Haven

There' always another secret... looks like there's always another contest too.

My guess for the 16 percent is sheer preservation (pun not intended) of the human species. Considering that anyone affected has a chance to die its better to err on the side of cautions and leave some unSnapped rather than leave the populous destroyed.

It wouldn't even need to be burning a different metal. When he burns charged god Miles gets a massive influx of health, he then drains it away into his numerous goldminds. His massive bloodmaker abilities are just him drawing the power from his imbedded goldminds constantly. So most of the time the gold in his stomach can be uncharged it's only once in a blue moon does he need to filter some of his massive health into a burnable goldmind and "top off" his reserves.

One thought I had for pulsing was space travel in the trilogy set in the future. If you Pulsed long enough you could keep an area of passengers inside the bubble. Sort of an Allomantic "cryo-sleep"

This follows along with that I think, if you remember whenever the Kandra were in a humanoid form their Blessing spikes were always located in the region of their "shoulders" I think it's the idea that of the 300 or so possible bind points by activated points I dunno let's say 161 and 162, with hemalurtic spikes it changes the mist wraith enough to promote sentience and recover any previous memory. The fact that by the nature of Hemalurgy something must be taken to charge the spike creates the blessing. To sum it all up, in the technical sense spiking mist wraiths is intending to give them the Blessing, with the sentience as side effect that the Lord Ruler discovered in his "phenomenal cosmic power" state.

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