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What do you call a Surgebinder getting dragged behind an airplane? A Kite Radiant

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What do you call a manic depressive Knight Radiant who keeps his manic phase spending sprees under control? A Splurgebinder.

So, you've got a puppy named Odium? How about a cat named Garfelis?

And, again, it's kind of hard to tell because Shallan has the equivalent of a very effective immune system buzzing through her system whenever she's around a lighted sphere.

Kaladin is a surgeon intimately familiar with many illnesses. Rotspren are commonly sighted. I'm pretty sure that there are all sorts of bugs going about the place.

Well, Blood is one of the essences. Maybe it's like a default that adjusts to the normal of the person it's being soulcast in.

I bet that the Soulcast blood had the proper distribution of white blood cells, forming a functional immune system that Shallan didn't reject as foreign because SHHH IT'S MAGIC. seriously though, anyone have any ideas?

I like the "tape coins to everything" idea. I'd personally hide a hundred or so bricks of metal around my neighbourhood, bolted to the ground where possible. Also, imagine biking, rollerblading, skateboarding, or really any wheeled sport with pewter and steelpushing. Or sticking to a plane with Ironpulling. Or making people addicted to your presence by Rioting their happiness every time they saw you.

You could go in the same vein as Thug vs Pewterarm - Soothers could be Cons and Rioters could be Mobs, Lurchers could be Thieves and Coinshots could be Shooters, Tineyes could just be Eyes, etc.

I'm actually in southern Ontario, if there's a spare moment to change it

Well, if it's not, it should be, cause this is awesome.

I know nothing about linguistics, but this sounds really cool. One interesting linguistic quirk you could add would be to give every element a meaning - maybe something along the lines of "the hundred virtues". The invert-elements might be places where both an virtue and its inversion could be seen as virtuous - for example, Serenity and Ambition. Naming a child is supposed to shape it's life, and original names are best. The upper class might value the basic elements above all else for their purity, especially if the virtues that also have inversions follow a theme - if the upper class values boldness, for example, maybe a lot of the hundred virtues exemplify that, but their inversions are used by the lower classes because like to distinguish themselves from the haughty upper classes. You could then play with the themes a bit, by making the upper class ultimately entirely contradict the themes of the virtues. This is all just an idea, of course, and I hope you give it consideration and nothing more.

This is like watching a car crash, a couple frames per week.

A god called Dust. His realm is that of the forgotten places, abandoned places - not the wilderness, but not civilisation. He is the essence of places left behind. An old ruin, a deserted cemetery, a shipwreck, even an attic undisturbed for years. He is a figure of lines: Shadow, light, straight and shifting flickers that illuminate a cloud of dust in vaguely human form, with the image of forgotten faces flickering across his skin. He is patron, too, of those left behind: Hermits, exiles, the poor, the feral, and the forgotten dead.

Well, Aluminum would be tricky, because it consumes itself.

Aluminum is marginally useful, actually. Just inscribe a secret message on an aluminum capsule and swallow it. If you make it through enemy lines, take some laxatives and put a sieve in the outhouse. If you're compromised, burn it. Also, you can coat a pill in aluminum, which you can burn to release the drug into your system. You can swallow an emergency broadcaster with an aluminum switch that you can burn to trigger. You can steal anything made of metal (does aluminum clear non-allomantic metals?), swallow it, and threaten to burn aluminum if your demands aren't met (copper mind with vital info?). You can give bronze mistings a scare by blasting them with an allomantic pulse.

I'm sure there are still pockets of aqueous humour (as opposed to dry wit) cushioning the spikes against the edges of the eye sockets.

Mistborn? Fly through Toronto wearing red with a big white beard, laughing maniacally, Rioting happiness and confusion in everyone I pass.

Finished all three in a sitting

I recently got an app that had the option to listen to audio books at high speed, and I tried it out with Mistborn. I've got to say, it's incredible the speed at which the brain processes information; I can make out every word still at 2.3x speed. If you like audiobooks and time as well, this is a good compromise that can cut the listening time in half or better. Maybe it's not as fast as reading, but you can't drive, bike, etc while reading either.

I would make sure that this system is describable in a dumbed-down format, too. For example, you might have characters who understand it as "conjuring things". They won't understand the intricacies - they will understand that an angry mage is pulling knives from the air and hurling them face-wards. A good example of this is to read the Malazan books - the magic there functions entirely differently for everybody, but that's just a result of the facets of perception of an incredibly detailed system.

Honestly, you can read it out of order as long as you don't read books for major plot twists. It's vague enough that you might even find it more enjoyable seeing how the world got to where it is in Alloy through Mistborn. The style is definitely a lot lighter - it reads somewhere between the fantasy, mystery, western, and superhero genres.

So, yeah, I suggest following Sanderson's Somethingth Law and making the limitations more interesting than the powers. For example, forced specialisation (lending itself to a kind of 'super-hero' feel), limits on the number of mages, or limits on the amount they can use their magic. You could even go so far as redefining the elements they can effect - say, by states of matter. You can have liquid, gas, solid, plasma, flesh, and mind, for instance - liquid is roughly water, gas is roughly air, solid is roughly earth, plasma is roughly fire, and perhaps only flesh mages can directly affect the body, while mind mages can directly affect the mind.

"Dada! OBEY ME."