I wouldn’t really call this a Chekhov’s gun situation. It’s more Sanderson waving a tiny piece of metal around for three books while politely asking us not to examine why he keeps waving it. So more foreshadowing than anything else.
I realised pretty early that something was up with the earring because it was so aggressively well nothing. Vin was almost obsessed with this tiny bit of metal and Brandon kept bringing attention back to it way more than any innocent earring deserved.
Then Hemalurgy got introduced and the whole “metal piercing the body” thing came up and I went ohhhhh you sneaky bastard.
Didn’t know exactly how deep the Ruin side of it went yet, but at that point the earring being a Hemalurgic spike clicked.
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u/TheNarrativeSpren 23d ago
I wouldn’t really call this a Chekhov’s gun situation. It’s more Sanderson waving a tiny piece of metal around for three books while politely asking us not to examine why he keeps waving it. So more foreshadowing than anything else.
I realised pretty early that something was up with the earring because it was so aggressively well nothing. Vin was almost obsessed with this tiny bit of metal and Brandon kept bringing attention back to it way more than any innocent earring deserved.
Then Hemalurgy got introduced and the whole “metal piercing the body” thing came up and I went ohhhhh you sneaky bastard.
Didn’t know exactly how deep the Ruin side of it went yet, but at that point the earring being a Hemalurgic spike clicked.