Commander Spoonface

So, we know that there are significantly more Allomantic/Feruchemical/Hemalurgic metals than the sixteen we currently know about. We have 16 alloys of both Lerasium and Atium, but what if there are others? This thread's idea is essentially a place to talk about either real world metals you'd like to see show up with some magical application or something you'd want to see a Metallic Art do. I'll start: I think it might be cool to see some metals that don't occur in nature- like Gallium. Of course, there a whole bunch of those metals, but I doubt we'd see them under the names we know them. After all, Franceium, Californiam, and Seaborgium aren't names that Scadrians are likely to come up with. I'd like to see some metals that enhance other metals in ways different from a single, large burst or getting rid of reserves entirely. For example, a metal that allows your other metals to burn for longer than they normally would.

Chemically, there are only a few elements where whether or not they are a metal can be called into question: Meitnerium, Darmstadtium, Roentgenium, Ununtrium, Ununquadium, Ununpentium, Ununhexium, Germanium, Antimony, and Polonium. I haven't seen any of those in Mistborn. Antimony is actually fairly common- it's been used for cosmetics since ancient times. The chemical definition of a metal appears to be "an arrangement of positive ions surrounded by a sea of delocalized electrons". Of course, that means absolutely nothing to me. The other definition provided was "an element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat." Another definition is "any of a class of elementary substances, as gold, silver, or copper, all of which are crystalline when solid and many of which are characterized by opacity, ductility, conductivity, and a unique luster when freshly fractured." Anyway, for the question of what can be pushed or pulled with allomancy, the answer ought to be obvious: Only some metals can be affected by it, and I'd wager probably the majority of chemically metallic substances can't, but most naturally occuring, relatively common metals can. So pretty much any metal that's going to be used in tools, or building materials, etc.

So, the "Best Brandon Character" thread had a significantly awesome picture of the Most Interesting Man in the World with a Dalinar related caption. If you haven't seen it, here is the photoshopped one that Kurkistan made (Spoilers for WoK at the link). So, this gave me an idea. Why not start a thread for Cosmere related memes? After a lengthy consultation with the voices in my head, I determined that the worst thing that could happen was the immediate Heat Death of the Universe. However, that possibility was highly unlikely, so I went ahead and created this. Some memes I have observed with my tin enhanced sense: Kelsier (or Marsh) is Batman Jasnah is Chuck Norris Vin is A Boss TLR is the Boss Wayne is The Doctor(?) Spook might be Robin Okay, so those might not technically be memes- I'm a tineye, not a copper ferchemist. Irregardless (A grammar aficionado just twinged) they are still awesome.

For the greater good! I'm sure someone will volunteer.

Don't feed the Koloss? Or are Mistwraiths a better term? You know, not as smart as people but with the potential to become so?

Book One's a good place to start. For me, it only took about 150 pages before I was really interested- around Chapter 20.

I really like this idea- that soulcasting causes the spren to interact with the substance in such a way that it is changed.

The question we really ought to be asking is this: What, in a soulcasting sense, is fire? Fire as we generally perceive it (the flickering, glowing blue/orange/red/green stuff) is just superheated air and unburned particulates. For example, a gas fire glows blue because basically all of the gas is burned, and the air itself (Pretty sure it's nitrogen or oxygen, don't know which) fluoresces blue when heated. Same idea as rock, wen heated it glows red, or in the filament of a lightbulb. The reason that wood or coal fire is red or orange is that unburned particles of wood/carbon/what-have-you glow red or orange or whatever color is appropriate (green for copper, etc.). Now, I don't have a copy of WoK on hand, but I'm pretty sure that the fellow turned into red and orange flames, not blue. I would have posited that soulcasting fire just turns the object into superheated air (in keeping with smoke and zephyr), except for the color being wrong. So, I propose one of these two ideas: 1) Soulcasting for fire transforms the object into a red-burning fuel-air mixture with a low ignition temperature but high burn temperature. 2) Brandon Sanderson didn't do a great deal of research on the chemical nature of fire and treated it as a Classical Elementalist would. Fire never really gets an accurate, scientific, approach in fantasy, so I have learned to deal with it.

Gandalf (white or grey)= Sir Ian McKellan. Old Dumbledore= Richard Harris. New Dumbledore= Micheal Gambon. Sir Ian McKellan > Micheal Gambon. If we're counting actors, then Hoid doesn't make the list, and there are countless film adaptions of Merlin. If we count characters that share the name, it falls thusly: Hoid: 2 Gandalf: 2 Merlin: 1 Dumbledore: 1 Belgarath: 1 The Doctor: 11 TOTAL: 18 Yeah. Although it can be argued that Merlin's different mythological incarnations ought to be counted separately. Anyway, the universe would explode even if all eleven doctor got together, not to mention everyone else here. And what bar is this? I want to go there...

Cryptic comments are my favorite! The margarine is in the glorious soup.

What about Hoid? Not a whole lot of character development (That we've seen) but he does a lot of the stuff I think I would do in his place. Mostly insulting people and making crude comments.

To me, at least, that makes more sense. Unless: Duralumin enhances the ability of the metals to connect with Preservation, but uses up their ability to connect with it doing so... I still think it makes more sense for the metals to actually be consumed through burning, because just having a lump of indigestible, partially toxic metals in your stomach seems problematic.

Probably. He likes to do contrast stuff. If you read Elantris, it's in basically ever page at least once, if you look for it. Also, Jasnah is indeed Chuck Norris.

That's Marsh and Kelsier though, not Marsh and Spook. I always wondered about the significance of Tan's statement. Is he just drawing on Scadrial's culture for his insane ideas, or has he actually encountered Marsh and/or Kelsier?

Or in the broadsheets! "IRONEYES IN BLACK CLOAK AND LORD MISTBORN SPOTTED TOGETHER"

He did become a Mistborn, eventually. I like the idea of Mistborn Spook and Marsh running around stopping crime in the newly remade world.

So, basically, time bubbles don't do moving until a lot of complex workarounds get involved.

Marsh: I need to become more than just a man. Kelsier: By becoming a symbol instead? Yeah, been there, done that. Marsh: No. By nailing spikes into my body until I become a freaking MISTBORN SUPERSOLDIER, that's how. Kelsier: I held Preservation's pow- Marsh: I'M BATMAN.

Are they anchored to the surface of the planet, or its center? Since all metals are originally a part of Scadrial, is it possible to then anchor a bubble to that metal? Are they anchored laterally or vertically, or just created and held in the position the allomancer initially selected?

You referencing the Cold War brings another point to mind: Long ranged allomantically based weapons. Could it be possible to lob a giant hunk of metal on the end of a missile at a target, then have discreetly positioned allomancers guide it down to a single building, or even just tear it apart into horrible waves of shrapnel? Could it be possible to allomantically charge something, so that it constantly pulls on metals around it? Or perhaps find a way to anchor a cadium/bendalloy bubble to something other than an allomancer?

If Wayne ever wears something fez-like, I shall consider that theory confirmed.

I'm pretty sure that the mists are a physical form of Preservation, the gaseous part, Lerasium is solid, and the magic kool-aid in the Well of Ascension is liquid. That being said, I don't think you could exactly "distill" mists to make Lerasium- It's obviously not a normal solid-liquid-gas relationship, or the magic kool-aid and mists would be superhot molten/vaporized metal. But maybe someday on Scadrial they will discover a method of shifting Preservation's power between its physical forms, or even manipulating its cognitive and spiritual ones.

Jasnah doesn't set fire to people. She just stares them down until they become fire. If she reads in a similar way, that makes her the Chuck Norris of Roshar.

Sorry, I meant Szeth. I always assumed that the "burning eyes" effect of shardblades was simply a result of the souls absence- The shardblade cuts the body's connection to the soul, not the soul itself.

The ability to write really awful poetry? Or do volgons have a monopoly on that?