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November 10 - November 15, 2024
Flying ships that ran on some kind of Allomancy.
“Allik Neverfar, Tall One,”
Wilg
“Nothing I can do about that.”
WHAT WHY! MY FAVORITE CHARACTER!!!!
Oh, you thought today. Hell, girl. That shot barely clipped you.”
Girl you had me stressed!
He wasn’t pensive, he was cold.
Maybe white sands. Its hot like a desert?
had assumed,”
“that everyone up here in the land of the Sovereign was a barbarian. Nobody wears masks, and what your people did to my crewmates…”
a grand Metalborn of the precious arts.
“But Brunstell’s crew was nearly a hundred, yah?
“The Sovereign was our king from three centuries ago. He told
us he was your king first. And your god.”
“The Lord ...
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“He d...
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“Three hundred and thirty, Persistent One.”
Anyway, the Sovereign came about ten years after the Ice Death happened, yah? Silly name, but you’ve got to call it something. The land
“The Catacendre?”
“Harmony remade the world. Saved
“...
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“The land was soft and warm, and now it is harsh and b...
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“Harm...
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“Allik’s from the South, Waxillium. Haven’t you read the old books? The people from the Final Empire never went in that direction. The oceans boiled, suppos...
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“The people who lived down sou...
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“No Ashmounts to fill the sky with ash, to cool it…” “So, the ...
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“And the Sovereign, he came and he saved us. ...
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“The most archetypal. In the ancient days, my Terris ancestors dwelled in the highlands, often traveling through snow-filled mountain passes. The ability to store their heat, then draw upon it, allowed them to survive where nobody else could.”
Taught us that the Metalborn were pieces of God, each one of them, though we didn’t have any of those at
“If we have the Metalborn to do so, and the Excisors, yes. The Excisors are the gifts the Sovereign made for
“So with one of those devices, a Metalborn can create a medallion like this—one for any Allomantic or Feruchemical ability?”
It is stored with the ability to give yourself a sliver of holiness.”
“Investiture,”
“This inner ring is nicrosil. You tap it, and it grants you Investiture—turning you into a temporary Feruchemist who has the abil...
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“One with all of the abilities. A bracer, or a set of them, that granted all sixteen Allomantic abilities and all sixteen Feruchemical abilities.”
“You traveled from your lands to find the Bands of Mourning,”
“Why are they up here?”
Brunstell.
In Allik’s lore, the Lord Ruler had filled them with a great deal of every attribute—but had also crafted them to grant any person who used them the ability to draw those forth. A kind of challenge to mankind to find them, along with a warning not to.
A distant, wonderful place where everyone wore masks,
“Allomancy Pushes the impellers,”
“But ettmetal is what supports it.”
“Ettmetal explodes if it gets wet.”
Iron for weight, duralumin for Connection, and most importantly nicrosil, to give her the ability to tap metals in the first place.
Malwish
Wiestlow,
“And then,” Steris said softly, “perhaps I came along because of the way it feels.…”
Marasi looked sharply back at her sister. “Like the whole world has been upended,” Steris said, looking toward the ceiling. “Like the laws of nature and man no longer hold sway. They’re suddenly flexible, like a string given slack. We’re the spheres.… I love the idea that I can break out of it all—the expectations, the way I’m regarded, the way I regard myself—and soar. “I saw it in his eyes, first. That hunger, that fire. And then I found it in myself. He’s a flame, Waxillium is, and fire can be shared. When I’m out here, when I’m with him, I burn, Marasi. It’s wonderful.”
“Love is always a foolish emotion. That’s what makes it work.” She
thinkin’ about?” Wayne asked as she joined
“I just had my long-held assumptions about someone shattered in a brief moment. I’m wondering if every person I pass has similar depths, and if there’s any
way to avoid the mistake of judging them so shallowly that I’m rocked when they show th...
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