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So, more like a big computer database holding a bunch of inter-referencing data sets about stuff in the universe, rather than a more traditional plane of existence. I mean, you normally file similar things away in one place and a different category in a different folder, no? We are totes not running some sort of VR simulation on a supercomputer or anything.

Well, bronze is the pushing equivalent and it's a receiver, just as weird as copper. Don't think any theory has denied the possibility of overwhelming a coppercloud before because that's clearly silly.

Rereading TFE, got to Vin's copper-bronze tutorial and noticed something I had missed earlier, that Vin can feel pulsing from herself when she burns copper. I had decided to go search the forum on copper and found other mentions of it too. So, should I take it that, while bronze picks up the pulses from investiture (power of creation), copper essentially works like a noise canceller (i.e. releases a counter-pulse internally, emanating outward, that dampens other pulses through interference)? It is just not absolute due to variations in allomantic strength, and a strong enough Seeker (hemalurgy or otherwise) can pick up the very weak vibrations that are normally below detection threshold. Copper apparently does have a bronzepulse signature, so it's probably not the pulse of the metal itself, but a separate frequency released from the Smoker on top of that. And I suppose that the interference pulse happens to also interfere with however zinc and brass affect their targets, but might not normally be strong enough to make a difference outside of the range of the Smoker's body. Interesting connotations if that's the case. Cognitive/spiritual disruption perhaps? Is there actually a hard physical range on emotional allomancy, or is it just that it's stupid trying to target someone with no idea where they are? Final random musing, I suppose, will be whether Copperclouds can Smoke spiritwebs outright against Lifesense, and whether a strong enough Seeker (again, hemalurgy or otherwise) can Seek spiritweb pulses somehow. We already have feruchemical and Shardic bronzepulses, after all, probably surgebinding pulses for all we know.

Internal physical metals probably both have similarly drastic effects, so I'd imagine you just take everything pewter enhances and weaken them, and you get pewter savants. Though I wonder what goes on with bronze and copper.

People don't know what Europe looks like? Wow. I'll go shove the book at someone for a reaction, brb.

Depends on how you define that phrase I suppose.

The Mists are acknowledged to move pretty strangely . . . Conjure a pigeon from a hat to impress Elantrians? Ought to be harder than using Aons for bread surely?

Of course, all Radiants are apparently pretty messed up in the head.

You'd have to keep them impaled for that, probably, but that too. Which ironically means that the whole Eleventh Metal thing is technically more true with aluminum than malatium. An aluminum spear to the chest and Rashek's going down. Expensive as hell though.

Bringing up the hair again was kind of conspicuous, wasn't it

Lightsong literally died and just came back to life, so that's a thing. The splinter in them is also rather conspicuously shardic.

On that Note and choirs? I really should cultivate my humor interpretation skills.

Speaking of Borderlands: Dukino. The chasmfiend next to it is named Dukino's Mom.

It does happen to Shards eventually, depending on what Shard they are and how long they've possessed the power. For example, Ruin was reportedly a very nice and generous human, but Ruin as we knew him was singlemindedly driven towards the destruction of the world as we knew it. Sometimes their personality already fits, and the changes aren't as serious, but they always happen. Harmony is being slowly driven in two opposite directions, hence his general uselessness. It's unknown what the end result will be. But he, well . . . he was never really the type that actually had to make plans. Spontaneous acts of bravery and generally being nice and encouraging, maybe. But the group had much better people to do planning. Without knowing what other avenues he has tried and how far his future sight goes (his two powers varied drastically in this department) he might have run out of sure-fire options for success. He has millions to worry about, it's probably already starting to go from "people" to a statistic.

Though he probably will if Marsh randomly goes insane trying to commit mass genocide. With so many spikes Marsh can't do much.

Ah, yes, that term. That's what I was looking for. I knew there was a term for it but I don't hear it often enough and forgot.

We have no evidence towards Harmony having actually done anything to cause her death, and one actual testimony against that notion.

And that's why I brought up moral grey area. You can still be honest in those situations. You'll be the biggest jerk ever of course, which is why nobody does it, but that's purely socially/morally grounded, and if everybody is used to it and does it back to you it is no longer truly a practical impact on societal functioning. If you can actually somehow create people whose minds work that way anyway. The problem of honesty lies more in the human factor than the social structure itself. For the record, I'm totally not fine today. The weather sucked . . .

He can't control that though, so that's actually Odin's adhesion I guess?

EDIT: Took too long to write and got ninja'd, but no point deleting it yeah? Well, the thing is in this case, feruchemy doesn't create two variables. It adds and subtracts the same thing back into the system that is the feruchemist. That would be the X. Compounding instead turns the power obtained from burning atium (Y) into X by using a little X to cause the change during a burn, as per the current understanding. Meaning that you are not trading your own X to get Y. You have an infinite feedback loop of X that depletes Y (total atium in the Cosmere) exponentially as it goes on, by converting Y into X directly. So the secondary practical limit beyond the first (burn rate needed exponentially outpacing the rate at which atium can be provided to the system) is actually lack of atium supply, not the lack of your own youth, X, as in using your own youth to compound you do not end up with X + Y life force, but an increased amount of X with no Y (which is future sight) which can be used to increase X yet again. For other compoundings, Y is the sum of Shard of Preservation instead of the sum total of atium. Except with lerasium compounding I suppose. Whatever that really does. Jakamav: So the question is friendship, I see. Well . . . there is truth to the Honor is Dead thing besides the literal interpretation. Alethkar is just like that, it's all for glory.

Nightblood.

It doesn't make that much sense that the Surge of Pressure and Vacuum can alter friction at all.

It's that we suck at honesty that it never works. There's no practical reason it wouldn't that comes to mind for me, besides the occasional moral grey area brutal honesty falls into, or just generally people being rusting gits.

Atium compounding does indeed have a practical limit, yes. But why in Damnation's eleventh name would you even need infinite life to keep it going? None of that youth is yours. You'll have to wait for Nightblood to come out for divine breath questions. For why, well how do you even lose a 4v1? On how, the book outright explains it. Honorspren hate Cryptics and vice versa. It seems to be both a political issue as well as lying not exactly being all that honorable.

Kinda entirely defeats the point of having an Aimian viewpoint character if he isn't Aimian. Plus, shadow pointing towards light.