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I prefer IsoLight for Autonomy.

Six evenings of veg'ing out in front of the idiot box, being entertained by cartoons, for one of transcendent inventive brilliance.

Honorblades, since they dont run out. Feruchemist Invention, Please. Ill go off and Design myself a retirement Package that has the benefits of Elantrians and AonDor, but isnt as "emotionally and mentally exhausting" as Elantrians. Also something with a direct Spiritual Realm Connection supplying Investiture (like Allomancy). 5th Heightening. It's the easiest and most sustainable Immortality on the table, and Ive always loved the Heightening's Sensory upgrades.

I kinda hope not, based purely on the deathcount associated with his experimentation. Also it would imply that Biological Warfar is on the horizon for Roshar, and since the Common Cold rocked a region that could be very bad indeed. But then, Weaponized germs are very much an Ashyn thing, so perhaps it's more on theme than it first appears.

The Mists dont do any of that innately. They have done so in the stories because they were being directed personally by Preservation at the time. It was an Act of God, using the mists as their hands. So in this context The Mists are able to do anything a Shard can, and may not actually exist when not being so directed. The Mists themselves never snapped people, Preservation did, and he was doing so at the 1/16th ratio in a specific attempt to communicate.

Windrunner Ziplines Mistborn bungie nerf thunderdome dueling. Warbreaker themed craft bazaar The Chicken House (an exotic bird aviary) Chouta

I suggest a Deer (or Cow) stomach instead. The multiple stomach system lets them digest cellulose into sugar directly, making them the energy powerhouses of the evolutionary world. It's why they have enough surplus to be able to regrow a new set of antlers every year. EDIT: This thought is mostly thanks to watching some Heaven's Design Team, an educational anime on biology and evolution that showcases the Why and Why Not of various biological systems and features.

It's what the ancient Alethi ancestors considered themselves. From one of the visions in Way of Kings:

I would very much like the to hear the context of that statement! There's a strong theory that she's recently decended from a Cognitive Shadow that is very Similar to a Returned, but vert much not. But frankly I'd just love to learn more about the older, hidden cross-ties from generations of worldhopping.

Setting the most advantageous terrain: Open Bondsmith perpendicularity nearby and a hordes worth of gems scattered about so Stormlight is readily available on massive scales to both sides, letting them pull out all the stops. Our level of understanding of science and realmics, for argument's sake. I think Lightweavers would be strong contenders. Soulcasting is tactically OP, full stop. Lightweaving can be used for anything from stealth to laser weapons, and the Solid Illusion Army trick can counter or even overwhelm an awful lot of basic squire numbers and other martial capabilities. Lightweavers can also Nope Out to Shadesmar if things get dicey, and could leave any number of gem-anchored decoys behind to confuse pursuit. Willshapers might make a decent counter to a lot of the Lightweaver bag of tricks because they can probably see through the illusions. And especially if they can phase through stone as well as mold it (which makes them very hard for anyone to find or catch).

It's been specifically stated that TLR kept a lot of the potential of Compounding a secret because he feared rogue inquisitors. So the possibility was definitely there.

Because that's what they (Brandon, Peter, and others) said in the reton WOBs: that he didnt think it made sense for pure Atium to require a Special Misting or full Mistborn, so he said he'd change it in adaptations to be something any Allomancer would be able to do, and that the natural Aitum in era1 is actuall an Alloy (to sidestep the issue). But it was never Any person in the cosmere, not even Any Scadrian, it was specifically Allomancers. People are just misunderstanding and/or misquoting the actual WOBs.

I strongly suspect that Lightsong was using his Divine Breath to increase his Fortune, which was why he lamented that he needed to Learn the rules better if he was ever going to be able to loose on purpose. He was the best in the Court and didnt even try, but unlike the others that see The Gods as better, Stronger, Faster, even occasionally Wiser, Lightsong thought the Gods where just people that Got Lucky, and so his Godhood expressed an increase in Fortune more more than in Strength and Beauty like the rest.

This precisely. Note that same applies to a person with enough mental illness (as, for example, when Ruin was able to puppet more than one in era1), not purely from hemalurgic Spiritual Damage.

Or Jasnah (or somebody) finally figures out proper Elsecalling and we see what it's limits are from a Radiant, compared to Oathgates.

Fwiw, Starspren are a swarm of pinpricks, not a single spot, since the spots are dotting the carapace of something much bigger and 14-winged and whatnot.

I believe you missed the point I was trying to make (though honestly offer said it more concisely anyway). The OP is based on a flawed assumption that "Idea of god metals and Allomancy are essentially the same thing (burn the metal get the ability)", but there is no indication that Burning metals, godmetal or otherwise, exists or has existed outside of Allomancy, any more than storing Attributes or Spiritweb chunks in Godmetal were possible before Scadrial was created and the Metallic Arts arose in the Cosmere. Anyone can Burn Lerasium to Connect themselves to Perservation and become an Allomancer (Mistborn or Misting if alloyed). Post-retcon any Allomancer can burn pure Atium because they're Connected enough to Burn metal and Atium can power it itself, but not just anyone in the Cosmere can burn Atium or any other godmetal besides Preservation. A Rosharan swallowing a chunk of godmetal sharplate will just get a stomach ache, for example. And we have WOB that the Shards can influence but dont get to just Design their magic systems, it will arise from the confluence of factors. I like to think that does not preclude Leras and Ati from pointing it all in a specific direction, though. It would not surprise me to learn that Dragons & Dragonsteel historically had unique skills & properties that resemble what the three branches of the Metallic Arts can do now. "Burning" things and "Hording" things are traditional traits, and some old (RL) legends get awfully Hemalurgic with their transfers of Power, so I could see Cosmere Dragons getting some similar things.

My secret shame, I haven't finished TLM. But if it's something with an Investiture that already exists in the physical realm (breaths or Lights or Mists or whatever), it would likely be bypassing the realmic Connection mechanism entirely so it makes sense that it would be less throttled than when it's getting pulled across realms through normal Burning.

I think that misses the point: Unlike nearly every other magic (so far) Allomancy doesnt have to use Stores of Investiture in the Physical realm to power it. All that Investiture gets pulled directly from the Spiritual Realm, and the only limits are the capacity of their Connection to Preservation (manipulatable with Flaring and duralumin) and the base metals that key it. Otherwise, they can pull and use as much as they want for as long as they want, until Savantism sets in. In other words, they run around with as much Investiture available to them as a Radiant in a Highstorm.

Two things: To become an Elantrian requires a Connection to the homeland of Arelon (the annotations said Genetic link, but those might have come from before the broader Cosmere system and Connections were fleshed out) and to be present in Arelon at the time of the transformation. After that, they just need to have a way to tap the Dor, which can happen by a)being on Sel, b) With an active Investiture Connection to Sel (Feruchemy will do it), or c) manage to purigfy/transform the Dor into a solid portable form. So to Forge youself into an Elantrian, you'd need to have (or Forge) a family history that settled in Arelon, and then Forge the Event that made you get chosen (super hard since nobody is supposed to know what goes into that choice). If that can be made to take, it implies Dor is availible to maintain it, so that same Dor supply should theoretically be available to power any AonDor effects that you want to do after the Forgery takes hold. If Moonlight's family had any ancestors from Arelon, she'd have an easier time since she'd only have to forge the Shaod event and not the family history as well. EDIT: Also, All Selish magics work anywhere on Sel because they all tap the Dor for power. But they work anywhere that Dor is present. Getting access to the different magic systems is region locked (requiring family ties and whatnot), but the actual function is only limited to the planet (without additional steps being taken).

Ah, gotcha, sorry

He's a Chess Champ. Magnus Ver Magnusson was/is a professional weightlifter and strongman, and world record holder for being an absolute beast. He was the Worlds Strongest Man 4 years running in the 90's.

Lungs would die like any other organ, I would think. Blood is the most interesting to me because Hemalurgy rules imply Blood might allow access to the spiritual without needing the special Shardblade properties, but being fluid and in constant flow throughout the body means it wouldnt have as specific a target location in the spiritweb as the Shardblade cut would normally provide. Maybe it would do odd things depending on whether it entered through a valid Bind Point? Oil would likely behave similar to Hair and Nails, on the assumption that the most common Human Oil perceived by the relevant population would be external bodily oils like skin and hair, etc. rather than something that could be rendered out of us.

Investiture has always (as in pre-Shattering) leaned toward becoming a Metal when it takes a solid form, this is just a themitic choice for the whole Cosmere. Allomancy, and all the magic systems, are not designed or built by the Shards. Instead they arise from the interactions of the Shard, the Planet, and it's population. The shard can influence them to some extent but they are facts of reality that the shard has to do business with, just like physics. God Metals (the few we've seen) do not all operate in an allomantic equivalent way, though a more recent reton to the Cosmere states that anyone (or at least any Scadrian) should be able to Burn both era1 Scadrian metals despite Atium requiring a Misting in era1. Era1 Atium is now an Atium/Electrum alloy, and so the apparent effect of real Atium is to invert the effects of what it's alloyed with, making an interal Power operate Externally. Ettmetal cant be burned thanks to some has some unique properties. Raysium shunts Investiture from one end to another of a given sample. Purified Dor seems to be able to supplement the investiture for Allomancy but has no specific/unique effects beyond an investiture source (within the Matallic arts). Trellium repels investiture. I dont have any support for this but I suspect the OG godmetal from the Pre-Shattering times was a literal DragonSteel, some special Investiture metal created by that immortal supernatural race of shapeshifters.

Haha, show them a few pictures of Magnus Ver Magnusson (aka GOAT Strongman), and they'll never doubt again. I loved these books, even if all the Riordan audiobooks are generally pretty terrible. "What is it? It's a Duck. What's it do? It can become a larger Duck" Bwahahahaa! Love that whole scene.