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  1. Got a couple books signed earlier this evening and got to ask two questions: Oathbringer Spoiler Q: Let's say Lift received two hemalurgic spikes; one for Feruchemical Bendalloy and one for Allomantic Bendalloy. Then she eats a bunch of pancakes and stores the nutrition in a piece of bendalloy. Then she burns that metalmind, gaining a ton of compounded nutrition. Could she then metabolize that nutrition into stormlight? A: (wording might be slightly off, I'm just going off memory) Yes...? (He seemed hesitant here or maybe a bit confused) What you're essentially doing here is a complicated way to convert investiture.So, she's getting it from Ruin... and converting it to ... yeah, that's complicated. I would think that at some point, the cosmere would have a better ways to convert investiture than that. Q: So, the nutrition bendalloy ferrings store, and the nutrition Lift metabolizes into stormlight are the same sort of thing? A: *hesitant nod* He still seemed a little confused about what I was getting at with this question but I didn't get a chance to clarify any further. That being, if this works, Lift could produce functionally infinite stormlight via compounding nutrition.
  2. This. Personally, I dont think the book to movie path is valid anymore outside of short action/thriller/horror novels. A tv series is a much better medium for adapting a novel onto a screen. Particularly because with netflix, episodes don't have to be a uniform length. So there's no need to pad for time or cut things out if the plot structure doesn't want to precisely conform to 1 hour chunks.
  3. I had prioritized compounding over the feruchemy itself, but this is a great idea too. And spikes are like cookies right? The more, the merrier! If we spike her twice so that she's a bendalloy/bendalloy twinborn, the compounding is even easier to pull off.
  4. Let's say Lift was hemalurgically spiked to become a bendalloy misting. Then she finds an unkeyed bendalloy metalmind filled with nutrition. By burning it, she'd get a huge amount of nutrition, but could she then turn that nutrition into stormlight?
  5. Physical Feruchemy, particularly Pewter, should leave the Feruchemist with lasting damage because of the rapid changes to their body. But we know it doesn't because Feruchemy has natural protection/healing built into those particular powers. Pewter Feruchemy heals the body from the damage of rapid growth and atrophy of the muscles and also keeps the body going when tapping a lot of strength. My question is, does this protection also apply to compounding a Feruchemical attribute? Let's say a Pewter/Pewter twinborn stores 75% of their strength for a year, basically living as a cripple, or using Pewter allomancy to keep themselves going. Then they burn that metalmind, getting as much strength as if they'd been storing at that rate for 10 years. Is there an upper limit on compounding certain attributes or does the muscle mass keep increasing? Does their bone structure also grow to match their muscle growth? Would their organs grow to support the immense increase in mass? If they would continue growing until their vital organs could no longer keep up (much like Koloss), would Gold Feruchemy help in any way? What about Gold compounding?
  6. I'm fairly sure Wit in the Stormlight Archives is just Hoid going by another name.
  7. So let's use feruchemical iron as an example and say a skimmer ferring stored 50% of his weight in a metalmind for 10 hours. We already know there are diminishing returns on tapping a lot of a feruchemical attribute at once. The example used here is, "...you spend one hour at 50% strength. You could then spend one hour at 150% strength, or perhaps 25 min at 200% strength, or maybe 10 min at 250% strength..." I think we can assume the same ratios hold true for storing weight. In our example, the weight stored in that metalmind could be spent as: 10 hours at 150% weight, 4.167 hours at 200% weight, or 1.67 hours at 250% weight. We can also look at this as losing an additional 16.67% of the time you should be able to get (without the diminishing returns) when you tap at twice the rate you stored at. If you tap at three times the rate you stored at, you lose an additional 50% of the time you should get. Now, following the example with strength, where 5 minutes were lost at twice the rate and 10 minutes were lost a three times the rate; one could argue 15 minutes would be lost at four times the rate. But at four times the rate, one would only expect to get 15 minutes anyway without the diminishing returns, so this would be a 100% reduction in the time. Does this mean it is impossible to get to that 4x rate and you'd have to settle for 3.999x or something like that? Or does it mean that 4x tap happens in a single instant? All that said, I'm now noticing a problem with this rate of diminishing returns. It would mean the most weight one could ever tap from a metalmind is 4 times the percent they were storing at. So, using Wax as an example, I remember him talking about storing weight at 25% most of the time. With this understanding of the diminishing returns, he could only get up to 200% weight at any point in time, which doesn't seem right with some of the things he does. Just as one example of that, in the prologue of SoS, he tapped all of his weight and broke through the floor of a Roughs tavern. Sure the construction might not have been amazing, but I imagine that would take a lot more than 200% of his weight to break through. Even if he'd been storing at 100%, 500% of his weight still seems a little bit questionable. So the only conclusion I can make is that I'm not understanding something correctly about this, or that this rate of diminishing returns isn't quite accurate to how Brandon intended it to work. What actually seems to be happening is that you can tap at much higher rates than what you stored at, but if that rate is over a certain amount, you only ever get that one instant of weight. But then we get into issues of just how much time is that one instant, and if we can quantify that, then why can't all that feruchemical power be tapped in a shorter amount of time? Is there something special about that amount of time? Then on top of that there's the issue of compounding. Actually, on that note, does anyone know if there is anything confirmed on just how much extra feruchemical power someone gets when compounding. I know it says it multiplies the power "tenfold" in the wiki, but seeing as that was based on a quote from Wax, I figured there is a chance his understanding of compounding may be incorrect. Anyway, I'm now tying my mind into knots trying to figure this out and would greatly appreciate an explanation if there is one. edit: grammar
  8. But what would her multi-shard name be? Harmony makes sense as a combo of Ruin and Preservation. But what do you get when you mix Honor, Cultivation, and Odium?
  9. How about I am a Stone by Demon Hunter for Rashek Another one I can think of is Scars by I Prevail for Kaladin and/or Bridge four
  10. Thanks for the warm welcome I think my favorites have been the Wax and Wayne books, followed very closely by the stormlight books. It's also sort of hard to choose because I've really enjoyed them all haha. As for my knowledge of the cosmere, I've done my best to avoid anything potentially spoiler related. So I may be somewhat limited here. In regards to the cookies, I mean, one steel spike for steelpushing couldn't hurt, right?
  11. Hi everyone, I'm Zantis. Earlier this year in June, a friend recommended Mistborn to me. So I checked it out and it was absolutely amazing. I actually ended up meeting Brandon at Phoenix Comic Con in July and got my copy of Hero of Ages (which I was about half way through at the time) signed. A couple weeks after that, another friend told me about the cosmere and how all these books were set in a shared universe. Since then I've read Elantris, The Emperor's Soul, Warbreaker, Alloy of Law, Shadows of Self, Way of Kings, and I just finished Words of Radiance yesterday. From what I understand, I still have to read Bands of Mourning and the stories in Arcanum Unbound, but please correct me if I'm missing anything. Overall, I'm completely blown away at how amazing these books are. I haven't enjoyed a series this much since I read Game of Thrones. I have a ton of questions about the cosmere, but I figure this probably isn't the right subforum for that. Nice to meet you all!
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