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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Alloy of Law Excerpt (Updated with Ch2)
« on: July 04, 2011, 11:26:16 AM »
That has some implications of its own. Eventually they're going to discover relativity and realize that cadmium and bendalloy should have optical doppler effects and try to find out why they don't.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn: Alloy of Law
« on: March 21, 2011, 11:05:29 PM »
The combination of iron feruchemy with steel allomancy would make it a lot safer for a misting to use a spikeway (or a railroad ;D ), with their lack of iron and pewter allomancy.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: WOK Cover Art Questions
« on: December 21, 2010, 03:43:21 AM »
Dalinar and the Parshendi Shardbearer? Seriously? Which is which?  ???

I thought it was pretty clear after reading it that it was the Parshendi Shardbearer in the front with his red cape and Kaladin in the back with his spear and a shield on his back.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Hopes/Predictions/Wild Theories for Book 2
« on: December 21, 2010, 03:09:04 AM »
True, but remember, Jasnah and Shallan are going to the Shattered Plains too.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Hopes/Predictions/Wild Theories for Book 2
« on: December 18, 2010, 08:05:44 AM »
Everyone focuses on Szeth vs Kaladin because they're both Windrunners, but how about Szeth vs Jasnah instead?


That fight would go rather differently for Szeth.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Medical Hemalurgy
« on: October 02, 2010, 11:04:42 PM »
This sort of thing would be covered in living wills and such. "If I am rendered brain dead by injury or illness I consent to be used as a hemalurgic donor." I imagine that's the scenario where it would be most accepted.

Something else that occurred to me is some sort of multi-spike, several smaller pieces that fit together to make one large one. Perhaps that would let you spread it out across multiple recipients, though probably at reduced potency.

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Brandon Sanderson / Medical Hemalurgy
« on: October 02, 2010, 09:00:49 AM »
It seems that Hemalurgy could potentially have a significant place in medicine alongside things like blood and organ donation, in the form of voluntary hemalurgic attribute donation. One complication of this would be the fact that hemalurgy and heart donation are mutually exclusive, so the benefit a recipient would receive from transference of a some hemalurgic attribute would have to be weighed against the benefit of transplanting the heart itself. Presumably they would have to have a way of ranking the suitability of a heart for transplant versus hemalurgy while taking into account what is needed for other patients. A weak or diseased heart which cannot be transplanted could be used for just about anything hemalurgically, whereas a heart ideal for transplant could be used for hemalurgy instead if its owner is a pewter misting and there's a potential recipient whose vast injuries are certain to be fatal without the effect of pewter allomancy.

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Brandon Sanderson / A use for Aluminum
« on: September 28, 2010, 11:39:28 AM »
A possible benefit to burning aluminum occurred to me the other day:  removal of toxic heavy metals.  If aluminum can affect metals in general, not just those that are Allomantically useful, then you could use it for that purpose. This could result, for example, in aluminum mistings being preferred for certain types of work where they are likely to be exposed to toxic metals, because they can just swallow and burn a bit of it every now and then to purge themselves.

Maybe in the Mistborn 2+ era they would have lower insurance premiums.

Thoughts?

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