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Ah! Awesome, WW! I was thinking of creating an official topic about our theory, but your post is complete and elegantly concise. Thank you!

Ok, this is the theory I officially support now. Pfff, of course it will NOT be a Mac! What kind of games people will play if they make Adonalsium 2.0 in a Mac?

Yes please!

You don't need magnets to set a spike trap. Pressurized air, coils, animal tendons, rope... Depending on your technology level, one have plenty of alternatives. And even if the spikes per se aren't metallic, only the plate where they are mounted need to be so you can use a magnet to activate it. Actually, the magnet is the worse alternative. Just make it all of high-impact plastics or ceramics and use pressurized air.

The Death Ray! Yeeesssss. >=D

Or is it? To send a guy on a train, you have to use a train. IE: a lot of fuel, it is limited to specific schedules, accidents in the line could interrupt the path to begin with and etc. A coinshot is one of the most common allomancers and all he needs is a feel beads of a inexpensive metal and his monthly/weekly/whatever payment.

LOL!!! You are awesome, DEB... Number Crunchers or Math Smashers will be the official name for that combination in my Mistborn RPG game. Huhauhahaha.

Maybe the Reverse Lashing, the technique to give objects its own gravitational pull, is something of a fusion of the gravity and pressure lashes, not exclusively gravitational.

Not that I remember. But the Masked Man do appear in a chapter where Wit does not: the Interlude we see Galladon e the two other worldhoppers. So, I think that the Masked Man marks an extra-rosharial influence, not Wit/Hoid specifically. Not yet. Only today I noticed the eleventh face in the heading, mostly because of the image I posted in the first post. As I said, I'll probably take a while to make a second reading of The Way of Kings. Awesome catch. I suspected of that, but I couldn't confirm. I don't think so... It COULD be, but I think that is a very cumbersome way to do a numbering system.

Ok, those chapter headings always seemed to hold some secrets, since we are talking about Brandon Sanderson here... Did anyone found something in them? I think I got something. Those faces, always in two pairs, that appears in the arches are supposed to represent the Ten Heralds, right? So anybody else noticed that there is eleven different faces? That masked guy also do not appear in the table with all the Radiant Orders and Powers, but he appear: - In the very first interlude, I-1 Ishikk, the one with the Purelake guy talking with Galladon and the other two; - Chapter 12 - Unity, when Elhokar hunt a Chasmfiend and it is the first apparition of Hoid as the Wit; - Chapter 22 - Eyes, Hands or Spheres?, where Hoid/Wit gives Dalinar an advice about people calling him a coward for his talk of abandoning the Vengeance Pact; - Chapter 54 - Gibletish, the one Hoid/Wit says goodbye to Dalinar; - Chapter 57 - Wandersail, It's the one Hoid/Wit tell the story to Kalladin. Of particular note is this quote: Alloy of Law Spoiler: Is Hoid using allomancy on Kalladin too?; - And finally, in the Epillogue - Of Most Worth - when Hoid/Wit is talking with (or at) some guards and Talenel’Elin, Stonesinew, Herald of the Almighty arrives to announce the coming of a Desolation. Very interesting.

But no one else in the other kingdoms found Urithiru yet and Shinovar is very isolationist for all we know. With bring me to my second point: I'm yet to give the book a second, closer reading, but do we know anything from that island? Or could it be the place where Honor is (in a way or another)? Shinovar would still be "the place nearest to honor" in the continent. That could possibly explain why Szeth have that Blade, why the Stoneshamans seems so certain that they could retrieve the sword no mater what happens, why they hold warriors in the lowest station and things like that.

Uhm... Isn't Shinovar to the extreme west of the continent?

Condense FTW. I really think that any word from another magic system should be right out.

WHO THE HELL ARE YOU AND WHY ARE YOU READING MY MIND!?!?!? But, yeah. I got goosebumps just remembering those moments, man.

Well, there isn't a lot of advantages in being a Aluminum or Duraluminum Gnat, but they exist anyway. Feruchemically using some of the Allomantical powers may not be too advantageous either. Of course, the simple fact that you could store some metal burning to use in a later time when you are out of metals seems a big enough benefit to me, specially if you can compress more Allomantic power in briefer moments for a bigger output. That could, theoretically, allow you to break the upper limits of Allomancy! That alone seems absurdly powerful and totally worth it!

Isn't a component of the transformation to koloss the skin of a dead one, not only the spikes? Could this be a factor?

Happy birthday, man! (I'm late, but hey!)

Well, when you put it that way... But yeah, I think it can happen. Over a thousand years, "random" can happen quite easily. BUT! Here is when I start to disagree with myself: I'm starting to recall that there IS information that insane people is actually susceptible to Ruin's influence. Guess I was wrong the whole time.

That's was always how I saw it too. I agree wholeheartedly.

IN THE NAME OF LORD RULER, THIS WILL BE MINE!!! I feel a distinct lack of Inquisitor Emoticon in this site, whoever.

I prefer to see the quote this way: "Did Vin's mother actually have a spike, or was she so crazy that one wasn't necessary for Ruin to influence her?" To what Sanderson's answer was: "She was crazy enough on her own." I don't think it strains credibility in the story anymore than two gods having a era-long Xanatos Warfare. I am only now starting to reread Mistborn and I can be completely wrong and have being so lots of times, but I do believe that Vin, in Ruin's eyes, is just an opportunity pawn and was not strictly necessary in the long run. I think it is a better alternative, actually. If Vin's mother was actually being manipulated by Ruin, I think the plot loses a bit of awesomeness.

TRIPLE COMBO!!! Hehehehe. I was obviously misremembering it, then. Thank you for the correction, guys.

He said that both of them was more than a bit insane, but I don't believe anything there implied that Ruin was capable of influencing crazy people.

The thing with Koloss and Kandra being controlled through emotional allomancy have nothing to do with Ruin itself. It was a weakness that The Lord Ruler put in them as a safe measure if he lost control over them. That being said, I don't think Ruin could directly control anyone, just slightly influence spiked people. He needed the Inquisitors to control the Koloss after all. I could be remembering it wrong, though.

Maybe the change in the bones works the same way that Elantris itself work. The difference is that Elantris is a city, so it is limited in mobility, while your bones you carry everywhere. ChayShan, to me, is connected to a form of sign language. A kick-chull sign language.