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    WoP on atium

    Quantus replied to Pagerunner's topic in Mistborn

    Reviving the topic with new info: We have had it confirmed in the Spoiler Stream that what was known in era1 Scadrial Atium is in fact a naturally occurring Atium/Electrum alloy, This leads to the question of what Aitum itself actually does as a Godmetal, and how it might function. Raysium shunts Investiture. Lerasium Overwrites Spiritwebs, and can Connect you to another Shard if alloyed to another Godmetal. Harmonium emits a temporary Spiritweb (or at least the investiture effects of one). Atium when Alloyed with a mundane metal appears to Invert its allomantic effect, as with both Electrum alloy (Era 1 Atium) and Gold alloy (Malatium) it takes a Self-Targeted Internal Effect and makes it affect something External. I think Atium Inverts Investiture effects, at least along the Internal/External axis and possibly across the Pushing/Pulling axis with the correct Intent. Entirely uncontrolled that sounds like a bad (and gross) thing if a person were to Burn it and target let it default target their own Spiritweb (or Spark of Life Investiture) without some specific effect in mind; in its most extreme and uncontrolled, it would turn their spiritweb "inside out" and Ruin them that way.. But given how impactful Intent is on Hemalurgy, I suspect it will be the Guiding mechanism for Atium as well. Im not really sure how you might go about making it interact with other magic systems, but Inverting the effects of Surges or Heighenings does sounds intriguing.
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    These WOB's makes me think the issue is needing a combination of Allomantic and Feruchemical abilities within the same person for some Compounding trick required, where it would take Hemalurgy or a convoluted series of step with spiritual Feruchemy to make it work. That makes me think an Excisor is what they call any such person that has the right combination of Powers. Id say the "the right Twinborn" except I think it takes more than 2 powers, making it not a naturally occuring possibility, which is why it would have been so hard in Era 1 unless they used Hemalurgy, even with full Mistborn and Feruchemist running around.
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    I find Stellar Engines by Kurzgesagt to be a great "Loosing Track of Time in a Creative Pursuit" song. Though honestly a lot of theirs falls into that category. Music: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7meq0SFt3BxWzjbt5EVBbT Documentary it's from:
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    You need more than just a Strong Connection to the Shard to become the Vessel, you need the Strongest Connection to it, usually meaning you have to grab it when it has no Vessel. The Lord Ruler, for example, was able to Ascend by gaining enough Investiture from the Well but didnt actually become a Shardic Vessel and get control of the Shard itself, he just used up a cache of Investiture that had been trapped in the Physical Realm.
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    Adolin, Venli, Taravangian, Shallan, Sigzil, Jasnah
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    The Spike are more fundamentally reliant on the Physical body, and we still dont actually know what happens to the Heralds' bodies when they transition to and from Braize, but it's entirely possible that Spikes wouldnt be compatible with the Transition. Separately, Im not sure what Hemalurgy would offer that a Bondsmith couldnt manipulate directly.
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    And just like that, I'm a:
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    Agreed. There is a WOB that a mortal person that managed to steal an actual Divine Breath (via hemalurgy) would gain the benefits without needing to feed it the weekly breath, which implies the sustenance is only needed because the person is being Pulled Beyond and requires the additional Investiture to hold off that inevitable (similar in a vague sense to Atium Aging, if probably not the same mechanisms). I think Spren are more tolerant of Gem imprisonment because they are natively Cognitive beings that dont actual require a Physical form to exist or survive.
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    Historically the Bondsmiths have never had blades, that is not specific to the new state of things. I think this is because, unlike all the rest of the radiant spren, all three of the Godspren already have a Physical forms they are anchored to (the Storm and the Tower, and I assume the Nighwatcher's manifest body we saw). If Im right, it means that if a bondsmith in General or Dalinar specifically CAN force a blade to manifest, it could prove disastrous for the Spren's pre-existing Physical form.
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    I think it could absolutely steal it and shove it into the gem storage or whatever the knife/fabrial was designed for. What it would do if you tried to stab it back into yourself could get weird. Breaths are infused in your physical matter, as opposed to your spiritweb, But the Raysium Knifes might operate closer to Hemalurgy and direct the Investiture into your Spiritweb directly which could lead to all kinds strange effects in theory. Anything from strange carry-over from the source (especially if too much of the donor sticks to them) on up to a Investiture Pressure explosion, if not a full Anti-Investiture level blast.
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    I like cats. I LOVE dogs. And unlike cats, dogs all Love me right back. Cats, the only animal that arguably domesticated us...
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    Hmm, there's that, but there's also the whole bit that Shallan was a step higher than Kaladin at the end of WoR, which itself should make her Stormlight use more efficient than his by the normal Bond progression.
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    You have to convince the two pieces that they are not the Same Object while simultaneously maintaining that they are Incomplete as they are. Otherwise it would act like Plate and choose a "primary" to regrow and the other would fade. Or else you'd have accidentally convinced the Honorblade that it was supposed to be much shorter and/or lacking a handle, which will remove it's motivation to "Regrow" anything.
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    Connections are the structure that make up the Spiritweb, and by extension the Spiritual Realm as a whole. They are the Wires that combine to make up a Computer, and the INternet as a whole.
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    It's an in-world thing I'd say, grouped since each of the known ones were design projects by the Lord Ruler Himself. You hit on the only thing I see as the common trait that makes an Inquisitor a separate state of being or species: they cannot survive without lynchpin spike. But that's a fairly weak line I think, especially when compared to Kandra or especially the now breeding Koloss race.
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    We dont have a specific WOB on it, but I think it's like the "Shash" letter in both Naltis and Rosharan languages, they have common real-world influences that Brandon was drawing from (and there are only so many pronounceable syllables. In the case of Aons they were heavily influenced by Korean and his time on Mission there.
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    Question that has been haunting me: CAN Hoid use Feruchemy? Assuming he's had the chance I mean, Can he Ruin himself enough to fill a metalmind in the traditional way, or at least some of the physical ones? Can he make himself sick, weak, blind, etc? I assume he'd never be able to use Hemalurgy by it's nature, is there enough Innate Ruinous harm happening in Feruchemy that he'd be barred from using it on himself.
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    I think so. If you manage to get non-standard Senses in a Metalmind they translate. So I would think the same would apply for Physical Attributes. I dont know the current word on Animals using Feruchemy, but I'd think if you stored the strength of say a Singer Form for example, you'd get all their same their jumping abilities and whatnot.
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    I dont think their FTL will be using the Cognitive Realm, since that is a method the worlds have available now. I think the whole catch is that they will be travelling the actual distance in the Physical. The Alcubierre Drive method posted is a good catch, and I fully expect some Fortune Effect (Atium or Compounded feruchemy) will be used Dune-style for navigation by pathfinding in the near future.
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    Based on what we've seen I agree with the Spren's general stance that they are too dangerous to allow in the hands of mortals, without Honor to be around to limit their use. Thus, they need to be Removed from the equation, or else Honor needs to be Restored to it. Otherwise, those Swords will be MacGuffin level superweapons that everyone else fights over, come era4. The only thing more frightening than a Cosmere-aware Ligthweaver (now that we know the Power of Waveform manipulation) is the thought of what a properly Aware and educated, but entirely unrestricted and amoral Bondsmith could do. Just imagine THAT villain abroad and combining magics.
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    Im going with no. Even if his appetite has slowed to the point where he isnt like an active black-hole perpendicularity that can eat Vessels does not mean he isnt still draining some non-zero amount of Investiture from it's wielder to keep the proverbial Lights On, and if so there's still the danger of using their Life Spark to fuel it if they are not careful.
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    We saw Leras at least drop a human body, and I suspect (but certainly couldnt prove) that a dragon Shard would drop their original/native draconic form. EDIT: Im assuming here that your native form has the same sort of "lowest energy state" snap-back that your native age does for a human. It might be a clarification worth asking: Do shapeshifters like dragons have that same sort of spiritual pressure toward their Native Form?
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    I think it's a matter of target and application of the Spike. Stealing the power from the bonded Human is easy for the Aviar to break. Stealing it from them directly might be harder to integrate into a human Spiritweb (without side effects?). Or you might be able to target the parasitic worm granting abilities to the Aviar in the first place. I wonder if you'd get teh intelligence bump that they do on top of the Power, of if it's just a side effect of an Animal being Invested.
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    Awesome, thanks!
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    Do we know for sure that he did?
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