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I'd honestly suggest getting in touch with Isaac about this and asking very politely if he'll draw one up for you. It'd be a bit of a shame to engrave something that incorporates no small amount of guesswork onto your body.

Ah, I see.

That is... not how definitions work. I, for instance, "oppose" this post of yours: does that make me the antithesis of all you are?

Thanks for the transcription, Weiry. @kareokean We could probably still use your recording since it looks like (?) the one on Tumblr had a few blurry parts to it.

I don't have my books on hand just now either, but IIIRC it's a pretty firm "yes" on Inquisitors using their spikes as metalminds. I may be wrong on that recollection, though. At the least, they could. Source:

Yeah, it's worth resisting. I tracked a bit of that myself for a short while, then stopped: it started to make the signature look cluttered, then I felt intellectually dishonest so that's another line I have to have for all my theories that were wrong, then I'm reminded of the proportions of the aforementioned right vs. wrong theories every single time I post or see one of my posts... And on top of that, it's even more cluttered. Just to clarify, does it need to be a skilled Mistborn doing some skillful shenanigans, or would any novice off the street be able to just Push & Pull and keep things floating in the air?

I'd been thinking that Dawnslight was corrupted by his powers. As Argent said (though it may have been a simplification/grasping-metaphor on Megan's part) Megan did describe the Epic mindset as being like a child, convinced you're the center of the world and no one else matters: "uncaring, selfish, unconcerned for other people", as you say. Maybe that kind of mindset is dangerous in a mind with larger/more damaging ambitions, but it seems that Dawnslights ultimate goal was just to build his little playground and keep it intact; and the people who lived there are a part of the set dressing. After all, children don't go around murdering people just because they're uncaring, selfish little monsters. They're simply absorbed with their own ends. EDIT: Changed some content

@Moogle Ah, I see. That sounds plausible enough. A bit more loosey-goosey than my own model has been, historically, but then again I need to revisit that model. This is a bit of aside, since I was not at the event, but I'd like to mention that I, for one, would enjoy meeting you. Are you going to be with Brandon when he comes to Chicago on Feb. 21st-ish?

I'll need to do some mulling on how I model Forgery myself, but I wouldn't be so sure it's just manipulating connections.

I was literally navigating away from this page as I started reading this post, them came back to give it the upvote it so richly deserves.

Thanks for the info, Shardlet. Lerasium as definitively additive rather than simply overwrite-y is good to know.

Hm. Actually, let's talk about that shardblade question some more. It's quite interesting. My first reading (probably because things were a bit muddled by the initial misunderstanding) makes it look like there was a big divide between these two scenarios when it comes to Forging: 1) Shai spends a month in the same room as a Shardblade, but doesn't bond it. 2) Shai bonds a Shardblade, but then give it up. But then as it goes on it becomes clear that Brandon thought Lady was talking about just making up a Shardblade out of whole cloth, and the above two scenarios all the sudden don't necessarily become less distinct. It looks, on the basic level, like all the Forging would be to get an extant Shardblade (on a time-share basis, at least) is just "hey I have a connection to this object". Am I reading this wrong, or is that initial "Shai bonded it once, but then gave it up" actually not all that important to Brandon in his answer?

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As to the quote, have you considered the (likely, I think) possibility that Shallan is seeing a vision of "Baxil's Mistress", the woman's who's running around defacing artwork of Shallash? That's the common belief.

You've a habit of consistently picking/asking good questions, Lady Radagu. - The Ashraven question was one of mine, and the answer is... interesting. I might need to threadify at some point to revisit that question. As I said when Chaos first mentioned it, good work on the Shardblade question. The afterlife one is both kind of not essential and mildly essential to have, as occasionally a "Hemalurgy morality" debate springs up and the whole "we have no idea if this wrecks your immortal soul" problem is kind of a roadblock to fully educated discussion.

1) As many as you (reasonably) can, though he'll only personalize 3 on each go-through of the line. So if you bring 5 he'll personalize 3 and just sign his name on the other 2; or if you want you can go through the line twice, getting first 3 personalized than the last 2. 2) N/A 3) He was fine with it at the signing I was at, but it probably depends on how pressed for time everyone is and the like.

Amusingly enough, this is one of those things were I never went around and wrote a theory about it. It'd just be in the middle of a thread and someone would say "well you could Forge someone into having Allomancy" and then I'd go "well I doubt that you can use Forgery to mimic other Investitures..." and that'd be that.

The Forgery WoB is nice to have. I've been going around saying it's likely for awhile now, but nice to have something to point to other than "in my own learned opinion..."

Here's the link for that, btw.

We have some WoBs to suggest that they might well be related. (here's the link for the crucial one)

I wouldn't be surprised if a fair number of people are already there and so not necessarily checking the forums just this moment.

Re: Forgery It seems that the plausibility-checking is outsourced to some degree. Myself I'm not averse to Spiritual aspects including all of an object's history, at the least. That gives the universe enough of a starting point to start doing some accurate checking on "points of divergence", I would think. If you want a theory on how all of this works and have a half hour to burn reading through some of the most shamefully (and needlessly) dense and unnecessarily technical theorizing of my career, you could look at my theory. - Regarding the permanence of Resealing, I don't think we actually have any evidence that points to the seals used for permanent Resealing needing to be reapplied after their initial use. The way Brandon talks about permanent vs. temporary Resealing seems to indicate that only the temporary kind—the kind that goes against that Cognitive aspect—needs this reapplication. --- Regarding Returned and their "idealness", myself I might argue that they just have some more expansive bounds to work in than Lopen does. While Lopen is limited by his Spiritual aspect and (I would argue) a general "yo you're just a human and you don't get to be spontaneously 7 feet tall from a little 'healing'", Returned get to plug into the same kinds of broader Spiritual ideals that spren do, and so might have some more room to maneuver when it comes to their bodies complying with Cognitive perceptions. -This all on top of Divine Breath seeming to provide general body-morphing abilities, which may more may not be related to this particular discussion.

Bows in a humble, yet wise, manner. It seems I have more passion/time than social life, and so have cast a fairly wide net in my (arrogantly presumed, I'll admit) areas of expertise. @Zas Thanks for the WoB, Zas, but yeah I'm familiar with that one. And most all of the other ones on time bubbles and/or FTL... Ahem. In regards to that particular quote, I suppose my question wasn't as clear as it should have been. I might rephrase it to "Who's decides what 'still' is in regards to how objects are accelerated/slowed? The bubbler? The bubble? The object the bubble is "anchored" to? The objects in the bubble?" The problem at hand is that "things go faster in time bubbles" makes no sense whatsoever within literally any reasonable model of how motion works. Because even if the bubble isn't moving relative to some part of Scadrial related to the bubbler's spiritual-gravitational bond to the planet, that location on the planet is moving relative to the rest of the planet, which is rotating around its axis, which is orbiting a star, which is orbiting the core of the galaxy, which is... So a "still" Wayne within a time bubble is in fact moving—in the broader scale—exactly as he would if the time bubble weren't there at all, but one who takes a step is all the sudden moving 20x faster than "normal", but only relative to the aforementioned frame of reference. Myself I would say that it's fine to just say that how bubbles accelerate/decelerate motion is all relative to their own personal "at rest", but it'd be good to nail this down as how it actually works, as well as find out exactly how this "at rest" is defined.

Well the central question being asked is just what I said in the first place: "Why does Feruchemical Gold sometimes leave scars and sometimes not?", with the underlying assumption being that at least one of the set of Kar, Marsh, and Sazed healed themselves using Feruchemical gold and still had scars at the end of the day. If you wanted to expand on that I could see adding an additional "Like with Marsh's eye socket or Kar's arrow-face-wounds...", but otherwise I'm not so sure we need such a really expansive question to get the answer. Either the question is fundamentally wrong and Feruchemical gold doesn't heal into scars (Brandon's answer: "You're mistaken; you've never seen Feruchemical gold heal a wound into a scar. Those times it just healed the wound partially then natural healing did the rest", or the like) or it's on the right track and then we get our answer as to the mechanism. EDIT: @Shardlet You may also want to consider having some "backup roster" of questions in case Brandon just goes "oh I'm RAFOing all Lerasium questions for now" right off the bat.

If the phrasing/assumptions of the question is the entirety of your concern, Outis, then perhaps you'd be so kind as to provide a maximally clear and informative phrasing for the question?