cometaryorbit Posted October 1, 2016 Posted October 1, 2016 (edited) Yeah, and there's also an annotation for HoA that says both Vin and Elend are at 100% of Allomantic potential, and they're the only characters who have hit that point (I guess TLR's not included because this is for HoA and he's dead by then? He was definitely at least as strong an Allomancer as Elend...) So either they are contradictory, or describing different things. I guess one way to reconcile them would be that Vin's true base Allomantic strength is normal for a late-Final-Empire-era Mistborn, but absorbing bits of mist raised it somewhat, so that she Pushes harder than Kelsier expects and Pewter-jumps higher than Ham expects. The 100% potential thing, since it's mentioned in relation to Snapping, might just mean strong enough to have allomancy without undergoing normal Snapping [Vin Snapped at birth and Elend used Lerasium]. Edited October 1, 2016 by cometaryorbit fix italics; TLR comment that got dropped in posting
Djarskublar he/him Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 My bet is that feruchemical strength is about tapping. A higher strength feruchemist can do higher taps with less power loss. So they can have more speed for the same time or the same speed for longer when compared to a weaker feruchemist. That is the best explanation I can think of.
Spoolofwhool Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 7 hours ago, Djarskublar said: My bet is that feruchemical strength is about tapping. A higher strength feruchemist can do higher taps with less power loss. So they can have more speed for the same time or the same speed for longer when compared to a weaker feruchemist. That is the best explanation I can think of. So by this you mean that you think it is possible for aluminum feruchemy medallions to be made, unlike as the OP has theorized?
Djarskublar he/him Posted October 3, 2016 Posted October 3, 2016 3 hours ago, Spoolofwhool said: So by this you mean that you think it is possible for aluminum feruchemy medallions to be made, unlike as the OP has theorized? Well yes, but that isn't what my post was about. The discussion had digressed to where it was speaking of what Feruchemical strength is. So I tossed in my two cents. As for aluminumminds, I agree with the idea that you only have to store to a threshold, and then you can store the last bit as basically blank identity in the medallion. It just makes sense. My previous post didn't discuss that though. Ehh... now I will end up super off topic. Lets just say I disagree with the OP for reasons fairly well discussed above. Maybe I will make a thread just for this. I feel it warrants more discussion, but it would fully derail this one.
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