Satsuoni

The animated brick of porridge wouldn't need an actual brick around it, now would it? Then again, what do I know about your habits and associated ecology... Maybe it is your bed.

I always imagined PorridgeBrick to be an animated brick of porridge, rather like a gelatinous cube, but more intelligent...

One thing to remember - Koloss are hemalurgic creations with 4 spikes of Strength, which is described to work as a weak Allomantic pewter. Their muscles are, accounting for decay, and not accounting for the fact that the spikes are recharged between uses, adding to charge (P4thf1nd3r, they reuse the spikes by killing humans, as described, IIRC, in HoA), they have muscles that are 2 to 4 times as strong as is natural for creatures of corresponding size, *and* have improved speed and durability (and apparently pain tolerance, given that they walk around with their skin either loose or ripping up around all orifices). Quotes: Usage of Iron spikes, on Kandra: But, as mentioned above, there are many kinds of trolls... And yet, the link says that a hobbit could kill an Olog-hai.. (I must admit I cannot exactly remember what the battle was like)

Twisted aberrations, they

But combined with a teleportation aon... Trigger the blast in a cave with teleportation aons on the wall activated, say, by light/heat - teleport blast wave, undiminished, to the location of your choice... (You cannot use teleportation aons to return from, say, Fjordell, but you can teleport to there, so ) Even without a bomb - teleport a block of lava (just 10-50 km below Elantris), right into Dakhor monastery (if you know where it is). Draw a city-sized aon (Daa? I think) , some focusing Aons and a gate Aon, and recreate LOTA weapon from Schlock Mercenary

Well, draw Aons on armor? The ones on walls work, so the ones on armor/weapons would too. Or better yet, carve Aons on his own bones, so they would always be ready. Then those would grow into bony ridges... (Tattoos would probably not work, too soft. Same as blood vessels arranged into Seals, as per WoB)

I want in on that, but Kurk, being talking devil-cat ( and at least seven devils were spiked to make him!) knows that he is safe from me ( for I like cats) (Eyes Kobold-king while sharpening Atium claws)

shrieked in pain

The contradiction is that the effect of Feruchemical iron also changes inertial mass, as evidenced by the body response to forces in mid-flight, Sazed using himself as a doorstop, etc. One may try to argue that increased gravitational mass increases friction, but friction has the upper limit insufficient to explain observed phenomena, and is not applicable in mid-flight. Etc.

Personally,because of the resons mentioned above, I don't think the guards are aluminium. I'll reiterate, to organize my thoughts: 1. Aluminium is a known metal. Nobody seems to know what the guards are made of. Not even "seems like aluminum" 2. Aluminium does not, by itself, have ability to mold to anything, nor does it have variable ductility/hardness. While weak, it is soft and ductile, it bends and crumples rather than breaks. 3. If it did, by itself, have ability to resist shardblade... Soulcaster soulcast stone buildings, from air. How many sets of armor do you think can be made from one building's worth of material? Soulcast paper to foil, stick it inside your armor instead of the outside, voila - instant shard protection. It is probably expensive because nobody usually bothers soulcasting jewelry, concentrating on food and structures. And metal, which is what novice soulcasters practice on. Useful metal, so they probably don't consider aluminium to be such. Also, unrelated to aluminium, but related to the topic: Old fabrials, like soulcasters and Oathgates. And Shardplates, for that matter. Note the peculiarity: none of them seem (to me) to have trapped spren. All have swappable gems and metal framework. Note that Navani can fix Soulcasters, but nobody can make new ones. My pet theory is that Radiants of old had access to sprenmetal, that they developed after observing their spren turn into metal Shadblades. It was mentioned before, and it can be seen that spren that allow surges and spren that perform (or are attracted to?) surges are not always (never?) the same - the stone is held (or attracts) by some kind of violet spren, not Honorspren. If some order of radiants (bondsmiths? willshapers?) could coax such spren into metal form, without human bond, the resulting metal could, theoretically, be used as fabrial template for various surge based fabrials, Shardplate and possibly guards. As the spren would be without bond (or ability to form one) and non-sentient, they would probably not mind being static metal, won't scream, etc. As for guards breaking - there is a possibility that, if you stick two lumps on shardblade, they would merge while they mold to it, like clay, thereby fixing the thing.

Um, what? I've never seen cDNA mentioned at all, and platonic Forms and Ideals are related to spiritual realm, not cognitive:

Or maybe Southern people would learn to concentrate Mists into beads with their machinery. Many possibilities. As for the idea: you'd get a child that is more likely to be a Mistborn, and you are not guaranteed one. Also, there are "complications". Frankly, IMO, those mistings are better used in breeding sentient twinawesome cats, as I have proposed before

Stamp your essence stamps to become useless stamps?

"I am a Stick. But I am Fire! Destroy Evil!"

? That above is WoB, not in-book, so it is more reliable. ? Here is another one:

Clarify which part? If the breath-eating, it comes from this WoB: It is property of Returned's bodies that they eat one Breath per week, not Divine Breath's.

It is is Splinter, so it kind of is equivalent. I am just not sure that a single spike can hold the whole thing, unless it steals attach point (like in case with Shardblade) rather than the Breath itself. If it does, you would be able to use the Breath up without spike going inert in your body, other wise... unknown XD Why not? It is returned that eat 1 Breath per week, regardless of Breath size, not normal people.

True, but as they charge spikes on people again and again, it adds up, up to a limit.

Next match up: Balrog Vs. Chasmfiend? During Highstorm?

Hmm... Dunno. A surgebinder like Kaladin doesn't seem to have protection from the most basic attack combo of mid-strength channeller: hold target with Air, Balefire to the face. I guess if Kaladin would figure out why he stopped, and then Lash himself with enough strength, he *might* be able to break the flows, but would it be fast enough? Also, he won't be able to see attacks coming in many cases, such as razor wire made of Air/fire around channeller, for example. So when he'd come closer to lash/attack, he'd cut to pieces. Then again, Shardblade would probably be able to cut flows, and is possibly immune to Balefire... And the channelers tire faster than Stormlight-snorting Surgebinder. So well, depends.

(goes into Shadesmar for a spot of spren-hunting) The problem with spren-spiking (and I am sure there is a way) is that you might get more than you asked for Sprens are manifestations of ideas, surges seem secondary to their natures, so what happens if you spike a Honorspren into yourself? Would you absorb a bit of the idea and become Honorable, possibly ashamed of the fact that you just ripped a spren apart and stuck it into your soul? Would that work like it does on Parshendi as well, twisting you into abominable Honorform? Questions, questions... And spike do affect minds of humans, so would probably affect minds of Parshendi as well... Though I wouldn't mind becoming half-spren if that means I can shapeshift my hand into shardblade at will P.S. We still don't know how to work Hemalurgy in other worlds. At least, you seem to need actual intent to steal attribute.

Brandon mentioned sDNA a few times in the interviews, so, as far as I am aware, that is his term. It is a part of the spiritual aspect that is passed much like the normal DNA. It is, as far as I can tell, not the same thing as DNA, but can have an effect on Physical realm, so probably normal DNA as well. I don't think there is cognitive DNA per se. It changes his sDNA, usually, though there is uncertainty. For example, all people on Roshar have a possibility of acquiring a Nahel bond, and having one doesn't seem to affect probability of your children having one, beyond environmental factors. Lerasium does rewrite sDNA. Nothing good (strictly IMO)

Yes. Yes I, for one, am Maybe we should make a thread for the most disturbing comparisons/scenarios... Being the Shard is best Probably... Not sure about the worst, so many possibilities....

I don't think splinter is the whole of the Returned's soul... more like a patch that keeps one alive. That aside: you'd steal a part of the splinter, probably. I think that hemalurgy does not allow to Invest a piece of metal completely, just the part that corresponds to its hemalurgic properties, if that makes any sense. For example, Koloss spikes, after several reuses, stopped absorbing additional Strength from people, but didn't seem to get any special properties because of that, only some off-attribute contamination: As for what'd happen if you were to use it... Unknown Possibly you'd end up with a piece of Divine Breath stuck to you permanently, without ability to use it... There were threads before discussing Hemalurgy with Breaths.

It is from HoA, assuming Sazed, as a shard, knew what he was talking about: The corruption does not explain why only one power can be gained - why is there not a corruption that would allow one access to two powers? And how does Hemalurgy work in that case? By adding another connection or modifying existing one? P.S: I would like a link to that WoB.