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I've got another one, zinc face cream, could you use it to store up small amounts of mental speed? It most likely wouldn't work if it needed a flowing charge, but it works as metallic atoms touching the skin. Where it gets confusing is what happens when it gets absorbed. Say you have a bit of feruchemy stored up when you first apply it. Later, it's drawn into your skin. Could you still use the charge if it's the same atoms of metal, but in your blood stream? That would make a much more reliable emergency metalmind, as long as you use it before you pass it out of your system.

Nutjob?

Easy explanation: It's a Pulling metal. Imagine a line representing a boundary between your body and the outside world. Pewter pushes it outwards, making you bigger and tougher. You have a bigger impact. The reverse is to pull the outside world in to yourself. It gives the external world a bigger impact on you.

I want to stay up all night reading books with Elend (if Vin didn't exist of course) and also coerce him into a dress. that'd be fun

Dust should still work, feruchemically. Allomancers swallow tiny shavings and sprinkles of metals, and they work as a single reserve. You'd store tiny little fragments of feruchemical charge in each one, but you could still draw them out in a single burst. This leads to a whole new question though; Is feruchemy conductive? Would the whole pile of metal dust store the charge, or only the particles you were touching at any given moment? If it is conductive, you could easily make a thin wire and connect a ring to a huge slab in your backpack. Feruchemy doesn't seem to be affected by how much surface area is touching you, just the quantity of metal and purity. This can be taken either way. For something to be in a metalic bond, it's got to be a bunch of metal nuclei in a sea of delocalised electrons. The charge carriers flying around easily jump from metal to metal, through a pile of dust, if a charge is running through it. Feruchemy could flow with the electrons, this could be why the whole metal stores the charge, not just the atoms on the surface tin contact with your skin. On the other hand, feruchemy probably doesn't suffer from electrical resistance, like a huge amount being pulled through a very thin wire all at once. If it was electricity, the electrons just bump into each other and give off a huge amount of heat. From this, we can gather that feruchemy is absolutely nothing like electricity or magnets or computers, so I have absolutely no idea if it does conduct or not.

Burn a bucketload of duralumin by itself and store it into a Nicrosilmind. Keep doing this for as long as you need, over a period of days or weeks until the nicrosilmind is full. Use it all at once at the same moment as you burn Duralumin again, giving a huge boost to your boosting power. Quick math behind it, say Duralumin makes Allomantic metal A 100x more powerful. The Nicrosil stores 100xAxT, the T being how long it can be sustained for. If A is duralumin, that's 10,000xTime, and the time is compressed. Say if you store for one week, that's 604800 seconds. The next metal is 6,048,000,000 times more powerful than normal. That's not even using multiple nicrosilminds and more supplies of duralumin to make some ridiculous feedback loop. Steelpush yourself into deep space. Riot an entire planet into berserker mode. Slide yourself into the Mistborn future trilogy. Try using it with Atium, then become Dalek Caan in Journey's End; "I can see through time itself!" Also, become an instant savant. It'd really mess you up if you burnt a bad metal. I want someone to burn two metals at once, then use Duralumin. The best combination I can think of is Atium and Tin for omniscience. I'm sure there's tons more cool ones. Try a duralumin-enhanced Awakening to increase your effective amount of Breaths.

I put this under a different topic the other day, (didn't see this one) but my guesses are Glory and Freedom. 'Honour and Glory' works as a phrase, but they're still very different. Honour is more like respect for what others deserve, or for agreements, while Glory is about awe and achievement. Freedom and Dominion would be a pair, but unlike Ruin and Preservation, they could exist without each other. I imagine it would find a planet of it's own, free from other shard's influence, and grant humans the ability to fly, or to have out of body experiences. The people could be nomadic, without any centralised power. It'd be a very, very different setting to the other Cosmere worlds, or anything else in the fantasy genre; no kingdoms or oppression. That's why I'm not sure this one will work, something else would have to throw off the peace.

Perhaps that's the way of unlocking Shadesmar through Allomancy; ripping yourself apart until there's a big enough void to step into. That's a trippy thought, stepping through your own soul. Instead, you could quickly be a Savant by burning something cheap and harmless like Copper, but simultaneously flaring it with Duralumin, or a Nicroburster. They're probably too expensive and burn too quickly to do by the time of AoL. Demoux probably did it through flaring a whole stomach of Atium, even after the battle at the end of HoA was over. No one had ever become an Atium Savant before, and being the body of Ruin it probably has a much worse effect on your spiritweb.

I couldn't find this asked anywhere else; Could Odium somehow pull Ruin out of Harmony? and if so; would they be allies, or would they hate or destroy each other?

I found this original image - http://media.screened.com/uploads/0/562/368858-internet_image.jpg - and tweaked it up a bit in photoshop. It was rushed need a few lessons, so don't look too closely. Squint and behold. (It's hard to draw rings onto someone's hand) For Matt Smith however, Google found me one where he's already got the Lord Ruler look, I reckon.

This is a really good idea! I just don't think that Internal/external is one of the divisions. I kind of assumed that all the shards are external. If a shard was only acting upon itself, I would have thought it would be useless. Honour is the only Internal one you've put down, but I think it could work both ways; Honouring others, and being honourable yourself. Also, I was wondering today if the Shards of Adonalsium be sort of like the attributes of the christian God. Then a book (by another author) mentioned "honour and glory", and now I'm willing to bet that Glory is a Shard that we'll see soon. EDIT: I'm less sure, but there could also be a Shard named Liberty or Freedom; you could slot it under Internal Chaos in your graph there. It's magic could grant it's people the ability to fly or have out-of-body experiences, perhaps.

With the help of IMDB, I've filled up my list. Kelsier: Joel McHale However David Tennant, Christopher Eccleston, and Ewan McGregor would also be brilliant. Spook: Danny Pudi. Hands down. Tall, skinny, adorable, and easily plays a teenager. Tindwyl: Yvette Nicole Brown. Vin; Alison Brie, in keeping with my Community theme, or Elyse Levesque. Elend: Daniel Radcliffe Breeze: Johnny Lee Miller, or perhaps Hugh Laurie. The Lord Ruler: Either Chris Addison, Benedict Cumberbatch, or Matt Smith These three actors 1) Look very handsome with black hair and 2) can portray a character of any age exceedingly well. Cumberbatch's roles slide easily from men in their 20's to late 40's. Smith just looks like a baby, but we know he can be deadly serious thousand year-old bordering on madness. My favourite single moment in FE is at the start of the Kelsier's last fight, when he steps out, and he's young, black-haired and handsome. In my head he's played by my best friend who matches the description, but he can't act. Also, Daniel Radcliffe could do well in the role. Brandon himself should play a random Nobleman, a la Stan Lee. Two things I have to disagree with; 1) An all-white cast is a horrible idea. It's a trope that's horribly overused in fantasy in movies and TV, often inaccurately. I thought I remembered the main differences between the Skaa, Noble and Terris races was their height? The Terris people, having a smaller population, probably don't vary too wildly in appearance. The Nobles are all descended from 10 people, but we can't assume that they all had the same colour skin; they were the Nobles could very likely all be (what we would call) mixed-race. The term Skaa covers a huge population that probably isn't homogeneous. Granted, the closest thing we have to knowing the complexion of all these people is that ash is still visible on people's faces, so most likely no one has really dark skin. and remember, an important part of this series is all about rising up against racial oppression. If it's an all-white main cast, you've already ruined the story. 2) Kristin Stewart is a good actress with a wide range of emotion. Like Robert Pattinson. They only sucked so bad in Twilight, for some reason, probably a bad director?

You're right in that Scadrial hasn't discovered all the possible elements, just as we haven't yet in modern-day earth. However I wouldn't count on any of them being Allomantic. It doesn't matter if the alloys are 'man-made', all the metals require some amount of human intervention (mining, extracting from ore, purifying). Think of how aluminium is so hard to create using the technology in AoL.

I don't think that the Investiture would change outcome. Otherwise there would require a complicated Investiture exchange rate; as in, how much sight is worth this much heat? Being end-neutral it would have to still be there, but only useable after it's been re-purified. This leads to another question; if something is put into a low-quality metalmind, then the metal got purified, there wouldn't be any change to the Investiture, would there? Only the rate or efficiency at which it can be stored and tapped, right?

I absolutely love this Scadrial is an absolutely beautiful setting for Sherlock, in both Empire time and AoL. I'd do it a bit differently though Team Sherlock An archivist totally works for Sherlock, you're right. An alternative I can think of is a Twinborn tineye savant and zinc ferring. In the original books, he was addicted to opium and whatever drugs he could get his hands on. He'd say that he couldn't function properly without it, a lot like Spook. He could also use it to focus on little details the size of a pinprick. He'd have a zincmind to store up mental speed, to make deductions in a second and show off. Also at times he'd stay completely still for days without talking, or sit in a drugged-up haze trying to solve a problem. This could be him storing up his mental speed to show off later in quick bursts. Watson being a chromium compounder just feels too easy. If he compounded luck, he could catch criminals by guessing correctly out of a crowd of people, and that's the opposite of what Sherlock is about. As a Doctor, I would have to make him a Soother. This could add a lot to the character development; Watson could ease the pain of others, but not his own pain (Replace Afghanistan with being a former soldier for the Lord Ruler, killing Skaa in an attempted uprising). Also, Sherlock could rely on him to soothe the pains of his drug addiction. I'll make him a twinborn for the sake of it, but I can't think of a feruchemical power that would suit him best. Storing up determination (and tapping it to have the strength to deal with Sherlock when he's around) could help him, and so could normally storing luck. Another idea that I quite like is Watson also being an archivist, as the novels are from his perspective looking back years later, reminiscing about Sherlock. Seeing as they're both 3P each, I'll add in Inspector Lestrade as a Seeker and electrum ferring. I think storing determination would explain how sometimes he's a very determined cop and sometimes it's just #not his division That leaves 1P for Mrs Hudson, the resident Smoker of 221B. Team Moriarty Your idea for Moriarty is absolutely brilliant, I seriously love it Another setup for Moriarty that could work pretty well is a Bronze compounder. He could use it to be constantly seeking for Sherlock, and compounding it would give him an overload of wakefulness. It would drive him insane, seeking his ultimate enemy all day and night. Also it would give him extraordinarily clear thinking, which complements nicely with Sherlock. (both intelligent, quick thinking men, but one is entirely mad and one's an addict) Moriarty's closest companion is Sebastian Moran. He's not in the BBC remake with Cumberbatch (however fans theorise that he's Jim's gay lover, and the owner of all those sniper dots in the Swimming pool) but he is in the RDJ film, A game of Shadows. He's the greatest sniper in the world, and for that reason I would make him a Tin compounder. He would rival Sherlock in the spotting-tiny-details department, and can see the smallest actions his opponents make from a considerable distance. Also you mentioned the hulk; that gives me another idea. The Avengers The Hulk - Pewter compounder Iron man's abilities are more suited to being a Steel compounder. He could wear a large steelmind over most of his body and still run super fast, practically fly, and Push enemies away. Thor's abilities make him a perfect Iron compunder. The ironmind can let him be heavy enough to never get pushed away, pull on buildings when he needs to fly, and pull that huge hammer towards him. Captain America - ignoring that he should probably have pewter or some other physical abilities, an Electrum compounder. Then we have Hawkeye as a tineye Black Widow should be a twinborn Rioter, for getting people to spill the beans in interrogations, and steelrunner, for all that agility. that brings the Avengers up to 19 points. I did always think they were overpowered.

Johnny Lee Miller from Elementary as Breeze. Danny Pudi for Spook

There's also the possibility that he ditches all his projects and the only thing he writes for the rest of his life is Stargate fanfiction. Or is that just me?

It makes perfect sense. In physics class we treated light passing through mediums as cars going over different surfaces. If a wheel hits dirt for a moment while the rest of the wheels are on road, it goes slower and turns the car around. If it hits ice, it has the opposite effect, one wheel going faster turns the car the opposite direction. This is one of those things where matter and waves behave the exact same way. One thing though, inside a Cadmium bubble the light from outside should be blueshifted, and inside a Bendalloy bubble the outside should be redshifted. By the amount that time is dilated, it should be a noticeable tinge. Also, because of the spherical shape of the bubble, there should be a lensing effect. Looking into a Cadmium bubble would be exactly like looking into a fishbowl. Now that I think about it, the lines of light should follow the same path as the bullets. Like aiming a laser pointer at a target through a glass of water. That means that something different is going on at the edge. Instead of being a wall of different speeds, it's probably a gradient that makes time accelerate as you enter it, making the light and bullet change speeds. If light inside and outside are still the same colour, the bullets must be travelling at the same speed in measured both outside and in bubble-time. Something completely different must be happening to change the bullets course. It could be just metal, and something like a tennis ball would still travel straight, as if it gets pushed or pulled by entering the bubble. However aluminium bullets, which can't be messed with allomantically, still don't go straight, do they? I'm stumped. I hope Brandon's got a good solution to reveal, a better one than merely trying to prevent Bendalloy from being too useful and powerful.

Hello, Jade here. First post, I'm in Australia and I've read up to and including Alloy of Law. I'm saving up for the adventure game book, and I was thinking through a bunch of (ridiculous) scenarios possible in the physical laws of Scadrial. I'm going on the notion that steelpushing and ironpulling are based of relative weight here. Say a human weighs a thousand coins, a random guess, that is why they are so easily pushed and pulled around. Although Vin was gifted, she wouldn't have been able to push away something really heavy. If there was a being that weighed a thousand times as much as a human, the ratio is the same, and so you can push and pull on their armour or anything attached to them, and fling them around like a coin. The Emperor lived a thousand years by Compounding his health and his age. What if he had spent a thousand years storing up a vast ironmind? Maybe even the walls of Kredik Shaw itself (was it made of iron?). Storing up so much of his weight that he has to tie himself down so he doesn't blow away with slight changes in air pressure. Fast-forward a thousand years, he's got a ridiculous store of weight. Hypothetically, if there was a riot, an attempted uprising coming from one direction, he could walk around it until Kredik Shaw was in between him, touch it with his hands and tap it all at once, and in that moment simply steelpush against it. He wouldn't even need duraluminum yet, which we're pretty sure he didn't know about (right?). Hypothetically, it could fly like a coin. Although he would need to have stored a proportional amount of strength, so his bones don't crush themselves into dust. It would be the ultimate demonstration of godhood, he could convince the survivors to commence work on rebuilding his castle, just to rub it in and be the ultimate prick. I would have had way too much fun being the Emperor. Also, imagine if he knew about the rest of the metals. Does burning cadmium and bendalloy affect the storing of feruchemy? Say you slowed down time for yourself in a bubble, every spare moment you had, all the while storing attributes in metalminds. Would this mean you could store more in a shorter amount of time, from the perspective of the world outside the bubble? If you flared it, you could fill metalminds to the brim in an instant, making it effectively end-positive.This could be extremely useful for twinborns in the time of Alloy of Law. Imagine the Emperor doing this. He would have been driven mad, a thousand years stretched out for even longer. Unless he used an equally huge metalmind of zinc. This is all just speculation, but it does go show what this magic system could possibly do.