Kaymyth

Heck, it was only 3 days ago that I was vocally expressing doubt that we'd hit the gold/atium level. You are not alone. I am quite gleeful over having to eat those words, though.

It's especially egregious with AoL, though, given how much shorter it is than the other Mistborn books. 95,000 words just isn't enough.

I think it's quite possible, even probable. As long as Miles had been keeping the compounding going, his body had very likely become dependent on it. There's going to be a profound difference between the effects of going on a compounding drag and keeping the compounding going permanently. If you run it for a few hours, you're just going to need a recovery phase. But if you run it for days, weeks, months at a time, that's setting yourself up for some profound changes in your physiology. Compound gold for too long, and your immune system forgets how to work on its own. Compound bendalloy for too long, maybe your digestive system stops working.

I've kind of figured for a while that the reason stopping a long compounding string can be dangerous is because of pewter-drag-esque effects. It would likely vary depending on what metal you're compounding, but gold would be right up there with pewter in terms of how hard it can be on the body. If this is true, then recovering from a compounding drag may well be similar to how you do it with pewter; tap the metal at a moderate-to-light degree until your body recovers enough to maintain itself.

Ooh. Nice catch. Lerasium must have some kind of Feruchemical property; that's what I'd lay money on TLR doing with it.

That's OK. I didn't really feel that bad about it. Though, um....where does Kobold King come into this? Am I missing an in-joke because I haven't read All The Things?

Well, at least you missed the second one. I can feel less bad now about corrupting young minds.

Gosh, you guys. Allowing me to profit over a bad joke that I didn't even try to resist making. I mean, it was bad enough that even Wayne might have brought the hammer down...

Well, the origin story goes that Ruin and Preservation worked together to make the humans on Scadrial, and that they have just a touch more Preservation in them than Ruin. As Allomancy is Preservation's power, I suspect that's where the baseline potential comes from.

You pretty much, ahem, hit the nail on the head.

From what I understand of steelpushes and ironpulls, it isn't that mass increases the force, it's that if you push or pull on something that has more mass than you do, you will wind up being the thing that moves rather than the anchor. So, to take your example, Vin could very well be pushing with more strength/force than Kelsier does, but because she's lighter, she winds up moving herself instead of him.

It all fits, though. The Triforces of Power, Wisdom, and Courage? Those sound like Shardic intents to me. So there you have it: Hyrule is a Shardworld.

Or, if you can afford it, aluminum-lined leather bracers to cover your larger metalminds.

By the same token, he's not likely to attempt to do so unless a very, very pressing reason comes about. He's not the sort of person to seek power for power's sake.

A couple of things (this is what you get for forming theories in the evening when you can't IM them to me): The Pits of Hathsin popping out geodes of atium beads were a direct result of Preservation deliberately bleeding off some of Ruin's power to keep them in equilibrium. So, that bit's not a natural phenomenon, but an attempt to keep Ruin from powering up hard enough to break free of his prison. The Well of Ascension did drag magnetic north from its "natural" placement to Luthadel as sort of a weird side effect of having that much power concentrated in one place. I think, though, since Harmony fixed all the things, it may have wandered back up where it should be. Not sure if there's a WoB out yet about where magnetic north is as of AoL. Also, lerasium isn't bare, but is found in clay pots. Nobody knows why. My personal theory on that is that Brandon wrote that part after playing a Legend of Zelda game for a bit too long.

He might, but would you trust anything baked by someone with an image of the Swedish Chef in their signature? In truth, it's my fault he's here at all. I needed someone to share the addiction, so I suggested that he read Mistborn. And lo, the reading was good, and another convert was made.

Man, that stuff is *heavy* - it doesn't lend itself well to swift movement.

These are true facts. It's hard to know exactly where it falls on the scale of usefulness vs. energy spent without actually having Coinshots, Lurchers, and Steelrunners to use as guinea pigs test with. I could see a Compounder doing it, though, because why not? Heck, I could see a double steel Twinborn charging every bit of steel in their possession, just because they can. Is it steel? --> yes Can I eat it? --> no Charge it!

I think I got it. Atium is part of Ruin's own "body", right? So maybe that's the one metal that doesn't need a specific hemalurgical charge in order to act like a spike. It's PART of Ruin, and therefore creates an auto-link.

Actually, I think they'd figure out pretty quickly that metalminds are harder to affect. If I were a Coinshot or Lurcher up against a ferring, the first thing I'd try to do is mess with their equilibrium by Pushing or Pulling on their metalminds. I don't see how that could avoid being common knowledge by Alloy of Law.

Well, Inquisitor spikes are a lot harder to come by, and knowledge of hemalurgy is still pretty limited even in AoL. Metalminds can be affected by steelpushes and ironpulls, but it's more difficult than an uninvested piece of metal. And, I believe, less difficult than metal that pierces the skin. So again, it's not a fix-all, but if were a Steelrunner who used a gun at all, darned skippy I'd throw some charge into my weapon(s) just for that little extra peace of mind.

Well, there's a pretty big gap between aluminum and feruchemical-quality steel. Aluminum is a relatively soft metal, whereas steel is the usual metal of preference for making firearms in the first place. Charging the steel shouldn't change any of its physical properties, so it's really more a matter of how durable the precise Metallic Arts mix is compared to gun-quality steel. There could also be some layering done, where the firing chamber is a stronger alloy mix, while the barrel and grip are different. There's a lot of experimentation that a gunsmith and metallurgist could do with it.

Oh, there's definitely a risk; there's a WoB that states that a charged metalmind is on the "medium" part of the spectrum of "hard to push/pull". But if you're going to carry a gun anyway, then it makes sense to use every tool in your chest to make it just a little bit safer for you. Well, sure, if you have the resources to afford an aluminum gun. Most people aren't going to, and I think the only reason The Set pulled it off is because they stole the aluminum.

I suddenly have this notion that a Steelrunner might commission custom-designed guns made with feruchemical quality steel specifically so that they can charge the things to make them harder to push and pull....

It gets even more sad *and* more happy on a rewatch after watching River's arc. So many feels!