legacyblade

lol, I love the writing from the perspective of the inquisitor. Now if only there was a bead of Lerasium as a prize. That would be the ULTIMATE christmas gift

It also sounded like Miles was a gold-healing savant or something. He mentioned being afraid to find out what would stop happen if he stopped tapping health. I wonder what would happen if he did. Would his body not have the ability to heal naturally anymore (like how Spook couldn't feel once he stopped flaring his tin). Or would he just not have an immune system anymore and die from common germs.

@wispy, I'm thinking tapping age works like tapping weight or speed. It goes back to "normal" when you're not tapping. Think of it like this. Gold speeds up or slows down the healing process when tapping or storing. Atium stores up "youth" in the same way you can store speed. It doesn't change your real age. You can just "store" this youth to become old for awhile, or you can tap it to de-age (the same way storing weight will de-weight you). It doesn't change your age. Make sense? You need more youth to appear young the older you get.

Wasing not of the needing new meanings.

It's been awhile since I read the final empire, but didn't he start rapidly aging as soon as he took the bracers off? I think like with weight, your body has a set value it'll go to when you're not tapping. So when he's not tapping his atium-age reserves, he ages. And since he's been around for a thousand years, he has to become old while storing up new age just because of the amount he has to tap to stay young. However, since a body naturally heals itself and tries to get from sick to healthy, healthy seems to be the default state when not tapping (and when not affected by a disease or injury). It doesn't take as much tapped gold-health-energy-stuff to stay perfectly healthy, since his body is already healthy (from previously tapped gold-health). Because of this, he can use his massive amounts of stored backups to fill new gold and burn it (to restore reserves). To sumemrize: the body "knows" it's age and will return to it when not tapping age. The body, however, doesn't "know" it should be unhealthy. Thus, it doesn't automatically grow sick when not tapping. It'll always take the same amount of tapped gold-health to stay healthy, whereas the amount of atium-age required to tap to stay young is CONSTANTLY increasing.

I saw it coming in book 3 that the suicides were the demon murders and the other was just a regular serial killer. From REALLY early on. So it didn't have much suspense. I also guessed that Crowley was the demon, because the only ones we wouldn't suspect were him or brook. However, I didn't see Foreman being the demon. So I really enjoyed Mr. Monster. Also, you really worry about how he's going to turn out in that one. However, all the books are awesome. It was hard to pick a favorite.

I really liked Brooke better. It's hard to come up with exact reasons, but I think she'd work better for John. If she'd seen his dark side when she wasn't kidnapped (and he wasn't looking at her like a preditor while asking for a knife), she'd be more likely to have accepted it. I figured a lot of the running away from john is because of the mental association she had of him with Foreman. Not a nice comparison if you ask me She did seem honestly concerned for him when he started asking her about demons. And she would have talked to him about it (and maybe come to accept him) if he hadn't run off. She would have probably blamed his behavior there on him having been held captive by foreman and psychological scaring and stuff. On top of everything, she's more my type (physically). She's the slender "tree-like" girl. Marcy is the busty really curvy girl. I prefer the former body type.

I live in a small town, and trust me. No one cares if you drive without a licencee (or even without a permit) till the last week of the month when the cops are struggling to meet their ticket quotas. Also, the limitations of a permit differ from state to state.

He continually needs more of it because he's continually aging. He has to constantly tap it to de-age, I assume. However, Miles wouldn't need more health to heal with as time goes on. So that's why he doesn't need sick time to recharge.

Alright, glad others thought the same as I did. It DOES fit Wayne pretty well, it was just surprising (and highlighted to me what a nerd I am )

Ok. Either I've grown to expect pop culture jokes, or there is a reference to Watership Down near the end of alloy of law. Near the end, when Wax comes upon Wayne reading a book he "traded" for, it says For those of you who've never heard of watership down, it's a book about talking rabits. It's used to comment on human nature and government. A psychic rabit (yes, there's a psychic rabit) is nicknamed "fiver" in the book. Am I going crazy here?

If you put mist-cloaks up for sale, I'd totally buy them. I also like the plushie idea (I'm a plushie lover and would love plushies of vin and eland. I'd also LOVE a mistwraith plushie to freak people out ). I think "Ask me about Hoid" would be a great cheap way to help out the sight too. I'd also buy posters with charts detailing what we know about the different shards.