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"To use Hemalurgy, one must first have someone with these right spiritual and genetic codse, then take the power from them. "

It seems that you don't need to be Scadrial to use Hemalurgy, so if there were a evil planet hopper (not Hoid, because I think he's a good guy), they could use Hemalurgy and steal someone's Allomancy or Furchemy. Maybe there's an Anti-Hoid who would do this. Or maybe Hoid has been fooling us. Or maybe this is just good for someone's Kuvudu cage match.

I've often pondered what kind of God Sazed would be.  I just can't see him asking people to worship him.  I also have this awesome idea of Marsh and Ten Soon acting as his agents on Scadriel, while he keeps track of the bigger picture.  As for minor tragedies, he's wise enough to know that people need minor tragedies to grow.

I think he will ask people to worship him, because that way, he can help them.

Kelsier, when he 'piggy backs' on the power of Preservation for a while, only speaks to Spook, and Spook is the only one of the original crew who has faith in Kelsier. 

Vin, when she gets the power, only speaks to Elend, who has a fundamental trust (perhaps even faith?) that Vin knows what she is doing.

There seems to be a connection between the Spiritual realm and the Cognitive realm, at least between Shards and mortals. If you believe in God, then he can speak to you. If you don't, then he can't.

The reason why Ruin can speak to people is because they either have spikes in them, making them much more of Ruin, or they are crazy, making them more in contact with Chaos, which is related to Ruin.

Hmm. I wonder if Shards speak to anyone in Elantris or Warbreaker. Maybe Hrathen and .... Vivenna? I'll have to look at this some more.

It actually does. In the Hero of Ages Q&A, Brandon says...

They spike the drinks at one of the nobility's balls with trace amounts of Atium, then cause a bit disturbance.  (Often, the Inquisitors themselves arriving will do it) and burn bronze and watch for brief pulses.  The body will burn metals instinctively if it can, which has been shown quite often in the series.  This is also how they get a lot of their secret information about who is a Misting and who isn't.  It's not a perfect method, since you have to watch for Copperclouds messing things up, but it is effective once in a while. 

Any time an obligator who is not a Misting joins the Ministry, he is unknowingly given a larger chunk of atium and then forced into a series of rituals that will drain him physically and get the body to react and burn the metal.  This was how Yomen was discovered.

I don't know what causes this, but it's pretty cool.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1267423/Iceland-volcano-eruption-The-terrifying-cauldron-lava-lightning-brought-chaos-airports.html

Curse you Alpha Readers!!!

And I think that Peter may be astonished by the fact that we have gotten the Prologue, and we're already searching for/found  Hoid.

Quote from: Terrisman243 on April 07, 2010, 03:40:21 PM

Anyone think that the drunk with the black and gray beard sitting in the doorway of the Servant's Quarters looked vaguely familiar? I think that if I was a planet-hopping shard-searcher, I'd want to be there at the treaty signing/king's assassination.

That was my initial thought as well, but I dismissed it.  Doesn't he usually have a white beard?  Then again, it is odd that of all the people there, he is actually described.  Maybe I'll rethink this.

In Warbreaker, Siri says that the beard looks bleached so that he looks older than he really is.

Except doesn't Sazed say that Furchemy is of neither Preservation or Ruin?

We should come up with a sweet name for allomantic-furchemists.

Allomists? Furchemantic? Fallochemantists? Chemist?

What do you guys think?