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And I would personally agree with you on that count, as I tried to imply in the last paragraph. That does not change the fact that there are people whose goal is to accomplish good in the world who would resort to distasteful methods if they consider it necessary. Methods that require direct sacrifice of life, but may save many more in the process. Is it worth it from the moral perspective? Is not laying your hands on an innocent life more important than the innocent lives of others that can be saved with bloodshed? They never really did agree on an answer for that one dilemma involving running people over with a minecart did they? This seems very much a Stormlight Archive-ish issue to me.

Your metalminds still weigh the same, so you won't float away into space at least. But you will float a bit. Edit: You want the best lifeless ever? We need to take a koloss. Said koloss will be soulcasted to steel, then cut up and given working joints while retaining most of the original fleshy bits to be awakened. Then we make it a lifeless. Whether before, during, or after the process somewhere (whichever works properly) hemalurgically grant him steel compounder abilities. Maybe Allomantic pewter too. Eternal steelrunner Koloss-Inquisitor lifeless more durable than (Warbreaker spoiler) ! You just gotta feed it steel and pewter once in a while. Using its own body as a very saturated metalmind should help resist allomancy and shardblades to an extent.

By the statistics if you lose one good person to convert one evil person to good, then evil decreases while amount of good in the world is stable unless a good man goes bad. It's a logically sound method of lessening evildoers, so by definition it ought to be good right? Of course, extinction of mankind achieves similar results. That one is actually more effective really, but no sane man would go with that one. Just because you are correct doesn't mean that you are right, or so the oxymoronic anime proverbs go.

He could've honestly just done it because it was a fittingly important number.

They make it to the end until it is finally pointed out that none of those are metaphors?

Metal doesn't do squat to his influence, if anything hemalurgy proves it would help him influence you if you've been impaled by metal. It's just to shiny to look at closely. I'd rather not have Ati of all people be the culprit either, he's kind of a victim deserving rest, but honestly it's not all that silly to have a dead person meddle.

You are actually Ruin then?

Sauron isn't complete without an artifact powerful beyond measure that tempts its owner . . . Nightblood confirmed the One Shardblade?

Perhaps all the physics-breaking required secondary powers needed to steelrun is part of why it's so "difficult" to store . . . less of the speed taken from yourself is actually used to speed you up.

She doesn't really have to. Ruin could've probably done it, remote operating Inquisitors probably isn't all that easy without directing his attention to the fight.

I highly doubt a shardblade has enough capacity to hold more investiture to have a charge to be honest . . .

Well he probably could've gone for any physical medium that writing can be put into, and found this nice spot that would cause "metal" first, which fits. "Hey, Ati, how about this place?" *muahahahaha* Who's the evil one here? The guy who is honest about planning to destroy the world because there is nothing else he exists for, or the guy who set up his friend from the beginning, made a deal to build something in exchange for letting him blow it up, then backstabbed him immediately?

Well, hemalurgy also uses 16, and has nothing to do with Preservation at all. I think that part might be natural . . .

Atium spikes just sit there though. As a pointy bit of metal. None of it is being turned back into investiture or connected to you in any way, it only serves as the container and splicing mechanism for the spiritweb fragment that was stolen. The atium never changes state. Atium allomancy, on the other hand, is unlike non-god metal allomancy, and is fueled directly by the metabolized atium itself. The raw Ruin flows through the crack in your spiritweb like raw Preservation does for other powers. That ought to be able to Ascend you in the same way Lerasium savantism should be able to Ascend you . . . if you can figure out how to have the power not leave you immediately during the burn anyway. Also, wow the consecutive necro.

So the world after Rashek screwed up is essentially incapable of supporting life for even a few seconds, and he very much just jury rigged a solution for the poles because he couldn't fix it right Making that trip would probably require a lot of gold and other things, and frankly the koloss probably can't be trusted without him around to make them do things.

You've got creepy voices in your head, you will do weird things.

Well as far as Stormlight is concerned one of the biggest mysteries involves a guy who died. Honor's legacy is very much important. The entire planet itself seems to still carry Adonalsium's influence . . . Sanderson even says that we shouldn't expect someone scheduled as a main focus character to not be dead before their own book even starts because he's perfectly willing to do that sort of thing. And then there's Kelsier. Dead people are conspicuously important in the Cosmere.

So he's literally a being engineered specifically to destroy evil, but is still terrible at it. *cough* The troubles of artificial shardblades . . .

Good reason is barely excusable. No reason at all and you're dead. This isn't those things, this is pure senseless stupidity that even chulls and koloss will frown upon. The koloss warlords will worldhop en masse to your homeworld just to give you a piece of their mind.

Well there would already be allomantic blood in the Skaa to begin with since the Deepness (and mist-snappings) predates lerasium-laced nobility. If the Well has charged multiple times before then it's possible that allomantic blood in Northern Scadrial is actually pretty ancient, just at levels normally too weak to manifest without the Mists.

I would say I had a source for that, but finding quotes on a phone is difficult. This could take a while.

No surprise. I mean the primary conflict behind the whole religion (well, all three of them that care about Abraham anyway) started when a guy blamed his wife for something. And she technically deserved the blame for doing it, but it's not her fault you listened Adam.

That certainly brought Pattern back, but even in Shallan's childhood Pattern possessed shardblade functions. What truths did she admit to to even get that far as a kid?

The blade was swapped out before it even arrived with the madman, IIRC.

I suppose some people have a natural talent for producing Wayne logic.