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I'm making a mistcloak and my husband asked if I could get the allomantic symbols embroidered onto it. I'm looking for an already digitized set for an embroidery machine. Does anyone know where could find something like that?

We know that the burning a metal will produce Allomantic pulses which can be sensed by a bronze misting. We also know that the listeners attune Rhythms. So, is there a correlation between the two, and could a seeker sense the Rhythms of Roshar?

Preservation means something is preserved or saved and Allomancy is a positive end art meaning power is created so why are they related? Why didn't Preservation cause Feruchemy and also what shard causes Ferucemy?

So, we know that the metals used in fabrial construction are the same that are used in Allomancy and exhibit similar behaviors to Allomantic burning. My question is, what would something like an Atium fabrial do?

Per WoB, we know Spook was not made into a lerasium level Mistborn. However, there should still be one area Spook is more powerful in. In both Hemalurgy and Lerasium, we know duplicating a power makes it stronger Shardlet If Vin and Elend hypothetically each blindly ingested equivalently sized beads of lerasium, would Vin be a stronger Mistborn than Elend, or would they be equal? Brandon Sanderson Yes, Vin would be stronger. It is additive, not just an overwrite. Firefight Seattle UBooks signing (Jan. 6, 2015) So in theory, Spook should have extra powerful tin. One from his natural Tineye abilites and one from the Mistborn boost. Unless Harmony took away Spook’s original ability completely before making him Mistborn, but that seems unlikely. Not a big game changer. Tin isn’t like brass or bronze, where having a higher power level has an obvious benefit. But it would be a nice fun fact if Spook’s bloodline had a little stronger and longer Allomancy than it would otherwise. Though Era 2 is as low as Allomancy gets, so it maps the same either way. Either way, I think it’s a nice minor detail.

We know that if you use Emotional Allomancy while you are inside a Speedbubble on someone who is outside that Speedbubble that more effect (raw Investiture, though not subtlety) is brought into play against them. So, what about other forms of Allomancy? I bet that A-bronze and A-copper would be effected; you're burning more metal over a comparatively smaller amount of time (at least while you are targeting something outside of the Speedbubble). You might be able to use very powerful Seeking while without Hemalurgy, Lerasium, Nicrosil compounding, or enahncement metals. Copperclouds would be cool to see used in this manner as well. Steelpushing and Ironpulliing would be interesting as well, though you would have to be careful not to push yourself out from the bubble as you power-push on things around you. Plus, A-pewter might be necessary to prevent self-harm. A-electrum might have some interesting properties. I guess that it would depend on how Speedbubbles effect Electrum Shadows and whether you get to see further into the future or not.

I’ve touched on Era 1 Atium in past would you rathers, but was mainly focused on lerasium them. So here’s an exclusive Atium would you rather In both options, you have a lifetime supply of Era 1 Atium. Lifetime means exactly what it says: as long as you shall live Option 1: You are an Atium Misting with a lifetime supply of Atium Option 2: You are an Atium Compounder, but you can only burn Atium to Compound, not for future sight. Effectively an Atium Ferring who can draw Compounded amounts of youth I also have two versions of the question. One is that you’re living on Scadrial. One is living your life on Earth (w/Atium) And there it is. Future sight vs eternal youth. Which will you pick?

There seems to have been a lot of confusion and conflicting ideas on how Compounding works on other threads as of late. This is how I understand it. 1. When you Compound, you need to put a Feruchemical charge into a Metalmind. 2. You burn the Metalmind, but (can) choose to draw Feruchemical power instead of Allomantic power (Vin gets the Allomantic power of one of Sazed's Pewterminds rather than the Feruchemical power in TFE). 3. You only get Feruchemical power by burning the Invested parts of your Metalmind; a partially full Metalmind will only yield a Feruchemical charge as long as the Feruchemically Invested part remains (though you can siphon off some of the new Feruchemical charge gained by Compounding and put it back into the burning metal, meaning that you can start with a relatively small Feruchemical charge powered by your own self, then Compound ever after using only Preservation's power and burned metal). 4. The amount of Feruchemical power you get from burning your Metalmind is determined by how powerful an Allomancer you are, since the more powerful your Allomancy the more Investiture you draw from Preservation per unit of metal burned; the Feruchemical attribute isn't actually multiplied as Sazed thinks in TFE, it's just used to hack an Allomantic power stream (whether you can keep the original Feruchemical charge and recycle it or whether it is lost and completely replaced by Preservation's power isn't yet known as I understand it). 5. Also, if you compound using Hemalurgic spikes, you do in fact draw from Ruin's Investiture instead of Preservation's. I had wondered about this for a while, personally. 6. Allomantic duralumin can be used to speed up the process of Compounding. 7. While Compounding is very powerful if done correctly, practitioners are still limited by Feruchemical storage size, the amount of metal they can get to metabolize, the raw Allomantic power of the practitioner (for efficiency at gathering more Feruchemical charge), and the inherent limitations of Feruchemical compression (the more power you tap at once, the less efficient it becomes, and some attributes like steel and pewter have more practical upper limits as to their usefulness). Hopefully this post is actually useful to some, and not just only spitting facts that are common knowledge.

So ima just dig right in with my theory and yall can give your thoughts. I might be grasping a little or clinging onto vague ideas but I like the theory so I might as well post it. Base allomancy comes in a set of 16 with subsets; Push, Pull, Internal, External, physical, mental, temporal, and enhancement. pretty basic allomancy knowledge, right? but we also know that every god metal can make their OWN allomantic sets, with atium alloys as our proof. the 11th metal (gold and atium) and the atium mistborn burn (atium and electrum). now usually there wouldn't be much for me to build off after that. each god metal is another set of 16, how could we possibly figure out what each power will do without knowing something like the subject of the powers, like physical in the base set. except we DO know one of the subsets for ruin's set of allomancy. and its the same as the base set. in fact the powers are nearly identical, except for one key difference. they have switched from internal, to external. gold is an internal metal, so is electrum. but their atium alloy counterparts aren't. the 11th metal lets you see other peoples past(or potential future still not sure) selves. but gold lets you see your own past/potential futrue self. nearly identical powers, except for the fact that the subset has flipped. so here is the theory. are ALL the allomantic powers in ruin's allomancy, simply the same power with a subset flipped? how would that translate into powers like tin, or pewter? or duralumin? we already have a power that essentialy works the same as duralumin, except it is focused externally. its already a thing in base allomancy. is it simply a fluke? a coincidence? or, does this perhaps work like the power overlaps in the knight's Radiant orders? they share power types across certain orders. are we maybe just seeing something similar to that? do ruin and preservation simply share an allomantic subset, changed slightly to fit them? or is it even less than that, just sharing these two powers, used in separate ways, because i cannot fathom how you can use time bubbles internally. or is it something else yet again? does ruin have external powers, and then a different subset, that isnt internal at all? Sorry, I know thats a lot more question than theory, but Its been scratching in my head for a while.

We know two lerasium beads have been used in Era 1 itself. One went to Elend and the other to Hoid. In addition, the epigraph for HoA made reference to the original nine Allomancers having lerasium level power. Rashek makes things more complicated because we don’t know if he counts as one of the nine. If he does, then that’s one less lerasium bead, since he used the Well to become Mistborn I personally suspect Rashek did take a bead for himself. He may have used it to become stronger than a lerasium Mistborn, hence his absurd power level. But the more likely reason he would take one was to use as a metalmind. We don’t know exactly what F-lerasium does but it is a God Metal, so I imagine it’s not useless. That means we can account for a minimum of ten beads and a maximum of twelve. This could’ve been all the beads Leras created because he knew that was needed. But we do still have reason to believe there were 16. SageOfTheWise Is there a reason why Rashek left a nugget of Lerasium at the Well of Ascension? Brandon Sanderson He left several. It was, in his opinion, one of the best kept secrets and best protected locations in his empire. Phantine Were there originally 16 of them? Brandon Sanderson An excellent guess. /r/books AMA 2015 (Aug. 11, 2015) Let’s assume there were 16 beads, created by Leras and some found by Rashek. There must be 4-6 beads unaccounted for. Here are the possibilites I can see 1. They were burned up by past Allomancers. Perhaps Rashek had experimented on them or tried Compounding. Perhaps he gave himself an extra power boost, though this is unlikely since the Well could give him basically anything 2. Rashek used them as metalminds. Very unlikely. If there was an unknown metal on his body, someone should’ve noticed. 3. They were used as Hemalurgic spikes, most likely on a Kandra. However, we haven’t heard of any special kandra in the First Generation. If such a Blessing did exist, it should’ve been fairly obvious 4. More worldhoppers took the beads. Secret History suggests most worldhoppers used Ruin’s perpendicularity, so only a select few could’ve taken the beads. If they had Fortune too, then they may not have taken every bead for the same reason that Hoid only took one 5. Rashek hid the beads somewhere else. The most interesting possibility is that he had four beads and put one each in the storage chambers. The problem is that someone should’ve noticed it during or immediately after the Catacendre, especially Harmony. It is also more likely that if such beads did exist, they were alloyed. That way, they would only create a Misting, which doesn’t contradict Era 2 having basically no Mistborn except Spook. 6. Rashek didn’t find all of the beads. Leras was the one who originally placed the beads. So if he put them in seperate places for any reason, Rashek may not have been able to find them all, especially if they were hidden in an area with regular metal Questioner Did the Lord Ruler create the lerasium that he gave to the ten foreign kings? Or where they put there by Leras-- Brandon Sanderson Oh, good question… No one's asked me that before, I don't believe. Did the Lord Ruler create the lerasium that he gave-- No, he found the lerasium. It was existent before his Ascension. Questioner Can I ask if it was placed there intentionally by Leras or did it sort of grow similar to how atium-- Brandon Sanderson The Lord Ruler-- It was not placed for him, he had to-- he had to get it. JordanCon 2016 (April 23, 2016) If there were 16 beads at all, then some combo of those six should be true. It is also possible that some or all of them are alloyed with other metals. But those six possibilities are the most plausible explanations for how there could be more lerasium that we haven’t seen yet. Let me know if there are any other possibilities I missed. Thanks for reading!

So, I'm almost certain others have theorized this already, but after some extensive searching, I was unable to find anyone on here who did. So, here we go. In Epilogue 7, Marsh approaches Wax, Steris, and Marasi before Wayne's statue. When asked on how he walks about without drawing attention, he passes it off as emotional Allomancy. Still, Wax expresses his doubts. I think all Cosmerenauts on all worlds stirred in their beds with that phrase. But regardless, this moves on to my theory. I think Marsh moves about unseen through a combination of emotional Allomancy... and Feruchemical duralumin. To quote from the Coppermind, Feruchmeical duralumin functions as such. This seems a very likely explanation for that "something more" Wax postulates. Granted, don't know if Marsh was given spikes following the Catacendre, and there is no way of knowing if Rashek was aware of duralumin's Feruchemical properties. Still, he was a Feruchemist himself, and discovered duralumin. It makes sense he would test it. Anyway, there's my three cents. Thoughts? ~Longshot97

We know that it is possible to beat almost all Invested healing methods by wounding someone with aluminum and leaving it in their body to prevent healing. We also know that it is possible to burn metals that aren't swallowed but are in the flesh of the Allomancer. So if a Fullborn or some other Invested individual who had access to a healing power was pierced by aluminum and had it lodged in their body, they could burn away the aluminum to remove it and allow them to heal from their injuries. They would have to be careful though, as they would drain all other power they had at the time in their body.

Please note this is speculation with my somewhat limited knowledge. Speed bubbles will move with an object that is massive enough and moving fast enough, and the faster you are going, the less mass you need. This relationship is probably along the lines of energy and mass being the same thing, but maybe not. I also lack the information of what the threshold is for both of those factors. I believe that if you draw on enough weight from f-iron, or enough speed from f-steel, you can create a speed bubble that moves with you.

This was inspired by a comment by @IlstrawberrySeed the thread "how to become ludicrously strong". A Kandra can shape its body pretty much any way they like, so long as it obeys the laws of physics (i.e., they can't go too big since it would crush them and they can't go too small because they need enough mass to support cognitive functions). Therefore, you get a two-hundred-ton sphere of nicrosil, might need Soulcasting, put a (relatively) small amount of Identity-blanked Feruchemical nicrosil in it to reprogram the potential Invested output (it spreads out like a gas, so you don't need a ton), and have the Kandra engulf it like an amoeba. Then, you give the Kandra access to Allomantic nicrosil as well as Allomantic duralumin via Hemalurgic spikes. Now the Kandra burns the metal- with the aid of duralumin- gives themselves insanely large quantities of Investiture. Hopefully, the Kandra will ascend (similar to the Well of Ascension) and briefly become a god. Plus, since you gave the power to burn the nicrosil with Hemalurgy, they will most likely fuel their Ascension with Ruin's Investiture. So basically, that's how you create an invested meatball-god of death! A way to improve this would be to increase the potency of the Hemalurgically granted A-nicrosil. Probably stacking multiple Identity-blanked Hemalurgic charges together in the same spike so that the amount of Investiture the Kandra gets per the amount of metal is increased.

Greetings! For the past several months, I, along with a few friends and fellow devoted Cosmere fans, have been working on creating a full set of the Metallic Arts as Minecraft mods. Some of you might know about Legobmw's Allomancy mod. We're working with him to make sure the three Arts interact properly, but for the most part, things are slow-going due to a lack of coders. We also have a working Feruchemy mod that even includes functioning Compounding. Currently, the two are separate mod files that interact. Hemalurgy is looking to end up the same, as a third mod with cross-mod interactions. There are so many ideas we want to implement, including Ettmetal primer cubes and other in-world gear, but we just don't have enough manpower to code it all in a reasonable time frame. Art-wise, I and a few others have textures for items and blocks solidly managed. We may need someone good at mob textures, but for the most part, it truly is just a lack of people competent in Java coding that's holding these mods back from their true potential. If you want to contribute code for the Metallic Arts mods, well, you've come to the right place! Give some examples of your modding capabilities, and we'll add you to our modding Discord server so that we can coordinate our efforts.

From what we know about Era 3, the protagonist’s brother is one of the few characters we know about. Since his nerdy sister has Allomantic powers and we know both are Terris, that suggests he could be a Metalborn. So I pose the question to you: what powers might he have? Also, friendly reminder that as far as we know, siblings aren’t especially likely to share metals. We know twins of either type do so more commonly, but not how much regular siblings share compared to unrelated people. Make of that what you will (option listed other more esoteric combos like Mistborn + Ferring. it’s inclusion is a formality, as are Mistborn and Full Feruchemist to a lesser extent. I don’t expect anything with more powers than a Twinborn)

Greetings, my name is Breeze. If you have found your way over here, you have probably heard of me. You see, the problem is, any time someone recognizes me, they ask me one question or another, and that leads to me having to explain the same things to many different people. That is far too much effort for me, so I have created this space for all of your mistborn queries. Just ask me a question, and we will see If I get around to answering it.

The more I think about it, the more I realize Cosmere healing and kandras are a match made in heaven. The former can be shaped to at least some extent by how one perceives themself. The latter are far more inclined than any human to think of helpful objects as their body and store the results.They even call their artificial bones True Bodies. And that makes them very useful with the right setup Take Gold compounding, for instance. Spike a kandra with those abilities, then give them a True Body made of gold. Once they get used to it, they can then duplicate any material used in that True Body. On Scadrial, they could generate infinite Allomantic metals, even the rare ones. If they had Mistborn powers on top of that, then infinite duralumin. After all, they don’t get hurt because of healing and can easily replenish with duralumin time bubble. On top of that, a Kandra Fullborn is probably the most powerful non-Shard entity in the Cosmere. Such a being could have all of their Feruchemical attributes up to x100 forever, including whatever other magic systems they find. On top of that, it should also be possible to duplicate Invested objects. Even a human could theoretically do that. HazelCharm47 Let's say we have a hypothetical situation with Miles Hundredlives. In this scenario, he is wearing a gold metalmind filled to the brim with stored healing power. He is then spiked with a cadmium spike and loses his gold allomancy. Now, if I recall from various WoBs, he would be able to heal using the gold metalmind and regain his gold allomancy. I could be misremembering and he cannot heal it, but I believe he would be able to since it is part of his Identity. However, one question I have never seen the answer to is this: what happens to the ability in the spike? Is the allomantic ability still contained in the spike, leading to a duplicate? Or is the spike's ability lost? Or maybe I have this whole thing wrong and Miles could never have regained the ability in the first place. If the ability duplicates (which I doubt), that could lead to some crazy things. Also, this applies to any Twinborn with gold Feruchemy, I just thought Miles was a good example I guess Brandon Sanderson I'd like to see the exact WoB's here to make sure I'm being consistent, as I don't know that I confirmed you could regain lost powers--only that you could heal from hemalurgic soul damage. Most likely, what you'd end up with is a person who has been healed and can remove the spike from their body without damage, and without needing it to hold their soul together--but who has lost the ability in the spike. Regardless, though, what you want here (the mass production of spikes charged and even blanked) is possible with the right levels of investiture. It's an energy, like things in our world. The difficulty is finding out how to 1) get enough investiture and 2) key it to the right people and/or magic. Hope that's a little more clear. That said, a lot of times people just ask me if something is possible--and a lot of things are possible, but just very difficult. And with the right boost of investiture, in the right circumstances, it WOULD be possible to regrow lost (to spikes) powers. It's just highly unlikely. I'm not sure if the questions people are asking me are ones I've qualified, or not, in these instances. Also, this is all something I'm playing with still behind the scenes as we enter the modern age of Mistborn. HazelCharm47 As requested, here are the WoBs I believe are related. They might be obsolete, however. And I assume things will get changed a lot before Era 4, but hey, it's fun to ask anyways WoB #1: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/331/#e9434 This one states that as long as Miles still has his Identity, he would be able to use his Feruchemical metalminds after being spiked and would be able to heal. WoB #2: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/102/#e983 This one says that Miles would be able to heal his soul using Feruchemical healing and regain his gold Allomancy (assuming he survives the spiking). I think this is the most essential one! WoB #3: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/76/#e6335 This one is only somewhat related - implies that the Feruchemical and Allomantic powers are spiritually part of him. WoB #4: https://wob.coppermind.net/events/7/#e6435 Also tangentially related - damage to the soul from Hemalurgy can be healed (Although this might just be a Hoid thing). I guess the question could be expanded to include non-Feruchemical healing as a way to repair the soul after being spiked. Brandon Sanderson Well, I don't think any of those are specifically inaccurate. I just didn't quite understand what people were trying to get out of me. A lot of times, I don't know quite what people are trying to get out of me. I can see now they're trying to figure out. I see now, and I appreciate you putting this all together for me so I can see what the fans are trying to figure out. So the answer is a cautious yes. The problem here is that he'd need to compound a TON of healing first--but yes, it would work. You could theoretically turn someone like Miles into an invested spike factory. If he didn't have enough healing stored, though, he'd end up with a healed soul but a gap (like a scar on his soul) where his spiked-out abilities were. That could theoretically be healed with application of more investiture, depending on things like how he views himself, and if you could get the right type of investiture. General Reddit 2020 (Nov. 6, 2020) What makes kandra even better for this purpose is that a Gold compounding kandra wouldn’t need to worry about running out of gold to fuel these stunts and would be more likely to see those objects as part of themselves anyway. Then, the possibilites are basically endless. You could duplicate Hemalurgic spikes, Awakened objects, fabrials, white sand, Shardblades, the list goes on. As long as a Shard doesn’t take issue with this (and assuming Preservation can be tricked into making other Investiture.), you can do nearly anything, even accounting for the fact that you would quickly hit a limit with Invested objects. It would take some setting up, but the results are truly amazing. Edit: To clarify, we have reason to believe from the WoB about Miles that Compounding could duplicate Metallic Arts invested objects, but it may not do the same for other Investiture. Nevertheless, respawning metalminds and spikes is still useful

Steelsight is seeing the 3rd state of matter. According to this WOB, there are 3 states of matter. Matter, Energy, and now Investiture. A third Axis. That’s what Steelsight sees. Everyone can see and touch matter. We can also see and interact with energy in the form of electricity and light (via photons). and some lucky few can see and interact with Investiture. People who can allomantically burn steel or iron can see some of this through the metal on Scadrial. The few people who have gained MASSIVE energy with their allomancy (Marasi and Wax with the Bands of Mourning, TLR, Vin when she inhaled all of the mist but before she truly Ascended); these people can start to see *everything* with Steelsight. They can see souls and people. They are seeing the pure Investiture in the world. Shards talk about how they are Invested in everything in their world. Woven into the very bones of their world. This is what these people are seeing. They are seeing the Investiture of Shards in the rocks, dirt, trees, and people around them. Not just metals, but all things. And naturally, Shards can all see pure Investiture as well, as a part of them *is* pure Investiture. This same phenomenon can also be attributed to these characters seeing into the Cognitive Realm. That works too. It's essentially the same. They see the pure energy of stuff along with/instead of seeing with their eyes. That is essentially what I understand "seeing into the Cognitive" to mean.

So I had a few questions about the specifics of Preservation’s snapping mists 1. The Mists raised the Allomantic potential of people who didn’t have any to begin with. But what would it do to an unsnapped Misting or Mistborn? Would they just face a regular snapping? Would they become a more powerful Misting? If it helps, imagine a room of 100 unsnapped Mistings. In theory, the Mists should still act, but maybe not if the targets are treated as Snapped Mistings 2. If #1 is true, can the Mists overwrite the ability of an unsnapped Misting? For example, 100 unsnapped Thugs walk into the Mists. Some would have to convert into other metals if Preservation still wanted 16 of each Misting. But I also assumed that the Mists do make one of each Misting and the 16% isn’t just referring to who gets sick. Similarly, can the Mists turn an unsnapped Mistborn into a Misting? 3. The one that interests me most. Can the Mists affect Feruchemists? It’s could easily be possible since the Keepers were all dead by HoA. Trickier if you assume the Mists never stopped Snapping people, but still not impossible, since Keepers wouldn’t have much reason to be in the night mists. (Side question: how many members did the Keepers have? Just curious to see how many could trigger the Mist if they were all together. 4. Is there any reason to think the Mists ever stopped Snapping people? They did only appear at night after Rashek used the Well, but I don’t buy that he suddenly figured it out in the relatively short time after scorching Scadrial. The transformations would also be easy to mask. Affected nobles or noble blooded skaa would just be thought of as Snapped the normal way. Skaa were even more superstitious and few would go into the Mists. On top of that, even fewer would figure out their powers, since knowledge is rare and skaa mistings either hide or die/become inquisitor fodder. If they did, most people would probably conclude noble blood. Given what we know, I honestly think it’s more likely the Mists never stopped Snapping than that they did, despite only acting at night. But if there’s any contradictory evidence or things I’ve forgotten from HoA, let me know

Since chromium Allomancers leech away a person’s investiture, why don’t they accidentally (or purposefully) leech away a person’s innate investiture, or, more importantly, their spark of life? Does Allomantic chromium not affect investiture within the spiritual realm? Does it just not affect investiture that has an Identity?

Will there be Allomancy in era 3 in era 2 it’s very obvious that Allomancy is at a decline Brandon said that the main character will be a Feruchemist it should depend on how long the time skip is right if it’s only 50 or 80 years there might still be Allomancy but if it’s like the first one 200 years or more then Allomancy probably won’t be around anymore it might pass into legend so people might not even believe that it existed in the first place

So, Bendalloy Mistings can technically change the size and shape of their bubbles. They can also leave things out of those bubbles. And a savant should also be able to move the bubble with them. So what's stopping them from being a Steelrunner that doesn't have to store or Compound Speed? They can shrink the size of the bubble to only include them, excluding everyone else and saving some Bendalloy. Speed is really the only advantage the Metallic Arts has over other magic systems, except maybe unsealed Metalminds and the Feruchemical utilities. Brandon has stated that a Feruchemist can beat a Surgebinder if they just tap a lot of speed and strength, so I don't see why duralumin or a savant Allomancer can't do the same thing. Am I missing something here? Bendalloy just seems like such a powerful combat metal, even if pewter and duralumin are also needed to beat a Surgebinder, for example. Also 2 minutes per nugget is a lot more time than it seems.

I was thinking about the unsealed metalminds, trying to wrap my head around how they worked. I kept getting bothered by the fact that F-Duralumin is used when F-Aluminum appears to be naturally better and still doesn’t work. But then I had an idea. The consistent problem with unsealed metalminds is getting into the nicrosil metalminds. Even blanking Identity only makes it usable for Nicrosil Feruchemists and Ferrings, not just anyone. But then I realized there’s one other thing we know on Scadrial that gives ordinary people powers: God Metals. In fact, the one godmetal we can canonically confirm to do this very thing. I would posit that an unsealed metalminds is used to duplicate a nearby Nicrosil Ferring or Feruchemists ability, just like we’ve seen with the Allomancy grenades. Since it’s a God Metal duplicating, it has the same universal use option as lerasium. Or to use Brandon’s own terminology, it is pure Investiture Brandon Sanderson So one of the things people have been asking about a lot the nature of Identity and its uses for accessing other people's metalminds, and things like this right. And I hedged a little bit when somebody asked me... *inaudible*...send people into spirals of confusion, so I'm gonna clarify it for now. So, someone comes in and says, we need a blank metalmind, anybody can use that. I'm like, yes but, the reason that it's a hedge is that you need to actually be a feruchemist to access it, right, you can't just hold the blank metalmind not being a feruchemist, even though it's somebody else's investiture that's been blanked, right. So people keep kind of missing this thing. I'm hedging in the sort of, you don't quite have it, I've kind of dodged it, but I worry that it's just going to be confusing. So the issue is, you need two things from one of these. You need something that makes you a feruchemist, and then you need a metalmind that somebody else has filled with blank investiture, ok. Now if you can get pure investiture, that can be used by anybody, regardless, ok, you need it in pure form though. <snip> Arcanum Unbounded Seattle signing (Dec. 1, 2016) In fact, the Allomancy grenades should work similarly and simply not be noticed because no person is actively tapping an ability. What about Feruchemical duralumin, you ask? That’s a bit trickier. My theory is that F-Duralumin is used to make harmonium itself into a metalmind. Logically speaking, if any one can Allomantically burn a true God Metal, the same should apply for Feruchemy. After that, one can infer that it is possible to draw out other applicable traits than whatever Harmonium’s base is, which should apply to both Connection and Identity. The former already works with how Shards are always tied to their power and the fact that Lerasium grants Connection. The latter simply supposes that the ability to do Feruchemy is basically coded Investiture in your soul that allows it to do that, kinda like Breaths (which can be stolen by nicrosil Hemalurgy under similar terminology) As such, I propose two procedures: the Tapping Method and the Storage Method. Tapping Method: 1. Have your duralumin Feruchemist tap Connection from harmonium. Continue until it’s blank. If all goes well, you should be left with pure Investiture, unaligned to any master. 2. With this new blank slate, have the Nicrosil Feruchemist fill the Investiture with their ability. 3. After sufficiently filling it, have the Nicrosil Feruchemist draw back the pure Investiture. 4. Fill a nicrosil mind with the pure Investiture. That nicrosil is now coded like a God Metal and works for everyone a la lerasium 5. Have other Metalborn fill the nicro godmind with their own powers, saving it for later Storage method 1. Have the Nicrosil Feruchemist store their ability in Harmonium. This tells the Harmnium to copy that ability, like how burning a metalmind changes what the metal does. 2. Have the Duralumin Feruchemist store their Connection. This contaminates the nicrosil ability into thinking it’s always part of the God Metal 3. Have the nicrosil Feruchemist tap the harmonium and store the resulting products in a nicrosil mind 4. Fill the new nicrosil mind with the desired abilities There may be a few other variations, but the end result is a nicrosilmind that acts like a Godmetal. This can then be filed as full as the nicrosil can store, which would explain why medallions only store a few powers. If there anything I missed let me know. Thank you for coming to my TED talk Edit: Thinking about it, I don’t think God Metals work for Feruchemy in the same way lerasium lets anyone use it. It might function as a universal metalmind, but you’d need to be able to give it an attribute in the first place. In other words, have Feruchemy yourself. However, my points about nicrosil and duralumin still stand. Edit 2: You may not even need duralumin more than once. An exicsor could easily be harmonium tapped of Connection. Once you’ve got that, any nicrosil Feruchemist can use it by storing into Exicsor, tapping, and putting the hacked ability in a nicrosil mind.

So far, we know only a few things about the main protagonist of Mistborn Era 3. As far as we know, she will be a “brown Terris geek girl” who specializes in computer programming and has nicrosil Allomancy. However, what I’m curious about is if she’ll be a Twinborn. Her Allomantic power isn’t one we haven’t seen used yet, but that didn’t stop Wayne from being Twinborn with bendalloy. So that makes me wonder: what sort of Feruchemy might she have? Do you think she’ll get any resonance powers? If so, what might those be?