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We don't know which if any of the powers are even "based" on either shard. The notion kind of defies the way Realmatics seems to have played out on Scadrial and in Greater Roshar, a little anyway. I do believe it is said somewhere that they can all basically be described as expressions of the same system?

But the spikes don't hold "generating gold shadows" as a power they hold "gold allomancy", as in the spiritweb fragment encoded with the ability . . .

Plus, won't mixing them together at the end just end up with ferrings again? Though I vaguely recall a WoB on the possibility of creating natural-born Mistborn-ferrings and Feruchemist-mistings. Fullborn would be a real problem when the presence of such powerful allomantic blood will no doubt fracture the feruchemical blood again within a generation or so.

Realistically you only need to be lucky enough to make some butterfly flap somewhere on the planet and boom, hurricane . . . It was a joke.

Why would we even call it rust anymore then? I mean rust isn't even really red enough to be mistaken for blood stains on metal. It's honestly closer to brown. I feel like we're making this needlessly complex despite how little we know.

Rust isn't even metal. I doubt it will burn. And what did you think suspending the metal in alcohol was probably for besides washing it down? Not entirely sure how aluminum of all things would matter here . . . Aluminum mistings are literally useless.

Her mind was totally functional the whole time though. It's the same thing Vin and Elend did to literally thousands of koloss at a time for months.

They also bind to human spiritwebs, for the express purpose of being allowed to retain sentience in the physical realm. They're not really just cognitive. Almost nothing is.

Soonie cubs.

I do believe that's more or less where the inspiration for feruchemy came from. Wakefulness is such an awesome power . . . I swear my mother has it, she can work for ages but can lie down for a bit and is instantly out cold.

I would think you'd need mental speed too for something like sorting things at that kind of rate.

That's like the one thing they can't not have at full power. Other than bondsmiths, anyway. But that's more the Stormfather's fault, and we don't know if it's normal or just Dalinar.

Why would true neutral be needed to maintain harmony between the two? Neither of his intents have any direct parallel to good and evil. Preservation isn't remotely good, if anything the technological stagnation Rashek created essentially aligned with a will to preserve the status quo. Ruin is a natural phenomenon, just a directly detrimental one, but we all know how necessary it is for things to actually die at some point. Ruin resists existence, which is generally dangerous, but all things come to an end. Preservation won't try to kill anyone, sure, but it also just stops things from dying outright, stops all change and potential for progress. Look at Sazed's regrets about making Elendel too fertile. If it was Cultivation instead of Ruin living on Scadrial they'd still block each other to some degree, and we'd all have stood on the other side of the conflict. I'm just frustrated at people trying to say that putting the two together would impact the good/evil axis more than or even equal to the law/chaos one. Either shard dominating a world unhindered would basically only result in multiple ways to be utterly screwed.

He steelpushes bullets on purpose on a regular basis though. Bullets are pretty fast, driving them forward is basically the only thing he can do reliably.

I said when he started out. He made all these Mistwraiths from them and all. His own people. Total waste of feruchemy. He started cashing in later, as we see. I blame Ruin's constant whispering for that.

Well, they DO have the genes, generally *stares at atium misting army* They basically have such low potential though, that they need supernatural enhancement to reach the point where their power can be expressed. The mists used to do that, but we haven't seen that going on yet. Mistborn aren't really a natural part of the system, I think, more of a consequence of how strong of an allomantic potential burning lerasium can give you. That's probably faded a lot more from the nobles by now with all the breeding that probably went down early on. Skaa only developed allomancy in the Final Empire, what, 4 to 5 generations away from a noble ancestor? It must require a lot of keeping all offspring between members of the nobility for allomancy to even continue to exist as it did.

I think in the case of non-inborn powers spikes are excusable.

That, and I don't see how Ruin influence can just change good to neutral like that. There's nothing evil about Ruin until you straight up try to end everything. Preservation isn't even all that much better of an alternative, he just wasn't trying to kill anyone meanwhile and is too weak to truly enforce utter stagnation, which would be his inevitable end-goal. If anything Sazed kinda went from Chaotic Good (he is THE meddler from the race that makes an effort to never meddle in things. "His name shall be discord, and they shall love him for it") to Neutral Good, or at least as good as a human will ever get. I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt for the goodness part on account of his previous motivations as a mortal. But he literally overthrew an empire while the Synod begged him to stop. He's obedient and docile relative to skaa and nobles, but he's probably the least lawful Terrisman alive.

. . . No, pretty sure feruchemists with allomancy was literally the last thing he wanted when he started out . . .

But why would he even be carrying chromiumminds as an iron ferring?

. . . that there was another god prowling around seems to be news to Harmony just as much as it was for everyone else.

If the stuff was underwater . . . would the beeds "spawn" buried underneath the dry shadesmar land when you step into shadesmar, or would it just be sitting there O_O The former is more intuitive, but if it's true I feel bad for Nazh. With that said, it confirms moving the beads in some sort of method can legitimately teleport the object.

No compounder would ever just burns ALL of their storage like that, tbh. Total waste of power. I doubt an entire shard or even two has enough power to provide the literally infinite energy needed to reach light speed physically, and that's the maximum amount of power you can actually store through compunding, as your power source is allomancy, which is fueled by Preservation/Harmony. It's much more effective to mess with physics itself to produce that result rather than trying to literally create infinity. Shards are themselves finite, they just seem to have so much investiture that temporary uses of it barely make a dent before it comes back to them. Pure Speed compounding will NEVER reach the speed of light. There's not even enough steel to hold it all.

Stormlight holds in gemstones much better than in human bodies, which leak like crazy.On the other hand, Szeth's healing is just plain inefficient compared to Radiant surgebinders, so having to heal in battle will be a problem. EDIT: Ah, my phone accidentally downvoted Joe while scrolling. Can someone fix this?

Five, huh. Still a nice number for shard business. It's implied honorblade summoning is actually supposed to be instant though, isn't it?