digitalbusker

3 hours ago, ElephantEarwax said:

But he knew to remove the current Feruchemists, but he didn't get rid of the gene that the non feruchemists have to give the powers to children, why would he remove his power, but not theirs?

Maybe he skimmed the section of the shardic README about genotype vs phenotype and didn't realize that it was possible for the power to pop up again. Maybe genetic fiddling on that level was still beyond him (though apparently he did some fiddling with the skaa). My only point is that there was a window of time where he both recognized Feruchemy was an issue and had the power to do wacky things, which is a fact I thought was missing from the discussion on the cast.

On the question of whether the Lord Ruler might have had the foresight to scrub metallic arts genes from his sperm while holding the power: it was then that he created the Mistwraiths, so he clearly thought Feruchemy was an issue already. It's not impossible that his shard enhanced mind came up with "Might be useful to have kids someday, but better not let them have magic or they'll try to overthrow me."

I can't be the only one who read the Fused salute to Renarin as "Ya got guts, kid. We'll kill you quick."

I should very much like to win this, please and thank you.