Silus - Shard of Flame

I believe that Brandon has said that the protagonist might be a Nicrosil Misting.

My guess concerning Sliverism is that it is TLR's religion as passed down by Yomen's descendants, and that Marsh, as an Inquisitor, would be revered just like the old Inquisitors were.

I'd also take a stab and say that Survivorism has kind of become the Christianity of Scadrial, in that it's the most common religion and has a lot of different variations, denominations and sects. Or at least it will once humanity spreads out a little more.

CrazyRioter, I have not heard that, but it's brilliant. Did Brandon mention this, and if so, when/where? A quote would be greatly appreciated.

If you look in the HoA Ars Arcanum, you'll see that certain metals grant Feruchemical powers in Hemalurgy the ones listed there are Pewter (for Physical powers) and Brass (for Mental powers). There's at least one more for Spiritual ones, which can be assumed to be a part of the Enhancement quadrant (using Allomantic terminology). My guess is Nicrosil, but we won't really know the specifics until Brandon tells us.

This is a solid theory, I approve.

My thinking is that Aluminum and Duralumin Mistings would become Hazekillers, jealous of the power they don't really have. (that is if they're aware of their power/non-power)

My current wordcount is 32,525 words. *fist pump*

Essentially, Wayne is taking the skills of a really good improv actor and weaponizing them, a scary thought.

Though I doubt that new koloss could breed like the others.

Another thing that would make it more difficult to Compound Atium would be just how fast it burns allomantically. That would probably reduce just how much you can get out of it.

The silencer thing is something that everyone gets wrong, thanks for mentioning that, Ink.

I'd forgotten about the RPG book and how they would have more stuff we haven't seen yet, though I don't know if they'd have things related to Twinborn given that it doesn't have Alloy stuff in it.

The classical elements that you listed wouldn't work as Surges, not just because Brandon is using a different set of forces for Surgebinding, but because there are only five of them, where there are ten Surges.

OMGosh, guys. I have 16 followers!

But the Blessings are always two of the same metal.

My question regarding Blessings is whether they need to steal human attributes to form a Blessing. Could you use two steel spikes instead? Could this create a Kandra with allomancy?

I changed my username a little bit ago, my new handle is FlameBrain619.

Silus is like Silas but with with a deeper "uh" sound instead of a straight schwa. If you don't know how to say Shard of Flame, I would ask how you read Brandon's books.

20,593 right now, wanting to get to 22K before the end of the night.

Because "soon" means never. The Ball will never end.

I pity you, out in the cold for so long. I DESPISE cold. So glad I'm going to South America for two years.

Overheard: We usually see multiple magic systems in a world, are there more magic systems in Warbreaker that we haven't seen yet?

Answer: No, there's just the one system in Warbreaker, and it's also a world with only one Shard on it.

Paraphrased, but this was the gist of it. I told Chaos about it while we were there.

Maybe Seekers aren't seeing Feruchemists because Feruchemy affects the Spiritual realm differently. Where Allomancy is sent out as pulses, maybe Feruchemy is more of a tone? Which would mesh with Chaos's idea of it being on a weird "frequency".

Slightly off topic, but I asked Brandon what happens when you Compound copper, and he RAFO'd me. Frustrating, but also interesting. I think he intends to use this later.

I came to the same conclusion on what storing Investiture means. However, I'm not sure why you put quotes around the word magic (because the abilties in the cosmere are...y'know...magic).

I would say that this is how TLR does his mass soothings, but nobody knew about nicrosil during the Final Empire, including TLR, despite his knowledge of other metals. I'd say that duralumin wouldn't work because that uses up your power really fast, too fast for TLR's extended soothings.

Thinking of a Nicrosil Compounder, I asked Brandon whether increased skill in Nicrosil had any actual effect (phrasing it as a hemalurgy question), and he said that there was, that someone more powerful with a metal would get more out of it, no matter what metal you're using. Thus, Compounding Investiture would create a super powerful Nicrosil Misting.

Yes, Harmony is Sazed, yes, he is a god. Harmony and Wax are having a conversation, so there's alternating lines of thought text for each one speaking.

Yes, it's Marsh. No, he didn't die, he could heal from his injuries and has atium allomancy and feruchemy so he's immortal.

Yes, we need a spoiler tag on this thread.

I picked up the last Inheritance book, and in order to finish it before I go into the MTC, I'm picking back up on my reread, I'm about two thirds of the way through Eldest right now.

I also read the Maze Runner last week, it was really good.

I think Cuaiir's got it. Brandon has described burning a Feruchemical storage (I think in annotations) as creating a new allomantic metal.

I will accept your curse while cradling my copies.

I'm pretty sure that Sliverism is the religion of the Steel Ministry passed down by Yomen and his Obligators over the centuries. The deity there would be TLR, and Ironeyes, as a Steel Inquisitor, a kind of "prophet" if you will, having a position of reverence in their doctrine. Remember, the Inquisitors were highly placed in the Ministry, probably preached as TLR's holy servants during the Final Empire. Whereas Survivorism would consider Inquisitors devils, due to their god slaying one just before TLR struck him down.

The belief that Mistings and Feruchemists are "special" appears to be something that Miles used to rationalize his actions. He had special placing as a magic user and thus was allowed to do things that others can't. Trellism is in the Words of Founding (read: Sazed's copperminds), and as a pre-Ascension religion would have very little to say about Allomancy.