I was reading through the wob thread when this struck me:
Q: Do you have in your mind all 150 different metallic effects?
A: Yes, but I haven't named them yet. I approached that and thought, "This is just mindnumbing". So, yes; one of the things I'd like to be doing and you may see more of this...each combination has a slightly different effect than what you'd anticipate.
We currently have 16 base metals 2 god metals 1 alloy of a god metal and an all new ( possible) god metal.
Where did the number 150 come from?
If my math is correct, excluding mistborn and full feruchemists, there are 16 possible base mistings and single metal feruchemists and 256 possible combinations for twin borns. I get 256 because there are sixteen possible combinations for each metal because there is 1 compounder and 15 other combinations.
We currently have a possible new god metal due to a new shard on scadrial. Is this is true than hypothetically couldn't each shard have a metal related to them? That would be 16 god metals. If that is true and alloys could be made, see malatium, could there be another 256 total alloys of base and god metals?
Am I completely nuts or is this how it could work?also if you were to burn a god metal would you gain access to that shards powers? Like if you burned honors god metal would you gain the powers of the radiants?
Tldr: I did some math after seeing a number. Questions arose.
So you know I posted this on reddit the other day, but I would like to see what people on here think as well. The Post.