Red Ferring

My understanding of Feruchemy is that you can't store more of an attribute than what you have. So a 5 yr old can't store enough to look 85. Since that would require him to store 75 years. But he could maybe look 10 if he stores all 5 of his current life span.

Awaken the corpse of a horse after filling it with ichor-alcohol and you have a steed that never tires and you just need supplies to upkeep the wear and tear of the muscles. Was this mentioned in the book? Any problems with this being feasible? Also! Lifeless mules and other beasts of burden to do all the work you need! Lifeless carrier pigeons = Long-distance fast communication!

I always wondered why not just wear a small earring or ring for all your Metalminds. I can't think off hand of a time when Sazed had a full Metalmind

I'm not sure if this has been discussed before, but I've been wondering if the size/mass of a metalmind determines the amount of whatever attribute it can hold. The fact that Sazed's copperminds were the largest that he owned and he had 4 of them does indicate size is proportional in some way to capacity but if this is true, is there any scale by which to guage how much of a trait can fit in however large a metalmind? Thoughts/WoBs? Thanks!

That's very true on feruchemy. They all work within their own sphere of logic. I don't want to beat a dead horse even if it did eat all my carrots. But I don't think I'm conflating the two (even if I did have to look up the definition of "conflating" just now). If the simple concept of friends could be used to apply what I'm saying, then I'm saying that storing spiritual connectedness is the storing of existing friendships. While storing the capacity to become spiritually connected is like storing your social prowess and likability. Like iron, you're not storing your capacity to gain weight but storing (the effect of) your current weight. I think to tap a duraluminmind and form trust friendships quickly, you must have, at a previous time, lessened the spiritual connection you had with your (then current and existing) friendships. Meaning that you had friendships at the time of storing and not just a capacity

"Another possibility is that it's more like sight. Most people can see. If you're in a dark room, I don't think there's evidence that you're unable to store sight. You're storing your capacity to see. When we see Sazed tap a sight tinmind, he doesn't suddenly see what he was looking at when he stored, his vision now improves, implying that he stores his capacity to see, not his current vision." (I don't know how to quote so I put it in quotations) @Oudies I love your thoughts on this and that analogy of Sazed's tin/sight had me convinced for a moment. Of course, all of this is speculation and that WoB could make this whole discussion pointless (per the usual, right?) but for the sake of discussion, I'd like to toss that analogy back at you with a spin. Sazed can store his vision because he possesses sight. A blind Feruchemist wouldn't be able to because he can't store what he does not already possess. And with that logic, the "spiritual connectedness" of a Connector Ferring must be possessed in order to store it. And a "connection" requires 2 separate points. So the Ferring being 1 point then requires another point (a friend with whom they're spiritually connected) in order to store said connectedness. So with that in mind, I'm still thinking a Connector who has lost their family and has no friends would have a pretty difficult time storing their attribute. Again, the WoB stating a connection to the planet would mean a constant connection that they can store, but like you said Oudeis, probably not as well as a highly outgoing person with a wide social circle. Thoughts?

I was thinking about Feruchemy (the best of Brandon's magic systems ) and about Duralumin ferrings: Connectors. "Connector Ferrings store spiritual connectedness. Reducing other people's awareness and friendship with them during active storage. Tapping it can help speedily form trust relationships with others." Since a ferring needs to possess the attribute to store it (this attribute being others' awareness of and friendship with the Ferring), does this mean that a Ferring with social awkwardness that has trouble making friends and gets ignored won't be able to store their attribute? Or at least not very well? And a followup question: Could a Connector start a huge commotion in a crowd and everyone looks toward the Connector who then starts storing his attribute like crazy! What wuold happen? They stop caring and look away? Also I can see it being used in future books as a plot element of a Connector Ferring storing the attribute to sneak around and not get noticed. Because it stores people's awareness of the Ferring. That's so NINJA! First time posting! Any thoughts/ remarks/ critques? I'd love to hear them!

Skin and bones (and most everything about the body) are strengthened from Allomantic pewter. This is apparent from Vin's ability to withstand a Thug's choking during the Assembly ambush scene in WoA. I know that a visual difference in tapping Feruchemical pewter is the actual increase in muscular size but is it indicated anywhere that it's only the muscle strength that's stored/tapped and not more of the body's strength like in Allomantic pewter?