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I would very much like to win something in this, of course. Good luck everyone! (And if Musicspren wins some hemalurgic spikes, since he said he didn't want any of those, I'd be willing to take them off his hands. >_> )

I like this, particularly the italicized part. It's simple and not overly complex (which [overly complex ideas] is something that's in abundance here). If it were truly inert, it wouldn't be able to be used at all. In all of the Mistborn stories that we have access to right now, aluminum clearly does have a use. I also like the italicized part because it fits with two other pieces of information: 1) Brandon's desire to give us, the readers, access to things as they're used by the characters in his stories (that is, the chart of allomantic metals isn't the Writer's Chart, but the chart as developed by in-book theorizers, with potential inaccuracies); 2) inkthinker's comment right above yours, Ari.

Things like this have often made me think that most of today's comics are just "official" fanfics. That is, if the characters aren't written by their original creators, then nothing that's done by those characters can be 100% true to the intent of their creators. Then again, that may just be me being elitist.

However, there was mention on the broadsheet that the natives of the "mysterious southern continent" know of metals that the people of Elendel don't. Which reminds me: Sazed mentioned to Spook, in the book that was left, he tells Spook to have fun trying to find the rest of the metals that nobody knew about. I wonder if Saze modified humanity so that there's less danger in trying to burn non-allomantic (or off-mixture) metals.

That's probably a RAFO, unfortunately. Edit: I'm not so sure about the explanation of the "why aluminum destroys allomantic reserves", (it's an interesting thought, but I don't think that's the "physics" of it), but I do find the thought that Harmony could see aluminum to be intriguing.

I've got some railroad spikes near my house that we could use. I'd quote Ghostbusters at this point, but it's already in my sig.

Well, there are non-ferrous metals out there. Maybe this is the allomantic equivalent of being non-ferrous. Or maybe it was the only way Brandon could make a tinfoil-hat joke, so he ran with it. Edit: Regarding the allomantic equivalent of being non-ferrous, the term "allomantically inert" was used in those preview chapters, wasn't it?

It probably has something to do with its normal properties; that is, a Mistborn who burns aluminum will also instantly destroy the rest of his/her metal reserves. http://coppermind.17thshard.com/wiki/Aluminum The primary allomantic properties of aluminum were a secret retained by the Lord Ruler, probably for the purpose in which it was used against Vin in the books. I imagine that there was very little experimentation with unknown metals in the Final Empire, so that's probably why nobody knew about it. (Or, if anyone other than TLR did know about it, they'd want to keep it a secret, too, like he did.) Consequently, the "side-effect" properties of aluminum wouldn't have been known, either. Otherwise, I imagine there would have been a lot more use of aluminum in the Final Empire, perhaps as daggers or knives. (Or clubs.)

The first few made me think of this: What's an average workday like in the life of a publicist? (Since, y'know, I don't know exactly what they do besides "publicize things". )

Wasn't it stated, somewhere in Warbreaker, that the breaths that Susebron had were passed down from one god-king to the next?

Very yes!

Thanks for the clarification, Peter. The passage I quoted in the Talk page suggested to me that there was a "long" time between Mare's death and Kelsier's Snapping - weeks or months - but I guess that was just a misinterpretation. It could just as easily have meant seconds or minutes, which I guess it did mean.

I guess he retconned this, then. :-/ Either that, or it was clarified in a later chapter that I just haven't gotten to in my re-read/summarization.

Drunken elk rescued from Swede's apple tree http://www.thelocal.se/36002/20110907/

Didn't he say something along the lines of Stormlight being some massive epic, and that's why he liked it? That might be why he didn't like Mistborn: it was too short.

Do we have any ideas why there would be so few beads of lerasium yet so many beads of atium?

The Legos analogy is a great one. Thank you for using it. I've been putting off typing up a response to this, as I wasn't sure how to word it, plus I also wanted to keep chugging along with the MB1 summaries I'm typing up. (I did, however, briefly speak with Chaos about it over Google Chat recently, so I haven't been completely silent on the matter.) The "stacked blue and red Legos" is pretty much what I was going for, how things are "now". And the other 14 could also be stacked, too, in theory. (Okay, the 12 other 4-peg blocks, and the other 2- or 1-peg blocks that are left over on Sel.) Thank you, Mad_Scientist, for helping me clear this up. (Though I have to admit, I'm still sad nobody commented on the Beatles reference. :-/ )

Some guy who wishes he was as cool as Jinnai.

I... will refrain from continuing this particular debate, as it will not only be a massive tangent, but it will enter into areas in which it is unlikely that either party will convince the other. Suffice it to say, however, that Wikipedia is not a reliable source. Hmm. That's an interesting thought. As technology advances, and more metal is used, does that mean Sazed would become increasingly blind to Scadrial?

I do not think that phrase means what you think it means.

The second one in my sig. (The only one that's a reference to one of the books here.)

Can we rename his account to "Metatron"? If there were any left over, my first thought would be that Sazed would remove them from play, if he could, either taking them back into himself or burying them deep underground. After all, he can apparently make new Mistborn whenever he wants. (Unless he somehow used one of the spares on Spook.) Though, if Peter dropped a RAFO on that question, that makes me think that any remaining beads weren't permanently taken out of play.

Hurricanes. They bring much nicer weather when they skim wherever you live. Hammer. They make better weapons, without allomancy. SuperDisk or ZIP disk?