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Spikes are Invested: Scadrial has low levels of Investiture: (doesn't really answer the question, though)

Fumu... Well, yes, you are correct. It depends on your point of view, I guess - for me, it is the fact that human souls (or parts thereof) came from the Shards is what allows them to use Feruchemy, so the same rules apply, just on the smaller scale, including, to some extent, energy recovery (unless, of course, excess energy in Feruchemical iron case comes from your mass, but that is unlikely). And conservation laws, in general, are screwed by underlying Cognitive aspect, similar to the effect of "the watched atom never decays" IRL (not to mention that we don't know how to calculate total energy of an object in Cosmere, since it would have to include all 3 Realms) But enough about that. Free energy for everyone! Death rays, Hemalurgic abominations, Awakened terminators! Cosmere is awesome

That is called "renewable energy" and "eco-friendly", moogle Yes, Shardic power(energy per unit of time) seems to be limited, but their energy is not. Or maybe they simply fool statistics in a way I describe in my entropy theory, or some other way (sig). Energy is relative, after all, and we are still not sure if energy conservation works *exactly* in our Universe.

[handwavium] It may not push the planet for the same reason a person jumping on the surface doesn't push it into the sun - the force is compensated. For example, it can be compensated by adjusting the reaction force of the person doing the lifting - in that case, two spanreeds on the opposite sides of the globe would create a curious effect of the weight of both spanreeds not being transferred to the planet at all (he would still need strength sufficient to lift both at once). Down may simply count as "towards zero" in spherical coordinate system (planet center of mass). Another thing to note is that, as most if not all fabrials, spanreeds need stormlight to function. This might offset the energy problems somewhat, if such actually exist. [/handwavium] As for fabrial guns - as I've proposed before, Death Rays is the way: take a huge... Smokestone? or whatever, catch many Deathspren, then either make it shoot rays of death somehow, or create a stick that kills on touch, ala painknife. Since fabrials can be activated and deactivated somehow (see spanreed), one may be able to create AoE kill-em-all fabrial that works on timer/touch/approach (see human detection fabrial), creating mines and grenades. If set in the same way as Human detection one, to exclude your group, make it surround your camp with a cloud of death for protection against brigands. Edit: And use the reverse effect (like pain reducing fabrials) to keep you patient from dying while you operate on his exposed heart, or simply to reduce the probability of dying during illness.

bonds with Deathspren

It is Klad in my version... And there is another funny fact: Vasher is Klad the Usurper:

I, for one, don't feel any jealousy at all What I feel is envy, and a modicum of odium ( we should use this word more often). Very strong envy, though. Odium mainly refers to the teasing: seriously, keep you beta status a secret, or make with the spoilers! Lots and lots of spoilers And to slow publishers, sitting on the ready book for months ( I know their reasons for it, to be fair, it just doesn't affect my emotions) And Natans: better try hacking Dropbox servers WoR *and* Dragonsteel (drools)

That is.. weird. The second one, probably (aluminium absorbing Investiture from the tissue as it penetrates)

See Chaos post four posts above, Argent.

Eh~ Your wraithzilla is naught but artifice, while Kandrzilla is a natural occurrence on Scadrial But if artifice is to be compared: behold, Kandrzilla Mark II, the Soulzilla: A vast Mistwraith with all the bones replaced by thousands upon thousands Spikes, all bathed in blood, some for Strength to maintain its multiton bulk, some for Intelligence and Emotions to keep raging insanity in some semblance of control, some Allomantic and Feruchemic to grant it power envied by any Nicroburst Savant. Each spike is bathed in the blood of many, until it is full, and the beast is so full of ripped souls that it bleeds black smoke. Its brain lobes are protected by blood-soaked Aluminium wires from any emotional Allomancy. It craves more souls, so it harvests metals, reforms them in its acid pouches and harvests every living being it happens upon

Ah, yes. The point about those organs not being vital still stands, though, or he wouldn't be able to dissolve them on the whim. Probably. I don't think Kandra could dissolve his brain lobes, for example, or whathavethey, but I am not sure. Well, yeah. Koloss is probably one of the relatively stable configurations, 3 spikes and lower being less so. Still, I wonder how the change happens - does it look like Feruchemical gold healing into Koloss from "human with 4 spikes", or what? What does Inquisitor's circulatory system look like, with several spikes through the heart? And what is a sensory Koloss? What is the point of something with triple normal senses that is also probably too mad to tell you what it sees? I still maintain that one could create an n-spiked being that would be smart/sane and surviving, if one knew *exactly* where to place which spike ( I also still believe in Kandrzilla, a Mistwraith that ate too many Koloss corpses and incorporated ~50 spikes, growing into giant, formless, bespiked being )

Well, the height change isn't instant - Kolossi grow for ~20 years before dying of heart failure. The blue, extensive skin seems to be rapid. As for less than 4 spikes - it was told that Inquisitors and TLR experimented for a 1000 years trying to make another Hema race. If you could simply remove 1 spike and get a smarter Koloss, I am pretty sure they would have discovered it. Maybe the changes induced by 3 spikes are unbalanced, and result in faster failure rate? (as Kandra need 2 spikes of the same attribute) Or the resulting skin is not blue enough, or large enough? Spike position also matters, even for Allomancy spikes (the side effects of steel through brain vs steel though chest seem different). I am pretty sure MAG is even less reliable for Hemalurgy than other two Arts, even if simply because there is so little we know about it.

The short answer is: we don't know. We know next to nothing about physical changes associated with hemalurgy. We don't know if the spikes are removable, or if they go through heart and , say, kidneys, just from the sides. Is the physical change instant? We know it is relatively rapid (within weeks), but does the person instantly become Koloss? Does it start when the first spike goes in, or only when the fourth one does? What would happen if the fourth spike was not inserted? Death? Saner but weaker Koloss? When does mind start to go? Kandra are different. They are very flexible, they don't seem to have many vital organs, and they don't use those for spikes (they use muscles). They also shapeshift, so external phenotype changes are not obvious. They seem to be able to uptake several sets of Human Attribute spikes without any side effects. And you forgot about Vin habitually removing her spike Someone really should catch Brandon and discuss Hemalurgy in long, gruesome detail

(checks) Yes, you are right, they go through dermis, so they disrupt the capillaries there. I am just not sure that capillaries count as enough blood for Hemalurgy, or if you need to go though dermis and subcutaneous layer for larger vessels. Some bindpoints (like the eyespikes) seem to be obviously deeper than you get with tattoo. I am still not sure why would you want to have such a tattoo? Better make a spike shaped as Dakhor bone (BTW, I don't shave, I just use tweezers) As an aside, an evil tattoo tech might be able to steal your attribute with a steel/iron needle As Kurk pointed out, no, not really: It is important to keep in mind that Investiture is a non-negative quantity (above or equal to zero), so there is a limitation on the number of possible orthogonal "vectors". For example, if we represent an object with 4 numbers (0000), then (1020) and (0205) are orthogonal to each other, but something like (1221) doesn't have any orthogonal vectors with non-negative values, it is "full" (zero doesn't count).

They did, and it does not Simply because Investiture is too diluted in this case, with Scadrial being amongst the least Investiture- rich worlds ( manifestation-wise ) Sorry about not using quotes from the phone. Think of the charges as being of different wavelengths of the signal. Or simply orthogonal.

Well, piercings work as Hema spikes, so at least some bind points should not be very deep, though a bit deeper than normal tattoo, I'd guess, since it has to reliably draw blood the first time it goes in. You could also have a tatto of fine wire piecing a bind point ( even deep one) and then forming a pattern with the remaining tail that can be arbitrarily long... Why would someone want such a thing, though... And yes, Hema charge seems to protect metal from rusting and body from poisoning or rejecting the thing, so presumably it would keep.

I see, thank you for explanation.The question is, there are about 2^60 possible codes. Why have generic ones at all? Though I can guess several answers...

Oh, so it is more like surgery than general healing in this case, that makes sense. Thank you for your info! I wish your child would recover soon Interesting bit about no unique codes, though, I think Peter recently wrote about 400 codes that were not entered yet, so those might be lost

About Vin, this is from the book:

Pray tell, dear chap, what it is that you call "flamboyant vocabulary" that is so prevalent in our posts? As a native Slavic speaker, it has piqued my curiousity And Botanica: Nice chinese-style art (envies)

Ask Kurkistan's questions. ALL Kurkistan questions

Could you please ask him about what happens if a time bubble is hit by a stream of water, and if that is any different from being hit by air molecules?

Direct WoB says: Hence, we call it Investiture. There are Shards, Slivers, Splinters and Invested objects/people/effects (overlapping). One of the reasons it is used so often is because a lot of Cosmere runs on Investiture one way or another (I am not saying that we use it correctly, since we are still not sure what it is, exactly). Known instances of Investiture include Scadrian souls and Allomantic power, Nalthis Breaths, Stormlight, etc, just offhand. Edit: Maybe more "Spiritwebs" than souls. Regardless, the part that makes people sentient and gives access to Allomancy is Investiture (never investment)

"громила" would work. What about Brute (Feruchemical pewter)? And yes, I have never seen the word for pewter before either, it seems very niche. I think most people simply call it tin or tin alloy, like in tin soldier.

Hm... I am not very good at translating, since I don't know word equivalents well, but let me see... Pewter in Russian is Pewter ( that is, it is a borrowed word that sounds the same), or table tin in older parlance...Пьютерук? Sorry, I am drawing a blank here. Thug's only translation seems to be "bandit", which is not quite right in this context... Probably the closest I could get would be "Качок".