Wayne

I feel like I should make more accounts - I won't though of course

Was the Lord Ruler compounding gold or atium. I always thought that the Lord Ruler was compounding gold, because it seemed like atium would be far to scarce for even him to manage this for long. Using massive amounts of health would give a similar effect. In AoL it was demonstrated that this could keep you from needing to even breathe. It would have limits however as even the healthiest 900 year old is going to need a walker or something.

I was introduced to mistborn by a friend and have since then read all of his works although mistborn is still my favorite. I will continue reading his books until I die.

I know that percentages are given for duralumin, steel, and electrum. Electrum is mentioned at the begining of HoA, steel is mentioned by kelsier somewhere in FE, and duralumin is mentioned when Vin gets the sample and tests it to see if it's a valid alloy in WoA. I don't have time to look them up but I think that they are: Steel: 91% Iron, 9% Carbon Duralumin: 93% Alluminum, 7% Copper Electrum: 55% Silver, 45% Gold I might be wrong on some of these since I'm just going by memory. To find out the percentages for brass, bronze and the others you could buy a sample from Brandon's site and send them off to a lab for testing.

If a mistborn or misting burns a metal with a feruchemal storage in it he gets that attribute instead of the allomantic one; so what would happen if you burned a piece of a hemalugic spike? Would you get a short burst of the hemalurgic ability? Does a 50/50 alloy of lerasium and atium, (the body of harmony,) make you a feruchemist in the same way that pure lerasium makes you mistborn? Do the other shards have effects when their bodies are consumed by mistborn or used by feruchemists? What is the feruchemal trait stored in lerasium? malatium?