DrakeMarshall

Lol I like the way you are thinking. You could write an interpreter and make a high level derivative of AonDor. Something object oriented, and with a built in keyword to produce massive fireball. It would be perfect. Also about an unbounded blob of investiture, given the fact that the shards in many ways embody human thought (lets not go into which causes the other), wouldn't all of that "spark of life" be divided among the various shards? This would make sense if investiture is most closely linked to the cognitive realm, which is implied given how the nahel bond works.

Should be lifeless apocalypse At any rate, I would definitely choose to be a steel compounder twinborn. Then throw in a hemalurgic spike for iron, to compliment steelpushing. This grants absurd levels of compounded speed like the lord ruler was able to use to kill kelsier, plus both steelpushing and ironpulling, which I would say is the pair of metal powers that makes mistborn so strong.

It would seem that each shard has power that is effectively absolute, except in the case that it is interacting with another shard. However, it would make sense that they have different skills. This is probably linked to the intent. Ruin finds it difficult to see the future because his intent is to make there be no future, through destruction. Honor doesn't really care about the future either, more about doing what is honorable in the moment. Something like preservation has an intent that aligns quite well with future sight. Similarly, the intent of cultivation would necessarily involve foresight. It would seem that the primary reason shards might have different powers is because their intents causes them to manifest differently. As for magic systems, I would guess that each shard more or less has their own magic system. The planet it is on might only effect how the magic is fueled/activated. For example, on Scadrial, magic works through metals. On sel, it works through drawing glyphs. On roshar everything functions through the medium of stormlight.

Okay. But if I turn into a koloss it's your fault.

Hm... Here are some thoughts. Well, and then you have denth as "varatreledees"... But treledees seemed very hallendran, anyway. Not the sort to be secretly worshiping an evil shard, or trying to plant an evil cult off-world. Lol this was funny. Still, it is an interesting dynamic. Sazed holds two shards, making him the most powerful entity in the cosmere. However, he is also quite new. All the other shardholders have been around for hundreds of years, and as far as we know they are all the original holders of them following when adolnasium shattered. Huh. Quite possibly there is something down there... No idea what Sazed would put down there, though. The few people who survived the events at the end of hero of ages were accounted for. This can actually be explained fairly well I think. The worlds didn't all develop completely apart from each other. They had the intervention of shards who came from the same place, plus a select few individuals worldhopping around planets. Some aspects of culture and such may permeate. I believe Sazed specifically states in the words of founding that allomancy is of preservation, hemalurgy is of ruin, and feruchemy is of harmony (both ruin and preservation). This is because allomancy results in a net gain of energy (allomantic powers are fueled by preservation), hemalurgy results in a net loss of energy (some is transferred through the spike but some is lost), and feruchemy has neither a gain nor a loss.

A metal cookie? This might be unpleasant to bite...

Ruin does at least claim to be the role of change, yes. Plus rust is sort of like ruined metal, no? At any rate, Trell is presumably a hostile shard. It would definitely make sense that trell would try to covertly plant a small group of followers on Scadrial. This is because sazed/harmony holds two shards, and so he probably has more raw power than anybody else in the cosmere, so Trell would need to avoid direct confrontation (hence why Trell would attempt to work covertly through bleeder rather than just counterbalance Sazed's power as an opposing shard). Edit: I noticed the other thread which references "rust and ruin" as a hint. Interesting. Perhaps Trell is a representation of entropy. Entropy is a different sort of change than annihilation, I suppose.

I mean, if any of wax's opponents had any metal on them they would have basically already lost, since he is a crasher. If they don't have any metal on them, then there is real competition.

Yeah but just because you can store and draw upon heat wouldn't protect you from it. You could burn people by touching them, yes, but you would also be burning yourself.

Good day everyone. I just found this forum through the coppermind. Which I found because, after reading Warbreaker, I was trying to figure out how nightblood ended up on roshar. I have read most of the books set in the cosmere and enjoyed them (the only one I have yet to read is the second elantris book). So hello all.

If this is to get something maximally overpowered, I would go with Scadrial plus nalthis. I would take hemalurgy from scardriel. Why? Well imagine an army of lifeless with hemalurgic spikes. Not much would stand a chance. You might even be able to give them sentience like kandra. Also you could potentially use hemalurgy to steal the other two Scadrial powers... Potentially even powers from other worlds. And nalthis awakening technically also gives the benefit of type IV entities, even if they are really hard to make. You could even fuel such an entity with investiture from scardriel, which is easier to get than breaths. This combination just seems absurdly powerful. You would be significantly stronger than the lord ruler.