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Now that I think of it, I remember that. I guess Scadrial might be some distance in from the surface of an elliptic galaxy, or something. I wonder what their astronomers think.

Haha, it would be great if this became an actual thing. I'd volunteer, but, well, time. Oh, but I could contribute some of the bad endings. Bad endings are my forte. More interspecies romance for all! Vin x OreSeur Vin x MeLaan (who cares if they've never met) Vin x The spirit of the dear departed koloss who ate Elend's horse Vin x The entire Steel Inquisition

I think I'd have been fine with reading it myself at around the age of 10, but it would have looked very different to me at the time. I would have been more interested in figuring out the magic and the setting and the rules - I was that kind of kid - and less in the characters and their interaction. (The whole morality aspect would have been lost on me entirely - as far as I was concerned, when I was reading a character's point of view, what they thought was right was right, and what they thought was wrong was wrong, until we got to the next person's viewpoint. But that might have just been oblivious-little-moral-relativist-10-year-old me.) And if it's being read aloud in a group setting, then it takes on a very different feel. I think a wide range of subject matter can be made more child-friendly when approached interactively with your direct supervision.

...Other possibilities include being able to store less of an attribute per unit volume of a metal - which doesn't seem to trouble many feruchemists at all, perhaps because they have piles of jewelry anyway - or increased difficulty in accessing a stored attribute (normal feruchemists can do it almost without thinking, as far as I remember, but hema-feruchemists might need to concentrate a little). It's also possible that whatever Preversation leaks out of the Feruchemy spike is filled in by Ruin, so, unlike Allomancy, it doesn't get any less powerful. Well, that's if Feruchemy-with-slightly-more-Ruin works just like normal Feruchemy, which it might not.

Don't listen to that guy up there. Those are mind-control gadgets. I've seen what they can do to people. It's all a conspiracy, I tell you! Ready your aluminium hat!

Maybe they figure out how to fix those time-distortion bubbles relative to the ship, rather than relative to the planet. It sounds better than trying to aim a Steelpush really, really precisely in such a way as to avoid all the space debris and everything, although I have trouble pinning down exactly how it would work.

Pssh, no point super-mega-stacking enhancement if you aren't going to fire a paperclip across universes into our moon. Mark my words - one day, someone will do some digging on the moon and they'll find a mysterious and highly mangled paperclip, too far down and on the wrong side to be from Earth. ...Okay, okay. I don't remember Scadrial having any moons - it seemed like the night sky was empty, apart from some scattered stars. It was likely near the edge of a galaxy, not too close to any star clusters, and without anything in orbit around it that would stand out (moons, rings etc.) Then again, we haven't observed the sky from the rest of the planet, so for all we know there could have been a giant floating pumpkin just over the unpopulated Equator or something.

I, for one, wouldn't want Nightblood anywhere near my Breath. I am a little curious, though, about whether you could use the black smoke Nightblood gives off as an infinite source of colour. We only ever see characters drawing colour from solids, but there isn't any reason (apart from rarity?) that they can't do the same with coloured liquids and gases. If Nightblood's blood is even an actual gas. Maybe it's something else. Maybe it's an absence, which would make the whole thing very awkward.

It's amusing to picture a bunch of Allomancers stading in a circle taking turns doing exactly that, in order to launch a paperclip really, really fast into, say, the moon. For science, of course. I mean, it might work for emergency healing purposes, but I don't think it actually increases the total amount of stuff that the pewter does. It just compresses it into an incredibly tiny interval. It might be interesting to try extreme-far-future precognition, though. Interesting, but ill-advised.

I've been part of a couple of forums while they were still new, and it's really a hit-or-miss thing whether they'll take off or simply run out of momentum and vanish. There was one that I think should have worked but didn't - it was overrun by spambots until everyone just gave up - and a couple that had a very limited userbase to begin with, so those were likely doomed. And then there's one that's alive and well and gradually gaining new members through some indiscernible means, but still small enough to require essentially no regulating. The thing is, when the forums start out, they always seem to be pleasant places. The larger forums I've seen tend to lose that, and it's often easy to find a pattern in the posts of the older members - often, they leave behind a post in which they reminisce about how wonderful the community was in the old days, lament about how it was ruined after some great influx of members, and then say goodbye. ...Maybe it's just that gaining members too fast is bad for your health.

The plan has been put into motion. For now, we must wait.

Good Sir/Madam, I believe you are mistaken. His books are, in fact, Eustace. Easy mistake, I understand.

Now, it may be a tiny bit presumptuous of me, but, Glamdring804, Lord of the Unreal, are you absolutely 100% certain that you do in fact exist? You see, one can never be too sure.

Then I shall pre-emptively bow down to you. This humble INTP will work for your glory in exchange for internet access and cat pictures! Oh, it all depends on the presentation. I say that we greet the newcomer with warmth, present them with this kind and wise recommendation, and assure them very sincerely that there are no conspiracies involved whatsoever, in any way, shape, or form.

I agree that with practice, electrum should be almost as good as atium at giving you combat-precog powers. Immunity to other combat-precogs is also nice. Your main weakness would be against injuries that have insufficient visible effect - say, future-someone slashes future-you on a side of you that isn't visible to your present self due to being on the wrong side of your body. I guess you could also use it to gauge whether you'd be able to make a jump, or to warn you when you really shouldn't jaywalk.

Everyone, watch out! This guy is going to take over the world someday. It is all but guaranteed. I pre-emptively dub thee the Lord Measuring Tape! My enneagram is 5, no wing - at least, it was, the last time I checked. Or maybe it was "balanced wings", or something like that. What with all the T.U.P.P.E.R.W.A.R.E. going on, I'm surprised that someone hasn't already. Could it be that our finely-crafted theory with such strong and representative evidence behind it is... the tiniest bit mistaken?

Oh, I'm an INTP myself. NTs in general are pretty distinctive, and you know the I part from the living-on-the-internet and the P part from the help-I-can't-not-read-the-spoiler. How about you? Intro section needs more meta. I vote for "Non-meta Intro Thread Title (wait, whoops)".

Ah, the glorious year 47! The Year of the Consulship of Caesar and Vitellius, during which the Empire was once again placed under the moral guidance of the Censors, while elsewhere the Apostle Paul begins to wander to inspire the people like Lord Kelsier himself! Or maybe that was in the same place. I can't remember, it was quite a while ago. Must be getting old.

No - they cannot - they must not! They have OTP armour! I'm sure of it! ... (Mistborn) Yes, bring forth the meta! Let us have all of the Meta-Meta Brandiscussions about Sandertopics (?) that are possible to bring into existence!

My, I do apologise for having inadvertently caused this upvote shortage. Worry not! We will assign more prisoners to the Upvote Mines immediately.

An alternative proposal, then - Timetwisting Unconsented Procurement through Psychic Extraction of Random Words And Readymade Expressions? In other words, T.U.P.P.E.R.W.A.R.E.

Ah, good old Kell, our somewhat worrying hero. I'm always a little wary of charismatic extremist characters, so maybe I didn't get quite as attached to him as most readers did. He certainly strikes an effective image, though. It's actually kind of amusing to me how he continued to be, functionally speaking, a main character through the entire trilogy. May I suggest using the technical(-sounding) term of Temporally Distortive Infringement of Psychic Property to describe our recent predicament?

Watch out! There might be a time-distortion effect near you somewhere. Yeah, I've had my share of successful and failed forums over the years - it does seem to me that they might have a natural lifespan, but at the same time, there might be ways to get around it, like the downvote system. It shouldn't be necessary here for a while yet, so it's all good.

Please accept my apologies for time-travel-telepathically-kidnapping one of your candidate thread titles right out of your mind. Hmm... You look like an INTP. That compulsive curiosity is unmistakable. So, do you have a favourite Sanderson book? How about a favourite character? (Don't worry about the spambots - you can just go to their user profile and report them using the button in the bottom right-hand corner. They get taken down as soon as we have a mod online.)