ThirdGen

McCloud?

Zane: "You make me say no to God."

I have a problem with how each book ends. You know that thing where there stops being more pages? Comes up each time.

A couple of Nine Inch Nails songs spring to mind - Terrible Lie for Zane, and The Becoming for Marsh. Epitaph by King Crimson would be good for Rashek in a pensive moment.

All that's missing is a little nugget of atium.

Given the choice, I gotta take a crack at the Lord Ruler and see if I can do better.

The opposite of this.

The one I had the most fun with was The Well of Ascension. Then again, I've only read the Mistborn trilogy and Alloy of Law thus far.

You don't need to know there's a door there to push it open in the dark. I think it could be done. And Soothing has the extra advantage of being an area effect, so it doesn't necessarily need to be focussed.

In case anyone is concerned about my having the same IP address as Kaymyth some of the time, we are coworkers.

So, from what I can piece together... The god metals result from a body breaking apart from the sheer power of a Shard, and they form the following: Gas/Spirit Aspect - The willpower and consciousness of the holder, able to be anywhere the atmosphere can spread. Liquid/Cognitive Aspect - The subconscious and full skill potential of the holder, absorbed easier than water into a human. Solid/Physical Aspect - The limited, but usable raw material of the holder, in handy bead form. The ways each of these replenish are rather interesting. The Well of Ascension, for instance. (Please, don't be shy about goofs or overreaching speculation - if I'm wrong, I'm wrong) Magnetic North itself, right? And it was a plug on top of Ruin's spirit aspect, hence Ruin's body had to dribble out through the ground. Why did Preservation collect as a liquid and Ruin as a solid? Why are beads of lerasium bare and atium inside large geodes? Did Preservation merge with the planet's crust? My theory, yes. The geodes are a protective layer against mutual annihilation of both elements. A magnetic north lerasium well and magnetic south atium well don't quite make sense, as Ruin's mind would not be trapped by the Well. But this may have been the original balance of the planet. The whole thing has so many what-ifs and RAFOs it can make your head spin. But this raises the curious possibility of what the south polers may have been doing when faced with the scientific curiosity of a world where the north and south poles may have both been on the opposite side of the planet.

<clears throat> Um, hi. [note on the offchance there was a user named Beaverlamp: I am not Beaverlamp.]