Phantom Monstrosity

Give me a radiocarbon kit and I'll have Hoid dated in no time. It's what everyone wants!

"Oh yeah we burn metals in an actual furnace. What, none of your guys ever tried that?"

Well, at least there doesn't seem to be an anti-adonalsium that creates new magic systems. That's good to know. From reddit

Well, it isn't /exactly/ speed. I mean, if you're on a train you don't suddenly slow down and fall out the back, right?

Tapping larger amounts for shorter times are less efficient overall, if Health is any indication. Tapping a ton of health all at once doesn't heal as much as tapping a little for a long time.

Not really, man. The manufacturing price for precision machining is WAY higher than just grinding up an ingot of steel.

I dunno, man. Wish this had come up a day earlier so it could have been on the AMA.

To be fair, that just moves the question from 'what if you don't have steel' to 'what if you don't have guns'.

The inquisitors couldn't see the metal in sazed's stomach, though.

I'm pretty sure his mass soothing is still way beyond what a mere savant would be capable of.

Bubbles are anchored to the cognitive aspect of the planet, IIRC?

I'm pretty sure there aren't any additional base metals... regardless, we know that silver is totally useless, allomantically. That said, it might be fun to work up an alternate set of metals. 'Fogborn' or whatever, where the little known shards Perspiration and Loon have attempted to create their own magic system. Loonium: Kills the user //Devnotes: Aw crud. Must have misplaced a negative sign somewhere. It was supposed to turn the user into an unstoppable killing machine. Gatoradium: It's got electrolytes! //Devnotes: Wait, what do you mean that doesn't let you zap people like palpatine? Outrageous!

Actually, I'm wondering... given that cognitive space is quite different from physical space, and time bubbles are anchored to cognitive aspects... Are bubbles always the same size in physical space? Or are they a fixed *cognitive* size? If the cognitive size were fixed, we know that interstellar space is very small, cognitively, so you might be able to cover everything with a single bubble.

Guy who used to have honor.

K, just upvoted you guys. I'm Phantine on reddit.

Kelsier gets really mad when people rip him off. He asked Hoid for info and Hoid just lied to him. Naturally, Kelsier wanted his money back, but there isn't even a snowball's chance in Hell that Hoid will ever give back one of his trophies. The survivor's bag of coins is a level 90 item, so of course he's keeping it, and Kelsier just wants a refund, and it devolves into fisticuffs. Also the jerk pretended to be blind NOT COOL.

Brandon has stated it's an example of parallel evolution.

Hemalurgy is essentially always fatal - it basically rips a huge chunk of the soul off when you do it, so even in the edge cases where they survive victims end up in a pretty sorry state. In principle you might be able to stab twice, but I think the spiritual damage is significant enough that you probably couldn't do anything beyond that. Not sure about putting multiple different kinds of charge in the same spike. Might be worth asking at the AMA http://www.reddit.com/r/Fantasy/comments/1ced7z/iamstilla_novelist_named_brandon_sanderson_ama/

Basically, metals can steal 'classes' of powers (like mental allomancy or physical feruchemy), but if you charge a spike you have to hammer it into a single location. So if you kill a guy with a spike that can steal mental allomancy, you just get one of their powers, not all four. Since nobody knew of any duralumnium mistings, Ruin couldn't kill any of them for their duraluminum - he'd have to send an inquisitor to kill a mistborn.

Yeah, but if you do you end up paying for it later. Pewter is basically the only metal that causes backlash after you've used it.

The feruchemical stuff is actually grouped into 'physical', 'cognifive' and 'spiritual' - it's realm based. That means that a pewter spike (which steals physical feruchemy, IIRC), will actually steal eight metals instead of four, since there are eight physical metals. It's commonly believed that the splintering of Devotion and Dominion has lead to a lot of variance in the magic systems, but we don't have a full explanation. Looks like you're paying attention to the right things. Welcome to the forums.

Not really. While it has a laundry list of effects, it isn't a real 'game changer'. It also doesn't really increase alertness - that's tin. A lot of those effects are pretty redudtant as well. Someone using emotional allomancy has an entirely different tool, and your normal defenses don't work against them. Against a pewter thug you just have to use ten guys instead of one. A coinshot can fly, making all your castle walls useless. A thug still can't get past them.

Would it be too self-indulgent to automatically upvote other 17th sharder questions?

Well, I'm also thinking of the alternate ending for Well of Ascension.

I doubt you're going to be storing luck at a 1000:1 ratio