ecohansen Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 I'm absolutely sure that I CAN'T be the first to have thought of this, but I couldn't find a thread proposing it. If anyone could point me to a prior discussion, I'd be very grateful. I was just re-reading the first chapters of TFE, and noticed: "Even he can be killed--by an allomancer burning this."Ham picked up the thin rod of metal. "Where did you get it?" "In the north," Kelsier said. "In a land near the Far Peninsula, a land where people still remember what their old kingdom was called in the days before the Ascension." What are the odds that that kingdom was called Nelazan? As in, the original home of Trelagism, in the far north? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skaa he/him Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Have you read the short story The Eleventh Metal? Kelsier first got the idea about an eleventh metal in Mantiz, a city in the northern part of the Western Dominance. It's possible that he obtained his bar of malatium in the so-called "Far Peninsula" (where is that? the Farmost Dominance?), but I wouldn't be surprised if he got it in the same place where he learned of it, and that what he told Ham was just a story he concocted as part of the mythos he was constructing around himself at the time. The scholar who gave Kelsier the idea of the Eleventh Metal wasn't exactly trying to lessen the oppression typical of Rashek's rule, so I doubt his Nelazan heritage (if he had any) inspired him to perform his experiments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yurisses Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Since Scadrial wasn't all burned at the time of Trelagism I suspect Nelazan was somewhere where The Final Empire was. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baby he/him Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Did Brandon write The Eleventh Metal? I seem to remember it was a MAG counterpart, like the short stories they release with the games. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaymyth she/her Posted January 31, 2016 Report Share Posted January 31, 2016 Did Brandon write The Eleventh Metal? I seem to remember it was a MAG counterpart, like the short stories they release with the games. Yes, he did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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