Pechvarry

I'm away from my copy, but I don't think he used all 2 weeks on one gun shot. I thought it was just the last of his 2 weeks. Maybe not, though. Something to keep in mind is not all feruchemists are created equal. Vin saw movement in the cave where Kelsier did not because she was a stronger allomancer (at least with Tin). The MAG claims feruchemic strength dictates the efficiency of your storage. This matches up pretty well with the inquisitors, who had to rest all the time with their very-weak gold spikes.

I assume this thread is for whoever we would like to see in a cage match and not just Szeth vs Vasher? The Lord Ruler vs God-King Sue seems like the pinnacle battle, but it's probably very one-sided. I can't put the setting in GK's favor enough to beat TLR. Vasher vs Wax would be really cool. Guns probably make it too easy for Wax, but if we nix them, Nightblood isn't invited either. So Vasher vs Wax at the mall, no guns, Vasher not wearing metal. Metal- and textile- rich environment. Perhaps Szeth vs Wax is better. I think guns and shardblade could even attend the party. Taking setting suggestions for this one. The most important and epic fight. Human vs Clod.

That's not fair! I'm changing my vote! Hoid's comedic timing.

Just some minor suggestions (complaints) about this wiki page. This is the opening line, and it's not something I've ever seen anywhere. Can we get a citation? I always thought the power of the well is what made TLR mistborn; not eating a bead himself. This is a pretty minor detail in the scheme of things, but since if it's supposing one way or another, it could serve to lead someone astray in their rampant theorycrafting (ok, mine).

The "removable souls" concept seems useful for repairing the spiritual damage of hemalurgy. Not really worth considering the "how" though if you can't compound identity, or otherwise get out more than you put in. Unless you can store yourself down to a vegetable before being spiked and tap after you've had an ability stolen from you (as long as it's not Feruchemical aluminum that was taken). Kinda off topic, so I'll shelf this idea until it's relevant.

Which means power lines and my "rail ride" method would work just fine! While the blue lines come from your center of gravity, there's nothing stating they don't widen out to look like a carpet if it were pointing to a bar laying on the ground. My assumption, though, is that blue lines go to the center of gravity of the object as well, but there's a bit of intuitive control involved, where you could make yourself aware of the line pointing to the entirety of the object if you wanted to (with your mind naturally filtering this out by default). That's a lot of supposition on my part.

...Humorously enough (well, I guess it's pretty common for him now), this is exactly what I asked that they didn't know what to do with. So I just responded "just have him say something witty and sign it." Maybe he just played dumb because I suggested a White Sands character, though. I am going to be extremely disappointed if "something you've seen on other worlds" means "he steps in and out of Shadesmar just like he did in Well of Ascension!"

Due to the power surge inherent to compounding (though the books say something like tenfold as in-world estimates, I'm guessing any MAG supplement will use allomancy rating as your multiplier), Frank wouldn't need to store that much. Spend an hour ill to get my friend out of the hospital? Gladly. If this comes to pass, there will be a lot of pressure on bloodmakers to play the Mother Theresa role. Should've been Frankly Full-Feruchemist, for us Snatch fans.

I think there's a scene where kelsier pushes one end of something while pulling the other. It may have been the cage though. Which would be several pieces.

A) Clearly, you need to move The Rithmatist to the end so it's not in the middle of your Cosmere hardback line. Lucky! When I asked for a hint in the signing instructions, I got an email back saying my signing instructions didn't make sense!

I'm under the impression ChayShan is basically drawing full body Aons -- YMCA style. And while we've barely seen anything about it, I'm guessing the effects are entirely internal. Even if it sets your fist on fire, which hurts them but not you, the target is _you_. But I suppose the power is still from the Dor, similar to Pewter. I'm wondering if there's a way to dump other investitures into it, since your body is already the focus. This wouldn't make it any faster, since you would still need to complete the drawing. But it would add power, or an alternate power source when too far from Sel. This goes the other way: if ChayShan targets you with the Dor as opposed to some particular external effect, it may be a great way to harvest relatively formless Investiture. Sidenotes: *Yes, Feruchemical steel would make ChayShan very powerful. *Of all Sel systems, only AonDor doesn't require the form to make physical contact with the target, which I find significant.

Ahh. So that's what happened when dominion and devotion merged. You have to admit, Sel magic is basically a bunch of homework. Rap Music would be a pretty crappy shard. "Barely able to stand, Vasier burned his last Limerick to Invest in his Producer. 'One more time' he declared. And so the Last Rap Battle began."

I was agreeing you'd need a more dramatic source of investiture for fighting a god. But the idea is the same: I don't believe Nightblood is limited to eating Breath.

We have WoB that he uses feruchemy. We're still not sure how much. Personally, I don't think he bothers using gold.

I mentioned on the first page that he could simply feed Nightblood investiture converted from calories and eat a lot. But I think something more dramatic would be required to use it on a shard. Compounding would be a good start, but I still prefer the idea of somehow chaining Nightblood to Odium and having it devour him, as we know it can do even to the Returned (which may be splinters). Even a disintegration sword seems sub-optimal against something with the power to move planets.

Spot-on, Mr. Compounder. While a coppermind would be helpful to an Elantrian, I was aiming for interactions that are greater than the sum of their parts, like Compounding. Or, failing that, simply outside-the-box benefits. for breath, you're saying you'd store in nicrosil and it would cease to be a Breath, and become raw investiture instead? This would remove all of those more questionable interactions when attempting to compound. I'm cool with this.

Wouldn't that necessitate asking your stomach for your breath back? Compounding (iirc) uses preservation's power to fuel another investiture in the way it's hard-coded to work. Feruchemical gold always provides health, so preservation fuels it. Breath always does things in the object/creature it was put into. In this case, swallowed metal, not your person. Burning this metal with Preservation's power most likely supercharges the Breath, but this seems to me like killing a Returned. Even a super Breath amounts to nothing when its host is destroyed. I guess what I'm saying is: you don't possess the breath while it's burned. Your metal does. I'm sure interesting things would occur with very specialized commands in the metal, but that means you're already at the 9th heightening.

Honestly, I just enjoy disagreeing with Kurkistan. This is what love feels like, Kurk. Don't run from it. I would've just +1'd the observation about monk sacrifices and moved on, but then I would've -1'd on accident. Sorry for stirring up the bee... Analogy thing.

Will the site "skin" change over time? Or are we Steelheart themed until the whole website is replaced from the ground up again? It's very neat and all, and I'm excited for the book, but it's not what I identify Sanderson with. So I'm hoping it's not remaining Steelheart until the end of time.

But a superpowered Breath doesn't help if you just burned it up -- since it was stored in a metal like a Feruchemic charge, it should create an output just like Compounding does. With Feruchemy, you have a way to recapture this, by simply storing it again in a new metalmind. I suppose a Nicrosilmind could be used as a "Breathmind" though. That would be a neat way to capture it.

Because they were literally stars winking out. And it was a vision of what could come, not an absolute. So the destruction of entire solar systems honestly makes more sense than stars as metaphors for individual shards

Good point about the monks sacrifice. There is definitely SOMETHING (I'm shouting, Kurk) preventing the sacrifice of prisoners or even lowly fjordel soldiers (likely morale). I also disagree about bolding being poor form. I'm reading on my phone at work. I'm also a slow reader. I guarantee I'm skimming 70% of non-OPs. Feel free to format the parts you need to jump out at me. Full post in bold would guarantee I skip your entire post, though.

Not gonna lie. I get excited every time I see this thread bumped.

This is what my wife would call a "both-and" scenario. To my mind, at least, Endowment would see what is to come. It would have a pool of people to Return, and know what kind of mission suits them. Under this belief, it saw the life of Lightsong, knew he would die, know he would be exactly what was needed for Operation God-King. This doesn't mean Endowment was behind the storm as much as foresaw the outcome. But it doesn't mean it wasn't all caused by Endowment either.

Yeah, a working digestive track would help. This is why I instead focused on spiking them.