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Well, skeletons only need the joints to work well and a frame to keep them intact. Just soulcast the carapace to metal. It still used to be alive, apparently it works IIRC.

That's generally how Inquisitor steelsight is described, so yes, most likely in my opinion.

Brandon is secretly Invocation. That, or God Beyond. Who knows.

I actually doubt Ruin's foresight capabilities since this entire time he's been getting outplayed by Leras, even though Leras doesn't even remember what he did. Thousands of years ago. It was a long term gambit if there ever was one.

It's more that we actually know that they didn't from WoB, IIRC.

It has to do with spiritweb rewriting IIRC. In that regard those are less side effects and more what happens when you can't control the main effect at all. What the main effect actually is exactly though, we do not know. We know even less about lerasium feruchemy and hemalurgy (i.e. Absolutely nothing)

I get the impression that storing your powers isn't permanent. Otherwise neither Marasi nor Wax would have lost their fullborn powers. It seems like one of those temporary-buff powers that only weakened you while storing and returned to normal when you stopped.

Throw Hoid to true neutral. And Ruin is actually all about entropy and not evil in the slightest. He's a nice guy! He just thinks that death and the end of days is the best thing since sliced bread. Stop steelrunning so much.

"Radiant" is more a title tied to an organization than anything to do with the magic itself, so it's always been hard to draw the line. As far as I can tell though most of us draw it at the "full power" stage with all oaths done. Which would still be weird because most historical Knights probably were not full, since I'd imagine that they would recruit any surgebinder they could come across for training in their Order. But the point is the term is pretty vague.

Well, honorblades technically bind the surges, but he would not be a Knight Radiant surgebinder any more than an Inquisitor would be mistborn. Probably an important distinction in this case, I'd reckon.

So Silver is probably just an explicit part of whatever phenomenon causes Shades, I would assume. Aluminum's weirdness persists everywhere to large extents.

Only humans have breath. The only thing that matters is how close to being "alive" in the specific human sense the object being awakened is. An actually still-living human can't be awakened though, obviously, though you can command them to accept your breath. So yeah, you can soulcast a person to stone and it'd be easier than trying to awaken a normal statue. I'm fond of the horrifying plan of soulcasting a koloss to something durable like steel or stone and making it Lifeless, though the former would require some form of investiture-proofing.

Glys belongs to Renarin, Jasnah is bonded to Ivory, IIRC. Elsecallers are the leading liaisons between spren and humans, as I recall, with Lightweavers and Willshapers, so Elsecalling as an ability almost definitely interferes with Shadesmar in some way as a part of its mechanics (Willshapers can only elsecall to access the Cognitive while Lightweavers can only do so through soulcasting, but Elsecallers have both). But it does not necessarily send you to the other side for extended periods by default. There may be some unknown feature to the power that can speed up transportation through the other side, that Oathgate technology applies.

Also, haven't koloss been recycling spikes for a good while now?

To be fair, the one directed at Siri is technically true. His lightweaving, as far as we know, is not self-taught but learned from his old master (a man named Hoid, our Hoid is not named Hoid and merely uses that name as an alias frequently). Though technically he already lies about his entire background and even his own name when he pops up somewhere.

Malatium was never on the chart to begin with, and atium was kicked as well. There is no longer any space on there once you shove in cadmium and bendalloy.

Oh, no, plenty of ways to get brutally killed in the Cognitive realm. And Spiritual is apparently mostly a mass of Connections as far as we can tell. Clearly he's from the Beyond.

Good point. They have Limelight, Firefight, and "Steelheart" (in the new vessel of David). One can overwrite reality, the other two are possibly the most powerful High Epic power sets in history. They should be fine against anyone not named Obli- Okay that is one major problem. They're screwed.

Empire allomancers were stronger than "natural" ones, and you have to nearly kill them to actually snap them right for the most part. Intense emotions besides pain are hard to come by . . .Then there's being a non-lerasium-influenced atium misting, which apparently takes a whole 16 days of nonstop suffering to snap with supernatural aid. Preservation is pretty brutal. I feel Kelsier is the most comparable example to Radiants. His body wasn't in the best shape and he wasn't quite sane like, ever, but his snapping was a purely emotional event. As most people remark he was a half-breed growing up in the skaa underground risking his life on every insane job he pulled, which is definitely far worse than what Kaladin grew up with and he somehow did not snap from that.

Yeah, bringing about the Apocalypse just to prove that your religion was right sounds like a really crazy, fanatic plan. That you don't need shards for, at that. Jasnah has blood on her hands but at least she's mostly doing it to people that appear to be even more questionable than her. Hell, she's better than Nalan on the morality scale.

That doesn't actually answer the question, imriel.

It's not like either actually do anything remotely similar, mechanically, so there should be no redundancy issues going on. The combination is definitely very effective, but I had meant it being not up to the level of "rusting wonderful" that is a steelrunner coinshot. Those two go together so well . . .

Interesting that you bring up atium alloys likely have to do with accessing/manipulating the spiritual realm . . . because that's the primary function of hemalurgy. And the mists fail to emulate atium stores in an allomancer when burned, but IIRC it's not actually impossible, just not as easy. It seems the Power of Ruin is predisposed towards spiritual shenanigans. Which makes it even stranger that Ruin himself can't predict a plot twist to save his life. Though perhaps that just goes to show that Ruin himself has little personal influence over the properties of atium and the art of hemalurgy. Either way god metals definitely seem to delve into the properties of raw, Shard-derived investiture.

And now we've gone before shardic engineering of life, huh. Part of me thinks something Adonalsium made would be Roshar levels of bizarre, but . . . eh.

I kinda lost track of which was which . . . too much Mistborn lately