HOLY COW!!!!!
The epigraphs are Rashek, notice how he said it would take a millenia to learn to use the power, the final empire lasted one thousand years, until the next soming of the power, not a coincidence.
Vin is still awesome, Elend has more strength, but vin still does way more damage to all the koloss than elend did because of her super skills (which she learned crazily fast)
They have access to more keepers than they did back then, because the Synod came out into the open.
Vin is more powerful than Kelsier, he had trouble with eight (?) haze killers, in book two, Vin deals with many.
Those are some answers that I came up with for some questions in the thread. I also don't like Elend being more powerful than Vin, I think that Spook's little bit about continually flaring metals is going to come into play, perhaps that's how the Lord Ruler got so powerful.
Question: Where are the inquisitors getting all the skaa mistings, with which to fuel so many new inquisitors, we know they still have allomancy, but where do they get it.
Do they still have to be seekers first?
Man I can hardly wait, I hope there;s a fight scene, with Vin, Elend, and TenSoon working together that would be sweet (since he's obvious going against his contract anyways).
The way the chapter is set up makes it seem like Vin and Elend have done this a couple times before, with the inquisitor killing and all.
So, I'm liking the misting/feruchemist per spike theory more and more (who started that by the way), I never did like the lightning rod one, sorry. But I also agree, we really know very little about hemalurgy.
And also I'm rereading the previous books, and I'm liking the two wells theory very much.