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. . . spiritual damage can definitely be healed with enough investiture. As surgebinders and shardblades show. Just can't do it too many times apparently, your sDNA probably starts to get real inaccurate with so many emergency patches shoved into the holes.

How would you even see with aluminum glasses to begin with?

Well, the Shards of Adonalsium, and the mortal vessels that hold them, came from Yolen. Humans were not the only intelligent life (dragons, and I think one other), but they were understandably prevalent, and Ati and Leras (Ruin and Preservation) were humans from Yolen. Two of sixteen people who took up the shattered pieces of power left when "Adonalsium" died. Warbreaker takes place on Nalthis, more or less watched over and influenced by Endowment (I believe her name is Edgli?). Not much is known as to how much, if any, of the planet is artificial or where the local humans originated, but she is responsible for the formation of Breath and the Returned. You also don't always see opposing pairs of Shards on a world. Mistborn is really the only series that does that.

. . . atmospheric pressure against you should logically remain identical to before right?

They're practitioners of a system of magic, it's as "magician" as it gets. Worldhoppers are all definitely aliens (with origins well accounted for as well, mind), but not all aliens can worldhop.

Because they hop from world to world. Obviously. You're better off just asking why we call every investiture user by their technical name instead of insisting that they are magicians or wizards.

Or it just wouldn't glow anyway, since it wasn't a physical realm object at that point. I don't think the bolt Kelsier swallowed trying to burn it glowed either right?

Yeah, it doesn't really matter if training bridgemen to carry bridges armored or use shields is cheaper than training actual soldiers. You'll still lose several actual soldiers' worth of training investments because the bridgemen aren't getting shot at as much anymore. Absolutely not sustainable, but it's not really the matter of training/preparation cost with regards to the bridgemen, not completely. He just wanted to give the parshendi something to kill while the expensive troops showed up unscathed.

Quite powerful, they are. And as far as we know susceptible to steelpushes anyway. The cosmere itself is implied to be solid investiture (investiture being the apparent "building blocks") so it's really not saying much.

I don't recall her ever saying that about pushing and pulling actually.

The "not enough strength" thing might be the more plausible of Khriss's theories. Odium generally seems to avoid investing (though the Oathpact seems to have forced his hand), and his victims have invested in their worlds. Perhaps, without reclaiming the atium, Ruin deemed splintering Preservation completely too dangerous or difficult?

I suppose the only qualifier for the title "Faceless Immortal" is to not have a true face and be . . . well, immortal. So yes, that's most likely the case.

If Curveball can create not just the portion of the bullet that actually gets fired, but the gunpowder in the casing that fires it as well, shouldn't it be possible to create both the projectile and the energy for the gauss gun?

I'm not sure I understand what point you're making here.

Also doesn't help that we don't actually know for sure what part of projectile physics pushes actually defy to cause motion.

Oh, right, the theory immediately after the first drunken monkeys statement.

Of course, Nalthis years aren't consistent with Scadrial years . . .

Well, in a way he could possibly think that they are a necessary evil, as long as he keeps them in check. Which he now realizes to be harder than anticipated as the Set is backed by a force he did not expect to show up. Can't really deny that they have made contributions to technology, even if it was for rather distasteful reasons.

Atium's effects are to some extent internal-temporal, so it wouldn't exactly be odd if it did have a similar pulse to gold.

Well, kandra souls are intact (in the mistwraith way) by default, what the Blessings apparently do is fix some sort of cognitive "block" inherent to the mistwraith species, restoring proper sapience. With a human that gets spiked part of your soul is literally gone, which would probably be worse. Especially if it wasn't a spike for some sort of magic ability. What if you're a human without Strength? Or emotional stability . . . That's like simultaneously destroying a part of your DNA, relating to a vital function, in every cell in your body, and having the effects occur immediately. Only healing using your cognitive perception of your complete soul can cure that, and there probably comes a point where you just patched it one too many times. Metaphorically speaking, RNA reverse transcription isn't a very trustworthy process with how relatively unstable RNA is. The cognitive realm is similarly known to be capable of fudging details both accidentally and intentionally by people, with dangerously tangible results. On the matter of surviving a spiking at all, well when you having a gaping hole in your body (often the heart) and are bleeding profusely it probably often became a difficult problem to surmount for the victims

Returned names, I believe that's what the drunken monkeys do. I don't want to do the question though.

Well it would be nice to have a thread truly for useful uses, instead of constantly going off topic in a thread meant for redundant uses. Besides, too many lethal Rube Goldberg machines in there. We're looking for daily life.

Well he kinda is a robot AI, in a sense. And not very smart. Just that, instead of being in a talking robot ball, Nightblood is in a sword of mass destruction. And that he's programmed for evil-vanquishing instead of being a moron.

"I've been impaled!"

But destroying your own planet is so economically inefficient! The pitch might be bad, but perhaps they have a use for cognitive shadows that would make Edwarn further their cause regardless of his will?