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Ah, yes I remember now. Thank you.

Which book/ novella/ unpublished story is this from? AFAIK Nazh wasn't in Shadows for Silence, which is the only book I know of set on threnody. I'm curious, and of course always looking for more Sanderson I haven't read.

So, let's say that in another 50 years after era 2, we have a lurcher who has a degree in nuclear physics. He takes a sample of a pure uncommon isotope of iron and tries to burn it. If he knows perfectly well, that this iron sample is not like regular iron, would that then affect the iron's cognitive identity and thus it's ability to be burned?

So here's my thoughts: A mistborn burning Chromium is essentially entirely immune to direct attacks from sand mastery. They are basically Terken. So a mistborn with all 16 metals, I think easily beats a sandmaster by virtue of being directly unharmable, combined with a wide variety of abilities to attack and kill the sandmaster. This doesn't take into account atium, which of course would make the mistborn win. Heck, even having bendalloy or duralumin, without chromium probably still makes the mistborn win. Now, if we talk era 1 mistborn, with eight metals, things get a little more interesting. I think a mastrell (or Kenton) beats the mistborn, because the mistborn simply has no way to defend against a telekinetic, non-metallic projectile. A lower sandmaster probably loses, because the mistborn will speedblitz them with coins and pewter-reflexes before they can reach the mistborn with their sand.

Hm, I'm not sure the timeline works out on that one. The chronology of the Cosmere on the Coppermind puts SA around the time of Alloy of Law, which is approximately 1300 years after the Lord Ruler's Ascension. Given that TLR created the Kandra, and controlled them (or at least their population) for the first 1000 years of their existence, I would call it a stretch to say that Kandra migrated to Roshar and set themselves up as a new race, supposedly related to the other Aimans, within ~300 years of WoK. In case that didn't make sense, the important thing to remember is that the Kandra were created by TLR at the time of his Ascension by transforming his former Terris friends. They can't be related to the Aimans, especially if we assume the Aimans existed on Roshar before TLR's Ascension.

I'm no writer, and I definitely will not be writing anything about this, but I had a cool idea for a world. So you have this planet (or possibly moon) that's like Europa, the moon of Jupiter. It's got a solid crust of ice but a shallow ocean underneath, which is kept warm by geothermal/ tidal forces. There's a race of people that have naturally buoyant bodies, so they mostly live on the inside of the ice crust, upsidedown from 'normal.' They tie rocks or heavy weights to themselves to ascend to the rocky core of the world for farming and gathering natural resources. Nothing grows on solid ice, so it all has to be done on the 'ceiling' of the world.

I think it may not be simply that different powers can be stored in the same metalmind, but that there is a distinction between the power of a misting and the power of a Mistborn. We know that mistings are either born with one power or all of them, which says to me that misting and Mistborn powers are fundamentally different. Same with Feruchemy. So a medallion would have two rings of Nicrosil, granting two powers, say F!brass and F!iron. But the bands would also have only two rings of Nicrosil, granting two powers- that of a full Mistborn and a full Feruchemist. I guess what I'm trying to get at is that a single Nicrosilmind can still only store one power, (like how Sazed needed multiple tinminds to store different senses) but that the power of a full Mistborn still qualifies as "one" power.

I'm gonna have to go with a no on the regrow onf piercings thing. Even if you 'see' the diamond as a part of yourself, the gold healing would probably only replace the organic bits, leaving the hole behind but no ring. Tattoos seem plausible, especially seeing Kaladin keep his, if not regrow them. I wonder, say you had someone with a tattoo (or say, scar for simplicity) on their hand, then you cut off the hand and they regrow it. Would the scar still be there? I'm gonna say yes for scar, no for tattoo because of a lack of ink. What do you all think? Speaking of how gold and stormlight healing seem to depend on the idea of "restoring your body to your perception of what it looks like," I wonder if storing Identity would mess with your ability to heal. If you have no cognitive perception to return to because you are putting it away, what will the healing do?

Well all right, it looks like I've been thouroughly disproven. Thank you all.

Not true, if they stored all their weight they would become massless and a tap would send them off at light speed. Heck, if they even got lighter than air they would float like a balloon, which I'm sure has been tried. Anyway, to the rest of you, I was under the impression that the people of era 2 Scadrial were not generally aware that identity could be bottomed out. I know there are some attributes that would kill you to bottom out, like strength and health, but I am pretty sure the limit existed on all attributes regardless of which ones are dangerous.

After a very brief search I didn't see anything closely related to this theory, so forgive me if I'm beating a dead horse here. Ahem. So I was looking at Nicrosil and it's ability to store "the ability to use a power." For example, in Bands of Mourning we see it used with the Medallions to grant various feruchemical powers to those who don't normally have them. What interests me however, is the effect storing and tapping your abilities has on a regular soulbearer. It seems that storing and tapping allomantic power changes the strength of burn possible for the user. So an A!steel/ F!Nicrosil twinborn who is tapping their own steel allomancy can get more power out of their steel, letting them push harder and flare higher. This makes sense, tapping your abilities makes you more effective with them. But I was wondering how that works when storing or tapping feruchemical abilities? It's hard to imagine being "better" at storing or tapping strength or weight. Therefore I propose that Nicrosil Feruchemy is what allows a feruchemist to "bottom out," or store away all of an attribute at once. By tapping their own other powers, a feruchemist can store or tap more of an attribute at once. By tapping enough power, they can then reach a point where it is possible to store away all of an attribute. We know that storing the entirety of a power is possible, because it is a required part of medallion creation- one must store all of their identity before storing another power, so that the medallion will be unkeyed and useable by anyone. Storing Identity is only one use though. Assuming I'm correct, tapping F!Iron from a a Nicrosilmind would let you store away more weight at a time, making you buoyant in air and literally able to fly. Storing all weight through mechanical Feruchemy could also come into play in the fourth trilogy where a massless ship would be able to go light speed. Storing all your health, strength, nutrition or breath would probably kill you, but tapping more of those at once could be useful, especially if you have very large stores. (Tapping beyond the normal max would probably drain your stores incredibly fast, assuming there even is a normal max) So, do you agree with me? Feel free to shoot holes in this if it doesn't stand up to scrutiny. I won't feel bad. On the flipside, if this is a widely accepted belief that I was somehow not aware of, I apologize.

I don't think having copperminded would make school obsolete. I mean, look at Earth. The vast majority of people in first-world countries have access to the Internet, often in their pockets at all times in the form of smartphones. But we still have school. Similar arguments can be made: "Why do I need to learn algebra when I can learn it on the fly from the Internet if my job requires it?" Because memorizing is not the same as putting into practice. All the copperminds in the world won't help you fix a transmission or win a court case, they can only give you information, just like a cell phone can. People trained in these areas are valued for their skills and experience, not their ability to memorize information. That said, copperminds would still probably be banned in schools, for the same reasons cell phones are. I imagine bronze medallions might be standard-issue though- who wants student falling asleep in class?

So I think I remembered this from a WoB or something, but I wanted to make sure, as well as tie some ideas together. So Life on Scadrial came exclusively from the Shard's creation of the world, correct? While on Roshar most life (Greatshells, Chulls, etc) is native to Roshar, with more Earth-like species coming from the Shards. Is this correct? To extend this, it seems reasonable that Life on Pre-Shattering Yolen was similar to Life on IRL Earth, and therefore when the shards took there power to various ends of the Cosmere they were inspired by Life from their home planet. Is this correct? Now on the flipside, what about all the very alien life we see throughout the Cosmere? Like most life on Roshar and Taldain. (Chasmfiends are at least superficially similar to Sandlings) Even First of the Sun has the "Deep Ones," which a friend suggested to me may be similar to Chasmfiends as well. So I guess my question is this: Is it possible that the Mega-crustaceans and other alien life of the Cosmere have a common origin like how the Earth-like planets originate from Yolen?

Great, he can carry the shovel for me. Handy! I'll trade this bowl of cherry pits.

Has anyone heard of this book? Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/Shadowborn-Joseph-DeVeau-ebook/dp/B00XS7CSV6 It's called "Shadowborn" and it was published last year. I haven't read it and don't plan to, but my sister noticed it because it appears to bear some strong similarities to a certain book we all know and love... Here's the description, from Amazon: "Shadowborn is the tale of Aeryn, a street girl poised on the knife's edge of death, whose innate ability to Drift and meld with the shadows draws the attention of a powerful Lord who seeks to use her to bring down a thousand year old god. Relying time and again on her wolfish pet Jynx and her ability to Drift and become a Shadow, Aeryn has been able to eke out a living as a street urchin where countless others have perished. A fateful run-in with a powerful and enigmatic Lord sends her life spiraling out of control. In over her head and leagues from the familiar, meager life she once knew, all Aeryn can do is struggle to ride the currents of a city overflowing with cutthroats, soldiers, scheming nobles, and Nameless, a thousand year old god and his legions of power-hungry Shades and Voices. Trusting in her mantra to "move forward," Aeryn soon finds herself challenging a god and changing the fate of the nation." Street urchin with magic powers? Check. Thousand-year old God with a legion of mysterious followers? Check. Wolfish pet? Double check. I'm not saying it's necessarily a bad book or that it's entirely unoriginal, in fact there are already some marked differences in the magic system and plot just from the description. It actually has (a half-dozen or so) good reviews. However, I think it's clear that this writer at least drew some inspiration from Brandon, and I thought I would share this little find with all of you. Thoughts?