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  1. natc

    Choose a ferring

    natc replied to Redbird's topic in Mistborn

    This is the Ferring thread >_>
  2. natc
    Well whether that dormant fragment gives useable power at all, I assume, depends on whether the total of the recipient and the spike add up enough to reach the minimum threshold.
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    I think he's referring to Nightblood as a cosmere-wide definition of "Shardblade", while the name normally refers to the Roshar-native variety due to greater numbers and exposure.They share similar principles, I'd sau, which group them together, but while spren are cognitive entities that are splinters "anchoring" themselves to the physical realm, Nightblood and possibly other type IV biochromatic entities are originally physical objects "anchored" to a splintet instead through Awakening. Different methods of creating two examples of a group of phenomena collectively known as Shardblades.
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    Since it also turns normal people into mistborn I'd think it's less rewriting and more that the flood of power awakens the dormant potential to the point of blowing a hole in your soul big enough to burn anything. With a tad of rewriting. Surgebinding shouldn't be genetic. In fact snapping into a mistborn might guarantee the possibility of a spren bond's success due to the spiritual damage.
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    Its omnipresence would probably blow people's minds if they didn't think of it as a separate plane I guess.
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    AonDor likely uses the investiture drawn from the Dor and converts it to matter, so it kind of is still equivalent exchange. Like the philosopher stone hack. There's just so much power to use up that it doesn't really matter how much you need to make. Give what else is made of investiture in the cosmere this analogy is strangely relevant.
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    My pet headcanon for now is that at some point in the past the intelligent spren used to bond with Listeners, then humanity appeared and the Listeners got left in the dust, turning to the voidspren for power. Which makes me wonder what a Listener bond would do to, say, an honorspren as opposed to a Surgebinder bond.
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    Ultimate insult there. He prefers well worn equipment.
  9. natc
    I don't recall the Listeners themselves being of Odium, just the forms of power connected to Voidspren.
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    I don't think ligers are fertile? Many drastically different species that can miraculously still interbreed have that problem. Sometimes species separated by differing mating seasons are otherwise perfectly compatible since it's basically still the same animal, but with Listeners likely predating Rosharan humanity that is definitely not the case here. The humans might not even have originated from this planet specifically. The anatomical differences are also huge. It's weird.
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    Is Epic mitochondrial DNA, well, consistent? Since the DNA seems to partly be the basis for derived technology and all. Would a baby simply have the mother's powers?
  12. natc
    He has flaming wings. The stick will never give in like that. He is just a stick.
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    Get cosmere away from us! I'm figuring that Calamity's epic-ifying of mankind slowed down because everybody has a traumatic past by now and he can't just do everybody at once.
  14. natc
    Finals and sports are important. . . . but there's no way she can do either nonstop. She must take breaks, surely.
  15. natc
    Odd prime numbers then
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    Allomancy uses an external investiture supply in order to empower the user, preserving their innate investiture and causing net positive change in power. That's where the preservation logic lies. As opposed to feruchemy presumably removing innate power then reintroducing it into the system at a manipulated rate after your body had already reverted to default. (Net 0 change, balance) while hemalurgy breaks a piece of soul off something and attaches what's left to a living body with the piece breaking down all the while (net negative, Ruin). Though systems in general often seem to be unintended side effects of the shard simply being there from what I can tell. I swear there's a line in the AA or epigraphs that say Roshar theoretically should have one more system than the natives know of due to the number of shards present.
  17. natc
    Well he's definitely the opposite of a lowlander alright, and not even just the airsick sort.
  18. natc
    Pun making skills make for great meme making skills. Just spam Bad Pun Dog.
  19. natc
    We know what he did, we just want to know where the information needed to construct the arm's soul again came from. Delicate little things, souls.
  20. natc
    I'm sure physical strength is probably a commonly occurring trait in human species . . . but then again the spiritweb programming might have an effect on the results.
  21. natc
    That's just apathy. You couldn't give a storming damnation about the people. It's different from hate, where you actively have an urge to make their lives miserable.
  22. natc
    Duralumin doesn't increase total output, it compresses the full output of the burn into one moment. All you get is one burst of senses you might actually fail to store properly due to shock of sensory overload.
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    Get that blasted feruchemy and prime numbers out of here, this is a discussion about allomancy and powers of 2!Also duralumin is redundant with compounding.
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    It is also highly dependent on and influenced by the modifications added to the base pattern. You can quite literally program a whole human mind into the stamp, like you can do specified healing with aons or how aon teleportation requires precise vector coordinates.
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    The one requirement at the foundations of hemalurgy is that someone must be doing it on purpose. It's kind of difficult to just discover it like that, and for all we know the only ones who knew of it prior to the trilogy were Ruin, Preservation, and people who had Ascended.
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