![]() Metal still dominates the world, and small influences like sayings based on metals show this ever so clearly. Bullets don’t conveniently slow down so you can Push them for instance, if you hear the shot you’re too late, end of story. It’s great to see how Sanderson extended the Metallic Arts to a more modern setting, maintaining the balance between realism and fantasy. The foreknowledge of prior events combined with the Victorian setting makes the book feel both familiar and refreshing. ![]() Religion has found a place among the people again, with some of the old characters as major inspiration. The three Metallic Arts are still renowned, but have deteriorated much since the events of the Mistborn trilogy, which is now considered history and rather mysterious. Whereas the Mistborn trilogy took place in a medieval-ish setting, the people of Scadrial have progressed and are currently experimenting with electricity, guns and railways, so it is comparable to the Victorian Era in that regard. But Sanderson went a step further! Instead of, as he phrases it, clinging to “ the idea of fantasy worlds as static places, where millennia would pass and technology would never change,” he used his earlier Mistborn trilogy as a building block for new stories and eras in that world (Scadrial). ![]() ![]() A lot of writers return to worlds that they have created it’s such a waste after all to discard all those places, peoples and cultures that you’ve brought to life. ![]()
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