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Sometimes, I worry that I'm not the hero everyone thinks I am.

The Philosophers assure me that this is the time, that the signs have been met. But still, I wonder if they have the wrong man. So many people depend on me. They say I will hold the future of the entire world on my arms.

What would they think if the knew that their champion - the Hero of Ages, their savior - doubted himself? Perhaps they wouldn't be shocked at all. In a way, this is what worries me most. Maybe, in their hearts, they wonder - just as I do.

When they see me, do they see a liar?

OK. What's the deal with the holding of the future of the world on the arms thing? This has always seemed weird to me. I understand that Alendi has great influence on the future, but why his arms? Why not his back or his shoulders? And not only his arms, but ON his arms. Shouldn't he hold the future IN his arms?

So what's the significance? Am I just crazy and reading way too far into this?

The first thing that I thought of was that they were feruchemial bracelets, and they were super important ones that only Alendi could access. But that doesn't make sense, given his later fascination with feruchemy.

Could there be some type of hemalurgical thing on his arms, so important as to affect the whole world?  What does everyone think about this?

EDIT: Corrected spelling, Changed hemalurgy to feruchemy a few times so as not to confuse all you people....I hate it when I do stupid things like type hemalurgy instead of feruchemy three or four times in a row.

For the first part of your post, Darxbane, i believe that it was mentioned somewhere as well, I just don't recall if it actually comes from a kandra or not.

As for the second part, I agree, the kandra are most likely deluding themselves in some way to make themselves feel better.

That quote, along with the fact that Zane is the only Venture mistborn we actually see (and you would think we would see more given the circumstances if there were any) I am inclined to believe Zane is the only one. I seem to remember Straff saying this specifically, but I couldn't find the passage, so I used that one.

For a really wacky idea, what if Vin's sister was an Allomancer (seeker maybe, if we go with the power-stealing idea)?  We know her blood line is really strong, so maybe there is a higher chance with her family.  Is there any proof that Reen was as well?  That could explain how the inquisitors finally caught up with him.  Maybe when they 'killed' Reen they used him to make a new inquisitor (like Marsh).

This is what I was originally trying to get at. For the power stealing to work, the sacrifice would have to have allomantic abilities (and 1 would have feruchemy). Thus, vin's sister would have to be a seeker, which is not likely (unless it's through the same mom...I don't know). Reen likely would not be an allomancer as he was only her half-brother.

Darxbane, for the reasons you mentioned, I was thinking that any additional powers an inquisitor had would have to be useless in battle. Like, you don't sooth someones emotions in battle. So abilities of this general nature would be what we were looking for. Not necessarily useful in battle, but elsewhere maybe.

Chaos, from now on I will be attempting to use the word Hemalurgify in all my posts on this thread. That's got to be the coolest word ever.

I honestly don't know what the big deal is about the difficult to replace quote. If your going to stick eleven spikes in someone placed just correctly to give them special abilities and not kill them in the process (even though all logic says they should be dead), I would classify that as being difficult. No need to complicate this any more than that, according to Phaz's razor thingy (which I'm to lazy to find and actually use...).

The Inquisitor allomancer theory has its positive and negative points, as does mine, but I'll be honest, I just don't like it. I don't know why, it just seems too easy to me. Which is kind of funny considering that in the previous paragraph I mentioned keeping things simple.

I've always envisioned hemalurgy as a third full system with unique abilities. If it is just a process to gain allomancy, I'll feel somewhat cheated.

Thanks for posting though, I really like some of the ideas going around.

Misborn.  Less powerful, but it makes up for it in subtlety and just plain normalcy.  The subtlety is a big thing for me though...if  had that much power, I wouldn't want it to be as obvious as it is for channelers. 

Aes Sedai/channelers are cool, but they live too long for my taste and they are just plain snooty  

I'm having difficulty understanding how burning metals inside your stomach to manipulate metals and people around you is normal......

So what if you were a mistborn and channeler? That would be pretty much amazing!

That would be the implication, but we haven't seen any others, and this quote from straff is also pretty convincing.

MB2, Chapter 27, page 253 at the top.

That wasn't it at all. More mistresses meant more chldren. And more children, born from a high noble line like his, meant more allomancers. He'd only spawned one Mistborn, but there were many mistings.

That about did it for me. He could just be referring to "one of our allomancers."

Thinking back, I seem to remember something about the Lord Ruler not actually moving the well of ascension, just building Kredik Shaw around it. I think that he probably just changed the landscape a lot. The "Terris Mountains" became the area around Luthadel. Thus, the ashmounts would have been part of this worldwide landscaping thing as well. I'll reread to see if I can find what I'm talking about here....maybe I just made it up. Any thoughts?