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Vin's so smart! She's aways coming up with little ideas like that.

Agreed mate. 

i agree that the piercings were unique. but i think they were given in ritual sacrifice. and i don't think that Alendi would have mentioned it in the logbook because it seems that the Anticipation was pretty well known. in which case the ritual piercings would be practically common knowledge (especially to him) and so why go into too much detail?

i think maybe Ruin's influence was weaker when the well itself was weaker. it seemed to gain power as the well did rather than just with the lord ruler's death (though i'm sure it helped that he couldn't take the power for himself). i think Ruin just had limited influence and used it for things like Zane, Vin, and Vin's mother and  possible very subtle manipulations of the inqs (he couldn't be too obvious or the lord ruler would just purge them).

you have a dirtbag in front of you and behind you, both wearing metal breastplates.....Pull, jump out the way, and laugh as they meet in the air!

i like it. that reminds me of when Guybon (or whatever that dude's name was) was chasing vin with shan and pulls that armored soldier into himself in midair. classic.

i guess that makes it a quirk rather than an actual weakness. but its a quirk that nobody but vin and i guess TenSoon know about. so really i guess its about exploiting a burner's ignorance of the quirk rather than the person or the atium.

This is a pretty wild theory, but you all love it, dont you?

lol of course we do. and who knows, maybe he did have some hemallurgic piercings before hand. maybe those were what kwann spoke of. or maybe he got some more when declaring himself the hero. either way i think he was a hemallurgist.

ok so i looked through the books and the ars arcanum for all the copies i had and here's what i found:

1. all the base metals pull and all of the alloys push. the pulling metals have the little dot outside of the crescents and pushing metals have them inside the crescents.

2.  also i found a pattern when moving around the circle. start with steel and move anti-clockwise. alloy, base, base, alloy. those are for the basic eight (upper tier) external metals. the same pattern holds for the internal metals and continues to the lower half of the circle. so malatium and electrum both push and are alloys and gold and atium are base metals and push. so if the last quartet of unnamed metals follow the same pattern then the two next to gold and atium are base metals and the ones below steel and pewter are the pushing alloys. so if my theory holds true the external metal below steel is duralumin and the external next to atium is aluminum. the internal metal above aluminum is whatever elend ate (assuming its the base metal which i think it is since it makes sense that a metal making you a mistborn would pull on something internally) and its alloy is next to it.

3. i couldn't find a pattern to the spikes piercing the crescents but that doesn't mean there isn't one. 

Then just for the fun of it i looked up the alloys to find out what they are composed of. steel is iron and carbon and duralumin is aluminium and copper. pewter is tin/copper. brass is zinc/copper. bronze is copper/tin. electrum is gold/silver. no idea what atium is alloyed with to make malatium.