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    I dont think I saw this part of the theory in any of those, but the spin Ive been peddling is this: Since it was an intentional thing done by the spren, and supposedly in response to the fear that Humans would use surges to destroy the world, I think this Reverse Bond is intended to put control of the Surges in the hands of the Spren of the pair, with the Human's role to Metabolize Lifelight to fuel those surges. I think that's what the Warmth that Adolin felt was, and immediately after that Maya very dramatically "Inhaled" before gaining the strength to speak. In other words I think this is the emergent 3rd flavor of Surgebinding along with the traditional Radiants and new enlightened Voidbinders like Renarin.
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    It's all your fault! I was only considering "Senses", and you had to go and mention "Bodily Functions".
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    Oh god, why did my mind immediately go to the idea of an F-Bendalloy granting spike shoved up the back-door to make it so you never need to physically poop again...?
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    Correct me if Im wrong, but the Inquisitor sight is still different from a normal Allomancer in that they dont need to Burn metals to maintain it (right)? Id been under the impression that using the Eye Socket Bind point is what lets the Perception element of the Power be active all the time, wiring it more directly into the existing Perception sectors of the Spiritweb circuitry. If true, Id expect that you could could also get permanent Seeker powers by shoving the right socket into their ear or something similar, where it fully sacrifices the normal sense and replaces it in the spiritweb with a Power-based alternative.
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    Yes, several WOB's imply that, in theory, pretty much any pure investiture being could learn to form a Nahel Bond like the spren did. The Seon Bond is essentially the same thing. For the most part it may or may not grant powers, but it's not just a Roshar thing.
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    Welcome to the Shard! This should really be over in the games section, both because it's not actually talking about the Mistborn books themselves and because it includes information about Stormlight as well. No worries, Ill see if I can get the mods to move it over. Setting aside campaign balance, I think a Leecher would be pretty straight-forward, if powerful. A touch attack that acts as both an Anti-magic effect and wipes all uses of investiture based abilities/spells/etc as if they'd been used (ie. gone until a long rest, etc.). There's a few additional effects we know of based on WOB's and whatnot: They could also Leech a Feruchemist who was tapping their metalmind.[9] They would be able to Leech from a Lifeless.[10] This WOB could imply that Leechers with ettmetal primer cubes could create a sort of Leeching field Area of Effect.
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    Presumably worldhoppers spread the knowledge, or at least the myth. Tress happens much later in the timeline, so the implication is that worldhoppers have spread some of Scadrial's culture to other worlds. Or possibly that he will eventually travel and do Significant Things on other worlds.
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    For reading on release day reliably, it's really hard to beat e-books, whichever method is your preference (Not Kindle, I assume).
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    Unless there's something realmically significant about doing that sort of Awakening on Metal, specifically, then Id say yes it's possible in the same way the right Commands will let you expand specific parts of your spiritweb rather than just gaining standard heightenings. The Awakener would likely need to view the target very specifically as an Object rather than a living thing (current or otherwise).
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    The closest example we have to that sort of intuition is from the Heightening, but those are relatively unique in that it represents a massive amount of investiture in the Physical body itself, rather than a Connection to anything external. I dont think it'll work for Allomancy because by the latest definitions I think Allomancy is a Luhel Bond, not a generic Connection, and those have specific terms and conditions for the trades they provide. On a more general realmic level, per this WOB Duralumin-style Connection wont grant you knowledge of what you are Connected to. Fortune is prime the Intuition trait so far, and WOB confirms it (and just about any spiritual realm peaking) would help with Hemalurgy, so I think that's the more likely route. Or perhaps the Intuitive Leaps that F-Zinc provide.
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    Gold shadows theoretically show your current temporal Path, so if the Auger were the Subject but not necessarily the mind behind the Experimentation, it might work a lot easier. Consider: An auger is held prisoner by a Hemalurgist of limited moral restraint. That Hemalurgist intends to use (and use up) said Auger in his experiments. The Auger burns gold and sees that their current path is to become a horribly twisted construct that would be a failure of the Hemalurgists goals. You convince him that you've foreseen his failure by describing the result you saw (and felt), and that alters but doesnt end his plans for you. The two of you become a feedback loop between the Auger repeatedly trying to avoid a horrible Hemalurgic fate and the Hemalurgist never abandoning their Intent to shove some Spikes into the Auger eventually.
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    Yes, exactly, I think. My take is that Identity is the Natural Frequency of any given Spiritweb. Mechanically, all objects have a natural frequency, and matching it creates a Resonance that lets relatively small forces build up to dramatic results; the whole singing at the right pitch to break a wineglass is a classic example, but it's also the basis of basically all musical instruments from bells to strings to wind instruments. The Spiritweb has the same thing with Investiture Frequencies; it's more complex than a static Tone or radio carrier frequency, so to tune into it is much more difficult, more like Spread Spectrum Frequency Hopping in Radio, or if the tuning frequency of a radio changed right along with the song it was playing. Objects will be more static for obvious reasons, while Sapient beings would be both more complex and more likely to evolve over their lives and choices (and/or spiritual damage). We know Blanking Identity on Stored feruchemical Investiture makes something any feruchemist can access, and the WOB makes it sound like Blanking Investiture Hard enough makes things like Purified Dor (or rather Pure Investiture has the Blankest of Blank Identities). Breaths take on Identity easily when transferred, but it getting Locked in the process of making Lifeless. In WOB Metallic Arts and compounding have always been described in Frequency Tuning terms, and it's very explicit with Rosharan Lights being manipulated by sound frequency and Wave Tuning mechanics (presumably making Lightweavers stupid OP in ways we havent seen explored yet). The difference between the Nightblood in Vashers hands vs Szeths is a matter of Intents Aligning which sounds like a similar Investiture Tuning issue.
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    I guess that's a fair distinction: If he gained the Shard After she died rather than while she was still around, then he might have had a much better chance. If it was after, and assuming she was completely out of his reach in the Beyond, and you might be right that he'd commit to the simple and complete destruction of whomever he blamed. And as far as we know he didnt have anyone like Leras in his life that might have gone with him to mitigate some of that fallout.
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    Offhand, Gunpowder seems likely. They'd have had lots of sulfur to play with, and the Final Empire's metallurgy was advanced enough for them to know how to experiment with novel chemistry.
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    I think he'd struggle with Ruin just like Ati, but would get along with Preservation more than Ati, because [Dragon Prince Spoilers] He and Preservation would have made a much different Bargain when creating Scadrial, one that would have left Ruin's Vessel with a more ongoing interest in the population's survival. If they are Lucky, he'd interpret Ruin as Cyclic Change, and
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    My understanding is that the Recreance happened later on and was not the same event as you describe. I was thinking a Bondsmith's powers were needed to capture BAM because of the Connection changes that occurred (but that could easily have been own BAM's powers and not the Radiants), and also [WoT preview Spoilers]
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    Welcome to the Shard! I think it's likely, but I hesitate only because Im not sure the Timeline works right from a Nahel Bond standpoint: Im assuming Melishi would have needed Bondsmith Powers to trap BAM where and How they did, so the Sibling could not have preemptively ended the Bond before the act. But if the act itself was a complete violation of the Oaths then the Sibling should have taken more Harm from it than we saw, regressing like Syl that time perhaps even become a Deadeye like Testament.
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    Agreed. On the other hand, if the AI were not trapped in the single physical computer, it would likely be closer to a Sleepless swarm and probably would not take a lot of harm from loosing the single swarm node.
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    I dont think that's true, you see what simply Will Happen on the current timeline, Unless another form of Precognition gets involved to confuse and fracture the vision. It's not "without your intervention", it's "without conflicting precognition". Atium also expands your mental capacity to process all that extra information. So you see the path of the bullet and the target both and the increased mental capacity to get to choose to fire at the precise moment that coincides with the two meeting up (messily).
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    But to be fair, it should be right in the wheelhouse of good ol' fashion Atium. Unless we learn that the randomness is directly related to one of the Perception-based effects that can confuse atium it should be able to predict the temporal randomness at the bubble edge.
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    As one thought, Bondsmiths can attach objects to a person and make their spiritweb treat it as part of them (as seen when Ishar drained their stormlight into the ground). They could probably attach Gems and such to you as well. Grant a Gemheart, Attach a Perfect Gem, who knows what that could do. WOB says the Migration was a Bondsmith Connecting to and/or augmenting an Elsecalling, implying that they can reach scales of power by Connecting groups that Im guessing no single individual could match. The Nightwatcher's Bondsmith almost certainly will be able to, I'd think, given that's what's she's doing already on her own. I think there is a very real possibility that the Nightwatcher Bondsmith can grant Boons just as easily, but historically was not allowed to do so very often. Almost certainly, Needing more Cognitive handholding seems to be a common weakness of Selish magics. Bondsmiths will still have to learn and train and gain realmic understanding to provide the appropriate Intents, but the Surges seem to act more intuitively both because of innate default settings (as seen with the essences, Healing of people and objects, etc) as well as the fact that the Godspren have pre-existing experience with them (and had Shardic teachers, I assume). There's also a very real possibility that, without Honor preventing it, they'll be able to recreate the pre-shattering power of Microkinesis which allows for manipulation of subatomic particles, nuclear effects, and the ability to both directly perceive and directly manipulate the Spiritweb.
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    Im pretty sure the Airships use Harmonium to make objects emmit metallic arts, so anything using them will be costly at minimum. The main issue I see with this (if Im understanding the proposed process correctly) is that one you've Invested the metal to do anything feruchemcially, it'll be Invested enough to resist the Hemalurgic Charge. That's a problem but probably not an impossible one, eventually. The other issue is that the metal that feruchemically Blanks Identity will Hemalurgically Shut Down all Powers as soon as it get into a Bind Point. I think the latter effect would prevent any version of the former from taking hold.
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    Yeah, I think you're right. The Coppermind mentioned he joined to be the Swordmaster at the Kholin Camp for the War of Reckoning, which I took to be when he initiall joined the House itself. That combined with me forgetting how big the age-gap between Adolin and Shallan is (~6 rosharan years) made me think Adolin was also ~11 when the war started so his initial training and the war would have coincided more. But he'd have been 17 when Gavilar was assassinated so he'd have been training for years by then.
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    I love me a good What If! If the Desolation had started a lot earlier, a lot of the Sons of Honor activities would not have happened, Gavilar would probably not have fallen so far into his quest for godhood because the Heralds would be running for other things (escape, cover, etc), and he wouldnt have been killed that night. Elokhar would have had several years more of being an Heir with no real responsibilities, and he wouldnt have made bad calls re. Moash's family, nor would what's his face have been sent to Kaladin's Village. Kaladin and Tien would have stayed home, Kaladin would have been a Surgeon instead of a Soldier and Tien would have been a Lightweaver. Shallan's brother would be alive. Dalinar would have eventually been killed by Sadeas, if he didnt drink himself to death first. There would be no War of Reckoning so Zahel may not have joined House Kholin.
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    WOB confirms they've reached 5th in the past: Yeah, the lack of squires thing never made sense to me, or at least I could never come up with an explanation beyond "Godspren Bonds are Special". It might be interesting to discover that they'd never previously gotten Squires because they uniquely have Conscious Control of their Connections (in theory), so while other Radiants will create Squire Bonds automatically/subconsciously, Bondsmiths have to actually Choose to do it and Create the Bond with their Surges and conscious Intent etc.
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