3rd Of The Everstorm He/Him Posted August 5, 2024 Posted August 5, 2024 I was confused when Wayne died in the explosion on the ship. Can someone explain why Miles Hundredlives could take shotgun blasts and dynamite to the head, but an explosion just took Wayne out immediately? 1
Treamayne Posted August 5, 2024 Posted August 5, 2024 11 minutes ago, 3rd Of The Everstorm said: I was confused when Wayne died in the explosion on the ship. Can someone explain why Miles Hundredlives could take shotgun blasts and dynamite to the head, but an explosion just took Wayne out immediately? Mostly because Compounding isn;t automatic, you have to learn how and practice. He had access to A-Gold for an hour at most. Even if he had any GoldMinds small emough to be swallowd and burned, he had not prepared storage for compounding - which is generally that you make the MetalMinds to be burned, burn them and dump the charge that is released into other larger Metalminds of the same type (which can be accessed like normal), while also filling more small metal minds to be burned again. It's not a fast process unless you have already made the metalminds ahead of time, like Miles did (who kept many of them inside himself as well). Keep in mind that it is unintuitive enough that many of the Inquisitors under TLR that could technically have compounded in Era 1 never learned how to do so because Rashek refused to teach them the technique. Marsh figured it out thanks to Sazeds explanation in the Epilogue of TFE. Compounding WoBs Spoiler Quote yurisses If Miles stored a very tiny bit of health into a gold bead and then burned it, what would happen? Would he see goldshadows for a time and then obtain Compounded health when reaching the charged part of the bead? Would the bead be evenly charged and deliver only health, no gold shadows, but at a very low rate since only little health was loaded in it? Would the bead be evenly charged and deliver only health, but at a standard rate the user would always get when compounding? Brandon Sanderson He'd hack the system to deliver health for a short time instead of doing what it was supposed to do, but only until the small portion of gold Invested with his Investiture ran out. Worldbuilders AMA (Dec. 4, 2015) Quote Questioner When either Rashek or a Twinborn like Miles, how does he fuel his metalminds? Does he have to actually burn the gold in order to fuel them? Because, I feel like there's a paragraph in here where you kind of explained it, but I feel like you didn't actually say that you had to burn more gold in order to fill a metalmind. Is that how that works? Brandon Sanderson Yes. You can cross the streams and use one to power the other. But you are using the metal to power your Feruchemy instead of your own-- You're using, basically, the power that's coming through the metal... Questioner So you do have to be burning one the whole time? Sounds good, good to know. So you could just infinitely fill it, basically? As you burn, you just use it to fill it and it just gets-- and that's where that comes from? Brandon Sanderson Yep. You are burning a metalmind that you've already filled, right? That's the key there. You fill a metalmind, then you burn that, and what that does is it keys the metalmind to the Feruchemy instead. Which normally no one can do because you could- Questioner You can't do both. Brandon Sanderson Yeah. But if you can do both, you fill a metalmind, you burn that metalmind. What comes out of it is Feruchemical power instead, and you then are filling the metalmind with more. So Allomancy is fueled by the power of the Shard. So what you're doing is you're powering your Feruchemy with the power of the Shard, instead of your own body. Using their Investiture instead of yours. Which is very dangerous. Idaho Falls signing (Dec. 29, 2018) Quote Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased) Inquisitors knowing how to Compound: some may have figured it out at some point. I [Chaos] got the impression it was not a technique the Lord Ruler taught them. Alloy of Law 17th Shard Q&A (Nov. 5, 2011)
alder24 Posted August 5, 2024 Posted August 5, 2024 12 minutes ago, 3rd Of The Everstorm said: I was confused when Wayne died in the explosion on the ship. Can someone explain why Miles Hundredlives could take shotgun blasts and dynamite to the head, but an explosion just took Wayne out immediately? Hello, welcome to the Shard. Because you need gold. A lot of gold. Like a ton of gold to survive an explosion like this. Even Miles struggled with his gold supply and had to steal all that gold when he was kidnapping people. But to actually accumulate needed health, you need to burn that gold with stored health in it - that takes time. Compounding isn't instantaneous. Wayne would need to spend a lot of time burning his metalmind to gather all the health needed to survive such an explosion. And Wayne had both no gold and no time. An explosion of such magnitude would generate so much heat that it would instantly vaporize him and his gold - there was no way for Wayne to survive it. I’ve guesstimated this explosion was comparable to the 2020 Beirut explosion, which had a yield of around 1kt. Wayne was gone faster than he could have thought of even tapping metalminds. 2
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