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Well the primary reason you can't store 100% of most other things is that it can potentially kill you or cause lasting damage. This matter still requires further experimentation of course.

The only way to keep the saga sane is to destroy the bands, I suppose. Otherwise you could easily end up with 5 million Lord Rulers running around.

Mistborn chasmfiend. It must happen!

More on point of the Bands and VenDell's theories though . . . if it truly works that way, can you imagine it? A Mistborn with full compounding. There'll be no stopping them. And they could just presumably make a second set of bands by compounding the charge too. Man I kind of hope VenDell is wrong.

He can't store while unconscious so it's not a 24/7 thing for him honestly.

Basically the point is, Ruin+Scadrial made hemalurgy what it is, but I also would not think hemalurgy would be different anywhere else. I mean Ruin is still there. Allomancers off-world still burn metal; just because a magic works anywhere (basically anything not from Sel anyway) doesn't change its origins.

Marsh could probably actually run on water or something honestly. Or duralumin-jump with a lot of steel gulped down to see how far he gets then swim the rest. Risky without eyes though.

Yes, kandra blessings contain either enhanced senses, strength, mental capability, or emotional stability, though allomancer/feruchemist kandra be made (if anyone else figures it out and actually goes and tries it anyway. Kandra can't kill and didn't know much pre-Final Ascension anyway). Koloss use 4 strength spikes so they are simply flat out stronger without explicit magic; you're basically splicing spiritual DNA from the poor saps getting impaled by spikes to genetically engineer yourself a creature with that much physical strength "naturally". Allomancy and feruchemy spikes are actually primarily utilized only in the creation of Steel Inquisitors, only one of three species of hemalurgic construct. The least populated one at that with how hard it is to make one. So many spikes you need to make them seem mistborn-like in combat. You have single-spike humans with allomancy/feruchemy in the spikes obviously, but not to any large scale. It's the most powerful use for hemalurgy on Scadrial for sure, but in the end if it's in the spiritweb somewhere it's probably possible to spike it out of you.

So technically Mistborn Era 1 can still predate SA right? The kandra is totally Taln! Totally.

The knife in arm still makes sense for Miles since he can't feel pain and it won't kill him immediately.

Though strangely all aluminum on Roshar is soulcasted, so it can be created from surges. Whether you can cast it into something else is unknown though.

Well without someone with multiple feruchemical abilities they can't test the full extents of this.

Because certainly, the only characters I believe we know of to have made contact with the south or realized it existed are Rashek, Harmony, and . . . Marsh? So even if it's just that the kandra wouldn't be able to read it. I mean, it would also automatically include the fact that the civilization must have pre-Empire ancestry and must derive their language from somewhere so just from being from the South makes your theory automatically relevant.

Another thought, whether an Arelish person spiked with Feruchemical aluminum and storing as much as possible nonstop would become immune to the Shaod . . .

Well you still gotta cut open their chest and pull it out. I'm sure a larger greatshell like the tai'nah (spelling?) would be useless without it too. It's really just because of chasmfiends not being much bigger than the largest dinosaurs that the subject persists.

So if Nicrosil does indeed store allomantic/feruchemical power, then one could theoretically compound his allomantic strength, yes? If you were an allomancer with double nicrosil through some method (hemalurgy/the unlikely but possible mistborn ferring). Compounding surges would be redundant but feasible too . . . The South tease is real.

Glyphs seem to vary in exact shape a lot due to artistic context and whatnot, but the one thing they don't look like is that. The geometry is plain wrong.

Well, most likely connection feruchemy interferes with the connections in the spiritual realm that are connected to/make up your spiritweb. So it can probably be considered internal in a roundabout way. Which makes me wonder, is there an emotion-independent cosmic factor in the spiritual realm that equates determination? Is luck a real thing too?

Well those definitely aren't glyphs, whatever they are, that's for sure.

I could've sword atium is affected by steelpushes though. It isn't invested like shardblades would be.

Then he'd be impaled with a thousand arrows in his center of mass instead of the arrows all going into a bridge above his head. I mean what's the point of putting stormlight into an object if nothing actually happens to the object itself?

Not that you'd ever get that knowledge without a shard spelling it out for you and a lot of practice victims.

That much hearing would probably be pretty painful if he so much as scraped the ground a little. Not sure why you brought up the rest of his knowledge when the main reason they all have a focus of study is most likely because nobody has the time to read it all in detail and it's mostly a redundant backup for other people if nothing else. Plus he, you know, can't actually know what's in there without checking. And knowledge and actually doing something are very different. Trust me. Intelligence, knowledge, and tunnel vision do not directly or inversely correlate.

True, Sazed was not like that when we knew him as a person, but I feel 300 years of absolute power should have changed that in some manner. The warping is no doubt progressing, but even without it he has new responsibility to work with. He's in a position to change the world's future for the better or worse, and I think it would be irresponsible of him to stand by and watch as the worst scenario unfolds simply because his morals would not allow him to hurt a few people, even undeserving ones, in the process. He's no Windrunner, and frankly Scadrial is better off from it, as a Windrunner will protect an innocent life until the world finally turns to ash before his eyes because that innocent was sheltered. Sazed isn't an omnipotent God-figure from an Abrahamic-style religion, or some superhero from a comic book who is just that awesome since he has contrived plot conveniences backing him. He is a mortal, who can only resolve problems through mundane methods and solutions like the rest of humankind, only given power to grasp the situation and apply those solutions on a drastically grander scale. He can basically do a lot (theoretically, without his intents stopping him anyway), but he cannot do the impossible. Whether through inaction or by his own hand, once a problem arises by the end of it all someone is guaranteed to have been screwed over. Not everyone can be saved; that is an unfortunate truth of the world as understood by humans, and as a half-Ruin shardholder he of all people should understand that. (Rusts, why does this sound like an analysis of Fate/Zero?) I kind of feel bad bad for him, because even as a human he never struck me as particularly skilled at the whole plan-making thing, yet fate has given him quite literally all the power in the world. And he knows he messes up a lot, as his remarks on making Elendel too fertile suggest. I think we can all agree that the "get wax home" plan probably could have gone much more smoothly than it did, but since it didn't go so well and suddenly he had a catastrophic incident on his hands, he had cleanup work to get through, and I feel he's probably done all he could think of to minimize damages. Wax is traumatized by soul-crushing regret, Paalm had much worse happen, and who knows how many faceless henchmen got shot and stabbed throughout all of this, but the "thousands are dead and society is in complete upheaval and chaos" ending was averted, and that ending would have been infinitely worse for many more people and still have been his fault if he did nothing to stop it. I would not say he is ruining more than he is preserving, as doing nothing would probably the simplest way to do that in SoS. The lives and society preserved greatly outnumber those ruined, objectively. Cold-hearted way to see things but that's the limit human logic can reach. The problems arising from his actions are things I would imagine the Shard of Cultivation being able to cause all on her own just following her intent, honestly, and she's not 300 years old and severely limited in direct action.

Sazed?