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It's a bit more obvious when seen together. WoR Ch 57:

Not all Allomancy breaks the crystals in an Atium geode. WoB: TFE Annotations to Ch 28: Though unstated, we can also infer that this included the other prisoners escaping. By the time operations resume, they probably couldn't keep a "one nugget per prisoner per week" quota until the number of prisoners grew and stabilized enough to return to that level of "production."

Welcome to the forums and glad you enjoyed it all. By this, do you mean all published materials? All novels? Including some of the unpublished works that have been made available? Some other qty of Cosmere works? Just asking in case of spoilers should you have questions or join some discussions. . .

Kind-of. . . presumably, it's more about inheritance order:

I would actually consider depression as a Passion. Especially if you consider "The Passions" (both as shown by the Fused/Singers and as the Thaylen's religion/philosophy) as describing an emotion that promotes or provokes an action. Anger you might complain via internal monologue, Hate you go out and stormin' do something about it. Contrition might have you feeling a twinge of guilt, Remorse has you apologizing and making amends. In this context Depression might fit since it forces a lack of action. . .

Does that mean bangs aren't as bad as you thought?

For a Windrunner, longer hair is likely a benefit. Think about long hair on a person driving a convertible - the wind naturally keeps it out of your face. This makes the most sense. A Rosharan mullet - short up front, long in the back. Washed with every highstorm during the Riddens. . .

I, too, always thought "anyone pierced by metal" implied that the metal wasn't just Hemalurgy, but any invested metal piercing an individual. Also consider that Kelsier was able to communicate with Spook more easily than others (post Catacendre) because of Connection. He was able to influence Spook into making an earring of a former Hemalurgic spike to facilitate the communication - but the influence was there before the spike. To me, this implies that Rashek's Connection to Ruin's prison would also facilitate some level of communication/influence by Ruin. It might not be just one reason - it could be multiple small reasons, each slightly increasing Ruin's ability to influence Rashek. Edit: Also, consider the madman in SoS that Bleeder spoke to and convinced to try shooting the Governor and also convinced to hide a metal coin inside his arm. (SoS Ch 8 and 9) We don't know if what Bleeder was doing was similar; but, if it is, why would she waste a hemelurgic spike on a pawn meant to get captured? There was nothing about descibing it as an unknown metal or alloy, so I doubt it was Trellium. So, if that implies that any metal (or invested metal - not specifically hemalurgy) allows the conduit for communication/influence then that supports the idea that Rashek's metalminds may have been a factor in Ruin's influence and likely one Rashek dismissed by thinking/being convinced it didn't matter because it wasn't hemalurgic

Why would you think they were weaker? There's no evidence I know of that says the Mist-Snapped were weaker than other Mistings. Granted, without an understanding of Allomantically correct alloy ratios and metal purity; as well as lack of understanding of the powers themselves they would undoubtedly be less capable and effective Allomancers.

While I concur Mistings were rare pre-Rashek; thanks to his media spin and history purge we can only guess at how rare.More likely, since it was poorly understood, the mist-snapped of Alendi's time simply never knew they could be a Misting.

From where do you get that? None of his descriptions include a mustache. In fact, the only mustaches mentioned in the trilogy are Felt, Lord Renoux, and the Smoker killed by Marsh in HoA ch 34. Sources:

Isn't that Dox? He's the only one with facial hair (half-beard a.k.a. goatee)

Danke. Wasn't aware that Spook wasn't Eland-esque. I always though AoL was about his lineage having a higher proportion of mistings because of the way he became Mistborn.

Well, to be fair the genetics in AoL was about lineage to Spook (Lord Mistborn) which puts the "lerasium" heritage only 300 yrs past, not 1300 yrs. . . probably a statistically significant difference. Granted Spook became Mistborn the same way Rashek did (directly from the power of Preservation, without a Lerasium bead - but I doubt the power and it's physical representation differ from an sDNA perspective).

TFE Ch 4: TFE Ch 24: WoA Ch 11: WoA Ch 35: HoA Ch 4: SoS Ch 19

True, but the gene was also present in the general populace before Rashek's meddling and, since Sazed returned everybody to the state before Rashek's tampering, presumably after the Catacendre. Alendi was a Seeker before anybody found or used Lerasium. . . Noble blood could likely still show a higher percentage, but should no longer be a requirement for a Misting (and was never a factor for being a Ferring). My ponit was simply that the qty of noble blood after this much time should not be a major factor to Wax's abilities (which seem to me to be much closer tied to being a Crasher - and using his abilitied so much). Also note that Shan did not seem to be appreciably stronger than Vin despite have a full Noble pedifree to Vin's half-skaa heritage.

Wax's strength in Allomancy mostly comes from being a crasher and using his Skimming to manipulate his steel pushes. He is also extremely skilled with manipulating both (so it's more about finesse than raw strength) and may be on the path to being a Steel Savant (WoB - Annotations) As you can see from the Annotation, BS was implying that Wax was (or was becoming) a Savant, but the WoB since then shows that he is rethinking that stance. This shouldn't be a factor. Neither Breeze nor Allrianne had Skaa blood, and after the Catacendre there was no longer any difference since Sazed reversed the changes between Skaa and Noble.

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There is one fundamental flaw to your post: Interesting as a thought experiment, but I would expect Temerant to be mono-Shardic (rather than di-Shardic like Scadrial) or, if two shards than it should have more than two magic systems. E.g. Scadrial - Two Shards, Three magic systems | Sel - Two Shards (splintered) and may more than two magic systems (that are mostly variations on a theme)

Aluminum, sometimes called Ralkalest*, is investiture innert and can have some weird properties interacting with the investiture of different worlds. If you have read Stormlight Archive and Mistborn Eras 1 and 2; then you have seen it: Mistborn Allomantic properties are to wipe an Allomancer's metal reserves Used as a lining in hats to block uses of Brass and Zinc Used/allowed to make metal items that cannot be pushed or pulled with Iron and Steel Stormlight Archive Used in Sword-nimi's sheath to contain his effects when sheathed Said sheath was used to block a Shardblade Used to line the chamber where Azure was using the Soulcaster to make food (so the Secretspren can't sense the Fabrial) Discussed in RoW between Navani and Raboniel Brandon decided to use Aluminum in this role because, when you look at it IRL, Aluminum was more rare and more expensive than Gold and Platinum until electrolysis was invented and it made extracting/processing Aluminum much easier and cheaper. This meant that in the Cosmere, he could play with how it's effects were rare and misunderstood when Aluminum was hard to find, but as technology developed it would become more common and easier to manipulate, study and learn. WoB When you read Emperor's Soul (which you really should - it's awesome and though it takes place on the same world as Elantris (Sel), you do not need to read Elantris first as they are quite separate) you will learn more about Ralkalest

What Syl asks at the end of the chapter is your clue. . . No spoilers - just used the boxes in case you wanted to nug it out yourself

How much Cosmere have you read? M:SH spoilers

The scene in Urithuru? Good catch if you missed it on your first read-through - OB Spoilers

The quote is certainly ambiguous (WoR ch 86)

Except that we already know (RoW Spoilers):