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It was a quiet night as Beedle prepared for the coming battle. Kohga had been revealed in the castle, and it was only a matter of time before he came for Beedle. Beedle placed the last pot with an item outside the last door. He would make sure people got their items this night, at least. Kazs was with him still, as foolish as that was considering what was about to happen. There was a loud crash from nearby, and Kazs jumped. Beedle simply stood up straighter, finally taking off his massive, beetle shaped backpack. He stretched, flexing his muscles. Surely someone who could carry such an enormous backpack must be totally ripped, right? Kohga came around the corner, magic swirling around him as he summoned floating balls of metal with spikes covering them. Kazs began strumming on his ukulele, as Beedle had requested. There would be an epic ballad composed for this fight, if Beedle had anything to say about it. "So," Beedle said, flexing his muscles, "you've finally come for me, Kohga? Was wondering how long it'd take you." "I've come to kill you, yes I have. It is through the power of my ancestors that I will defeat you and cripple the economy of this castle in the process." "Not if I have anything to say about it." Beedle charged at Kohga and Kohga began launching the spike balls at him. Beedle timed his dodges to the beats of the song that Kazs was still strumming away on his ukulele. One of the balls came very close to hitting Beedle in the face, but he tilted his head back and watched it sail over him, time seeming to slow down for just a moment. Kohga screamed, then created much bigger spike balls, getting them ready to throw at Beedle. But it was too late, as Beedle was already within Kohga's range. Beedle jumped over the magic shield Kohga had created, and began punching at Kohga. Kohga managed to avoid a few of them, making sure to keep the spikes away from himself, but he could not avoid all of them. And so, he began to fight back, punching Beedle as well. Beedle was skilled, but even his added strength from carrying his beetle backpack around all the time was not quite enough to help against a trained assassin. He found himself, being pressed back, closer and closer to the magic shield that Kohga had left up. Kohga grinned at Beedle. "What are you going to do? You're cornered! And..." His grin got wider, and he launched the rest of his spike balls past Beedle. "I think you missed, Kohga. And now it's time for-" The music stopped, and then Beedle understood. He quickly turned around, his heart racing, but he knew what he would see before he saw it. Kazs was dead, his ukulele broken to pieces as well. Beedle should've sent him away, should've told him to run, he should've- There was a knife sticking through Beedle's chest. "Never turn your back on your enemy." Kohga whispered into his ear as Beedle slumped to the ground, his life fading away. Kohga ran through the halls of Hyrule castle, keeping to the shadows. He'd blown his cover and had killed two people, but it was fine. Everything was fine. Everything was going according to plan. He just had to find someone he could kill and disguise himself as, and he'd be okay. Everything would be okay. He turned around a corner to see a shadowed figure in the middle of the hallway. Perfect! Kohga thought. Now I just gotta sneak up on them.... The figure turned around, pulling out a sword and brandishing it at Kohga. That wasn't just any sword though, it was the Master Sword. Oh no, Kohga thought. He hardly even had a chance to get any words about before Link began fighting him in earnest. He was trying his hardest to avoid the swings of the skilled young knight. But in the end, Link was better than Kohga, and Kohga knew that. He began to panic, frantically summoning spike balls and throwing them around everywhere. Link was just skillfully dodging each and every one of them. I know what to do! Kohga thought. I'll just disappear! Kohga went to make himself disappear, putting up a shield between himself and Link, but Link simply slid under the shield and reached up and stabbed Kohga through the chest. The Yiga had lost their leader. Kasimir has been killed! They were a Hyrulean Beedle! Illwei has been killed! They were Master Kohga! There will be a removal during this Day turn. There is no vote minimum (though no one is removed if no one votes), and tied votes result in a random tied player getting removed. In addition, Beedle's shop is now unfortunately closed. Player List: This turn will end at 8:30 am CDT, on Sunday, June 27th. Please note that this is an hour earlier than last time, as I have work starting early that day and need to leave at our normal rollover time. PMs will be sent out shortly, if they haven't been already.

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Cycle One: 8th Doxil, 237 The cycle has begun and will end at 2300hrs SGT (GMT+8) on the 27th June! Please let me know if you have not received a role PM.

"dating buddies" Says the spambot advertising sex on a book fansite lmao

The truth is that Kas is a made up person crazy Kas just thinks is real. Wyrm is real. Wyrm is love. Wyrm is life.

About an hour and a half ago, my mom came home from B&N and handed me a copy of The Dark One. Done.

WoR

I know, it’s been a while, but I’m back!

This meme is caused by LG78 but true of pretty much every game (oh wow that 16 June meme aged like milk...)

When you look back on your yearbook and realize your fellow Sanderfan teacher wrote this in his message to you: I'll have to check in with him next year and see if he's finished RoW And see if the other teacher has finished WoA, and if the other other teacher ever read Rithmatist, and if the librarians have gotten into him yet...

Okay, everyone, please welcome @kaylakrue to the game! She's replacing hyliara.

Guys, Luca is amazing. Watch it if you haven’t, that simple, cute story made me cry.

All very good points no argument there, I would just add one more thing. While pilots in fighter jets need to be careful not to experience to large g-forces, this should not be an issue for Windrunner (and Skybreakers). The problem for pilots is that the body is not accelerated uniformly (chair pushes body, body pushes blood) which leads for example to blood pooling in the feet or in the back (like when you are in a car and acceleration pushes you in to the seat). However gravity itself won't create such effects, as the entire body is accelerated uniformly and free-fall is technically indistinguishable from being at rest. In effect this means that Windrunners and Skybrekears should be able to pull what we would call high g maneouvers without too much risk to them. They could still hide behind shardblade in shape of shield, which should be impenetrable to nearly anything. So far only Nightblood damaged blade (altough it was an Honorblade). And how many bullets could the Scadrial defense fire at them and hit depends heavily on how would the Rosharan forces attack. Did they use Dustbringers or Skybreakers to create dust cloud for cover? Did they use Lightweaving to blind the defenses? Did they lash rock to fly first to soften up the defenses? Did they attach illusions to those rocks to have defenses fire at them to waste bullets? Did they attack simultaneously from above (Windrunners) and below (Stonewards/Willshapers)? etc. If we assume only a couple Windrunners attampting head-on attack without any help and any proper tactics (no shardblade shield), they would most likely get shot down if the Scadrial forces outnumber them something like 1 to ~30 based on the following assumptions Windrunners start 1000 meters away and go from being at rest to landing at rest. They lash themselves 4 times, so to cover the distance would take them ~12 seconds. Sub-Early 20th century repeating rifles can shoot a round every ~6 seconds, they are shooting aluminum bullets (otherwise reverse lashings would make bullets effectively a non issue). Accuracy is around 1/2 (most likely worse as for most of the time Windrunners are more than 400 meters away and can rapidly change directions). To break a section of plate you need 3 bullets (they are not point blank shots so are slowed down and are made from relatively soft metal (at least outer shell)). It is not realistic to assume that all the rifleman manage to intentionally shoot the same section of the plate, and we assume plate has ~10 distinct sections. (if we neglected this one it would be 1 to 8; 6 to break section and 2 to guarantee hit to the exposed body part). I intentionally ignored machine guns, as the only use so far was relatively point blank situation, so it is difficult to estimate how accurate they are at hundreds of meters. They could potentially tilt the balance so that Scadrial needs only parity. I agree. Personally I doubt that Radiant can intentionally dodge a bullet after it was fired. I mostly assume they would move around in some sort of 3D zig-zag pattern to make aiming more difficult. Multiple regular heavy hammers wielded by Warform parshendi can break sections of plate after minutes of sustained attack, not with a couple of hits. Also the plate is clearly not rigid, as it conforms to users shape and is wholly covering them, including around joints and neck where the plate would need to be flexible. It seems that the plate behaves 'as needed', i.e. if it needs to be rigid and hard it is, if it needs to be flexible it is, and it has no impact on its defensive properties. The helmet Kal used did not crack from his offensive use of it, it cracked from multiple hits from Shardblades. If Shardplate could be damaged by a non-magical force impacting at regular strength over a small area people would have noticed sometime in the last ~2000 years since Recreance. Not to mention that the Fused would have known after ~6500 years of conflict, and since they are using aluminum but don't treat it as some ultimate weapon I would not expect aluminum to provide significant advantage either. Remember that the Fused were worried about one 4th Oath Radiant being in the Tower before they launched attack. If they could easily break plate with Aluminum weapons, why would they fear them so much? Vindication to me sounded like a replacement for the .36 caliber gun Wax was using previously so I expected it do be comparable in size, however the Hazekiller rounds are larger so I think .44 sounds reasonable. Vindication also does not seem to do that much more damage usually, it is just much more accurate. Also while the slugs might be larger than those used in m16 or ak47, the Era 2 rifles would in to way be comparable to the stopping power those assault rifles could provide. The .44 Henry rounds are ~14 grams and fire at ~1100 ft/s; The ak-47 uses 7.62x39mm bullets weight at least 7.9 grams, but are fired at ~2300 ft/s. The M16 uses 5.56x45mm rounds weight at least 3.6 grams, but are fired at ~3300 ft/s. So Ak-47 fires bullet that has both better momentum and over twice the kinetic energy, and M16 fires bullet with slightly less momentum (about 3/4) but has larger kinetic energy (about 2.3 times as much). Nothing suggests you can pierce the Shardplate, even Brandon talks about shattering a section, suggesting that you need to break a section first and simply piercing it is not possible. If Shardblade (with incredibly thin edges) wielded by someone in Shardplate (so at least 10 times as strong as human) cannot pierce the plate, I doubt a bullet could. In addition to pierce the plate you would need to displace the material plate is from, and that would be much heavier than the bullet. Also the plate heals just as well no matter how much damage it takes, it just needs to be provided with enough Stormlight. I calculated this about 30 pages back I think. It came out 4 cm assuming density of steel, assuming density of tungsten it was around 2cm (using known weight of plate ~600 kg and the fact that area of human skin is ~ 2m^2). In reality it would be a bit thinner I think, as it has a couple percent larger surface area than human skin, but it should be 1cm thick at minimum. This means that person in Shardplate has thicker armour than most tanks used in WW1, and Scadrial has worse weapons than those used in WW1. No bullet they have is going to pierce that. I don't think it is that the cutting ability is neutralized, I think it is the usual effect of Investiture resisting Investiture. Shardplate is 1 cm thick at minimum, non-rigid (as it is flexible enough to cover joints and head and still allow regular movement), fixes itself, transmits attenuated sensory input to user (even in shardgloves you can still pick up fine details by touch), can actively adapt (see how it started blocking lighting strikes to not blind Adolin), can resist ordinary weapons for minutes at a time and enhances users strength to at least 10 usual people. And this is deadplate, not living plate. Ordinary plate vs modern small arms loses, if you have chainmail under plate you have some chance. Shardplate is strictly better than regular plate for defense, otherwise Roshar could use that (Heralds did have advanced knowledge of metalurgy).

Hey, there's a new moon in town. I tip my hat at you all. I'm a long time 17th shard lurker and listener of WE. I've got the 2nd draft of my first arcanepunk novel that I'd like to start submitting to you good folks, after I get a few critiques under my belt. I'm a creative writing major that never got anything published outside of college magazines. I love to write and I resonate with Brandon in my appreciation of epic fantasy, magic systems, and world building. I'm into many geeky things, such as comics, anime, gaming, and D&D. I am also a wine geek and sommelier, which I try to use in most of my stories. I have 3 cats named after literary characters. Their names are Yorick, Arthur (Dent), and Bast. I also have a bearded dragon named Merlin, because I'm incredibly original like that. I also have a tank of freshwater fish that I can't tell the difference between, so I just call them all Hoid. When I'm not being literary, I like to go camping and fishing, I'm a beach bum, and I'm a foodie and amateur chef. Some of my favorite authors are, in no particular order(Sanderson is assumed, duh): N.K. Jemisin, Patrick Rothfuss, Scott Lynch, Lev Grossman, Jim Butcher, Phillip Pullman, Mary Shelley, William Gibson, Douglas Adams, Ursula K. Le Guin, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Phillip K. Dick, Isaac Asimov, Kurt Vonnegut, Joe Abercrombie, Robin Hobb. My favorite movie is Gattaca, which is partially explained by the fact that I'm a sucker for a good underdog story that makes me cheer. Things currently swimming in my writing playlist are the Daft Punk Tron OST, anything by Hans Zimmer, anything by Thomas Newman. I look forward to getting the opportunity to read and critique some of the community's work and getting to know everyone. See y'all around the forums.

Campaign speech day one (in fitting of the budding politician I'm aspiring to be, I'm going to give a campaign speech on something I'm passionate about each day until I get voted as Representative). Hello my fellow workers! Thank you for showing up and listening or reading about me. You may have heard of me, Steel, before. I've been working in this factory for 10 years now. Nowadays I have a wife and two kids named Iron and Carbon, with a third on the way. I work here so I can support them. I imagine many of you have families of your own as well, and that's why you're working here. When I first started working, it wasn't so bad. The hours weren't bad, but the pay was similar. But they weren't too stingy, and I still had time to make a family. But now the factories are dying here, and in an effort to reproduce the profit they had before, theyve started working us to the bone. When they first started it, I told my wife it would probably be a temporary thing until they got back on their feet. That was a year ago now. Since then, I've hardly seen my wife at all, and I was told just the other day that I cant take off a month from now when my kid is due! Is that fair? No, not at all! And I'm sure many of you have had similar experiences. This is abuse, plain and simple. These nobles don't care about our livelihood at all these days, but rather how many boxings they can stuff in their pockets. Now I'm no Survivor, I dont necessarily want to overthrow the nobility. But what I do want is right and just treatment! So I came up with what I call the "Fair Steel Deal," which we can all sign to show that we want better pay, more stable working hours, breaks, and a promise that we can spend time at home when we need to. Isn't that something we all want? I think so! So RISE UP! LET US TAKE BACK THE FREEDOM THAT SHOULD BE OURS!

I have corrupted my best friend. She just started the Stormlight Archive. Best part is, she identified Kaladin's depression and PTSD long before the Honor Chasm. She's at the spot where the soldiers have to help carry the bridge because too many bridgemen died. I think this is after the first run.

hey lol

I asked Peter about this on Twitter, and Lux is indeed the three planned novellas combined into a single novel.

So I was going through youtube this morning ('cause I was dying of Covid vax and there was nothing else to do) when an ad played for a new show on Disney+. I skipped it (as one does), but from the two spoken lines that I heard from the ad, I had a sudden question: Was that... the Mysterious Benedict Society? So I looked it up and yes, it was an ad for a Mysterious Benedict Society show on Disney+ and yes, I just spent the last hour and a half watching the two episodes they have and WOWZA does it hold up.

My brain is on fire about these rules but I'm determined to figure it out without just... voting on my boyfriend lmao. For now, have some rp! Nolle peered at the Broadsheet. Buncha nonsense, really. The papers had all these big words and fancy designs and scholarly writin' just to do one thing: yell at others. All these people yellin' about different things, yellin' at each other in the streets and in the papers, never makin' a lick of progress save for makin' others angry. She had half a mind to send in her own thoughts, screw these people's heads on the right direction. No one would make any progress by confusin' the masses and pissin' off their friends. This paper needed some organization, a better goal. Charisma. That would do the trick. A whole lotta charisma. Maybe that journalist guy would give a speech or something. That would do it. She set the Broadsheet aside, satisfied. That Khassid guy would appreciate some good ol' feedback from the masses he preached to. Edit: that's a new one

What if we all just claimed Tineye, that way the elims will have absolutely no idea who actually is the Tineye. Anyway As cool as it is that y'all are voting for me, it would be a little sad if I join this game and immediately get kicked out because everyone trusts me. Any chance I can persuade you all to vote me for Worker Leader? Anyway, I think I'm going to vote for Archer for election, and Mat for Worker Leader. Archer because I like his thought process on why he picked Tani (even if I don't necessarily agree about Tani being the best fit for Worker Leader), and Mat because he seems pretty villagery to me so far. I don't think an elim would lowball the team that much, when it seems pretty obvious that the elims need at least 5 players to actually have a chance at winning. I'm fine switching them between election or Worker Leader, but I have them where they are now based on who has already voted for them in each category, meaning where I think they're most likely to win. Also, here's some VCs: Election: Archer (2): Mat, Striker Striker (2): Szeth, TJ Steel (1): Fifth Worker Leader: Mat (2): TJ, Striker Striker (1): Fifth Tani (1): Archer

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Wow. I’m not stupid, but I am bad at reading the thread apparently. I thought I read all of D1, but I missed Kas. I knew I didn’t read all N1, but I didn’t think the scan was a day action so I wasn’t expecting anything like that. That’s cool. Thanks for the update. Edit: oh, and Kas, thanks for the pot. I broke it immediately.

Thank you Kasimir, for the pot. I'll treasure it forever. In pieces.

Here's what Steven Michael Bohls said in one of the comment boxes on YouTube (spoilered for pic size): That doesn't really answer the question, but the second option (novellas ran long) seems more likely that way. I'm sure he'll talk about it on the next Weekly Update though.

The link is established even before any pushing/pulling is done, as the metalborn sees the lines connecting them to the metals. They can then push on those metals, presumably through the connection established by burning metal. In this reading burning Steel or Iron has two effects, 1) creates a connection between Allomancer and metal 2) Allows to generate force which acts on that metal, through the line connecting it to the allomancer. At least that is how I understood OP.

I second this. If anything could shatter a Plate section, it would be the main character with a special gun that fires special bullets. And given what happened in RoW, I assume that the one-bullet method involves anti-Investiture.

But he didn't. He preserved it. His deal, if it is kept, will make sure that the human race (as he understood it), survives. You can, or rather must, argue that he betrayed the rest of Roshar in the coalition. In fact he himself is clear on that point. Now, that raises another point. Are the Iriali traitors to the human race? I get it, but you are wrong. The example you are citing clearly are breaking the rules of sportsmanship. Hence you are obviously bad. But that is not loyalty. If they are your team, you are rooting for them to win (albeit in playing by the rules) against the odds. In other words, you are desiring an unfair outcome. If not for bad luck, the other team would have won. Again, a patriot is supposed to sacrifice for his country, but not for other countries. Again his country does not deserve this. Patriots are making preferences which cannot be justified by fairness. Well, no. The point being is that a morality based only on good and bad is impossible. Loyalty is a value of its own. Let's go to the old time trolley problem. Suppose you have decided to actually throw the lever. Now the spouse of the single person you would sacrifice shows up and shoots you dead to stop you. Is that a crime? Of course not. But what is the justification? We cannot say that your action is wrong, therefore you needed to be stopped. Now we have the spouse of one of the ten people you would save shove you aside and the bullet misses. Do we have a case of a murderous spouse saving you here? This does not work. People have attachements and conflicting interests. Loyalty is a laudable attribute. Both of the spouses are right and a determination of who should prevail cannot be made based on justice and fairness.

That night, a man sat on the hillside, strumming at his ukulele. It was a night of firsts. He had not been in this position in a very long time. Miscalculation, combined with what was like to be the whimsies and vagaries of fickle chance. It always came down to that, if you thought about it. There had been one such other, a loud man with a mouse stumbling around in a house. And then one who wore the mask of a vulture. And then the sleazy peddler, the one who had conned the hunter of silver. Laughter. People seemed to dislike that. Or he hadn't had much of a run of luck with the funny ones. Maybe the gods simply loved the jokers more. It was why they summoned them to the grave first. It was a night of silence, humming beneath strands of song. It was the silence that swallowed the last breath of a dying man, the silence that filled the trees when the songbird fell. The man thought he could continue to puzzle at the hints that the Yiga had left. But he was not in the mood to. He had seen to his affairs, and it was a task best left to the living. He had other matters with which to preoccupy himself. It was always darkest in the hours before dawn. It would be a beautiful sunrise, thought the man. He might like to see it. It would be a good way for things to end, if anything. It would be a sign and a great contentment.

Caved and got a stealth Leonardo Momento Magico >> Oh no.

The fact that Miss Minutes in Loki is voiced by Twilight Sparkle makes me very, very happy.

We know that Dalinar and Odium will have a contest of some kind ten days from the time RoW ends. We don't know any specifics except the agreement, what's being wagered, and that Dalinar is apparently going to be his own champion. (plus a little more buuut I'm trying to keep this short ) I'm an optimist, don't get me wrong. I want Dalinar to win. But I'm thinking that he will lose. -Wait! Don't leave! Hear me out! You still here? Good! The problem is, what will they DO if he wins?? (they being everyone) Odium, the Fused, and the Unmade will be gone. The Regals's powers are granted by Odium and the Fused. The regular singer soldiers will die quickly. Who is there left to have as an antagonist?? This will be book 5 in a ten-book series. What would Sanderson do?? Kill off Dalinar and perhaps Kaladin (as much as I like him, he's my favorite character, my second being maybe Veil, but she's gone..., I doubt that he'll get a happy ending. It'll likely be dying to save someone he loves, like Oroden, or even hates, like Moash, after swearing the 5th Ideal.) and have the Radiants be a group of freedom fighters in a Odium-controlled world, or have everyone who lives have a happier ending and fight occasional new bad guys while practicing their powers?? As sad as it is, if I were Brandon, I would do option A. But maybe it'll be option B and everything will be happy! ...But probably not. (Maybe it would be something in between though...I can't tell the future.)

why would he go to sleep at 10am thne you knoa what i ill just leave it

Every time I read Blinkin or Blinken, I can't help but think of Robin Hood Men in Tights. Thanks for that as now I have to go watch it again.

One thing to note is that the import function that pulls wobs from Arcanum into the Coppermind for citation purposes doesn't work right for suggested wobs. You won't notice this unless you actually try to import the wob before it is approved, but just a heads up.

It's wet and light, and I prefer piston to c/c (narrowly), so very happy Though of course, I got a Broad nib... Thanks! It's basically become my dedicated Gion pen for the moment

They looked like an Inkspren and Reacher pair, just scaled up. These would be the spren who'd grant access to the Surge of Transportation.

I am not that much of a gun person, but my sister is so I try to keep up a bit at least. Knowledge of physics also helps with basic assessment. On the topic of Shardplate, good point on it being potentially overlapping small plates that could be an option. For me the issue is that even if there are overlapping plates, around joints you need them to stretch either a single plate being flexible or multiplate plates somehow attached to each other with something like a spring. In both cases you end up with at least part of Shardplate material having 'stretchy' properties and at that point part of Shardplate being stretchy/flexible seems like a simpler option to me. I think like you said it is 'magic' like the seemless fusing of visor in helmet, or the Plate melding to user. In effect it reminds a bit of Leto II sand trout armor from Dune, incredibly hard and resistive, yet flexible when needed (like around joints or neck) while still being just as hard to damage. Huh, good point. The WoB does not specificy what kind of bullet only that there could be an argument for one with the right bullet. I think the other conditions (right shot, right time) weaken this slightly as I would expect anti-Investiture bullet being very destructive no matter how well you shoot it, but it sounds like a reasonable guess. At the very least proper anti-Investiture bullet should most likely be very damaging to Shardplate.

Hi MattLeon, welcome to the shard! I guess, the thread My first time in General Brandon Discussion might be what you're looking for, but I am pretty new to the forums here too, so there might be something better fitting. And you can always open a new thread if you like. Anyway, looking forward to reading more from you!

I've re-written the OP to reflect some thoughts based off of a WoB I found recently. I'm saving the original version in this post in the spoiler code below. When I wrote the original post, I considered it was possible that the Rosharan system's tones tuned/changed to the 3 shard's tones after they showed up and became involved with the system. However, I found another WoB specifically stating that the 3 moons were there before the shards, which implies to me that the "tones" were already tuned to those shards before they showed up too.

Apologies if this one has been done, I made a typo while writing Oathbringer and thought of something along these lines.

Bleu Austral looks amazing! Local pen group warned it's a pigment ink though I see it's not according to Goulet, but that's why I was leery about getting it, though I might eventually Preach, bro The only thing that saved me is I do not usually like gold trim on a pen. Oh, and as promised, my Carene. Did a brief handwriting sample but I suspect it's not demonstrative as my handwriting isn't great. I did do the up and downstrokes so you can see though. Be warned that Stone Road of Gion is not an especially wet ink.

The white clothing was a Parshendi tradition, foreign to him. But he did as his masters required and did not ask for an explanation. He sat in a large stone room baked by enormous firepits that cast a garish light on the revelers, causing beads of sweat to form on their skin as they danced and drank and yelled and sang and clapped. Some fell to the ground red-faced, the revelry too much for them, their stomachs proving to be inferior wineskins. They looked as if they were dead, at least until their friends carried them out of the feast hall to waiting beds. Szeth did not sway to the drums, drink the sapphire wine, or stand to dance. He sat at a bench at the back, a still servant in white robes. Few at the treaty signing celebration noticed him. He was just a Shinservant, and Shin were easy to ignore. Most out here in the East thought that Szeth's kind were docile and harmless. They were generally right. The drummers began to beat a new rhythm. The beats shook through Szeth like a quartet of thumping hearts pumping waves of invisible blood through the room. Szeth's masters - who were dismissed as savages by those in more civilized kingdoms - sat at their own table. They were men with skin of black marbled with red. The red is what I got wrong from writing it down. I'm generally better at reciting it. This is how you know you're a sanderfan

I know a normal mistborn even in Vin's time couldn't replicate this but the lord ruler was able to push on the metal in her stomach. Even wax says its not impossible it just gets harder the more invested something is. And that is generations down the road. Could a first generation mistborn made from larasium be able to do it? And if larasium were to be brought into play it also significantly increases the allomantic powers of a mistborn. I wonder how much (God metal so take it for what its worth) larasium it would take to super charge a mistborn to a point of being able to duralumin charge steel and iron to affect shardplate if at all. Not to mention pewter usage would bring it to or beyond that of shardplate. I definately see a lot of what ifs needing to be stacked in order to form the perfect mistborn for a fight like this. Where as the shardplate and shardblades definately sound pretty busted op.