Finishing Random Twinborn Combinations

[Lopens Tenth Cousin he/him]

Twinborn Combo # 6

A-Steel/F-Bronze

(Pushes on Nearby Metals / Stores Wakefulness)

Allomantic Steel basically allows you to both become a firearm and also allows you to have massive "jumps." Additionally, it gives you a 360 degree vision of seeing connections to metal objects. A normal steel misting is called a "Coinshot" - a very literal name, as they end up shooting coins at people.

Feruchemic Bronze allows you to store sleep - essentially, you sleep for longer one night, then you tap it and don't need to sleep for another night, but with the benefits of a full night's sleep. A bronze ferring is called a "Sentry," due to the fact that they can spend multiple nights without sleep if needed. 

A good synergizing of these abilities allows for a good cop, special unit, or some other thing where you may need to spend nights awake at a distance, or for "stake-outs." If you go on a mission or something, you could spend however long just finishing it - no sleep or breaks are needed, and you will always be at the top of your game. You would still have one of the most shown powers that is good for combat - anything metal your opponent wears can and will be used against them, along with whatever metals you bring.

Resonance: I can't really think of a good resonance so comments are welcome.

Name: I was thinking Bond.. James Bond. No just kidding. But I think Nightcop would be a good one (cause they work the nightshift...)

Rating: 5/10. Honestly just having F-bronze would make most of the allomantic abilities better, as you could do them for longer (in a way), and do them at times others don't want to do them. There isn't too much major synergizing, just a mild increase.

[Lopens Tenth Cousin he/him]

Twinborn Combo # 7

A-Copper/F-Steel

(Hides Allomantic Signals / Stores speed)

So somewhere there is a WOB about copper clouds hiding kinetic use of Investiture: so theoretically, it should be a powerful counter against SA spoilers:

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Detector fabrials

Could be useful in future cosmere.

Additionally, when speed is tapped from steel, some of it is transformed into a mental speed in order for you to process what is happening in the moment, causing a loss in Investiture overall, but allows you to actually use it so that's cool.

I guess you could go running around blocking Investiture signals if you wanted to... I can't really think of anything else besides blocking your own tapping signals.

Resonance: The ability to block some perception of your location from higher power entities like Shards? No idea actually.

Name: On the Lamb. But actually, probable something like Fugitive.

Rating: 4/10. Don't see much synergy, but it isn't that bad either.

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

On 3/22/2025 at 2:03 PM, Lopens Tenth Cousin said:

Twinborn Combo # 7

A-Copper/F-Steel

(Hides Allomantic Signals / Stores speed)

Quick note, a WOB states that F-Steel can also affect the Burn speed of your metals like Duralumin.

So, this means that if this 'Fugitive' burned Copper while storing, their Coppercloud will be weaker, but will also be stronger while tapping.

Which means that if they aren't careful while storing, their Coppercloud will be weak enough that an average strength Seeker might be able to pierce through it.

[Lopens Tenth Cousin he/him]

On 3/23/2025 at 10:15 PM, JustQuestin2004 said:

Quick note, a WOB states that F-Steel can also affect the Burn speed of your metals like Duralumin.

So, this means that if this 'Fugitive' burned Copper while storing, their Coppercloud will be weaker, but will also be stronger while tapping.

Which means that if they aren't careful while storing, their Coppercloud will be weak enough that an average strength Seeker might be able to pierce through it.

Yeah that's a fair point that I forgot about.

Hey so I probably won't post weekends due to me normally not getting on the Shard all that much on weekends, just to let you know.

Yesterday I just got wrapped up re-reading RoW 

Twinborn Combo # 8

A-Nicrosil/F-Atium

(Boosts other's allomantic abilities / Stores Youth)

Okay, so allomantic nicrosil is able to boost others' powers - so guess what? You're most likely going to be a support(ish) team member or possibly team leader that relies on the strength of others, but you basically superpower your team. Additionally, if you use it at the right time, you can throw the enemy off by boosting their powers at an unexpected or inopportune time. The only downside - you have to get close enough to touch them. I feel as if you would need much physical training in order to sneak up and boost Metalborn unexpectedly. 

Feruchemical Atium stores Youth - and most feruchemists use it as a disguise. However, I believe that if used by someone who does a physical activity, they could store for a while and then be able to perform, play, fight, or whatever in their prime instead of as an older person. The two major downsides to this are that due to the loss of investiture when storing and tapping (and compressing) metalminds, you would effectively shorten your life - similar to a bendalloy misting, and Atium, would be EXTREMELY hard to come by. TLM spoilers:

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There were trace amounts of pure Atium after the harmonium explosion - theoretically you could make an alloy with electrum and have the pre-retcon Atium effects.

Essentially, you could just run around helping your team and be more youthful and spry in moments when you need it. You would be able to extend your "working years."

Resonance: I believe that you could make people around you feel younger - they aren't, they just feel more rejuvenated in your presence.

Name: Chuck Norris (lol). No but I think Augmenter or something would be neat.

Rating: 6/10 if you can access Atium - being able to extend working years would be great, but 3/10 if you can't - you're really just a nicroburst.

Edited March 25, 2025 by Lopens Tenth Cousin