Aeshdan

The ability to teleport things in and out of books.

So here's my first attempt at writing a Mistborn fanfic. NOTE: This is set in our world, somewhere in the U.S. Read, enjoy, and comment! _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Syl crouched in the lobby of the abortion mill, waiting for the doctors to arrive and open it up. It would be any minute now. “Coming of the blooders!” whispered Eagle. A Tin Compounder, Eagle’s remarkable senses had earned him both his nickname and his place as this crew’s scout. Grasping her spear pendant, Syl closed her eyes for a quick prayer: Oh Kelsier, who once laid down your life that your people might be free and safe, guide and ward us now as we carry out your work. In your name, and that of the Ascendant Warrior, and of the True Emperor, so be it. Opening her eyes, she saw the murderous doctor walking up the path. She waited a couple of heartbeats to ensure he was within range, and then she lit her cadmium. It burned with redoubled strength, as though permanently flared. With a mere thought, the power leapt out of her and latched onto the very fabric of time around her, bringing it down to the tiniest crawl. With a glance, she confirmed that her time-bubble had enveloped the entire building, and a great deal of the lot it was built on. A quick glance at the state of her power showed that she was dragging as hard as she could on the flow of time. For every minute that passed for her, two full hours would pass outside, and she had enough cadmium to last for several of her hours. But though the world outside was a mere surreal blur behind the ripple of the speed bubble, the slayer was still striding up the path. To ensure that they couldn’t be seen easily from outside, the crewmembers took up positions on either side of the door. As the target stepped in through the door, Varsk leapt up in a pewter-fueled charge, slamming his goldmind bracers into the enemy’s face. The murderer fell on his back with a thud. As the target’s dazed eyes refocused, he saw Varsk’s obsidian blade at his throat. “As it was before, so it is again. As in the days of the Survivor, you murder and are not punished. And just as the Survivor struck, so shall I!” With that, Varsk rammed a second dagger into his target’s heart. Syl winced. Varsk’s sect, the Quellions, varied so much from hers that it was sometimes hard to believe they followed the same god. Still, she had to admit that his fanaticism had value in cases like this. A mere couple of minutes later, there was a sort of ripple as a dozen men in thick green armor snapped in at the outer edge of her bubble. “THIS IS CAPTIAN MARTIN OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY SPEAKING. LOWER THE FORCEFIELD AND COME OUT WITH YOUR HANDS IN THE AIR! YOU HAVE ONE MINUTE!” “The fools are using metal weapons!” crowed Drex. “Shall I show our hand?” “Yes!” said Varsk, with a broad grin. The soldiers outside screamed and gasped in astonishment as every scrap of metal on their bodies was shoved backwards. Weapons flew out of hands, clothes pushed against bodies, and they went flying back out through the bubble…and seemed to rebound against it, so fast did they pour in. They came attacking now, hurling grenades loaded with some sort of gas. But Drex’s Steel repelled the grenades, and they went whooshing back out the speed-bubble, quickly followed by the men. There was a brief pause, perhaps a minute or two of her time. The sun rose up through the sky like a balloon, peaked, and began to go down. Then more men came pouring in. These were armed with wooden rods and ceramic knives. “Rust and Ruin!” hissed Drex. “They’ve caught on. None of those men has any metals.” “My turn, then,” replied Varsk. “Shooting of the firsts,” insisted Eagle, as he poked his airgun out the window. With a hiss, one of the men dropped. The darts loaded into the gun weren’t lethal-they didn’t want to hurt men for doing their job-but the sedative had been designed for Thugs. That man wouldn’t wake up for weeks. Before the soldiers could reach the door, Eagle had dropped two more. As they yanked open the door, they were confronted by Varsk, holding a bloody knife in each hand. “I warn you,” Varsk said, “that this is your final chance to save your lives. Until now, we have respected your duty and your work, and have not killed. Those men who lie outside are only unconscious. But when the lawkeepers uphold evil, they are themselves implicated. Turn back now, refuse to fight in defense of these murderers, and we will hold you guiltless of their sins. But one more step, and you take on yourselves their guilt, and their punishment.” With a sweep of his knife, he indicated the bloody corpse that lay behind him. For almost thirty seconds everyone stood motionless, waiting for someone else to make the next move. Syl was elated. Each second of delay was worth almost two minutes outside. Then it snapped. One of the soldiers lunged at Varsk, who lunged right back. The doorway was immediately full of chaos. Ignoring the gashes and blows from the soldiers, Varsk slashed and stabbed. In a few seconds, two soldiers lay dead in the doorway, and the rest were briefly held at bay. Varsk threw himself flat on the floor, and a spray of metal cut through the space he had just occupied. Knives, curretes, syringes, and other instruments of murder dug into the soldiers. Varsk lunged back up, wounds already healed by his Feruchemy, and brandished his knives threateningly. The soldiers looked uncertain. Several hesitated, looking nervously at the scars that, just seconds before, had been open wounds. Suddenly, a shot rang out! TO BE CONTINUED…

I think that's a combination of willpower, knowledge, and the fact that if you draw Nightblood and survive, you become resistant to his powers.

Two more Shards: Manliness: (Responsible for Siri's power of Super-Fast Beard Growth in Infinity Blade Femininity: Counterpart to Manliness.

Is it possible that hoid was doing something to protect himself from Ruin and that is what triggered the spike?

Have Kelsier go into the beginning of Episode 3 and kill Palpatine. No Palpatine, Anakin doesn't fall into darkness, and they all live happily ever after.

Maybe instead of the aspects being "corrupted", it would be more accurate to say that they are "tarnished" or "corroded" i.e. they are not affected morally so much as they are effected physically. I think they are just damaged because of the force required to rip someone's soul apart, the same way the energies in a spike are damaged.

I thought it was explicitly stated that Forgery only worked on stone. That's my biggest reason for thinking it a Splinter magic. Edit: Oh, i see now.

Odds are that it's either Harmonium or (because of the color) Lightsongium

There's also my theory that the Highstorms were originally no more powerful than our thunderstorms, but odium boosted them the same way Ruin created the Deepness.

Szeth does say that "Lashing something to a distant point like that was possible but imprecise, like trying to shoot an arrow a great distance." (my emphasis) So it might just be a matter of accuracy and range.

Three explanations: 1. It only works on sentient life. 2. It only indicates when more life enters the radius (the girl and the grass and such didn't set it off because they were already there when it was set up.) 3. Both 1&2 (most probable.)

We know that holding and expending a lot of Light does something to kaladin, because it says so in the final battle. I don't think it's the temperature change that cracks the gem, though.

Well, i don't think he knew about the blood weakness when he made the bargain, and obviously you can't take back a bargain.

Seems to work, though i haven't found the crafty campaigns yet. Where should i look?

What about Awareness?

I agree that all fabrials aren't tied to Surges, but the alerter does indicate that the tenth Essence has some connection to detecting things. As for your points about the Radiants, I don't know how they got there either. But the fact that they knew to come suggests some way of detecting things. And it seems that you'd need some power to hear calls for help from too far off to be seen.

Alright, my theory is the Ninth Surge (the one shared by orders Nine and Ten) is Detection, or something similar to that. Points in favor: 1. The Alerter Fabrial, which runs on a heliodor focus. 2. The Stoneward Radiant in the Midnight Essence vision said that she would hear Dalinar if he called (when telling him what to do if the Essence returned). 3. The fact that the Radiants knew to come and kill the Essence in the first place.

There is only one thing in the Cosmere that could shatter Adonalsium. Brandon himself!

Also, Jasnah's healing only worked because she was trying to purify Shallan's blood, and blood is one of the Essences. She wouldn't have know how to heal a wound or something like that.

Soulcasters also are limited in that they can only create something if they have the correct gem(s) and that it's difficult to make anything too complex.

According to the Prolouge, Szeth could only steal the Light form Gavilar's plate after unlatching the center piece. So presumably the intact Plate blocks inhalation.

The OP states that we're assuming Asha'man have the same Ajah structure.

At the very end of AoL, right before Miles dies, he yells "You are fools! One day the men of red and gold, bearers of the final metal, will come to you! And you will be rule by them!" This sounds awfully like one of the death-visions from WoK, and we know that AoL is just after WoK. I am sure this is very significant, but not really what of.