David Coppercloud

cool... put me down as a maybe.

Can anyone here make an animated short? Please

* Flash back to Kelsier and Mare being dragged before the Lord Ruler * "So it is that you've found a girl"

Has anyone picked-up on the pun in the names? Wax and Wayne waxes and wanes

He is serious in From Hell, Donnie Brasco and Public Enemies (all great movies) but it is him as Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street, that I had in mind. * Bursts into Keep Venture * "Why is the Atium Gone!?"

The Crew: Ham: Gerard Butler (as the guy who likes to appear to be a tough action hero but is really an endearing family man) Breeze: Stephen Fry (who comes across as stuck up noble) Clubs: Timothy Dalton (the old war horse) Spook: Elijah Wood (When Vin picks Eldend over Spook the thought should be, it might have been different if Spook was the rich kid in the suit) Dockson: Alexander Sarsgaard (when compared with Kelsier we should think that they are as good as each other, but it since Dockson isn’t a mistling he is forced to the sidelines) Kelsier: Ewan McGregor (I think he could pull of the former crook, fun, disappointing younger brother, action hero, and the compassionate humanitarian that is in the dynamic character) Marsh: Hugo Weaving (looks enough alike Ewan and could do well as the bitter older brother) Lord Renoux: Christopher Walken (the perfect blend of formal and creepy) Sazed: Erick Avari Vin: I can’t pick, should we take it to a vote? Summer Glau, Ellen Page, any other suggestions? The Others: Lord Ruler: Johnny Depp (since he can play the evil ruler, who we are deep down open to sympathize with as the former hero gone astray) Lord Venture: Jason Isaacs (he plays the entitled patriarch very well, both in Harry Potter and the Patriot) Elend Venture: Matthew Lewis (I think he could make it work) Shan Elariel: Dekota Fanning (blond haired blue eyed Queen Bee)

A good place to look, I think, would be at the behaviour within MMORPG's. Not that I am making any comment about people who play them, but they are systems where people are given powers beyond those that you would expect in conventional reality. In realms with their own rules an consequences. There are a number of interesting articles, about some of the antics that go on in these realms on Cracked.com. Though they are lists of "the biggest dick moves", and most are what you would expect, especially the elaborate corporate backstabbing in EVE online. http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-biggest-dick-moves-in-history-online-gaming/ But some are hilarious in a lighthearted way. Like Fansy a polite, low level player from EverQuest, who repeatedly steam rolled a community of trolls on a no rules server by taming the dungeon boss. http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-7-most-elaborate-dick-moves-in-online-gaming-history_p4/ And Belan the Nobel Looter from Ultima Online, who would steal people stuff, in the nicest possible way, and sell it back to them at a discounted rate. If they were polite. http://www.cracked.com/blog/the-6-most-spectacular-dick-moves-in-online-gaming-history_p4/ It might not specifically demonstrate what people would do with magic. It does show how people act in a new paradigm, with a new set of rules and abilities.

I know it isn't fantasy and it isn't a named blade, or even a blade. But it is totally badass: the Lightsaber

What language is it in. Are the poetically phrased spells chanted in the common tongue or is it a foreign language or one only know to certain intellectuals? If it is spoken commonly what is it that distinguishes magic users from everyday people? or can anyone who is clever with words use magic? also if you use a foreign language would your audience be able to recognize the spell's aesthetic poetry?

I figured that the sense of balance was an overlapping area between tin and pewter, with both having it. But that is mainly because I the Tineye is as entitled to it as the Pewterarm. But if the Thug has it and the Tineye doesn't, would that mean that the Brute would store balance and not the Windwhisperer. And also wouldn't it be cool, and fiddly, if a Windwhisperer could also store different elements of one of their senses. As well as near and farsightedness, also colour vision, night vision and visual acuity. Storing one element of a sense to make better use of the others.

Wouldn't the modern age be aware of the connection between mist sickness and snapping. Instead of beatings they could just camp out in the mists and see if anything happened. On the topic of mist sickness, with the case being more severe for a more powerful mistling, were those who died of it in the first trilogy potentially full mistborn?

Feruchemy was well hidden in the time of the Last Empire, and I don't think the Terris would break the habit of keeping their abilities hidden just because they could.

The main characters are amazing. But those that were off to the side a bit, are the ones that I found the most intriguing. Spook, TenSoon, Sazed.

I think storing too much of a feruchemy trait could be fatal, depending on which one it is. If you stored 100% of your physical speed, you wouldn't be moving. Including your heart and lungs. I am of the opinion that storing speed actually affects that rate that your body moves through time, and so you wouldn't be able to stop, just go very very slowly (not too sure about the physics on that one). But since mental functions are unaffected, the mind would still require sustenance from the body. Storing an excess of strength could also lead to cardiac arrest. Storing too much warmth might get you a case of hypothermia. If you stored too much memory you could forget where you put it. Could someone forget they were a feruchemist if they stored that memory in a coppermind? With Wayne becoming physically ill when he stored health, it would be easy to see the risks of over doing it. And with breath and energy one would still require some of that element to live, in addition to what they are storing; or else they would respectively suffocate, and starve. Someone continuously storing wakefulness would be like a coma patient. Needing to be fed intravenously, and regularly turned to not get bed sores.

It would be a bit ham handed to have the chair in the corner, which has gone unsuspected for years, be revealed to be a well hidden kandra. But if it is properly... ... actually no. It would be amazing! As a prologue scene, to introduce the character of a badass Kandra: a self righteous noble who, over the course of five-eight pages, is characterised as someone you love to hate. So as to not bore you, lets just say Professor Umbridge (I hated her a lot more than Voldermort). After a full day of being absolutely retched to everyone, she reclines on her comfy leather chair, which begins to wobble and shake. And becomes an amorphous blob that eats her alive. The idea of a Kandra having the ability to mimic a leather lounge is the sort of thing that would be a bit too left field, if introduced in the last act. But it would be great twist to start off with. P.S. how observant, of the Contract, are the Kandra likely to be with the Second Generation going rogue at the end of the third book?

With immortality the Lord Ruler had plenty of thinking time on his hands already. Double zinc would have just made forever seem even longer. He is just as likely to have been storing mental speed, to help pass the time.