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  1. Phantom Monstrosity
    Well, not exactly. That's why Elend is a super strong mistborn.
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    If I understand properly, the mere existence of "negative mass" is pretty much nonsense, and ends up violating a lot of the assumptions necessary to have relativity in the first place. I believe Hawking has come up with a few theoretical ways to make a closed timelike curve with enough negative mass, which lets you do both FTL and time travel. If your drive requires the existence of forms of matter forbidden by current physics, it starts off impossible and just gets worse. And of course by necessity any FTL drive is going to violate some bit of relativity or another. I doubt Brandon's going to do something weird like define a preferred frame and only let your spacedrive travel at negative c in the z-axis, though that has the advantage of preserving causality and the rest of relativity.
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    So you're saying you can't 'fully understand' what vision is like, since you don't have an 'unable to see' to compare against?
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    Can you conceptualize the absence of vision? Not closing your eyes (which is simply blackness), but the absence of the sense entirely?
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    Depends what model you're going with. More estoreric ones let negative mass travel backward through time, which is FTL for all intents and purposes.
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    You can certainly learn 'five' without learning 'negative five'.
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    Yeah but you've swallowed the whole bar. Which end do you start burning on? I chose the 'copper to tin gradiant' because you've got an allomantic metal on each end and in the middle. If a mistborn swallows the bar, does he see one reserve, three reserves, or what? (manufacturing wise, yeah, difficult. One way: take a alloyed bar, heat and centrifuge it to start separating metals, then flash cool with liquid nitrogen.)
  10. Phantom Monstrosity
    Yeah, he made the mistwraiths using the well's power. He was going to make his uncle the first kandra, but he rejected the offer. Rashek tried to kill him at that point and got ticked off when he couldn't.
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    It's a country just downstream from the purelake. It actually prevents water from leaving the basin. It's the Dam-nation.
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    Why is it only emeralds that are valuable because they can make food, anyway? Surely the ability to create meat would be just as valuable.
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    I'm guessing they'd just get ill with no allomantic effect. I'm more interested in a tapered bar that's pure copper at one end, pure tin at the other, and has a varying percentage in the middle.
  14. Phantom Monstrosity
    Covered by atium. She was never in contact with the lead when she was sensing the atium reserve - and you have to actively look for unfamiliar reservoirs. Notably, even *if* you're looking for a reservoir of some different metal, you still won't see it unless you deliberately try to locate some new metal. Here's Kelsier educating Vin. If it was impossible to burn a metal that wasn't one of the ten, Kelsier wouldn't have told Vin not to do it.
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    Mistborn can indeed sense and attempt to burn nonallomantic metals like lead. Kelsier cautions vin against it, and later when she gets dosed by the inquitors her first reaction is 'this aluminum is a non-allomantic metal they're trying to make me burn it so I'll be sick.' It's an unfamiliar reserve compared to her known ten allomantic ones. Both ruin and preservation can fuel feruchemy.
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    Well, I've always been of the opinion that mistings have 'something extra' that mistborn don't... some sort of amplifier that lets them do just as well as a mistborn despite having less preservation to work with, but is only attuned to a single metal. It's really the only way to reconcile the all metals/ one metal thing. Presumably hemalurgy reshapes the spiritweb a bit upon extraction In theory disabling the amplifier thingie would result in either being a super-weak mistborn, or having insufficient allomantic potential to do anything. Not really supported by anything in particular, just a bit of headcanon
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    I'll also point out that the amount you can store/tap is limited by your ferustrength - inquistors take longer to store health than natural feruchemists because of that. Brandon may well have been referring to a base power feruchemist, and not one with the combined feruchemy of a million men.
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    Yes, unless (as I said) you figure vout some way to break the limit. What happens if you store 100% AND bob stores 100%
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    But what happens if mass goes negative, eh? Yeah sure in theory you can't store more of an attribute than you have, but that may just be a limit imposed by the health/strength of the feruchemist. A machine won't die from poor muscule tone. I mean, there's also the option that reducing mass to zero also causes weird cognitive stuffs due to information entropy and stuff.
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    Elend gives a mistfallen dude a mistborn vial in HoA. Dude immediately identifies and uses a single metal. If he could see all of them, he'd have had a 7/8ths chance of getting really sick from burning the wrong metal. Also, Vin seeing multiple reserves is taken by Kelsier as evidence of being a mistborn.
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    Using a holy sacrament for personal material gain? You heretic!
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    There are insufficient soulcasters to handle all the needs of any industry soulcasters can be used as a substitute for - casters are, after all, both rare and irreplaceable. It also takes time for a trained soulcaster-user to use it. They can't be everywhere, after all, and they can basically name their own price for work - and that's ignoring the strict limits on using soulcasters. And getting stormlight for them is also somewhat limiting, since there's only so much you can get in a given time period. Oh, I see I've been ninjaed. Very well: Parshendi reading A: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hLeZQSi8YCDpO96SNbPBRp6gAAL0jqTpt4pTdN-8uuQ/edit Parshendi reading B: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-y8Jv2apfo_0THOnPxoyHP_8FCE_0TplwXzVR4qH9UQ/edit Also, Tattoo Nightmares is like the best show for watching on hotel tv ever. But that's totes unrelated.
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    Haddek definitely explains the whole game to Sazed, including mentioning atium by name.
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    I don't think stormlight even has color differentiation.
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