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  1. 38. Blink a light and sound alarms that mean something has gone horribly wrong, when in fact everything is fine. 39. Oppress the real occurrence of the previous item. 40. Use a spren to map and then examine a microscopic computer component; i.e. visually checking for shorts in an integrated circuit. 41. Play a theme song for yourself in various moods. Who says your life isn't a movie? 42. Instantaneous projector from a small screen and speaker. No need for a movie theater. It's even REAL 3D!!! 43. Insta-microwave. 44. EMP. 45. Smoke and sound grenades, with or without physical requirements. Cheapest gemstones could power it with a lightweaving set to release on a trigger of some kind. 46. Embedded spy creating artificial success/findings in an enemy research core. 47. Dead men walking. Or Ironeyes. Or Thaidakar. Or Hoid. any of them would be quite distracting. 48. Sonar scanning, like ultrasound? Maybe capable of detecting Kandra or Hemalurgists? 49. Signal flares. 50. Fake campfires for ambush decoys. 51. The pulled-the-chair-out-from-under-you trick. Except without a chair. 52. Whoopie-cushion tricks. Without woopie cushions. 53. Making someone look like they wet themselves in a very embarrassing situation. 54. As a spy: making it look like someone else is a spy/making your target look like an enemy so someone else kills them for you, with the convenient benefit of potentially faking the person the illusion was of's death. 55. Confetti that doesn't make a mess. 56. Firecrackers and Fireworks that don't make any mess and don't cause forest fires. 57. Wilderness survival: hiding from wild animals via some of the tactics above, though ones that don't rely on sight to find you might be harder. Dogs are pretty smart. but loud noises are scary, so probably decently effective. Enhancement of earlier idea: sound magnification with no delay and excellent clarity, like better speakers at stadiums of various types. 58. Do the work for your math problems without taking up any room on the page. Don't know how mell it would work, but it might. Similarly, write on invisible and fake walls, desks, etc. 59. Radiant Heads-Up-Displays. 60. HUD rear-view mirror, so you can always see behind you and it doesn't have to be out away from your face or from center view very far.
  2. I need to reread this thread because I couldn’t figure out how to respond right, but I think that’s a great idea!
  3. I don’t know that Threnody helps us much here. Prior to the Evil arriving on Threnody, there may have been great technology created. The kind of disaster and decline that the Evil would have caused when it arrived, with the shades and all, could very well have destroyed or obscured that technology and/or Cosmere awareness on Threnody, while any technology that had already left the planet/system could have stayed in use by the Ghostbloods, IRE, or the Seventeenth Shard. Granted, it’s been a bit since I’ve read Shadows for Silence or Oathbringer and I don’t remember recognizing Threnodian technology in Oathbringer or The Ghastly Gondola, so I may be wrong, but I don’t think the technology standards of Threnody are much indication of time when they experienced such a large disaster, likely the equivalent of a desolation in terms of technological destruction.
  4. Might this be the end of book 5? Has there been any Desolation where Odium's forces "take the day"? I find the Rattles fascinating, it's like hey do you want some straight up foreshadowing? Well, here you go, have fun. I think that is more from Oathbringer, with the army turning and Dalinar refusing to give up his pain, and all of the stormlight used up on the battlefield.
  5. just wanted to note, somewhere earlier someone said that coins being Pushed didn't have momentum after, and that Is flat out false; easy evidence: after a mistborn pushes off metal, they retain their momentum, and in order for the conservation of momentum to stay true, that means the metal they pushed off retains momentum as well. I think there are a couple things being underestimated here; one, bendalloy. If you're in a speed bubble you have a major advantage, because you can take a breather and move somewhere unexpected. Two, steelpushes and ironpulls; as Kelsier demonstrated fighting in TFE, a fully trained mistborn would be able to manipulate several dozen jagged, speedy pieces of metal at once, skillfully. They could keep that in a cloud around the radiant, blocking visibility and causing hundreds of tiny hits to the plate per second. Third, bullets; if Wax was to throw a bullet, wait until it hit the radiant, and then pushed the explosive pin, it would blow up outside the gun, which the radiant would A) not be expecting, stunning them, and B) The radiant would take major damage from. It might not destroy plate, but it would crack/damage it significantly. Last but not least is the Harmonium Grenade; if a mistborn had one, they could set up a slow-bubble, and position themselves to kill the radiant immediately as it is released, maybe with duraluminum, or using raw harmonium could blow them up. It could also do weird things with the radiant powers, if it just stores and re-releases stormlight, which could catch the Radiant by surprise; e.g. a stoneward making a barricade, then suddenly the ground swallows their feet. granted in that particular case, the cube might disappear too, but similar principles apply. A soulcaster turns the air to oil and blows it up; they find the ground slicked by oil they didn't make a second later, etc. So, I think the mistborn would have a better chance against a 4th oath radiant than your giving them credit for, especially with a gun. Additionally, in a battle like this, where they were the only Allomancer, would mean they could wear metal too, not just cloth. Bronze might give an advantage to them too, since it would let them detect lightweavings and not be fooled by them, or else locate the only real person in an illusion. As they became more adept, with more practice and better technology, some of the Radiant disadvantages would disappear, but as the two series currently stand (and last I checked they are not chronologically synced, and all this is ignoring fabrials) I think the Mistborn is more powerful than you think.
  6. That's true, but it also has to do with maintenance of the connection allowing the magic; in Honor's case, at least, you can't break your oaths and keep your magic, so cowardice might be a similar "magic stopper" and Lightweaving could possibly be seen as cowardice. Edit: yes, I realize it has nothing in common with the scadrian or nalthian systems, so it stands on weak feet. However, various shards are attuned to different uses; Ruin's system accelerates entropy, Endowment's endows things with life, Cultivation's helps things grow, etc. Neither system has a form of lightweaving that we know about, except the Returned having control over their appearance, so clearly certain investitures lack certain magic forms.
  7. Perhaps gauntlets or trials for the initiation? it doesn't need to be gladiatorial combat; it could be like the gate ter'angreal from Wheel of Time, or the trials for the Cartouches from Magic the Gathering (Amonkhet), or like Special Ops training in modern militaries. I Agree with this, and that will likely be the main moral restriction on the magic system. I also had the thought that if combined with Cultivation, the two would make an interesting combination, since both seem about personal growth; perhaps the dual-shard Growth, Betterment, or Achievement? I agree; this doesn't seem the kind of shard to have Lightweavers, but it might be possible, since you could use it in combat for distractions and such.
  8. Pretty sure the Aons came from before Arelon even existed; their symbols are completely different from the others they use in their language, and I remember reading that they were tied to the Shards before humans had even gotten to that world. Likely the meaning have been preserved along with the symbols, possibly because Dominion or Devotion taught them to the first humans they brought there, but the pronunciations have likely changed over time, and the language could have changed much faster between the fall and restoration of Elantris. As the Elantrians taught magic, though, the meanings would have been preserved because they indicate what magic it does. Edit: as the Aons are geographic, they may not have been from before Sel was a Shardworld, but they probably existed before the kingdom of Arelon.
  9. We definitely will eventually get how to make an unsealed metalmind. Now I know I called this thread "Problems with Nicrosil" but I would also love to talk about some possibilities, since we've beaten the problems we started with to death. Per the above WoB, we know we will get that answer eventually, and per another WoB: We know that the variable storing is different from what I proposed; the only remaining mystery is how a soulbearer would get their power back after storing it, if F-Nicrosil was their only power. Compounding was suggested, but I think the mechanism is probably something else, and a bit more complex, because else no one would no that non-twinborn ferrings with F-nicrosil existed; they would accidentally store once, maybe, and then they would never use any feruchemy again and likely go undetected. So, since we have all been able to get those out of our system more or less, what are the possibilities and implications here? I believe I read a WoB that said that the investitures could be converted through nicrosil, like stormlight to breath or other forms of investiture. That sounds pretty dangerous to me; think of a Nicrosil compounder, who then converts it all to stormlight and uses it to surgebind; the devastation they could wreak would literally be infinite if they had enough Nicrosil. What other applications could you guys see?
  10. I agree that it can't be that simple, and likely will fundamentally change many of the alloys. However, the resulting effects might still have an internal/external flip. For some of them, part might be a temporal delay between your decision and it happening. So, you burn Atium-steel, making yourself push in all directions in, say, ten seconds. but when the push happens, you aren't actually burning metals, so a seeker wouldn't see you. The affect, making you, in effect, steelpush, could be considered internal, since it is changing you, while also being temporally altered. However, there is also the push-pull flip seen with atium, so maybe Atium-steel would have the effect of an ironpull, similar to what I described above. True.
  11. That's an interesting thought; I hadn't thought of that application.
  12. To support the idea that nicrosil must have variable storing, consider two things. 1. Other feruchemical attributes, except copper, all store at varying strengths; you don't shunt all of your weight into a metalmind, you store x percent. 2. Allomancy in particular has variable strength. Elend was the strongest mistborn anyone had seen for generations, and allomancy has gotten weaker over time. So, it makes sense that if you were storing the ability to burn metals, you could store at a certain strength. However, when storing feruchemical attributes, it gets more complicated. Has feruchemy gotten weaker over time? How? I saw the topic about making a black hole with Feruchemical weight; maybe a limiting factor on feruchemy is how fast your taping builds up to your target or something? That would give a check on drawing it all out in a planck time, and a mechanism by which you are storing a variable amount of feruchemical ability, and a mechanism for feruchemical potency increasing/decreasing. Thoughts?
  13. Perhaps when Honor died and left his cognitive shadow with the Stormfather, his perpendicularity spread out along the stormfront or whatever secondary front that infuses spheres. The lower concentration would make it hard to use, even without the fact that there are 3 or 4 separate highstorms traveling Roshar and the location inconsistency.
  14. But if it was open during highstorms, it would probably leave a path of weirdness or extra special stuff. That would be like dripping out the well of ascension along a path over the continent; weird stuff would probably happen. Unless it is the highstorm; like, the pool is the clouds. That would explain why crem exists, a little bit.
  15. Interesting points about the knife. Perhaps it was acting as a hemalurgic spike? The red cloud around Scadrial indicates co-opted or corrupted investiture, and our leading candidates for it are Odium, who has a vendetta but is scared of Sazed because he holds two very powerful shards, and Autonomy, who has (I think) been known to help Odium in the past and to whom the name Trell is connected, so it’s perfectly possible that odium knows about hemalurgy. In addition, Moash wouldn’t necessarily need to have intent; (Spoiler for Hero of Ages) It was Ruin’s intent that created the spike, not the other person. In addition, with the god metal and the gemstone, it might not have mattered as much if Moash hit the right bond point, but Odium could have guided that a bit if necessary. As for Odium not understanding Dalinar’s actions, that is also partially Cultivation’s interference too. She knew exactly how to trim his memories to make sure he grew from the pain, which might be a bit of a foreign concept to Odium.
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