Ok, im continuing the conversation on using the mists from the Ruin and Preservation thread.
We know that Vin and possibly others can burn mists. This is supported by several quotes from the book and Sanderson, such as
While she was fighting him, she drew upon the mists somehow, burning them in place of metals.
That day, they (the mists) had fueled her Allomancy, giving her a strength they shouldn't have had.
Ok. we know she can burn mists. The second quote says it is Allomancy, but i do not believe that is proof it actually is Allomancy. Right now, she has no idea that hemalurgy even exists; all she knows is that she has a strange power and assumes it is Allomancy.
I have gone back and forth on whether i think it actually is Allomancy; at first i had thought hemalurgy, then andrew convinced me it was allomancy. Now i am back to hemalurgy. However, there are arguments both ways.
ALLOMANCY
-Vin tells us she thinks it is Allomancy
-Allomancers in the past were more powerful, perhaps because of this ability
-to use Allomancy you burn metals, perhaps burning mist is not too far different
HEMALURGY
-We know Vin has hemalurgy, to me it makes sense to connect the dots. She has a strange power no other Allomancer knows of...and hemalurgy is a strange power no one knows of.
-the effect of the mists being repelled is i believe explained by this theory. When a hemalurgist is burning mist, the mist around them has the effect of being repelled, although it is actually being burned. It would not make sense for Allomancers to attract mist when they burn it, because all modern Allomancers attract mist and they know nothing of burning it.
SOMETHING ELSE
-i think miyabi suggested that burning mist was actually a different power, unrelated to hemalurgy, feruchemy, or allomancy. To take a page from his book,
that theory has more holes than swiss cheese.
