NathanielHellman he/him Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 What would happen if you were a twinborn with pewter? I know that when you use the same metal for both feruchemy and allomancy you get a drastic increase in what that metal is used for so with pewter you would obviously get a massive increase in strength, but would your muscles get so big that you would have problems moving? That happened in Dragon Ball Z when some of the characters were trying to get to the next level of Super Saiyan during the cell saga. Just curious if anyone had any ideas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted August 9, 2015 Report Share Posted August 9, 2015 The same thing that happens when a normal pewter ferring empties his pewtermind all at once in milliseconds. Compounding does not affect power in any way, it's a way to turn the power you get from burning metal into the same type of property that your metalminds store instead of the allomantic power. As it is obtained from Preservation's investiture instead of the feruchemist's investiture, he can continue storing his compounded trait without the negative side effects. And it's always a larger amount than the charge in the metal being burned, so there is net gain (I mean, burning normal metal grants allomancy so the metal is clearly not where the energy comes from). There is nothing a compounder can do that the corresponding ferring isn't capable of doing. But the ferring will almost never have the reserves necessary to make performing those techniques feasible for any period of time. A compounder's storage potential, on the other hand, are as deep as his pockets will allow him to buy metal to burn. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tobar14 he/him Posted August 14, 2015 Report Share Posted August 14, 2015 What would happen if you were a twinborn with pewter? I know that when you use the same metal for both feruchemy and allomancy you get a drastic increase in what that metal is used for so with pewter you would obviously get a massive increase in strength, but would your muscles get so big that you would have problems moving? That happened in Dragon Ball Z when some of the characters were trying to get to the next level of Super Saiyan during the cell saga. Just curious if anyone had any ideas. Yes, they would get so big it would be difficult to move, I believe that in the book it mentioned that sazed had a hard time turning his head or something. Natc's point was that any pewter ferring or feruchemist could run into that problem, its just easy for a pewter twinborn to hit that wall of bigness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamEternal Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Yes, they would get so big it would be difficult to move, I believe that in the book it mentioned that sazed had a hard time turning his head or something. Natc's point was that any pewter ferring or feruchemist could run into that problem, its just easy for a pewter twinborn to hit that wall of bigness. Actualy, a pewter ferring eould have no problem at all, since allomantic pewter adds its strenght to yours, like a set of ghost muscles moving along your own, while feruchemical pewtwer gives you more muscle mass. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natc Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 (edited) Actualy, a pewter ferring eould have no problem at all, since allomantic pewter adds its strenght to yours, like a set of ghost muscles moving along your own, while feruchemical pewtwer gives you more muscle mass. You do realize ferrings do not posses allomancy? Airsick lowlanders . . . Edited August 15, 2015 by natc 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DreamEternal Posted August 15, 2015 Report Share Posted August 15, 2015 Ops, I read misting by accident... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadeshadow227 Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Airsick...?! Rock? Is that you? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EdroGrimshell Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Well that's a point of contention with the way compounding is described. The hack is described as using the power of one system with the benefits and drawbacks of another system. So using Feruchemy with Allomancy for compounding gives the power of Feruchemy (ability to store up and tap into traits) with the benefits and drawbacks of allomancy (net gain of power, no physical change in the body, and burns the metal). It's entirely possible that a Pewter Twinborn doesn't have that downside when compounding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voidus Posted April 3, 2016 Report Share Posted April 3, 2016 Well that's a point of contention with the way compounding is described. The hack is described as using the power of one system with the benefits and drawbacks of another system. So using Feruchemy with Allomancy for compounding gives the power of Feruchemy (ability to store up and tap into traits) with the benefits and drawbacks of allomancy (net gain of power, no physical change in the body, and burns the metal). It's entirely possible that a Pewter Twinborn doesn't have that downside when compounding. Compounding doesn't change the effect of the trait, just where the power comes from, instead of it being your own stores the extra power comes from Preservation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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