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I think a major player in SA just obtained one of them easter eggs though. And it is to powerful to just leave it alone considering his new objective. Save for one other person we know of present not many can explain that thing.

And my phone's lack of aptitude for spell checking. It only autocorrects correct words

Also means that with youth/age, a unusual case of a feruchemical attribute that naturally decreases over time, that the older you are the more you need to stay young, so there should be a steady increase of the atium he needed to compound to stay immortal. Eventually he might even need to be swallowing continuously. Would take ages to get there though. . . . unless spiking yourself with more atium allomancy gives better compounding returns as well as the expected stronger precognition? Huh. Never thought about that. WARNING Now for a wall of text, an extended example involving currency exchange and chocolate, so I can copy paste later to other people for the lulz. If TL;DR ignore me. As they say above though. The strength of allomancy is that it is essentially on demand magic with no expense to your physical self (except your wallet, of course. Metal ain't free), but you have to use all of it right then and there in relatively short and bursts at fixed levels. For example, swallow steel. When you burn it you can push metal away until you stop burning. You can burn slightly faster to push harder, but not by much unless you use duralumin or nicrosil to force it to burn up instantly. So, say you give Preservation 8 bucks, and he, say, gives you two bars chocolate (Hong Kong dollars, because I am familiar with that. It's about 8:1 or so with america). For the sake of the argument he is actually giving you more than you payed for because he is nice. You must eat it now or it melts. Feruchemy can stockpile as much magic as you want in advance and either use it slowly when you want to release it or just let it explode all at once, but at expense to yourself. Back to steel, you have a block of steel in your hand, which allows you to make yourself slow-moving to a variable percentage for a variable amount of time. You can then get back that power later when you are normal to go faster. It's like a bank account. You can put 100 US dollars of your lunch money into the account over 100 days, being one dollar short each day for lunch. You realize you need to spend that amount. You can have 100 more dollars to spend on one day, 50 per day over two days, 25 per day over four, 50 cents per day over 200 days, etc. Pretend that you are a shopaholic who spends money on hand immediately. 0% interest. Bad deal, but eh. Burning a metalmind causes your allomancy to instead generate extra of a feruchemical attribute temporarily instead of allomantic powers through some loophole inherent to the system, so instead of repelling metal at will (for free, as it is extra power from Preservation) you will find yourself super fast without having to be slow first. The problem is you are forced to be super fast right then, not slightly fast for twice as long or ultra fast for short moments, and it will run out. Conveniently the powers you now get are powers you can also remove from yourself to store in metalminds to use later feruchemically. The effect of magic acting on your body is temporary, but magic stored in your metalminds unused stay there forever until used. Right now, you are giving 8 bucks to Preservation, and then 1 US dollar as an example to tell him that you want that instead of chocolate. Still nice, he returns your sample dollar to you and gives you 2 dollars more, twice of what you actually paid as usual. You put one dollar in the bank, exchange the second for 8 HK dollars from a more sensible guy, and bring the last US dollar as your new example for Preservation. Repeat. You are earning one dollar for your account each time from Preservation's kindness (cremhole), instead of paying out of your wallet to put cash in your account. In 100 days you have 100 dollars in your account, like with feruchemy, but unlike before Preservation is paying for you, so you are never one dollar short in your lunch money. You couldn't keep it on your person because you'll spend it all that day and waste it, but you couldn't buy chocolate at profit from Preservation either as it melts and banks don't store chocolate. Now you don't have to be frugal and save, yet still have 100 bucks in your account to withdraw as you need! Unfortunately Preservation doesn't accept US dollars for chocolate for some reason, but still profit is profit. Preservation is a trillionaire and chocolate business is booming, so he won't mind for a long while. You can step it up with this backlog and mooch off of Preservation as fast as you want too, of course. Back with steel, you are asking Preservation to give you speed, using a steelmind as an example instead of just steel (which gives you steelpushing). You then bank it in your other steelmind as if it was yours and use it as if it was yours later. Or stockpile ad infinitum. Works for healing, youth, senses, strength . . .

THe probably could, but he needs to convince the local government that he should be authorized to hunt down and execute one of the highest ranking people in said government, someone engaged to and under protection of another such person, and the body guard of yet a third important person. May be a bit difficult to pull off here, especially since they are in war against non-humans. If it was a human vs human war he could let someone be recruited on the opposing side and kill them in battle legally but that's out of the question here. It probably is legal though. Taking action without being authorized by the very people he needs killed sadly isn't very legal.

Your body is permanently reverse lashed. The way Fate/Zero would've done the world peace thing should it have worked in the end was kill every last human being, so meh. I wish my bane had turned some other town into an inferno?

Eliminating all other options would fall under checkmating.

If archers can pull it off I'm sure a sniper with super vision will be fine.

Nalan doesn't kill surgebinders with criminal pasts specifically, but kills any surgebinders he could get to as legally as possible. He even brings paperwork on the job. As soon as Lift was pardoned he gave up. If Shallan has been fine for so long the evidence has probably been destroyed thoroughly, and convicting the princess of Alethkar would similarly be a tad difficult. It doesn't matter if he knows, he needs solid proof to be authorized to capture and execute someone on site.

We're still not sure if working vision is needed to interpret atium shadows are we?

Well clearly Marsh has an atium stash or he'd be dead by now. About time the Pits of Hathsin geodes respawned (for lack of a better term) too, by Kelsier's estimates. Right on cue actually.

In order to force Vin to do the deed by eliminating her last reason to live. So Vin killed everyone related to Elend in a way. Weren't most of Straff's assassins (that Vin killed) also his children?

I look forward to Jasnah's return, both for her being awesome and lacking backstory, and because she's stuck on a road trip with Hoid and Ivory right now.

He is a splinter of a shard, and so is every other spren (honor, cultivation, odium, or adonalsium types included as well as hybrids), seon, skaze, and divine breath in existence. He's just unusually powerful due to his apparent origin.

If we compound we are drawing investiture from Preservation through the allomantic burning process right? If we compounded too much would we Ascend? That would be a problem. . .

Dat 2.5 year necro.

Not sure if it can reproduce god metal really. . . the mists can cause ascension, which would also presumably be what happens in lerasium overdose, but being Preservation it made sense. I reckon stormlight would grant an previously unknown power, like bonded Seons apparently would on Roshar.

Atium is just a normal metal physically. You need the power of Ruin to create atium. Lots of it. Set Aon Tia to teleport things some distance away to another Aon Tia underwater set to send him to a third Aon Tia in a burning pit which sends him to the Sel equivalent of Antarctica only to be teleported into an electric discharge set barely below lethal threshold running continuously that loops him back to the first. Set up a contraption to allow you to cut off the loop whenever by moving the plates. Torture someone. When he finally gives in and gives you what you want telefrag him. Essense mark your bf/gf into a loop of cliche anime personalities, different each day of the week.

Hmm.Force them to jump during a fight then get someone else to fire bullets? Checkmating is the only real non-kamikaze option.

Only in the cosmere can we realistically analyze the mechanics behind the power to "go faster". *grabs popcorn*

Your soul is torn apart and invested into every depiction of Batman in the world. I'll take a book from Fate/Zero and wish for world peace. I know full well what could potentially happen when I ask a literally minded deity for that but meh.

If they wanted to not influence warfare at all they should've dismissed their blades and plate before breaking their bonds and locking them in like this . . .

Do spike wounds even become lethal again when you take the spike out? Many inquisitors couldn't store health. Feruchemists were in quite short supply. I swear we've had spikes removed from people before.

Well investiture goes about physics-defying in a very mechanically defined manner. To the point of being scientifically analyzable. It's bound to take inspiration from physics at some point.

We're not denying they were shocked by some revelation that got them to do this. They clearly planned after that fact, or we wouldn't have several hundred knights showing up to the same fort and renouncing their bonds in unison.

Pretty sure everything else that power transmutes is solid steel. It'd be weird if the skull wasn't.