the95th

He's Elend. Chances are he will recieve a nice gift of power from Honour. Probably soulcasting, so he can constantly soulcast his sickness away? Maybe his links to Wit allows him to become furchemist like the evidence from his fits suggest.

Oh well thats fair enough I wonder how many spikes there were. Didn't marsh have like 30 odd spikes?

on the burning of the spikes thread brandon was quoted to of said that you could only burn spikes you personally have created. Miles would be the only character we know of to of been able to to do that with little effort the same as TLR. my point is, chances are he was open to corruption the same way as the TLR, the fact he put his gold bracers/spikes through his skin. The lord ruler himself was open to Ati's influence, despite probably not having a spike in the traditional sense. I dont think it was said that the lord ruler himself had a hemurlugic spike. I thought his power was only gained through him compounding his feruchamist abilities and being one of the first mistborn. But his bracers did pierce his skin. The Same way Ruin could influence copperminds. My point is, the emotional alomancy/mind control/invasion backdoor may be open to everyone and anyone who has a piercing of some sort. And not one that was just made by ruins metalic art, this can be noted in Wax's earring which i highly doubt was used to steal power from another person and yet sazed can happily talk to him and read his mind. However i suppose that terrismen who had many piercings would also be open to Ruin, so i might be wrong. The way i see it, for the back door of the mind you dont have to have a hemulrgic spike it probably just helps ruin, like having an antenna on a tv helps it pick up signal, but it isnt entirely neccasary you can get signal from just a bit of wire. the Shard's intentions do indeed effect the user. However as Harmony has a strong will he was able to push the two shards apart and force them together metaphorically. this is why Laras? had do die to allow vin to take over because preservation could not sacrifice itself to take out ruin.

presumably bigger, Elend could control many koloss Vin could control a few, their alomantic strength differed somewhat so it is safe to assume these more human koloss are more open to emotional alomancy like a normal human unless that human has a foil hat of course. what i mean is, 300 years ago Vin and Breeze could control Koloss and elend could contol Even more( and Kandra which would be even less susceptible) so 300 years into the future it is presumable that the more human koloss can be controlled by the simple emotional mistings

I wouldn't mind him coming back, but as maybe a normal person and not a mistborn. It would be more interesting to see Kelsier the thief then Kelsier the survivor mistborn.

First reactions after finishing the book? MARSH LIVED! first up, I think the earring Wax has did not contain any trace of hemulurgic charge, Harmony/Sazed would probably not adopt any of ruins bad habbits. Despite it being used as a way of communication it is probably nothing more then an antenna. This can be noted in that ruin could effect peoples decisions despite them not having a spike such as Vin's mother and persuading Zane to stab himself despite most people thinking such a thing would kill and the hardest evidence is ruins ability to manipulate metalmind memories, therefore Ati certainly can play with the mind as can Sazed. Presumably because each human contains a bit of ruin and preservation so it should be possible that the two shards can commune with the missing parts of itself. Much like the preservation ghost mist figure appearing. Second. The book Marsh gave, didn't spook have a book at the end of HOA with the letter? my bets are that its the same book. And it is probably a sort of wikipedia of scadrial, possibley containing the knowledge sazed gained from becoming harmony. Other Shards? Third. The Kandra most likely all work for harmony, and those who don't are probably kept watch on by sazed. And that Harmony replaced somone to possibly help Wax a bit like a certain Mistborn and wolf? Fourth. The Obligators if they did perhaps look over contracts and business meetings would of been in attendance to Wax's marriage contract. Fifth. The Set cannot steal power through hemulurgy without harmony knowing, so they cannot create Inquisitors and even if they did the Inquisitor would be in Harmony's power like Marsh. SO their only real Hope is to create a mistborn, however this will take a long long time. Hence I believe they were stealing these young women to power something else all together. Perhaps just to bank roll thier operations in discovering the true way to make a mistborn? Lerasium. In a world with a large amount of twinborns, a normal mistborn would have difficulty taking on two or three twinborns. Think Kel vs Inquisitor, it was a tough fight however if Kel's allomantic strength was on par with Elend who took Lerasium we can see that the Mistborn would come out on top, but it was still a tough fight. Sixth and final I promise! I feel that Harmony is concerned because of the conflict caused by the Set, it would make sense with BS liking to swap roles such as in warbreaker. We can presume that the Set is like the Anti-kelsier Crew. Wanting to take down the leaders of Elendel with a small crew of Crack allomancers and Larasium is their "16th metal" opposed to Kelsiers "11th Metal" Now all we know of the "God" metals are, that they do not exist anymore. Presumably as Atium was burnt up at the climax of HoA and Elend taking the last bead of Larasium. However also in HoA Vin absorbs the body of presevation (the mist) and it is seen once again by Wax, so it can be presumed in 300 years perhaps the Pits of Hathsin and the Well of Acension are pumping out the bodies of their respective deities. And thus Harmonies concern that another War may take place. And that a rougue Kandra may give away the location of Atium. And yes I know the Pits were destroyed, but perhaps Harmony rebuilt them for some reason. This may also co-inside with the canto of cartography marking the centre of Elendle with the Larasium icon as, the line probably travels over the location of the Well. Plus the iron each side probably denote the location of were each metal can be found in the province. As it was mention that Luthadel/Elendel were built on reasource rich soil. Sorry about the essay!!