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Not always, it didn't push out the rings in Sazed vs. Marsh.

Aluminum doesn't break that easy, as it bends. I don't think this is aluminum, otherwise, why go through all the trouble to build half-shards when you can line your shield/armor with it? If aluminum coudn't be cut by shardblades, somebody would've noticed. Also, it's not that soulcasting is the only way of obtaining aluminum on Roshar. It's more likely that they don't have the technology to refine it yet. Here on earth it was still more expensive than gold even after the industrial revolution, and unavailable before. Scadrial had it, but they are more advanced in metallurgy and were in the beginning of an industrial era before TLR took over (gunpowder and canned food).

TLR could push on trace metals inside someone, but not other allomancers, not even Elend. This suggests that, no, in general allomancers cannot push on salts, but an exceptionally strong pull/push can. Inquisitors can see them, but no push on people. This might be because the spikes gives them extra power, but then, Zane also had a spike and he doesn't appear to be able to see like inquisitor. I guess that the inquisitor's ability to see metals inside people was something special given by hemalurgy because the placement of the spikes in place of their eyes, like the Koloss's spikes can change their body and so on.

Well, you posted no wish, so I'm going to give you Kobold's curse... You will feel sick like you would if you touched Nightblood, and vomit. I wish for single popcorn.

Granted, they are the best boots you will ever have. Before you can try them you wil hit stumble and hurt your pinky toe badly, and won't be able to put shoes on for a month. I want a Death Note.

So does every ogre.

Granted, now you can only influence the cogniteve realm, since you are a cryptic. And your curse is that you will never bind to anyone, since this is the real life. I wanna be the very best.

He thought the question was about bloodmakers when it was about thugs. But then he said it would be the same for both, thugs and bloodmakers.

I don't believe it would take Savant level. There's a possible explation for this that doesn't require different metals having distinct ironlines. The lines appear to be thicker/stronger the heavier the piece of metal is, and the closer it is. All metals and alloys have different lines, so in a fixed distance, different metals would have lines of different thickness compared to their size. With some practice, a misting could tell the density of the metal by looking at it and burning iron/still, and could tell the metal by its density.

Yes we do. I think it is in the fixed topic at the WoR forum. Wounds won't magically heal around an aluminum bullet until it's pulled out.

Granted, you now can only talk in rhymes, with metric. I want a magical horse that fits in my pocket. And an endless supply of cake.

Perhaps. But I remeber from WoB that hemalurgy is not Ruin's creation, he just understood and made use of it, and that hemalurgy could work with any other magic system, anywhere in the Cosmere. So Lerasium couldl hold hemalurgic charges just like any other metal.

This one is a wild stab in the dark: could a lifeless be controlled by emotional allomancy, the same way the Koloss can? If not, could they be affected at all? And an important question, I couldn't find anyone asking it before: Are Atium and Lerasium investiture in solid form? Edit: Given that Stormlight healing works based on one's perception of oneself, could a Surgebinder holding enough stormlight use that to change his appearance by changing how he perceives himself, like a Returned can?

AFAIK, the Blessing of Awareness improves all of one's five senses. Which includes sight. Where did you read about tin spikes stealing one sense?

Good point. In the end of the first book, he could have killed Marsh easily like that, if he was able to push agains Vin's body, but instead left him alive. Why?

In Allomancy, the lost metal does not come back to whatever mine it came from. It only happens with Atium, which is the body of Ruin. But there is net gain of energy, since you use a ironpull/steelpush and generate momentum, and that powers come from an outside source. With breath, you could say that there is also a net gain of energy, since the Awakened object moves without needing any form of power source (apparently). And a net loss of color. Would color be the fuel, then?

I'm from Rio de Janeiro (state), Brazil, speak Portuguese as my native language and English as a second.

The Shard of Stick. The most powerful of all 16 Shards, but it's to busy being a Stick. And it will continue to be a Stick after all the other shards are splintered.

Even for him it would still take a lot of money and workforce to rebuild the slums to something more urbanized. And the whole point of his kingdom was to keep the skaa living in sub-human conditions. Sure that if he treated the skaa better, rebellions would be uncommon, but why did he treat them like that, first of all? I guess it was Ruin's influence. Also, I edited my post. I hate it when a accidentaly write something in High Imperial.

How about "Steal investiture for your wielder"? So, instead of consuming breath from its wielder (or in addition to), it would do the same to those it cut. And transfer that investiture to the wielder, possibly making a self-sustaining sword. IDK what makes Nightblood burn breath so fast, if it's the nature of the heavily invested Awakened steel, or the power it has of disintegrating things. If it is the second, then the absence of the command "destroy" could mean a sword the does not burn breath, or burns it slowlier. Or we could start a game of Awakening swords with the Radiant oaths. That would be interesting.

Hi there, unfortunate person. I read your second theory, and I think that, if there is a real metal which is Atium if contains only ruin, I would assume it to be a raw metal for the sake of simplicity (since theoretically it can be alloyed with all the other allomantic metals, and alloying two alloys may not always work). Also, I would assume that its physical properties should be just like those of its correspondent. Now we have two possibilities: it's either one of the 8 pure allomantic metals, and if so the theory that allomantic metals correlate to a Shard must be right, and it would be Ruin's shard allomantic metal, or; It's a different metal. I think it is because Atium's described physical properties are different from all the other eight metals. It's described as having a similar density to lead and metallic silver/grey in appearance (it is not described as having any particular color, like copper or gold). The only metals I can think of with similar properties are Bismuth, Rhodium and Palladium (Platinum is too heavy). We know of an allow of Atium, Malatium, which is basically Atium and Gold. It is silvery-white in appearance, so it makes Palladium the most likely - Gold and Palladium is a know alloy, called white gold. It is silvery-white if not plated.

All right, he might have survived if he followed all those rules. But some aren't really realistic. A city doesn't need to be controlled by an evil lord to have slums, for example, and they are a hard problem to solve. And if you set your trusted lieutenant in the position of god, he might be the one to betray you.

Well, the teapot was just an exemple (a bad one, I believe, but the best I could come up with). Whether the teapot would be sentient or would disintegrate the tea was not the point. Could it use the power in the metalmind somehow, if the Feruchemist and the Awakener were the same person? Like, steel metalmind ropes moving faster than normal ropes would, or pewter ones having more strength than Awakened objects normally have? Anyway, thank you for answering my first question, I upvoted you.

I have some questions: >We know that it is more complex to Awaken metal because it has never been alive. If one soulcast a piece of something organic (e.g. rope) into metal, would it be easier to Awaken? >If a Feruchemist somehow worldhops to Nalthis, collects tons of breaths and learns to Awaken metal, would he be able to Awaken his metalminds and get some kind of effect from compouding, for example, awakening a teapot brassmind and commanding it to heat tea?

That much seems quite possible to me, Tal also seemed to display a reaction to Shallan's surgebinding.