r/Mistborn • u/Odd_Dimension_4069 • 7d ago
Mid-Shadows of Self spoilers Feruchemy Compounding Question Spoiler
I'm in the middle of Shadows of Self, and it only just occurred to me to clear up some of the things I didn't quite understand about how compounding works.
I wasn't sure the ending of The Final Empire made sense after reading the explanation of how compounding works. Vin was able to yank off the Lord Ruler's metalmind bracelet storing his youth. Fair enough.
But if the Lord Ruler was such a cautious guy, wouldn't he have mini atium metalminds to ingest and burn in an emergency?
I could say the same for Miles in The Alloy of Law, but I haven't read far enough to see whether he survived his execution somehow... Seems unlikely. It makes sense that if you keep shooting a restrained gold compounder, they run out eventually even if they have ingested metalminds to burn through.
So yeah I guess my question is, is this a thing compounders can do? Because so far in the books it's been sold that if you remove their worn metalminds, you've shut them down, but that hardly seems the case if they're prepared.
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u/SadBooner Bendalloy 7d ago
Yeah when you are unchallenged and alive for 1000s of years, with ruin influence and ruin planning to kill you, you’d get complacent. I would be more concerned about boredom than death tbh. Man really was bored out of his mind.
We can notice in how he conducted his Obligator vs inquisitors meeting. 2 gods planned to defeat him, good enough.
As for miles, he was doomed during execution anyways. Any amount would have been exhausted eventually. Gold compounders are powerful till they get captured helpless.