Orsium

Looking forward to it.

Yep, that was my thought as well. Especially with the way his inflection sounded.

I asked if we had seen any Shards that have been Splintered recombine yet. He said: Have you SEEN any? No. Good Question. (Emphasis his)

Lol I have the Kindle version of all three in one. So that one. But if I did have to pick, I'd say TFE. Getting introduced to all the characters and Allomancy, watching Vin's growth...it's what hooked me on everything else in the cosmere.

Are you asking why nobody is born with Hemalurgy? I think its because Preservation had to expend himself in order to give people Allomancy. Thats why Ruin was stronger.

Well, Preservation/Harmony kinda enables that feat. The only ones we have seen use the mists directly are Vin and Wax, not just any Allomancer can draw on them. So would Honor like give it a push to help? Would you have to have a Connection to both Preservation and Honor to jump like that? Kinda makes me wonder what the mechanics are of converting Stormlight to Breath. That's the only on-screen instance we have seen of crossing magic systems, unless I'm mistaken, and it raises the same question about Connection.

True...I'm not saying it would be easy. I just think that Vin could beat Kaladin. The best of each respective abilities we have seen on screen. It would come down to who fights dirtier. Vin has emotional alomancy and time bubbles and duralumin. Kal has lashings and healing and more actual combat training. But when you take Leeching into account, Vin wins as soon as she touches Kal. He then dies from having his Investiture drained completely when they are a few hundred feet feet in the sky. Also Mistborn can burn Atium. Way unfair.

Atium was kind of already done in Next with Nic Cage. I think that realistically for a live action movie they would have to only focus on the "flashy" metals. Steel, Iron, Pewter and Tin. And Atium for the climax/final fight scene. There's just not enough time in a movie to really hit all of them. Now, if it were a TV show...you could spend the first season world building and developing powers, and then move on to actually using them and story progression. But yeah...steel/iron lines are easy, so is moving things and jumping/floating. Pewter is just your basic overreaction of hits and tin could be done with camera zoom and selective volume control. Emotional metals I think would just be a fuzzy edged screen focusing on the target with a voiceover like Breeze does in the books explaining what emotions are being affected. Copper would be a general muting(think post explosion hearing loss scenes. Starts real quiet and then adjusts back to being able to hear), and bronze would be a heartbeat pulse that gets louder as the person zeroes in on who they are seeking.

In my head I have always pictured Vin as pretty much exactly like Summer Glau in Firefly. Same with Nathan Fillion as Kelsier. Nobody else really has a parallel that jumps out at me immediately, but those two I think are perfect.

Nothing tells stick what it is. Stick is a stick.

Pathfinder: No worries, yeah I am trying to figure out if there is the possibility that Marsh had scars from the pits somehow, we know he didn't when he was human, but could he have gotten them in between becoming an inquisitor and where we are now in the books. I REALLY think that Sovereign is Marsh rather that Kelsier. Iron Eyes: Marsh is one of my favorite characters, so yeah. Glad you approve.

I'll be there as well, my first one. Maybe I can meet some of y'all. BTW I have some questions about the process being it's my first one if you guys wouldn't mind helping...like do I have to reserve a spot ahead of time? Let the bookstore know I want to buy a copy? What time does it start? How early should I be?

Hmm...I know what you're referring to, and yes, he did say that the "small pools are no longer there." But the sharp rocks that would cause the scars should still be there if he did go digging, right? Whether or not Ruin made him go or he did it on his own after Sazed ascended. IDK, either question I think could be telling in how he answers. Ahhhh it's so hard deciding. Everyone feel free to make suggestions to polish the question. BTW, in looking that up I confirmed that Ironeyes IS Marsh according to Brandon. So I spoke too soon on that part. I don't know how to link, copy/paste isn't working, but if you go to the Interview database and click on "atium" it'll take you to what I was looking at.

Well...just got home and checked out the end of AoL again. A couple of things I noticed. No names were ever dropped, just a reference to "my brothers work." The eye tattoos and one of the sockets being crushed leads me to think it IS actually Marsh. I retract that part of my theory. I still think that Sovereign is Marsh rather that Kelsier, though. Ironeyes is wearing a robe in the end of AoL, you never see his arms, just hs hands and his face. So he could be scarred. Plus it is heavily implied that the memory in the end of BoM is very old. He could have gotten another eye spike in the intervening years. I'm going to the Calamity signing in Seattle in a week and a half. I gotta figure out good question that wont get RAFO'd. Maybe something along the lines of "How long after Harmony ascended is the memory at the end of BoM, and when did Marsh replace his eye spike in reference to that." EDIT: Thought of a better question. Did Marsh ever visit the Pits of Hathsin looking for atium after he became an inquisitor.