Sublime

And a lot of people—millions of people, in fact—love his personality. Even if they can’t always understand what he just said or what the word he just said means.

Ultimate Intelligence—a cybernetic deity that would spread its power back through time to dominate the universe. Indeed,

One handsome man in a galaxy of authentication. Not threatening, yet not unthreatening.

Electrum, the Allomantic complement of gold. Elend had started calling it “poor man’s atium.”

Something even larger than the Lord Ruler? Something so large, so big, that it was effectively invisible?

Lord Ruler? He was … well, he was the Lord. He ruled all of the world. He was the creator, protector, and punisher of mankind. He had saved them from the Deepness, then had brought the ash and the mists as a punishment for the people’s lack of faith. Vin wasn’t particularly religious—intelligent thieves knew to avoid the Steel Ministry—but she knew

By the end of this walk I was totally sold. I called my friend and said something like: Go for it! Swap shares with Sam Bankman-Fried! Do whatever he wants to do! What could possibly go wrong? It was only later that I realized I hadn’t even begun to answer his original question: Who was this guy?