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Well you have to realize that he was more the bookish type, as a Keeper. He wouldn't test the combat applications of feruchemy, because up until the books he's had no need to. It's mostly been circumstances thrusting combat upon him. Him not being a warrior is in the Hero of Ages prophecies actually, IIRC. So it's actually important that he didn't understand these things.
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Technically even a piece of bread is investiture. Like everything in the cosmere. Atium is just different by origin. Just as much affected by steelpushes as your average can of clam chowder, unlike metalminds, shardblades, and what have you.
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Realistically even if you can't you just store your own health then use pewter to bump it back to normal levels.
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Um, yes. Kind of hard in a barren wasteland. Horses ain't gonna be cheap in such a screwed up ecosystem I'd reckon.
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I mean, Trell was a real religious figure in the past, and people are suddenly worshipping him again for seemingly completely different reasons from before. And there's a "new" (to Scadrial at least if not for all books) force here seemingly involved with those people. But there's no way to know for sure if the new force is Trell, if he's just borrowing a name to be more convincing, or if Trell ever existed before to begin with.
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There is also a difference between allomantic atium and lerasium. The former is just another ability, and the power leaves you when you stop burning. The latter appears to linger and invest your soul permanently.
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Well, he did get allomancy without swallowing a single bead himself, only giving them to his supporters. So while the phrasing is screwy he has a point.
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I think I have that many years to wait . . . it'll be more epic that way.
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the most useless uses for useful powers
natc replied to king of nowhere's topic in Cosmere Discussion
That. Is. Brilliant. Use atium to gauge reactions to your behavior so that you can basically cheat your way through your social life. -
I accidentally downvoted indigo while scrolling again
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Well, you can't go too fast or you burn up from air resistance. But it can get pretty fast. SoS/BoM minor spoilers (first is a vague feat, the second is ridiculously major if you haven't read BoM)
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We were promised space Mistborn and I want to see it XD But it won't make sense now. So I'll wait.
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Honor Spren Hiding and Cryptic Out In the Open?
natc replied to Random Observations R Me's topic in Stormlight Archive
On another note. What does doing the right thing have to do with being seen? Would it even matter if people knew or not? You're about honor and righteousness, not glory and recognition of good deeds. Of course, Syl likes being worshipped by Rock, but that's mostly because it's hilarious how nice and easily trolled he gets. -
The Make What You Will of it thread is like the Nightwatcher Bane/Boon thread.
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Why would they care if they did? Preservation very much needed that prophecy anyway, as did Ruin.
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Keep in mind that Obliteration automatically teleports away from danger. Touching him is nearly impossible.
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Well, allomancy draws power from the shard, so there's that. Doesn't have much permanence but it smells of a loophole in the shard-system somewhere out there.
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He's done a homosexual side character before, from my memory. Just not a main one. But it was based on a friend of his who was gay, so I don't think he actually minds too much.
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Bronze mistings are commonly savants, it's a known fact. Not exactly something anyone would try to discuss.
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D&D alignments as best typified by cosmere characters
natc replied to Bryce Carmony's topic in Cosmere Discussion
On the personal level, perhaps. But on the level of society, nobody can ever agree on where to draw the line. That's when the scale tips to the chaos side. Being good is difficult. -
The quote was that they traditionally were not made Radiant, from my memory. That wording is totally suspect.
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On the other hand, apparently if the powers all came from one person it works (case in point the Bands). I feel that it has to do with how many people were used to make the medallion. Perhaps, even "unlocked", the powers interfere with each other somehow. Also, there is apparently an additional trick involved that makes nicrosilminds give their charge to non-soulbearers.
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For an assassin, Ezio was storming good at general in-the-open-please-shoot-me combat. The Brotherhood is a weird organization. At least he eventually swapped to a black hood instead. But why a hood?
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As per the new version of Elantris and its included Ars Arcanum, Vax appears to be a planet.