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Been a little while, but I'm pretty sure Navani explicitly mentions studying music theory when they talk about the Rhythms.

there is a difference between breath and regular innate investiture. someone from Scadrial, for instance, does not have a breath, unless one is given to them. and breath is designed to be able to be given away - it is designed to be able to be torn off. so storing a breath is a bit easier than storing say a normal piece of your innate investiture.

I don't think you need to stab the heart, its jut the simplest place - it has bindpoints for just about everything. but the same way the recipient needs to have the spike implanted int eh correct location, i believe a stab in the correct location could steal powers as well.

SO I think the healing thing would work, and as The Bookwyrm suggests, you wouldn't need a compounder, just someone with F-Gold to store as the stormlight enhanced healing comes in. for your steel example though - that isn't how F-Steel works. F-Steel stores physical speed - basically your ability to run or move fast, not the speed you are currently moving. you can store speed while staying still now, if you filled yourself up with stormlight, it does enhance your physical abilities, like strength and speed, and that enhanced strength or speed you could still store if you somehow had access to both surgebinding and ferruchemy. you should also be able to store your ability to surgebind (possibly individual surges or maybe even individual lashings/lashing equivalents) if you have access to Feruchemical nicrosil

Bear in mind that awakening metal is already very hard, and awakening something that already carries some investiture is going to make things harder (though since a spike carries investiture from a human being, that might make the awakening easier too? hard to guess how that specific bit would interact). In theory I think if you had enough breaths and enough knowledge you could make this work, but as I said, the fact that the objects are already invested is going to make it harder, and there are almost certainly easier ways to do it as to awakening someone else: we have only seen awakening used on a person directly once, and they had to do it to themselves. I doubt blanking Identity accomplishes anything in that scenario, but it may be possible for an allomancer who is given breaths to somehow use them as you suggest, though i don't know for sure. the bits we have seen of using awakening on a living person involved altering/hiding memories which doesn't seem like it would do what you want directly or indirectly.

seconded. also, not sure that's how nicrosil ferruchemy works. and finally, I suspect you'd need a continent's worth of any metal to store enough into them to approach the investiture levels of a shard. I just don't think a skeleton is anywhere close to the scale you'd need to make this work if it is even possible in the first place.

I see what you are saying, and you may have a point, but at the end of the day, I doubt it would make an observable difference.

I think you'd be hard-pressed to put a lightweaving onto a microscope slide given tat the ones we have seen ten to be insubstantial. you can't just hold a microscope up to something/someone and expect it to work, they require preparation and light sources and focusing etc (or at least that's what I recall from the last time i used one). they also tend only to work on small thing. if you had clothing or something that had a lightweaving attached to it and tried to cut off a small piece to examine, I would guess the lightweaving would fade from it pretty quickly, but if it somehow didn't, or someone had attached one to a small enough piece of something to put on a microscope slide then it would almost certainly depend on the details of how the lightweaving was created. I suspect Shallan is detailoriented enough that it would hold up under pretty strong magnification, but would break down as it approached the limits of her knowledge of textiles or a best chemistry and molecules and atoms and the like

I suspect if you had gems or spheres by an open window during a highstorm, they would probably get infused, but its kind of a bad idea to have n open window during a highstorm

I think it would work, but they'd likely have to be very crafty about it to prevent Odium from noticing. Honor and Ambition might not be able to mange it due to conflicts with their intents

the breath does however. also, theres a WoB to the effect that any large amount of investiture left alone for long enough would eventually develop sentience, so investiture itself does have some tendency in that direction

we have a WoB about the reverse, so history matters. my guess is it probably wouldn't be a lifeless, but I admit i'm not sure. i'm also now curious what would happen if it was a person who was soulcast to stone then soulcast back to flesh

my guess is that it wouldn't work, but if it did, I assume it would show up as two distinct pools of investiture

spren are sort of made of the same stuff as the shard in the first place. I do think there are some potentially interesting implications though. in particular, spren are little bits of a shard that, crucially, are sentient, and in some cases sapient. By default a shard is not, though it would develop if left alone for long enough. point being if sapient spren were to pick up/merge with a shard how much would their sapience be retained/affect the resulting entity.

my first playthrough I did all the shrines and all the memories. only needed help on about 3 of the shrines even, but as a result, I explored the whole world pretty thoroughly. it's full of a lot of really cool stuff, but it's cool stuff I've seen already

the DLC has some fun little treasure hunts, where they give you clues as to where to get mostly new (nonupgradable) armors. plus the new dungeon. I breifely tried rials of the sword, but as best I could tell you had to get through it all in one go, and I don't have time for that. otherwise, I am fully with you. the best part of BotW was the exploration, and the problem with that is that once you've done it, you know where everything is, and it isn't nearly as fun anymore. still little bit, if you delay long enough, but nowhere close to the level it was.

That is mostly going to be true, though as things progress you'll get recurring characters and permanent changes to things. I think the only books that aren't truly single episodes are the most recent 2, which probably should have been a single large book instead of 2 smaller ones.

you could, and they probably do in emergencies, but I'd guess they'd prefer the other way. i could be wrong. maybe they always awaken first because that way no one needs to carry the corpse. but i'd bet they prefer to get a good idea of the damage and assess what it would take to fix/how useful it will be as a lifeless before permanently using up a breath

I don't find that convincing. he had to look like a dog, but the insides did not need to be 100% accurate - even 90+% leaves plenty of room for expanded brain capacity compared to a wolfhound. that said, a brain is enormously complicated, so even if they can duplicate it, that doesn't necessarily mean that it would function the way you'd expect - 2 brains would likely just mean literally fighting yourself for control of your body. and bigger is not automatically better either. To make it work, if it can work, you would need to have probably a better understanding of the brain than we currently have, and make very specific types of changes and improvements. and that assumes there would be no sort of spiritual or cognitive realm shenanigans blocking it, which is definitely plausible.

I'll second the Earthsea suggestion from above, Ursula LeGuin is fantastic in general, but A Wizard of Earthsea and most of the other Earthsea books and stories are superb fantasy. Her Sci-fi is quite good too. for other books: Enders Game and Speaker for the Dead are both excellent, the other sequels are decent enough too, but not quite on the same level, IMO. Catch 22 is another one I find myself coming back to over the years. I don't think I saw the His Dark Materials series mentioned, but The Golden Compass/The Northern Lights at least probably warrants a place.

accidentally finished my long-delayed (on purpose) second play-through of Breath of the Wild the other day. short version - I was raiding the castle for equipment and collectibles but wasn't paying close attention to where I was so I accidentally ran into the Sanctum and started the final boss battle before I meant to while trying to dodge some guardian fire. obviously once I stated the fight I wasn't going to just quit, so I ended up beating it. I could go back and do more stuff, but now I don't feel like it - and I did most of it in my first play-through anyway, so there isn't much I would want to do right now that I didn't do then.

seems like it could be - pretty sure there was enough of a delay for Lightsong in his scene that someone with the breth could have done it. that said, i suspect most lifeless go through an embalming type process to get the ichor alcohol and sew up any wounds that might leak etc. so I'd guess you wouldn't see it in most places because it would essentially be a waste of breath/body to awaken it immediately

maybe:

I'm reasonably certain we have seen that more oaths sworn = more efficiency using Stormlight.

So like if you had the right metal and the right intent, would it still be able to tear a spiritweb hole even if it couldn't retain the investiture? that's an interesting question. I am honestly not sure; I can see arguments either way. you are basically separating the "tearing out a piece of spiritweb" function of hemalurgy from the "storing it in metal" piece, and I am not sure if that would work. to twist it further, I'm slightly more inclined to believe it would work if you didn't know the metal was full and this didn't have a reason to expect the stealing to fail - that is if you try to use the spike for proper hemalurgy and it just can't hold more investiture vs if you knowingly tried to subvert your own hemalurgy by using a spike that could not work.