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It's amazing how easily stormlight can be acquired compared to convincing people to donate their souls, no? Just put your jewelry outside in a highstorm.

Taut wires huh. Perhaps they are attracted to the feeling of being deprived of all your freedom? Axies might have not seen any because he probably intentionally got arrested and frankly seems to get in trouble regularly enough to be used to it. Of course, slaves don't seem to see them, but having an actual cell to stop you from literally doing things as well probably helps drive the point home.

Do we really know how reliant the misting population is on noble blood anymore? There are so many mistings in the background doing mundane work like courier jobs, and we know snapping has been tampered with by Harmony. It would not be a stretch to have skaa mistings appear as they did during the daymist. The society is pretty dependent on metallic arts in some ways, after all, and the noble lines' power is probably reaching its limit with the apparent lack of recorded Mistborn birth since the Lord Mistborn's reign. From the mist snappings alone we can assume allomantic blood exists in at least 16% of the population if not more, as long as we disregard power. Probably far more that the mists ignored to force the numbers, a sizeable enough population to make sure the quota can always be met. Maybe even 100% at extremely low levels. The lerasium-granted power is really the only type of "purity" of blood ever discussed with allomancy, unlike feruchemic genes where the main purity of blood being talked about by Wax's grandmother is genetic interference from allomantic blood.

Those stories are highly exaggerated, though the events are generally true.

We're better off pointing out that all voidspren are splintered off of the still-living Odium, as are the spren of Cultivation. The Knights Radiant also predate the passing of Tanavast which left Honor in pieces. Never mind any Adonalsium spren that might have initially existed.

If just a charged metalmind already causes a noticeable change in susceptibility to pushes for experienced coinshots like Wax, then I have no doubt Nightblood, an artificial shardblade holding 1000 Breaths, is probably really resistant to allomancy.

Meanwhile we had a panda miscarriage of some sort here in Hong Kong. I feel bad for the mom now. Those pandas have been here for years, most locals are quite attached.

Thanks for . . . repeating what I said. Consider me somewhat confused.

I'm honestly shocked as to how often that detail gets overlooked

Allomancy is channeled from Preservation. Except with god metal, where the metal is directly metabolized for power. We don't know what happens to normal metals after burning, strangely.

Well, the Shard of Odium isn't bad anyway, as you say, but whether Rayse's actions while bound to Odium can be considered evil is subjective. More so as we don't actually know the motives. Hatred isn't strictly bad, but Odium isn't only hatred, there's a guy commanding that force of hatred, and seems to intentionally prefer pure hatred over diluting that intent with other shards to increase his power. He's probably completely under its influence by now, but he made a choice.

Or it could just be about as invested as aon-generated bread, i.e. not very much at all, and the method and investiture from which it is made is what causes the properties. Isn't it said somewhere that technically everything is made of investiture to some extent, just in the form of matter/energy? Lift also can turn nutrition into stormlight, and gold feruchemists can regrow things seemingly out of nowhere, probably using the investiture being tapped.

Um, a Rosharan year is 500 days. The days are shorter, but it still works out to be somewhere close to 1.1 times longer than Earth years. His age by Earth years can't possibly be less than his age on Roshar. That's not how mathematics works. EDIT: Google calculator of all things gives me 8765.81227 hours (weird number eh? No wonder leap years and seconds get so out of hand) in a year on Earth. Rosharan year works out at 10000. Ratio of Roshar:Earth is 1.14079553. Definitely longer.

I don't see how gemhearts even remotely relate to that beyond potential stormlight storage to fuel spren (if it is even necessary).

Several other crews tried to copy them and fumbled the bridge. Some were probably halfway to Damnation by the end of it if not already there. There's no way they weren't being shot at. And let's be honest, the prior trend of death tolls for Bridge Four under Kaladin has not been all that high already.

Or do what Vasher did. He uses that command a lot and yet hasn't died so far. You can definitely simply withhold breath through some method.

Well that's one more reason a steelrunner with a gun is a tad too deadly.

Well Marsh did. I'm not sure how that helps him read in the dark but it did. Somehow.

Well that does sound Shin. Like Szeth-son-son-Vallano.

There's literally no way for aluminum properties to interrupt feruchemy at all though. Not a very good example. It definitely isn't inert to everything, since it can be burned and stored in, used for spikes too probably. But it does do weird things.

Well, initial placement determines what you steal, since there's so many things to steal and only 16 metals. The final placement is probably a fundamental limitation with the binding process rather than a functional one (putting genes into DNA randomly is probably a bad idea). On the note of complexity, Awakening is similarly complex to the point of necessitating scientific research, but Endowment still lives as far as we know.

Odium doesn't balance with either intent, period. There's no point. He'll end up a really hateful version of his current self and not much else.

It's also why feruchemy still existed at all. TLR turned all existing feruchemists into mistwraiths during his Ascension, but he forgot to check for latent feruchemy in the other Terris.

I'm sure the starspren was actually *gasp* a starspren. Rare spren exist. Just look at Axies trying to get drunk to attract the spren for that. Difficult, outright country-specific. WoB is we know about the Shard that has been using the name Trell. Unfortunately we know quite a lot of Shards, so who knows?

Officially, Ruin was intentionally preforming the hemalurgy by manipulating the events. The intent thing matters. There's not much in the way of arguing against it here. So does the initial placement, I'm pretty sure. It came up when someone asked if you can steal feruchemical healing from someone by shooting them. Gotta hit the right part. There's a reason Inquisitors stab the heart so much when stealing things; a lot of the commonly needed theft points are there, and Ruin probably does the minute adjustments to hit the correct bit of the heart.