Compounded Increase?

[CoderDrag0n8 He/They]

We know from some WoBs that different sizes of lerasium beads give different amounts of allomantic power. If Vin compounded (She had less allomancy) would she compound less than Elend (He had just consumed an entire lerasium nugget)?

[ChickenBonanza]

I’d say that Elend, or a more powerful Mistborn, would gain more power out Compounding than Vin, or a weaker Mistborn.

The hypothesis being that a stronger Mistborn would end up with more of a Feruchemically stored attribute than a Mistborn of lesser power, if they were both to Compound metalminds that were completely uniform in form and amount of attribute stored. This difference would be due to the stronger Mistborn being able to draw more power out of his stronger Allomantic ability/Connection to Preservation.

[Treamayne]

6 hours ago, CoderDrag0n8 said:

We know from some WoBs that different sizes of lerasium beads give different amounts of allomantic power. If Vin compounded (She had less allomancy) would she compound less than Elend (He had just consumed an entire lerasium nugget)?

4 hours ago, ChickenBonanza said:

I’d say that Elend, or a more powerful Mistborn, would gain more power out Compounding than Vin, or a weaker Mistborn.

Chicken already answered, so I'll just add the WoBs:

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Chaos (paraphrased)

I continued to ask about the Lord Ruler and his Allomantic strength.

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

There's an upper bound to the amount of power you can get from being a savant. Brandon said that, obviously, the Lord Ruler wasn't using duralumin and Elend could only get that powerful in Soothing using duralumin. He implied that there was a way to Compound to enhance Allomancy.

Alloy of Law 17th Shard Q&A (Nov. 5, 2011)

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Questioner

There is quantitative difference in Allomancy (e.g. Elend is stronger than Vin), there is skill difference (e.g. Breeze is better than Vin with zinc), but is there a qualitative difference too?

Brandon Sanderson

That’s the scale of what we call savant. Wax can do more with less. It’s not just skill, the burning for long, using for so long, will actually adapt your soul to the power.

Questioner

So can bronze savants pierce copperclouds?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes, a bronze savant should be able to pierce copperclouds. It depends on the strengths of the coppercloud and the strength of the savant, but yes.

Questioner

So Elend could theoretically learn to pierce copperclouds?

Brandon Sanderson

Weaker ones, yeah, totally. He can learn how to do it by brute force.

Shadows of Self San Francisco signing (Oct. 9, 2015)

Note: Wax was changed to not be a Savant before he could be canoned as one.

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Oversleep (paraphrased)

Allomantic strength. There are stronger Allomancers, they can burn metals faster, right?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Yes, they can also squeeze more power out of it. They can use it more efficiently.

Oversleep (paraphrased)

So there is some loss of power along the way? How do savants work into that?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

Savants can use it way more efficiently. They are more Connected to the Shard. Closer to Spiritual Realm.

Warsaw signing (March 18, 2017)

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Questioner

There are Allomantic savants, are there Feruchemical savants?

Brandon Sanderson

Much harder to do. My feeling on Feruchemical savants was because it was your own power in the first place, you can't steep in it so much in the way. But, if you can get someone else's power or if you are fueling your Feruchemy another way, you would become one. So, the Lord Ruler is a good example.

Questioner

Was Miles a...

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah. Miles would be the same sort of thing.

Questioner

Is that why he didn't die as quickly in the execution?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes.

So yeah. Normally no but if you can Compound you become... basically that is how I am explaining part of the Compounding abilities. 

Starsight Release Party (Nov. 26, 2019)

 

So, anybody that gets more investiture per mole of metal will also release a larger quantity of Feruchemical trait though Compounding (if they have both abilities and can compound) and it should not matter if that incerased power is through Savantism (Miles), Lerasium (Elend), or other methods (TLR).

[Storm_blessed_]

I would assume that Ellend would be more powerful than vin due to having the lerssum thus increasing his compounding by manyfold