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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Mistborn the RPG at Gen-Con!
« on: July 31, 2011, 06:44:06 PM »
btw, this is becoming my new wallpaper on my laptop.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Allomancy: full powers of metals (spoilers)
« on: July 27, 2011, 05:10:48 AM »
on't forget that Iron and Steel also allow you to "see" metals as a blue line of energy.  Usually this is used to locate metals you are pushing or pulling, but Inquisitors use it to see by detecting the trace amounts of metals found in all things.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Elendel Daily
« on: July 22, 2011, 10:16:50 PM »
This was actually a fun read and much could be gleaned from it.

The fact that hiring a feruchemist needs an appointment shows that feruchemists are likely much more rare than allomancers now.  This is likely because all the true feruchemists were killed and the ones now probably came from people with recessive feruchemical genes.

Ironeyes is an odd connection.  Sanderson has hinted that Marsh may be alive, but what are the odds that people would connect him to his old nickname?  Coincidence?

The woman seeing her dead husband save her seems to imply that more Inquisitors are being made, but by whom?  Could this be why allomancers are being kidnapped?

Life Across the Ocean? shows that we will likely be introduced to the people of the southern hemisphere.  If they have a different magic system, the "mystical Unkown Metals", then perhaps it could explain the Vanishers?

Everything said by Allomancer Jak is likely a lie.  In fact, I doubt there is even a real person named "Allomancer Jak".  Still, his story at least shows that koloss still exist and in tribes.  And if only one generation of using old spikes could create someone as sophistocated as Human, imagine how sophisticated koloss may be after three hundred years of using them.  They may even be able to create weapons of as "incredibly fine make" as Jak claims.


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Since they all take place in the Cosmere.  What if a Feruchemist ate some Lerasium, then went and bought enough biochromatic breath to reach the 10th heightening, and then randomly got picked to become an Elantrian?

p.s. I haven't read WoK yet.

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Writing Group / Re: Best. Word. Ever.
« on: July 20, 2011, 05:51:43 PM »
bombastic
garrulous
lemniscate

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Alloy of Law Excerpt (Updated with Ch2)
« on: July 12, 2011, 06:42:42 AM »
I really like that Brandon introduces Bendalloy by using it so Wax and Wayne can have a private conversation, rather than in a fight. :)

Also, the idea of "allomantically inert" alloys and metals other than silver is new, but that would make sense as in previous novels silver is the only metal that they'd be likely to be making anything from, wheras in a more industrial era aluminium is likely to be much more common both as a metal and as an alloy.

I agree totally. This is the best part of Brandon, the fact that he can take a magic system and think of unique and sometimes even strange ways that it can be used without being used to kill armies and subjugate the masses.

I'm also happy that he had the "allomantically inert" alloys, because it sort of pissed me off that steel/iron could work on all metals. I thought that there should be some metals that can't be pushed/pulled, just like a magnet doesn't attract/reject all metals

Aluminum would make sense that it is "Allomantically inert". Unlike most metals in the real world, Aluminum cannot be magnetized. This leads to an interesting question: do Coinshots/Lurchers magically control metals or do they magically control magnetism? If it is magnetism, I wonder what Wax's abilities could do to the new electric lights they installed? Hmmm.

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In the Mistborn books Sanderson has said that in the Mistborn books all of the Lord Ruler's Final Empire consisted in the northern hemisphere of the planet.  He has hinted that he will tell us (likely in the Alloy of Law) what had gone on in the southern hemisphere.

Wouldn't it be interesting if it turned out that on the southern hemisphere it was the land where Warbreaker or one of the other Cosmere book locations took place?  That would put at least two of his books not just in the same universe, but on the same planet.

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