lil_literalist

It's not just you.

Newton's third law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If nothing is accelerating, then there are equal forces being applied to both anchors. It is the simple fact that her anchor gave out first.

In that case, what if he's collecting magic from all of the different shardworlds?

No, Ham is very clear. He does not talk about the power that pewter gives, but Allomany as a whole. Also, it makes far more sense if each of the powers worked the same way. Why should iron and steel be coupled to mass when pewter isn't? Regardless, the power is coming from the metal. Not the person. It doesn't matter what size or shape the Allomancer is, since the power does not come from the body, but from the metal.

He isn't supposed to have it because making him a Mistborn would cause the cosmere to explode with sheer awesomeness? Sounds bout right.

Dangit, I had just found this last night, and was going to come post it here. I'm not quite sure what this means, but I'm becoming increasingly convinced that Hoid either has Lerasium, or he has somehow already used it. I'm not certain enough to espouse this theory, but I wouldn't be surprised if it were true.

I don't think that Danlan is Tarah, but I spotted the possibility and wanted to bring it up. My impression of Tarah is that she somehow comforted Kaladin, and then got swept up in something that he couldn't protect her from. However, there's another problem that I forgot to mention. We don't know if Tarah is a lighteyes or not. Chances are, she's not. After all, why would a lighteyed woman consort with a common darkeyed soldier? I still find it interesting, though. And I wanted to post about it so that in the off chance that it is true, I can beat my chest and say that I called it.

I doubt that it matters too much. Anyway, I've found proof that there is no connection between the force of a push and someone's mass.

Is it possible for an allomancer to push or pull on metals inside his or her own body, even if other allomancers can't?

Hm, this is an interesting point. So in essence, when someone practices hemalurgy, they are not simply gaining feruchemy, but they are gaining the feruchemical powers of the person that they stole it from. I like this idea. I was initially against it, but after trying to make a post against it, I ended up convincing myself.

An interesting theory, but I'm not convinced. One problem is this: How would the very first allomancers know to rewrite their sDNA to make them allomancers? They would have no experience with Allomancy, no way of knowing what to expect. But I do find it interesting that, as far as we know, everyone on Scadrial has the ability to burn this one element. Is it possible that people from other shardworlds are able to burn this as well? In other words, is it because of the lerasium that everyone can burn it? Or is everyone on Scadrial born with the ability to burn a single metal: lerasium?

Welcome, welcome, welcome. Since Joe has been negligent in his duties, I feel that I must warn you that the admins spike people (using hemalurgy).

Adolin's reputation for short-lived courtships should be familiar, but there is a curiosity in the WoK. A girl named Danlan Morakotha manages to catch his eye and quickly grows close to him. However, by the end of the book, she is still with him. The events at the end of the book are very fast-paced and focus on other things, but as far as we know, at the time that Adolin left to assault the tower with Sadeas, he was still courting her. Now, it could be because she has a higher tolerance than the other women of the court, or that Adolin has somehow managed to keep her on his own (with a bit of help from Navani, in the form of avramelons). However, there is a bit more to her that makes her suspicious. As noted by Dalinar, Danlan was barely in camp for a day before she started seeing Adolin. In fact, during the few hours that Dalinar was digging the latrine trench, Adolin had gone from merely being intrigued by Danlan and wondering if Malasha is the "one for him" to actively courting Danlan. Typical Adolin-paced relationships. But this courtship continues on far longer than normal. It took me awhile to come up with a rough estimate of how long this period is. But it is a week and a day from Dalinar's decision to abdicate (at the end of Part 2, when Danlan and Adolin had started courting) until the beginning of Part 4, when Dalinar and Sadeas start cooperating. It is an unspecified number of days from the beginning of this cooperation until the battle when Dalinar starts using Sadeas's bridges (and when Kaladin starts wearing Parshendi armor). I'm going to guess five or six days as a rough estimate. It is another ten days until the second Tower assault, and until the end of the book. So all in all, a bit more than three weeks. And with no hints of their relationship slackening. So what? Does this mean that Adolin has finally settled down with a girl? I doubt it. Danlan seems to have some special qualities about her. It appears that she is "just the type that attracted Adolin." And yet, she is intelligent enough to even impress Navani. She manages to land herself a job. Where? As a clerk, handling the spanreeds. The center of almost all private communication into and out of the Kholin camp. The perfect place for a spy. When she is having lunch with Adolin's companions, Danlan further distinguishes herself. She makes a point to point out that she hasn't been in the camps very long and is ignorant about the political situation there. When Adolin contradicts her and says that she is incredibly clever, she looked "oddly annoyed for a moment." Oddly annoyed, as if she were trying to hide her intelligence. She makes another statement, trying to get Adolin to talk to Dalinar about "relaxing all of these foolish restrictions our camp is under." It strikes me that this is not something that an intelligent girl would say. My guess is that she is trying to play off the stereotype of an average court-going girl who is more concerned with feasts and balls than anything else. Now, I am convinced that Danlan is not a simple lighteyed girl who happens to be dating Adolin. But what is her ultimate objective? I have some speculations, but not very much to back them up with. You can take your pick. 1. She is working for the Ghostbloods. 2. She is spying for Sadeas or another highlord. 3. She is a spy for Taravangian (who may or may not be a Ghostblood). If number 2 is true, then there is another, highly interesting possibility. In the whole Stormlight Archives, there will be ten books, with a different character as the focus of each one. Brandon has pondered on the possibility of doing another book on Kaladin, but that is not a certainty. So chances are, this will be the only book with Kaladin's flashbacks. Kaladin briefly mentions that when he was bummed after letting Tien die, a girl named Tarah saved him from working himself to death. And he has also apparently failed her in some significant way. Though she is only mentioned two times in the whole book, those passages hint at some greater significance. And yet, she is in the past. The opportunity for Kaladin's flashbacks has come and gone, but this significant character from Kaladin's past has not been explained. Although it's possible that her name could have been thrown in as added flavor, but I do not believe that Brandon would add something like that in there, knowing that she will remain unexplained. Tarah is going to come back. Two mysterious women, one from the past and one from the future. Both under the reign of Sadeas (I'm assuming that Tarah was somehow attached to Amaram's army, which is under Sadeas). There isn't much of a connection beyond these two points, but I find it an intriguing possibility nonetheless. There are a few minor problems with this particular option, though. 1. We don't know anything about Tarah. It is too soon to know for certain whether or not there is a possibility of Tarah and Danlan being the same person. 2. Amaram is coming to the Shattered Plains, but this becomes known around the time when Sadeas and Dalinar start working together--a week after Danlan first appears. This theory might have been more convincing if Danlan had arrived at the same time as Amaram. Of course, this can be explained away easily. The difference between an individual booking passage on a ship and an army marching overland, perhaps? Regardless, it is my belief that these women are significant, and that we will be seeing more of them in Book Two. For reference, the chapters that mentioned: Danlan: 28, 52, 58 Tarah: 62, 63 I had to pull from various places to get the timeline somewhat accurate. Out of curiosity, has anyone gone and made a timeline for the book yet?

The fact that he is rereading it means that he is already trapped. You just need to give him a little push to make him realize that.

Good finds, Eric.

Are you positive? I seem to recall Jewels saying that they paid good money for him.

I dunno, Force-users have warnings from the Force, so they would be able to avoid dying too quickly. Anything they can't dodge, they would probably be able to deflect with the Force.

I am a cyborg cuper-hacker. I can plug my finger into a USB port, and then send my consciousness to any place that I can get a connection to.

Quite true. Of course, atium is pretty hard to come by, even in Scadrial. It would be a pretty hefty investment, and you would have to make it while you're still young.

To store senses, a Feruchemist needs a different tinmind for each one. If the same Feruchemist cannot store different senses in one metal, I doubt that a different Feruchemist would be able to store a different sense. I would guess that once a Feruchemist has stored an attribute, the metal cannot be used by another.

Depends--are hemalurgic spikes counted as invested objects? Would you even be able to Awaken one?

Hm, this is just piquing my curiosity even more. Thanks for the research!

*WoA spoilers* Zane fooled Vin with a bead of lead coated in atium, so I would guess that the density is close to that of lead.

Makes sense.

Steel (physical speed) would be rather easy to store up, and be incredibly useful at times. I like tin (senses) because unlike Allomantic tin, you can choose which of your senses you want to enhance. Heck, it could even be useful for preserving your hearing at concerts or other loud places. Zinc (mental speed) just seems like a nice ability. I feel that these are the three most useful ones. If I had to choose, I'd probably go with Zinc. It would be easy to tap it, and occasionally, it would be great to have a burst of mental speed, or have quick reflexes.