Lord Aldric

You wouldn't actually need the government to make them, nor to justify them, As in all capitalist societies, companies would build the spikeways based on personal need, though I am sure some will try to get some government funding for it. I could imagine a law office putting spikeways between its main building and the courthouse for special messengers delivering documents, or businesses having spikeways between various brokerage firms and the stock market exchange. In time, most of the business districts would be pretty well spiked.

It totally depends on hat, mate. If Wayne is wearing the hat of an older fellow, respectable, can't stand the kids running around, well, that's what he is. Unless he's a she.

"Oh. I was under the impression that Sazed made Marsh immortal so that he could have an Inqusitor minion." That was my first thought, too, but then it struck me that the Lord Ruler had been unable to do this with the power (why he needed the atium bracers), so it's probable that Sazed could not, either. That's not to say that every night Sazed isn't making him younger again, but I don't think he has the power to make someone immortal without constantly readjusting that person. "Inquisitors live longer anyways, about 250 years, it says something about it in book 1. It wouldn't be that implausible for Marsh to have an even longer life, considering all of the other things Sazed did." Upon reflection, it makes sense that inquisitors would live a long, long life because of Gold, esp. if they compound. Gold cannot keep anyone from getting old, understandably, but nobody dies, really, from being old. They die because parts start failing, or they get diseases and can't be operated on because they are too frail, etc. If you can keep your organs really healthy through gold compounding and heal up from anything that happens you could live quite a long time. You'd still be really wrinkled, and your hair may be pure white, but every time your liver failed or your heart stopped you could heal what is wrong. Basically, as a gold compounder you'd be alive until the point where EVERYTHING was so worn out it all just stopped at once.

The problem I have with casting choices is that they are almost all too old. A lot of people are saying Summer Glau for Vin, for instance, which may have worked years ago, but it's been 11 years since Serenity and she's now about thirty-five years old. I could see, for instance, Ben Kingsley as a Terrisman, perhaps the Lord Ruler or Sazed, but I'm thinking of him twenty years ago, not today. Another issue is that if you DID get, for instance, Summer Glau to play Vin she'd be basically too similar to her role in Serenity/Firefly. It would take away from the movie because she's already done that role; she's already played a broken, mistrusting person who becomes a dealer of death. For instance, Arnold Schwartzenegger has done so many similar roles you no longer see him as who he's playing, he's just Arnie in a different time period/situation. I almost think that in a film the best bet would be a brand new cast that's not really known for anything; perhaps some talented younger stage actors that have the talent but not the face recognition, with perhaps one or two A-listers to put on the posters in supporting roles. It would also save a LOT of money casting yet-to-be-knowns so that extra could be used on better special effects and such. But that's obviously not as fun as mentally casting people already known.

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I apologize if another post has already asked this, but search revealed nothing similar. The question I have is, do people age differently when in a speed bubble? It seems that they would, so Wayne, who spends a LOT of time with time sped up, is probably several months older than his birthday would suggest. If he continues to burn a lot of Bendalloy he may end up being seventy years of age when all the other people born when he was are only sixty or so. Conversely, since Cadmium burns so slowly, I could actually see someone doing this to appear younger. If a noblewoman spent half her time in a Cadmium bubble she could live to be over 200. Granted, she wouldn't actually gain time since she'd be losing every other day, but in other people's eyes she'd be amazing, and she could see 200 years of history, news, etc. It would be like putting herself into a time capsule. I don't think either Wayne nor Marasi spend enough time in bubbles to make a huge difference, but since allomancy is only limited by metal access a very rich noble could, technically, have enough bendalloy or cadmium to basically live in a time bubble all the time, replenishing metals as needed. For that matter, if that noble uses Bendalloy so often, could he become a savant? There's a scary thought, a bendalloy savant!

It really depends on a couple of things: does anyone else have it as well, or are you the only one in the real world, and are you letting everyone know you have it, or are you being subtle with it? If you want to fly around New York City stopping crime like a superhero then allomancy is clearly superior as there's no recharge needed, metal is fairly cheap, and you'll be able to use things like coin jumping and lurching to the top of skyscrapers. On the other hand, if the idea is to keep it a secret advantage then feruchemy solves a lot more real-life everyday problems. Furthermore, once you're at the top of the business world or whatever your goal is you can enjoy it a lot more... you could eat wonderful, large, fatty meals and just store most of the calories into your bendalloy bracers. Brass metalminds would allow you to always be more comfortable in hot places and, if anything is stored, in cold places as well. Just live somewhere where it's hot more than it's cold and you'll always be comfortable. I'd also be the guy that has somewhat bad luck most evenings but for a few hours while in that casino... Finally, the most useful for real life might be copper. Not only would you be able to remember anything you had to remember, but if something tragic happened that you just couldn't deal with you could also selectively lose memories and deal with them a little at a time. Even gold would help a lot. Yeah, you have to be sick for a time to store health, but unlike poor Wayne, I'm unlikely to get shot twenty or thirty times a month, so my stores would last longer. Instead of being very sick for a few weeks, you could be slightly under the weather for a while and eventually save up enough for any emergency situation. Mainly, I think in real life the use would be to heal from a bad sickness like pneumonia or something. Strength is the only thing you couldn't really use because of the body changing size obviously, unless you had two sets of friends, your day friends who think you're the strongest gym rat in history and your night friends who think you're basically a starvation survivor.

SOME OF THESE MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS; don't read if you haven't read the series yet. *I hate when my mother burns malatium. She always tells me I could have been a doctor. *"Ruin first whispered, then shouted at Vin, but she didn't show the slightest sign of hearing him. He raged, and screamed, and she just calmly sat there. It was at that moment that Ruin realized that clip-on earrings just wouldn't work for his purposes at all." *"It was in the fourth century of the Lord Ruler's reign that the kandra deliberately suppressed knowledge that they could take animal form. While Lady Tinuva Venture paid well in atium, they also decided never to accept kandra contracts from elderly women with lots of cats. There were just too many traumatized third and fourth generation kandra." *The other day at the pet store I saw a turtle lying in its cage. I wondered if it was sick or just sleeping, then I noticed the card on the cage, 'Snapping Turtle'. I bought it at once; I can't wait for tonight. I'm going to feed it pewter, iron, steel, and tin and wait for something exciting to happen. *As Straff Venture fell, bisected, he reflected back to Vin's warning should he attack the city. The last thought bouncing through his mind as he split in half was, "I thought she was just using an idiomatic expression when she added, 'and the horse you rode in on." Vin's straightforwardness and honesty had been underestimated again. *Steel Inquisitors were never popular at the annual Ministry picnic volleyball games. They had a disturbing habit of spiking the ball, and a ball that gives off allomantic pulses is quite disturbing. *You'll KNOW if I ever get a Kandra contract in real life; I'll be the one bidding on all the small dinosaur fossils suddenly. *The coinshot was so happy to win the lottery that he went to a strip club and started throwing money around. Three died and many were hurt. *I'm not lazy, I'm just filling my bronzemind.