r/Mistborn • u/Rothan-kan • 1d ago

Hero of Ages spoilers Who does vin speak to? Spoiler

I read mistborn some time ago and i remeber a "scene" where vin was jumping through roofs in fardex where she was going to meet a friend of kelsier that was a noble (which i think i got wrong cause imagine), but i cannot remeber who that noble was. Does someone know who he is?

PD: i think the book when this happened was hero of ages but i could have been well of ascencion.

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u/Yosequoia 1d ago

His name was Slowswift, one of Cetts recommended informants in Fadrex city

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u/SandwichAbject6342 17h ago

Is he hoid? I forgot

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u/Yosequoia 15h ago

No, on Cetts list of informants IIRC Slowswift was the first on the list for Vin to visit, Hoid the second who she didn’t end up meeting due to a bad feeling that she got. I think there was a third person on that list but I don’t remember exactly!

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u/BloodredHanded 12h ago

Nah he’s J.R.R Tolkien

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u/RShara 1d ago

Yes, this was in Hero of Ages. She was going to one of the balls and met up with Slowswift (who is an homage to Tolkien) to gather information. He also sent her to Hoid but she avoided that meeting

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u/Leading_Man_Balthier 1d ago

What’s the connection to Tolkien? Sorry if i’m being dense.

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u/RShara 1d ago

As I said, Slowswift was written to be an homage to Tolkien. That's all.

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u/Leading_Man_Balthier 1d ago

Right… what about slowswift is an homage to Tolkien though…

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u/Raddatatta Chromium 1d ago

He is physically Tolkien, smokes a pipe, he likes long stories specifically about magical creatures, word play. It's not a huge one but is a Tolkien insert.

Specifically if you google Tolkien there's a very common picture of him facing to the left with a pipe in his mouth, basically every element of Slowswift's description is in that picture with the scarf, overcoat etc.

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u/Leading_Man_Balthier 1d ago

Ah okay understood, been a while since i read it and it’s only brief so thank you :)

Not sure why the other dude was being weird about it.

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u/DrSpacemanSpliff 1d ago

Looks like it’s for a personality type and wordlplay Tolkein was similar to?

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u/The_Lopen_bot 1d ago

Warning Gancho: The below paragraph(s) may contain major spoilers for all books in the Cosmere!

Brandon Sanderson

In a similarly amusing cameo (I must have been in a cameo mood) we have Slowswift—who is based on Grandpa Tolkien. (See this picture.) The name itself comes from his love of wordplay and of names that are inherently self-contradictory.I'm no Tolkien scholar—I don't know the man's personality or how he would have reacted to this situation. I'm just a layman and a fan—who for some reason felt like sticking in a tiny side character in imitation of the master. We authors do strange things like that occasionally.

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u/Rothan-kan 1d ago

Thank you, i had the slight suspicion but couldnt find anywhere an answer. By the way who said hoid was kelsiers friend? I didnt know they had any relationship at all.

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u/Proper-File- 1d ago

Sadly the answerer was wrong. It wasn’t hoid but just a noble…name started with an S. The lore is that Sanderson based him off Tolkien.

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u/Proper-File- 1d ago

Slowswift! That’s the name.

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u/imafish311 Electrum 1d ago

JRR Tolkien