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They are... surprisingly not bad, actually. And they retained the names... for main characters... mostly...

There is a world of difference in the very mechanism of hemalurgy, though. It is the only Metallic Art that permanently attaches a (somewhat) functional piece of other person's spiritweb to your own, by, using WoB,"stapling" it into place. That would have a rough biological equivalent in ripping DNA mid-gene and inserting a piece of other's DNA in there (though Hemalurgy is somewhat less deadly) - if you are lucky, you'll be able to express new genes, but they would mess with your own, and you may lose a gene or two of your own. On the plus side, it is incredibly flexible - one could, in theory, get almost any physical phenotype. Allomancy Savanthood is closer to addiction - your body and spirit change to work more efficiently in the presence of external Investiture, but it becomes less efficient without it, and also damages your body. Feruchemy, on the other hand, doesn't seem to have an equivalent, except at low levels. I guess you could induce the changes in your body if you, for example, store your attribute for half your lifespan and then constantly use it. Or if you oscillate: store for 0.1sec, tap for 0.1 sec as much as you can of the attribute. Do it habitually, and see what happens to your body...

Translation depends on book very much. Russian translation of the Last Empire (the only one there is) is atrocious! (Allomantic lead contains up to 10% of lead ) Harry potter is ok. And Xanth books might as well have been rewritten from scratch. As an aside, I cannot stop humming the title of this thread to the rhythm of Ylvis: "But there is one thing we'll never know~ What makes a book sell?"

Only if you prove your felinicity in conflict with our abominable foe, the Mistborn LLama, and crafty adversary, the Dog Kandra! Edit: Though we are not averse to you forming Orders of Adzelynx Penumbrant

I think that is more or less the origin... It is also known that Llamas are unnatural enemies of Cat Inquisitors:

Um. Bendalloy, Darnam?

About "Could an Elantrian Forge:"

Boy, this sure bring me back My first ever thread starting with my first ever post... I didn't know how to quote yet, and I think the interview database didn't have Brandon interviews in it at the time. Hmm... We have learned quite a bit since then, but the main points still stand... Though a Deathspren probably cannot be bound. But then, maybe the Parshendi have a form associated with them

Yep http://www.theoryland.com/intvmain.php?i=979#4 Edit: ninja'd by a couple of seconds Anyway, I am pretty sure all the soul is formed at that time, including Allomancy . And you coul probably make a sentient cat by human attributes alone...

This has been discussed (http://www.17thshard.com/forum/topic/2054-feruchemy-question/) and the general consensus is that feruchemist doesn't get sick, just cannot store as much or as easily.

Also, unless Vin's sister also Snapped during her childbirth, one does not need to be Snapped to be a valid Hemalurgic donor for Allomancy spikes. The fact that Hemalurgy can be used from conception onwards seems to confirm that.

It is a story that went with MAG rulebook. Unlike another story (11th metal?) AFAIK it was not written by Brandon, so it is of dubious veracity.

Well, the semi-canon story "House of Ashes" (IIRC, and it is not completely canon) implies that mistings can indeed burn tainted alloys. The line separating it from another alloy should indeed lie in the thing Kurk calls "Forms" (and I call something like "emergent eigenstates" ). I am still fuzzy about iron/steel, since steel is iron with 2-5% carbon, so is iron with 1% carbon steel or iron? The same story also implied that the metal the alloy is tainted with determines the kind of sickness one gets, such as trace amounts of nickel reducing awareness and precision, and accumulating over time, rather than just giving a headache for an hour. It is only semi-canon, though, so take it with a grain of salt.

Well, we don't know the nature, sure. The problem is, we do know that it is based on Pressure, but for some reason works like an adhesive spray. There are only a few ways for pressure to work like that ( that I can think of) , and none of them are elastic.

It seems also to depend on the amount of Stormlight left:

If it is a force, as in "constant force", then no. What you describe is more like a wall (if outside), or a glue (if on contact surface), something that has an elastic response depending on deformation.

Um? Not really, no. I would be able to hold it in place only if I were to push upwards exactly with the force negating the force of gravity, and would have to adjust the force exactly any time the state changes, such as when I am grabbing the rock the force would have to increase to stop the rock from sliding down. Now friction (that can result from high pressure in the direction of the surface normal) does that automatically (to a limit), while normal pressure does not - and the constant force would not hold the rock in place.

IIRC, the thugs were armed and were transformed with knifes (cannot look it up right now), so I think that a weapon being used should be affected by the lashing until released, but I am not sure. I'd give it about 75%

aspects of Odium

As a devil cat, technically he only has paws... He tricked you! Unless he had arms already harvested from other bets...

Kurkistan, as all talking devil cats, is crafty. He never stated that he bet his ARM. His usual stake hat-eating... And now all he'd have to do is to eat a hat... Made of FUDGE!

Crossbred with Hoid

I think it is, in some way, a problem of concentration. Like a surgebinder full of Stormlight isn't immune to Shardblade, so he isn't immune to Lashings. Possibly, the amount of Stormlight necessary for a resistance strong enough to matter would rip the body apart long before.

It is like some people don't read my posts (gripe, gripe), or maybe I am just not clear Let us see. Holding something with jets of water is not the same as creating vacuum cells or increasing static pressure. If the pressure is applied equally from all directions, the object would experience compression, but, since the force would be negated by opposing force, it would not in any way stop an object from moving. Case in point : deepwater fish. The pressure, roughly equal (plus buoyance, which is relatively minor in this case) presses the fish from all directions and is tremendous, but the fish moves just fine - the water resistance is the same. Next example: a "sucker" (ok, I don't know the proper word) stuck on a smooth surface, like glass. It has vacuum below it, holding it in place - yet one can slide it on the surface relatively easily, while moving it away from the surface is nearly impossible. (Sliding around case in edit of my first post) Now jets of water is a different beast altogether - as described in my second post, they imply moving water, not static system, and the water (or air) has to move somewhere, in this case, below the object, like holding it in place by working vacuum cleaner. That way, any shift in the object position would change the system dynamics, adjusting pressure in a way that would push the object back - the pressure is not constant. This should allow the object to rotate freely if the friction is reduced, but not move. Kurk: friction also partially works by creating temporary bonds, at least for relatively smooth surfaces, though not in quite that way. Adhesive also fills the small pores on the surface before hardening, though, so it would be like trying to slide off thousands of tiny hooks all going in different directions... Vacuum idea is, indeed the simplest one, and I think it is what Brandon used as a base. One may be able to strengthen it in the same way normal lashing strengthens gravity - by simultaneously increasing the effect pressure has on the object (whole object, not the crushing part)

Well, the configuration of wind that would push an object to a certain place, as opposed in a direction, is highly nontrivial (as in, the only one I can think of includes a sink under the object that does not affect other objects and includes moving air towards object) Normal pressure configuration is from above the object pushing it in place, and that can be overcome by decreased friction.