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Also, all the living Feruchemists, including children were killed in WoA, so even among the remaining Terrismen, the genetic potential for Feruchemy was weak.

The Ars Arcanum kind of suggests that some feruchemists might be around. It says that Feruchemists with access to only one power are "common" as opposed to saying that they're the only kind that exist. It may just be vague language, though. http://books.google.com/books?id=34fV6RKOFpQC&lpg=PP1&dq=alloy%20of%20law&pg=PA332#v=onepage&q=feruchemy&f=false It also says that the Terris community kind of keeps to itself so it's possible that there are full Feruchemists that just aren't widely known, notwithstanding what Wax thinks.

I think that by this point they were under Ruin's influence. My understanding is that once TLR wasn't keeping control of them Ruin could take control. For example, he was able to get Marsh to try to kill Sazed.

I kind of got the impression that it was ongoing, but I guess that it's ambiguous. I don't know the exact time frame, but it seems that it happened early enough in book 2 for the refugees to reach Elend. It seems odd that they would kill all of the Keepers for the purpose of getting their powers and then hold off.

Keep in mind that the mass-spiking happened in book 2, before Vin had released Ruin. It's entirely plausible that Vin might have used the Well power or died before going there, in which case Ruin might have wanted someone who could assist him in the long term.

To be honest, it may just be an author oversight, though once again it's plausible that Ruin, like Preservation, wanted a backup plan. Keep in mind also that the mass-murder of the Feruchemists happens in book 2, before Ruin is released from the Well. Until Vin freed him he didn't necessarily know that he'd have a chance to destroy the world in the short term. If Vin used the power herself or got killed before going to the Well, it might have been useful to have a superpowerful immortal agent who could work on his behalf.

I agree with you that AOL is later though I'd probably say more turn of the century (i.e. automobiles were still brand new enough to be called horseless carriages instead of having their own names). Regarding the new series, it's kind of speculative, but I'd probably say earlier than modern day. "They've progressed beyond steam technology to combustion engine technology, are building skyscrapers—that level of technology. " He talks about "progressing" beyond steam technologies, to combustion engines, "building" skyscrapers as opposed to living in a world full of skyscrapers,. He doesn't mention electronics, computers, television, etc. It could just be a loose description, but it sounds like something earlier than modern day, maybe 20s or 30s. F

The internal monologue here kind of implies that a weaker Hemalurgical charge doesn't mean less control/influence. (click on the p. 372 link). http://books.google.com/books?id=uTt-H5MAGT0C&lpg=PP1&dq=hero%20of%20ages&pg=PA372#v=snippet&q=spike&f=false

Meh-maybe. But in the modern day setting of the new series, he'd be susceptible to aluminum bullet machine guns, flamethrowers, etc.

The Ars Arcanum said that knowledge of Hemalurgy was hidden by the first post-apocalypse generation and that most of the remaining practitioners are Kandra (which would imply to me that Koloss are not). http://books.google.com/books?id=34fV6RKOFpQC&lpg=PP1&dq=alloy%20of%20law&pg=PA332#v=onepage&q=hemalurgy&f=false

So Sanderson said this about the next series "Anyway, the Mistborn sequel trilogy, as I've said before, takes place in a more technologically advanced version of the world, several hundred years later. They've progressed beyond steam technology to combustion engine technology, are building skyscrapers—that level of technology. It will follow the exploits of a team of Allomancers who are kind of like an Allomantic SWAT team, a group of hybrid mercenary/deputized individuals who are brought in by the police to take out Allomancer criminals. The first book will deal with when they are called in to deal with a Mistborn serial killer. That's how it starts. It will go bizarre from there, of course, but think guns, cars, skyscrapers, and Allomancers. " I'm wondering now if the unexplained Allomancer kidnappings relate to an attempt to breed a Mistborn and chasing after him in the second trilogy will lead to an investigation of the Set, etc.

I should clarify-I am sure that he WAS ingesting, we just didn't get any first person accounts of it. This was in response to whether he was flaring or burning slowly. I was just saying that we don't see the specifics, we just see him tapping healing constantly. There isn't necessarily any reason we'd have to see him doing so- he could have just been doing it once a day instead of chomping pieces of gold constantly.

This is what I'm still having trouble with-I didn't get the impression that Miles was ever being unhealthy. I'll try to find the quote, but he says at some point that he can't remember pain/illness/infirmity etc.I got the impression that he was always burning existing metalminds and then using the multiplied healing to fill new metalminds. The "compounding" term pretty strongly implies it. And that makes sense on its own. But TLR did have to do some youth-storage. Less than a regular Feruchemist, but still some. And that's both how Sazed explains it and how Sanderson has explained it in subsequent communications. The stuff about more age being needed at 1000 doesn't really get at the discrepancy. Regardless of how much he needed it would always make more sense for TLR to burn existing metalminds and use the surplus to fill additional metalminds (which could also be burned), instead of spending time being old.

I'm pretty sure that we never see Miles actually burning his Feruchemical storages. He's tapping healing constantly from his metalminds but I'm not sure that on camera he's ever shown ingesting/burning them. Just to be clear, I'm sure he WAS burning them at some point, but we just don't see him doing it. He's tapping healing all the time but the actual ingestion/burn/refill happens off camera.

I think (aside from the speculation about Aona's intent) that this is the clear implication of what Brandon said. Otherwise why mention that the Seons weren't there before Odium's visit?

I understand that there are plausible post-hac explanations (i.e. TLR isn't storing new age, he's doing it the same way as Miles but during his "old" periods he's just drawing less age.) And in some ways the Miles model makes more practical sense. But that wasn't how it was described by Sazed or by Brandon previous to this book.

But there's still not any reason that he would need to store *new* age by being old, regardless of the amount. He could always just burn an existing metalmind to generate new age, with some of the excess being stored and some being used to keep him young.

To add to what everyone else has said, Sazed has a pretty good explanation of this in the last chapter of Mistborn 1. I assume that Miles had some goldminds hidden on the inside of his body under his skin. He could use his healing to control the side effects. I will say that there is one slight contradiction between how it is discussed in Mistborn and here. It seems that the Lord Ruler had to occasionally store some "real" age by being old, at least according to Sazed's description (unfortunately no previews are available on Google Books for me to cite to). Miles on the other hand, seems to be able to basically endlessly recycle his healing, burning some feruchemical storages and presumably able to to use some of the excess healing to fill other metalminds which could later be burned. The term "compounding" basically implies this-endless multiplying of healing. I don't have a problem with the explanation, but it contradicts the way TLR's powers were explained.

I am dubious - we have a number of first person views from Wayne and it doesn't seem that anything unusual is happening. I know that Vin could do some things unconsciously but I have trouble believing that someone who was already an Allomancer and Feruchemist wouldn't know that he was burning/tapping.

Are Kandra a regular species now? I thought that it was only Koloss. I seem to remember Brandon saying that the Kandra were able to reconstitute themselves when their spikes were returned but no more would be created.

I always understood that some of the limitations had to do with Preservation and Ruin balancing/countering each other. Ruin was limited to Hemalurgic spike communication in part because Preservation was blocking and he needed the slight edge he had with Spiked people to communicate. There are some scenes near the end of HoA when Vin is just barely able to get past Ruin to reach Elend and similarly Ruin is able to just barely get past Vin to reach an Inquisitor. But without a countering force, Sazed could probably do more than either.

I agree that it would seem to be impossible for him to store age the natural way, but that's what Sazed seemed to think was happening during his periods of relative age. As for Miles, it seems like he never needed to stop healing-he basically could re-store some part of his Allomantically released healing in another allomantically usable goldmind, thus making it unnecessary to ever store healing after the initial bit.

Can he also keep it with him when he's writing and record commentary on whatever he's doing at the time? We'll work out a regular update schedule when he will be required to distribute the recordings. Also, please circulate his direct telephone number so we don't always have to go through you if he isn't meeting his responsibilities.

I don't think that the "tenfold" refers to allomantic ability, only feruchemical ability. A compounder can burn their Feruchemical reserves increasing the power in the reserve tenfold. This is basically the same thing that Sazed says, particularly the tenfold increase. Their allomantic abilities aren't affected. Miles wasn't a super-great Augur, but he could perpetually recycle/compound his healing reserves. The one difference in the treatment I noted was that Miles didn't seem to ever need to regularly go unhealthy or store new health. I understand his function to allowed him in the very first instance fill some metalmind for internal consumption, burn that metalmind, releasing 10 times as much healing, and store the excess, with some part of the excess being stored in another for--burning metalmind. Whereas the Lord Ruler could produce age more productively with his Feruchemy/Allomancy, but still needed to spend some time naturally storing age.

There is a pretty helpful discussion in this annotation. http://www.brandonsanderson.com/annotation/345/Mistborn-3-Chapter-Seventy He makes the point that most of these people did not have sufficient strength to be snapped outside intervention from the mists. I would kind of infer the larger point that a larger share of the population has allomantic abilities than is commonly believed but their abilities are never awakened because regular snapping efforts don't work. So ability is genetic and the nobility because of its Lerasium infusion has a larger percentage of people that are strong enough to be Snapped with the more traditional physical abuse. However, the ability is still floating around in the larger population (also inherited) and is awakened by the mists.