king of nowhere

sounds pretty viable, and that said by someone with competence in molecular biology. However, that does not prove that it's actually the mechanism. We don't know how much control the kandras have over their own metabolism at a microscopical level. Sure, they can change a cell from muscle cell to skin cell and viceversa, but can they change the sugar chains on the surface of cells that represent their biological tag? can they regulate the expression of a single protein in a cell? If that is the case, they probably can just tell their cells to go in apoptosis, which would be a simpler, faster and less painful way to commit suicide.

Ok, good job. So there is no inconsistency there. still the friction of the shoes with the floor remains a problem, and even without that speed is still incredibly more powerful than anything else, but at least there doesn't seem to be any blatant inconsistency in the way the magic works.

ah, well, not like that, but i wouldn't have minded a little pun dueling monkey-island-style.

didn't got more than a "meh" from me. I sort of regret there wasn't a longer exchange, it could have been entertaining.

that's exactly what i meant. i'd be happier with aradel as a normal guy

It seems every time some character displays some unusual trait some thread will pop up speculating that he's a magic user. Putting aside that, there is no story reason for aradel to be a feruchemist, and plenty of reasons for him not to be one. It is said at the end of the book that he's the first governor who's not a noble, so if it was revealed that he still comes from some privileged bloodline, it would undermine that.

I also imagined it more spiky. But impressive work nonetheless.

I think it wass clearly stated somewhere (if not in book, maybe in a annotation or something?) that rashek, while holding the power of the well, talked in the mind to some kings and offered them the power of allomancy for their support.

i was under the impression that it was pain and shock to cause him to act dumb. we know he was fulll mistborn and feruchemist even without the bracers.

yes, she does not look like the kind of person that would store luck. also, if she was a spinner she would have to be lucky in other times,, which we don't see her being. in fact, she's not even unlucky; nothing really bad happens to her that it wasn't plot-related, that's not consistent with storing luck. she looks more paranoid than anything else.

I don't think it matters. Rithmatist is not cosmere, so there isn't some worldhopper going around collecting data. I always assumed those sketches of rithmatic defences came out of textbooks or something.

I think only sanderson can answer to that. But my surmise is no. darlin was loial to rand, but he was openly working within the limits of his oath to stop him from doing something he thought was wrong.

Sorry for not reading every single post so far, maybe someone mentioned it already and I missed it, but: maybe you can use tin metalborns as a sort of lie detector? Having a seeker in the very place of the crime - one actively burning and in a good enough position to spot the assassin - is an unlikely coincidence, but trained people could use tin supersenses to detect the small clues that someone is lying. Get a team of them (say, half a dozen) and if they all agree the suspect is lying, then it's probably good enough for a jury. You don't need a specific twinborn combination, any tineye or tin ferring will do, so it would be feasible. Still convicting someone of allomantic murder would not be easy, but if you have a registry of allomancers and you can identify those in the scene of crime and interrogate them that way, it may be worth something. It is even possible scadrian society will not require the same level of proof that we require exactly because it would be near impossible to achieve.

no idea if it would make sense for her to have one, or if it's just some fantasy stereotype. Anyway, given the book's descriptions, that woman seem way too pretty to be steris. Not that any bookseller would dare to put a plain woman in a cover, for marketing reasons; so this is steris, but in truth she's probably less pretty.

welcome to the club of those that had an entire universe opening up to them

Nice one. I never thought that she could have used any one metallic power.

It doesn't necessarily have to be a bad thing. After all, ruling a community, even a small one, require making sure that there is someone doing the stuff that needs doing, and keeping everyone pointed in the same direction, and those tasks are not trivial, they require experience. They require someone who was trained for it. And the only people who had some training to govern, in the final empire, were the nobles. Kelsier's crew was not up to the task; they knew how to bomb the trains, not how to make them run on time. So I assume, when spook was made a leader by virtue of the people being with him, he asked for the help of somebody who actually knew how to make the trains run on time, and the only people with that skill were the nobles. We have seen from books 2 and 3 that many nobles were actually decent people, so I assume spook would have disqualified those with a clear record of cruelty or dishonesty but would have given the others positions of power in the administration. After that, even if the new society is formally a meritocracy, without a solid education system the only person who can teach you a job is your father, and that guaranteed that the nobles remained the only people qualified to rule. And that can explain how the old nobility could remain at the top of society.

I wouldn't be surprised if trell was harmony, because it would fit with both paalm's intentions, and miles' phylosophy (it's been a while since my last aol reread, but I remember it put some emphasis on being capable on your own). THat said, we don't have anything we can call solid evidence.

As others mentioned, it would be difficult to make it work, but once it works, it would be really scary.

Also possible. I have no idea how long one person can survive on the air that is inside a coffin, but if kandras can slow their metabolism, it may be workable. For a moment I wondered how she would have gotten out of the coffin, but as a kandra, she could hide a whole kit of tools in her bowels.

earthworms breathe by simply absorbing oxygen through their skin. it only works for small animals because of high surface/mass ratio. the square/cube law prevents this mechanism from working on anything bigger. anyway, the problem here is not the breathing apparatus, but the fact that there is no supply of air in the first place.

i would like to see the hystorica, or read the words of founding, but those things supposedly are very long and would take a lot of time for brandon to write. time that would be better spent writing regular books

it is established that bleeder took the body of a farmer and blew up a dam to cause a flood and push the city on edge. the kandra/farmer was captured and sentenced to death, and after a few days she escaped the grave. the question is, how did she survive those days? kandras can alter their body so they don't need to breath in the normal way, but they still need to breath, and there is no air available underground - well, there is a bit, but not enough to support anything bigger than a earthworm. does it mean kandras can enter some sort of lethargy with extremely reduced energy requirements, or what?

Ok, I take it back. That's enough of a reason to forgive the sin of putting an intermediary between you and the word of sanderson. Well, I hope at least they are translated better than the italian ones, because the italian ones sound pretty bad. There is really no way to translate all the terms sanderson uses for his power and mythology thhat would not sound stupid in italian. Or maybe there is, but the translator missed it and I can't figure one out. I know because I have a friend reading sanderson in italian.

I also thought that stabby award was a joke, because what kind of name is that? it suggests that you get stabbed. Although I wasn't thinking specifically of hemalurgical spikes, but rather of belkar bitterleaf