Wrath

If you don't think SANITY is an advantage in any given situation then you're dead wrong. Take it from someone who has to struggle with sanity every day.

I'd bet on Blain because I suspect being in control of his sanity and actively seeking to fight other Epics means he's got better control over their powers and more experience fighting. But even so their invulnerability is really hard to get around. We know that sometimes Prime Invincibilities can be bypassed by sufficiently powerful attacks but it'd be very hard for one of them to put the other in such a situation and manage to survive themselves. So essentially they fight forever until one of them manages to find some way of hurting the other, and because I think Blain will have a small edge in skill I'd expect him to be the one to find that way. But Calamity only knows how long that would take.

They certainly are, and you're absolutely right about the limitations but it's much funnier to ignore that for a second and imagine Steelheart flying around ruining everything for Mistborns and Feruchemists.

Haha, I love it. I hadn't realised that Steelheart is the enemy of all the metal magics. Sorry guys, you're stuck with Steelpushing and speed storing from now on!

At first I thought it was because parallel David had the same powers, so Blain felt pain every time David used them. Now I think it was probably just an accident with new powers. As for whether there was a Rending or not... I'd say that depends on whether Invocation is a parallel Calamity or just another of the same species. Parallel Calamity seems more reasonable, IMO, so I think there probably was a Rending that has been written in history as just a reaction to gaining powers (ironically what Calamity believed it to be) rather than the influence of Invocation.

He does have a lot of different powers but are those powers really up to High Epic standard? Not to mention that High Epics can more or less just keep going unless you know their weakness whereas TLR has definite limits on how long/intensely he can use his powers. For example, Compounding Gold is like a Prime Invincibility except it will eventually be exhausted. After all even though TLR lived for centuries beyond his natural lifespan thanks to Compounding Atium he still needed to be old every so often. More rules mean more limitations and weaknesses.

Really it's the opposite of Prof's power, and that's significant because Prof starts off using the tensor power in small and tactical ways but in Calamity is using it in the same way that Steelheart used his steel power - enormous blasts. Reverse that and the steel power is also something that can be used in small and clever ways if the Epic is so inclined. I imagine it would be very useful in plans that require specific items, since you could make them or components of them out of any soft material and then transform it into steel.

The way I see it, Calamity wasn't the embodiment of Epic powers but something like a guiding force to them. He could give them to people and take them away, and was always connected to them, but wasn't in total control of them. That's why he couldn't take Megan's away from her or force Steelheart's on David. Likewise, the powers didn't vanish when Calamity did, but without him some of the rules changed. So following on from that, Tavi can inherit Prof's powers because Invocation left, removing the restriction on that. We already know that DNA is a factor in how powers work even under Calamity - neither the powers themselves nor Calamity can distinguish between two sources of exactly the same DNA, to the extent that all you need is some of their living cells to access those powers. The child of an Epic has 50% of their DNA, which makes inheriting the genetic component of Epic powers entirely possible, but perhaps Calamity was able to distinguish between children and parents and shut down the powers in children, even if they inherited whatever gene carried that Epic potential. We even have two examples, since both Tavi and David had the same powerset as their Epic parent. It makes me think that the powers one can potentially possess are determined by genetics before Calamity ever gets involved.

...interesting. Looking at everyone's posts, it shouldn't be too surprising that I'm a Truthwatcher, since that appears to be the most populous order. What is surprising is that apparently I'm the head of the order, since I managed to score 94%! I also got 71% Elsecaller and 61% Lightweaver.

Wait... if you can use Hemalurgy to remove someone's Allomancy, then they can use Feruchemy to repair the spiritual damage, does that mean that you could potentially produce people whose Spiritweb is no longer tainted by Allomancy? Meaning they could then breed full Feruchemists?

It's one of the flaws of the series that Egwene is a terrible person whose behaviour is essentially endorsed by her reality. She's the real ta'veren, the one the Pattern bends around to make sure that everything works out right for her. When something bad happens it's just so that she can prove that she's better than everyone else.

That's probably been Calamity's weakness all along. What, did you think David really turned down Epic powers by conquering his fear? Please.

Calamity: "You can't beat me because you'll never guess my weakness!" Firefight: "I don't need to guess it, I just need to find the dimensional version of you whose weakness is being shot with a pistol." *BANG*

Rather than fighting Reckoners, it would be fun to play as an Epic who is trying to conquer their own city. You'd have to take down other Epics to make them your subordinates, take control of the city's resources and infrastructure, teach mortals to fear and obey you, etc. And because of the way Epic corruption works the story can start off with you having good intentions but gradually losing your sanity as you become more powerful. It'd be pretty dark but it could also be really good. I suppose you could also have a good ending where you learn to stop using your powers.