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That's a good idea. I'll have to do that at some point. The tricky part is the BBCode, of course, but I will figure it out.

Because Josh and Mi'ch are jerks. (I want to move to Utah...)

That seems like a confusing distinction, but it actually isn't if you look closely. Hemalurgy is of Ruin because the power has a very high cost--it requires a great deal of destruction. Even then, Hemalurgic charges decay. There's net loss, and that's why it is of Ruin. However, the actual power that Hemalurgy steals is based in Preservation. When stealing the Allomantic abilities, a spike is stealing that particular connection to Preservation. In stealing the "human" attributes, Hemalurgy steals the base Preservation inside all people. Even in Feruchemy, you're stealing a combination of Ruin and Preservation. And, of course, of the two of those, that connection to Preservation would be the one to keep you alive, "preserving" you.

My instructions were "Write the name of a Shard's intent we have not seen before."

I ordered from Sam Weller's, but you knew that already.

This is a very good point. I like your reasoning better.

I was never under the impression that you are stapled to Ruin. Citation?

No And Silas, we just got them signed, so they will be off to you very soon.

I was surprised by the uncle. The Lord Mistborn is Spook. He was made Mistborn at the end of Book Three, and there was the "High Imperial" tongue. He was their leader. By the way, that High Imperial made me laugh so hard.

Yeah, I think it's safe to assume that anyone who has access to this board has completed the book. Feel free to make whatever topics you'd like.

I completely agree.

There, I finally put it up. I added everyone in this conversation who said they wanted in. Spencer, did you have an ARC? I wasn't sure, so I left you off for now. If anyone has an ARC and would like in, PM me or post somewhere about it.

You've been clamoring for it, and now the Alloy of Law ARC Discussion board is finally here, as a subforum in the Mistborn boards. I've tried to add everyone who I know explicitly has an ARC, but I'm sure I missed some. If you have an ARC and you would like into the board, please post saying so or PM me. (And if you don't have an ARC, I sure hope you like spoilers, I guess.) But if you don't have an ARC, don't worry. As soon as the book comes out, I'll move those posts to the regular Mistborn board, with spoiler tags, of course.

Eric's note: this was originally the "Welcome to the Alloy of Law ARC Discussion" thread. I've edited it accordingly. Welcome, welcome! It's about time we had one of these. I just wanted to say that when Alloy is released, I will move these topics to the main Mistborn board (with spoiler tags, of course). But, as it is, no one can see the posts here unless I've explicitly given them access to the board. The current list of people allowed into the board are: PeterAhlstrom Inkthinker Silus - Shard of Flame Cruxist RedBeardRaven Chaos KChan Shivertongue Rubix firstRainbowRose

That isn't how it works. In this, you have a pool of dice (from two to ten), and you get more dice depending on your stats. Then, the GM assigns a difficulty of 1 to 5. You roll your dice. If you have any that match, like say, two 3's, then 3 is your outcome. If your outcome is bigger than the difficulty, you win. 6's don't count; they are used for something else. I initially thought it was too weird, but they quelled my concern. There's also probability tables in the back of the book that you can see.

That's a great idea to do. CraftyGames suggested that we could put a section for a campaign on the Mistborn RP site (separate from the storyline that happens there), so that will be an option, too.

I would like to announce that I just said the sentence, "studying quantum mechanics and cawing are not mutually exclusive events." There's a first for everything, I guess.

Nice. That's pretty awesome. Makes a lot of sense if you think about it. However, I never got the impression in my study of quantum electrodynamics that photons actually hold more probability of going back in time. Processes, however, would be invariant under a time shift (specifically, a CPT--charge, parity, and time transformation--would be invariant). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPT_symmetry http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T-symmetry In the original article you linked, there was a paragraph which said "The same holds true in a less dramatic fashion for subatomic particles like quarks and photons, which hold a much higher likelihood of ever traveling into the past, based on the strange, spooky behavior they’ve demonstrated for the people who’ve studied and been alarmed by them thus far." That really seemed... incorrect to me, so I clicked the link, and it just says a bunch of stuff about the Many-worlds interpretation, which is just an interpretation of quantum mechanics. It is not the orthodox interpretation (at least, according to my wonderful quantum mechanics textbook). This does not mean that particles are actually going back in time, and I think was extremely poorly worded. When you look through the topic on the Many-worlds interpretation, ugh... I'm in quantum mechanics right now. That article did nothing to imply that particles are going back in time. This is why you don't get your information on How Stuff Works, or pretty much any popular science article. *huff huff* You don't really start to understand quantum mechanics without a lot of math. That's just how it is. See, you have to realize that the equations sort of allow you to do a time shift. If you give me a wave function, I can tell you its amplitude (think probability) at any time t, positive or negative. Just because I can write it down does not mean that the particle actually moved back in time. There's nothing mysterious about time travel in regular quantum mechanics. But that's not even mysterious in non-quantum systems. For example, I can write down that the distance a car moves across, I don't know, an interstate, would be d = vt. I can plug in any time that I want, positive or negative. Does that mean the car moved back in time? No. Obviously not. Now, happyman, you know more physics than me, but I got a good taste of quantum electrodynamics. I am fairly sure "subatomic particles like quarks and photons, which hold a much higher likelihood of ever traveling into the past" is a false statement. Maybe there's some weird quantum field theory which actually states that, but I always interpreted it as that the math doesn't particularly care which direction time is moving in the process.

It is so tempting to edit that post, Eerongal.

I would strongly dissuade you from using spoiler tags. Mistborn has been out long enough that you don't need them in this board. When Alloy comes out, that will be different. See: I'm strongly tempted to go edit them out, simply for readability EDIT: Though, if we do start talking about Stormlight, that may warrant spoiler tags because those spoilers should be in the Stormlight boards. But we are very lenient on them, especially very minor ones.

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Completely different. We talk about it a lot in the interview. It involves a pool of dice (all d6), which depend on your stats.

I've wondered this, too, and I honestly can't think of a good reason why he would have Feruchemical age.