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  1. 1. What power do you wish you had the most?

    • Allomancy
      90
    • Feruchemy
      96
    • Hemalurgy
      23
    • AonDor
      40
    • Chayshan
      3
    • Dakhor Monk
      2
    • Awakening
      25
    • Returned
      3
    • Soulcasting
      13
    • Surgebinding
      125
    • Shardplate
      4
    • Twinborn
      80


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There is the question of people volunteering/being paid to be spikified. But that also smells a bit wrong. Would you want part of your soul ripped away, either killing you or deeply damaging you on some fundamental level up to the point where you're not even the same person? What about if it was the only way to feed your family through the winter? That's the point where we step into coercion territory, where your "choice" to be spikified would be a leonine contract.

Jewels seemed pretty happy with it in Warbreaker.

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Jewels seemed pretty happy with it in Warbreaker.

Touche. Then again, she was still herself, just a less Determined, more irritable version of herself, and she was only happy about it for religious reasons. No Drab who gave their Breath up for money is portrayed positively.

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Touche. Then again, she was still herself, just a less Determined, more irritable version of herself, and she was only happy about it for religious reasons. No Drab who gave their Breath up for money is portrayed positively.

By taking a piece of Preservation off a person, they're stealing that extra bit that gives you sentience. You'd be an animal in essence. At least Jewel retained intelligence.

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By taking a piece of Preservation off a person, they're stealing that extra bit that gives you sentience. You'd be an animal in essence. At least Jewel retained intelligence.

You'd just be stealing the extra bit that gives them allomancy, not the whole of preservation, otherwise spiking a mistborn it should be possible to either get all of their abilities or one ability at 16x strength.

Also yay for someone else voting Hemalurgy!

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Surgebinding, just because controlling gravity and the sticky-ness of things (with regards to other specific things) is just that awesome.

"You're really bouncing off the walls today...literally! No more stormlight breakfast cereal for you!"

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What would be call that?

Storme-Os? Part of a balanced breakfast. Contains 50% emerald and 10% crack...

As well as 30% Atium and 10% Lerasium. It's a bit of a...spendy cereal.

Plus, the hospitals would never believe that I was eating metal.

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Alright, I grabbed an old cereal ad and edited it. Here's the end product.

*Irritating theme music, complete with harmonica and children screaming*

Eat Storme-Os! They are a not-so-tasty part of this lethally nutritious breakfast! They'll probably kill you.

Buy them anyway.

Call now and you'll get a family-sized container for only OVAR NINE THOUSAND easy payments of $40000, or your soul, payable at www.StormeOs.com! Call 1-800-STM-CRAP to get yours! 1-800-STM-CRAP, that's 1-800-STM-CRAP. Call today!

But wait, there’s more! Call RIGHT NOW and we’ll throw in the extra-special limited edition Storm Stick! This stick is made from raisins and glue, and it’s falling apart right now! But you can have it anyways if you call 1-800-STM-CRAP and get a free package for only another 90001 easy payments of $40000, or the souls of one hundred other people you don’t know at all but you just want this delicious container of Storme-Os so bad, payable to www.StormeOs.com! Call 1-800-STM-CRAP, that’s 1-800-STM-CRAP, now!!!!!

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Alright, I grabbed an old cereal ad and edited it. Here's the end product.

*Irritating theme music, complete with harmonica and children screaming*

Eat Storme-Os! They are a not-so-tasty part of this lethally nutritious breakfast! They'll probably kill you.

Buy them anyway.

Call now and you'll get a family-sized container for only OVAR NINE THOUSAND easy payments of $40000, or your soul, payable at www.StormeOs.com! Call 1-800-STM-CRAP to get yours! 1-800-STM-CRAP, that's 1-800-STM-CRAP. Call today!

But wait, there’s more! Call RIGHT NOW and we’ll throw in the extra-special limited edition Storm Stick! This stick is made from raisins and glue, and it’s falling apart right now! But you can have it anyways if you call 1-800-STM-CRAP and get a free package for only another 90001 easy payments of $40000, or the souls of one hundred other people you don’t know at all but you just want this delicious container of Storme-Os so bad, payable to www.StormeOs.com! Call 1-800-STM-CRAP, that’s 1-800-STM-CRAP, now!!!!!

What he didn't tell you is they cut off the last three seconds and the "Or perish".

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Well, being a full Feruchemist and a full Allomancer (via Lerasium?), like the Lord Ruler pre-Hemalurgy, would be pretty epic. The kind of Compounding tricks that Rashek pulls with atium and Miles pulls with gold? Yeah, Rashek could have done that with all 50 metals. Wowzers.

I actually think Awakening is one of the more flexible, amazingly useful magic systems we've seen in the Cosmere. Consider all the different things we've seen it do; then consider how Brandon has said it's much less-developed (compared to its potential) than the magic systems on other planets are. But it does have the catch that to be useful, you do have to have a bunch of Breath first, and acquiring that without harming other people's lives is pretty difficult (and expensive), so there's the constant guilt that would be involved. Hmmm, maybe I'll pass.

So I guess overall, if "Mistborn + Feruchemist" aka "Twinborn x50" isn't an option, I'll go with AonDor ...

It doesn't rip out your entire soul, just a piece of it depending on where you place the spike.

And you would only need 32 at most :P Actually that is quite a bit come to think of it. Better throw in some mental fortitude spikes.

Where are you getting the "32 at most" thing? After all, there are also 34 god-metals (including alloys)! So we're up to 100 spikes for ultimate Hemalurgic power ... assuming that you can't become "super-strength" at a power (like Vin's Bronze burning) by getting two Hemalurgic spikes. If you can, then 100 spikes turns into 150.

Yikes. And gross.

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Where are you getting the "32 at most" thing? After all, there are also 34 god-metals (including alloys)! So we're up to 100 spikes for ultimate Hemalurgic power ... assuming that you can't become "super-strength" at a power (like Vin's Bronze burning) by getting two Hemalurgic spikes. If you can, then 100 spikes turns into 150.

We're still not sure how the god-metal alloys work, are they a separate type of misting/ferring? or could a Seer burn all atium alloys? Or a Coinshot burn steel-atium alloys?

Lerasium and its alloys can be used by everyone don't forget, although not sure on feruchemy.

Anyways I should at least make that 34 for Allomantic and feruchemical atium, possibly 35 for feruchemical Lerasium.

Oh and compounding means you don't need to double up on spikes.

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