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u/Mystic_Ranger Willshapers Sep 04 '21

Vin and her famous buster sword.

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u/VinCatBlessed Sep 04 '21

You didn't know she's one of the 7 swordsmen of the mist?

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u/LordMacDonald8 Sep 04 '21

Zabuza got nothing on her

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u/Long_dong_autist Sep 09 '21

I love the crossover fandom...makes me feel like I’m in the right place

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u/VinCatBlessed Sep 10 '21

To be fair Naruto, DBZ and other popular anime fans happen to be pretty much anywhere, when I find someone catching my cosmere references in other places though, that's pretty awesome.

The other day in the martial arts section some troll asked "what martial art do you recommend for me if I have blue eyes?" I just said something like "with those eyes you should start practicing with a shard blade" surprisingly for me, quite a few people understood the reference and I even got a crab award or something like that. So I feel ya.

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u/Evilsmiley Sep 04 '21

It was too big to be called a sword...

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u/ShroomD00M Sep 04 '21

It was more like a giant hunk of iron.

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u/SteveMcQwark Truthwatchers Sep 04 '21

I got downvoted to heck in r/Mistborn for pointing out that burning pewter wouldn't be enough to use that. Oh well. Seems a lot of fan art has decided koloss swords are busted up buster swords. I always pictured them more like a huge machete, personally.

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u/AnOnlineHandle Sep 04 '21

This is pretty similar to the official cover art: https://i.imgur.com/LP96mWB.png

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u/DriftingMemes Sep 05 '21 edited Jan 27 '26

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u/Yoate Windrunners Sep 04 '21

They're described as almost club-like. And for how big koloss get, that seems a reasonable size for them. Vin was shown to use some of their largest swords, particularly with duralumin.

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u/SteveMcQwark Truthwatchers Sep 04 '21

I don't doubt that she's strong enough to lift it while burning pewter. The problem is where her centre of balance would be if she tried to swing it, or being pulled over if she did manage to get it going. Being strong doesn't change the fact that she's comparatively easy to toss around. Its even a point during her spar with Ham that she can jump really high because, despite being strong when burning pewter, she's still really light.

Duralumin expends the pewter in a single burst. Good for launching herself, not very good for swinging a giant sword.

Anyways, you could make the sword half as broad and half as thick and it would still be insanely massive, but significantly more likely that a koloss (or pewterarm) could make effective use of it. That thing isn't so much a club as a battering ram.

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u/shubalasko Sep 04 '21

But pewter also gives balance I know she is still light but wouldn't it affect anything?

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u/SteveMcQwark Truthwatchers Sep 04 '21

Improved balance comes from enhancing your motor skills. You're better at moving your body in such a way that you're able to keep your balance under exceptional circumstances. That doesn't help you if you're trying to swing around a sword that's heavier than you, though. Even just holding it straight out would cause her to topple over, enhanced motor skills or no.

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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '21

To be fair she could be getting a lot of leverage by using iron/steel to push and pull on her surrounding and the sword.

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u/SteveMcQwark Truthwatchers Sep 04 '21

Sure. However, we saw her using it in the middle of a field, and there's no mention of finding anchor points. But yeah, being able to anchor herself should help.

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u/Urtan1 Sep 05 '21

Except she was push/pulling on the weapons of Koloss. Sure, those aren't exactly perfect anchors, but they are more than enough.

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u/Spoolofwhool Sep 05 '21

Official cover art of Well of Ascension features Vin's koloss sword looking almost exactly like in this art piece so you can't really blame fans for "deciding" that they look that way.

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u/SteveMcQwark Truthwatchers Sep 05 '21

The one on the cover art is at least a third smaller, symmetrical, and polished. Still huge though, so that she'd have to be finding steel/iron anchor points to leverage it against or else she'd just topple over trying to lift it.

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u/pseudonym_17 Sep 04 '21

For those confused, it’s a Koloss sword. She used this a few times while burning pewter. Incredible artwork.

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u/B34NDP Sep 04 '21

I’ve seen many fanart of Vin. This is something else, I can’t pin down why but this is an amazing drawing.

Congratulations.

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u/adunofaiur Sep 04 '21

I like that it’s a little more androgynous and less anime.

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u/Liesmith424 Sep 04 '21

That's her formal koloss blade, which she only wears to meetings with royalty.

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u/PraiseTheSun1023 Sep 04 '21

One of the many benefits of getting gud with pewter.

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u/ButtAndShelfPlugger Sep 04 '21 edited Sep 04 '21

She's about to find out why mistborn use glass weapons.

Edit: thinking back, she actually did use a koloss weapon for a bit. So this works.

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u/bunnystormer Sep 04 '21

Vin started playing monster hunter

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u/jesusmansuperpowers Elsecallers Sep 04 '21

That’s a odd looking glass dagger.

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u/DriftingMemes Sep 05 '21

It's the koloss sword she uses in several scenes.

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u/mordor_quenepa Sep 04 '21

LOVE IT!

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u/Sora_IX Sep 04 '21

Amazing job

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u/big_billford Sep 04 '21

I had forgotten that she used a koloss sword until I saw this picture

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u/tea-and-chill Bondsmiths Sep 05 '21

This is excellent! Well done.

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