Thermophile

To be fair, he wasn't acting within any sort of safety precautions, so, although it was bad luck, it wasn't that unlikely.

Would that make them allomantic savants, feruchemical savants, both, or perhaps savants for compounding specifically?

Miles was a gold savant. The enhancement he gained from it was not what he could recover from but how fast. In his POV parts in Alloy he mentions that he is always burning it. The bulk of his power obviously came from compounding but Miles was definitely a savant. 

It's interesting, being a savant doesn't only affect the allomantic ability of that metal, but also the feruchemical ability associated with it when compounding.

When I write it out, it seems obvious, but still. Interesting.

Actually given the fact that I have about 1000 pages of Epic power ideas and uses I think I could probably just bargain my way out of getting killed by any loved-one Epics.

That would get you thirty seconds, tops

If that's what he was doing, he'd have lied about a lot more. The only thing we know he lied about was being God, and even that wasn't very far from the truth. He wouldn't have claimed to have something as disprovable as perfect memory if he didn't actually have it.

of course a bit of acting.

Why would he lie about perfect memory? It didn't seem he was lying about being a perfect lie detector, since with emotional allomancy and various mental compoundings, he could get the truth from just about anybody. I think he'd be much more likely to lie about that than perfect memory, which is why I think he does have it.

Without memorizing, the memory is almost useless, you wouldn't remember it well enough to use it.

 

 

• Possibly, the extra power will go towards placing memories in your brain that are contained in copperminds other than the one you burned. (which copperminds is determined randomly in case there isn't enough power to release the info in all of them)
• Alternatively, the power might travel along the spiritual connections you have with other people and retrieve some of their memories (in which case the specific connection(s) might be determined randomly)
• Maybe it's preferential selection according to physical proximity. You get memories contained in the cognitive aspects of nearby objects. Could be used for retrieving info out of a stolen coppermind, for instance (if you haven't got a trueself available).

I can probably think of several more sources of memories for use in compounding, given some time and motivation.

 

I basically just believe that the filter that determines the effect in copper compounding doesn't say 'specific memory A', but just 'memory' (or 'knowledge').

And while I must admit that it is possible that copper compounding will release a clearer/more intent/deeply engraved/whatever other adjective people have used version of the memory, IMO that's just not interesting enough.  I choose to believe that when mr. Sanderson writes a copper compounder, he will do it in a way that wows everyone.

First off: Sazed said that to put something in a coppermind, you had to memorize it to the extent you would remember it for five or ten minutes, and then put it in the coppermind so it would have enough strength to be useful. I believe this is what copper compounding affects.

Second: Copper compounding is something TLR could, and likely did, do. If it involved retrieving data from the cognitive aspects of nearby objects, we would see him be much more aware of some of the stuff going on. And perfect memory is something we're pretty sure he has, but is unexplained sofar.

Third: If copper compounding was,say, useful in an investigation, we would likely have heard about it by now, even if no known copper compounders existed at the time.

Lastly: I disagree with it not being interesting enough. Perfect memory has a variety of uses, beypnd even memorizing every written work known to man.

What I'm saying is that it isn't a big deal to make them. Perhaps Ruin wanted to give as many abilities as possible to Marsh, just to be safe.

Besides, feruchemical atium does not require an atium spike. I don't remember the metal for spiritual feruchemy, but you'd use that.

To be honest, I can't think of a good answer for that. Has anybody asked Brandon about this yet?

Marsh specifically said he was 'key to [Ruin's] plans'.

No, I'm talking about when Ruin was in control. Marsh was special for a reason we still don't know (maybe his involvement in TLR's death?). As a result, Ruin gave him a lot more spikes.

All Inquisitors have double copper, steel, and iron allomancy (which is why they are so powerful). From Marsh's perspective, we learn he has a lot more spikes than most Inquisitors, including duralumin. He is quite likely very close to being fullborn (excluding allomantic aluminum, and likely a couple others).

I just hope we get to see him in action.

I have a theory that compunding copper makes you habe a vision of the moment when you got the stored information

That doesn't make a lot of sense, considering that the information that would be involved in such a vision was never stored.

The newcomer sees this hat-wearing pony ride off into the sunset, stunned.

"You must be new 'round here, kid," a voice sounds behind him. He spins to see Mistrunner sitting on the porch, chewing on a piece of straw.

"He's a legend. King of Kobolds, but here we just call him Kobold."

"How... he's a pony! How can he be riding a horse?"

"Like I said, he's a legend. He's got a 2:1 rep/post ratio and the highest rep count in the county- probably of the whole territory."

"And who're they?" Newcomer asks as several others, some ponies, some not, make their way into view.

"Those? Them's the sherif and deputies. Likes of Delightful- she does hugs and Forum Big Sistering- and Kaymyth- she's the mother figure of all Shard Territory. And there's the sparkly glitter goddess of pugs and and RPs, but I think she's indisposed over yonder in Oregon Territory."

I have no idea what I just read, but it was hilarious.

Look again.  It's 12,000, not 21,000.  That's right.  Kobold King has a 2:1 rep-to-post ratio.

 

(He's kind of a legend around these parts.)

Actually, it's closer to a 2.021:1 ratio.

Is there any way to detect allomantic potential other than beating the crap out of them and giving them a bottle of metal shavings?

It's spelled 'graphene'.

Also, would lack of radiation immediately reduce his power, and only after 5 hours turn it off, or does it need 5 hours to come into effect?

Not Harmony; the Kandra.

No, I distinctly remember that she mentioned that Harmony was scared of the implications of the spike, because Wax was musing about that afterward. I don't have the book with me now, but does anybody have a text version of the book to reference?

If I pulled an FMA moment and somehow pooled together the souls of a suitably large number of human sacrifices from various worlds, then took in the investiture, can I obtain some form of shard-like power?

You'd probably be a super weak version of Aldoniseum (I don't know how to spell it).

And the fact that it specifically stated that Harmony was 'terrified', if I remember the quote correctly.

So does bronze detect any kind of investiture, or only allomancy? As far as I know, Hoid didn't have allomancy at this point.. if he does at all. Being able to detect any investiture sounds like it might have cosmere-wide applications.

I believe that Brandon said that bronze could detect Feruchemy if one was good enough, but it may only be because of the partial Preservation nature of Feruchemy.

I doubt Hoid would have taken an active role in what happened no matter what Vin said. It's not that he doesn't care about the people of Scadrial, just that he has much more important things to do (we think).

That doesn't mean that Ruin wasn't responsible for Vin's apprehension, though. No reason not to be safe.

How about this one:

If a Feruchemist has his or her abilities stolen with Hemallurgy, can the recipient access the metalminds of the dead Feruchemist?