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Uh, welcome? Thou art not getting a first-post vote from me!! Good name change though.

Hey guys! Give this man some up-votes love for going way beyond the extra mile! EDIT: Same goes for the very next post.

Dudes! Try to post questions only! I do want to work a bit on this during the Holidays, and I'd appreciate help coming up with questions. Until then, maybe not scare me away by using the whole time to fill the thread with questions? @Windy, I know, much of it is rather unclear. But it is possible to give an approximate answer with links to relevant WoBs and whatnot. I'll try to find some nice answers if you'll let me. But exams and work makes it impossible for me to do so until - you guessed it - the Holidays!

Do we even know how Snapping works? From what I understand, there aren't necessarily any external signs that anyone has Snapped, and that it is the subsequent ingestion of metals and attempt at burning them that tells them if they're Allomancers or not. I believe that there were Bendalloy/Cadmium and Chromium/Nicrosil Mistings during the Final Empire, but without the metals to experiment with, they are about as useful as Atium Mistings during The Alloy of Law era. The only thing Preservation screwed around with was his mist and how it didn't snap Bendalloy/Cadmium and Chromium/Nicrosil Mistings (although they could hypothetically snap on their own). EDIT: Seers only had the potential to become Seers. Leras didn't change what type of Misting people had the potential to become. He only didn't include Sliders, Pulsers, Nicrobursts and Leechers in his mist-snapping.

First proof reading. He's done with editing (as in, he is satisfied with the book now and won't change anything) and will now commence proof-reading (spelling, grammar, context etc.).

Yes, but if you look at the map and compare it to what Peter just said, you'll see that it is likely that their departure from Jindo was accompanied with an exodus of some kind, as MaiPon is located far away from Jindo.

I almost spit the soda I was drinking at the time all over my book when I read this. Up-vote for almost making me drop my smart-phone remembering this!

Hmm. You might have a point there. I would have argued if I hadn't noticed the "most Mistborn", part. EDIT: Ninja'd!

Not all of the quotes are a 100% relevant. You seem to have missed the most important one, however:

I am not certain who ninja'd who here...

Well, we probably wouldn't have noticed just yet if it hadn't been for our most observant lurker, gruntle. Oh, and Peter? Your presence would be appreciated on another thread too. EDIT: @Darnam: There is a WoB on it. I'll see if I can find it. EDIT 2: Woah! Literally 10 seconds of searching:

I see. Well, if anyone is interested in discussing White Sand, please to PM me.

I might be willing to do show some love for Sel during the Holidays. Do you have a list of compiled questions to answer? Or should I make one myself?

Reading it now. For the interested but indolent lurkers on this thread, here is a link to the synopsis in question. EDIT: An up-vote for your first post! Welcome. =) EDIT 2: Oh my god! This seems to be a really interesting twist on the effects and causes of Snapping. EDIT 3: Also, who the heck is the Bondsmith?

I am currently reading "White Sand" and was wondering if it was allowed to discuss it here in the fora. I seem to remember reading that Brandon & Co. did not approve of talking about unpublished works, but I cannot recall where. Is this correct? And if not, where would it be allowed?

Wait, this is from April? No one wanted to help, Kurk?

I'm leaning towards falling to the ground and spinning around there. Gravity would still affect them, and since both steel-pushing and the reverse lashing only seems to affect stuff in a straight line, they'd fall down. Also, I should have noticed that my "really cool scenario" basically does the same as steel-pushing and iron-pulling simultaneously....

Oh, I wouldn't recommend buying them. There are, after all, perfectly good pirated e-book versions out there (or you know, libraries 'n' stuff). And yes, I agree neither Harry Potter nor Twilight (especially not Twilight) are high quality reading, but given the way both have had huge impacts on subsequent writing within their genre, they have unfortunately become almost "a must" to know in order to be culturally á jour and relevant. And not to be crass, but "who should I pick to be my boyfriend" is actually a perfectly valid plot. Many of the real classics are constructed around this such as Romeo and Juliet and Pride and Prejudice to name but two. But there are better ways of doing it then Twilight, which is simply - quite frankly - horribly written, structured and plotted. Oh, the horror! But, yeah, @a smart guy, Read Twilight! EDIT: Just to clear up a few points, I enjoyed Harry Potter immensely when I was younger, and I do not want to seem to dismiss it as literature, but admittedly they are not of high quality compared to other writers of the same genre (for example, oh I dunno, Brandon Sanderson and whatnot). I also did not mean to unwittingly lump it in with Twilight. They just happened to both be relevant to approximately the same degree for the point that I was making.

Actually, no. Eating more of it would make you allomantically stronger. Lerasium is part of Preservations power and the more you consume of it, the closer you get to ascending, which was basically what happened to Vin when she drew in the mists. There is also a WoB on this somewhere. EDIT: Found them:

damnation you, Swimmingly! You beat me to it! Also, @FeatherWriter, I feel with you. I didn't really cry during the Kaladin chapter, but there was an uncharacteristic amount of squeeing. "Feels" I believe it is called in Tumblrverse?

Thanks! Up.vote for providing the quote. I should also clear up a common misconception - one that I myself has helped propagate: The Shards aren't "blinded" by their weakness in the sense that they cannot see it, but that they see it as an intolerably bright light. They're not blind to it, but blinded by it.

Not only does he double-post - he quadruple-posts!!!! The profanity! Down-vote the base-born bastard! EDIT: Forgive me, Shardlet, but I'm going to copy-paste your banner into my own signature. All in the spirit of recruiting more down-votes against that flaming, addle-brained Silverpike.

For all we know, MaiPon's border might be next-door to the Emperor's bedroom. MaiPon is part of the Rose Empire, whose size and composition we know nothing about.

I think this has been stated already (by myself and others), but it seems to be a common misconception that Sazed "swapped out" some of the allomantic metals. Nicrosil/Chromium and Cadmium/Bendalloy were always a part of the allomantic table, and Atium and Lerasium - known as "the God metals" - never were. The former were simply unknown during tLR's era; partly because he was actively suppressing information and partly because they didn't have the technology to produce them at that time; the latter assumed to fit into the table (although Lerasium was unknown too). What Sazed did to Allomancy was to change how snapping worked and to point out the fallacy of placing Atium on the table, as well as hint at the existence these unknown metals. He might have; we don't know. But what should be pointed out (and has been) is that he didn't really need to. Hemalurgy has largely been forgotten at this point (though knowing Brandon, it will resurface), and why fix that which ain't even known to exist? Agreed. Snapping only awakens the latent allomantic potential. Anyone who hasn't snapped yet are still allomancers, but with powers that hasn't expressed themselves yet. I do believe Hemalurgy is stealing the part of the soul that has the potential, not necessarily the expressed ability.

Woah! Well I stand corrected (or, well, sit atm). I didn't think of how some animal can have spotted patterns in their fur. While this is arguably a bit more complicated then what goes on with our hair, you're right to point out that this could theoretically work on human hair as well given a slightly different scenario. I am not familiar with Prader-Willi syndrome. TO THE WIKIPEDIAMOBILE!