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What would a Feruchemical savant do? It is supposedly an end-neutral art, so would becoming a savant change it to end positive? Like you store X amount in but when you draw it you get X+Y out?

It's totally Cthulu. Deepest Ones... Cthulu runs Threnody and that's why there are no shards there. Everyone is too scared to challenge him.

Havent read either of the two new ones yet, waiting on my book (2 Feb). I have Secret History taunting me from my kindle since I don't want to read it until after BoM.

Scadrial/Nalthis Who wouldn't want to be a Mistborn? And Breath is intense once you collect a lot of it. Plus lets say you did manage to Return. Burn some metal to create an Investiture link, live for another week. Only question is exchange rates between 1 Breath and the amount gained by burning metals. Edit: Expanded my thoughts a little

I think I've been convinced on the Dominion Theory. Everything seems to fit. The similarity of colors in soulstone and the spike, the beasts in the Kandra homeland, the fact that Trellagism was focused on the location of the world in relation to the stars, the fact that there was a second god in the religion(Nalt) and a second god on Sel(Devotion). Even the motivations for Bleeder fit. Dominion doesn't want anyone ELSE ruling over people, he wants to do it. So lets get rid of Harmony. Plus Brandon doesn't necessarily write his novels in timeline-order. So by finishing this era of Mistborn, then backtracking to Elantris 2 and showing HOW they came back, he can set up the Cosmere requirements of recombining splintered shards.

Is savant-ism really ONLY attainable by flaring metals for an extended period? I would think that the more you use it, the better control you gain. Kelsier passed Vin off to everyone else to learn the nuances of their specific abilities...I always pictured that there was levels, like Pathfinder said. You get better and better as you use it, from being able to push with steel at the beginning, to being able to create a bubble. After that comes the "detrimental" aspect. You have used it for so long that it becomes the new norm, so your ability to focus the Investiture gets more advanced. Then you end up not being able to go back to the original normal, and start seeing everything in steel sight. Same with tin. You learn how to enhance all the senses first, then focus on one, then extend the range further and further...and all of a sudden your body no longer can return to normal. Spook just took it so far that he messed himself up pretty bad. If he would have stopped pushing constantly I think he could have turned it on and off and still been considered a savant. Just how I always pictured it. But I'm new here.

Lol well as long as its only one, that's not enough to REALLY make me lose my mind.

Hey everyone, Finally got around to actually creating an account rather than sitting quietly in the background. Started reading Brandon with Mistborn a few years ago and then inhaled everything else from him I could get my hands on once I finished. Did not find this forum until about 2 months ago, but ever since then I've been checking it out pretty much daily. Absolutely fell in love with the notion that all these different books and plots and characters connect together underneath the main storylines, and I figured I'd join the community.