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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The 16th metal's power--Potential spoilers.
« on: March 29, 2008, 04:00:47 AM »
Nice analysis.
Not a big deal, but I agree that your push/pull analysis is reversed. Look at it this way...with aluminum you neither keep the metals nor use them, so you can't have pulled them. If you pull something, you have it, but the metals are gone from you. Duraluminum, on the other hand, are pulled in all at once when you use them.
Here is another idea for the 16th metal...could it give you the power of feruchemy? Allomancy as a power is a pulling power. You ingest the metals and get your power from them. In feruchemy, you place your own ability into the metal, in other words you push it away. Yes, you pull it back later, but the true power stems from your being able to push abilities into the metals.
Just a thought.
Not a big deal, but I agree that your push/pull analysis is reversed. Look at it this way...with aluminum you neither keep the metals nor use them, so you can't have pulled them. If you pull something, you have it, but the metals are gone from you. Duraluminum, on the other hand, are pulled in all at once when you use them.
Here is another idea for the 16th metal...could it give you the power of feruchemy? Allomancy as a power is a pulling power. You ingest the metals and get your power from them. In feruchemy, you place your own ability into the metal, in other words you push it away. Yes, you pull it back later, but the true power stems from your being able to push abilities into the metals.
Just a thought.