Fullborn are Natural Leaders

[Trusk'our]

Okay, so they don’t naturally have a charismatic personality or anything like that, but they do have a very, very powerful motivator for people to willingly follow them. They should be able to create unsealed metalminds for those who are exceptionally skilled and/or loyal to them. So if people in a society know that they will get magic powers if they follow their leader, and the only way to maintain that power (the metalminds will run out of charge eventually, after all) is to stay loyal and hone their skill with it, then the Fullborn should have a rather large retinue of willing followers.

[NameIess]

4 hours ago, Trusk'our said:

Okay, so they don’t naturally have a charismatic personality or anything like that, but they do have a very, very powerful motivator for people to willingly follow them. They should be able to create unsealed metalminds for those who are exceptionally skilled and/or loyal to them. So if people in a society know that they will get magic powers if they follow their leader, and the only way to maintain that power (the metalminds will run out of charge eventually, after all) is to stay loyal and hone their skill with it, then the Fullborn should have a rather large retinue of willing followers.

Well, there's that, and then there's also the fact that they can compound massive amounts of connection in order to become the most trustworthy and charismatic person in the Cosmere.

[Trusk'our]

1 hour ago, Nameless said:

Well, there's that, and then there's also the fact that they can compound massive amounts of connection in order to become the most trustworthy and charismatic person in the Cosmere.

Also true. Huh, I guess they do have natural charisma after all  

[NameIess]

Just now, Trusk'our said:

Also true. Huh, I guess they do have natural charisma after all  

I haven't thought about it before, but with compounded connection, couldn't you make someone instantly trust you more than they trust their own mother? That could be absolutely broken.

[Trusk'our]

1 minute ago, Nameless said:

I haven't thought about it before, but with compounded connection, couldn't you make someone instantly trust you more than they trust their own mother? That could be absolutely broken.

Heck, based on what we know about bonds, you could probably manipulate a knight radiant into making you their squire without them even being aware of it if you were to tap enough duralumin.

[Eldergod3]

Do we know if a feruchemist burning lerasium would become a fullborn or would it overwrite their feruchemy? They cannot naturally occur in nature because the two powersets interfere with eachother. Lord Ruler gave himself allomancy with the Well of Ascension so we can’t really use him as an example. 

Edited December 27, 2021 by Eldergod3

[Raphaborn]

6 hours ago, Eldergod3 said:

Do we know if a feruchemist burning lerasium would become a fullborn or would it overwrite their feruchemy? They cannot naturally occur in nature because the two powersets interfere with eachother. Lord Ruler gave himself allomancy with the Well of Ascension so we can’t really use him as an example. 

He would be a Fullborn yes. Lerasium is additive.