Thoughtful Spurts

Hi Mr. Sanderson. Thank you for doing this, you're awesome . My questions: 1.) Are there any racist jokes in the Mistborn world? 2.) What do the Terrismen who aren't stewards or breeders do? Are there castrated Terris craftsmen around in the Terris dominance? what do the terriswomen who aren't breeders do? 3.) If there's really no upper limit to feruchemy for practical reasons* , why didn't Sazed just fill steel at ridiculous levels for a few minutes in WoA, and then go back to running instead of leaving his steelminds there?Say, being some 100,000 times slower than he would normally be for about a minute. Meaning that a feruchemist should be able to fill a given metalmind in very short periods of time if you fill at a high enough rate. 4.) If tapping heat means your own body gets hotter, does it also mean you become immune to hot temperatures so long as you're tapping it, or should you fill heat and grow colder for that to happen? --*(yes, you have the limit of how much you can store in a given metalmind and for how many metalminds you can carry on your person, but those are probably too high to really be taken into account in more "normal" circumstances) Thanks again, you're super mega awesome, sir.

Hello everyone! Magneto vs Kelsier? I actually think Kelsier. A fight between the two shouldn't end up being just a pushing match, it would be about wit and resourcefulness, and Kelsier has more weapons at his disposal than Magneto does. I think everyone's underestimating Allomancy here by just thinking of pushing, pulling, and using pewter for the fight. Whatever happened to Emotional Allomancy? Magneto has one of the more angsty, pained, and exploitable pasts (still depending on what you count as continuity, but whatever) around. Riot fear, pain, despair, etc, and it wouldn't be too hard leaving the man a whimpering pile of despair on the floor, easy to finish off. It's been established that while Kelsier isn't subtle, he can push and pull on emotions with a lot of strength. On the other hand, Kelsier can riot anger, and just let Magneto make however many mistakes in a blind, angry fury, avoiding the flying bits of metal thanks to Atium, or just pushing on said metals to get away from them, and Kelsier would have a good chance at just tiring Magneto out. Hell, if Kelsier managed to goad Magneto into making a mess of their playing field, it shouldn't be too hard to sneak up on the old man while the dust is still in the air and slit his throat with a glass knife. Obviously, the biggest problem could be that Magneto can manipulate metals inside someone's body, thereby easily able to empty out Kelsier's reserves, but if Kelsier's Kandra (whose name escapes me at the moment) could go around hiding and giving him a large enough supply of metals, it would just become a test of stamina. So we have a man very far beyond his fifties (what is he, eighty something?) who goes around moving metals through his life, versus the Survivor of the Pits, mistborn, who spent quite a bit of time on crap food going up and down cracks, who had lived as a leader for a thieving crew, who is in undeniable great shape, and under forty years old. Who's gonna have the most stamina again? Also, given that we can assume Magneto wouldn't know a lot about allomancy, he could just be unaware of where Kelsier gets his powers and not push the metals out of him at all. After all, does magneto have a way of knowing whether something is metal or not other than by trying to manipulate it? He doesn't have the blue lines lurchers and coinshots do, does he? And even if he did know that allomancy is based on downing metals inside one's own body and "burning" them, Kell could easily just start flaring up metals and drinking more vials (courtesy of the hidden Kandra) to avoid Magneto pushing on them too much by having the metals be inside him for the minimum amount of time required to flare them. And that's even assuming it would be a problem. All in all, Magneto can't be that powerful, or good at taking out metals inside someone's body. Else he'd just be able to take advantage of the combined yet normal levels of iron, zinc, calcium, potassium, sodium, magnesium, rubidium, strontium, lead, copper, aluminium, cadmium, cerium, barium, titanium, nickel, chromium, manganese, lithium, mercury, molybdenum, radium, beryllium, tungsten, samarium, uranium, vanadium, antimony, silver, gallium, gold and a bunch other metals that make up the part of the human body that isn't oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, and nitrogen. That's about four percent of the human body right there, all inside one's system. For the average tall man weighting around 80Kg, that's 3kg of matter that could be yanked off a person. Eight small nutella jars. Cobalt, iron and nickel are all ferromagnetic for one, but so far I've only see him pull iron out of people. And adamantium, but I doubt that metal would be involved here. If Magneto could easily get rid of ALL those metals inside people's bodies there'd be no need for him to push back bullets, or to make giant plates of metals that slice through people, or to go around slamming cars into people. So from the fact that he doesn't exploit being able to rip out at least 31 different metals out of people all the time, we can assume it's not as easy for him to do. While we may not know the actual limitations of Magneto's power ( 'just' power over electromagnetism) they're there. Maybe. Maybe the writers are just insane, or have the ability to temporarily make their neurons disappear while they work. Either way, if magneto could play with the metals in a person's body so "easily", then it wouldn't matter whether or not Kelsier had metals in his stomach for Magneto to be able to kill him. Yet, since he doesn't really use this very practical tool to kill many people (that I've seen. Not An Expert Disclaimer), it can be assumed that he has a limitation of some sort. Else there would never be any sort of fight with him, and he would kill anyone he has to with this instead of it being a rarely used technique. And we could come back to the emotional allomancy thing, Kelsier could just confuse magneto with random flaring bouts of emotion rioting and soothing, leading him to miss and become less effective in the fight. And none of this is even factoring in the ability to use the mists to ones advantage, assuming the fight was in a place such as Luthadel. I love interesting discussions like this. Sorry for the run-on sentences. -0-0-0-0-0- On the Miles versus Wolverine thing, I think I do side with the Marvel character this time. Miles can regenerate all he wants, but he's dependent on his metalminds. Wolverine, with 'adamantium' claws, could easily just slice Miles nine ways to sunday until he got rid of all the man's metalminds and Miles died off. Though if we take away the whole "god mode healing" ability of Wolverine's, it becomes a much more even fight, since Miles has guns and could just shoot Wolverine in the face a few times while Wolverine (even though he can have access to guns) has a tendency to fight close up and one on one. So the question would be whether Miles has a way to distance himself from Wolverine, since as I previously stated, Wolverine can just cut off Miles' metalminds and kill him off.