A Windspren

We know that Honor was around to see the Recreance, because one of Dalinar's visions shows it and Honor states that he was there. Cultivation is fine, according to a WoB. Silver isn't really special in terms of how it affects Investiture. It was originally planned to be one of the metals (with electrum as its pair), but gold won for some reason. The danger of using massive amounts of Investiture at once seems to explain why we don't see Shards doing crazy things like making everyone immortal with super-intelligence, and why Shards tend to use humans to fight proxy wars (Heralds + Radiants vs Voidbringers, and Preservation choosing Vin as a successor to fight Ruin). It could also explain Honor's advise of choosing a champion to fight Odium indirectly, I'm guessing that 2 champions from both sides fighting it out could serve as a mock Shard fight, so that both Shards don't have to expend a bunch of power and risk Splintering themselves. Has anyone asked Brandon if the way gemstones shatter when Stormlight is quickly drawn from them is similar to a Shard/Adonalsium Splintering/Shattering?

Thanks! I don't know if aluminum was the weapon, as it just seems to do something special with Investiture, not negate it. But it might be possible, if the Other One (what I call Adonalsium's opposition) Invested aluminum to do that.

While rereading WoK for the 100000th time, I had an idea on how Adonalsium Shattered, and how Shards can be Splintered. On Roshar, when a fabrial or Surgebinder draws Stormlight out of a gemstone too quickly, it shatters. This is probably due to the rapid removal of Investiture damaging the structure of the gemstone, causing it to shatter. Now, about Adonalsium. We know that he had an enemy, and that enemy created a weapon. What if the weapon quickly drained Adonalsium's Investiture, causing him to Shatter? The resulting Shards would have been created from the Investiture that the weapon drew out, leaving them for 16 Yolenese (IDK what else to call them) to pick up. For Shards, you could use the same principle of forcibly drawing Investiture, but there is another way, which, I think, is how Odium Splintered Honor (and possibly Devotion and Dominion). Odium, with the Desolations, was causing huge amounts of people to die. Honor combated this with the Heralds, and the Radiants later arose from spren bonding people. Odium's original plan may have been to trick Honor into expending a massive amount of Investiture into stopping all the Desolations at once, but Honor instead allowed them to come every once in a while, relying on the Heralds (whose Honorblades would have taken comparatively little Investiture to make) and human soldiers to fight during Desolations, akin to letting water past a dam a small amount at a time. Eventually, Odium caused a disaster which would have wiped out nearly everyone on Roshar, and Honor was forced to stop it with sheer force. This massive draw on his Investiture would have Splintered him. However, there is a problem with this theory: Odium didn't Splinter when he caused that huge disaster. My solution to that is Odium "saved up" for a while, probably by slowing the amount of Desolations, before unleashing it all at once in the disaster. After Honor was Splintered, Odium again began to save up, this time for the Final Desolation. Please tell me your thoughts on this!

You know, this made me think of how Shardbearers had to embedd a gemstone in their Blades in order to summon them. Maybe the gemstones in the pommels of Shardblades really are a kind of fabrial, which allows a non-Radiant to bond the Blade?

We need more! By the Shards themselves, this is awesome!

Well, seeing as you have to stick a big metal spike in yourself to get Hemalurgic powers, it would be pretty hard to be born like that.

No, not just Investiture stored in nicrosil. I mean like weight and heat, because when they are stored in metalminds they are basically Investiture. Nicrosil just allows you to directly store Investiture.

Maybe it's because Feruchemy is of Ruin and Preservation, and Preservation gave up some power to Invest humans on Scadrial, upsetting the balance?

I just had a thought. Since Feruchemical stores are Investiture, could you convert them to, say other types of Feruchemical power? So, like, take weight and turn it into something useful like health? You could even take it a step further, and turn it into Breath or Stormlight. A Bendalloy Ferring could be just like Lift! If you could do that, it just makes a Roshar/Scadrial combo even more OP, as you could generate Stormlight anywhere at the cost of something like weight, and storing it is actually something beneficial. You could even make Breath without even setting foot on Nalthis, and although this kind of breaks the 2 worlds rule, you can accomplish it without any inherent ability from Nalthis by making the Breath from Feruchemical stores.

I think that Taravangian's boon was his intelligence, and his curse was the pain he has constantly. Odium then corrupted the boon so that his empathy would decrease when he was more intelligent. When Mr.T didn't do anything really destructive, Odium made him hyper intelligent for a day (the day he made the Diagram) and shared a bit of future sight, but also changing some of it so that Mr.T would plan something that would destroy whatever defences humanity could make against Odium.

Where did you get the cover synopsis? I've never heard about it before. It seems that one of the four will turn against the KR though, which sounds ominous.

I wonder if you could Lash an entire planet if you were inside a Highstorm? That would be AWESOME! And how would Nightblood react to being in a Highstorm while unsheathed? Would it eat the storm? Could it work on the Everstorm? Nightblood is all "destroy evil" and the Everstorm seems pretty evil, so how would that work out?

You could also use Nicrosil to store the Stormlight (I think it stores Investiture). Deorbiting Roshar sounds fun! > I don't think that Stormlight healing alone would be sufficient to heal you from something like that, but maybe compounding gold at the same time as using Stormlight could do it.

It would also probably end up making a second Shattered Plains.

Why would you need Voidspren? Just "borrow" (albeit permanently) all of a Shards Investiture to make these Shatterbots (that's what I'm calling them). The only flaw in the Shatterbots is that only one can use Nightblood. (Of course, I could make a million Nightblood clones while I'm at the task of gathering enough Investiture for a million Shatterbots, but even one Nightblood in the Cosmere is one too many).

Or somehow convince a Shard to make you an army of a million of super-monster thingies. Whatever we're calling them.

Maybe also make each part of its body different metals, but encased with an Awakened titanium/aluminium alloy?

Also spike it so that it has all 16 Allomantic and Feruchemical powers, give it Nightblood to use as a weapon, have Susebron give it all of his Breaths, have it bond all 10 Honorblades and embed a fully infused gemheart in it. Not OP at all.

Szeth hid the black sphere in Jah Keved. Shallan is from Jah Kaved. Commence the conspiracy theories.

I think that there was a WoB where Brandon said that Hemalurgy could be used in machines. That would be cool; imagine seeing a Terminator-type droid with all of the magic systems.

I wonder what would happen if you made yourself massless with iron and then Lashed yourself? Do we have any info on how much an iron Ferring can decrese his/her mass?

Yes, I read it, but the OP says that you can't have 2 magic systems from the same planet.

But you can't choose Allomancy and Feruchemy. Just one of them. Otherwise, that would be AWESOME. *Compounds Iron while performing uber-reverse lashing, creating a singularity*

But the Inquisitors could fill Hemalurgic Spikes, which had a lot of Investiture in them.

Windrunner + Feruchemist seems like the best choice to me. You could use Gold to store health while replenishing it with Stormlight, and even store Stormlight in Nicrosil (I think that's what stores Investiture, not sure ATM). It would also be cool to do iron weight storing and Lashings at the same time. Basically, Feruchemy has a lot of different uses, and Stormlight is really versatile in that it complements many Feruchemical abilities. What would happen if you tried to store an attribute in a Shardblade? Prepare for epicness!