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Well, there a plenty of systems that have nothing to do with your DNA at all, so . . .

Inquisitors are basically a species though, that logic wouldn't directly apply. It only does because they also had to be priests.

A lot of groups in history are traditionally all male. That's not much of a question.

To be honest, even the level of conflict between Preservation and Ruin isn't absolute, just extremely high when compared to other combinations. Because they are indeed in agreement on one thing: creation is forbidden and not allowable. In that regard, and very little else, the concepts of stagnation and decay align. Even with both of them together it probably took a decent effort to create Scadrial, and I'd wager their mental contamination was weaker then too.

Unlike with Rashek and Alendi, racism is arguably well-grounded in this era. If anything Rashek became living justification. Strong Terris blood means strong feruchemical blood, and strong noble/skaa blood means strong allomantic blood. You can see the results in Wax already. Fullborn like Rashek will probably never happen, but in the absence of mistborn, twinborn are the most powerful existences in Elendel. I'd argue even with mistborn around twinborn can still be contenders for relatively large threats. And then there are the rare few born as compounders. Miles was really only the tip of the iceberg; he might be unkillable, but at least his powers can't kill you in retaliation, and Allomantic gold is pretty unthreatening. But an iron compounder who can basically pull anything and outweigh anything? Or a steel one, all the lethality of a coinshot while being basically untouchable. Just one can easily collapse part of civilization if left unchecked. How would one actually hurt a guy who is in infinite bullet time? He can probably dodge every bullet you shoot at him, go grab a broadsheet from the stand two blocks away to read later, then come back and kill you while you were still reacting to your missed shots.

That's genetic engineering for you I guess. You can't just put stuff into people without expecting odd interactions with existing genes to cause odd morphology or other effects. Too many copies of a gene being activated at once can do really unusual things.

Except feruchemists can clearly arise from functionally "normal" Terris parents. At the time of Ascension all existing feruchemists were converted to mistwraiths, so the first generation of Terris in the Final Empire would lack abilities. Yet they obviously have feruchemical blood. Honestly dominant genes should be slightly easier to get rid of, since it's easiest to tell when it's entirely absent, while recessive genes take several generations to determine which of the original stock were carriers. And, as said above, it isn't that simple.

I think Saitama would be able to fill like 10 bracers of each and still be able to oneshot things with a serious punch. I mean he's only had to throw a serious punch once up to where the anime stopped, and even that wasn't a full effort. He literally onepunches anything less than dragon class while half-chulling it. Only time it didn't work was when swatting a mosquito.

Human souls make for such great power sources in both too, huh?

But why feruchemical atium? 1. Plenty of other abilities to give him or enhance. 2. How long Marsh lives wouldn't matter if the planet is destroyed, unless he was planning on making Marsh worldhop to help wreck a different planet. 3. Ruin had intended to recall all the atium once he found it all, burning it to compound would be another atium sink to keep a portion of power out of reach. Plus the spike itself is atium.

Like I said once, Ruin clearly showed signs of Epic corruption.

When you finally realize how the guy from the Henry Stickmin flash games always gets what he wants

He has, I think 20 spikes? 21? 19? Something like that. A fullborn Inquisitor (ignoring hypothetical god metal abilities that have yet to exist due to the lack of, well, gods) will require 32 spikes, ignoring the absence of cadmium/bendalloy and substituting atium/malatium. So he definitely doesn't have everything which makes this tougher. I do believe he has steel and pewter, but I'm not sure anymore.

Last I checked this is the Bands of Mourning Chapter 3 Discussion thread topic and not the other one about atium mistings I remember existing. Unless this site is lying to me again. It happened once.

This part is what I'm referring to . . .

There are like, three Aon images on the Aon coppermind page with actual squares on them that isn't just Aon Aon rotated 90 degrees four times with the flat sides lined up. And Fjorden isn't even quite triangular on that map mountains-wise, so I'm not ready to believe that.

It's cadmium and bendalloy that nobody knew about though. Electrum mistings could very well have existed. And a misting that can burn two things makes even less sense.

Well, yeah, they're at what they naturally would be now. Because Harmony fixed it. Atium mistings existing doesn't make any logical sense in nature.

More than 400 by now, pretty sure. I think it's one set per century, and the youngest was Eleventh, while MeLaan was, I believe, a Seventh. That's 400 there. Then you factor the 300+ years from the birth of the Elevenths to Wayne.

Without a lot of overcomplicated nonsense involved he is definitely Nalthian.

Since there's really no cadmium or bendalloy going around back then nobody would even notice the changes anyway.

I don't see how a dismembered limb is going to be different from your average rock in that regard. It's not alive. Even if it did still have Slick on it adhesion uses vacuum pressure.

I don't think that's how metabolism works.

Other than the fact that that doesn't actually solve the question at the beginning of this thread in the slightest, you also awakened an 20 month old lifeless thread.

Assuming Identity isn't one of those things that just come back, you mean. I contemplated preserving copperminds of his knowledge of Ruin as an excuse, but he definitely realizes that those things aren't trustworthy so that's out.