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    Of course, you'll be drunk by the time you finish your soulstamp so use at your own risk or BYOS (bring your own stamp) ahead of time.
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    Thanks, Happyman. Enjoy a +1. New abuse of these forums: finding ways to slightly break reality in ways that don't horrendously violate causality (in other words, this is probably the best place on The Internet to develop sci-fi tech and magic systems, but that should've been obvious to me before now). I've never been comfortable with this assumption. It stifles the ability to create solutions, because you're looking at the problem instead of attempting to side-step it. What about the Alcubierre "Warp Drives" unveiled earlier this year? My understanding is, under this technology, you're still traveling at sub-luminal speeds. But space-time is contorting around you, rapidly tossing you into new regions of objective space. I know it's still in the speculation phase, and I'm aware other people have already derided this model, saying it's incredibly possible to pick up a single random particle in transit and destroy whatever solar system you exit in because you've built up an impossible amount of energy in said particle. But I just mean, I don't think it's fair to say "all FTL travel upsets relativity and is a time machine." But maybe you're not saying that.
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    I apologize for bumbling in here without a physics degree, but what's wrong with the Mass Effect model? In that world, they envelope an object (space craft) in a bubble, and pump in energy that lowers the mass of everything inside (relative to everything outside). Since increased velocity is essentially the same as increased mass (as far as relativity is concerned), you just need to continue to pump more energy in as you approach the speed of light. This shouldn't violate relativity -- it's changing the variables that dictate that "infinite mass" dead end. Likewise, the faster an iron feruchemist is travelling, the more effective weight they'd have to store. Still doesn't work unless he can include his whole ship and every molecule of matter on board, though.
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    I still just want L-trains for the Lurchers. I think all warfare changes with enough mistings and ferrings. Tineye and Zinc ferring fighter pilots. Tanks are still valuable as they're too heavy to be affected by any mortal coinshot/lurcher (while bringing all the advantages they do here on Earth), but they're vulnerable to steelrunners darting in with anti-tank weaponry. Imagine a platoon popping a Nicrobursted Bendalloy bubble in the middle of a firefight, taking a single building, clearing it out (I assume such a bubble would be very large), and setting up in tactical positions all before the bubble comes down. Pewter seems, humorously, rather weak on large scale war efforts. But I can imagine a Brute (Ferring) pulling off some pretty interesting tricks. aka Hulk smash tank. I can even imagine cadmium helping with those "hurry up and wait" scenarios.
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    Sorry, I don't agree. Maybe it's just the way I think and talk, but that sentence seems natural to me. "Restoring him to some #" seems like "brought his total to roughly #" to me. Unfortunately, the awkward sentence was cut wholesale from the final edit, and simply states "his Biochromatic aura grew stronger." It's a silly thing for me to fixate on, so I apologize, but my interpretation helps you. Other thoughts, extrapolations, and projections: "Of necessity" was removed from the finger-tassle Command (extraneous and large words -- goes against the grain of a good Command). The old draft did have the cloak+doll as 75ish each, right? Or was it 100 or something? I think we could feasibly use these numbers, compared to the new numbers, to create some rough ratios. I was actually going to run through my book on all of these numbers and gather some more opinions, but I lost my day to guests and so I think I'll just stop here instead of plaguing this information thread with conjecture. but I will probably return when I have some time to analyze the costs you specified in my copy and see if I find any other inconsistencies.
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    Ehh. I think it makes sense. The "some" verbiage is simply an informal way of saying "approximately". So it says it brought him back to roughly 200 breaths. Your quote also shows that his aura _strengthened_ as opposed to suddenly existing. Without rereading significant portions of the book, I don't know if vivenna can count breaths from that range, or the aura that comes around the first heightening. Depending on the answer to that, he has at least 1, 30, or 50 breaths (30 being the threshold where even someone with no breath can see your aura).
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    check some of those figures against the final version, phantom. In my hardback edition, Vasher is tossed into prison with 50 breaths. About half make his doll, the rest awaken his cloak. Edit: from your quote, I don't think overly-long coat cost 200 breaths. Vivenna is noting this man has 200 total breaths (narratively, it seems more important for worldbuilding to show how many total breaths citizens can have than to call attention to the exact cost of a trick). Does it specify he was drab before this?
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    More likely the nicrosil misting main character would get spiked with Feruchemical nicrosil and accidentally cast Sazed in his battle vs the evil mistborn, which leads us to the space trilogy: the search for a new god.
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    They'd better be. According to The Way of Kings, I just might score some sYogurt some day...
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    I see Phantom already concluded your question (can we seriously change his title to The Coppermind, already?) But I wanted to say Welcome! Literally lol'd at this.
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    Do Elantrians make food out of nothing or transform something into food, soulcasting style?
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    I'm glad you went with Tin Feruchemy instead of Allomancy. I think the allomancy was designed with the human form in mind, and the normal human senses were the target. The Feruchemy... could be the same, but I could see it being a blank "store whatever senses you happen to have" thing, too. Incidentally, I always thought "Sense of balance" should've been part of Tin.
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    Well I think that's kinda the point. No matter how good you make your magic system for fulfilling your intent, the act of investing yourself into humans opens the door for them to abuse it against your intent. Even though you (the shard) are still bound, the humans are not. Seems like it'd create a sort of "this statement is false" scenario for the shard.
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    Plus, I can't imagine the scenario where one would "instinctively" burn bronze.
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    If nothing else, at least my question seems to have inspired a Kurkistan Brainstorm, so that's something. Just that if resealing is at all like forgery, the patient would need a stamp. The best way to hide it would be inside the wound, which then closes around it. Though I guess that means it needn't fade. Maybe everyone who's ever been resealed has internal scar tissue in the shape of a stamp.
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    Maybe she was just looking in the wrong place? They "look inside" themselves for metal -- maybe that's just a stomach search. Perhaps if Vin's earring was pewter, she would've instinctively burnt it to horrifying results.
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    Oh wow. Deeply interested in seeing what Rock makes of the cryptics. King of Nowhere, Kurk: I love you guys.
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    Sorry. My post came across a bit... peevish. To be clear, I have no issue with a thread discussing the ramifications of some fact we can reasonably assume. But please remember it is still an assumption. I'm trying to point out where logic ends and (a very safe) assumption begins, not kill your fun.
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    There's a rather clear implication that the topic of the quote is burning a hemalurgic spike. Everything else is projection on your part. We know they can live through losing a single eye-spike, and doing so and proceeding to ingest it would be quite painful. But it's entirely possible he's saying burning the part of someone's spiritweb is excrutiatingly painful. There is a very real possibility that Brandon was fixating on burning hemalurgic charges, feruchemy-compounding style, and not burning metal that's incidentally in the body.
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    Why is it that Aons only need drawn once, and their effects linger (iirc), while forgeries require a persistent stamp? I feel like there's some "duh" truth we're missing that separates which of Sel's forms need continual renewal and which ones only need instantiated. It seems like Resealing crosses that line. Like, for all we know, they carved small stamps inside the emperor's head, and they will heal normally.
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    Then if I had any input for Khmauv, it'd be the following: Rectify your statement to simply read "anything goes when magic systems are involved."
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    Just wanted to reiterate that. I only had time to skim, but it looks like a lot of counterpoints to the OP are using assorted magic systems as their supporting evidence.
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    I've seen these discussions a few times, and I always feel the need to point this out: That quote does not specify the spike is still in their head. I always interpreted that quote as an inquisitor removing their eyespike and swallowing/burning it. I realize I'm in the minority on this, but I just don't like to take that as irrefutable evidence that you can burn any piece of metal that happens to be inside your body. On a related note: I always wondered why Vin didn't try putting a vial of metals in her mouth (not swallowing) while duralumin boosting, especially after seeing Zane's trick for hiding his coin. Maybe she would've discovered metals burn in your mouth, proving this thread right. Or maybe she would've found a way to compartmentalize her dura-surges.
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    Ugh. This whole thread reminds me of how much I'm actually dreading book 2. If this were a Wheel of Time book (or most books, for that matter), Dalinar won't be telling Kaladin about his storm dreams any time soon, and Kaladin won't be telling Dalinar and crew about his powers. I actually do think Shallan will end up drawing Syl. I just don't think she'll get to figure out what it means until like book 9.
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    this reminds me of a post I made about temporary hemalurgy:
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