Juan

Oh. My apologies. But then, what's so different from a beheading to a bullet in the eye? Trying to find the power's limitations, anyways. All I can think of is that the metals are in the stomach, and that a beheading would separate the brain from it's power source... *shrug* Another thing, at some point it is mentioned that if you don't "burn" away the metals in your stomach through allomancy, they can make you sick. Does this mean they waste away over time if not used quickly? (Stomach acid, I guess, not to mention the metals going through your system) And, if that is the case, what does this mean for compounders, as they have to at the very least touch a metal to store a feruchemical charge, then ingest it to burn it away. They must use multiple pieces of metal, studs I would assume, to store the excess of what they burn from compounding, which they then eat and possibly compound again. Which makes me ask, is there a limit to the feruchemical charge that can be stored in a metal? Based on size or anything like that? Also, if I use a goldmind to store health, say, as a bracer in my arm, and I then ingest shavings of it, is part of the charge stored in the goldmind in the shavings? Which would imply an equal distribution of the charge across the mass of the metal... Sorry, rambling. Any thoughts?

I don't think they were truly exaggerated. In Alloy of Law we see simple gold feruchemy is able to regenerate toes and fingers (or Wayne mentions as much), so imagine compounding that, times 10, or a hundred. I can see someone fully regenerating from their skeleton out, or even from the neck down, in the case of a beheading. The old body dies, and a new one regenerates out in it's place. If Hundredlives can survive bullets to the brain...

I get the impression that when you ingest an allomantic metal that you can use with allomancy, you "feel" the resource within you, ready to be burned. When you touch an allomantic metal you can use as a feruchemist, you "feel" the reserve as well, but not within you, within the metal. Finally, when you ingest an allomantic metal which you can burn and into which you have stored a feruchemical charge, you "feel" three reserves of power within you: the allomantic metal to be burned, the feruchemical store within the metal to be tapped, and the feruchemical charge within the metal, also to be burned with allomancy. This is how I visualized the moment when Vin tried to burn Sazed's metalmind stud. Alloy of Law related thought -spoiler-

I would like to win this incredibly, especially because usually i'm not eligible for contests that are giving away ARCs (I live in Puerto Rico)