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There wouldn't be flowers though, at least not visible ones. Nobody has ever seen flowers. Perhaps a modified species of aspen that has no visible flowers or doesn't flower at all. It will still look aspen-ish. I mean we even have seedless watermelon in real life.

That, or she's just seen it too many times to not at least know what it observably does. Perhaps some in the 17th Shard could work out the realmatic theory for it.

Very minor BoM spoiler on the matter of rarity of comounder combinations (seriously, it's not plot relevant at all, it's just there. But some people can be bothered by that): I think that speaks volumes for specific combinations of abilities. Allomancy isn't rare enough to be extremely unusual but is far from common, and feruchemical blood is likely even weaker due to the breeding programs prior, and would only reliably occur in relatively pure Terris bloodlines that are rarer still. So being twinborn at all is difficult, and there are 256 possible twinborn powersets. Being a steel compounder would take a huge stroke of luck.

Well, likely it happens when you have too much investiture flowing through you in any particular way for longer than you have any business doing. So feruchemical savants would be hard pressed to exist, but compounding provides the steady amounts needed to potentially achieve the state.

Unless he's trolling us since Returned are already dead to begin with.

The temperature straight up shifting instantly and they seemed to be dying on the spot. Then for the next three centuries they had brassminds and had no reason to acclimate. But yes, he probably did something. But not to their bodies, and the temperature seemed to genuinely have been much higher.

As for misty Shadesmar instead of glass beads, well I do believe Scadrial is presumed to be in the direction of the Expanse of Vapors on the Rosharian Shadesmar map, right? Or was it a different one?

She only compares lightweaving to Yolish lightweaving though, right? Hoid does that one often, you don't have to find Yolen to witness it necessarily.

Well, beating up a dead guy is just all in good fun. What's the worst that could happen?

My phone has stopped accidentally downvoting as I scroll. It now upvotes. Rusts. Probably lightweaved his appearance completely to be extra sure.

Good point. So they somehow just . . . got used to the blazing heat over generations, like a people would eventually be fine with high altitude or desert temperature? And the change back to mild was too much to handle for them, so mysterious spike-eyed Sovereign gave them feruchemical brass?

It may be possible to become an Elantrian by using one in Arelon and fulfilling whatever other conditions there may be, though. But the systems themselves are tied to geographic regions and lose power with distance, wouldn't changing connection make you lose your connection to the magic in the first place?

There's no indication that the ironminds are even meant to be reused as far as I can see. The ship wasn't meant to transport people besides the crew, and they probably have spares.

He probably is. Marasi proved competent with guns and deduction, which he admits to himself as being hard to ignore . . .Meeting Steris however, taught him that there are other amazing things out there people can be competent at. She might be useless in a fight, but Rusts if she was useful for everything else that they ever do. With that said, getting framed for murder being on the list was just that funny.

He seems to revere metalborn in general, and the captain acknowledges their widespread presence in the Basin. Perhaps it was known to the South that the North lacks this medallion tech they have, so when Allik came across Wax he put two and two together and figured out he was, well, metalborn. The term has "born" in it, explains enough. Without lerasium, I'd assume for the South that true metalborn, without medallions, was an extreme rarity. Feruchemists probably don't even exist at all, since it was a phenomenon unique to Terris as far as we know. So for them people naturally born with what they consider "holiness" within them would simply be Allomancers in the North language (which I noticed Marasi had simply referred to as "Skaa" while robbing graves. Off topic though).

Allik does seem cold even before they got to the mountains though, so it seems like even at "normal" temperature it's still a bit chilly. It's probably true that they lived within the Antarctic region to account for the "frozen" imagery, but how were they alive before? The ash would stray to magnetic south instead of geographic south, and that would be opposite to the Well instead of anywhere near the axis, and frankly they can't breathe an ashy atmosphere like Empire-dwellers can anyway. Seems like the Antarctic would still be pretty toasty . . . unless Rashek got lucky and landed an orbital distance for Scadrial that makes the Antarctic feel normal.

Either that or a god metal with an alkaline atomic structure. Atium doesn't seem radioactive really, so I've always wondered if god metals have the same atomic numbers as certain normal metals.

Well presumably the Sovereign (who is probably not TLR) was probably fullborn and made the first unlocked nicrosilmind that was used to create the rest, I would think. As for why it's tappable . . . quite the mystery there . . .

If I tagged it wrong can someone fix it? Never done this before. So it seems the Southern guys have . . . strange temperature tolerance. They were meant to be a control group of sorts, as I recall. And to them everything is now cold and was mild before, while to the North everything back then was stuffy hot without the ash and physiology changes and the weather is now nice. Any thoughts on the matter? Did they just adapt to the temperature naturally before and have trouble readapting, or is something about their continent just weird?

Here's a coppermind TLR made of himself compounding and using his awesome powers. The Nightwatcher demands a quarter of your future income to disappear from your possessions and be transported to her to use as a potential boon for some poor soul out there.(well yeah, the bane doesn't have to actually match right?) Feel free to take the cash guys. I wish for better battery life on my phone.

Kelsier was all about destroying evil himself though . . . mostly because he figured all nobles were evil, but still. I'm not sure why people worship him for that, hell I'm generally the type to think the concept of taking lives en masse to be pretty stupid, but it seems to apparently make sense as "good" to some people out there. That word has a flimsy definition, seriously . . . And yeah, that solution really doesn't stop until everyone is dead. We're pretty terrible huh?

I believe they all just cut all three in general, don't they?

Won't being temporary just mean that you absolutely need nicrosil compounding? Eventually the "brass ferring feruchemical potential" in the medallions will run out, which is much more annoying than running out of heat because you're not a real firesoul. Unless they've managed to tap long enough to birth an actual firesoul naturally. It seems possible but pretty unreliable, since their children won't necessarily be firesouls themselves.

So many realmatic reactions here already that I see little need to react to those as well. So mundane stuff. Apparently when someone says that they go to find quiet balconies at parties the standard way to react is to assume they were reading . . . Elend, please Also, failing to notice a train robbery because they were doing . . . that. Wayne x MeLaan things I guess.

Well, Listeners and humans apparently both predate the Shattering, and it's not like all the current Shards are guaranteed to be human either. Dragons and whatnot.