The Greatest Thing About Mistborn…

[Ruin]

The one thing that has always annoyed me about RPGs is the abundance of tragic childhoods. When you live in a world where people have rights and food and clothing and flowers, not everyone can have something awful happen to them. “My mother died from a disease.” “I was beaten as a child.” My parents are horrible.” “My siblings died.” Are there no happy people? Does every single person face some kind of tragic drama within their lifetime?

But with Mistborn everyone can have something tragic!! You’re a noble? You were beaten as a child. You’re an Allomancer? You had a life threatening experience. Your from Terris? Your entire race is traumatized. You’re a kandra? You’re a slave to the human race. Your in the underground? You probably have no parents to speak off and/or you are periodically raped and face the possibility of being killed simply as a precaution. You live on a Plantation? You have to work from when the sun comes up till the sun goes down with no hope of changing your life. And even if none of these things happened to that specific person, statistically speaking, they happened to someone they know.

Now everyone can have traumatic pasts and it is perfectly logical!! Granted there will be repetition but it’s also logical for such things to repeat.