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    @Darnam, while I don't necessarily disagree with your conclusions, something feels wrong about how you're describing this. I think you are treating Elantris as part of the magic system, when it could possibly be considered a product of said magic system. One could make the argument that a new Elantris could be made, in the shape of an entire planet (and perhaps the size of it), and new Aons developed, to simply access a "higher level" of geography.
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    I'm more fascinated by someone drawing this conclusion WITHOUT WoB. Your hunch in this case was correct, though we have no way of knowing if your evidence is also correct. Atium alloys are said to have "assorted temporal powers." Perhaps Hoid is just an archivist tapping future memories.
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    The problem with bronzesight is Scadrial's own applications: able to see if a metal chunk has a feruchemic or hemalurgic charge for example. More terrifying: wouldn't you be able to see spiritwebs themselves? The bindpoints? I think it would be flippin awesome, but there's enough investiture on Scadrial that it should've been discovered already.
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    My understanding was that copper effectively has 2 effects: self, and aura. Self blocks emotion manipulation and your own seeking, aura just blocks other seekers. If you could figure out how to block emotional allomancy on everyone in your bubble, it would probably smother their seeking abilities as well. But I realize that's way less technical than most of you want.
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    Marsh on a skaa thieving team doesn't even make sense if he can't seek from within a coppercloud. Too much risk to even use your power for any skaa Seeker.
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    Everything about TLR hinges on feruchemic speed. I think Seb could do a lot, but ultimately wouldn't get much of a chance because of speed. However, if he survives the initial clash, TLR would be up-close (we've seen he prefers casual use of his superpewter) and surrounded by all manner of deceptively dangerous awakened objects. But I still think TLR wins. I actually really like Raoden vs TLR. He needs some time to get his Aons up, and suffers in the same way to Feruchemical steel as Seb. Except he has his own innate healing factor that basically guarantees he will survive first contact. He's clever enough to make a very good showing, at least. I definitely think Raoden wins against more comparatively normal people, like Kelsier, fully-sharded Dalinar, even Sazed. But Vin always wins because Vin.
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    Don't all humans need some amount of investiture to be intelligent, or have souls or something? So even if the lerasium supercharge equivalent is handled externally - such as with a spren bond - Rosharians still need a base investiture to come from somewhere.
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    Woah morality debate. Not touching that. I like to think the BS quote is in reference to the final empire. Hemalurgy is only as evil as the people who use it. And during TFE, all known methods were pretty evil.
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    This seems to mean shardblades are more like Breath than a "magic item" like a metalmind, nightblood, or shardplate.
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    On fabrials: couldn't this be a mechanism to either read the current stormlight pattern (emotion detector thing) or a physical limiter of the pattern to force a behavior? Like making shadow puppets. It's not enough to discount it entirely, but I'm inclined to view the framework less as part of the magic and more as a mortal hack to make it behave a certain way
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    So Ruin is affecting all planets. All shards are parts of creation. Even though they all have their own domains, this indicates they have something of a consensus reality. No matter what shard I am, if I make a magic system, I'm making it *Cosmere wide.* Like making amendments to a group charter or constitution. I have to write these exceptions of "standard physics" into the same reality that everyone else inhabits. If you buy this interpretation, it's important to note that planets and their shards aren't dictating what magic exists. They're dictating access. Allomancy exists everywhere, but can only be accessed with the correctly coded sDNA. Hemalurgy is actually incredibly clever -- it doesn't need to wire access or provide power or fuel a reaction or any of those conditions other systems need, because it leeches all of those things from the target system. When I view it like that, universal hemalurgy is the only thing that makes sense.
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    This is what I was thinking. I seem to remember her noting another woman dressed as modestly as her, and the woman obviously being a foreigner.
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    While in my hole, nursing my wounds from this thread, I've been considering the strength of a Nicrosil misting as a limiter instead. No addition of power, but dictating how much of the summed metal power you actually receive. The interpretation you guys are using in that other thread (which is derailing and belongs here for better future search-ability, dudes) of "bandwidth" is extremely fascinating. I'm liking the idea of allomantic strength determining max bandwidth a lot.
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    You are awesome.
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    The problem I have with this is how hard it thus becomes to steal Feruchemical gold in general. It's certainly possible inquisitors had to remove goldminds before spiking a keeper for their pewter spikes, but it just doesn't feel consistent with how easy it is to steal everything else. As I also believe the death part is from the hole in the heart, I just don't think your interpretation "feels" right. However, it's definitely a valid interpretation and quite out of the box.
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    We seem to be disagreeing on causality. I don't see the chicken/egg scenario you portray. If you can steal Feruchemical gold (you can. Proof: inquisitors), you either kill them outright or leave them unable to heal. Even if they heal enough to live before the bullet exits the body, the very next bullet (regardless of composition!) Will finish the job.
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    Um. At risk of sounding far too snarky, what part of shooting someone in the heart would need to be nonfatal? I guess I'm not understanding where you're going with this. I'm not sure if you need to intend to make a spike for it to happen or if crazy happenstance can result in it (No, Spook's sword tip doesn't count. We have Ruin providing Intent). That's for other threads -- we have several discussing that very problem. At the end of the day, if you know pewter can steal Feruchemical gold, you can fire pewter bullets and hope to hit a theft point. As with Marsh spiking the random smoker to carry all the way to Penrod, we don't need a donor to steal. Enough pewter bits through the heart, and suddenly the bloodmaker should realize he can't heal anymore oh crap I'm dead.
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    The definitive bloodmaker "hazekiller" rounds. Miles back from the dead again? Load your pewter bullets and aim for the heart. I suggest firing several times. In fact, a shotgun with pewter pellets may not be a bad idea, if you're close enough for it to blow through. Universal theft points are great.
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    Teft? All of bridge 4?
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    My pet theory is that his healing drastically extended death's door, allowing whatever force that communicates through this conduit to reach across vast amounts of (cognitive) space. The closer you are to this prophetic source, the easier it'd be to get one of these death rattles, because the connection would establish sooner. Essentially, Rosharans have very low ping.
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    All of my hopes, thoughts, and expectations wrapped up in a post smaller than this sentence.Re: mental expansion - while many powers come with necessary secondary superpowers, I'm coming to think it's not as perfect as we make it out to be on these forums. Tin lacks a feedback filter, there's no mental sense that a steelpush is so heavily dictated by your weight, and no indication at all that tugging on that iron line is very likely to kill you -remember that Vin could've died very easily, if not for Kelsier. Frankly, I hope this limitation exists for Feruchemical steel. Many seem to assume it comes with some sort of automatic super brain to keep up, and I just don't see why it should. This is all counterpoint to my normal stance: perhaps Atium expansion isn't so secondary afterall.
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    If this is true and Szeth does die, I'm betting he at least has a TON of gold to spend while waiting to respawn.
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    Except I thought Breath was considered pretty dang high on Investiture citation needed. And Endowment's alive and well (though, feasibly, slowly shattering itself through rampant Endowment).
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    According to tWoK, isn't everything spherical in Shadesmar? So one would, ostensibly, learn to look beyond the sphere and see the bigger picture.
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    By context, this seems like it should be Scadrial, not Sel. This is similar to saying emotions or ideas are chemicals in the brain. True enough, but not for the Cosmere. I'm out of time, but it'd be an interesting time to point to Feruhemic wakefulness.
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