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"Why?" Ambro thinks for a moment. "Have you ever heard of the apostles of Hell?" Not waiting for an answer, Ambro continues, "They were the seven children of a powerful demon of the Western Nothing. They had the job of tempting humans to sin, for each of them represented one of the seven sins. They did their job well, until he came; he was a spheremorph, one of those stock paladin types." Ambro looks at his spheremount, strapped to his arm. "Many of the apostles were killed outright when they confronted the spheremorph, two, Greed and Lust, fled with mortal wounds. Upon the road they discovered a traveler, who was an ancestor of mine. My ancestor was tempted with greed and lust for the power of spheremorphs and snuck into the city...then stole the spheremount and formspheres of the spheremorph." Ambro gestures at his partially scaled skin and half black half red hair. "But the demonic influence has never left my bloodline, and I still feel hatred at those like that paladin spheremorph. I only wait for the proper moment."

I would think no if it is according to the principle of intent.

Ambro laughs slightly, "You haven't figured it out? All that lord stuff was acting for your benefit, at least on their part. My intention was to pretend he was the leader and therefore have him be targeted by any attacker first.." Ambro suddenly frowns, contemplating his companion. "His name is Eerongal. I don't know much about him, we were kinda forced into traveling together, but he is the sort of person who believes that honor, trust, and loyalty are more than tools." Ambro shakes his head at the foolishness of it.

First, some misdirection. Ambro smiles then replies, "I simply asked a question and you answered it. That form simply allows two beings to communicate efficiently." Ambro tilts his head in thought. I am under no obligation to keep secrets. "I guess I could tell the truth about one thing. That old man asked me to keep an eye on you, so I will be following you until this tournament or whatever starts." Ambro leaves the obvious addition to that statement unsaid. EDIT: referred to the wrong person

Hehehe hermetic xenophobes...

@Comatose, Ah yes. I had forgotten about the original Kandra, but that doesn't change the fact that humans on Scadrial are only sentient because Preservation gave a part of itself to make them sentient. I wasn't sure about Sel to begin with, my statement about the Shaod was only conjecture. Though, if Aona is Devotion, both Aona and Skai could have cooperated to make sentience, but Aona gave more of herself to the Arelish so that she was devoted to a specific group of people.

Well that was interesting... Ambro hears 'Adolin' trying to get his attention. So. The man wishes me to name myself despite giving us a false name. Nameless ghosts do not deserve my name. "Call me Varius." It was my fool brother's name, and what I said is not a lie because I never said it was my name. "and what I used on you before was not a spell, I am no magic user."

I suppose that was a lie, but only in that I didn't have to follow Eero's request. "Really? That doesn't seem interesting. May I ask your name?" Ambro looks for a spheremount, while waiting for an answer. Tricky skill she had there, and I didn't even see her coming.

Ambro calmly releases his form, then turns to face whoever was behind him. I seem to have lost my sense of shock. Spheremorphs are a lot more dangerous than I expected. Ambro smiles, though there is no warmth in it. "Just following orders."

Not necessarily, take the mistwraiths for example, they lack sentience until they are given the spiritual DNA of others. Also, as I said before, the humans on Scadrial are only sentient because Preservation gave a part of itself to make them sentient. Granted, the shard of Preservation could only do so under the guidance of a sentient being, but I believe that Leras was one of the 'original' humans, the sentient beings created by the Whole Adonalsium.

I believe that anyone with Arelish blood has a piece of Aona for sentience. The other races have Skai as a piece of shard. Therefore, only those with a piece of Aona can get Elantrian magic and those with a piece of Skai can have...whatever those monks have... And the reason why anyone can snap on Scadrial is because everyone has a piece of Preservation.

that would be quite funny to see

um, isn't automation taboo?

Oh I just had a thought. The large amount of spheremorphs in the room would make it very easy to introduce a character in case someone dies.

Ambro smiles. So, even Eero is willing to use dirty tactics if nessesary. "I understand. It shall be done, if nessesary." Ambro moves just offset of 'Adolin'. Then starts burning atium. With this I should be able to track his movements without actual staring at him, and he cannot try anything without me knowing.

I blame the Rapture.

WAIT wait wait I just remembered. I don't have the book with me but bear with me. In the first book of mistborn when vin was talking with sazed, she ate one of sazed's pewter minds. She got the pewter power boost and could also feel another source of power, but she could not access it. Sazed said that this was because the power wasn't hers. Also, I always interpreeted allomantic pweter strength as improving the quality of your muscles though I could be wrong.

You can get a lot of interesting skills from renaissance fairs, thats where I got the chainmail skill from, and candle manking too but I suck at that.

bleh, cities. Krh'rhl would not like that much. And characters can be funny sometimes. They might not turn out the way you expect. Ambro from the Nexus for instance...

Quintet for the win! Introducing Krh'rhl to the others will be quite tricky, It would be even more difficult if none of them have encountered an Earthshell before. Also, Krh'rhl is about 6 feet tall.

@Zayde: Oops, sorry. @chaos: you can get lost!?

Yes, but there is a major difference between intelligence (cognitive) and soul (sipiritual).

No. You are burning pewter A and storing into pewter B. Yes, sort of.

I suppose this is the thread of general discussion?