Thermophile

Ah. Thanks!

What are the thresholds for the ranks on this forum? I would prefer to get a response from somebody who had acess to the entire list, but I already have a couple. -5(less?)-lifeless -4 - -2-negaspren -1 - 3, spren 3 - 6, skaa 6 - 8(+?)-spearman Got any other thresholds?

I just need my own Brandon of humor. I'll Tap into something soon. I'll Steel my resolve, and soon I'll have a Canton of puns. Storms, this is difficult.

When you put the audio files for the audiobooks on repeat.

Perhaps metals that interact with the strong force? The pulling metal would strenghten the strong force, preventing atoms from breaking down, or even influencing fusion. The pushing metal would weaken the strong force, causing fission to be easier and more likely. This may also be able to influence fusion.

I don't know about that. There are varying amounts of power in allomancy, and the more powerful ones don't seem to use up the metal faster. A nicroburst savant (or duralumin misborn savant) would proably get more bang for their buck from the metal. Also, I want to see a mistborn with duralumin getting nicrobursted.

TLR was using a butt-ton of emotional allomancy on Vin when he questioned her. I don't remember exactly what it said, something about losing all hope, and that there was 'no point in lying'. note: You should probably multi-quote rather than double post.

I never understood that story. A society without falsehoods should be literally impossible.

What about a nicroburst savant? I see a lot of potential for that in upcoming books.

Real life lie detectors are far from perfect (both human and machine). However, if you can convince the other person you can see into their soul (a little electrum compounding), their lies will become a lot more obvious, especially if you have a millenia of practice. Besides, if the Lord Ruler says you're lying, who are you to contradict him? Although I still think it would be cool if copper compounding allowed you to get information like that.

Although the information to remember things perfectely exists within ones brain (those with eidetic memories are evidence of this), we simply cannot retrieve that information perfectely, as that would cause our brain to be flooded. The use of investiture grants protection against the ill effects of using it, such as not being sqished by tapping weight rapidly. I am proposing that compounding copper, and then retrieving the memories, allows one to not only recall every detail flawlessly, but to not have your brain flooded by the exess data.

I'll admit that it is helpful to use chalklings to 'overwhelm' the enemy, and that without them, defense is much stronger than offense. However, the illustration of the knight that one guy drew (I can't remember names from books I've read once over two years ago) I specifically counted the lines, and it added up to around 40. You can't draw something that complex without a lot more time than he was depicted as having. I'm not trying to say that chalklings are completely useless in duels, and I'm sorry if it came out that way, but I think the time to make them is greatly underestimated, meaning that they should be a lot less powerful.

(I'm guestimating on a lot of this, but I think it's fairly accurate) Chalklings also need instructions. Even a simple chalkling would take 3-5 seconds to draw, and another 10-15 seconds to give it even simple battle commands. It would take one, maybe two lines of vigor to kill it, and that person just earned 10-20 seconds in relation to their opponent. A decent chalkling would take 30 seconds to make, 10-15 seconds to give commands, and would take 5 lines of vigor to kill. A really good chalklingwould take 2-3 minutes to make, 10-15 seconds to give instructions, and would take maybe 15-20 lines of vigor to kill. It would do damage in that time, but the opponent could put up a barrier and barrage it fairly easily. All in all, I think the book greatly underestimated the time it takes to draw something, especially anything good. Don't get me wrong, chalklings are incredibly useful (espeially if you can make them autonomous), just not in a formal duel scenario.

It seems pretty clear to me. You store sleep, and when you tap it, it is exactly as if you slept. However, if you hyper-compounded sleep for a long period of time (making you hyper-alert constantly), you would find youself groggy all the time if you suddenly stopped.

Okay, this is something that has been bothering me for a while. Why are chalklings viable? At first I'd assumed that they were super simple, but the book shows them being really detailed. I don't care how fast you can draw, a decent chalkling is going to take at least thirty seconds. A line of vigor can be drawn in less than three. And don't give me 'chalklings don't need to be precise'. If you're good (and any decent rithmatist needs to be) you don't have to draw slow in order to be precise (although I'll admit that no human could draw with the end of a rifle). Any thoughts?

I realize that Yomen believed that atium and malatium were temporal metals, but I assumed he simply had incomplete knowledge. Did Brandon Sanderson confirm that cadmium and atium got switched?

Maybe you have to gorge on food to snap now. Seems like they'd mention it if it was someting like that, but Sanderson was pretty vague.

They obviously occured naturaly in The Final Empire. Besides, it's not like there's any atium to burn in the AoL series.

Seriously, I only found the coppermind wiki (and this forum) two days ago, and the sight of RAFO already gives me minor anxiety.

I imagine that burning would be 'instinctive', and that mistings would automatically know to burn whatever metal they can. Maybe. I'm intrigued at how you arrived at that conclusion. I'm suggesting that, as there are only 16 types of mistings (1/16 of the mistfallen were seers), one of the other kinds of mistings, likely one that isn't for a metal known in The Final Empire, could burn atium. Or perhaps it is one that was known by TLR, which is how that one guy figured out he was a Seer.

And Trell was the god of stars, making it plausible that he is a Shard that has gotten involved in Scadrial before. My theory that the red slpotches indicate Odium still stands. If Trell is Odium, that might explain him hating the sun. Hmm.

It has been confirmed in The Final Empire that a Mistborn can burn any metal, but that bad ones are bad for them (in book 1, Kelsier says it can kill you, but in book 2 Vin says it can't). However, mistings can only burn one metal. I propose that a misting can burn any metal, but only one 'works', like how all allomantic metals metals work for Mistborn. Also, with 16 types of mistings, does that not mean that Seers (atium mistings) would also be able to burn one of the normal metals (one of the ones not discovered in The Final Empire. Sliders, perhaps?)

Wasn't the Everstorm red? Preservation was associated with blue (wasn't the mist blue? I thought it was), and ruin was associated with black (the smoke that was his gaseous state was definitely black).

As anyone who has read Shadows of Self knows, Bleeder is revealed to have a spike made from an unknown God Metal, originating from a shard that is neither Ruin, nor Preservation. This spike allowed her to fool Harmony. There are two ways I could image this coming about. A. Bleeder used a piece of a splintered Shard, and somehow gained the knowledge to use it. This is unlikely, since there are very few that Cosmere-literate. B. Bleeder met a Shard that willingly gave her a piece of it's power to mess up Harmony. If we pick the first option, it could either be Devotion, Dominon, Honor, or the other Shard Odium splintered. Again, I find this unlikely as only a Shard or Splinter would be able to give her the knowledge to use it. With the second option, I can only think of two that could possibly cause this: Autonomy (mildly suggested by Bleeders talk of 'freedom'), or Odium. Although, I am much more inclined to believe the metal belongs to Odium, considering that it is stated to have red on it. Most other people probably came to this conclusion also, but I figured I'd write it down since I haven't seen it anywhere else.

Whaaat? When did he say that?