Claincy

That was a clever method for discovering seer's (and allomancers in general). But it appears the lord ruler was only as aware as everyone else of mehods to snap people, beat them close to death. Aint the final empire lovely =) Anyway, had seen the first two quotes before, him very helpfully telling us that he can't tell us anything yet =) Third one is interesting though. "this threshold on scadrial much easier to obtain" could mean quite a number of things. The most logical (and interesting) thing I can think of is that he has modified the people themselves such that their spiritual dna is more floppy. Um, no wrong word, more volatile, easier to change. Which, I think could have other more serious implications in the longterm. For a start making haemalurgy easier, and perhaps easier to perform non-fatal haemalurgy.

The copperclouds wouldn't really be toooo much of a problem as most inquisitors had spikes granting bronze in addition to already having bronze. Though they would make it harder. Though, that method described would still only get people who already snapped, to the best of my knowledge you have to have snapped to burn isntinctively and the arrival of an inquisitor at a ball wouldn't be enough to force-snap people. The bit with the obligators appears to act on the same principal as the noble beatings. Except perhaps a bit more reliably succesful and a bit less dangerous. Though yes, given Harmony's changes I guess how it used to work is less relevant now Has brandon ever said anything about in what way he changed it? (I haven't been able to find any but could have missed them). I'm guessing whatever changes he made were such that the practice of beating adolescents to unlock allomantic potential would no longer work, or at least there would be a better way. As I think that was the big part of why he changed it.

If extreme positive emotional states could snap someone as well, that could be a very useful thing. Just thinking about the potential application of duralumin and zinc as a method for snapping people. If that could work, filling someone with ludicrous amounts of joy would be a lot nicer than the final empire noble's tactic of giving them a nearly deadly beating. Less of a recuperation period too.

Thanks, yeah I saw that topic. Hopefully when it goes live I will have the time to participate. Hm, that would make sense.

Hey, Been reading the forums for a little while now. Figured it was about time to make an account. Also just hit uni holidays so I actually have time to post now =) So about me: Australian Uni student (computer science degree). Do a lot of reading and have read all of the published cosmere stuff. And a good number of QA's. Unsurprisingly Brandon is one of my favourite authors, first read his books a few years ago. I am also a decided gamer with the intention of going into games development. Late last year I got a copy of the MAG which resparked detailed interest in the cosmere and Brandon's work. I now run a single campaign of the game with 4 seperate crews involved. A lot of work but some of the best fun I've had in ages =D