Curiosity

Restating: Intent grows more specific as the size of the Investiture shrinks.

Kelsier 29 I actually like Kel more than Miles, so... Finish the Compounder! Miles 4

Nalizar! Should have seen it...

Nice Spiritual Steel Theory! I like it a lot. Full quote here: I would maintain that the Spiritual Entities are Spiritual Ideals, each strongly attached to a certain planet. These Ideals permeate the entire Spritual Realm, but they are specifically tied to planets. Each Ideal or concept would become the focus for the magic systems, or "manifestations of Investiture" on each planet. Investiture is basically bits of Adonalsium. It seems as though it has the power to affect reality in all three Realms, but Investiture comes with Intent, which is... well, Intent. A purpose or objective, a way to filter all of a mind's actions. A mind is always affected by Intent, but the amount of Investiture determines the magnitude of effect the Intent has. If the mind controlling Investiture forms spontaneously, it is most likely going to be much more affected the Intent of its Investiture, like spren or Seons. Divine Breaths probably have Intent, but the Investiture is given to an already sentient entity, so Returned have much more of a way of controlling their actions. Returned are a fascinating case of this... How does Intent interact with Identity? And where are memories stored? Intent also seems to be a subdivision of whatever Intent gave birth to the Shard, Splinter, or Innate Investiture, like we see in the Splintering of Honor. We have different aspects of honor: morality, justice, etc. (Side note: All of these things, unless combined together, don't really make good character. You have to have the entirety of the Intent of Adonalsium, I think, before you have a good character, but then again, I don't know what the other Shards' Intents were, so I don't know if Adonalsium is respectable or not.) The size of a chunk of Investiture probably determines the "class of the Intent", so a Splinter can be "the desire to eat lots of food", but a Shard has to be "Enjoyment" or something like that. The smaller the Investiture size, the more specific the Intent. Hmmm... Two Principles of Intent: 1. Intent grows more powerful with the size of the sample of Investiture. (Quantitative) 2. Intent grows more general with the size of the sample of Investiture. (Qualitative) As to "Investiture is the substance of the Spiritual Realm"... In light of that, I would say that the Spiritual affects Investiture more than any other Realm, but Investiture is not specifically of the Spiritual Realm.

Breath is the Investiture on Nalthis, whether it's a Returned's or a normal person's. Clarification: Color is NOT Investiture on Nalthis. It's the focus, or the price, or the effect, or something like that. I'm not really sure...

Kelsier 25 Miles 8 Ferring 4 Agreed

Yes. Hrathen.

Sazedium is somehow the key to Feruchemy's origins. I say how or when, but it can't come from just more Preservation. It's the balance system. Lerasium is pure Investiture from Preservation, and it cannot grant Feruchemy just by having the Investiture tapped out of it. More Preservation in the soul means Allomancy, not Feruchemy. On the other hand, more Ruin doesn't mean more Hemalurgic talent (Hmmm... Or does it?) so my point may not be valid.

You can hold more than one Honorblade at a time, and you can indeed have more than two Surges. However, The strength of the Surge is more dependent on your technique and the amount of Stormlight you use.*

Exactly what I was aiming for!

Did Zahel call someone that? I don't have WoR on me... Sadeas?

Would the Parshendi make good world hoppers?

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Kelsier 29 Miles 14 Ferring 14 Lerasium 0 I didn't preserve it...

The upper limit for the second phase is 30 HP, so could you pick someone else to heal? Kelsier 28 Miles 16 Ferring 12 Lerasium 4

Nazh is a world hopper too, though.

If anyone wants to speculate more on the affect of speculation on this game, we could just set up a meta-speculation doc...

Kelsier 24 Kel, get out of the Realms already! Miles 19 Ferring 20 Lerasium 8

And occasionally there would be hints about weird chalk, evil super beings, and the word "Alcatraz", but the majority of POV's would deny the existence of all of them. Plus random chapters of discussion/debate between Jasnah and Khriss about the Physiology of Holding Stormlight, Everything They Know About Time Bubbles, and The Statistical Treatment of mystical objects called "RAFO's".

Aons 9 Breath 10 Elantris 8 Ferring 12 Hemalurgy 6 Investiture 10 Lerasium 10 Miles 13 Preservation 10 Kelsier 20

Do you ever come here, browse the theory boards, and laugh at them?

But if Ruin fuels Allomancy, then it takes time to regenerate, as evidenced in the Pits of Hathsin and Atium.

Aons 9 Breath 9 Elantris 8 Ferring 11 God King 1 Hemalurgy 9 Investiture 11 Lerasium 10 Miles 14 Preservation 10

Reminds me of those mean things that authors do to you that Alcatraz warned me about... And it is definitely within the realm of possibility that I got Sandersoned with WoR...

I don't have time to RP, but I like reading through it when I have the time, so can I second this?