Aether and Meralic arts resonance.

[Sythrin]

If I understand resonance right. Its the frequent use of 2 or more invested arts that can create a hybrid art. Generally if you have too many arts, that resonance is less likely. And if you accomplish a resonance, you will not loose it when you gain more invested arts. An example of that is Wax Steelbubble. A resonance of a-steel and f-iron.

or the windrunners reverse lashing. A resonance between Gravity and Adhesion. 

So my question is, what kind of interesting Resonances can you come up with?

Do you believe that a resonance of Zephyr-Ather (air) and F-Cadmium (storing of breath) could allow you to shoots gases that you have breathed in and stored? Like you breathed in accidently a huge load of Carbonmonoxide or another poisounas gas, stored it in a metalmind to not get poisoned and than released it through you aether?

[Treamayne]

6 minutes ago, Sythrin said:

If I understand resonance right. Its the frequent use of 2 or more invested arts that can create a hybrid art. Generally if you have too many arts, that resonance is less likely. And if you accomplish a resonance, you will not loose it when you gain more invested arts. An example of that is Wax Steelbubble. A resonance of a-steel and f-iron.

or the windrunners reverse lashing. A resonance between Gravity and Adhesion. 

1. Wax's Steelbubble was not a Resonance. It was skill and practice with Steel only (originally planned to be an effect of being a Steel Savant - but that was changed. Full WoB - extract below)
   • This was confirmed in BoM when Wax fights a Set Coinshot who also produces a steel bubble very similar to his own (Ch 7 Train Fight)
2. Resonances are not necessarily a "hybrid power" - they can be, but that's not the only way they manifest
3. We do not yet know if a Luhel Bond, like Aethers, will intereact the same way. The point of a Resonance is your Spiritweb being saturated in Investiture. Luehls bonds do not go through the spiritweb (at least for Spores or Sand Mastery, by what we have seen so far)

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Brandon Sanderson

Warning, Evgeni. I'm really considering doing a backpedal on savants.

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So here's the problem. The more I dig into savants in the later outlines, the more I feel that I'm in a dangerous area--in that I'm disobeying their original intention. (Which is that using the power so much that it permeates your soul can be dangerous, a kind of uncontrolled version of a spren bond.)

And so, I don't want to let myself just start making people savants right and left. It needs to be a specific thing. Wax is the troubling one, as I have him burning so much steel that he's well on his way, but isn't showing any side effects. If I'm going to give him savant-like abilities, he needs savant-like consequences.

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I haven't decided on anything yet. It's mostly consequences for the future--just a kind of, "be aware I'm not 100% pleased with how Wax turned out, re: savanthood and Allomantic resonance."

The idea of resonance is that two powers, combined, meld kind of into one single power. This is a manifestation of the way Shards combine. Wax was intended as a savant of the two melded powers. But without consequences in his plot, I'm not confident that I'll continue in the same vein for future books.

Footnote: The first message comes from Brandon reaching out to Argent (Evgeni) on Facebook with a follow-up regarding this entry. This rest is from a Reddit PM exchange between Argent and Brandon.
Miscellaneous 2016 (Dec. 15, 2016)

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yulerule

Okay, so Twinborn have [resonances], but full Mistborn don't, right?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes.

yulerule

So then I assume that a nonmagical person, like someone who doesn't have magic, holding the Bands of Mourning will not have no perks.

Brandon Sanderson

I would say they would not.

yulerule

Will a Twinborn that's holding the Bands of Mourning still have their original perk?

Brandon Sanderson

Yes.

yulerule

Or, if a Ferring is holding the Bands, and they use just one ability, will they develop a perk, tied to the one second ability they are using?

Brandon Sanderson

The longer they use it, the more likely that this is to happen.

yulerule

Using Investiture a lot over a long period changes your Spiritweb. So what happens if a nonmagical uses the Bands for a while?

Brandon Sanderson

Same thing that would happen to someone else, um, it would have a definite effect on them. *laughter* It would change them, as... in similar ways. Not exactly the same, but in similar ways.

JordanCon 2018 (April 21, 2018)

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Argent

So, the Edgedancer's resonance, the Perk? I think you've called it resonance at some point, is that still accurate?

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, that totally works. The powers affect each other in interesting ways.

Argent

Right.

Brandon Sanderson

Um, so the thing about it is, calling it a Perk, that like saying--

Argent

It's a side effect right?

Brandon Sanderson

It's less a side effect-- It's like, when the powers merge, they are always slightly different. For instance, Lightweaving from a Truthwatcher is different from-- Slightly. There will be things. So, you're gonna see that they all have access to the Surges, but in combinations, they act a little differently from one another.

Questioner

So is the Edgedancer's resonance something to do with communication? Because we see Lift--

Brandon Sanderson

Yeah, yeah we'll RAFO that.

Arcanum Unbounded Chicago signing (Dec. 6, 2016)

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Ray745

You have stated that each Knights Radiant Order gets their own unique ability, for lack of a better word, due to the combination of their Surges. For instance, you have stated this ability for the Windrunners is strength of squires. My question - is this due to the Nahel bond, or just inherent in the Surges combining. Would a non-Radiant get these abilities from the Honorblades, or would they be out of luck due to no Nahel bond?

Brandon Sanderson

Good question! The unique abilities have more to do with the powers interacting, same as how Twinborn will often manifest some odd side effects of the powers interacting. But there are limitations. For example, Jezrien didn't actually have any squires, as none of the Heralds did.

General Reddit 2016 (Oct. 4, 2016)

 

Hope that helps

[JustQuestin2004 he/him]

Slight misunderstanding here.

The Reverse Lashing is not the Resonance of the Windrunners, it's the abnormally large amount of Squires they can have.

A Reverse Lashing is simply an alternate way of using Gravitation, like how Abrasion can be used to increase or decrease friction.

WOB

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ZenBossanova (paraphrased)

Since Shallan has a unique ability of memory from her blended surges, is fighting what Kaladin has?

Brandon Sanderson (paraphrased)

No. His unique ability is "strength of squires".

And Brandon (I think) pulled a retcon on the Steelbubble, it's apparently no longer due to Savantism or a Resonance, it's just a technique any Coinshot can learn to do if they are skilled enough.

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Brandon Sanderson

I haven't decided on anything yet. It's mostly consequences for the future--just a kind of, "be aware I'm not 100% pleased with how Wax turned out, re: savanthood and Allomantic resonance."

The idea of resonance is that two powers, combined, meld kind of into one single power. This is a manifestation of the way Shards combine. Wax was intended as a savant of the two melded powers. But without consequences in his plot, I'm not confident that I'll continue in the same vein for future books.

I swear there is a moment somewhere in either Shadows of Self or Bands of Mourning where a Coinshot who isn't Wax uses a Steelbubble and it isn't said that they are a Crasher like Wax.

 

But either way, a Resonance tends to be subtle and less overt than the abilities that are mixed to produce it, as well as not always a direct part of the abilities themselves, extra Squires won't change your Lashings after all.

I can't really come up with any Resonances because we simply don't have many to examine, especially not with the Metallic Arts, since the one Resonance we thought we knew, turns out to not be a Resonance anymore!

God, I hope someone asks Brandon what Wayne's resonance was, since it shouldn't be a spoiler anymore.

Edit:

Ninja'ed. Two minutes too late.

Edited June 10, 2025 by JustQuestin2004