History Literature / MistbornSecretHistory

** Kelsier has a different form of this when he's briefly hosting Preservation's power. Due to his lack of a body weakening him, combined with his tied with Ruin causing the Shard to rebel against him, he is barely able to slow Ruin's destruction of the world despite his best efforts.
* GoIntoTheLight: When a person dies on Scadrial, the Cognitive Realm acts like an AfterlifeAntechamber where their soul is greeted by resides briefly before being drawn to the Beyond automatically, though those with power, like Metalborn, especially powerful ones, can stay a bit longer, and Slivers could stay forever in theory, Kelsier himself staying by binding himself to the Well, though he is alone in wanting to stay. No one knows what the Beyond is like, even the gods, and they cannot bring someone who goes there back.

* ClippedWingAngel: Kelsier is able to take up the power of Preservation to keep Ruin from splintering the Shard, but he can't use it properly. Not only is he weaker because he has no connection to the physical realm, his soul is so tied to Ruin that the Shard actively fights against him, and as a result he is barely able to slow Ruin's attempts to destroy the world down.
* {{Deicide}}: Khriss says that [[spoiler:the original sixteen Shardholders worked together to murder Adonalsium. Their reasons varied, from naked lust for power to a simple belief that it was the only option left]].

* ClippedWingAngel: Kelsier is able to take up the power of Preservation to keep Ruin from splintering the Shard, but he can't use it properly. Not only is he weaker because he has no connection to the physical realm, his soul is so tied to Ruin that the Shard actively fights against him.

** Preservation is hard pressed to act against Ruin, both due to the fracturing of his mind due to sealing Ruin and the Intent of his Shard. Even at the threat of Ruin being freed, he is unable to attack Elend when Kelsier suggests it, causing

* ItsPronouncedTropay: The Ire. (I-ree) [[spoiler: Turns out the name is [[{{Literature/Elantris}} the Aon for "Time".]]]]

* ClippedWingAngel: Kelsier is able to take up the power of Preservation to keep Ruin from splintering the Shard, but he can't use it properly. Not only is he weaker because he has no connection to the physical realm, his soul is too tied to Ruin and the power of the Shard actively fights against him.

* ClippedWingedAngel: Kelsier is able to take up the power of Preservation to keep Ruin from splintering the Shard, but he can't use it properly. Not only is he weaker because he has no connection to the physical realm, his soul is too tied to Ruin and the power of the Shard actively fights against him.

** The Ire have a device to detect the Shadows from Threnody, but even though Kelsier is the same type of entity he's not native to that world.

The story is notable for being the first appearance in an actual Cosmere story of several points that have long been established by WordOfGod, such as that Hoid took some of the metal from the Well of Ascension, that the Pits of Hathsin were Ruin's Shardpool, (which are used as dimensional transfer points for Worldhoppers,) and that Worldhoppers from Sel, the world of {{Literature/Elantris}} exist, even though it's very difficult and dangerous to travel from the Physical to the Cognitive realm there.

* EldritchAbomination: Ruin's power as manifest in the Cognitive Realm. Since he swallows the entire sky, overlaps with BadMoonRising and TotalEclipseOfThePlot.

* LoopholeAbuse: Hoid is normally unable to hurt people, but [[spoiler: can beat down Kelsier when he tries to stop him since he's already dead. Hoid even notes that he didn't actually hurt Kelsier, Kelsier just [[YourMindMakesItReal thinks he did]]]]. The Ire have a device to detect the Shadows from Threnody, but even though Kelsier is the same type of entity he's not native to that world.

* YouWillKnowWhatToDo: When Kelsier gets a vision of possible futures, he's not able to hold all on to of the relevant knowledge. He knows that in order to stop Ruin from destroying the world, he has to visit the Ire and [[spoiler: steal something from them]], but no details beyond that.

* EldritchAbomination: Ruin's power as manifest in the Cognitive Realm.

* LoopholeAbuse: Hoid is normally unable to hurt people, but [[spoiler: can beat down Kelsier when he tries to stop him since he's already dead.]] The Ire have a device to detect the Shadows from Threnody, but even though Kelsier is the same type of entity he's not native to that world.

* ScoobyDooHoax: Kelsier's uses one, pretending to be Ruin to steal from the Ire.

'''''WARNING: {{Late Arrival Spoiler}}s abound for Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy.'''''

* AndTheAdventureContinues: in the Epilogue, Kelsier still hasn't settled down and has recruited another crew member, setting up events in Literature/BandsOfMourning.

* DimensionalTraveler: Known as ''Worldhoppers'' in Literature/TheCosmere. Kelsier meets several in his journey. Kriss and Nazh from the Seventeenth Shard, as well as [[spoiler: a group of Elantrians (and their servants)]] called the Ire. He also runs into Hoid, of course, who lambastes him for destroying the Pits of Hathsin, since that in turn destroyed the easiest dimensional travel point on the planet.

* YouWillKnowWhatToDo: When Kelsier gets a vision of possible futures, he's not able to hold all on to of the relevant knowledge. He knows that in order to stop Ruin from destroying the world, he has to visit the Ire and [[spoiler: steal something from them,]] but no details beyond that.

The story is relatively short, but packed full of yummy [[Franchise/TheCosmere Cosmere]] geekery, including Hoid's real name (maybe?), the name of another previously-unrevealed Shard of Adonalsium, a brief glimpse into the use of the Cognitive Realm (aka. [[Literature/TheStormlightArchive Shadesmar]]) to travel between worlds, and the fact that there are entire organized societies of Worldhoppers out there, including a group of [[spoiler: Elantrian]] scavengers with a fortress in the Cognitive Realm who want to [[spoiler: take over a Shard of their own, now that their world's Shards have been splintered.]]

The story is notable for being the first appearance in an actual Cosmere story of several points that have long been established by WordOfGod, such as that [[spoiler: Kelsier held the power of Preservation between the death of Leras and Vin's ascension]], that Hoid took some of the metal from the Well of Ascension, that the Pits of Hathsin were Ruin's Shardpool, (which are used as dimensional transfer points for Worldhoppers,) and that Worldhoppers from [[spoiler: Sel, the world of {{Literature/Elantris}}]] exist, even though it's very difficult and dangerous to travel from the Physical to the Cognitive realm there.

Released just after Literature/TheBandsOfMourning, Literature/MistbornSecretHistory is, as the name implies, a ''secret'' {{Franchise/Mistborn}} book. [[WordOfGod According to the author,]] its ''very existence'' is a bit of a spoiler, and in the foreward he begs new readers not to read it if they haven't read Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy yet, as it completely spoils the major plot points of the trilogy. It also contains a minor spoiler for Literature/TheBandsOfMourning. If you haven't read these books, please don't read this article yet. You have been warned.

The story is notable for being the first appearance in an actual Cosmere story of several points that have long been established by WordOfGod, such as that [[spoiler: Kelsier held the power of Preservation between the death of Leras and Vin's ascension]], that Hoid took some of the metal from the Well of Ascension, and that Worldhoppers from [[spoiler: Sel, the world of {{Literature/Elantris}}]] exist, even though it's very difficult and dangerous to travel from the Physical to the Cognitive realm there.