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No, Brandon says earlier in here that Spook is just a normal mistborn, not a Lerasium-endowed mistborn. 

And how would it be? If he Snapped and became a tineye, how would he evolve from misting to mistborn? If the power is just enough to make a man a mistborn, wouldn't Rashek use it to force his chosen men into mistborns and eat all the Larasium himself or keep it for a time when the power would be gone?

I have a question- Early in the first book, Vin talks about saving up her 'Luck' for long periods of time, from metals from plates and bowls and such. How long do metals generally stay in the body? Is it the standard 48 hours like the rest of food, meaning that either Scadrial people are skilled, or Vin is just amazing. Or does it stay for long times? And another thing- did Vin get headaches from burning impure metals? Or was she just lucky that all the metals were pure?

What do you guys think?

For that, the answer is simple - she didn't run out of reserve not because of some abilities, but because she was getting it everyday, drinking dirty water and eating with metal cutlery.
Of course we can speculate that maybe she was getting a little power from the mists, for Ruin wasn't that powerful back then and couldn't block it all. But I guess it's the first explaination.

And I have a question, for I can't really find it on TWG, and everybody's talking about it... What is exactly "the Shard"?

I just thought about a thing...
1. We know that both Larasium and Atium are Preservation's and Ruin's "bodies", part of their souls, you can call it.
2. We know that hemalurgy is about stealing other's powers, and as Sazed said, part of their souls.

So, I wonder, that maybe Larasium and Atium would provide hemalurgic effects if the spikes aren't used to pierce someone's body. Because, they are already loaded! Loaded with Preservation's and Ruin's souls.
Or maybe it's like only Larasium can be used like this, because Ruin wanted his body only for himself, but Preservation gave his power to humanity, giving it up.


Also, I have a question. Since there is a balance, and there is never more Ruin than Preservation in total, does it mean that if atium comes back to earth after it's used, would Larasium do so as well? It takes hundred years for atium, and if larasium would, I think we have a storyline for the next possible book in Mistborn world, where there are only Mistings, and suddenly, the possibility of becoming a Mistborn reappears. How much chaos would that make and how people would react to it, it's a perfect background for a story of Mr. Sanderson.