TheChronicFeruchemist

Nah, not really. Though my life over all is intersting enough as is. So all I need to do is find the AU where Elend is a girl and then one down in the compitition for Shallan's affections.

The second option sounds a little more like the three little bears with more death to me. But isn't that how normal dating works?

I always had the big sleeves in my head. Though I wont be using them in my Syl picture. Syl is neither described with or with out a safe hand(thus far in my re-read.), and since her dress is described as girlish and I have it in my head they don't start the whole safe hand thing until puberity. Though if anybody else knows otherwise I'd love to know.

For boys I think that I would go for Elend because he is intellegent, sarcastic, and bookish. Or Wax, because hes bold, curious, and clever. For girls I'm throwing my name in for Shallan because sarcastic artist awesomeness duo.

Thanks, I'm really excited to see it! I was thinking one of those huge middle ages sleeves, think Arwen or Galadriel in the lord of the rings movies. Hugely impratical, but cool looking. I've got some ideas, I mean there should be some variation in how these dresses are made.

I think he was going for more of a middle ages type look, and I think that was what sanderson was going for too(because they talk about storing stuff in their safe pocket in their sleeves, I'm not sure how else you are going to store things in your sleeves inless we are talking about a kimono.) I'm more confused about button placement.

I orginally posted this on my tumblr but I wanted to see you guys had any ideas about it. I hope this is the right spot for it rather than the stormlight archive forums. I also apologize for all the costumer jargon in this. I was also sort of hoping that this could be a spot for other artist to posit questions. So here goes nothing: Alethi noble women’s fashion confuses me. I’m really not sure what Sanderson is trying to describe with, “it buttoned up the sides of the torso from waist to neck where it was topped with a small, gold embroidered collar.” Doesn’t really mesh with it being a solid swath of silk in my head. I’d call a sari or a chiton a swath of silk because it is all one large piece. Where the kind of dress that he is describing definitely has seams. Speaking of seams, what does he mean by the side of the torso? Does he mean side seams? That’s what I see when I first imagined it, but then I get to the part about them going up to the neck I get confused again. I suppose that he could be talking about princess seams of some sort. Am I the only one that is confused by this? P.S. The piece I'm working on is of Syl.

Agreed. Although it seems like TLR was grasping at straws with his breeding program. We don't know what causes feruchemy sDNA to be added to the body, nor does it seem like anyone else does in text (we know it comes from a balance of preservation and ruin, but there is no metal connected to it, that we know of.) It seems to be naturally occuring in the terris population seeing as it bounced back from non existance a few times. But why just the terris and not the rest of scadrial? I don't think its locational, perhaps it's genetic. Crazy theory but maybe the terris are the orginal humans that rune and preservation created and the other races(for lack of a better word.) are off world settlers. I have no evidence for this, it is just an idea.

And surpressing both Feruchemy and Hemalurgy TLR was making sure that a mistborn didn't use hemalurgy to make themselves a feruchemist too.

Actually Brandon's said that there were ferrings before the Terris started intermarrying with the general population. Source

I'd go with Subsumer(bendalloy) and a coinshot(steel).

Fullborn, to me, sounds too much like we a feruchemist mistborn combo is normal, when it isn't. Though I think that the word twin will be used. Which begs the question, can you be a mistborn and also be a ferring, or a feruchemist and misting?

It is possible that they didn't have the technology yet(It was being invented in our world before AoL is set, but didn't become wide spread until right around that time.). But why wouldn't electroplating work and wrapping it in foil would?

I find the whole poison and hydrofluoric acid to be more of something you would use to assassinate mistings rather than protect yourself on a daily basis. I think a more viable way of protecting yourself would be to carry a ceramic knife (More stable than glass I think.), wooden buttons and other fasteners, etc. Also in a modern setting a really good way of protecting metal minds would be electroplating them in aluminum.

This is a good theory, and it may be part of the reason but I think your right that the TLR theory is much more likely.

That is totally what happened. That or the lines(terris) represent preservation and the spikes ruin, seeing that preservation and ruin existed long before the ascension and seeing that feruchemy is the balance of ruin and preservation. So TLR took something that was abstract and made it concrete.

Oh good. I'm going to go with that the HoA symbols are with a brush, and terris are with a reed or quill. Though I don't know what the "standard" alphabet would be written with. I'm now really curious as to how the strikes evolved into what are clearly spikes.

Thanks for the clarification. (Sorry I've been out of the world for the past year or so. I hope I'm not being too much of a idiot.) What time are the symbols in WoA from? Also why would people who had no cultural connection to the metals adopt an alphabet based of them? Do we know anything more about pre ascension culture other than what is in the books?

I dunno, it always looked more like the basis for the alphabet itself to me. As if the entire writing system stems from it. Which could make sense if you see the writing method as something invented by TLR himself. I don't know, I feel like the key is in examining the two different alphabets and working on that.

I seem to remember something about kredik shaw and north, but I don't believe it is the sybmol for north because according to this image(or at least how my brain is reading it.) tin is north. But I could be wrong.

I think that there is a type of person that wishes to do good in the world but believes that the only way of doing so is getting huge amounts of power. Also Miles' logic wasn't the most sound when we met him. What I really want to know is did Breeze and Allrianne have children? I assume they did and that Wax is their descendant.

Then why don't the rest of the canton's have a symbol? I checked the other maps and the cantons there don't have a symbol either.

Actually the weird fat ones in aluminum are also in gold, and malatium, or at least very similar spikes in that they have a straight edge on one side and a partially straight edge on the other, and then taper to a point from there. The reason they look so different in aluminum is because the heads of the spikes are touching the circle part so they look shorter and fatter. (Am I making sense? I hope I'm making sense.) Phantom Monstrosity thank you for posting the bit with the symbols I was talking about. I also wanted to point out that the epilogues and prologues of each book have different spikes, the original trilogy all have a version of the same spike if I remember but Alloy has a different one in either the epilogue or prologue. On that note have we ever wondered what was up with the symbol for kredik shaw on the maps? Is isn't any of the other un-known symbols, but it is also possible that it isn't part of the alphabet at all. Side note, has anyone had any ideas why there is a random iron right in between kredik shaw and the canton of orthodoxy?

I know that it is mentioned in Alloy of Law that there are either soother or rioter therapists, and that politicians ran of the platform that they were copper clouds so couldn't be influenced by soothers or rioters. So there was definitely jobs that used their allomancy as a a part of their work. Though I don't think this whole thing would have happened until after the origin because the upper class simply didn't work in the arts in most of history. I'm also not sure that the lord ruler would have allowed the arts as we know it to flourish. When someone wants to control the population theatre is often one of the first things to go.

I was reading Alloy of Law and I was wondering to myself why do feruchemists and allomancers either get the abilities to burn or store all 16 metals or just one? How do the genetics of these magics work? We know that as feruchemy and allomancy spreads into the general population the abilities become more rare and less strong. I'm curious to see what you guys think.