Hemalurgist

Mairze and Lyatil. I'm not sure if it is know for certain that the two of them are worldhoppers but they have items that appear to be from other worlds and Lyatil is descended from a group of people who are from a different planet.

That might make sense. However Ettmetal only explodes when it reacts with water and I would think as substance as volatile as Brandon described would explode even more easily. But Ettmetal seems far more reactive at least to me (warning I only have high school chemistry to go on for this) than Alkali metals.

I think the only limit to the amount of lashings is the amount of stormlight you have. So after x number of lashings a multiple lashed object would be stronger.

Koloss are useful assuming you can control them. I would rather have Lifeless because you can have complete control over them. The problem with Koloss is a skilled mistborn or a team of soothers can take control of them from you. Also if you want to make your enemies afraid with lifeless just take enemy civilians and soldiers and turn them into lifeless.

I wonder if he would be able to see gems. Also I don't think Odium is currently on Roshar so I would if he can observe things in the way Ruin did.

Alright so this quote from HoA was the reason I originally assumed that the inquisitors had been physically changed, but now I think that this probably meant that they were changed spiritually into something that was no longer completely human. There are still some physical changes where organs move around spikes though. "One could argue that, like an Inquisitor who has been transformed by a Hemalurgic spike, the Allomantic savant is no longer even human." -Epigraph 16 Hero of Ages

I would think that would be the case with a copper cloud, but there obvious limits to ruins power such as he is unable to see clearly when there is enough metal or that he can't read minds or change and read what is written in metal. These things don't seem to be a matter of power, but limits that are wired into the way the world works. So I was wondering if aluminum might be similar as it has a lot of anti investiture effects (it has no atium shadow, gold healing won't right with aluminum in the wound, and I am not sure if we ever saw a duralumin or nicroburst on steel or push in relation to aluminum, but I think that it wouldn't work). So as I was wondering if aluminum might not provide resistance to ruin, but block him out all together.

According to the Alloy of Law Ars Arcanum wearing an aluminum helmet can protect the user from emotional allomancy. So if an inquisitor, koloss or kandra were to wear an aluminum helmet would they be protected from ruin's influence? Also similarly would burning copper protect an inquisitor from ruin? That would be odd though because I would have imagined at least some inquisitors would have tried it then.

Either of the SA books or Warbreaker. I'm not sure.

I agree with you that there is more to the Heralds. I think Honor gave them some innate power as part of the oath pact, but that raises some questions. Like do the Heralds need Honorblades in order to surge bind and if so why couldn't Honor just grant surge binding to them? Also do they need stormlight to surge bind? Maybe they can do what Lift does. Honor blades would be useful as weapons, but it seems somewhat inconvenient to have the Honor blade give some power and the Heralds have some on their own.

I meant that they were mistwraiths before they were spiked, I think that would mean they would be effected at least somewhat differently, but I am not sure.

I am wondering how much of a negative effect Hemalugy has on humans. Humalurgy's effect on humans: Vin: -One spike granting allomantic bronze -This allows ruin to speak to her Questions: -Does this have an effect on her emotions by making her more inclined to violence? -Is she more susceptible to emotional allomancy allowing with enough power mind control? I don't think so because ruin never tried to. Inquisitors: -I am pretty sure that they are no longer entirely human. -I think they had 8 spikes during the final empire and 10-12 afterwards. -They seem to be more inclined to violence and reveled in brutality. -Ruin was unable to be completely control Marsh while he was torturing VIn. Questions: -Did the increase in spikes make them more violent and less human? -If this is true wouldn't Marsh be much less human because he has at least greater than 20 spikes? -I can't remember where but I think I read somewhere Inquisitors lived longer than normal is this due to their spikes or simply gold healing? Koloss: Pre-Harmony -Definitely inhuman. -They have 4 spikes granting human strength. -Prone to violence. Harmony Era: -Can reproduce somehow -Obviously not slaughtering villages Questions: -How did Harmony change the way Koloss worked, did he make stealing human attributes have less of an effect or did he decrease the number of spikes they use or something else? -How come koloss can breed now? Kandra: -They were mistwriaths before they were transformed into Kandra so I don't think they should be used as a base for information and speculation about how Hemalurgy effects humans. General Effects of Hemalurgy: -Causes an increase in violent tendencies. -Makes one more susceptible to control with emotional allomancy and ruin. -Allows ruin and now harmony to speak to you. -Changes you to something other than human. -Organs will move around a spike. Questions: -When stealing powers like allomancy does the greater charge have any effect besides granting more power? -Could other shards talk to you or control you if you had enough spikes or could they do other things as well? -Koloss appear to be less intelligent than humans is this a universal effect or limited to Koloss? -To steal powers beyond the metallic arts (Surge Binding, Breaths ect) would other metals have to be used or different materials? -Could a coppercloud or a aluminum helmet protect against mind control from allomancers or shards and could either prevent shards from talking to you? -Would a bronze burner be able to sense spikes or spiked individuals with out them using magic? -How would a Hemalugist feel to someone using lifesense? -Would spren be less likely to consider a Nahel bond with a Hemalurgist? -How many non-human attribute spikes are safe before you stop being human and start being a homociadal and bloodthirsty? Please post any effects that Hemalurgy has on humans that I missed and let me know if I wrote something that was wrong. Also please post any questions you also have about hemalurgy. If you have any answers or theories about hemalurgy's effect on humans please post them. Thanks for reading this (if you did) and hopefully together we can learn more about how to abuse Hemalurgy.

Hello I exist. So I found The Way of Kings about a year and liked it so much that I read all of Brandon's cosmere books and then his Reckoners series. I found out about the cosmere shortly afterwards when I was looking on the coppermind and I found about the 17th shard shortly after that.