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However, this suggests that in their very DNA lighteyes have the 'gap' made specifically for the Bladegene to go. In essence, something different may also go wrong (as other genes are pushed away) when a Darkeyes receive a Blade that is not a problem (or a benefit) to Lighteyes.

I'll admit, I'm far from having a good grasp on the more science-y theories and such, but you lost me here. Why would other genes be pushed away, and why would it incorporate a gap? I figure that Rosharans, having been created by Honour, simply have a gene in the sDNA that allows them to wield a Shardblade, rather than a gene being made whenever someone takes up a Shardblade, and therefore some kind of "gap" occurring in the sDNA/Spiritweb.

As I said, I don't have any delusions about having a good understanding of this stuff, so please forgive me if I misunderstood something. :U

Assuming that TLR didn't have the means to produce enough Nicrosil to sustain Compounding it for one thousand years, I'm guessing that it's entirely possible that once he took up the power at the Well that he created a large supply of nicrosil for himself. Then again, we have Word of Brandon that pre-TLR Scadrial was advanced enough in technology that they were close to having trains, so it's possible that they had the means to produce Nicrosil, and that Rashek then simply saved all the nicrosil he could find for himself, and then proceeded to erase knowledge of it.

You compare it's availability to aluminium, which the steel ministry had in at least enough excess to use on Vin.

I don't think a one-time use to drain her of her metals really proves anything. They had no other use for it, barring hemalurgy, and Vin was a Mistborn, so naturally they'd use it to drain her supply of metals, and it wouldn't be much of a waste.

I guess that could work, but if each of these shards represent an emotion, perhaps one of Adonalsium's, then it wouldn't really be broken-it's working as intended. However, if somehow the shardholder managed to warp the shard's intent to match their own...

Odium pretty much stands out as representing an emotion. Honour and Cultivation certainly aren't emotions. I suppose Devotion could be an emotion at a stretch, but that's it, that know of so far. I'm not sure how that affects your theory, but. . . there it is. :3

One small thing, I think it was malatium that Preservation switched in, not Lerasium. Any Scadrian can burn Lerasium, so there'd be no point to making Lerasium mistings anyway, as well as how scarce it was at the time.

Burning atium also sends it back to Ruin, so if it is atium, it would have to not be burned.

I don't think that burning atium doesn't send it back to Ruin, otherwise having all those Seers at the end of HoA would have only helped Ruin and made him more powerful, and made it easier for him to defeat Vin, I'm certain of it. Somehow, after it's burned, the atium regenerates at the Pits. Ruin has to directly metabolise the atium to get the power back.

. . . Which means that if Sazed has been supplying Marsh with atium for ~300 years, then all that atium that Marsh is burning just returns to the pits, which Sazed could choose to leave there. Granted, that could be only a small fraction of the Ruin he's investing into Scadrial, but it is something to offset Ruin.

I don't think that'll have much of an impact on Scadrial, unless Sazed goes back and finds them at some point, seeing as if Sazed didn't do anything with them, their corpses will still be lying there. And discussed it in the chat earlier, I believe that Shivertongue and Windrunner came to the conclusion that they'd be useful for their Spiritual aspects/Spiritwebs, and/or Cognitive and Physical differences. (Someone please correct me if I got that wrong? :3)

Oh! I also saw him say that there are metals that any Allomancer can burn when asked if god metal alloys would be useless without any Mistborn around.

Aluminium is confirmed to have effects on metals that aren't zinc/brass and iron/steel, but not god metals or their alloys. I'm guessing that it would be the other four external metals; cadmium, bendalloy, nicrosil and chromium. Seems like it'd be especially useful against a leecher. And there's potentially more types of kandra blessings.

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• Does aluminium have any effect on the other Allomantic metals aside from iron/steel and zinc/brass? If yes, does that include god metals and their alloys?
  
• Are there more kinds of kandra blessings than just the four we've seen?
  
• Did Sazed do anything with the bodies of Ati and Leras after he ascended?

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I'm guessing theres a 'love' or 'virtue' to counteract odium

I figure Devotion and Honour are effectively love and virtue, no? I seem to remember Brandon saying somewhere that Aona's shard was a synonym of 'love', before 'Devotion' was confirmed, and really, honour and virtue aren't too far removed from one another, I believe.

EDIT: Bleh, no, I'm wrong. Honour is a virtue, isn't it? Sorry, I sorta blanked on what virtue actually was. . . but still, I'm not convinced that a 'virtue' shard would be necessary as a counter to Odium. :3

What happens to a normal allomantic metal (eg, gold) after it's burned? Does it return to, and reform in metal deposits?

Can a normal Koloss post-HoA be born with either feruchemical or allomantic abilities?

How extensively does hemalurgy stack? (For example, could three or four charged steel spikes be granted to increase their power with steel by a factor of three?)

Sorry for the poorly worded third question. Having a hard time trying to explain it succinctly . . . XD

Oh! Sorry, my bad, I'm not too familiar with the unpublished Shardworlds. :3

Did Sazed recover Ati and Leras' bodies after he ascended or do anything with them?

Where are Ati and Leras originally from?

Are there more than the four kinds of kandra Blessings we've already seen?

That said, I am of the opinion that humans are native to the Mistborn world. It is specifically stated in the text that Ruin and Preservation joined together to create humans. It does not say they imported them, it states they created them.

But isn't Hoid a human? Or at least, we assume he's human? And he was alive pre-Shattering, along with at least one other person, (Midius) so that would mean that humans are not native to Scadrial, since Preservation and Ruin are Shards of Adonalsium, so I'm guessing that they couldn't have independently created humans on Scadrial before the Shattering. Also, the fact that Ati and Leras themselves existed to take up the Shards puts a stopper to that as well. I imagine that they created humans based off the original group of humans from wherever they came, and then a group or groups of them were perhaps imported to other worlds. (Nalthis, Sel, Roshar)

. . . Wait. Would that mean that -- assuming the above is true and there are descendants of Scadrialians on other worlds -- there are Feruchemists/Allomancers on these worlds who are native to these Shardworlds? And that hemalurgy could potentially be practised there as well?

Oh, does it have to be stupid theories you had? 'Cause what I want to share is just me blatantly misreading the book and imagining something completely wrong. . . . XD Basically, I thought Steel Inquisitors were these brutish humanoid things with giant eel heads. >___>

Although, just to make sure I'm on-topic, I'm like Trizee, I don't think or theorise too much while I'm reading and just go with the characters' assumptions. It's only after I finish the book -- usually, anyway -- that I actually think about it. Yay for gullibility!

Well, according to the Treatise Metallurgic in the Mistborn Adventure Game, (See here.) it says that hemalurgic aluminium enhances a power of allomancy, rather than granting an allomantic enhancement power. The rest of the feruchemy/allomancy stealing spikes all state "grant such-and-such power". So, I personally think that perhaps you're right, nicrosil/duralumin should be stealing the enhancement powers, but as far as I know, there's nothing to contradict that in canon, if I remember correctly. . . ? I don't know that this answers your question,'cause I don't have anything to back me up here, but yeah. :3

I'd like to announce that there are day mists invading in the Auckland area of NZ. Three hours of no mist yesterday, but beyond that, it's been all mist.

And here I thought Mistborn was fictional. D:

It would be good to remember that Kelsier wouldn't be helpless if he got Lashed to the ground, he still has steel/iron, which he could use to lodge some coins in Szeth's face. And combined with atium, that's a guaranteed hit, I reckon. And depending on whether or not he has access to duralumin, he could also do duralumin Rioting/Soothing, rendering Szeth completely useless for a couple moments.

So, yeah. My money's on Kelsier in a one-on-one fight with Szeth or Dalinar, and maybe Wax, but in an all-out pit brawl, anything could happen. Like Dalinar screwing over someone while they're distracted fighting the other two, or something.

If the Well rejected the Ruin in the spike, wouldn't it also reject the feruchemical stores on account of them having some Ruin of their own? Plus, atium is Ruin's power, you'd think it would reject any Atium. . .

In anycase, Rashek didn't die instantly after removing his metalminds, so I suppose he could enter the Well and then remove the metal, and take up the power immediately after. And then devise some method of keeping himself alive for longer, if he didn't have the resources/method to before then.

But, really, he had one thousand years to think about it, I imagine he had it very well planned out.

Hey, no worries, I'm glad to do it. And cheers for the quick responses and the cleanup of my edits. XD I'll post the MB3 additions as soon as I can, I've got them mostly typed up, although I'm not sure that I've got everything I can on Human. I pretty much just need to find out if there were anymore scenes with him after he went crazy and tried to create another koloss.

I just created an article on Human, but I added only a brief, non-detailed summary of what he did in MB3, and didn't include much information on that at all. Does that make the article a stub, or does the "origin" section save it from that?

I tend to think that Hoid has lerasium, but that the lerasium is not the element. It seems almost trivial. It makes Hoid or whoever he gives it to powerful, but one bead won't change the course of history in the Cosmere. The element seems like it would be a little more special to me. I could be off base of course.

Although I agree that Lerasium is not the element, I reckon it's not so trivial. After all, it's the only bead of Lerasium known to exist in the whole Cosmere at this point, is it not? not to mention, being an end-positive shard magic, it can basically be used as a super-fuel for Feruchemy, and who knows what it can do with other shard magics? I don't think it should be dismessed as so trivial, to be honest. xD

Wow, great job with the translation! If I may ask, how'd you figure it out? XD

Regarding the hemalurgic powers listed there. . . I find it interesting that for aluminium, it says "enhance a power of Allomancy", as opposed to "grant a power of enhancement Allomancy". Granted, being an in-world text means it's potentially incorrect, but does anyone have any thoughts on that?

What I meant was, you'd have one alloy of Lerasium-Atium for creating Seers (Say, 51% Atium, 49% Lerasium), and a different alloy for Sazedium (50/50). That any clearer? :3

As for Sazedium's power, I wouldn't have a clue. XD I'd guess that when used in Feruchemy, it allows anyone to store any attribute, perhaps, but I've heard the theory that when used in Allomancy, it would turn the person into a Feruchemist, though I disagree with that theory.

But I do find it interesting that, as far as we know, everyone on Scadrial has the ability to burn this one element. Is it possible that people from other shardworlds are able to burn this as well? In other words, is it because of the lerasium that everyone can burn it? Or is everyone on Scadrial born with the ability to burn a single metal: lerasium?

So, every Scadrialese person is a Lerasium misting? Or am I interpreting that wrong? xD Although, I'm guessing not, since a person is only able to burn one metal or all of them. . . but, I suppose that either way, Lerasium is an exception to that, unless normal Mistings can't burn Lerasium?

Lerasium-Atium almost certainly makes you a Seer, just like all the other alloys.

I reckon there'd definitely be an Atium-Lerasium alloy that turns people into Seers, but surely there'd also be a third god-metal, (Sazedium?) for Harmony. And since Harmony is the combined shards of Ruin and Preservation, that metal would logically be formed as an Atium/Lerasium alloy, no?

I don't think that there were any examples in the books of non-lethal hemalurgy, but then again, wasn't most, if not all of the hemalurgy performed in the trilogy performed as a result of Ruin's actions? Seeing as his intent is Ruin, it'd be in line with his intent to cause as much destruction as possible with that, no? And it's not like he'd care much for trying to preserve human life, either.

I feel like, if that were the case, you'd develop a sort of black market magic trade industry. Sell your Allomantic powers for a huge profit. If you're poor enough, it'd seem like a pretty sweet deal.

Assuming the guy doing the transplant isn't a psycho out to steal your entire spiritweb, including your human attributes. XD But, yeah, I could easily see such a thing occuring on Scadrial, and I bet donors would be paid handsomely by institutions performing it legally.

. . . I wonder if mental institutions would try to treat patients by use of some combination of human mental fortitude spikes + electrum and/or aluminium feruchemy? This thread has got me thinking about different positive uses for hemalurgy now. Huh.

Also, regarding the original topic, gene therapy, I sohuld think that'd depend entirely upon how the physical DNA and the sDNA interact, and how changes in one affect the other. I think it's hard to know without being given new information about that stuff, really.