DeadFencer

I interpreted it as fully coated in blood- like in a container. If that's correct, the exposure to air as the spike went through the person would have diluted it somewhat. Also, remember Hemalurgy requires some power to be used in transferring the ability to a new person. A hemalurgic metalborn can't be as strong as a non hemalurgic one.

The general consensus is that Allomantic power is significantly weaker in the new era, since the noble and skaa bloodlines mixed. However, many skaa were mistings, since Preservation was able to Snap them with the mists. This means they had enough noble blood to constitute mistings- and that, according to the theory that power dilutes, would be unlikely if they were only distantly related to a single noble. Furthermore, the 300 years would mean that mistings were significantly weaker during Wax's time, but nothing indicates that. Soothing, Coinshooting... its all still powerful. We also know Alendi was a seeker, but a very weak one. Perhaps Lerasium makes its initial user very strong, but any power passed on is at a set level? In addition, power passes on more frequently than we think, if a large amount of skaa were mistings.

The gasoline being biofuel seems even more likely if we're going with the Occam's Razor method.

It seems The Set has more plans than just making a Mistborn, as they were willing to work with Bleeder. Any ideas what they could want?

I am so sorry. (Feruchemical copper and allomantic pewter, of course)

The attack on Titan opening. It's really awesome, and the part of the video where everyone flies straight up into the air looks like Coinshots.

You can. At one point in WoA Sazed fills several metalminds at once in preparation for battle.

I have a theory based on nothing that Harmony can affect the past. (Even though the prophecy about the hero of ages was corrupted by Ruin, it had some accuracy, like the ability to save the world on their arms. Maybe Sazed wrote it retroactively?) If Sazed affects the past, maybe Feruchemy comes from him?It seems like a harmony-esque power; the ability is stored (Preservation) but has to be used eventually (Ruin).

What exactly was it? We know Preservation caused some of the mists (like them snapping people) but the mists started killing all the crops once Ruin was freed. The mist also increased before Rashek used the Well of Ascension. So what was everything about the mists?

What Twinborn set of powers would be the best? For day to day life? Combat? Fun factor? Excluding compounders, because obvious and OP. (Also if this thread already exists elsewhere I didn't see it. Just tell me and shut this one.)

I see.

Okay, what are the dark alleys.

So there's a headline in one of the shadows of self newspapers that says a baker is decorating pastries with atium flakes. How? No one has any atium, except Marsh.

Remember that TLR wanted to keep feruchemists around for hemalurgical purposes. The goal of the breeding program was truly to harvest powers, not get rid of them.

I feel like I read the MAG says feruchemistry is a dominant trait, so some of the children alive at the end of the first trilogy had to have been at least carrying the "genes" for full feruchemists.

Idashwy could have been a misting. Hemalurgy would have only let Bleeder take one of her powers if she was. But yeah I forgot about those Brutes. Maybe they just specialized in pewter tapping? (I'm hoping you have to be Twinborn if a ferring, but doubt it)

(Putting this in here for possible very minor Shadow of Self spoilers) We know ferrings exist because the allomantic portion of spiritwebs is the same as the feruchemical part, causing the need for less feruchemical power. But what about the Terris who didn't have any exposure to allomancy? They should still be full feruchemists, since feruchemy is a dominant trait. Also, we haven't seen any non-Twinborn ferrings. Would they exist, as feruchemy didn't interact with allomancy in their spiritwebs?

Mistborn is weird with the allocation of weight and force. Iron metalminds don't let the user have super strong punches and they can still support their massive weight, for instance. So I don't know.

I read the Alcatraz vs. books years ago and liked them. I wanted something to read after ASOIAF, so I picked up Mistborn in Spring 2015 after hearing good things about it and remembering I had liked Brandon Sanderson. Things escalated from there.

The general consensus is that the southern part of Scadrial is only slightly more advanced than the north we've seen. But weren't they free from TLR's thousand years of technological stasis? If Scadrial was about to develop guns before the staid, shouldn't the south be at least beyond our technological level, possibly even in the ftl age?