Joe ST

Ahh yes, Starwars was a big part of my childhood too, and I read The Phantom Menace before it came out in cinemas >.>

So, we have Mistings, each with the ability to burn one of the Allomantic Metals, including atium (and its alloys?) and we have the mists, which Snapped mistings so that they could burn their metal (even the atium mistings, though they got it a little tougher, I guess cause they had 'more' Ruin inside of them?). These guys have been round since forever, but before Rashek's ascension they were a real rarity, I guess cause the mist was unknown until the Deepness, which was a little too rough. But after the ascension, there appeared a number of new guys on the block: Mistborn, those that could burn all 18+ of the metals, were loved by the mists, and generally had it pretty swell. As we all know, (at least to my understanding) the magic systems of the Cosmere are accessed by those with some sort of special 'spiritual DNA' or sDNA, which is pretty darn cool. I hear (an aside) that Roshar, (the planet that The Way of Kings is set on) has 30 different magicks, and yet Scadrial (Mistborn's planet) only gets 3? That doesnt seem right. Each one of these mistings can only use (burn) one of the metals, I dunno what happens if they try burning others, probably a nasty head/belly ache or just nothing at all. But yeah, only one? Sounds like maybe their sDNA is different between each of the metals (An aside: I'm now questioning this, since the table of metals says that spikes take a subset of Allomantic/Feruchemical powers. Maybe this just means 'can take one of the metals, depending on who you spike or where you place it?). So we have the overarching skills of a Feruchemist, 16 standard burning powers and 1 or more atium +alloys burning powers. That looks to me like 18+ sDNA's. Hemalurgy is stealing/twisting the sDNA of others onto another being which (I guess) 'creates' new types of sDNA. "AHHA!" you cry, "but what about Mistborn, those who can burn all 16 metals?". Simmer down there, I'm getting to it! If you didn't realise I also have not spoken of lerasium, the metallic form of the god Preservation (counterpart to atium's Ruin). "But lerasium mistings make no sense!" you say, "as soon as one burns lerasium, they become full Mistborn!" That they do, my friends, that they do. But there were no Mistborn before the Ascension, (I believe) not even Rashek The Lord Ruler was a 16-burner before he touched the Well. The Well that was chocked full of Preservation's power. Only after this did full Mistborn appear, after he gave some of his friends the beads of lerasium, which any Joe can burn, and said Joe gets the powers of all Allomancy. --- As a counterpoint to my argument, Leras gave up a part of themselves to fuel sentience (or something akin to this), and all everyone can burn learsium (and not animals (? confirm)), so what if lerasium mistings are given sentience (or whatever Leras made in humanity)? or the fact that .... Darnit, my string of thoughts has fallen apart, and my theory has many holes, such as tin mistings also getting mist-sight, and the mist not only liking mistborn/lerasium mistings.

Pretty great intro, thanks You mind if I mirror this on the Wiki? Joe

Late starter, but here it is Hey, I'm Joe. I like it here...its cool. Oh? you wanna know what I do, huh? Well I'm the most active coppermind admin, so if you have any problems/issues over at the wiki, dont be afraid to stalk me out and brutally ravage me until your satisfied. Or you could just ask, ya know. Whatever floats your boat. I read scifi and fantasy. Lots of it... if I could spend more time reading, I would. My favourites include WoT, the Cosmere, Relevation Space, Otherland, Peter F Hamilton and many many others. I also like computers, programming and all things geeky. Spend most of my time online, messing around on a couple of forums. It's all fun where I come from. Anything else you want to know? ASK! Joe

The metal symbols I have as SVG so you can scale them as big as you want. Here you go. (If this isn't allowed, then feel free to remove my post/the attachment) EDIT: see lower post for new symbols.

It looks pretty darn awesome to me, one of my favourites so far.

good catch! I like where you're going with this one

I see the similarities, Chaos stalks all the ladies... Jack the Ripper kills all his victims

/*no comment*/, Though yeah, I was asking silly questions

Well, as long as you dont mind being shouted at for asking silly questions, or not making any sense, etc...

Hey there Firiel I believe Chaos, one of the administrators, is planning to write a 'quick overview to the Cosmere' sometime. Other than that, the wiki articles are a good source of information...(I think). Just ask questions, and read up on the threads (if you don't mind spoilers and spoilers-on-the-future). Welcome Hope you enjoy yourself here Joe

I'm just waiting for proof myself lol

Isn't it great that I'm learning new stuff about my girlfriend from a welcoming thread >.> Welcome, and enjoy yourself I'll protect you from the Adquizitors and Chaos

just received Rothfuss' in the mail, along with Canavan's Age of the Five (and The Magicians Apprentice) and The Obsidian Trilogy. They'll probably last a while since I'm gonna try and concentrate on studying >.> lol

*takes a hammer to Silus* now you're just shards

they can? cool

still, a proper 'fake' interview would've been even better

Just finishing up a Maths and Computing joint degree. Probably gonna fail it but heyho

thanks for that and yes, I'm mostly looking for patterns that arent there.

Can Hemalurgy steal ANY spiritual DNA? Does it require using non-allomantic metals?

damnit, I want more!!!

Here's a list of the metals and their alloys, (with the constituent parts in brackets, taken from wikipedia in all but pewter's case, which was mentioned in MB1 and duralium mentioned in MB2) aluminium | duralium (4% copper) cadmium | bendalloy/cerobend/wood's metal (50% bismuth, 26.7% lead, 13.3% tin chromium | nicrosil (85.1% nickel, 1.4% silicon, 0.1% magnesium) copper | bronze (12% tin OR 10% zinc OR 3% lead, 40% zinc OR 30% nickel, 12% zinc, 5% lead, 1% bismuth) gold | electrum (silver, traces of platinum, copper etc.) iron | steel (carbon) tin | pewter (9% lead) zinc | brass (copper) Other than that (copper, gold) and (zinc, cadmium) are on the same columns in the periodic table. The alloying elements are bismuth carbon copper lead magnesium nickel platinum silicon silver tin zinc Anyone see patterns? XD

yeah they're like some sort of meta-roleplay kinda jobby, its weird