Savanorn
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It is certainly weird. I mean, don't get me wrong, sometimes there's got to besome handwavium. But once you start... Thanks Void. I recall the MAG mentions this, not sure if it is also elsewhere.
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As to those pointing out the limits of steelrunning, if this action reaction force truly applied how would a person even run or jump? The force of their own limbs hitting the ground (with several times bodyweight behind them) ought to smash their legs apart.
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Okay I'll bite. But three questions. How much atium does Kel have? How much does Kel know? Like is this a special assassination for him o "routine" so far as he knows? Finally How much time do our twinborns have to store before big K drops by?
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Haha I agree. I believe I voiced similar views previously in the thread.
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Hmmm. Maybe no goading necessary. I can totally see how Harmony, not being prone to intervene, might justify giving Kelsier feruchemy to advance the goals of humans on Scadrial.
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Could also place limits on compounders if you prefer that. Even just a stabbing or caning would seem serviceable. But unless I am mistaken we don't fully understand the limits, functions and applications of superspeed. Like could an experienced steelrunner tap variable amounts of speed during a single action to limit damage to themself and maximise effect? Would it be practical?
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I think there's a game section in the forum? But realistically I'd suggest splitting the scenarios into one that allows compounding and one that does not. Maybe give points for style and originality. Basically because as the above posters have noted compounding is pretty OP. Personally I think that some compounders are more dangerous than Mistborn. Add into this that almost no one in TFE era Scadrial even knows what compounding is, it is even more potent. Like Kelsier could come up against Pewter compounder and die right there because he can't reasonably know that he can't block his blows.
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I believe the HoA epigraphs mention both that most savantism is relatively slight and sort of make a point that tin savantism is a special breed. Basically, savantism isn't equal across metals.
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How exaggeratedly important are the leaders of the set?
Savanorn replied to king of nowhere's topic in Mistborn
The simplest answer to this is probably that there isn't necessarily a real world hierarchy that corresponds to rank in the set. For example, Edwarn ranked higher than Wax's sister in the real world but in the set she out ranked him. This aside, it would seem to me that the higher levels would likely be Trellish in origin. -
Yeah Sazed outright states it. Either it TFE or WOA, maybe both. Although thinking about it I think that what he means is that storing meaningful amounts is hard. To clarify, unlike pewter which benefits from low multiplications speed really works best at much higher levels. If you spend ten hours at 50 percent strength and tap pewter, you have a good functional increase in strength, even for hours. But if you spend ten hours at 50 percent speed, how much bulletime does that give you? Ten minutes? One minute? Not to say you need to bulletime, but that's the really impressive stuff.
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To weigh in, what if unlike the standard metal alloys a god metal alloy could be in any ratio but would give different powers? That is, it wouldn't make some one sick if burned in a different ratio but merely behave differently. This would mean there would be 'more' than sixteen god metal alloys, strictly speaking, but that one could also say there'd be 48 (or 49) as well. To elaborate, one could make Lerasium/Tin at 50/50, or 25/75, or 98/2, and each would do different things but all are still a single 'metal.' This would seem like the smoothest approach to make the WoB non contradictory.
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Hmmm. Tin allomancy works on the body itself, a feature we all have, and so it's enhancements do too...but so too does the resulting insensitivity. Like how pewter thugs lose sensitivity to fatigue. The natural sense becomes warped to the extent that it doesn't function normally. Iron/Steel allomancy, though, don't correspond to a normal sense or attribute of people and so even in a 'warped' state the mind and body still function. Like...I don't think aluminium or bronze savantism would suffer any real drawback. That's my thoughts.
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Best love triangle is Lift/Rysn/Shallan post timeskip. PARTAYYYYYYY
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Hmmm, my copy of AoL doesn't have this scene at page 260. Probably different format. Not knowing the specific context, I'd say maybe the lack of iron lines would let her know it was aluminium?
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Whoop! Bisexuality party!
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Good point. Twinborn Oracle Feruchemical zinc could be cool.
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Yeah. Right on. I was actually kind of surprised we didn't see more out of Electrum actually.
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The main difference would appear to be that one is set and one is varied. I think the PoV effect of the past is because the past is set, it's happened, so you can see what it is like...you can see what you or someone else could have done and what they'd be as a result, or what you'd be, but you can't see what you could do. The future isn't set and is hard to predict even for Vessels, so a mere person burning a metal likely has no chance of seeing that fire or knowing what that would be like, thus what you see is a few seconds into the future, the myriad branching possibilities that are made possible by you being. I would guess, and this is a guess, that maybe burning electrum makes you resistant to atium because if you fumbled a future path you'd die, so you'd have no shadow. But I freely admit I don't recall if you can see the results of you being hurt by using atium/ectrum.
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In regards to this, I think Harmony left behind the books with a lot of the information that Rashek tried to suppress...it's easy to imagine Nicrosil and Bendalloy could be in them, I'd almost guarantee aluminium and duralumin would be, as well as electrum. Basically, it's feasible that all sixteen metals were left behind by Harmony. Now, whether Kel would necessarily have access to them so rapidly post end of the world is another matter... I'd suspect that being Kelsier, he may have just taken the single steel spike. This noted, I think there must be some way to gain feruchemy, just like one can gain allomancy.
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I like this, it's what I was thinking. However, to play Odium's Advocate here, it's possible that the word soil exists in a metaphorical or symbolic context. As Argel seems to be implying. This would make sense based on what Tukks said as well. Like, the average Vorin might not know what soil is, but they know it's a word that means to dirty something, or it is a synonym for land.
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Generally speaking, The Final Emire is slower and more subtle than the SA. There's fewer PoV characters and the action is much more reserved. It gets better, and there's a lot to think about especially in the later half of the book.
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I didn't say it's new, it is quite surprising though.
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Oh, wow. Grim. Poor Kwaan.
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Do we actually know what ended up happening to Rashek's uncle and one of the few people who really knew what Ruin could do? Did he just..die of old age?
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Haha I'd like to see that get through an ethics committee.