I
am here, actually. It's just on 4th of July week I had to work Tuesday through Friday at my local foodstore where I work (which really sucked--darn people wanting to buy things for the holiday!). And the Saturday after that, I flew into Southern California where I am now for vacation. It turns out, my experience on Catalina Island gave me some time to go online. (Catalina Island is great; I recommend it for anyone!)
So, earlier today, I decided to check brandonsanderson.com, and
wow. I was not expecting the Mistborn 3 prologue. Nor was I expecting the seven new pages of Hemalurgy posts, but I enjoyed reading them nonetheless. You certainly keep me on my toes when I am gone!
I've been absorbing information this current moment. Some theories are good... some not so good. However, I will go out of my way and say that the specific organ idea is
fantastic. Definitely sheds some better light onto the magic system.
Aren't you glad I created this thread so we could all go mad with theories?
But! I must talk about one more thing in particular:
The idea that hemalurgy actually burns the blood is in large part my fault, as it was my initial theory as seen on page 9 of this thread. That's the first time I recall seeing it anyway. Maybe I'm stealing credit from somewhere else. If so, please inform me. There were several others who either believed this or something similar to it, so we formed the backbone of what you see as a general consensus now. However, in light of information revealed since then, plus some problems with the way burning blood works, I think it's more likely that blood is just used in the process of gaining hemalurgy or is somehow used as a power source without burning it. Though, of course, it's all speculation, as we really don't know enough to prove anything.
As a side note, does anyone know what happened to Chaos and Vintage? I haven't seen them around for a while. We could use a few more crazy theorizers around here...Plus it's my experience that I come up with my best ideas when reading Chaos' posts....which is kind of wierd....oh well.
I had a very, very similar theory, though mine was more vague. It was on page seven, though, so I will happily take all the credit for it. Also Andrew, this means the "stealing credit" is from me! Haha, just kidding. I'm also the "several others" who believed in this. And, clearly, as you so conveniently said, you get your best idea when reading my posts.
Definitely,
definitely expect a large post from me around Sunday-ish. That'll be the day I get back from vacation, when I can really end my discussions in my brain about theories and come up with some cool stuff.
There's one thing I'd like elaborated upon: why a specific spike to a specific organ? I mean, why brass in one place over another? I need to reread the post where it was talked about, but if someone could explain it rationally, that would be great.
EDIT: Excuse me. I misinterpreted. Someone earlier merely stated
which organs get pierced, not which metal pierced them. My mistake.
Though, someone should really combine that with Andrew's page 9 Hemalurgy theory. That one did a much better job than mine to explain which metal did which, and the logic behind it. Mine was much more "how it operates" sort of thing.
I really think if we can fuse all three theories together, we can get a
very good approximation of how Hemalurgy works!
My theory of how it operates + Andrew's list of what metals are what + Organs.
Food for discussion, eh?
