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  1. The Allomancer Jak story was actually made into a short story for the Mistborn Adventure Game Alloy of Law book, I know it's at least in Arcanum Unbounded. Regardless, you can actually read it, if you want. IIRC, there's not really any spoilers for Era 2 in it.
  2. He's just always storing a quarter of his weight at all times, to make himself lighter on his feet. Iron isn't exactly a metal where dumping all of an attribute in at once will have major consequences, so he can afford to store and tap for the sake of convenience, since he doesn't really get "weaker" or "stronger" like he would if he was using Pewter or Steel instead of Iron, he just changes weight.
  3. Out of context, I'm fairly certain 99% of people here would still instantly know who this is referring to, lol. Exactly. Mistborn and Full Feruchemists each have 16 metals to split their attention between, this enables a lot of cool combinations and things that wouldn't be possible with just one, but it leaves them unable/unwilling to specialize. Twinborn can only use one of each, but they can still use the combination of both for cool things, and they get the benefit of having less options to split their time between. Quantity versus quality. Wax is a particularly fascinating case, because Steelpushing was already established as being really cool in Era 1. And now Coinshots have guns.
  4. Bit of a tangent, but you just reminded me of the Glider Coat from the MAG Alloy of Law supplement. I wonder if that's actually feasible, using Iron Feruchemy to fly with a wingsuit. ...now I'm imagining Batman on Scadrial.
  5. The medallions themselves are sort of "alive", for reasons that are as of yet unknown to everyone but the Malwish. The process of creating a medallion is something that hasn't been explored, but the end result is...seemingly not quite like an Awakened object, somehow. The medallion itself can tell when someone's trying to use it. It senses the Intent related to itself, and acts according to that Intent, within the constraints of what it can do. Honestly, I think it might be similar to how fabrials work, except using feruchemy (and potentially hemalurgy). The structure of the medallion itself is important, the metals involved encoding for specific effects: specifically Feruchemical effects, because it's built using Feruchemy and the medallion itself is a metalmind. The Bands of Mourning are specifically an anomaly even to the Malwish, nobody knows how it was created except for the creator. Like...yes, it's theoretically something you can replicate, but you could also theoretically turn the basement of a house into a supercollider, that doesn't mean anyone could just do that.
  6. I feel like there might be some...logistical issues in certain cases, even beyond the question of attraction, unless a lot of pewter or gold is involved. Koloss-blooded can still come from other koloss-blooded and humans, as well as from two koloss, that seems to be more likely than a human and a koloss for the aforementioned reason.
  7. Judging by how feruchemy works, I don't think a ferring or full feruchemist could do something like this. Feruchemy works by taking traits from the user, converting that to investiture, and storing that converted investiture in a metalmind keyed to that trait. There's no conversion going on when you use the Dor, and nothing really stores raw investiture (Nicrosil seems to store the ability to use Investiture, judging by how it's been described, which would also explain how the medallions work to an extent, but that's not the same as storing a quantity of the Dor. A decent comparison would probably be putting a circuit board into a drawer, as opposed to physically putting the electricity a computer uses into the aforementioned drawer.). However, I do think that a Compounder could potentially use the Dor to effectively increase the flow of investiture through metalminds charged with an attribute. We know the Dor can fuel allomancy, after all, and what compounding does is use allomancy to filter investiture through a metalmind to turn it into the trait stored within, the Dor might just add more power to the flow of investiture.
  8. There's also a difference between what a mistborn/hemalurgist could do with Duralumin on the fly, and a collaborative, purposefully set-up usage of Nicrosil Allomancy to amp up one shot of something else. You don't really fight a Nicroburst, you deal with the big mess they cause and separate them from any Allomancers in the area. So Wax may have encountered a Nicroburst buffing a Coinshot before, but that's different from one person using Duralumin for such dramatic effects with virtually no setup involved.
  9. You'll return to a baseline level of wakefulness, which would be that "well-rested" state. Feruchemy doesn't really "hold back" stuff iirc. If you're well-rested and tap wakefulness to prolong that, when you stop tapping it wouldn't dip below normal levels, because that makes no sense considering what Feruchemy does. If you're already tired and store wakefulness only to tap it later to wake yourself up, after you stop you'd probably return to being tired, because being tired is the baseline state in that situation. Putting it in simple terms, If you're already at -5 wakefulness because you're pulling an all-nighter, storing 10 puts you at -15, tapping puts you at 5, when you run out you'd go back to -5, not 0, because feruchemy is net-neutral. You get out exactly what you put in.
  10. Honestly, I'm torn between all of these, to a variable extent. Cadmium can also oxygenate your blood directly, allowing for effects similar to blood-doping, enabling a person to exert themselves for long periods. Duralumin seems incredibly useful in general because you can store and tap different kinds of Connections, Brass and Bronze have a lot of utility in everyday life. Also, I should probably mention, Bendalloy won't give you energy, it can supply nutrition and fluids but doesn't affect your stamina, iirc. It's just kind of like...eating and drinking, without needing to do that.
  11. That seems pretty likely, since the bindpoints line up and Kelsier's not really a typical user of Hemalurgy. IIRC, Kelsier's basically a cognitive shadow stapled to his own bones and what's probably a mistwraith for the fleshy bits. He didn't really take anything from anyone, cognitive shadows are investiture, he just had someone use hemalurgy to steal him and plug him into a body, which is...wild.
  12. IIRC it can also be used for an effect similar to blood-doping, delivering a large amount of oxygen into the body to enhance your stamina. It seems like it doesn't store air, just the stuff people can breathe safely (oxygen), with the expected effects a large amount of oxygen would have when tapped. If it just stored what you're breathing in regardless, you could tap it and get smoke or other particulates in your bloodstream, which sounds horrific.
  13. So, steelsight/ironsight can be used to substitute for lost vision, such as with the Inquisitors and Kelsier, and we see that the divide between what constitutes individual objects as valid for steelpushing/ironpulling is somewhat psychological (judging by Wax's ability to split a bullet into the projectile, casing, and primer at the back, then only push on one of those, as well as Marsh and Kelsier both being skilled enough with iron and steel to push and pull on different parts of a single object). What I'm wondering is, is the sight granted by those metals actually connected to a person's vision, and if so, would being colorblind or blind affect that? Could a blind Coinshot/Lurcher use a similar way of sensing their surroundings to an Inquisitor to substitute for sight? If not, would steelsight manifest differently for someone who is blind, due to the fact that it typically manifests as colored lines, something that a blind person would be unable to perceive (or even lack context for entirely, depending on if they were blind from birth or lost their sight later in life)?
  14. I didn't consider that, but I really should have, especially since I finished TLM only a few hours before asking about this. I feel a bit stupid, lol.
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