Timewaster's Guide Archive

I don't think he was an inquisitor, for one thing, he describes things too much to have had eye spikes, and from what we know about the conventical, Inquisitors aren't much into aesthetics, but Alendi often describes the terrain.  It's true the piercings could have something to do with hemalurgy, but I think his piercings were more like Vin's than the spikes of the inquisitors.  And from what we know of the diary, he mentioned nothing about hearing voices, so it seems unlikely Ruin was influencing him directly.   

Definately, Elantris and Mistborn are Prime example of the "new" fantasy that could happen a lot more  if people strayed away from the standard Tolkien variety.  (Not to say I don't like Tolkien, just he set the standard for many fantsy books to come after him, and too many fantsy books these days are just tolkien copies.)

A bit hard to apply rules to something we don't fully understand, tisn't it?

And then you fall victim, to the "just one more chapter syndrom," and end up staying up till one in the morning and reading it when you should be doing you're homework.  I love the avalanche of awesome at the end.

Interesting theory, I was wondering how the ashmounts were going to play into things, I personally assumed that they were created whenb the lord ruler reshaped the earth.  The way I pictured it, He basically picked up the land where the well, was, and moved it to the center of the empire, and the asmounts were a result of this huge landmass being set down.  I'll have to reread that part about Elend.  Another thing I was wondering about, it do the mists only kill when they come during the day?  Because if it is, the maybe there's a day-night paralell between preservation and ruin.  Preservation-Night-Benevolent Mists, Ruin-Day-Killing Mists.  I'm not sure about it, it's just something that came to mind

Or, perhaps Zane was just a fortunate accident, for the Sprit at least

I want to agree that the only reason that the Inquisitors have allomatic powers is because of the metal Vin gives Elend, and that Hemalurgy does something different, however, the place where that metal was found seemd like a very private and personal place for the lord ruler, and I don't think he would share it.  Besides, the new Inquisitors are made at the conventical of Seran, aren't they?