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Us over at Hoid's Compendium are workign on getting an interview with Brandon. We will need a list of questions to ask. We have at least two or so weeks before this will happen, so this gives us ample time to gather many questions from you.
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I have a question. Is Veldew one of Hoid's alias names?
From the WoA deleted scenes:
"Master Terrisman," Elend said, standing outside the Terris camp in the soft red morning light. "If I can give you one final bit of advice, it is that you must turn back. You don't have the resources to feed a population this size, and you cannot forage with any kind of effectiveness this time of year."
The aged steward, Vedlew, shook his head. He stood with two other stewards, leaning on his staff. "We must see if King Venture will take us in. Terris is in need of allies. You cannot understand what it is like to have charge of a people. . .to know that they look to you, despite your failings. We will manage. If what you say is true, then it is only a few weeks travel south to Luthadel."
"Two weeks for us two," Elend said. "Men in good health, travelling light. It's the middle of winter, Master Terrisman! If you continue, your people will either starve or freeze."
The old man paused at this. "What else would you have us do? Return to face those creatures who have taken our city?"
"Yes," Elend said firmly. "Now is not the time to fight. It will come, my friend. But for now, you must be patient."
"The Terris have been patient for far too long, I think."
"Then you are practiced at it," Elend said. "I have always had great respect for Terris wisdom, Master Vedlew. Do not prove my faith wrong now. I cannot tell you everything, but Lord Venture will contact you soon. There will be a time to resist the Inquisitors. For now, however, you have to see that your people don't die in the wilderness."
Vedlew looked at one of his companions. The taller steward—who looked much like Sazed save in the face—shrugged.
"We will consider your suggestion, young man," Vedlew said.
This seems to be the same character as in the real WoA that is Hoid.
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Wait- never mind. I just found something that disproved my self. :'(
Barnes and Nobles:
So, Brandon. Hoid. I remember you saying at the I.F. signing last year that he was in WoA. We, your dedicated fans who like scouring books searching for obscure characters who have any possibility of being the mysterious Hoid, have yet to find him. Peter sent us on a hunt for him (Hoid, not Peter...) in the deleted scenes, and we found his boot-print.
Now, I think he broke the pottery there too--the one holding the larasium--and since there's broken pottery in the actual version, I think he may have snuck into the cavern and broken it as well. If so, is this Hoid's part in WoA? This trace of him? I commend you if it is. It is clever, making us think it was a person, when in fact it's just something he did.
You are on the right track, but wrong on one point. Hoid does appear in the book.
I had originally toyed with making his touch on the novel more obscure, but decided that I wanted to be consistent with the other novels by actually having him appear. Once I realized I’d probably cut the scene with the footprint, I decided I needed this actual appearance even more badly.
Fortunately, I knew what Hoid had been up to all this time, and had placed him in a position where several characters could run into him. In WoA, Hoid believed (as Vin did) that the Well was in the North, even though it was not. He spent much of the book pursuing this idea.
Through events, however, he discovered he was wrong. He made the realization after Vin did, but only because of a chance meeting. (This is recorded in the books. Let’s just say he was listening in when someone implied that the Well was in Luthadel.)
He hurried to Luthadel, and was in the town, skulking about in the last parts of the novel. He isn’t seen here, though he does still infiltrate the Well. (Hoid is quite proficient at manipulating Shadesmar for his own ends.)
"This actual appearance" seams to imply that he wasn't originally in WoA, which means he's not Veldew. But hey, ask the question anyway. Maybe he'll make it one.
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I'd be interested in a in-universe chronology of the books. For example: First Adolnasium breaks. Some odd thousand years later, Mistborn, with Elantris 250 years after that(on a planet far far away, obviously) ... etc. I made all that up, just to avoid confusion. So, I guess I want you to ask about a rough time-line. :)
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Well, I actually do know the basic answer of that one. (Though, Josh will you make sure my thinking is right?) MB is towards the beginning, and then Eln and WB are towards the middle-ish.
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Oh. Okay then. Hmm... Now I have to think up a new question. No wonder the title of Super fan was basically thrust upon you. Happy Birthday FRR.
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Well, I actually do know the basic answer of that one. (Though, Josh will you make sure my thinking is right?) MB is towards the beginning, and then Eln and WB are towards the middle-ish.
This is approximately correct to the extent of my knowledge, but to be on the safe side, we should probably ask him anyway.
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I think this is going to end up like Star Wars' BBY/ABY (before/after battle of Yavon). Except it will be BSA/ASA (before/after shattering of Adonalsium).
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I doubt that very many books will be written from before though. Unless DS is, and you're holding out on me.
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I'm pretty sure DS is prior to the shattering of Adonalsium, I'm almost positive Liar was as well. Though Liar takes place in the DS world, but one could be for and one after, or they could both be after, but I am inclined to think that at very least Liar is before.
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Hm. That does make sense. Primitive enough society (roman-esque), and Hoid's position and all of that.
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I'm pretty sure DS is prior to the shattering of Adonalsium, I'm almost positive Liar was as well. Though Liar takes place in the DS world, but one could be for and one after, or they could both be after, but I am inclined to think that at very least Liar is before.
Cool. That will be interesting when Brandon decides to revisit those books. :)
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Wait- never mind. I just found something that disproved my self. :'(
Barnes and Nobles:
So, Brandon. Hoid. I remember you saying at the I.F. signing last year that he was in WoA. We, your dedicated fans who like scouring books searching for obscure characters who have any possibility of being the mysterious Hoid, have yet to find him. Peter sent us on a hunt for him (Hoid, not Peter...) in the deleted scenes, and we found his boot-print.
Now, I think he broke the pottery there too--the one holding the larasium--and since there's broken pottery in the actual version, I think he may have snuck into the cavern and broken it as well. If so, is this Hoid's part in WoA? This trace of him? I commend you if it is. It is clever, making us think it was a person, when in fact it's just something he did.
You are on the right track, but wrong on one point. Hoid does appear in the book.
I had originally toyed with making his touch on the novel more obscure, but decided that I wanted to be consistent with the other novels by actually having him appear. Once I realized I’d probably cut the scene with the footprint, I decided I needed this actual appearance even more badly.
Fortunately, I knew what Hoid had been up to all this time, and had placed him in a position where several characters could run into him. In WoA, Hoid believed (as Vin did) that the Well was in the North, even though it was not. He spent much of the book pursuing this idea.
Through events, however, he discovered he was wrong. He made the realization after Vin did, but only because of a chance meeting. (This is recorded in the books. Let’s just say he was listening in when someone implied that the Well was in Luthadel.)
He hurried to Luthadel, and was in the town, skulking about in the last parts of the novel. He isn’t seen here, though he does still infiltrate the Well. (Hoid is quite proficient at manipulating Shadesmar for his own ends.)
"This actual appearance" seams to imply that he wasn't originally in WoA, which means he's not Veldew. But hey, ask the question anyway. Maybe he'll make it one.
Could you clarify this logic? How do you know that Veldew was originally in WoA? The place where Hoid shows up in the book in guaranteed to be one that was added later in the editing process, and the meeting with Veldew matches most of the criteria in the quote from Brandon.
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Well, I actually do know the basic answer of that one. (Though, Josh will you make sure my thinking is right?) MB is towards the beginning, and then Eln and WB are towards the middle-ish.
I distinctly recall that Brandon had written in one topic, "Some people were hoping for a sequel to Elantris. The secret answer is that Mistborn is that." Only, it was stated much better than that, because I'm paraphasing. Still, he definitely made it sound like Mistborn was after Elantris.
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More information about Way of Kings release is always cool.
Something not story related, I'd like to know what his book tour wish-list destinations would be. These could be cities he's been to and would like to return, places he's never been, places outside the US, etc.
Or, if he could have the power of one of his magic systems, what would it be?
Perhaps a more interesting one, one that we'd probably never see in print and thus could be answered with more than a RAFO, could Hemalurgy be used to steal powers from other magic systems in his universe/multiverse?
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More information about Way of Kings release is always cool.
This.
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happyman- Veldew is a character from the deleted ending. He is pretty much the same character (minus shaking) as the old Terrisman that Elend meets outside Luthadel. This led me to believe that he was the same character (Hoid).
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My bad. I don't have a lot of time for surfing, so I didn't look closely.
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...at manipulating Shadesmar for his own ends.
Well, now I'm confused as to true nature of Shadesmar. I originally thought it just to be a mirror image of Roshar, but this implies that it's a universal hub of some sort... hopefully I don't have to dive into realmatic theory to figure this out?
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Oh, that. Somewhere deep in one of these threads, Brandon mentioned that Shadesmar was the name of the Cognitive Realm. That had me confused too, until someone went through the trouble of pulling it out for me. :P So, sorry but, yes, you need to go into Realmatic Theory to understand it. ;) Presumably, all worlds are connected to the Shadesmar, but I guess SLA is going to be the first series to use it in any way. (I think I found this in the Hero of Ages Spoiler thread.)
*Edit* After searching long and hard... I still haven't found it. It's somewhere in one of these threads though!
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Nope. Barnes and Nobles.
Each of the 'Shardworlds' I've written in (Mistborn, Elantris, Warbreaker, Way of Kings) exists with the same cosmology. All things exist on three realms--the spiritual, the cognitive, and the physical. What's going on here is an interaction between the three realms. I don't to bore you with my made up philosophy, but I do have a cohesive metaphysical reasoning for how my worlds and magic works. And there is a single plane of existence--called Shadesmar, the Cognative Realm--which connects them all.
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I don't to bore you with my made up philosophy, but I do have a cohesive metaphysical reasoning for how my worlds and magic works. And there is a single plane of existence--called Shadesmar, the Cognative Realm--which connects them all.
It's not at ALL boring, it's actually very very interesting.
I was wondering, has anyone asked what a Lerasium spike would do?
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Yep, me and i posted the answer!!!! Bad Miyabi :P. It steals all abilities twist whoever it is used on like koloss but different... and he said it did something else but wouldn't say what.
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Hmm, I'll have to make sure I try and figure out what that other thing is.
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all abilities includes feruchemical.......
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That would only be the case if you were using it on a Feruchemist. Use it on an Allomancer, and it steals all Allomantic powers. Conceivably, the only way to get both from one person would be to spike an Inquisitor, and Ruin wouldn't have them going around spiking each other for no reason.
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Nope you get crossbreeds theoretically, and i do believe we will have feruchemical/ allomantic mistings (have 1 of each) in the forthcoming books
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Ah, that's right, I had forgotten about the cross-system Mistings. We still need to come up with a good term for those. Mistbreed, maybe?
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Ah, that's right, I had forgotten about the cross-system Mistings. We still need to come up with a good term for those. Mistbreed, maybe?
*pours salt on eye*
BAD! NO! Worst visual of a Mistwraith EVER.
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Worst visual of a Mistwraith EVER.
Ohlawd. Why, God, why?
All those... parts... and th-the gelatinous bits...
*starts going Hoed from mental trauma*
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Yep, me and i posted the answer!!!! Bad Miyabi :P. It steals all abilities twist whoever it is used on like koloss but different... and he said it did something else but wouldn't say what.
Where did you post that one?
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In the thread where we were posting different questions and answers to them during his trip... i'm having problems finding it. We were having a discussion over the possibilities of the lerasium spike so i just asked him what it did and he told Harriet when i was leaving that he wanted to RAFO me but that was the deepest question about one of his books instead of WoT (surprised me b/c i thought it was normal speculation but oh well)
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OK, I think I've got a couple goodies here.
1) Shadesmar is the name of the cognitive realm. Do the physical and spiritual realms have names as well and, if so, what are they?
2) Can we get a timeline for the release of the tables of Feruchemical and Hemalurgic metals, even just a rough one?
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Shadesmar may just be Roshar's name for the cognitive realm. Just saying. :)
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Ari54, I'm pretty sure it's more than just that.
EDIT:: It's really funny, typing your name I didn't think a-r-i-5-4 I thought a-r-i-s-a, and my fingers typed the 5 and the 4. -_- That's a sure sign I have typed/read 1337 way too much.
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I usually go by just Ari online. Apparently someone who's actually called Ari snagged that here first. :)
As for Shadesmar, it really depends how Brandon is worldbuilding. I think it pays to have a pretty open mind until we've actually read about things like how Shadesmar was so named. :)
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Which character are you most excited about in Way of Kings? Why?
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I must say, I'm enthused about learning more about the Heralds!
I haven't read the sample that will be included in the paperback of Warbreaker so I don't know anything else really.
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Brandon has answered a number of questions about WARBREAKER over at GoodReads. http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/264132-q-a-with-brandon-sanderson
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Yay, Brandon unveiled some new spiffy terms for us.
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Are there any stockpiles of Larasium (or is it Lerasium?) laying around somewhere? Or any place where it can be found "naturally" like the Pits of Hathsin? Or is Preservation's "body" tied up in Humans and the mists more than a specific metal? And if Preservation was needed to create Humans, how do Humans exist on other Shardworlds?
Gah, this was only supposed to be about larasium stockpiles, but my train of thought got going.
Oh, and do we know (or have theories about) what Atium alloys do? Besides Malatium (atium-gold) of course.
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So we're shooting for around the 20th of Feb.
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Are there any stockpiles of Larasium (or is it Lerasium?) laying around somewhere? Or any place where it can be found "naturally" like the Pits of Hathsin? Or is Preservation's "body" tied up in Humans and the mists more than a specific metal? And if Preservation was needed to create Humans, how do Humans exist on other Shardworlds?
Gah, this was only supposed to be about larasium stockpiles, but my train of thought got going.
Oh, and do we know (or have theories about) what Atium alloys do? Besides Malatium (atium-gold) of course.
I can answer some of that.
According to Peter (pg. 63 of the HoA+Brandon Q&A thread (http://www.timewastersguide.com/forum/index.php?topic=6655.msg163027#msg163027)) there was at least one other piece of Lerasium at the well other than those Elend, TLR, and the original nine Mistborn used. I think there was 5 others (16 in total) and that Hoid has at least one. Preservation isn't needed to create humans; he gave up part of himself in order to give them sentience. Due to the natures of their powers, Preservation and Ruin had to work together in order to create life on Scadrial but that doesn't mean other Shards can't create life on their own or haven't arrived on worlds that already had it. All we know for certain about Atium alloys is what we were given on the table of allomantic metals. "In alloy form, it produces various expanded mental and temporal effects." We also know that Atium's "known" use is probably actually just a side effect (Lerasium creating Mistborn (and Mistings as an alloy) is actually a side effect of it's true, unknown effect).
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Also, I wouldn't be surprised if human life hadn't been created somewhere while Adonalsium was still whole. You know, since that would make the human form as the form of choice for Shard creations make more sense.
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Hey thanks. I figured there was a good chance my questions could be answered by someone here. :)
But do we know of any Lerasium mines? Is it possible the people living elsewhere in Scadriel have lerasium mines?
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The real effect is known...and rather a let down. It permanently doubles your allomantic strength
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But do we know of any Lerasium mines? Is it possible the people living elsewhere in Scadriel have lerasium mines?
RAFO.
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But do we know of any Lerasium mines? Is it possible the people living elsewhere in Scadriel have lerasium mines?
RAFO.
Excellent. ;D
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I thought it was confirmed there wouldn't be any more Mistborn? >>'
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I thought I heard the second Mistborn trilogy might involve a Mistborn Serial Killer.
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I thought it was confirmed there wouldn't be any more Mistborn? >>'
I remember Brandon saying the main characters would be Mistings, but if there is Lerasium kicking around still I guess Mistborn are a possibility?
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WE KNOW!!!!! Peter confirmed it don't argue we you are ignorant, I don't say I KNOW unless I have insignificant chance to be wrong.
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No, actually, Brandon has said that becoming a mb is actually a side effect. What it would actually do, we don't know for sure, but he has flat out told me (and I believe it's on the forums some where) that becoming a mb is a side effect. I could be very wrong, but I SWEAR I heard it somewhere, so unless I get a quote from somewhere else telling me otherwise I'm going to believe it.
Chris, he said that mb would be extremely rare, but not impossible. They're mostly going to become the thing of legends, but they can still exist.
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Yeah, but then someone asked him what would happen if a Mistborn burned Lerasium, and he said that it would double their Allomantic strength. Those that heard were kinda disappointed. Peter mentioned that maybe "Side effect" wasn't the best way to say it. I believe this whole thing actually comes from the WoA Annotations.
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Yeah, but then someone asked him what would happen if a Mistborn burned Lerasium, and he said that it would double their Allomantic strength. Those that heard were kinda disappointed. Peter mentioned that maybe "Side effect" wasn't the best way to say it. I believe this whole thing actually comes from the WoA Annotations.
I was the one who asked that and yeah he said it would double their power.
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It came from the Hero of Ages annotations, actually.
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WE KNOW!!!!! Peter confirmed it don't argue we you are ignorant, I don't say I KNOW unless I have insignificant chance to be wrong.
Wow, Kaz. Could you have been any more rude?
If someone says something you know is wrong, be nice about the explanation. Being a jerk just gets things heated and I don't think anyone here wants that. Please don't turn this respectable forum into a jerkfest.
Anyway. I think that question about the wish-list tour is awesome. And I would also love to hear more about WoK, but that's also already been mentioned. So pretty much, I'm just seconding (or thirding) other suggestions and offering none of my own... :P If I think of anything, I'll get back to you, Chris. Maybe here, maybe IM, or maybe I'll switch it up and use something else. Like facebook...Or whatever...
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Yes I'm supposed to be polite when offended, not going to happen even if you want me to and i should. Not too mention ignorance is not an insult, if you add up all of man's knowledge you still find we know very little so even as a whole we are ignorant. Now too solely blame me for acting out of line is, point blank, fool-hardy. If I was asked why I made that statement instead of being told you're wrong why would you say that, my response would have been calm. This is not an excuse but merely me telling you to look at both sides, which is what i hate about the US we claim a moral superiority to the rest of the world by doing what you just did. There is always a reason, not necessarily a good one (as in my case) but there is one.
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Kaz, I fear you are making a child of yourself. You may be right that your knowledge comes on good authority, but when you snap at someone for stating a different opinion you don't do any good to anyone, just create harsh feelings and closed-mindedness. No matter how correct you are or how incorrect someone else is, please keep that in mind.
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Can we please keep this thread as questions for Brandon? We at Hoid's Compendium are planning on having a Q&A with Brandon soon, and we need questions. Mind, if the answer is already widely known, then yes, answer, but please don't make posts about your feelings, be they being upset because someone told you you were wrong, or calling each other out. While there is a time and place for that, this isn't it. This thread is supposed to be strictly for questions.
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what do we know about the fact that I can count 18 allomantic metals?
1-8-basics
9-malatium
10-gold
11-electrum
12-uh...
13-aluminum
14-duralumin
15-atium
16-lerasium
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Sazed told Spook that there are two we don't know about, so that counts 18...
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We already know about that. Atium and Lerasium are "god metals", the metallic form of pure Shard power from Ruin and Preservation, and are sort of outside the regular system of metals. Malatium, as an alloy of Atium, is similarly not one of the normal allomantic metals. That eliminates 3 from your list, and taking out the "brain fart" and the two blanks brings it down to 12. The two metals Sazed referred to were in fact base metals, and each also has an alloy. These four metals are chromium, nicrosil, cadmium, and bendalloy. These bring the total to 16 normal metals, plus 2 god metals and their alloys.
Information on all of these metals and their organization is available from this poster chart (http://brandonsanderson.com/store/item/39/Table-of-Allomantic-Metals). A more readable, though not the final version, image of the poster is here (http://www.brandonsanderson.com/graphics/mb_table_v13.jpg)
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yeah, my brother just showed me the chart on it all...so then do you think that sazed would get his own metal? are atium and lerasium gone?
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The nature of atium and lerasium is tied to the power of the Shards they are made from, not the mind controlling those Shards. Sazed's ascension changed nothing about how the god metals work, though he might be the only source of them now.