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Y'know, this is something that always bothered me. We have no direct evidence that such a thing is possible. If you sever the spine, you're dead. Personally, I'm chalking this one up to "exaggerated rumor", since we have no direct evidence that this event happened the way it's reported. Heck, it could even be intentional propaganda by the Lord Ruler to make himself seem even more impressive. (It's kinda like what Jordan said, when someone asked him about Baalzamon's comment that he and Lews Therin had been dancing their dance countless times already: RJ-"Who made that claim?" Fan-"Baalzamon." RJ-"And you believe him?") Now, the burning I'll buy. Even third-degree (or greater) burns won't immediately kill someone, especially someone with a gold metalmind. He'd have time to heal from that. But a one-shot kill like decapitation? I don't buy it.

My apologies for the double post, but I'm not sure if edits would be noticed. For these summaries, where should I put them? Should I put them in http://coppermind.17thshard.com/wiki/Mistborn:_The_Final_Empire , or should I make a new page for them?

Bad place to set up your instruments for a show, IMO. Flautist, here. I started playing in 5th grade, and did marching band in 9th. Had to quit for 10th because concert band and the art class I wanted were the same period, and I loved are more than band. One day I'd like to find a bass flute, as well as one of those ~3' long bamboo ones from the East. (China? Japan? /shrug )

I meant posting them. I don't have an issue seeing them in others' posts, it just looks wrong to see them in my own. I blame the FFML for my ASCII-only predilections. Edit: Didn't see the Back to Top, either. Thanks.

Very simple tip that applies to lots of situations: Sometimes there is fire. Don't stand in it.

KChan, your G+ avatar reminds me of the Scott Pilgrim art style, and it also reminds me that I thought I read something about a tool that lets you make characters in that style. Is that what that's from?

Hey, Clubs is old. When he first walks in, he's described as having a disapproving scowl (or something) that only the elderly can manage.

Heh, no, it's not. I actually threw this name together back in high school for a character I was going to play in an Amber game that one of my friends decided to run. (Holy run-on sentences, Batman!) I've used the name online ever since. (Which was why I was surprised and amused when I did some ego surfing a few months back and found the name in an ebook. o.O ) Forsaken shadow priest on Gorefiend, here.

Ha. My first thought, KChan, was that you were asking me that. "Have I? Well, no, but Dad talks about it all the time. Oh, wait. KChan's talking to Joe. >_> "

The floating ghostly skull will follow you here. Anywho, I have an associates degree in art, but changed majors after that once I realized most artists don't make money until they're dead. And since I didn't want to spend the rest of my life fixing people's computer problems, I switched over to geography when I found out about GIS. I ended up enjoying it, too. Got a bachelors in that, though I wouldn't mind a masters at some point (once I pay off my bills).

That could have happened after Honor was killed. I don't think we know precisely when that happened.

Gotcha. Thanks.

1. This may not be a change; it may just be me not noticing a setting. But I'd like a way to globally disable graphical emoticons for my profile. I (finally) noticed the Options at the bottom of a post to disable them for a post, but I couldn't find anything in my profile settings to always disable them. 2. Is there a way to enable the "forum tree" at the bottom of a page, too? At the top I see something like "17th Shard Forums | 17th Shard | Suggestion Box and Site Issues", but the bottom only shows "Previous Topic | $thread_name | Next Topic". It would be handy to be able to click back to the root of all the forums, or even the "subgroupings", without having to scroll up or hit the Home key.

I figured that the "high Allomancy" period of the Final Empire was probably just a fluke, a blip in the overall history of Scadrial. We know there were naturally-occurring allomancers before Alendi's march to the Well - he was a Seeker, after all - but the numbers of Mistborn and Mistings during the Final Empire are astronomical compared to before. I'm guessing that things are evening out by Wax's time, returning to normal. The Final Empire will become an age of legends *cough* and some people will end up thinking that there never was such a thing as a Mistborn.

Wait, seriously? Geez, that's what I get for not reading any Marvel comics since Age of Apocalypse. ; If he can manipulate the entire EM spectrum, he's practically a god. Screw metals. He could just cook Kelsier with microwaves or kill him with x-rays/gamma rays.

* Wall of Text crits darniil for 9999! Ugh! Wow. I'll read that in a bit. Gotta see what else was posted since last night, but I'll read it. I will. (In all seriousness, it's not a true Wall of Text. The paragraphing is wonderful. <3) Welcome to the forums, and be excellent to each other. Edit: Okay, finally read it. That was pretty darn detailed. And WoW, eh? I can't imagine that anyone else here plays that. Nope. >_>

Okay, I'll add the epigraphs, too. That's not hard.

I'm not sure why the question isn't showing, the but the answer is found in an image at the top of this page. And it's not case-sensitive, either, fyi. Edit: At least, as long as the question is the one I'm thinking of, the one I had to answer when I registered recently.

I've never typed any up before, but I figured since I was skimming the Mistborn books to get character info, I may as well type up some summaries, too. Here's what I have so far. Let me know what you guys think. I wanted to include characters, too, just because I wanted to keep track of everyone who made an appearance. I don't know if it's really important enough to include in the wiki, but I'll certainly keep it for my own reference at the very least. (Same deal with the "Other Notes".)

Awesome article. I'm making a few minor typographical edits, but I did have a question about this: I actually have two questions about this. 1. What about when Kelsier held Preservation? True, he "snatched" it post-mortem, not while alive (so that's apparently one difference between him and Laras & Vin), but he did hold it, and he apparently abdicated in favor of Vin. 2. "are when a Shard dies." Is that the correct wording? I mean, aside from a splintering in Elantris, is there any evidence that a Shard can die? It can splinter, and its Intent will be gone, replaced by the Intents of its composite Splinters, but a Shard can't truly "die", right? It's the consciousness behind the Shard that can be "killed". (Or so I gather.) That sounds like an important distinction to me. Edit: (These things are popping into my head as I read them.) In "Forms and Subdivisions", when using Preservation and Ruin as examples, it sounds like you're saying "larasium and atium are the Physical Realm manifestations (in the Physical Realm) of these Shards, the Well of Ascension and the Pits of Hathsin are the Cognitive Realm manifestations (read: pools) of these Shards in the Physical Realm, and the mists and the black cloud are the Spiritual Realm manifestations in the Physical Realm of these Shards." I don't have an issue with that, but it does imply that the Well would produce larasium. Is there any evidence that says the Well did not produce larasium? (Not just the speculation of characters.) I mean, we don't have any idea how long it was between the creation of humanity on Scadrial and the time of Alendi (or do we?). It's possible that the Well could make one nugget of larasium every millennium, which would explain why there was one there when Vin and Elend were at the Well. It would also suggest how long it was from Beginning to Alendi.

Gotcha. Thanks. I've only managed to make it about a quarter of the way through that -ology so far.

Are they consumed, somehow absorbed by the body like nutrients would be, or is something leeched out of the metals, some property that fuels allomancy, and the flakes are passed like waste through the body's natural processes? (And if the latter, would that mean that those flakes could never again be used for allomantic/feruchemical/hemalurgic purposes?)

I am squee!-ing very loudly inside my head.

That's a big assumption, though. But Vin's fight with TLR showed us that, with sufficient force, metals "in" (read: piercing) the body can be manipulated allomantically (despite what Kelsier thought). Marsh even showed us that Inquisitors can see the iron in people's blood, which is invisible to all other Coinshots and Lurchers. Because of this, I'd be willing to bet that a sufficiently strong Mistborn burning duralumin along with iron could rip metals out of another allomancer's stomach. To me, that still leaves Magneto in the lead.

As much as I dig Kel, I'd have to say Magneto would win. As one of the comments there said, all Maggie would have to do is rip the metals out of Kelsier's stomach. Which he could do pretty easily, if you compare what he did to Wolverine. Now, here comes an important question, though: is allomantic pewter ferrous? If it's not, there's a chance Magneto might not be able to manipulate it, which would help Kelsier out a bit. He could heal the damage done when the iron, steel, etc. was ripped out of him, and make him physically stronger, to boot. However, Magneto isn't limited to Pushing and Pulling, and even though Kel wouldn't be wearing any metal for Magneto to manipulate, he'd still probably have a bag of coins. And if all else failed, he'd just rip the spires from Kredik Shaw and start throwing those around. (Didn't want to register an account just to answer one thread, so I figured I'd leave my two cents here.)