jul 21 2011 1:41pm

Mistborn Fans: Don’t Forget to Pick Up Today’s Edition of The Elendel Daily

Good day, Mistborn and The Alloy of Law fans, have you seen today’s edition of The Elendel Daily? Quite shocking, we must say. It seems as if crime and panic are seeping into every part of life! What is Scadrial coming to?

Right now at San Diego Comic Con, the Tor Books booth is offering a special broadsheet packed with news from the world of Brandon Sanderson’s upcoming The Alloy of Law Mistborn novel. The broadsheet is packed with little hints about the upcoming book, as well as a ton of contextual information about the world that doesn’t appear in the novel itself!

There are a lot of gems here for fans of Mistborn and we didn’t want to Sanderson fans the world over to feel left out, so Tor Books has provided a downloadable PDF version of the broadsheet!

Download the PDF version of The Alloy of Law broadsheet (About 4 MB)

As a bonus, the broadsheet also includes the Prologue from The Alloy of Law, which you can also read right here on Tor.com.

If you’re reading this on Thursday, July 21, don’t forget you can Twitter chat at 1 PM EST / 10 AM PST with some of the Tor Books folks who helped it come about. Info here.

We’re still getting our hands on some copies of the actual broadsheet, so keep your eyes peeled for some sweepstakes involving them!

Broadsheet written by Brandon Sanderson, illustrated and designed by Ben McSweeney, composited and edited by Peter Ahlstrom.

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1. laurene135

view all by laurene135 | Thursday July 21, 2011 02:51pm EDT

I find it it interesting that one of the Terrisman's metalminds allows him a "connection with the koloss"

And it seems that there is a possibility that the Koloss can and are still making other koloss from regular people (despite BS saying that "Harmony" changed their make up to allow them to breed true)

2. douglas

view all by douglas | Thursday July 21, 2011 04:24pm EDT

The feruchemical "connection with the koloss" thing, especially with the total lack of detail provided, makes me think it's probably just something made up for the story. The whole series is most likely a fictional tale manufactured to help sell the paper, with at best a rather tenuous relationship to any genuine explorer.

Likewise, the hint at continued Koloss conversion of humans through hemalurgy may be no more than a narrative twist inspired by legends of the original practice. Then again, it might have some more recent truth to it. I'm not buying the feruchemy thing, though; that kind of effect just doesn't fit feruchemy's pattern of storing and retreiving personal attributes.

New theory inspired by one of the articles here: the Faceless Immortals are the Kandra. They all have true hemalurgic spikes, which would allow Sazed to easily communicate with them, explaining why they would be reknowned as Harmony's favored servants. Their shapeshifting abilities would explain the article's "wearing the face of her departed husband" bit, and also why they are called Faceless. And they've always been Immortal...

3. MysticBells

view all by MysticBells | Thursday July 21, 2011 05:02pm EDT

Although koloss are allowed to breed true, that doesn't necessarily mean that they can't be created with spikes. Sazed might have just made it so that wasn't the only way (I don't know where he said that, though, so I may be mistaken). The possibility of the Terrisman's metalminds connecting to the koloss is intriguing. That doesn't seem like a particularly temporal ability, so I am inclined to think it is from one of the enhancement metals, most likely Aluminum or Duralumin (we have no indication anyone knows about Chromium and Nicrosil). I have to wonder how you would "store" Koloss connection/influence Feruchemically; the only thing I can think of is that you have to allow them to connect with/influence you, perhaps what we see in:
"Connection notwithstanding, the koloss pulled him away, though they didn’t seem to realize what he had done."

Out of curiosity, I copied/pasted the characters following the "Edition" from the top of the page and it says: CZJ6SK . I can't imagine any significance to that, but that's what it appears to "translate" to.

Also, the date is "The 4th of Doxil, 341." I presume 341 is the number of years since the founding. Doxil might be related Dox from the original trilogy.

4. John R. Ellis

Thursday July 21, 2011 08:39pm EDT

Wish I could read this. I've forgotten my password, and the new one I requested keeps getting rejected as incorrect.

5. Wolfsrahm

view all by Wolfsrahm | Thursday July 21, 2011 08:44pm EDT

Maybe the Terrisman wasn't purely using Feruchamy to connect with the Koloss? If he's a twinborn, there might be some way for him to get a nice amplification to rioting/soothing.

6. Greyfalconway

view all by Greyfalconway | Friday July 22, 2011 05:47am EDT

It would be awesome to have this as a free iPad app with realistic-broadsheet-paper-action

7. strongbad00

view all by strongbad00 | Friday July 22, 2011 09:49pm EDT

i seem to remember in the third chapter, one of the months is reffered to as Vinuarch. I believe the months of the year are probably named after the characters from the first trilogy. Vinuarch being Vin and Doxil being Dox. I wonder what the rest of them are.

8. nafhan

view all by nafhan | Saturday July 23, 2011 09:53pm EDT

Wonderful. Mistborn + the wild west just seems like a really awesome combination. The thing about unions with the political comic adds some really nice ambiance. It's also interesting how the theme of class warfare is still present in the books with the classes seperated by wealth instead of birth.

9. Lightbringer

view all by Lightbringer | Wednesday July 27, 2011 03:10pm EDT

I thought I had heard Sazed eliminated Hemalugy altogether, so how could there still be Koloss and Kandra? Didn't all the Kandra commit suicide or get killed at the end of the Trilogy? Ironeyes are clearly Inquisitors, and those are quite certainly gone
now - Sazed wouldn't have saved any of them, they couldn't have hidden
in with the people in the shelters, and nobody knows how to make new
ones.I think all those reports are rumors and speculation if not lies based on old fairy tales, as the events of the Trilogy must be at this point in history.

10. Codename Boyscout

Thursday July 28, 2011 12:26pm EDT

However, BS has mentioned that one particular Steel Inquisitor is still around and would likely still be around in the future trilogy that he has invisioned namely the Inquisitor named Marsh who was originally nicknamed Ironeyes because of his harsh looks all long before becoming a steel inquisitor. So with at least one Inquisitor running around still it is entirely possible that the rumors aren't as far fetched as they seem.

Also want to voice my guess that just because koloss can breed true doesn't mean that they can't still be made from other people.

Finally, want to point out that the connection between the terrisman and the koloss doesn't neccesarily have to be a new power, it might just be the terrisman swelling in size using his pewter minds to appear similar in size to a large Koloss. Just a thought to consider as that might give him a "connection" without being a connection in the terms that we consider for Allomancy.

Food for thought however you look at it. Love the preview chapters and can't wait to read the full thing in Nov.

11. jmelsna

Saturday July 30, 2011 08:45am EDT

@John R. Ellis:
I don't know what's wrong, either. I have tried every combination of screen name and password I know, and the site says they're wrong. (Obviously I *am* registered, because I got the e-mail that brought me here...) Then I click to have a new password sent to me--three times so far!--and while it assures me the message has gone out, I never get anything...

12. statesman88

view all by statesman88 | Monday August 01, 2011 06:40pm EDT

I have an idea for the connection to the koloss: Handerwym the Terrisman could be a Rioter or Soother as well as a Feruchemist of some kind. By that means, he could take control of a koloss. If he found a way to use Feruchemy to strengthen his Rioting or Soothing, then he could take control of any number of koloss.

13. Sir_Read-a-Lot

view all by Sir_Read-a-Lot | Saturday August 27, 2011 07:45pm EDT

Vin and Elend generally needed Duralumin to take control of the Koloss, and they were much more powerful than anyone in this time period. I think that the "connection to the Koloss" is fiction, based on stories and legends of Elend and Vin.

14. JimD

view all by JimD | Thursday September 01, 2011 11:12am EDT

Well, I finally gave up and re-registered for the site from another e-mail address. (The download took less than a minute!) Now I guess I'll have to find a way to kill the old "account"--without being able to log into it...

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