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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Final Hero of Ages Theories
« on: October 11, 2008, 12:54:53 AM »
I am removing myself from this discussion because I have finally pieced everything together and it would be best served in the spoiler thread.
"Magic is what makes fantasy fantastic," someone says, "you can't apply rules to them or else it loses wonder!" I respond, "Sure, but if you want to write them you will certainly want to know how they work." Writing is all about execution, and I find applying some basic laws of physics to magic systems make them more understandable and realistic. Here, I'm going to outline my basic method for developing a magic system.
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I had more than twice the votes of Andrew. To time travel back and change events is to deny democracy!
You've got a good point. Brass, though, is almost always more copper than zinc. We don't know what the percentages are in the specific allomantic alloy Brandon used (if he ever even decided that). But that may be a sign that the alloy does not have to be primarily of the allomantic base metal.
Can anyone find any good candidate alloys of Chromium where it is the primary component?
Well, yes. But they don't provide any evidence one way of the other as to atium's existence in mistborn, pre-Lord Ruler.
Maybe he created it just so he could make the bracers out of them.
The noblemen are people that are accepted as blessed by the Lord Ruler for supporting him during his rise of power. Obviously they are not terrismen because he has hunted them to extinction. Were they perhaps Alendi's traveling companions?
On page 111 of the second book it states:
"Perhaps that was what Marsh had been following; the senses of a man burning tin could be quite acute."
Marsh wasn't a Mistborn he was a seeker who could burn bronze... Was this part of his change into an inquisitor?