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He put the electrum recipe in the caches, so he probably wanted to cover up its existence until the world was done for. It will completely cripple the atium economy after all, since gold and silver are significantly cheaper (the irony) and will protect you from other mistborn without risking your own atium. If Elend can procure enough during the end-times then surely it won't be difficult for nobles at the height of the Empire: everyone will be burning it constantly in battle, so atium ends up a powerful but practically useless metal against mistborn, the only thing you would have difficulty overpowering. Also, yeah, gold is probably still rare and definitely still shiny. And doesn't corrode well. Plus, as said, impossible to synthesize in nature even with a star, as they usually collapse when they eventually form iron by the end of their lifespans, IIRC. You need way too much energy to fuse anything heavier than iron, much less gold.

The first person to associate 16 with metallic arts in the books is Yomen, I believe. It is probably a known fact within the steel ministry, at least amongst people of his rank in the ministry, since he brought it up last in a list of 16s that were of religious significance. His provided reasoning is that the first 8 metals known to the public exist in pairs arranged in groups of four, plus provided the category Enhancement, to which only aluminum belonged, if you ignore duralumin which Yomen seems to not know about prior. Aluminum doesn't enhance anything at all, mind, so perhaps Rashek himself or the obligators who carved the metal plate for duralumin coined the term in anticipation of two unknown metals of that category.

Atium doesn't belong in that spot on the table primarily because atium behaves as an internal temporal metal, much like electrum. The spaces taken by atium and malatium belonged to cadmium and bendalloy, which distort external time rather than distorting the internal perception of time. There is no reason to suggest atium isn't allomantically viable, in fact lerasium does not fit on the table either, nor do the theoretical 32+ god metal alloys. It is said that both shards can power all three systems, so where the lerasium originated from isn't of absolute importance. For hemalurgy to not share metals with other metallic arts completely defies everything we've known about the metallic arts this entire time. The metal dependence is something beyond the shards' control to begin with, it's mostly realmatic in nature (hence the metal blindness they get). All Preservation seems to have modified so far is on the misting end of things, and not the fundamentals. God metal mistings shouldn't logically exist since god metals aren't exactly a fixed feature of the cosmere. EDIT: Even the allomantic ability of atium actually seems to run counter to the fact that Preservation's ability to see the future appears to be far greater by thousands of years, while Ruin can't see trickery even 1 second in advance. Ruin is much more rooted in hemalurgy, yet his power can function in the "opposing" system perfectly well, and it has a feruchemical effect that, while it does manipulate decay, actually does the opposite of ruining when in use. I just don't see why even a shard associated mainly with feruchemy (if you bear that line of thinking) would not have a metal that works across all systems as well. Shardic power channeled through metallic arts seems to do rather counterintuitive things, and also has always worked across the systems without exception. (Sazed himself prefers the name Harmonium apparently, so get used to it).

I'm not sure how that question relates at all to what you quoted, nor why you would think Kaladin has ever actually wielded an honorblade before.

Zinc is mental speed. You won't be any smarter.

Sazed, IIRC, talks of rocks and such as an example of balance between Ruin and Preservation, in contrast to the imbalance in humans. It's always been ambiguous as to just how much of Scadrial is artificial.

By that final bit of logic lerasium spikes wouldn't work, and burning atium an impossibility. Which is false.

Even ignoring lunar orbits, the planet has no tectonic movement, absolutely no axial tilt, and its year length is apparently exactly 500 days (though apparently still suitable for life), with the cycle of Weepings lasting 1000 days. Adonalsium wasn't being lazy with this one, the numbers are a bit on the excessively perfect side of things. Though on the other examples of such things, even the Scadrians pretty much acknowledge that Elendel Basin isn't natural. It wasn't there before, that's for sure, and the fertility of the land is simply unnatural to the point that proper irrigation technology has evidently made limited progress.

If it worked that way, then storing health would become the most counterintuitive thing ever, and tapping nutrition is redundant since you'll be protected from malnutrition. And I'm not sure how draining out your own natural investiture would logically strengthen your body . . .

You don't have to lift things to store strength, because the act of lifting something isn't strength, it's the work performed by your strength. You have strength as long as you have existing muscles, and if you're atrophied somehow I'd assume there won't be much to store. Blind people probably can't store vision either. The only speed you have while standing still is if you're measuring yourself relative to some other celestial body than the planet you're standing on, which would be weird for a metallic art. Relative to the ground you're standing on your rate of change of distance (a somewhat scientifically questionable thing at best) is 0. You need to breath more to store breath because you technically have none if you stop, and having no nutrition to store due to starvation is possible. Why would speed be perpetually present in spite of lack of actual movement?

Plus, in the end the kandra finally seem to have gotten the point across that looking for a religion not requiring blind faith is a fool's errand. Sazed himself comes to have faith in Vin to the point that Elend is surprised at the drastic change.

You tap them to regain the memories and lose them to store them again. IIRC the index itself is a memory Keepers make to keep track of what they actually have stored in there, so they could locate the work or research that would be of use in their coppermind and tap it out. Then you put the index back in, I suppose.

Fifth heightening stops aging, no? Though I vaguely recall someone saying that breaths do actually weaken with time . . . Closest thing to stormlight seems to be bloodmaking though, which decidedly does not stop aging at all (though health concerns brought on by old age, on the other hand, are probably healable).

Plus, Paalm/Idaashwy used it in relatively short (but powerful) bursts, while Sazed was running as fast as he dared nonstop. It's not like you have to be the Flash throughout a fight, only when it matters. I've always wondered about the difficulty of storing it though. Does actually being in significant motion improve the rate as opposed to just sitting there making the odd twitch? Speed is kind of a weird thing in that it really isn't a natural part of you like heat and identity, just something you can potentially have.

The Everstorm: Anticipated and dreaded more than Winter since 1173(?)

Roshar is spoken of in the Letters in WoR to be a world that "bears the touch and design of Adonalsium". So it'd say it is rather old. It would explain the utter dependence of the animal populations on spren at least. Humans would be the aliens in this setup. I mean, of course there are probably older planets out there, most of the worlds (potentially barring Scadrial) presumably existed before the shards arrived, and minor shardworlds without shards and having their own wildlife abound. You really can't say. We're talking a whole galaxy's worth of planets here.

A duralumin pewter enhanced backward headbutt can apparently turn someone's head into a shower of brains, blood and spinal fluid on the carpet. Killing a KR by brute force should definitely be possible, they aren't Hoid. Only Hoid levels of BS casually survives that kind of thing. Enhancement metal kills are fun though.

Well, decreased weight in the sense of feruchemy and decreased gravity are not the same, so some effects may differ. Force has lessened, so bone density is probably still screwed, but gravitational acceleration will remain constant if that affects anything. You'll also end up blown away by air currents, which would be funny.

So Rashek is Voldemort?

You know what Hoid says, what humans value most is timeliness. For good reason too. So logically being able to do everything faster is the most broken thing ever. Untouchable, unstoppable, everything done away with in the blink of an eye. That's steelrunning.

Perfect opposites that inherently result in neutrality at that. Hemalurgy had no reason to be negative other than the fact that Ruin destroys, and allomancy uses Preservation as fuel to prevent loss of innate investiture as the only other source. It's basically entirely circumstantial in my opinion.

You'll try to walk and kick yourself off of the earth into space? *shrugs*

I don't believe there is a single trait that feruchemy can store 100% of. You'll generally die if you could and did.

Yeah, that's pretty much the weird thing. They've gotten past that miracle though, so there's not much left to be shocked by.

He's probably had feruchemy before that though. It's apparently how he finds important places to show up in. Somehow.