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There's not nearly enough salt about [Secret History Spoilers]
natc replied to FeatherWriter's topic in Mistborn
He really is settling down with this "Survivor of Death" gig isn't he? At this point he's kinda still in denial of "people die when they are killed", and I see where he's coming from, but was hemalurgy and resurrection really necessary? -
[Secret History, BoM spoilers] So, uh... what was the spoiler for BoM?
natc replied to vineyarddawg's topic in Mistborn
I understand the reasoning, but until now we've been wondering, if atium feruchemy doesn't affect spiritual age, why his gold feruchemy doesn't heal him into an old person. Cognitive perception was my primary suspicion, but now we know for sure that his self-perception does indeed have severe discrepancies with his "true" self that will affect his healing. -
Well, he does admit in his cavern messages that he's pretty sure that they're totally screwed if the stall tactic fails . . . As far as he cares Kelsier is also a pawn of Ruin, not very good company.
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Well, foxes do evoke "sly and duplicitous" imagery and he's definitely not very trustworthy.
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He's only new in the sense that they've never had two opposing intents in one shard and double power, really. Both intents still function and pressure him, the only unique situation is in finding where the two don't contradict explicitly, which is where he gets leeway.
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Both times a god gets decked in the face . . . so satisfying. Of course everything Kel ever does is so insane that it's hard not to be entertained.
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Modern koloss are a true-breeding species capable of sexual reproduction. Koloss-bloods are generally just assumed to be spikeless children of true koloss, I believe.
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I want to see a kandra imitate a chull speaking in refined gentleman accent all eloquent-like.
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You came across an abandoned electrummind and spike with a note addressed to the human who finds it. Your predecessor's act of self-sacrificial kindness fills you with determination. Sorry, couldn't resist. I think it's more that Korra did a good job covering what would happen in an industrial revolution with superpowers.
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Not the word, the scene. I'm gonna have to fish that out again. Was it WoK or WoR that it shows up?
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[Secret History spoilers] Did we just get another Shard named?
natc replied to PallonianFire's topic in Mistborn
It's more a question of what that shard will even do I guess. Make people luckier/unluckier as some part of the magic? It's not really luck when it's deliberate, unless there is an actual tangible "luck" in the cosmere he could control, in which case you have really just explained chromium feruchemy and that connection is back. -
Well, ancient fabrials are artificial surges. Modern ones do completely different things and actually seem to have different principles of function. Soulcasters are the former though, a surgebinding fabrial.
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But clearly all feruchemy uses your own investiture, yet you are physically capable of storing weight for, say, a year nonstop excluding sleep (compound wakefulness I guess?). Where does that come from? Clearly innate investiture has some way of returning to the baseline.
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There's not much point though. We wouldn't understand how bad it's actually supposed to be without cultural context. I suppose I'll do it anyway, but I'm overseas and could only fit one Sanderson novel in my luggage Should be back home in 24 hours or so if you want to wait, but the drynets sequence comes to mind first. Or really most of Blushweaver's complete disregard for modesty might be a more obvious not-family-friendly moment.
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Oh, he definitely had gone that far as much as I can tell. It just doesn't quite register a reaction from us because Scadrial has the most Earth-like vulgar speech.
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It's also possible, I suppose, that svrakiss were actually of Odium and date back to his splintering of Devotion and Dominion.
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Ranette is a lurcher, so it's not entirely biased . . .
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Shallan's attempts at Thaylen sailor curses. If we were actually Thaylen sailors those would probably be pretty bad. Balls isn't actually all that extreme but you gotta admit it is definitely the more vulgar substitute of "testicles", which is actually anatomically correct and something every doctor probably needs to be able to say with a straight face.
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But feruchemical nicrosil is just that: a feruchemical ability allowing you to store and tap investiture. The investiture itself is universal, but the ability to retrieve it is supposed to be an in-built genetic trait of the person. Even if the investiture doesn't reject you, how do you retrieve it without the proper ability?
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Well actually, Rashek, Kelsier, and Vin would all have been slivers . . .
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Then someone busts through the wall and takes off with the object
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I would think it isn't always him. After all, you have to first establish in her mind the fact that she is hearing quotes from Reen, which would only work if the voice is saying things Reen actually said. When an actual conversation happens and she doesn't notice or if the voice starts ad libbing, that would definitely be Ruin. Unless he is that good of an actor.
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It occurs to me that for just the first book Preservation is actually the antagonistic alignment.
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I'd say Cognitive Realm makes more sense, but otherwise it's legit.
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First time reading Steelheart. Theories and Reactions
natc replied to NovaSeeker's topic in The Reckoners
I mean nobody is going to believe he invented the stuff for real considering his occupation.