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From the WOB, there's seems to be three basic elements involved: Make a Body, Make a Soul, Staple them Together. Soulcasting will make a healthy (if empty) body, possibly even Alive my scientific/medical standards, Awakening is optimized to turn Investiture into a functional Spiritweb/Soul, and the Hemalurgy will staple the two together. Though I think the Hemalurgy is only really needed if you are trying to make a copy of an existing person; if you just want it to be Alive, basic Awakening on a prepared body (soulcast or otherwise) should be enough. It's just likely not possible with a Single Breath's worth of Investiture as can be used with Lifeless (since they barely have enough investiture for sentience. Correlary Question: Can you even spike a dead thing? Or does the interaction change as it does with Shardblades.

As a tangent: you can also bond multiple Honorblades to get some (even all) surges:

You are asking the right questions. There are conflicting WOBs on whether it would take additional steps to let a Mistborn burn foriegn Godmetals, but past any such hurdles it should be possible. Literally no idea what any of the metals might do allomantically, let alone Hemalurgically or feruchemically. We're told that Dor in the form of Purified Dor (basically a godmetal) would just be a super-efficient energy source for a misting's normal powers (which implies it would be a somewhat universal metal for a mistborn). It is worth noting that the Spiritual Damage is specific to shardblades and is not an innate ability of Tanavstium or Koravellium godmetals, since broken chunks of Shardplate wont do it.

Seons and Skaze were created when the shards of that planet were Shattered. Spren are a natural part of Roshar's ecosystem, they predate Honor's shattering and the animal version even predate Adonalsium's Shattering. For Odium, yes he would have just needed to carve chunks of himself off to make pure Voidspren. But I think he preferred not to, so instead he made a bunch of Ghost-spren from singers, and later took normal spren and Enlightened them (both of which probably took a lot less of Himself, since he started with other raw materials).

I want the whole mistborn package, not just lifespan. For lifespan Id want a nice 5th heightening Nestegg.

Short answer is Yes, there does exist an imalance between the two shards. In Era1 is was all tied up in the bargain between Shards, and in Era2 it's all tied up in Harmony's Balancing act. But as far as the details go, Atium and Lerasium alone were not balancing each other directly. Ruin got crammed into a whole lot of Atium, while Preservation spread out into the Mist.

His connection provides the Telepathic communication and the whole passing the Temptation Test, in exchange for Investiture to Nightblood. But his Command was Destroy, so his expression focused on the realmic Damage ability of Sprenblades. Had the Scholars witnessed Spren and Radiants rather than just the deadeye shardblades, they might have tried for something different. I bet they would have loved access to Healing that didnt require burning a Divine Breath.

Breaths can be used to fuel Surges, but they would be consumed as if they were the equivalent amount of stormlight, and it still takes Birthrate on Nalthis to get more, making it an extremely expensive power source. As far as making an Awakened Object that can use (or grant the use of) a Surge...Sure, that's probably within the realm of Robot-spren like Nightblood. It would take a lot of work, realmic understanding behind the Command, and an external power source. But Surges arise from Bonds with Spren, and Awakening has proven capable of mimicking a lot of those mechanics with Sentient Awkakened Objects.

With the right Intent and Bind Point, you can steal Anything that is functional part of the Spiritweb (up to the whole thing, we're pretty sure). Sand Mastery is a Yes. Surges can be complicated because they rely on a Connection to a Spren, so they might take multiple spikes. Also things like "the ability to grow a Gemheart" could be on the table.

His immortality predates the shattering and is the result of him being a (former) Dawnshard. He was already past a natural lifespan by the time they all got together to axe BigA.

Welcome! What's your favorite Sanderson work so far?

On the Planet Nalthis, where Endowment lives, people are born with a single Breath. While they have it they have more Investiture than the average person, but if they give it away they have a lot less than a normal person (ie. a drab). A person can (voluntarily) give their Breath away to another person. The more Breaths a person gets (hundreds or thousands) the more magic abilities they get, called Heightenings, and the perk at 5000 is that you stop aging. They can also be used in an active magic system called Awakening, that will Awaken things like dolls or corpses to behave as if they are alive, but that takes both varying numbers of Breaths and also a lot of skill.

I am pretty sure Lightweavings do not get a distinct cognitive aspect enough to target with Soulcasting. Society might eventually get to a place where they'd consider a Lightweaving to be a Fire construct, bringing it into that Essence, but the matter of being temporary and made of Investiture still complicate that.

It's not that Heralds "Dont Where Plate" (necessarily), it's that Honorblades dont Grant Plate. Or Squires, but that's another topic. So for a Herald to get their own set of Plate, one that would match their Identity and allow their surges to pass, they'd need to Bond a Spren and swear the Ideals. The only one we know of that has done that has chosen not to. He might have a strategy like not wanting to let knowledge of his bond get out, but then he's also kinda crazy...

Stormlight is the magical energy of the world. It falls out of the Highstorm, and can be caught and held in Gems. Most of the time it then gets used in Fabrials, very mechanical devices that produce different magical effects, where it acts as a consumed fuel. Then there are Surgebinders, who can breath in Stormlight directly. While they hold it they dont feel the need to breath, and they have greatly increased the physical capabilities, including superhuman strength, speed, endurance, stamina, and healing of both body and soul that lets them heal from nearly any wound. While inside the body, the Stormlight produces an intense adrenaline-like effect, urging the Surgebinder to action and motion, which may result in recklessness if the Surgebinder is not careful. It gives great energy, but when the Surgebinder runs out of Stormlight, they are left exhausted and feeling deflated. It leaks out of them over time regardless, with a visible wisp and/or glow. In addition they get access to Two of the Ten Surges, and depending on the combination their order has they might get odd combo abilities (called Resonances). Normally to become a Surgebinder requires that you Bond with a Spren and swear a series of Ideals/Oaths/Truths (total of 5), to unlock all your abilities. These are called Knights Radiant, and their Order, powerset, and the theme of their Ideals are determined by the sub-race of spren they form a Bond with. Most orders also grant the ability to empower Squires, which were people who get the ability to breath Stormlight and use Surges while within range of their sponsor Knight but who have not Bonded their own Spren. There also exist 10 super-special relic magic swords that will give you Surgebinder powers without Bonding a spren called Honorblades, but they take more Stormlight to use and they dont grant Squires or Plate. These were made by Honor himself and gifted to the Heralds way back at the beginning of the war. And everything the Singer's do (their Forms of Power and the Fused) are different in various ways we are still trying to work out, so that's a separate and very spoiler-filled conversation.

I believe the reason none of the Bondsmith Spren have ever provided Shardblades is that all three of those spren (unlike non-godspren) have a native Physical Realm Form (The Storm itself, the Tower, and The Nightwatcher's body (or perhaps the whole valley and it's vines.)

Codex Alera by Jim Butcher fits most of this pretty well. Lost roman legion in a fantasy world setting with large-scale elemental spirit magic. Races include Wolf People, Yeti-folk, tribal Animal-bonding not-quite-humans, and an insect hivemind. The Shannara series might be worth a look. It started as traditional fantasy, was [spoiler for the first book in 1977] and as far as I recall it never got anywhere close to Grimdark by modern standards. Downside is that it's been going in various forms for decades, so the most recent stuff has a somewhat different feel than the original bits. The show wasnt bad, and at least had some great casting, but Hollywood got in the way some. YA stuff: The Circle of Magic series by Tamora Pierce was one of my favorites, and there's something like 12 books now across a few quadrologies. My wife swears by her Protector of the Small series.

Not enough, and not widely enough, for them to fix it before they succumbed to the (very novel) form of torture that the Reod imposed on them all. They would have needed to get field intel and maps of the actual landscape changes, and by then they were being shunned and quarantined under the belief (or propaganda) that they were evil and/or cursed. An aggravating factor is that the most powerful (and thus most likely to understand the landscape implications and be able to lead the repairs) "were also placed under extreme pressure from the Dor, which ached for release, leaving them effectively immobilized through cyclical "attacks"" (from Coppermind). If there were to exist any other populations of Elantrians elsewhere that might have intervened to repair the City and it's population, they did not act for reasons unknown.

I dont know of an in-text example to point to, but it will probably penetrate thin, non-aluminum clothing a small distance. Per WOB the protective effects of Aluminum are a field-like effect, and I suspect that the Touch range of Allomancy has some similar field-effect wiggle room, just like the earring & tooth-filling loopholes with Hemalurgy that can get around the Touching Blood requirement.

It consistently floats to the top of the "Who Could Win in a Fight" debates. The combination of Speedster-style physical AND mental speed plus precognition plus actual temporal manipulation plus compounded gold healing plus the offensive capabilities of allomancy, etc etc etc. are very hard to beat. Generally speaking the only strategy that works is to set some sort of trap (AonDor, Fabrials, Soulcasting Aluminum, etc) that would shut down their abilities before they can bring them all into play. But few if any strategies have a strong chance once the Fullborn is ready and aware of you and flairing through their stores.

Making some assumptions on how F-Nicrosil works: Feruchemist/Nicroburst, since there's a strong chance that just by borrowing allomantic medallions for a single use (and thereafter managing your Metalmind stores responsibly), you'd be able to Compound all the metals with that combo.

I dont really expect full Mistborn or feruchemist in the mix, medallion tech will provide that. She's a Nicroburst, so by the standard tropes he'd have something that can synergy with that in a supportive way, and A-Pewter seems like the most basic streetwise siblings sort of thing. A Pewter Twinborn is one of those things like TwinTin where I'd love for them to explore the subtle differences and uses between the two.

In the case of the God Beyond example, you can also search by the dedicated tag for that topic. Sometimes I get the best results using combinations keywords and the tag filters. https://wob.coppermind.net/adv_search/?query=&tags=god+beyond

It was definitely an attempt at #1; Chull meat is supposed to be somewhere between Surf and Turf, so I was trying to make a hybrid meat analog. I didnt have any flatbread at the time I was doing the experiment, but that's all it would take to make it a full Chouta recipe.

I made a decent Chull Burger recipe a while back: