Stalagmite

Elantrian Feruchemist, Oh My!

An atium spike is able to steal any one ability. The idea is that maybe you could get around that with awakening.

Could an Elantrian use AonDor to make themselves a mistborn or feruchemist?

It seems like that since NightBlood can consume breaths he might be able to hold more investiture. And with the right command, I bet the spike wouldn't harm you. Where someone is stabbed is extremely important for what ability you get, but we've seen that awakened steel can do some pretty funky things, I bet it'd be able to just start ripping at someone's spirit web and take whatever it wants.

Perhaps a more complicated command like "Take people's abilities and give them to me" would work better

I would bet that a lifeless could become sentient with the blessing of presence.

I guess that there were at least 10

What would happen used a lot of breath to awaken, say an atium spike in the way used to awaken NightBlood with the command "Steal Everything"? Would the single spike be able to steal all of a persons steal-able attributes?

Use hemalurgy to steal human strength and fill a metalmind with the strength it gives you, then never tap it. same for other human attributes Use bendalloy compounding to make yourself fat (can you do that?) Compound gold, jump into lava Use allomancy instead of metal detectors at the beach Use AonDor exclusively to enhance your laziness (i.e make potato chips and beer from nothing, transform your couch to be more comfy)

How many beads of Lerasium were at the Well of Ascension before Hoid arrived?

He must be a full mistborn then.

Edit: nevermind, misread your post

We have WoB that Hoid can move forward in time, but does not live all of those years. Allomancy can be used to make time bubbles that move the user forward in time and it's implied that compounding can enhance allomancy as well. Hoid is a feruchemist, and quite likely a mistborn as well. So I think that Hoid uses feruchemy to enhance allomantic Cadmium and move forward in time.

I would much rather be a drab than a bridgeman. Drabs are people, bridgemen are human shields.

But, unless I'm mistaken when you take a power with hemalurgy it becomes powered by ruin, how this would affect AonDor I don't know. It could even mean that distance from Elantris no longer matters.