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And I have questions. How did Spook have a hundred-year rule? That would require living over a hundred years, obviously. Do the people of Scadrial have slightly longer lifespans than normal? If so, is it because of the Preservation in them? Also there's got to be some sort of Phantom Menace joke I could make about all this talk of trade disputes.

http://www.tor.com/2016/01/11/excerpts-brandon-sanderson-the-bands-of-mourning-chapter-five/ It's up

This raises so many questions. Is Elendel in the same place Luthadel was? Do magnets still point to it? I'm pretty sure the Well of Ascenion still exists and is below Elendel. You know what I just answered most of those questions. Nice.

I feel like there was a WoB that Hoid had a Lerasium Brad. I don't know where else he who'd have gotten it if not from the well.

I thought they had to be at the pole though, because it was the only place cold enough for life?

Wow that's good

It could also have something to do with the fact that it's hidden by metal, which we know keeps both Ruin and Preservation from seeing things. Maybe metal interferes with all shares on some way, or just shards forming from those two.

So we know that the final empire was at the North Pole. However, the Terris dominance is referred to as north of Luthadel. Is Luthadel not at the North Pole then? And, since Luthadel is at the empire's center, does that mean the empire isn't actually at the precise North Pole of Scadrial?

I hate to be the guy who insists on assigning genders to characters that shouldn't have them, but the Kendra having genders is foreshadowing of their true nature as ex-humans. Also MeLaan identifies as female as far as I know.

I could have sworn I read somewhere Feruchemy was a dominant sDNA trait

So we know Feruchemy is a dominant trait in the spiritweb's Magic DNA. Theoretically, the majority of people with Terris blood should then have it. However, most Feruchemists were killed when the Steel Inquisitors attacked Terris. Because of this, most of the Terrispeople who survived the Catacendre were carriers of the Feruchemy gene at the most. However, since the gene is dominant, it will experience a resurgence as more generations pass. Full Feruchemists are limited by Allomancy, but the number of ferrings is not.

It seemed to me pile gold compounding just made the user effectively invincible, but age would still eventually kill them. However, many claim a gold compounder wouldn't die at all if they were tapping healing. Is there any induction which is correct?

Do nicrosilminds store the ability to use an ability, or the power source of that ability? I know in the semi-canon MAG storing in a nicrosilmind stores power for other abilities like allomancy.

So this is already mentioned in a topic, but I thought I'd make the warning more available. Amazon messed up on the preview for Bands of Mourning and accidentally posted more than they should have. That would be fine, if they didn't somehow manage to post the BOOK'S ENDING. This ending apparently contains massive revelations that the entire book was leading up to. Obviously this isn't something many people would like to read unintentionally. If you do read it, any discussion of the ending is not allowed here, even with spoiler tags. Sorry if this PSA is against the board's rules. I'm new here, and wouldn't ,make such a post if it weren't this important.

Feruchemy is a dominant gene. That's why the lord ruler couldn't breed it out of the Terris.

Yeah the bands could cause the wearer to assume Rashek's identity, which would be helpful in keeping Ruin from escaping.

So we know Pushing and Pulling have clear rules. Anything more massive than you pushes/pulls you instead, for instance. But what about fast moving objects? If someone shot a bullet directly at a coinshot and the coinshot Pushed it, would the bullet or the coinshot move? Is speed factored in?

From the Alloy of Law supplement to the MAG- "The Mistborn and Keepers, who could use the full spectrum of Allomancy and Feruchemy respectively". Full Feruchemists are called Keepers, apparently.

Right above you I have the fourth faith listed...

From the alloy of law annotations: "The other little worldbuilding item of note here is the idea of what Wayne calls the “God Beyond,” which is an idea that has begun to creep into society, the idea that there is a greater God of the universe beyond people like Harmony or Kelsier. It’s somewhat analogous to some of the Gnostic beliefs in early Christianity."

So let's say you want to go fast. You're also Rashek, with centuries worth of compounded metalminds filled up. If you start filling an ironmind, then tap steel, would you go faster than if you weren't tapping the ironmind? Would the psuedo mass effecting abilities of the ironmind let you move faster, since you had a lower mass? And could you, with a low enough mass and enough speed, go just under the speed of light?

So the first book breaks the theme of the titles for the whole series, which is something of something (alloy of law, bands on mourning, etc). Furthermore, it breaks the pattern in the first trilogy, which is something of something that starts with "A". (Well of Ascension, Hero of Ages). The title The Final Empire works, but it kind of breaks the theme. What else could it be to keep both themes? I'm thinking something of Alendi. Maybe Empire? Or Words?

The last one is the God Beyond- the idea that there's a more powerful force than the Harmony Shard.

I remembered something. It's not the exposure to air tha weakens Hemalurgy, it's the magic's end-negative nature. The Ars Arcanum mentions Hemalurgy as end-negative, so the direct spiking is the way to get the maximum amount of power (which is still slightly less than it originally was- presumably because some power is spent to transfer the power). Sticking the spike in a handy container of blood keeps it at its maximum power level, but the normal amount of power that is used in taking it out of someone and putting it in someone else is still lost.

Harmony did change what's required for someone to snap. He didn't like the pain required. It's a WoB somewhere.