Para quien aún no lo ha leído: prepárate para llorar, para gritar y para aplaudir. Para quien ya lo hizo: nunca olvides las palabras finales de Sazed al cerrar el libro:
Scadrial is collapsing; earthquakes rack the land, ashmounts erupt relentlessly, and the mists have begun killing people during the day. The Search for the Atium Cache El heroe de las eras
In the end, The Hero of Ages is a meditation on hope after nihilism. The world does not end. The sun comes out. The flowers grow. But this paradise is built on the ashes of everyone the reader loved. Sanderson asks a difficult question: Is a perfect future worth the annihilation of the present? By allowing his heroes to die unknown and uncelebrated, he answers with a mature, painful yes. The hero of ages is not the warrior standing atop a mountain of corpses. It is the scholar who, having lost all faith, decides to believe one last time. It is the girl who, having been taught that trust is death, gives her life for love. It is the god who, having seen everything, writes a simple epitaph: They were wonderful. Para quien aún no lo ha leído: prepárate
Una de las mayores genialidades de Sanderson es cómo subvierte la profecía. Desde el primer libro, se nos dijo que el Héroe de las Eras vendría, lideraría a la humanidad y salvaría el mundo. Inicialmente, creemos que es Vin, luego que es Elend. La respuesta final es mucho más compleja y dolorosa. The world does not end
