natc
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The wild is really bad at doing GM. It's easier with the lab equipment method rather than letting things kill each other over a million years while hoping for a desired malfunction to occur.
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The sword leaking black smoke at the end that cheerfully asks if anybody felt like destroying evil today. Just read Warbreaker.
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Every Shard stares at Endowment."What has your system done?!? We have an ascendant SWORD hellbent on destroying everything that so much as jaywalks on a bad day! We've all done that before!" But seriously, we need to bind 10 spren to someone, then make him Ascend on Scadrial somehow so that he can make himself TLR-level Fullborn. After that find, what, 50,000 breath? For tenth heightening. Send him everywhere else and basically give him the pinnacle of magic in those places. THEN give him Odium-Nightblood. Then figure out how to fight that.
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Radiant squared huh. Next thing we know Odium is finally defeated by a Radiant^10. Somehow. Would be hilarious.
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A society that barely shifts (and is completely different from the previous one really) will still produce very different people.There's really no such thing as people who are the same as someone else, and he has about a thousand years to work with whatever idiot nobles and priests happen to be in his court in any given generation, skaa executions notwithstanding. Ruling a massive group of random variables (even with some normal tendency) is something that really leaves Rashek with his work cut out for him. He can't really just mass execute every single time, or you end up with Kelsier 0.5 on your hands.
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Supposedly whatever spiritual genes exist for hereditary allomancy has severe overlap with the genes for hereditary feruchemy in terms of location in the soul, so being a natural misting essentially destroys any pure feruchemy you would normally have and leaves you with one power. Forcibly writing allomancy into your soul via lerasium, hemalurgy, or just doing it manually to yourself while Ascended seems to not produce such a side effect, only by inheritance.
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You imply figuring out how to get a whole continent of people to shut up and maintain the status quote isn't an experience in and of itself. Clearly everyone was taught that in Terris packman school.
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Storms, they're as one of David's metaphors after being awed by finding a potato in a minefield.
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Yeah, think the issue is that there is a kind of logic to cosmere magic that everything operates on, and shardblades operate on a presumed mechanism that is pretty close to unstoppable without similar properties to block it. While whatever fuels Epic abilities defies logic entirely, but probably won't exist in the cosmere by that very nature.
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Using Hemalurgy to give your descendants Allomancy/Feruchemy
natc replied to Sirce Luckwielder's topic in Mistborn
Mistborn occurrence is naturally impossible and rare with help. Might as well get more spikes, since it would probably help. In the meantime they'd have a makeshift mistborn substitute to work with for whatever illegal operations they'd need done to keep this going while having him do it with someone every night until they get something. -
Well, he does have to recite all of the general Keeper info into his copperminds as well as full research on hundreds of religions gathered over centuries. That's probably a lot.
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Using Hemalurgy to give your descendants Allomancy/Feruchemy
natc replied to Sirce Luckwielder's topic in Mistborn
Natural Seekers would be stronger than artificial ones, and when spiked with seeking abilities would be able to pierce copperclouds, so yeah most inquisitors probably were of that category. But if we're talking about the inheritance rate of unnatural sDNA, then the implications would be that a purely artificial allomancer can theoretically still have misting children. Which gets me thinking. If we inbreed enough inquisitors with all 16 allomantic spikes enough can we create a mistborn after a few thousand tries? -
The case is really that the investiture itself is end-positive, but pretty much nothing else is. Yeah, Marsh will probably die if he tries that.
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But why "destroy evil"? We know from Warbreaker how much room that leaves for interpretation
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Nightwatcher Boon/Bane (Game)
natc replied to killersquirrel59's topic in Forum Games & Random Stuff
If she isn't a shard she's created by one, so who knows? It's less that they're ancient and more that we're too storming young. What was the technological level of development on Yolen anyway? -
Only the Returned actually need to be continuously sustained AFAIK. Basically, lifeless and awakened objects seem to last more or less forever, while Returned don't without help, but Returned already behave vastly differently from the other two while Nightblood behaves even more differently for completely different reasons. As if by pushing Awakening to its limit they accidentally produced a completely unique self-contained magic system outright. Awakened objects don't normally consume breath, but really we don't know if Nightblood really works like that anymore. Swords shouldn't be able to do half the stuff he does.
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That comic character hasn't tried using those things as batteries. And probably never met an Epic.
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Which kind of comes back to the whole handwavium thing >_>
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We now need them to invent ranged soulcaster fabrial gauntlets. Still can't fly very well though.
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I swear we've already seen Kalak at the party. He seemed fine then.
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Question about Weaknesses of Epics [Firefight spoilers included]
natc replied to Lightning's topic in The Reckoners
Sure you can. Being assassinated in public by the girl -
So if we take his organs we can create a potato mine machine?
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It's hard not to be afraid of someone that powerful even if you are stronger. David's father was someone who was utterly convinced Steelheart was here to help without a shadow of a doubt, so he wasn't afraid.
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I've been wondering. Does Nightblood actually need the investiture it drains, or does it just eternally increase in strength?
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Well, Mistborn were not a natural phenomenon either prior to Rashek's Ascension, IIRC. The lerasium beads oversaturated the noble lines with so much of Preservation's power that it became just a moderately rare occurrence instead of an impossibility while boosting the strength and birth frequency of mistings. Also, I recall allomancy and feruchemy occupying overlapping areas of their spiritual genes being what destroyed most of the full feruchemist bloodlines, so likely you cannot naturally possess full sets of both powers without having the second set artificially burned into your soul one way or another.