Kingsdaughter613

The true power of Lerasium is its ability to rewrite ones SDNA. The default is a Mistborn. My guess is that Lerasium can steal spiritual aspects that other spikes can't. It could probably also rewrite the SDNA to create certain hemalurgic creatures that you can't get with any other metal. Hemalurgy has been hinted to be capable of much more this we know. It's the system we know least about. I'm fairly certain Atium spikes can do a lot more than we realize.

Jealous... Why do these signings never take place in New York?

Which is why they almost certainly don't. Some laws just don't work practically. It's very likely they don't enforce this one as the existence of the law makes people feel safe, while trying to enforce it would lead to people claiming discrimination. It just makes more sense to ignore the violation. The issue with aluminum bullets is that aluminum creates a dead zone in a speed bubble. So the bullet never actually switches between time frames... What if you stuck the gun barrel through the edge of the bubble?

It's... Very likely that someone skimped on the construction. Aluminum is expensive and if they really coated the whole building... I just don't see how they could make a profit. That isn't even counting windows. While I doubt Scadrial has a proper building code yet, windows are a safety feature. aluminum is an investiture sink. It doesn't just block emotional allomancy. It can clear unwanted investiture from a savant. It's not just immune to allomancy; the other systems don't work properly on it either. interesting idea... If you fire an aluminum bullet from a gun of the same inside a time bubble would it fly true?

You should have the larger broadsheets though... I do.

With regards to the WoB; the question was what ability the spike gives Kelsier. I don't think it gives an ability as its primary function. I also don't think it's steel. It has changed the shape of his brain; I don't fell that's nothing important, even though that's a standard side effect. Kelsier ascended for a longer time than Rashek. I suspect he learned a great deal more than he initially realized. Most of that knowledge would not be conscious but it would probably help in connecting dots. It's four, not three? Thanks for the clarification. I still doubt there would be more than two permanent ones though, either to leave a margin for error or so that he could have the leeway to add another if needed.

One spike. There is a pretty big difference between one and 19. With one he can't be controlled. With three he can be. So the most I'd give him is two. Too many could also mess up his spirit web enough to alter his personality (which I doubt he'd like) and could possibly allow another Shard access to him. I doubt he had too many options with the one we know he has. I also suspect that it does not do what we think it does... because this is Brandon writing and Kelsier acting and nothing is ever simple with either. There is ALWAYS another secret.

I have a Kindle and it did give me the bigger version of the newsletter. I could also zoom in on the full page broadsheet. Not sure what's going on with yours...

Starting from the beginning, there is all the spear imagery. Then there is Marasi monologuing about how Kelsier will someday return. Then there was Alik's description of the Sovereign. THEN the whole temple turned out to be a con. Finally, there is the memory in the coppermind which tells us that Kelsier, at the very least, has copper feruchemy. And then there was the note about Secret History. These are just the ones I can recall off the top of my head. Going back to earlier books, Kell had lines in HoA. In AoL it is mentioned that he sometimes appears to his followers. How he got Feruchemy is anyone's guess. My theory is that he got it the way the original Feruchemists did. I also think that involves tapping a Lerasium/Atium alloy and that Harmonium is that alloy. Obviously, that is just conjecture. I doubt it was with hemalurgy though; he doesn't strike me as the type to want to open himself to outside influence unduly.

Vasher doesn't really change his appearance. He suppress his divine breath, but the appearance he takes on then does not appear to vary much between appearances. So his non-Returned from is likely how he views himself. When his Divine Breath is not suppressed he looks like a Returned, but Returned appearances have a lot to do with how OTHER people view them, as well as how they view themselves.

It also removes things you don't view as toxins, like alcohol. Wayne complains about this. There are cases where you would want medication to remain in the body, such as a sleeping pill, or anti-depressive. So gold healing could be problematic in those cases. I believe the shapeshifting caused by healing is limited in scope. I also think it's actually quite hard to do. It's more likely that you'd heal back to your view of yourself. So if an athlete gone a bit to seed still views himself as fully fit he'd probably heal back to his previous form. The question for me is if it goes the other way too. (Someone who has gained some muscle but sees themselves as weak losing fitness levels.) You'd have to change your view of yourself to alter appearance and I doubt that's that easy.

There are also the recreational uses. And if the Scadrians are smart, once they meet the rest of the Cosmere they'll keep quiet about both emotional allomancy and aluminum as a block. It's just to useful a tool...

I think gold and illnesses depend on the root cause. So some would heal and some won't. I believe gold healing actually cleans out the system, so all the excess glucose etc. would be removed. If the damage to pancreas is also healed then the person would no longer have diabetes, but the factors that cause it may remain so they would still be at risk of getting it again later. Ditto with some forms of cancer that have genetic causes. And it just occurred to me that removing the mamaries as a preventive wouldn't work... Nor would many other elective surgeries! And a compounder who acts like Miles probably couldn't even get past the first incision. I doubt gold healing would normally effect a cycle, except perhaps to to regulate them. What I meant is that taking a hormone to prevent ovulation isn't the normal way a body functions. Gold healing might restore the bodies natural rhythms and cause ovulation. Which, if you are using progestin, is probably not what you want! Another question of the same vein: many medications actually are types of toxins. Assuming you can't heal a virus at all, would trying remove the medication from the body? I don't know how babies count spiritually. If they are part of the mother then healing should heal the infant. Since an ectopic pregnancy is just in the wrong place I'd think the healing would simply move the baby back to where it should be. In a non-viable pregnancy it would probably speed along the natural abortion process. A medical abortion would probably be 'fixed' in this scenario, if healing occurred to soon. If the baby is NOT considered part of the mother then healing during pregnancy would either not effect or eliminate the fetus. I am really curious about this, largely because women's health is seldom dealt with realistically in fiction. It's either ignored, or used for laughs or drama. Since the next trilogy is supposed to have a female hacker as a major character in an 80s setting, I really want to see this dealt with. Failing that I'd at least like to get some answers...

The thing with an autoimmune disease is that 'technically' nothing is wrong. The white blood cells just think various important organs are enemies. You don't want to get rid of your white blood cells and antibodies, but I don't see how gold healing can convince the immune system that harmless things are not threat. A simple thing would be to find out if you could heal an allergy with gold. cancers are caused by mutated cells. Gold should be able to fix that easily. Genetic diseases are caused by a more wide scale version, where most or all cells contain a mutation. I think this one might be able to be fixed if the individual does not view the mutation as a fundamental part of them. I'd still want to clarify though. it should be able to cure diabetes. After all, it just undoes the damage to the pancreas. The genetic factors would likely remain. biggest question is regarding a fetus. How does one count an unborn child? Part of the mother or not? And what effect would healing have on medications? Contraceptive medication works by altering the natural cycle. What would happen if gold 'fixed' things by restoring natural hormonal balances? "Do not use gold feruchemy while taking progestin. Use of gold feruchemy while taking progestin may cause ovulation to resume. This may result in pregnancy." I am sooo looking forward to the modern day trilogy... I want to see how this is addressed.

Actually, he was talking about a cold. Colds are caused by viruses which are ... weird ... to say the least. It's possible they go inert when tapping gold, which also heals the damaged cells. But once they're 'dead' they no longer register as a threat, so gold doesn't get rid of them. We need information on bacterial infections. Also autoimmune diseases, and cancers. I think gold healing should heal cancer, but not an autoimmune disease. and then there are genetic disorders... That one would really depend on one's cognitive image I'd think. in all cases actual damage should be healed, but whether or not the illness returns... Adding to the questions to ask Brandon if he EVER comes anywhere near NY.

The timing doesn't work. Spook was clearly in the north while Kel was in the South. the reason I don't think Kelsier used Hemalurgy to become a feruchemist is because using it opens him to outside influence. Which strikes me as something he'd want to avoid. I don't think the extra power would be worth giving anyone, even a friend, the ability to control him. The maximum amount of spikes I'd give him is two, leaving a margin for error. Which is why I think he did whatever the first feruchemists did to gain the power. Especially since he should know how they did it. (This is also tied to my theory that full feruchemists are not a natural part of the magic system, but were a hack like Mistborn.)

We don't know that, unless you have a WoB I haven't seen yet Yata. (Very possible.) Right now we know human Scadriens can use them. Whether or not a non-human or off worldwide can is something that has yet to be answered to my knowledge.

The only one I know offhand is the announcer vs. The first witness. I don't know of any place where the two sets are listed side by side.

Actually Mistborn can burn all metals, but if they're not alomantic they die. If it's a bad alloy they just get ill. The Bands are still useless here though; each of the sixteen alomantic and feruchemical abilities was stored separately. It isn't one block of power, but a bunch of little ones. Assuming Paalm's spike is burnable there is still no reason for Kelsier to have stored the ability to do so. Not unless he knew about it anyway...

Or they have had some sort of falling out, which is not impossible. Though I'd think Kell is more likely to be responsible if that is the case. It could even be both. for some reason I don't see them getting along as well as they used to. BTW, has anyone here read found objects? I found it on fanfiction.net and it has a very amusing take on what Kell might be doing in his spare time.

Something to keep in mind here: Wayne comments that his cold vanishes when he is tapping gold, but reappears when he stops. So stormlight may not heal a virus either. This may be because a virus goes insert when healing and is no longer recognized as a threat. It also may be due to the original virus mutating. My personal theory was that viruses do not exist on Roshar. There is clearly bacteria (things decay) but no indications of a virus. And if you have no immunity to a virus, even the common cold can prove deadly. The common cold is actually one of the most contagious and rapidly changing viruses there is. We don't see it as dangerous because our bodies know how to handle a virus. In a population without that the side effects would likely be more severe, people would not know how to treat it, and even when they get over one it is only to catch another. The disease itself may not kill, but ignorance will. And that isn't taking into account what happens when people start to panic. As noted, people on Roshar tend not to get sick. People who rarely get ill tend to be worse off when they DO get sick because their bodies are unused to it and don't know how to react. So the Rosharans may actually suffer more than other people. And that's all before considering that the virus could mutate to become something much worse than a cold.

Ditto! I'm really eager to see how much more we learn once Oathbringer comes out...

It's actually been a few centuries since Harmony ascended. Alloy takes place between the two five book arcs, or thereabouts. So we can rule out Ruin. The Survivorist general is Demoux. Good catch though! I'll have to re-read Mrall's reaction at that part.

My husband can do some programming, and I can draw (2D only though.) my sister does so as well. The two of us could probably do some story boarding and create 2D models you can use as a basis for the 3D ones.

I'm not a geologist, so I was going by what I could find on Wikipedia. The metal is full grey with reddish streaks. I'm not talking about the crystals at all.