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Oddly, now I'm thinking it's a pity they didn't harvest Lord Rulers sperm before offing him. But that would make Mistborn a rather different book.

I'm wondering what Brandon meant by that scene.

I figured it was more of a commentary on their respective roles. Elend is a very visible figurehead, Vin is the shadowy assassin.

Hmm, so there is confirmation... Guess I could add it to the wiki. I also think Mr. Sanderson will change the abilities in the future. If nothing else duralumin misting becoming completly useless except as hemalurgy victims sounds rather depressing.

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Quote from: VegasDev on October 22, 2008, 01:04:30 AM

Would someone with Achlorhydia have difficulties burning metals? That is, do stomach acids have anything to do with the equation or just the fact that the metals make it to the stomach?

Remeber the Atium burning obligator? He just wore his metal on the forehead. It seems that all you need to do in order to burn metals is to simply have it in contact with your physical self. Course that's usually inefficient since another can take it away from you.

That was an extra bead for emergencies; Atium burns quickly.

Maybe, but remember when Marsh showed up he said something like we've only the seven beads that's in our cache. Not We've only seven cause I used 3 or 4 to protect myself against mistborn. I think he was the type that would beg forgivness by confessing his sins of wasting a metal desired by a servant of his god.  So it's probably safe to say he wasn't buring metals inside his stomach.

I'd like to join the chorus in thanking you for one of the most gripping trilogies I've ever read in my life.

And since no first post is ever really complete w/o the "throw crazy theory at audience and author” here’s mine.  It seems that the world has come full circle, in more ways than one. I think the original act of breaking off the shard of Preservation in order to create sentience is what caused the unity of the two powers to the broken. With Ruin dominant in the unified entity the dark force's primary goal was to probably split itself from the whole since killing a God ranks pretty high in ruinous actions, and it would give the force greater autonomy to not have to share a mind with its opposite twin.

Perhaps after the break the intelligence behind the forces died and they just reminded abstract powers until like minded people drew them in. Which might explain why the Gods had human bodies.

Hm, though now that I think about it, a fair amount of canon states Creation and Ruin were separate when humans were created...