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Interesting question, if you spiked a Skimmer with something (let's say a Gold Spike cause it'd be heavy), and they stored their weight, would the spike also decrease in weight? Because it counts as part of their body when it comes to Steelpushing right? So would it count to Iron Feruchemy?

I have been reading the Mistborn RPG bace rule book and now I have a few questions on how you use Nicrosil 1. How do you store investiture? In the Mistborn RPG it says that it takes abilities from other metal minds and turns it into pure investiture and stores it. I was wondering if it was canon or not. 2. How do you use the stored investiture? Again in the RPG it says that when you draw from a Nicrosil Metalmind you can use that investigure and put it into any other Metalmind. I am again wondering if this is canon.

I’ve been wondering a bit about what Feruchemical chromium is like. From what we know of Fortune, it seems to be something along the lines of reading the Spiritual Realm and using that for “luck”. Something subconscious for most people, but that functions kinda like advanced intuition. With that in mind, the effects of tapping chromium seem fairly intuitive. You’d have a gut feeling for what to do and could theoretically see the Spiritual Ream via Compounding or large stores. That may or may also translate into an instinctive combat sense. But what might the effects of storing chromium be? We know it’s not simply making unlikely events happen, per WoB. Weltall (paraphrased) That gave me the opportunity to ask one last question, about Feruchemical chromium and whether storing fortune would cause you to risk experiencing really improbable things, like the entropy curse in The Dresden Files. Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) He said he wasn't going to answer questions about fortune, that the MAG shouldn't be taken as gospel on this point (I don't remember how it works there and didn't mention it, he brought it up on his own) and that he's planning something different than we might be thinking, for how that mechanic will function. Arcanum Unbounded San Francisco signing (Nov. 30, 2016) it almost certainly has to do with lacking intuition and making stupid decisions. But for theory’s sake, I have a more fun idea. What if Fortune is less about seeing the Spiritual Realm and more about understanding it? So a person storing Fortune wouldn’t just be unable to have hunches about anything. Instead, they’d actively make hunches that turn out to be terrible. For example, let’s say you have 3 Spinners playing roulette. One is tapping Fortune, one is storing, and the third has no metalminds to change things. On the next spin, the wheel will land black. The one tapping Fortune correctly guesses black and wins. The one with no metalminds can’t make a read either way and takes a 50/50 shot. The one storing Fortune becomes convinced that it will be red and bets, but loses their money. They wouldn’t be forced to do so and indeed may try to avoid making that choice given time. However, they will feel the misinformation is right, consciously or not, and probably choose it under pressure. It’s all about that temptation to act. I don’t actually know how plausible this theory is, but I think it’d be a fun way to show the consequences of storing. Plus, it would probably be more visible than just not getting hunches. But that’s just my random guess. What do you guys think?

Since we know where allomancy and hemalurgy come from, I was wondering if anybody knows the origins of feruchemy.