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No, I knew that, but we know Hemalurgic spiking doesn't allow you to read minds, so I was thinking that Sazed wouldn't need the Hemalurgy at all to communicate. Plus, I can't imagine Sazed is too keen on killing to get the spikes in the first place.

Interesting. I really did not expect that it was actually Hemalurgic. Any other cool facts to report from the signing? (You should totally do a report on the signing. We'll give you a spiffy award!)

I agree, but only if somewhere along the line they knocked over a vase.

I reread the part after Vin ascends, and it's pretty clear that Ruin and Preservation speak through vibrations like that. In fact, when Ruin commands KanPaar to tell him where the atium is, Vin heard it all. I stick with my idea that they are like bronze pulses, just far more varied. So instead of a definite set of pulse lengths and intensities, Shards use the whole "spectrum" so to speak.

You know I kind of already posted this same note

That's pretty much how I interpreted it.

Allomancer SWAT team tracking down a Mistborn serial killer. I don't know, he's said it for a while. The main character is a nicrosil Misting.

I'm glad you could be with us!

Well, okay. The point is, Blessings are pairs of spikes. My question is, why two?

This is pretty much amazing.

Nope, it's just the eye spikes that seem paired on Inquisitors. So the real question is, why does stealing those human attributes require two spikes?

Oops, right.

Most definitely. I was surprised Jak didn't lie about that, honestly.

This has nothing at all to do with Alloy of Law, but I was reading the Hero of Ages annotations, and I was wondering why kandra Blessings require two spikes. Brandon said it was "for magic system cohesion reasons" but there doesn't seem to be any particular reason that we know of that makes it necessary for that to be true. So, this is all rather mysterious. I feel that if we can figure this out, we know another important piece of Hemalurgy. Anyone have any insight to this?

This is pretty cosmere-y, so I'm putting it in spoiler tags.

Well, there you have it. I forgot the specific quote. I went into the annotations and wasn't sure if "Ruin acting as Mistborn" was a specific trick that he used, but my gut was that it happened all the time with him. So, cool.

I'd like to note that Snell's Law, which concerns incidences of refraction, was first described in 984, but more commonly in the 1600s. By the end of the 19th Century, we had classical physics down pretty well (people thought we'd know everything shortly thereafter, but quantum mechanics screwed that up). We knew pretty much all the physics needed for that discussion. Of course, the characters aren't physicists.

We've known that for a while. It was in some pre-release material somewhere. (It was one of our trivia questions, in fact) I know the broadsheet wasn't the first time we had seen it.

I think its more than four thousand years, but not much longer. If I said "several thousand years," my feeling is around six or seven thousand years.

I disagree. I went into Hero of Ages and did some research. Vin could definitely sense when Ruin manifest via bronze. That's not entirely surprising when you think about it. Allomancy sends ripples through (presumably) the Spiritual Realm. The specifics aren't important, but Allomancy just focuses a divine power in a very defined way. Ruin would be extremely obvious to any Seeker nearby. It is just sending a crapton of pulses out by simply existing. It's that divine form, similar to Allomancy, only vaster. But, at the same time, his "bronzepulses" aren't specific. Vin was sort of confused by this when Ruin was acting as a Mistborn. It's not too surprising, considering a Shard could influence a lot more than Allomancy could. So, I like this theory. I worry about the definition of Investiture, because does this mean a Seeker detects the metalminds by themselves, or Hemalurgic spikes, or just the act of a Feruchemist storing or tapping? Huh. Now that I think about it, maybe the difficulty of detecting Feruchemy is that the Investiture aren't obvious, like Allomancy. Its the metals which are Invested. So you'd need to try and detect some weird frequency to see the pulses of the Invested metalminds. Anyways, besides that, I like the general idea.

I don't know, it's almost 3000 words. They don't usually get that long. I'm working on the theoretical information, guys. It'll be up soon. Like, actually soon, not the "soon" I use to dissuade people from asking when the Ball ends.

Darn you for having perfectly rational explanations for why Steris is better for Wax! Marasi for life.

Good idea. Really, I like using redirects liberally. Better than broken links.

Cuaiir, I don't think you need to worry too much about the placement of ads. There's very few places I can even place ads site-wide, and it looks like for the most part, they will be near the bottom. There certainly won't be sidebars of ads. Thing is, when I tell my local Bozeman friends that 17S gets 1.5 million hits in a month they are flabbergasted that there aren't ads. It's hard to judge how much revenue they would actually give, but it should be good. But really, they will be nice and match with the site design. discipleofhoid - Books pages are in the works, and we will totally use those. I also don't like the idea of memberships. Plushies and merchandising, though, sound awesome.