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Anyways I had this huge epiphany with the whole hemalurgy and allomancy having to do with the mists.  First of all, the people who use hemalurgy that we have seen so far (ie inquisitors, zane I belive) all have steel within them correct.  Afterall, inquisitors are part of the "steel ministry."  Now steel according to the allomantic table that is in the book pushes (also on a sidenote about this,  in the table it says steel pulls at least in the book I have while iron pushes.  But later on in the definition part, it says that steel pushes which is correct I belive). So my theory is that this is why the mist reacts the way they do to hemalurgists.  Now for allomancy mistborns, I believe that they attract the mist because they are born with allomantic powers.  Possibly this has to do with an abnormal high level of iron that they have within their blood which in turn attracts the mist. 

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So to get this straight you think hemalurgists naturally have a high amount of steel in their blood, and allomancers naturally have a high amount of iron in their blood? and that the metal is unconsciously reacting to metal in the mists? If that were the case, it would seem that an allomancer would never need to drink iron flakes, and vice versa for a hemalurgist. Also what if an allomancer drank no iron, but lots of steel? would the mists still be repelled?

Interesting theory, but without any further evidence i don't think so.

and geez i double post a lot....sry...

I believe that first time she used the eleventh metal there was more than one person in the room, and the second man was an inquisitor.

GOSHDARNIT!!!! no seriously i am going to reread that section of MB1. i thought they both appeared next to TLR.

They did think that atium was paired with gold didn;t they?

Thats what the general Allomancer population thought, i'm not sure if thats what the Steel Ministry thought as well. It would be nice to know where Kelsier found the legends about the Eleventh Metal...

Also it would seem that the legends must have been started by a person who knew that Rashek, not Alendi, was the Lord Ruler.

Also....did anyone notice that Vin saw two people when she used the Eleventh metal on TLR? One a young man, one a Terris tribesman? It is my theory that the young man was Alendi....

BTW my theory is that the Lord Ruler was turning the atium into malatium. Why i don't know. I have absolutely no evidence to support this other than the fact that the atium...isn't there.

lol sry this post is extremely rambling and confusing. One thought led to another....

so you think Vin was the very first to ever discover Duralumin?

yes i think most of us have the same thoughts. Interesting idea though about them using duralumin to be so powerful.

hmm...i think this is moving away from the topic of the thread. Perhaps Miyabi if you would like to explain your theory in depth in a thread of your own making?

what do u mean, power? do u mean something akin to Preservation and Ruin?

Of course i am not solely using what Sanderson said to conclude that burning mists is a hemalurgical ability. I just think it would be stretching the boundaries of coincidence, natural and physical law, blah blah blah etc... that Vin, Zane, and the Inquisitors all 'push' the mists away...and all have hemalurgy. (For those of you who might be new to the thread look through and you will see why we think Vin and Zane use it.