NovaSeeker

Okay... hrm. This next one's a long shot but... I'm at the stadium scene... page 298... OKAY PHEW! Chapter 38 was pretty intense! Looks like my theory of Megan was mostly confirmed, but there was that major curveball I wasn't expecting. Chapter 40 Well, they're in the rust now, aren't they? Page 322. Chapter 41 Aaaaand finished. Wow. That was awesome! ... *immediately buys Mitosis and Firefight*

Navy, please, just trust me on this. You should be treating "balls" with the exact same level of vulgarity as d#. They are equally vulgar. At least, in the US. Are you in the US? If not then, sure, local vernacular for slang might be different. (Like the C-word being a huuuuuuuge insult in the US, and being roughly equivalent to "jerk" in the UK)

Dominion is not the same thing as Domination. It is not the noun form of the verb Dominate. They have the same root, but they are different things.

Should be noted that Spook wasn't advocating murder. He stipulated that you could ask the terminal or elderly to volunteer for spiking. Disturbing? Yes. Reasonable.... yes.

I doubt it would take a bazillion. Vasher's pants weren't especially human-shaped, and the tassels at the bottom were very handy. Would a mistcloak take more Breaths to Awaken than a human-shaped cloak? Sure. But it's still made out of once-living fibers, and wouldn't be too difficult. And all those extra tassels would be really useful with a Protect Me Command.

Chapter 31 Wow, Megan's really messed up, huh? ...THEORY Page 259 ....huh. Chapter 33 page 284 David and Prof speak about Prof's past.

Page 253. So the Prof comes to the rescue. He's... really good with those tensors. Suspiciously good. And he told David to try a tensor even though it was broken. Suspicious.

Right. So we're back at Dominion not following the "action or personality trait" clause, which means that Fortune is still on the table for a Shard name.

So you think that she jerked herself in the way, and then fell to pieces about losing Wax afterward? I suppose that's a possible explanation. I can even buy her knowing exactly when to jerk because she was the one to give the queue to Wax to fire. I just don't think she'd go as crazy as she did if it was her decision to do it. She went after Harmony with a divine vengeance. Although maybe it was because she hated herself for doing it and Harmony was a convenient scapegoat, convincing herself that he had to have taken control and moved her, because she could never hurt Wax that way. ...Okay. I'll say that's plausible, probably more likely than Harmony lying.... but I still think he did it. >: (

Aaah, okay. I wasn't sure I was stating myself correctly, apologies for over-explaining. I'm not sure if that's the case though. I thought he was pretty much always burning and filling 24/7, which was why Wax even made the comment about his insatiable need for gold. (It sounded like something significant, not just an offhand comment about how much an average lawman earns)

Featherwriter, I gave your original post an upvote, even though I have no salt for this outcome whatsoever. Because you're absolutely right about everything. (Also "Go to bed, Kelser" made me laugh out loud.)

But Domination is. Or Rule. Or Govern.

Well, I think Harmony makes a decent case for "I didn't tell you you were hunting your insane wife because you wouldn't have finished the job, and you would hate yourself for letting her stay insane or having someone that didn't love her put her out of her misery" But I still think he's hiding the fact that he shoved her into Wax's bullet way back in Alloy of Law's prologue.

Thanks. I still have no idea where I got "fifty year lifespan" though. Might've concocted that in my head all on my own. Looking at the WoB to your question is interesting. I'd guess that every new mistwraith born has a brand new baby human soul, but its physical form does not allow the cognitive aspect to sync up with it, until it is Blessed.

Oh, I'm not arguing that he's wrong.... Just messed up!

Balls is a more polite way of saying testicles? ... WHAT? This is more for your benefit than mine, if you ever find yourself in polite company and for some reason think it's okay to say balls in a polite context: Please see definition 5: http://www.thefreedictionary.com/balls "balls" is not like saying "sleeping with" instead of "sex". It's exactly like saying d#k instead of "penis".

Well, I haven't found the mistwraith lifespan yet, but I can show you that their numbers are not fixed, and that every generation after the First was never human: from Mistborn Trilogy, Nook ebook edition, page 1793 Still looking for lifespan. The following is not an exact lifespan, but does confirm that normal mistwraiths are not immortal: Mistborn Trilogy, Nook ebook edition, page 1802 Also confirms that even as early as the Second Generation, new kandra were never humans.

I could be wrong, but I'm almost certain it was stated that way. The reasoning I thought was: actual mistwraiths are nothing special. They are a true-breeding species of odd animal. They become sentient and immortal kandra when bestowed a Blessing. Let me see if I can find the remark about mistwraith lifespans.

It's not really a waste..... at least, not the way I thought Compounding works. Let me see if I can spell out how I think Compounding works more clearly with numbers. Okay, so with normal goldminds, you can make yourself 50% less healthy to store up 50% health in the goldmind. We don't really have a unit of measurement for ferruchemical charges, but just lets define "a day of 50% filling" as 1. So after ten days of filling, you have 10 units of healing. You can tap the 10 units of healing in any proportion you want. Be double healthy for 5 days (spending 2 charge a day), spend 5 charges in a single day to get over a really bad case of food poisoning, or oh crap, spend all 10 at once to heal a gunshot wound. But, you're not just a bloodmaker. You're a Compounder. Take that goldmind, and swallow it. Now you have 10 charges in your stomach. You can tap or burn it. Burning it, however, gives you a burst of 10 units for every 1 you stored. Now you have 100 charges. You need to heal from five gunshots? You still have 50 charges left. Lets assume you had 5 other goldminds that were not in your stomach during the next ten days, and you were filling them all at the same time that you were burning Compounded gold. That's 10 units per each of those five goldminds at the end of the ten days, while you were healing from five gunshot wounds, and perfectly healthy (you're filling the five goldminds directly from the charges you gained from burning the first one, not from making your actual health weaker). Now at the end of the those ten days, you have 5 fully charged goldminds. Swallow them. You now have 500 charges. Another ten days later, if you didn't get injured, you'd fill 50 goldminds. Swallow them. 5,000 charges. That's not a waste of an attribute. (There's even a comment Wax makes to Miles about him always needing more gold, cause he's constantly consuming it.)

I think this is entirely plausible.

I'm honestly amazed that you don't consider "balls" vulgar. Do.. do you know that Wax was talking about shooting a dog's testicles off? Not like, a ball from its mouth? Cause both situations are using profanity while telling an anecdote about castration. That's pretty friggin crude.

Natc: Remind me to get back to you in two days. I should also have begun this with a recap of exactly why I think Harmony had to have been the one to cause Lessie's death. I think the way that scene was written, it seemed obvious (at least to me) that the jerking motion that put her in the way of the bullet had supernaturally perfect timing. My supposition is that, if that jerk seemed too odd to be a natural occurance, then rather than Bloody Tan having whatever metalborn power(s) that were necessary to perform such a maneuver and then deliberately let get himself killed, it instead makes much simpler sense to say that Harmony took control for a bare instant and, using godlike foresight, shoved her in the way of the bullet.

I also love the "S" pendant being the symbol of the Faithful. Wonder exactly what "style" that S is in, hmmmmm

I'm on page 190 of Steelheart, Nook ebook edition, just after the power plant mission. I need to get this out there because I am CERTAIN I have guessed Steelheart's weakness. Just putting my cards on the table. EDIT: I figured I'd also post other theories and reactions as I read along, so they're all in one place.

Yes, I still haven't seen anything that contradicts my theory that Harmony lied when TenSoon asked if he ever took control of Bleeder. Let's recap. Harmony's motive throughout Shadows of Self is to get Wax to stop Paalm from plunging pretty much the entire Elend Basin into chaos and destruction with her staged revolution. Harmony absolutely needed Wax to focus on this goal. So what lengths was Harmony willing to go to to ensure that? Well, at the very least, he withheld information. We know he did not tell Wax who exactly it was he was hunting because he foresaw that Wax wouldn't be able to stop her if he knew, and that would cause a disaster. We also know that Harmony is not sorry about manipulating Wax into this position. So, given all that, what do you think Harmony would do when Wax explicitly asks, through TenSoon, this question: from Shadows of Self: Remember, you are Harmony. You have plans for Wax in the future and you need him to be cooperative. You know you are already skating on "thin ice" by not telling him he is hunting his wife. Pretend for a moment, regardless of your opinion of what happened, that Harmony DID force control on Lessie and did shove her into the way of Wax's shot. Would you admit it, here? Or would you tell a choice lie, so that your relationship with your chosen agent may become strained, but not irrevocably broken? (Harmony not telling Wax that he was hunting his wife can be explained away, rationalized, as we see at the end of Bands of Mourning. But admitting to "killing" her, which directly caused her insanity, therefore being responsible for the entire mess during Shadows of Self that required Wax kill her for real? That's another thing entirely.) Remember that Sazed and Preservation are not above telling a crucial lie for the greater good (Saving Vin and Elden from Luthadel's impending descrution, and making a deal with Ruin while intending to break it all along, respectively). Sazed has existed for some 300 years with near omniscience, experiencing and watching every grieving spouse that ever lived during that time. Most of them probably eventually get over it enough to live functional lives. Certainly someone a strong as Wax could. So in the grand scheme of Harmony's master plan, was a little grief for Wax that big of an issue? Probably not. Was he sorry to have to put him through that? Yes. Would that stop him from doing what had to be done? Lets go to the book: from Bands of Mourning: But if Harmony did shove her into the bullet, wouldn't that mean he knew she'd go insane and cause the mess in Shadows of Self? Not necessarily. Harmony has near omniscience, but he cannot see the machinations of this outside influence, represented by "Trell", the rusted spike, and the red haze around Sacdrial. Did he know that the grief from losing her life with her husband would make Lessie susceptible to "Trell"'s influence? No, he couldn't, because he has no insight as to that force's plans or reach. From his limited viewpoint (which he couldn't know was limited), it was the best option. Paalm wouldn't actually be dead because a bullet to the face wouldn't stop a kandra, and Wax would go to where he needed to be (the City) to play a bigger role in future events.