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  1. Landis963
    I pegged Denth as a bad guy from the start, although the Bluefingers and Treledees (that's how you spell it, sorry) trickery took me in completely. Amusing the the friend's thoughts on the God King's body language immediately jumped to "He's gay." Also, when your friend arrives at the betrayals, I hope you indulge in some evil laughter on Brandon's behalf.
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    Khriss was talking about any given Misting or Ferring, and also not being perfectly literal. Again, I see no reason for Harmony to have altered Allomancy beyond reducing the necessary trauma to Snap (because he didn't want people beating each other to death on the off chance they get superpowers), turning off the mistsickness (because while Allomancers will certainly be handy, there's no pressing need for an army of them like there was during the War of Ash), and of course swapping out atium and malatium for the proper metals of cadmium and bendalloy stopping atium mistings from being a thing that could happen. Ergo, if I am correct in assuming that nothing else about Allomancy was altered during the course of the Catacendre, the probabilities will remain intact and 16% of any population that already has Allomancers as breeding members will develop the abilities. What I have no basis for is my assumption that Ferrings were included in this 1 Metalborn to 16 normal humans ratio. EDIT: Whoops,
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    No. Hoid has never used Hemalurgy to augment himself. (And a good thing too, because that would give Odium - or any passing Shard, really - a backdoor into Hoid's soul).
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    There will always be a notable minority of Metalborn. Namely, 16%. (I see no reason for Harmony to have changed this, especially since Kelsier was right when he said that the post-verdant world would need Allomancers) The practical number of Metalborn this returns will, of course, depend on the population at the time, and how widespread the Metalborn genes have been able to penetrate. This has the effect of the number of Metalborn skyrocketing as different populations get the genes, and as the population of Scadrial grows, rather than going away. Twinborn might become rarer, and the strength of the Mistings and Ferrings might wane, but there will always be someone who can launch off of coins with their mind.
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    "Ralkalest" in The Emperor's Soul is aluminum. Those, the Shardblade training guards, and of course the Allomantic uses are all the places we know of where aluminum's shown to have investiture-related effects.
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    We have seen Nalthis' Cognitive Realm. Remember when Lightsong remembered his vision? Warbreaker, chapter 57, page 543 of the Kindle version.
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    I suspect that if Sel's expanse of the Cognitive Realm is anything, it is pure, bright white. With a relative temperature to match.
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    TenSoon had 4 spikes though. His Blessing, plus OreSeur's.
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    Or they could have done something where they have the Firemothers and Fathers who are standing in a giant bonfire (such that they don't burn), and have their heat constantly drained into unsealed brassminds, like Kelesina's unkeyed goldmind being drained from Destra (Templeton Fig's skeletal wife). That's a Hemalurgy trick, but probably not an easy one to test for without access to the Fireparents themselves.
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    Can't answer all of these, but here's my best guess: Hope that helps!
  11. Landis963
    More probably, it's something wrong with their physical aspect (wouldn't stick around and do the withering thing otherwise).
  12. Landis963
    The feel, lore and humor are very nice indeed - when you can get to the bits that have that in between interminable grinding sessions.
  13. Landis963
    When he's present, he had a crushing advantage. When he's not present, that advantage isn't present either. "Present" being a word which here means "reachable by Steelrunning/Coinshotting/Pewter-dragging." At some point in his conquest of the northern half of Scadrial, he would need allies to keep control of it all (assuming of course that the Final Empire was necessary in the first place, which it might not have been).
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    New question, inspired by the discussion of Cusicesh in the JordanCon thread: Have we seen any of Cusicesh's faces anywhere besides on Cusicesh?
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    The problem with the storing Breaths idea is that if the Breaths are in the coat then the coat is vibrant, and if the Breaths are in the kandra then the entire outfit is vibrant. There's no opportunity for things to grow dim.
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    Ettmetal uses

    Landis963 replied to natc's topic in Mistborn

    Metals on Scadrial are gateways to power, which shines through in the Cognitive Realm, but they are not invested in and of themselves. (If they were, metals mined on any other world would fail to power Allomancy, and we know by WoB that this is not the case) Godmetals, on the other hand, have only been seen in pure forms, and are invested in-and-of themselves. (This is the reason why one can't make the godmetals in a hadron collider or whatever)
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    This is bridgeman pay we're talking about, and Sadeas is in charge. I'm fairly certain the only reason it isn't two marks per year is because Elhokar or someone (probably Dalinar) put his foot down.
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    Indeed, especially since normally Awakening does so immediately, as opposed to VenDell's coat which slowly fades from dark brown to tan over the course of several hours. I wonder what Command he was using, and why.
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    Ettmetal uses

    Landis963 replied to natc's topic in Mistborn

    Most alkali metals are "mined" having already reacted with the minerals around them, in many cases forming crystals of the compounds. Lithium, for instance, has at least 21 different crystals it can form with various minerals. The problem, however, is how the investiture stays connected to the ettmetal during two different processes that change its chemical makeup and thus its nature - first the natural reactions between the ettmetal and surrounding rock, and then the purification process necessary to extricate it from its crystal state. Unless the investiture necessary to qualify it for godmetal status somehow insulates it from reacting with anything but Investiture, in which case (assuming it's liquid) it would form aquifers or underground pools in caves (probably not too dissimilar to Shardpools, now I think of it) which one would have to carefully search for using oil-lubricated drills and such, and pump it to the surface much like how we drill for oil.
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    Seconding Emerald's concerns about wiggle room. I would define "someone" as "any sophont being whose parents were physically in the Cognitive Realm during conception, and/or whose mother (assuming placental birth) was in the Cognitive Realm during labor."
  21. Landis963
    And also stories on what the storms Sarene's doing now. Because she got up to a lot.
  22. Landis963
    Elantris annotation, of the chapter just after the Dakhor attack and everything starts to hit the fan.
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    Previous drafts (as seen in the annotations) point to Torena as the culprit for Eventeo's spy. It just was never revealed because the only place for said reveal to happen ended up being directly before the revelation about Kiin. It came across as comical rather than a nicely shocking payoff for the mystery.
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    I think Harmony left everything not detrimental to one's health alone when he fixed Scadrial. Being able to burn atium does not qualify in the same way that, say, the inability to use one's legs does.
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    . That depends entirely on whether one could find the requisite perpendicularities. Shardpools definitely made it much easier.
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