Marris

Copying this from another thread. As long as the metals are burned off, no need to worry about heavy metal poisoning.

Curses, put the hyphen in the wrong spot! Thanks Well, at least the person not appearing in the preview chapters means we'll have more awesome characters to read about.

Wax thought he might be a pewterarm, but I'm not so sure. If he could burn pewter and is part Koloss he'd be able to simply toss Marasi over a shoulder and leave. Instead he was dragging her, trying to get her to cooperate with a gun to the head. Pewter and Gold is the only combination I can think of that could take a headshot. But, since Wax was sure that Wayne would be fine as long as he wasn't shot in the head. It might be that Bloodmakers (Gold Feruchemists) have to consciously tap their gold to heal. When the Lord Ruler was nearly decapitated he was proably still aware enough to heal himself. There are still seven metals that we don't know the Feruchemical power for: Cadmium, Bendalloy, Electrum, Chromium, Nicrosil,Aluminum, and Duralumin. It's possible that one of those metals allows for some bullet-to-the-head stopping power. I sort of assumed that pewter mistings would continue to call themselves thugs after the Skaa name for the mistings, while pewter feruchemists would go with pewter arms, pewter bracers on their arms. Probably completely wrong, but inside my head it sounds right.

This may have already been discussed, if it was I apologize for missing it when I searched. Back in January Brandon was asked what the likelihood of having a gay character appear in his work. SourceI'm making several assumptions and I may be completely off base. Seven sample chapters have been released, I estimate that's probably about 10-15% of the book. Brandon's last stand alone novel (Warbreaker) was 60 chapters long. The odds are that this character has already been introduced. Who is it? A quick reread of the released chapters has given me the names of seven different women. Lessie Lady Aving Cett Lady Armal Miss Grimes Lady Mic'helle Ostlin (Mispelled her name, sorry, couldn't find the correct spelling when I was looking for it) Lady Steris Lady Marasi We can probably safely eliminate Lessie and Lady Ostlin. The later, just married to a man and the former was as good as married to Wax. Lady Cett and Miss Grimes are seemingly too minor of characters to warrant much back story. Steris or Marasi are the obvious candidates. I didn't see much supporting evidence either way in the narrative though. Really the only thing that stood out to me was Steris was very visibly upset about her "cousin" that was taken hostage (Armal). Her father and her other "cousin" Marasi barely reacted to it. Lets hear any ideas, speculation, or observations.