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I'm of the same opinion/concern with Oudeis here. -- EDIT: A thought? Maybe it's Ruin's fault? If we assume that Ruin wanted Zane's manipulations of Vin to succeed, perhaps Ruin could have selectively shut down here coppercloud-piercing for Zane? I could see this working in two different ways: either Ruin directly shut down Vin's Hemalurgy for periods of time (which capability would be new and completely unseen so far, so I find it a bit unlikely), or he did his good old mind-manipulating voodoo on her to just make Vin decide to turn off her bronze and leave off her copper every once and awhile while she happened to be having deep conversations with Zane.

An interesting thought.

Apparently Ruin would have to manifest to reabsorb and metabolize it.

That's essentially my reason for dismissing cognitive shenanigans (at least directly) as well. Thus the recourse to the spiritual.

TLR actually spent time old voluntarily. Source: Best guess is that it wasn't to store youth at all. He did that by just burning existing atium storage, just like you've mentioned Miles doing. As evidence for this, you'll note that the TLR that Vin saw in the "Terris hut" in the first mistborn book was just in his 60s or the like, versus the virtual skeleton that TLR became when he lost his bracers. Suggesting that even in there he was still tapping a significant amount of youth. --- I've talked on this before, but to summarize my own thoughts on the matter I'd say that TLR can't heal back from ageing for the same reason as even the most crazy of people couldn't "heal back" to having 4 arms or the like: there's some higher-level idea of what healing can accomplish that prevents it. This is buttressed by what we got from Chicago just recently: Source: (to continue to toot my own horn, here's a thread where I discuss the implications of a more spiritual model of healing)

Nothing has been said on the subject.

This may be of interest.

I liked it, though a few continuity concerns (assuming Peter is reading this? I'd prefer to say it here rather than leave everything in the comments on Tor): -Apparently we're capitalizing Shove now? I just wanted to double-check this wasn't either a failing of my memory or an error. -Are there really "thousands" of nails in the floor? That seems like a relatively high density of nail:wood... -Continuity concern with the two guards with Joe? So the "guard on the right" doesn't have any metal lines but the "one on the right" does? As an unrelated note in that paragraph it took me a moment to parse that "the other two" meant Joe and the other guard, rather than "the other two guards" or the like, which confused me since I had just read that there were only two guards. It's cleared up quickly enough, but I did stumble over it; then again that could just be a testament to my failings as a reader.

FTL communication necessarily allows violations of causality in a universe without special reference frames, by my understanding. It doesn't really matter how it's achieved.

It almost certainly throws causality out the window, so that's a bit of a "breaking physics" type thing. The moment you allow for FTL travel or communication cause and effect are not pleased with you; we almost certainly already have travel that gets you from A to B faster than c when you consider travel through Shadesmar, and we will have FTL space travel in future books.

Fair enough, I suppose.

I usually use "Sharder", at least in my head. I feel like Brandon's even used the term, but I might be mistaken there.

I actually doubt that Allomantic bendalloy and Feruchemical steel would synergize well together, at least in the "let's team up and teleport" sense that the OP is talking about. The main limiting factor in this technique probably ends up being the "cooldown" time between casting bubbles and/or coordination with the other bubbler more than anything else, rather than how fast you can get from one end of a bubble to another.

A good way to get around the "bubbles are stationary" limitation.

Argent got his question answered, it seems: Source:

Yeah, I always say to myself "you know you, you'd be better off just waiting for the show to finish rather than waiting a week between episodes..." Then my poor self-discipline steps in...

I think it may be best not to go too too far into conservation laws on this, since Investiture is kind of established as how Brandon goes about cheating thermodynamics. Consider Breath: they can also generate mechanical energy for nearly indefinite periods of time using some kind of "investiture recycling" process that looks to be entirely internal to them; so if Feruchemical iron generating mechanical energy out of nowhere is a problem so is Breath. It's a slippery slope.

Well Wax never stores weight, he stores mass, so it really shouldn't matter which planet he's on. Regarding Feruchemical iron's infinite energy generation, I think that's a separate question from infinite investiture; we've known forever that you could generate infinite mechanical energy just from judiciously storing f1ron, let alone tapping it. So far as where the "energy" for the Investiture itself comes from... maybe we could swing something about siphoning off some potential energy from inertia or the like? Something that doesn't rely on what altitude Wax is at at the very least.

Yeah I'm not going to put any money on how Strength (or most anything else beyond Bendalloy/Cadmium/Brass) works just yet; needs some stewing time.

Got an answer from the AMA: Source: So time-scuttling as the solution takes a torpedo: might have to sink my new interpretation of it... It seems like Brandon is saying here that the energy is coming from stuff. So everyone who's been talking about storing brain chemicals to model Determination and the like might not actually be too far off base. So, to pick an example at random, I'd guess that storing Speed is a matter of storing energy that could have been generated by movement? Under this model it seems that eating a hearty breakfast is actually going to help you be able to store more. Strength is easier, I guess, since you can perhaps get energy from "compressing" muscle mass without necessarily depleting it permanently, and then it just reverts back naturally... In regards to how this impacts the "neutral" nature of Feruchemy, I guess it may be best to fall back to "neutral" meaning "internally sourced" rather than "actually not relying on anything but the bare practitioner", though I guess we were already doing that with Feruchemical bendalloy and Feruchemical cadmium and Feruchemical brass.., This needs a bit more thought.

@Weiry Thanks for the find, though it turns out those weren't the interviews in question.

@Xeno I don't really disbelieve you on cadmium for jostling/deflection, but we really don't have any hard evidence either way that I know of. So far as the falling Pulser goes, I don't see why not. It is an interesting question what exactly the bubble would be getting its frame of reference from if it was truly cast in mid air, but if I'm going to argue that cutting through the interstellar medium is enough to get a frame of reference I can't really complain about the atmosphere doing the trick. For Steelrunners, I'd say probably not going to work the way you say? It would be interesting if "speed" was simply a personal-level manifestation of sped up or slowed down time, but I kind of doubt that's how it works. That aside if you want to have someone be able to perceive at the same rate as a bubble that's probably what you want a Sparker (Feruchemical zinc, mental speed) for. @yurisses Sorry you're disappointed. If it makes you feel better I've been fairly dismayed more times than I can casually count upon seeing one WoB or another.

There's also another one suggesting pre-Shattering magic. Source:

To borrow from Raysen, he may well not have been aware just how much influence a non-freed Ruin had. Despite this, he seems to have been aware, at the very least, of how much influence a free Ruin had over Hemalurgists, so perhaps the Resolution was put in place specifically in case Ruin got out and started (so far as we/TLR know) to be able to influence people on a large scale. Some theorize that it was his Soothing that got the boost.