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  1. natc
    Well Khriss does go out of her way for research material. Hoid has an agenda.
  2. natc
    Clearly it's some fancy storm-equivalent of allomancy and power just teleports in from Odium using the stormspren as a conduit. . . . wait, that actually makes sense.
  3. natc
    I'd . . . think any insane person would probably be pretty hurt by self-imposed trauma like that. Fear is a pretty potent emotion even without being involved in supernatural powers. I always interpreted that as him just giving up and leaving in despair.
  4. natc
    Well feruchemical strength must do something, or nicrosil would basically be a pointless metal. Even allomantic aluminum does something. Counterproductive, but it still does something. Besides, once you start storing your abilities something must weaken or it won't make sense.
  5. natc
    Hey now, from a bird's eye view the Shattered Plains look great. Beautiful symmetry except at the Oathgate . . .
  6. natc
    Fabrials inherently need stormlight to function, so I would say no. There may be something particular to gemstones in general that is involved with both dead shardblade bonds and modern fabrials, as well as ancient (surgebinding) fabrials, but with shardblades the gem can be as dun as can be and work anyway.
  7. natc
    Depends on what is worse. One unified force of hatred, or thousands/millions of voidspren?
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    Actually, what part of this suggests that Calamity actually had a weakness? The whole basis of them in the human Epics came from his fear of the world in general due to his traumatic birth, and the darkness was from his personality. We call him the Epic of Epics but that's more for lack of much else to compare. He's apparently near-omnipotent.
  10. natc
    Preservation, at no point, actually manipulated any process that was inherently random that he didn't construct himself. The latter meaning that it would've had no reason to be random in the first place. The mists had a strictly systematic procedure. You have a point with the rest, but I wanted to point that out.
  11. natc
    And, simultaneously, a very un-Kelsier thing to do. The guy went and pushed himself to continue living in the pits instead of the easy way out, and then when he escapes the first thing on the task list after training with his new powers is to kill God. And then he defies God to his final moments, breathes his last breath, dies, and then locked himself up possibly forever for all he knew, just to survive death itself. Then he risks it all to help bring down an dark force of destruction and survives that. The thief Kelsier hid for the sake of practical concerns as part of the underground, but even then he's know for his crazy impossible stunts rather than playing it safe. Kelsier the Survivor? He doesn't run and live so much as stares down impossible odds head-on and survives by sheer force of will and ingenuity.
  12. natc
    Well he did. He had his own pair in to stabilize his sapience though, strength and further vulnerability to Ruin (though his own spikes apparently counteracted that somewhat) were all they really did. Having unpaired blessings is something we hadn't seen attempted before this. Actually this highlights another difficulty with granting kandra metallic arts. The spike has to contain these non-standard attributes as well as having been engineered as blessings using . . . whatever method you need to make them that we don't know.
  13. natc
    When you realize it should be "Rusts! I wish I could just burn iron."
  14. natc
    Well technically you can ditch a planet without worldhopping. Terribly inefficient but you could . . .
  15. natc
    The spike does have to pierce specific organs, anything else it passes through is just a normal stab wound and you'd probably have to get real creative with your organ structure. You can't die from them but the organs still need to work . . . Plus, apparently rabbits are too small to retain intelligence without difficulty.
  16. natc
    Well actually, I'm pretty sure the angel allusion was actually done when David saw him in Firefight. I think.
  17. natc
    But by that logic, Curveball can't auto-reload those guns from the old days where you added powder manually. I call false advertising!
  18. natc
    Well it's not out of the question that he had non-feruchemist children in his packman days.
  19. natc
    David is a strange case though. His moment of obtaining power and pushing through his fear happened within moments of each other, almost simultaneously. Calamity seems like the type to pick random mundane moments to turn people to cause maximum damage in a Rending. David was at Regalia's request at a strangely convenient moment for David, with water everywhere. Already an outlier. It probably doesn't happen often, especially if there's the possibility that Calamity doesn't actually check for fears before the power is already inside a guy. Perhaps it latches onto the first and most plausible fear it can find? (. . . it occurs to me that we are effectively discussing the mechanics of a phenomenon caused by Calamity's pathetic and immature cowardice. That's kinda sad.)
  20. natc
    Well of course mundane hypnosis or suggestion probably works. Copper is paired to bronze, so it probably deals with investiture in some way, and senses relating to investiture. So direct affects on your consciousness using investiture, like emotional allomancy, are blocked, but if someone did something like try to make subliminal suggestions using lightweaved images or telepathic conversations (Ruin . . .) the copper would likely do absolutely nothing.
  21. natc
    Most of them were never human, technically. The vast majority are children of other mistwraiths. That does not eliminate the possibility of vestigial encoding in their spiritual DNA or something along those lines, but I figured I'd clarify that one point.
  22. natc
    Those interactions cause the affects that mass, for all intents and purposes, causes and influences in physics. The mass is definitely different. What it really does that's weird is that "mass" and "amount of matter" become completely decoupled from each other. In that a point can be made.
  23. natc
    He was already feeling the touch of Calamity when that happened though, IIRC. Perhaps Calamity's mind needed to be present during the granting of power, and it began latching to his hydrophobia as the process proceeded and amplified it. David faced it right at that moment and tore the power from Calamity before the darkness could really settle in. Sounds plausible or no?
  24. natc
    They sound like they can overlap a lot more than P&R, so honestly not convinced. If anything they can actually align rather well at times. One can dominate a region as well as love its people. Kings with good intentions exist.
  25. natc
    Compound nicrosil to mass-produce existing metalborn abilities as medallions and have those on standby.
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