Timewaster's Guide Archive

Typical female response to the typical male.

(Say NO to stereotypes, kids.)

The book doesn't take place in America though. And on top of that, Seventeen is or was considered a perfectly legal age in many countries and cultures. And really, there's not a whole lot of maturity difference between a seventeen and and eighteen-year-old.

The site's back up as well. I assume Spriggan fixed everything.

Personally I go Miyabi's route, but for the really technical, the syntax is . . .

[quote (author={author's name}) (link=(topic={topic number}.msg{message number}#msg{message number}
     date={day part of date in unknown medium?}{Time part of day in unkown medium?}]
At the moment, the inner workings of the date= are beyond me.

Well, this seems basically the topic for most of the questions you posed, but the Ruin and Preservation thread and Comprehensive Hemalurgy thread would also be good places to look. (They're super-huge though.)

The first logic chain makes sense, but I don't think Ruin wants to be worshiped. He just wants to destroy things. (As per Alendi's logbook entry, which has something to do with Ruin on some level.) As for the second, the problem I see with that is that even if Ruin is limited in spirit-form, Inquisitors seem so much more limited to me. They have to rest very often and can omnisciently warp reality. If he wanted a body, I don't think he'd choose an Inquisitor unless he had to.

[. . .] Jesus didn't look any different than the rest of the people he was around, right?

That depends on who you ask. The thing is, we don't have any book-related evidence supporting this being Ruin's body, and we do have (Albeit rather flimsy) book evidence supporting this being an Inquisitor. Though just to play devil's advocate, I will mention that if this particular keeper-sacrifice would grant the Hemalurgist below Feruchemy as well, then I could see Ruin taking someone who has all three magic systems as a body. However, I'm going to stick with my original assumption that this is an Inquisitor for the simple reason that Ruin could already control Inquisitors. If he has complete control over them, why would he need to take one of their bodies? It would just seem to me like that would decrease his options, as he could either

A. Make a new Hemalurgist and (possibly) place himself in the body, or
B. Make a new Hemalurgist and control it do do his bidding while he does more omnipotent things.

I don't see much sense in him making himself a body when he could just control it anyways.

Well, if you pay really close attention to semantics, the body below had eye-spikes. Just saying . . .