Timewaster's Guide Archive

hmmm...you mentioned that Rashek burned the power away like allomancy. i wonder if the mist is the gaseous form of whatever liquid was in the well. it obviously wasn't water in there.

ya definately got to get brandon involved. i get the feeling that paolini didn't have much say in the Eragon movie cause they slaughtered the story in that one. i'd hate to see that happen to mistborn.

lol i did notice that darxbane. and i'm going to look at mb1 to and see if i can't take notes to figure out which metals push and which pull and anything else i can find. see if i can figure out a pattern. maybe figure out which symbols on that poster are aluminum and duralumin. everyone seems to think they're the internal pair but i'm beginning to think otherwise. they both affect the metals rather than the individual. the metals would strike me as external (you do have to ingest them after all) and so the 15/16th would be internal which would fit with a metal making somebody a mistborn since that would then affect the individual and how they burn metals. which would be internal. anyways i'll see if i can come up with something when i'm done looking through the book and taking notes.

Could the mists be Gaseous Metal???

thats a good idea but i doubt it. the mists would be extremely hot if they were full of tin and pewter and the like in gas form. it takes a lot of heat to get them to that point. however, i like the idea that they could be some kind of fourth magic system. although i think its definatley somehow connected to allomancy. i mean vin can sense the mist spirit with bronze as if its burning metals and she draws upon the mists to enhance her own allomancy. maybe its repelled by hemallurgy simply because its not allomancy. but then we don't know much about hemallurgy. it could be some kind of bastardization of allomancy and thats why it repels the mists and feruchemy doesn't. who knows, i'm just kinda thinking aloud.

maybe he had groups of skaa do it and them just slaughtered them all?

that seems pretty logical to me. and for the record i don't think the lord ruler controlled them through the well. if that were the case he wouldn't have to be so picky about who he chose to become an inquisitor. we learn from Marsh's experience that they only choose the most devout and accomplished of those in the ministry.

i also seem to recall that Sazed on his trip to the conveticle of Seran sees all the bodies and some spikes and is under the impression that the inquisitors "swelled their ranks" or something along those lines. he's confused because inqs in the past have always been choosy about who they let join them. but no need to worry about that now since Ruin can apparently turn good men like Marsh into followers even if not of their own will.

the magic system is pretty complicated but the ones that are gonna be the hardest to get right are iron/steel. i definately don't think its realistic to have the player being able to control each and every single blue thread as needed. its simply too much. i think i like the idea of combining elements of oblivion/morrowind and assasins creed to try to get a good system for combat.

i'm thinking that coins would be like arrows and you can shoot coins and pick how many to shoot etc. oh and countering like you would in assasin's creed in certain situations (like a hazekiller taking a swing at you and you press x to dodge and then put a dagger in him). thats really all i've got. jumping around the city and controlling multiple objects is beyond me. 

thats a pretty good summary darxbane. but i think is obvious that the mist spirit inhabits the mists. but is he alone? if not is it Ruin or something(one) that we don't know about yet?