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The Lord Ruler is in his palace, when he sees a sight he hasn't seen in centuries. Trees, sunlight...is he hallucinating? The fact that there's a forest in his living room isn't the surprising part. The fact that there's a forest on his planet is. As soon as he walks through the door to where his living room isn't, it's definitely not a hallucination.
His stores of Allomantic metals abruptly disappear. They're still physically there, but the power is completely gone. He immediately turns to go back, only to see more forest.
At least his Feruchemy still works—he can tell because he's still alive—but that won't last him forever. He only has so much stored youth, and without both sets of abilities he can't replenish it. He hasn't been in so much danger since the beheading that one time. Returning to Scadrial is the highest and currently only priority. If spontaneous forests are a thing, he needs to find someone who can explain them and more importantly how to get back.
The next few hours are spent walking in an essentially randomly chosen direction, with the sun to his right. He's quite certain that suns are supposed to be moving across the sky, but that's not a pressing emergency. He already knew he wasn't on his own planet when he saw proper trees and plants instead of ash-covered monstrosities. Whenever he calls out, nobody responds. If it's an empty spontaneous forest, he's probably doomed.
After some time, he hears his stomach growl. He hasn't seen much that looks edible, but possibly that's just because he's not used to real plants. Berries. Berries used to exist. Those berries look tasty, and if they're poisonous it's not like he needs to worry about it. As always, he has a truly ridiculous amount of stored health in his gold jewelry. Tapping gold just in case, he eats a handful.
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unprophesied_of_ages
unprophesied_of_ages
Eventually she'll finish with the food, and the emperor of the world clears up afterward.
"Do you have an estimate of how long it's likely to take?"
"Do you have an estimate of how long it's likely to take?"
imeanforever
"A few more hours. And then I'll be faster with more of the same type. Especially if you bring it to me in pieces all about the same size and shape."
unprophesied_of_ages
"Will you be able to enlarge the quantity once you have some? Or turn things that don't contain chromium into it? Other pieces like this one do exist, but they're rare."
imeanforever
"I could probably turn a metal that was just like chromium but didn't contain any into chromium, especially if I had at least a small amount of chromium too."
unprophesied_of_ages
"Afraid I can't tell you most of its characteristics, since the pure metal hasn't exactly ever existed. But once you have the first bit I can supply something that looks like it."
unprophesied_of_ages
"I should be able to come up with something.
Is there anything else that would help?"
Is there anything else that would help?"
imeanforever
"Books on sorcerous transmutation, but getting them would probably be prohibitive."
unprophesied_of_ages
"Yes, under the circumstances. You can come find me when it works or is definitely impossible; I'll probably be in my study."
unprophesied_of_ages
He leaves, and sets about collecting a variety of metals so he'll have something similar to whatever she comes up with.
unprophesied_of_ages
It's gray, shiny, and brittle. Fairly light for a metal. When he touches it, he instantly feels that he could use Feruchemy on this. Perfect.
"Congratulations," he says. "You've managed something no-one else has since ever.
This would be more than enough to handle Thorn with, but of course I'll want a supply for general use. How efficiently do you think you could transmute something like this?" He hands her a piece of zinc. It's slightly bluer and a touch heavier but otherwise similar.
"Congratulations," he says. "You've managed something no-one else has since ever.
This would be more than enough to handle Thorn with, but of course I'll want a supply for general use. How efficiently do you think you could transmute something like this?" He hands her a piece of zinc. It's slightly bluer and a touch heavier but otherwise similar.
imeanforever
"It might take me a couple of hours the first time if I can keep a small piece of the pure chromium to work with."
unprophesied_of_ages
He breaks a piece off. It doesn't break easily, but he's stronger than he looks.
"Funny, that metal is currently more valuable than an equal amount of atium. To me, at least.
Getting to Thorn is the next question, though. Would you be able to make a gate to somewhere within traveling distance of as many of his courts as possible?"
"Funny, that metal is currently more valuable than an equal amount of atium. To me, at least.
Getting to Thorn is the next question, though. Would you be able to make a gate to somewhere within traveling distance of as many of his courts as possible?"
unprophesied_of_ages
"That could do it. This metal can make me lucky. I was planning to use that to pick which court I should go to, but I suppose I could decide at random when to go to a particular court instead."
imeanforever
"I don't know if it will be able to influence the gate harmonics, so there will be a gate open when it settles whether you're ready to go then or not. And gates go in both directions."
unprophesied_of_ages
"We'll put it somewhere where it won't matter who comes through.
How's your heat resistance? We could make it in the burnlands; I'd love to see someone try to come after us and find themselves in an uninhabitable desert."
How's your heat resistance? We could make it in the burnlands; I'd love to see someone try to come after us and find themselves in an uninhabitable desert."
imeanforever
"I could come up with a spell for that, but I'd have to make up most of it because I don't have any books. Thorn collects sorcerers, though, and I was not the best he had."
unprophesied_of_ages
"It's not uninhabitable in the sense that you come through and you die. Well, farther south it's like that, but that part would kill me too. Just that it's unpleasant and inhospitable and there doesn't seem to be anything interesting in any direction.
I mention the burnlands because it's the least threatening place I can imagine hostile fairies arriving. If it's impractical we can do something else."
I mention the burnlands because it's the least threatening place I can imagine hostile fairies arriving. If it's impractical we can do something else."
imeanforever
"Thorn doesn't have your name and I don't have it anymore either to give to him if he caught me. Why are you going after him?"