Mists in Southern Scadrial

[_Tempus_]

Are there mists in Southern Scadrial? If so, during era 1 won't 16% of them be snapped and become allomancers? And so shouldn't allomancy not be as rare in the South as it is in Era 2? (or is it simply that those who are snapped by the mist were very weak allomancers, therefore not capable of passing down the sDNA gene for allomancy).

[+robardin he/him]

Actually, I think it's a fair question to which we don't have a sure answer yet.

We have WoBs that Rashek left the Southern Continent free from his twiddling of mankind, as a "control group". But the night mists on Scadrial were always something of Preservation, not something Rashek constructed, and predated him - so it's fair to assume they would be everywhere on the planet, not just the North (not counting ordinary weather related mist), especially the kind that appeared after the Well was released and the mistsnapping began.

There wouldn't have been lerasium-descended power levels of "Natural Born Allomancers" in the South as there were in the North, and certainly no Mistborn or Feruchemists (Terrisfolk), but I would think Natural Born Mistings would be just as rare (but still possible) in the Scadrian population as it was before Rashek's Ascension, which we also have WoBs indicating that was the case.

So why wouldn't "mistsnapped" Mistings have been created (those who survived it) in 16% of the non-Allomancer population in the South when the Well got filled, as happened in the North?

However, we don't have confirmation that the mists did, in fact, exist in the Southern Hemisphere during the time of the Final Empire, do we? That's an assumption based on the mists and their snapping effect when the Well got full existing in Classical Scadrial (per Alendi's logbook), and also assuming that whatever was caused by Preservation and Ruin to happen as "global effects" in the North would also have happened in the South. It's also possible that the Northern Hemisphere was in fact "special" even without Rashek's changes, because that's where both the Well and the Pits were (the Perpendicularities for the two Shards).

Edited June 20, 2019 by robardin

[+Invocation]

Rashek used the Southern Scadrians as a "control group," so to speak, and they didn't have any mists or Ashmounts to cool them, hence the references to their land being "soft and warm" before the Final Ascension.

[Wander89 he/him]

You know, I have absolutely no idea if the mists were controlled to our thieving crews continent or not. 

[Karger he/him]

I am going to recommend that someone ask Brandon(Put it on ask Brandon page) as we realy have no way of knowing yet.