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i'm thinking soulcasting the entire body to alumnium might fail, or at least cause problems, and may also be painful for the spren animating it. i expect tht sulcasting a thin layer around it would work though

i'd assume it would be fine, but you'd have to do the coating after it was created, I doubt the spren or whatever could penetrate pre-existing aluminum.

to be fair, the coppermind says you have to die to Nalthis to Return, but doesn't have a citation for that. I dug around in the WoBs and couldn't find a solid source, though i got bored long before i checked every result. I did also happen across conflicting answers to whether non-Nalthians could return, including one that was a hard "no" and others that suggested it would be possible.

to clarify: only nalthians are born with Breaths, however anyone can receive breath. if you have a breath (either natural born or received), you can use it for awakening and/or give it away. there is no location restriction on this, so you don't need to be on nalthis to do any of it.

It's also not really fair because Dragonlance did the same thing a decade and a half earlier

Near as I can tell, this is pretty much everyone's opinion

I've read a few by Guy Gavriel Kay and of them the only one that I think rises above middling is Tigana. that one I actually want to reread, the rest, while fine, i wouldn't bother picking up again. Though I don't recall Under Heaven, so I don't think i've picked up that one.

For 2d I'd be hard pressed to choose between Link's Awakening (my first Zelda game) or the Oracle games; with Link to the Past coming in a solid 3rd after those. I don't think I ever managed to beat the original Zelda, though I have gotten to the last dungeon. my bane in that game are Wizrobes. without whirling blade, or even just the ability to hold out my sword, I have a much harder time hitting them before they phase back out.

I guess my first question would be is it actually a fully frictionless state when using abrasion? or just mostly frictionless? in the latter case, there should still be some effect, since friction is proportional to weight, but it might be hard to notice if most of the friction is gone. (i.e. the difference between 1% and .5% is hard to measure) the reverse also works though - if you increase weight while increasing friction, it should make you harder to move overall. since those 2 terms multiply together in the friction equation.

that's probably about right, with the additional caveat that "stronger investiture" may mean a level of investiture not readily accessible by anyone short of a shard or a splinter of a shard. Odium could possibly use division on a shardblade; Szeth likely wouldn't be able to make it work even at the height of a highstorm/Dalinar's perpendicularity thing even with all the available investiture that entails.

nearing the end of my Sandman reread. thinking I might start into Watchmen reread next.

short answer is it isn't clear from what I can see digging through the WoBs. I did see this though: which suggests that stone soulcast from wood is going to be heavier than the original wood was. but there were also other WoBs that said soulcasting mostly conserves mass. and yet another suggesting that the process of soulcasting is a bit more complicated than it looks and potentially involves multiple reactions happening. so just clear as mud

trawling through the WoBs on this and Brandon has been very vague on the subject. for instance it seems like soulcast blood is close enough that it could be used for transfusions, but wouldn't necessarily register as exactly human if you tried to test it. i'm paraphrasing a bit, but that's what i'm getting out of it so far. e.g.:

true, which is why I'm still not completely ruling out your position here, but given the WoB above i'm 90+% convinced tat you'd be able to burn an unkeyed metalmind.

right, but the relevant fact is that he doesn't have ferruchemy at the time. for the purposes of this question burning your own metalmind without access to ferruchemy seems like it would be equivalent to burning an unkeyed metalmind without ferruchemy.

right, but we are talking about using allomancy to burn the metalmind, not trying to tap it ferruchemically. it isn't impossible that it needs to be unsealed as well, but I don't think it obvious that it would need to. with no access restriction based on identity, I think someone burning it would be OK. now they couldn't store that power, so unless they have the capacity to handle the big burst they'll get, it may be mostly wasted, but I think they could.

I don't think it would have to be unsealed to burn it. unkeyed, yes we have confirmation that it needs that at minimum, but it seems to me that that should be sufficient, unless you know of WoB otherwise

I feel like Kandra using ferruchemy would want metal "bones" that double as metalminds. but thinking about a kandra with iron ferruchemy raises interesting questions. like would storing their weight include the weight of their bones? what if those bones were ironminds? is it purely a perception/cognitive identity type thing - like they would count if the Kandra in question considered them part of itself? I'm sort of imagining a kandra in a bird shape flying through a combination of physical shape and storing to an ironmind to reduce weight

second is correct

If the breaths they used for awakening originally came from humans, then I don't necessarily think so. Also Singers are generally humanoid too so the resulting forms of trying to imitate them wouldn't be that different from human, and Kandra were originally humans, so they still might produce humanoid awakened objects. but if you took something like a population of Ryshadium and brought them to Nalthis and left them for a couple of generations so that they would naturally be born with Breaths, then yes, I think their awkening would tend toward horse shapes, rather than human.

yea I see what you are getting at, but it doesnt work that way: from here https://wob.coppermind.net/events/153-hal-con-2012/#e2803

doesn't work that way. if you tapped it to get to 2x sp an stored all that back into a new metalmind, ten tried to tap that metalmind to get up to 2x speed, you still hit the 5/6 efficiency issue. to use real numbers - if you spent 12 hours at 1/2 speed then tapped that to gt to 2x speed at 5/6 efficiency, you'd have 5 hours worth of 2x speed (1 hour of 2x speed requires 2 hours at half speed to store). dump all that into a new steelmind and try to withdraw it back up to 2x speed again and you have 5 * 5/6 = 4.16667 hours ( hours and 10 minutes) worth of 2x speed.

I suppose we'll know more in future books. up until BoM there wouldn't have been much reason for someone to try it. now, however, it might make sense to try to transfer a charge from an unkeyed metalmind into one of you own.

the same attribute or different attributes? pretty sure there is noting to stop you storing weight while tapping strength or whatever. but Im not sure you can simultanesouly tap and store the same attribute, basically to transfer from one metalmind to another