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The Big Debate


Nehex

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Pick your metal!  

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  1. 1. Which metal would you pick?

    • Pewter
      1
    • Tin
      1
    • Copper
      0
    • Bronze
      0
    • Iron
      1
    • Steel
      6
    • Zinc
      2
    • Brass
      1
    • Gold
      1
    • Electrum
      0
    • Aluminum
      0
    • Duralumin
      0

I think it’s safe to assume that most everyone reading this blog has also read Mistborn. If you have an overactive imagination like I do, I’m willing to bet that you’ve fantasized about lifting a car while burning pewter, flying through the darkness wearing a mistcloak, or overhearing a private conversation with the use of tin.

These fun little daydreams invade my daily life. My inner child yearns for the powers of a mistborn. However, even in the world of Scadrial, mistborn are rare, so the younger me(being the practical child all of us never were), realizes it’s more realistic to long for the powers of a misting (since wishing for a magical power is realistic).

This has sparked something of a debate between me and the people whom I’ve forced Mistborn on. The question is: which metal would you choose?

If you ask my brother Swifftalon, he’d say either steel or atium. Both of those hold merit. Who wouldn’t want to be able to shoot pennies at people who annoy you, or effortlessly dodge between cars on the freeway just for funsies? It certainly does have a dramatic flair to it.

My boss would pick brass. That makes sense. Who wouldn’t want to be able to influence the people around you, or make your employee’s more satisfied with their job?

It isn’t hard to figure out which metal I’d choose; you only need to look as far as my necklace. For me, pewter is the only way to go. I know what you’re probably thinking. “Pewter, Nehex? But pewter only makes you stronger! Why do that when you can do all these other awesome things?” Fair question. It would be great to be able to fly, or to see into the future, or manipulate the minds of those around you. But, on a day-to-day basis, which is going to be more useful? Foresight or health? Endurance and energy or mind manipulation? Strength or limited flight? Sure, the other metals are fun and flashy, but as far as usefulness goes, pewter is better than gold.

What do you think? Do you agree or disagree? What metal would you choose? Weigh your options, then weigh in!

Keep the fire alive,

Austin

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(Wait, we can add polls to blog posts? That's awesome!)

I think, for one thing, that having atium in the mix is cheating. It's pretty special, and we shouldn't include it. If you include atium, you should include lerasium, and if I picked that metal, it would definitely ruin the point of this debate.

So, limited to base metals, I would have to pick brass. Since I'm a pansy in the physique department, I really don't think iron or steel would be helpful for me. But Soothing or Rioting? Those abilities are much more applicable to daily life. So what if I don't get to be Superman or Spiderman? I don't need that kind of responsibility.

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I'd totally chose Lerasium :P

And aluminium is pretty useless as is duralium. Gold might be useful if you were also a copper feruchemist and had lost your history (or just had bad memory), but that's about it... copper, bronze, chromium and nicrosil are fairly limited in use, as you can only help/hinder other allomancers.

Cadmium/bendalloy/electrum are powerful but also limited in application, though I imagine that being a savant in one of those would be pretty interesting, to say the least. Time is likely to get complicated. I wonder if they have enhanced understanding so they can comprehend their efforts easier than most.

I'd say iron is of greater application than steel, at least from a lazy person's view: being able to pull things towards me without moving would be cool.

Zinc and brass are obviously useful and I'd be happy to have them, if I had a teacher such as Breeze.

Pewter would be cool, though similarly to chaos, as a geek I'd probably not get much benefit from it.

Tin would be awesome, I'd go for that one if only because of Spook.and not only, of course...

Of course, if I had any of these (and there were others, in the case of the helper metals) I'd love it, so yeah :D Even better would be to be a Feruchemist of tin or zinc, or any of the others.

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