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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Metal Lake
« on: August 25, 2008, 08:06:27 PM »
I don't think its know for sure that TLR moved the well, only that Vin believed it might be so. If the theory that there are two well's is right, then maybe he didn't move one afterall.

Comatose, I understand what you are saying and I agree with you. Ruin could have altered the prophecy both times. I makes sense that if one well is ruin, the other preservation that Ruin wouldn't want Preservation to be released either. He would want to confuse things. Maybe he realized that Alendi was going to release Preservation and then made Rashek (through Hemalurgy) kill ALendi and take the power to himself and not release it. I hope I make sense here

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Metal Lake
« on: August 25, 2008, 05:47:52 PM »
Its a well, the water would come up from underground. It wouldn't trickle down from somewhere

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Ruin and Preservation
« on: August 25, 2008, 05:20:54 PM »
To me, Brandon says instead because if Marsh had ripped out those bracers, then TLR would have aged rapidly just like how Vin killed him.

I see holding the future in my arms as holding the fate of the world in my arms type of thing. Atium lets you see what is directly in front of you and what affects you, not a general what coming up in the future. I don't think there is enough evidence to say that Hemalurgy takes the power of Atium and makes it a lot more powerful than Allomancy. Hemalurgists do heal faster and they are more attuned to seeing metal traces, but I think that comes from prolonged use as indicated by Spook's enhanced senses in the preview chapter. Brandon does state that any Allomancy could learn to see as the Steel Inquisitors do. Maybe a Mistborn can learn to heal as fast as well.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Nails, Grails, and Epic Fails
« on: August 25, 2008, 05:12:59 PM »
I don't see why its impossible that Alendi had a child it doesn't seem far fetched to me. Maybe Alendi didn't know about the child.
The theory that Miyabi talks about seems plausible to me, however it doesn't seem to me that the Mistborn world revolves too much around heredity except for the fact the Allomancy anf Feruchemy are passed down that way.


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Brandon Sanderson / Re: The Metal Lake
« on: August 25, 2008, 05:08:35 PM »
also maybe the well that Vin is drawn to conceals an underground lake that TLR concealed with the city of Luthadel

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Another Possibility For the HOA
« on: August 22, 2008, 11:22:32 PM »
Somehow the thought of Elend Cross-dressing is disturbing to me.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: I WANNA!!! . . . .
« on: August 22, 2008, 11:16:20 PM »
I just read that Spook chapter was that Spook had been burning Tin constantly for the last year or so and that his senses were hypersensitive.

I believe that this means that the more you use a metal, any metal the more proficient you become at it. Remember that during The Lord Ruler's time, burning metals was probably kept to a minimum to avoid detection. I don't think everybody could afford to have a smoker with them.

That would also partly explain why The Lord Ruler was as powerful as he was with Allomancy. A thousand years of practice.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Question regarding Mistborn 2 **SPOILER POTENTIAL****
« on: August 22, 2008, 11:01:50 PM »
They bracelets were for storing age.

Brandon says that The Lord Ruler is a Hemalurgist as well as a Feruchemist. We know he could use Allomancy but I am unsure as to whether or not he was Mistborn. Maybe he obtained his powers from hemalurgy. Also Brandon says that The Lord Ruler obtained his power from a different source from Vin, so maybe the Lord Ruler wasn't Mistborn. Just a thought.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Question regarding Mistborn 2 **SPOILER POTENTIAL****
« on: August 21, 2008, 04:06:48 PM »
That is a really good question Reeves.

There seem to be a lot of inconsistencies with what we of of so far. Was Rashek a Hemalurgist as well as the other two?
I agree that the process of piercing creates a Hemalurgist, but I think that once you have that power, removing some of the piercings won't undo what was done.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Question regarding Mistborn 2 **SPOILER POTENTIAL****
« on: August 20, 2008, 11:23:09 PM »
I didn't remember others noticing a steel inquisitor in Luthadel. I'll have to go look back at that.

I believe that it would be relatively easy to get into a city ravaged by war. The popluace was hiding and many of the entrances were probably not guarded.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Question regarding Mistborn 2 **SPOILER POTENTIAL****
« on: August 20, 2008, 10:39:54 PM »
Exactly what I was saying. How could Marsh get in unnoticed? However he did it, others could do it as well.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Question regarding Mistborn 2 **SPOILER POTENTIAL****
« on: August 20, 2008, 09:02:16 PM »
I agree that the Steel Inquisitors couldn't release the power of the Well.

As for Marsh being the only one around, that seems unlikely to me because why would Marsh be there at all?
Also Vin wasn't able to detect Marsh being there, so why couldn't a couple of them be there without anybody telling Vin?

I also don't see why Sazed had to associate Vin with the Hero? Vin was being drawn to the Well without Sazed's help. I think that thumping in her head would have lead her to release the power without Sazed's help.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Question regarding Mistborn 2 **SPOILER POTENTIAL****
« on: August 20, 2008, 08:32:35 PM »
If Sazed had the information necessary to decifer the truth, even if its with the Mist spirit's help, then somebody underestimated something.
I think Vin would have been drawn to release the Well of Ascension even without the journal stamped in metal. She was drawn to it.

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Brandon Sanderson / Re: Question regarding Mistborn 2 **SPOILER POTENTIAL****
« on: August 20, 2008, 08:12:11 PM »
I agree that Vin is different from the others. Kelsier couldn't pierce copperclouds but Vin can.
I think Vin had to be the one to release the Well, otherwise Ruin could have forced any Steel Inquisitor to do so.

Also, its naive to think that one of the primary forces of the Mistborn world would underestimate Sazed so easily.

I don't see any evidence to the fact that Ruin could exert more influence on Marsh at the end of Book 2 than at the beginning. Ruin seems to have had control of all the Steel Inquisitors as evidenced by the fact that they banded together and left the conventical to go after the Terris people.

By reading the posts for the Mistborn trilogy, I have noticed that when people start talking about Ruin being connected to the deepness and the Well of Ascension, the Alpha readers seem to go all criptic and they start throwing out fake possibilities.

For me that means that the relationshio between Ruin, the Well of Ascension, the being controling Marsh and the Deepness is either more complicated or more simple than we are saying.

I just had a thought. Maybe not all the steel inquisitors are being controled by Ruin. Ruin obviously knows about the Well. It was important for him to be released by Vin. Why wouldn't he have a couple of Steel Inquisitors go and protect what Vin was going to do. Why send only Marsh and chance him being beaten and his plan stopped?

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Brandon Sanderson / Question regarding Mistborn 2 **SPOILER POTENTIAL****
« on: August 20, 2008, 04:34:55 PM »
Since I finished rereading Mistborn 2, something has continued to confuse me.

In Chapter 12when Sazed goes with Marsh to the Conventical to retrieve something. Marsh goes to get Sazed, saying that he needs his help in case his brethren are there. When they are in the Conventical, Marsh tells Sazed not to follow him while he goes up the stairs.

From what we know of the third book chapter one, why would Marsh, who is somewhat controlled by Ruin, need help to protect him from his brethren?

If Ruin really controls Marsh, why would he want Sazed to go with him? Sazed finds the metal journal that eventually leads to the understanding that something is changing his memories and his metalmind. In that case, I am not so sure that it is Ruin controlling Marsh.

Seeing what is contained in the metal journal is partly what convinces Sazed to return to Luthadel. It just seems weird to me that the power that is controlling Marsh, who I assumed to be Ruin, would make that kind of mistake.

I still believe that the Well of Ascension would have called to Vin, she seemed to be going that direction on her own without Sazed's help, so why introduce a variable that could spoil everything?

Does anybody have any thoughts?

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