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I think the drink that rock was making but Huio (or one of Lopens other cousins) changed it sounded pretty good. The stew would be a close second. I’ve only gone through Mistborn the one time so I can’t remember my favorite but I remember one specifically sticking out to me so I’ll have to remember that upon read number two. I do play Zelda (haven’t gotten to tears of the kingdom yet but I’ve played most others) and I’ve been eying hollow knight but haven’t played yet

I have learned and I’ve read a number of them. I find RAFO’s to be infuriating but in a good way

Ooo I like that a lot actually thank you!!!

I started reading(listening to because I’m practically illiterate) the cosmere after Christmas last year and I’ve binged through pretty much everything outside of sunlit man, tress, and Yumi. I’m working on isles of the ember dark and white sands now and I actually finished my second read through of stormlight last week. I’ve really gone full obsession mode on it all and I’m dreading being done bc then I’ll have to read something else but I want to know everything I can and I love theorizing

I’ll go ahead and do an intro post as well but Ive read all of Mistborn including secret history and I know in world they only think there are 16 but there was also a time when they thought there were only 10 so I didn’t think it was impossible there could be more. Again I know there are a lot of holes in my premise but even though I’m wrong, I do find the categories frustrating because most of the metal/alloy pairs are exact opposites other than pewter and tin. And copper and bronze don’t really feel like mental abilities as much as all the others are very clearly physical, enhancing, or temporal. I did forget about the explanation from marsh about the pulses though which does mean I’m 100% wrong haha

Hi all! This is my first post on here and I've been trying to wrap my head around how the internal/external pushing/pulling powers connect. This could be just a function of trying to assign meaning and categories for things that don't 100% fit but I wanted to at least try to broach the topic. I've also looked around and I haven't found anything that explains it so if this is already answered please point me to it. As far as I'm concerned the 16 allomantic metals don't all really fit in the internal/external pushing/pulling categories. Referencing the Allomancy article on the coppermind, the "enhancement" and "temporal" groups make perfect sense, however I feel like there are gaps in the physical and mental sections. For example Aluminum and Cadmium have generally the same effects but one is external and one is internal makes sense however zinc and copper have practically nothing to do with one another. Even the temporal powers gold and cadmium for example with gold you are seeing your past an internal view of time and cadmium is slowing down time which is an external control of it. but rioting and copper clouds don't feel connected at all. This leads me to think that "mental" allomancy should be 2 different categories. with a different set of internal powers going with zinc and brass, and a different set of external powers going with copper and bronze. The other place where I'm struggling to really see the connection is the internal physical powers. For every other set of powers they are very clear opposites for the push and the pull but for tin and pewter I struggle to see how enhancing strength and enhancing senses are opposite. Now I know to separate pewter and tin to work with the other rules of allomancy the base metal for pewter would have to be lead which is established to not have an allomantic power but maybe burning leads power is to weaken physical strength which is why people get sick when they burn it? I honestly don't know I'm basically just spitballing here. The other issue I recognize is that adding a metal for pewter and tin each would then make the number of metals not divisible by 4 which means that either steel and iron need another set of internal powers to go with them or that pewter, tin, or both would need 3 more metals to fill them out. I also recognize that at the end of HoA sazed said that there were 2 more metals and their alloys that hadn't been discovered to Spook which could be interpreted as only 2 had yet to be discovered but I wouldn't put it past him to hold back the full truth about it if he thought the others were unnecessary or too powerful. I might be overthinking it and I don't really think we need to give mistborn MORE powers but I do think it would be cool to at least theorize what the other powers could be.