From Mistborn: The Hero of Ages by Brandon Sanderson. Why does all fantasy have to be like that?
Please recommend some fantasy novels with themes of real liberation to me. I love fantasy but I hate that it's always a new monarchy people happily submit to...
Kelsier did nothing wrong
I'm gonna try to not go on a rant, but THANK YOU! On Reddit ( I know I know but there's not a lot of places to talk about the cosmere) there's are large contingent of anti kelsier thought and I fucking hate it. People keep pointing to his hatred of the ruling class as a sign he's evil and bad. All I can think is have any of you people read the novel. Everything about the mistborn world is fucked and not wanting to kill the ruling elite I think makes you the real sociopath. But the oppressed actually hating and wanting to get rid and kill their oppressor makes the good libs of Reddit a little to uncomfortable. So they call him a psycho and say him wanting to use every tool in his arsenal to get rid of the enemy makes him a bad person
Yup. He gets genuinely furious at the way the Skaa are treated, which we know because there are multiple scenes from his POV where it happens. Yet r*dditors will still say he only cared about revenge or his own ego or whatever. Can these people not read??? If we only knew through dialogue or something there would be room for debate but we're literally showed his emotions as a viewpoint character. BRUH.
He saved Elend Venture tho
Tbf he couldn't know Elend would become a king back then. I actually like a lot about how the post-revolutionary government is presented in the well of ascension. Elend starts out really idealistic and naive but that ultimately just opens the door for reactionary forces to swoop in and take control. I wish they would have just given him a position and title that wasn't hereditary though, would have made everything way cooler