Halyo_Alex

That visual would certainly lend itself towards calling these scadrian shardblades "mistblades", would it not? I've long thought that Spren-blades and plate should've been called Stormblades/plate, because we already have Shards as something of huge importance in the Cosmere and it's just weird or even confusing sometimes, especially to new readers. tangent aside I do think that with some medallion and ettmetal mechanisms you could give someone the Scadrian equivalent of an Honorblade; have the handle made of a medallion containing F-Iron and A-Pewter, and have them prime an Ettmetal mechanism (or 2, probably) with each power (storing weight like the Southerner Airship, and burning Pewter to enhance the durability). In fact, it may come down to the cognitive perception of the whole mechanism as a sword, causing the ettmetal to enhance it the way i'm thinking of. In addition to having a twinborn combo that gives the Mistblade it's signature "shardblade-like" qualities (low weight, high durability), it's also just a really nice twinborn combo for the wielder. A-Pewter and F-Iron in conjunction could further increase their ability to cut through things with the physically enhanced blade. In fact, if the Ettmetal storage as primed by the user is unkeyed (or more likely, Keyed to the primer's Identity), then the user could tap the very weight that their Blade is storing up. Pair that with a decent supply of pewter, and you've got a pretty nice magic sword from Scadrial.

also you can Push/pull Atium when you can't do that with a shardblade.

So... wait. Would an Atium sword do that too?

What the hell would a Ringworld's cognitive realm look like?

My point was that Obi-Wan saying that becomes suspicious when you realize it

Of course, "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" is an absolute statement...

The major issue with "Aluminum is adonalsium god metal" is that... Aluminum is real. So is Silver, and it also has weird cosmeric properties.

That is a lovely question. I have no idea.

Nothing else really fits quite as well as that does.

Nothing else really fits, does it?

I think if you took it to the CR, you could spike a Surge out of a Radiant Spren and give it to yourself, no oaths needed (but also none of the major benefits of being Radiant- with just one spike you'd basically be a Fused without the immortality!)

lol

Well that's terrifying.

Ohohohoh... My dumbass brain had an Idea and I think you guys can guess what given the bolding emphasis I put.

make a ruby the size of the moon ...that's no moon-

Stormseat 2: Electrum boogaloo.

I think my first thought as soon as it was clear he was deceased was "oh rust, was that a Kandra in the medallion?" followed by "...Yep, it probably was" when there was in fact a Kandra posing as Kel's spirit soon after his death. Seeing guns and stuff used with allomancy was definitely an interesting way to start things off. The knockback tricks with Wax's shotgun and storing iron was also really satisfying. See above. Skallagrim's video reviewing "enchanted swords", and then he brought up Allomancy, and Atium allomancy in particular, and then linked to both Alloy and Final Empire in the description... I just happened to click on the link to Alloy of law like a doofus maximus, and got it as an Ebook that day. Committed to reading era 2 first when I realized "hmm, there's a lot of history here that's being laid out as if the reader is familiar with the names." Seeing a mistborn in action felt just as cool as the W&W era people make it sound, what with the mentions of the Set attempting to create new mistborn by mixing allomantically powerful bloodlines. Kelsier especially, with his proficiency in steel and iron simultaneously, made me realize just how much Wax can still improve his steel. Also of course this (and Skallagrim's video but to a lesser extent, as he only explained the initial set of metals) ruined (ha!) the reveal of the new allomantic metals past the 10 original ones, and I knew that Atium was the god metal of ruin from the outset of the first era trilogy.

Firstly, allow me to clarify the title. No, I didn't read each book in order but from back to front. No i didn't read Hero of ages first, then WoA, then TFE. I read. ALL. Of ERA 2. FIRST. Alloy of Law was my first ever BRANDON SANDERSON novel. Wax was the first Cosmere character I read about. So let me tell you about my experience with reading Mistborn backwards. It was actually cool. Make no mistake, I have no regrets about reading the books this way. It was a fun and interesting experience to treat Era 1 as a prequel trilogy (everyone loves prequel trilogies, right?) with Era 2 as the "present day". Seeing all of the references to past characters as my first time learning of their existence was fascinating, seeing Vin immortalized as the Ascendant Warrior and wondering, "WOW, what did she have to do for THAT to happen?" made reading era 1 and seeing how Vin started out all the more interesting. I guess a comparable irl thing would be like meeting a celebrity and getting to know them on a personal level instead of just being aware of their celebrity persona. When Harmony showed up through Wax's earring and spoke to him, I was like, "Damn, God himself is just a chill dude who wants to keep things safe. ....And also not omnipotent, hmmmm." That was some interesting foreshadowing (retroshadowing?) for the end of HoA. Wax's Twinborn powers were immediately a favorite out of all magical skills i've ever seen, though being a Bloodmaker sounds more practical in a real life setting. I hate the idea of getting hurt in such a way that permanently damages me, so knowing that F-Gold could restore even a lost limb given enough time, really sounds appealing to me. The speed bubbles of Bendalloy and Cadmium were fascinating to read about, time dilation is one of my favorite things in science fiction, and Cadmium would be great for being able to just sit through boring stuff in a fraction of the time. And then it being the key component to Miles' defeat, just... Chef's Kiss. Perfecto. Introduce an ability that feels useless and impractical, and then smack the reader in the face with, "sure, BUT..." And then Ironeyes. Rusting IRONEYES. As a fan of Terry Pratchett, a "personification of Death" character will always remind me of Death from Discworld, so it was a little "Ha!" moment when he showed up. And Miles' prophecy about the "Men of red and gold, bearers of the final metal" was suitably ominous for the book's main antagonist's final words. Shadows of Self, hoo... That was an emotional roller coaster, surprisingly. I won't lie, I cried at the end. And the Trellium spikes... other than Ironeyes, that was my first glimpse of Hemalurgy. and Bleeder really made it feel terrifying. The Kandra as a whole were actually quite satisfactorily explained in Era 2 that I felt like I comprehended their functionality having read just those 2 books so far. And it really made the mystery novel aspect of the book feel much more intense, when anyone you know could be a Kandra... cue The Spy: "He could be any one of us!" And yeah, when it was revealed that Bleeder/Paalm WAS the real Lessie from the intro of Alloy, I cried. I felt furious at Harmony for misleading Wax into doing that, to forcing her hand into killing herself so that Harmony wouldn't be capable of making her into his pawn again. Harmony started to feel like a nontagonist (neither pro- nor antagonist, a middle ground of moral grey, which in retrospect makes perfect sense given his Shards). Bands of Mourning, OH BOY, this is probably my favorite Mistborn book just because of the Southerners and Ettmetal. Now remember, I had no idea who Kelsier was other than The Survivor, and The Lord Ruler was basically a footnote in my knowledge. So the mystery of the Sovereign's temple, the false bands, that was all extra mysterious. The Ettmetal cubes were AWESOME. Mechanically-altered allomantic and feruchemical effects was SUCH a fun thing to add to the series, and making a rusting AIRSHIP using them? Dope. So dope. Translation medallions were a fascinating addition, and promptly set my brain a-theorizin' upon what they could do and how they were made... No concrete theory on it yet, but I suppose Lost Metal will tell us all what we need to know about it. And of course, crossing the two, Ettmetal cubes and Medallions, I realized you could basically turn anyone into a Leeching grenadier for rapid metal depletion. Put an A-Chromium medallion on them, give em Ettmetal cubes, and let them cause chaos by depowering people around the area. The reveal of Kelsier being the Sovereign probably hit me a lot less hard than the average mistborn reader, but it was a FASCINATING reveal that the Survivor had managed to live, you know, 300+ years and reach the southern scadrians. And of course that made the reveal that Kel dies in the midst of book 1 all the more nutty and shocking for me when I read TFE. "Wait, he WHAT?!" So yeah, that's a rough summary of my thoughts from reading Era 2 as my first-ever cosmere books.

Okay, gimme like a half hour to write it

At this point, should I make a forum topic that just describes my experience with mistborn due to reading Era 2 first?

username checks out.

Ah yes, my First Ever Cosmere Book. Nope, not a joke. I was that smooth-brained that Alloy was the first book authored by Brandon that I read.

Valid nitpick. That was me just forgetting that the power has to be "active".

Some sort of "true neutral" tone? I suppose, but the point that makes me think "white noise" instead is the fact that the Shattering could have made Shards with different Intents and therefore, probably, different Tones from what we do have.

Indeed. Harmony between the two Tones means that they've changed from their original ones. Wait, would that make Adonalsium white noise or something? just "all the tones" at once?