Lewis Nethur

Usually truthwatcher, but my scores for windrunner, bondsmith, and skybreaker were all pretty close.

That's all we can ask.

It really does show, you're obviously a natural born Inquisitor (Meaning that in the nicest way possible) As long as you don't go on any rampage in real life, keep up the good work!

I agree with you but, for the sake of playing devil's advocate, It's theoretically possible that some echelons of the steel ministry, including inquisitors, were aware that the ability to burn era1 atium could be harvested from Oracles (electrum burners, who were not tested for within the nobility), whom they mistakenly categorized in their texts as "Seers". So...during the Catacendre, I would opt to be extra forgiving about the details surrounding how quickly so many Inquisitors aggregated so much apparently ultra-limited supply of rare spikes (they may have had a God pointing them towards an intentionally hidden source via an untested portion of the population.)

Literally a perfect answer, awesome and thanks! I suppose it would probably be just a bit too wonky and confusing for the arts to utilize different alloys in-book. I was not aware of that WoB confirming the efficiency issue at all though, that rocks!

This one has been bothering me...do we know for an outright fact that allomantic and feruchemic alloys are fundamentally of the same compositional ratios? I don't mean this to be an arbitrary hurdle against Compounding. I'm trying to bridge what i see as a cognitive gap between era1 mistborn having the freedom to burn "bad" allomantic metals (with appropriate negative effects) and the Feruchemists that we've seen never having voiced a similar complaint from their side. My thought is...Feruchemy may simply not care as much about alloy purity and composition on a fundamental level for storage and tapping purposes. Users may experience reduced efficiency with poorer alloys, and increased leakage with noticeable impurities, but this physiologically wouldn't directly translate into the poisoning and damaging effects we see with Allomancers trying to burn invalid metals. On the flipside, a "bad" alloy that was Feruchemically converted from its natural state might function under allomancy as a "good" alloy by simple virtue of the fact that it has a direct 1-to-1 output defined for what it discharges when burned... I may be overthinking this. Still though...I'd like a second opinion at least: do allomancy and feruchemy care about and rely on alloy purity to the same level of granularity? Edit: for thematic purposes, I definitely DON'T know any people in the world who are worth exactly their mass in the most valuable alloy of electrum, and worth exactly their volume in the least valuable alloy of electrum.

I like this, it's creative and interesting, although I admit I'm in no way certain how it could/would work in practice...if it helps, and it might not, the "classical" interpretation of the five ideals of what makes an honorable person that I'm familiar with are typically summarized and ordered roughly along the lines of: 1. Integrity: They consistently adhere to moral and ethical principles, even when it's challenging. This builds trust and respect from others. 2. Courage: They are willing to stand up for their beliefs and values, even in the face of adversity or potential personal loss. 3. Accountability: They take responsibility for their actions and decisions, acknowledging mistakes and learning from them rather than shifting blame. 4. Respect for Others: They treat others with dignity, valuing their perspectives and rights, which fosters healthy relationships and a sense of community. 5. Commitment to Justice: They advocate for fairness and equity, standing against injustice and supporting those who are marginalized or oppressed. Thus far, I think this progression matches what kaladin has displayed on page pretty well (though 3 and 4 might be reversed in order). What an ideal of "justice" would mean to a windrunner would very likely be different than that of a skybreaker, so I think you've totally hit where the real philosophical divergence is to be codified there. Perhaps rather than becoming a personification of law, they would instead strive to be a paragon of it and relearning how to coordinate with the other orders? (That is an extremely important principle of military and civil leadership, which I think fits the windrunners major agenda in a sense. Merely a thought this was a nice read.

Honestly, I've always just assumed it was a joke by the author. I hope this isn't polarizing or off-putting to say...and i can edit or spoiler tag it if it is...but the Inquisitors seem to share some operational characteristics with some of the fascist and nazi regimes of the real world. They have eye spikes because they can "not-see," pronounced basically the same as nazi. They can navigate their world just fine without eyes, but their lack thereof is a powerful and important thematic feature.

There are some situations where tapping while in an unconscious state in order to stay alive appears to be allowed, yes, though you are correct that only bronze can be stored while asleep. That said, Marsh has 22 spikes, of which 20 are generally suspected of granting unique abilities (2 of which are for atium), meaning that he likely was given 18 out of the 32 standard allomantic/feruchemic abilities. So...which 14 did he miss..? Let's go through what he probably wasn't given: 1. A/F-Nicrosil - not available in era1 2. A/F-Chromium - not available in era1 3. A/F-Cadmium - not available in era1 4. A/F-Bendalloy - not available in era1 5. A/F-Aluminum - wouldn't make sense 6. F-Brass - wouldn't make sense for Marsh in era1 7. F-Duralumin - wouldn't make sense for Marsh in era1 8. A/F-Electrum - Ruin would have been very foolish to grant Marsh these and they wouldn't have helped him in his mission, so I'm going to say they are generally unlikely. 9. Wait...there are a few more, like F-Copper that would have been very peculiar for Ruin to have given him, but we're already up to 14... Ahem...I would opine that it's very likely Ruin would have given Marsh F-Bronze. It would have helped him hunt down feruchemists and allomancers in the lead up to the catacendre better and there are more likely candidates for which metals he wasn't granted access to. That said, it seems to me that there's a strong possibility that Marsh has more redundant (multiple copies) spikes than has been revealed...

Oooohhhh...this is a dangerous question because we have very little good information to build on for this specific subject. Thus far, silver seems to just totally annihilate (destroy itself and its target) cognitively-grounded forms of Investiture which have been corrupted from their original Intent, buuuuuuuut...maybe that's just a unique property of shades...? The short answer is, we don't completely know yet in a documentation sort of way. From what I've seen, it's most likely system-specific to some degree. For example, I don't expect that bendalloy function as an acceleration catalyst in all Investiture systems; so too might silver have esoteric or world-specific applications. Best guess? It would torture whatever spren was trapped in said cage until it died or twisted itself inside out and cause the machine to explode. But it might do literally anything else too, so...buyer beware.

I imagine that the "blue lines" metaphor starts to break down above a certain threshold of information-saturation and evolves into its own unique form of sensory awareness. The real-world analog for that would be like how single-celled organisms can have a ultra-primitive form of "sight" in that they can experience involuntary reactions to electromagnetic waves within a specific frequency-band, whereas ultra-complex animals like birds (or people) can have hypersensitive wide-spectrum adaptive eyesight.

Honestly, I think there are a handful of scenes where it can be undeniably argued that the characters are, by definition, pushing in an off-center way. The problem that this introduces is that you start to see kinda wonky rotation and inertia phenomena on page (Zane's implausible balance, Kelsier's spinning rods, and a few of Wax's most inspired tricks). You aren't wrong, I was just only trying to cover the typical and common situations this time, wherein, when a coinshot pushes, they do not tumble and flip through the air like a boomerang so much as arc like a thrown baseball if that makes sense. Again, you're right, some of them can definitely pull off tricks that aren't covered or defined yet in the ars arcanum rules. Lol

For normal steel feruchemy, yes, I 100% believe this is valid: you get back out almost exactly what you put in, IE: a normal steel ferring should have a perfectly normal bell-curve life expectancy. However! Just like Compounding youth allows one to essentially achieve immortality, drawing insane amounts of speed allows one to experience time differently. Perhaps I'm wrong, but I see a very serious and aggregious mechanical miss if a steel compounder could live a normal lifespan while tapping 200% speed every second of every day. Feruchemy is crazy powerful, and generally protects against accidental death but...it doesn't self correct for users' own poor choices in a grand sense, just in an immediate short-term control sense. If I ever get to a signing event I'll ask for confirmation and report back though.

I feel like everyone always forgets during these discussions that steel Compounding directly shortens one's lifespan. Yes, steel Compounding is broken, but only in the same way that bendalloy is: it trades massive amounts of time in the immediate term at the cost of: you have to live the whole duration of accelerated time while everyone else just...moves, metabolizes, and grows normally. If you compress what you can do in 5 years of activity down into 1 millisecond, then you age 5 years while everyone else ages 1 millisecond. That's...a self-limiting curse for anyone not over the 5th heightening or otherwise artificially augmented. Edit: if anything, the most broken thing about steel feruchemy in my mind is that, if one simply invested their money in the market, lived humbly, and stored steel daily without ever tapping it, they could live longer than anyone else and eventually be richer than God while doing it...lol. buuuuuuut...that just doesn't seem to be how the psychology of steel ferrings works...

Considering her intense fixation on the Terris' bloodline consolidation initiatives, her generally uncanny abilities, and persistent future-focus, I honestly wouldn't be surprised if she was eventually revealed to be a Fortune-Ferring, however, Connection would fill some of those weird mystical short-term gaps as well. I think it's very likely that she's a feruchemist of some kind in any case, and probably a poorly understood one for era2, else I would not expect her to have built so much of her personal Identity around cultivating, understanding, and propagating such arts, though it is technically possible.

To be fair, if the radiants really wanted to stretch limits to their system-breaking points, they would use one storm to turn a giant several mile wide swath of land into 12-foot deep glass, then wait several days, then use the next storm to hollow out a giant chasm beneath said glass, then literally do or create whatever they want with unlimited resources and perfect isolation from the storm forever with impunity. A tower is radically less defensible than a giant underground cavern (when the defenders can prevent flooding, which is a unique rosharn property). The first radiants must have still been stuck in the past as if they were still on their old world to have built a simple tower on a mountain...

Not that I can recall offhand, but it has been a stated intent of the series (and more importantly, its fans) to eventually achieve this milestone from very nearly its inception. The first really really big breakthrough will almost certainly be: (Sunlit Man spoilers) Once that is known, we can really start to nail down how much Investiture is required to heal any given wound at any given rate, how much soulcast food can be produced with a given number of diamond chips, and what the energy density and efficiency of Rosharan fabrials are compared to their awakened, hemalurgic, and shade-based counterparts.

For better or worse...If there's a way to staple a human consciousness onto a machine, it is definitely via hemalurgy. What kind of immortality one would get for stabbing themselves in the heart under an extreme electrum burn while facing certain death is...anyone's guess, but yeah, I feel like that should be totally possible...Quality might be pretty terrible to begin with...buuuuut...kelsier was almost totally driven insane while trapped in the well, so that shouldn't come as a surprise. It's something to build off of though! (Again, assuming the process doesn't drive one permanently mad or so dissociated that their memories go blank.)

Not so! The chimera spike farming would just function more like a dog breeding farm than a manufacturing floor in the sense that, while yes, there would be way more variability and uncertainty, you still get to choose which monstrosities you ship out the back door and which you send somewhere else. Please for the love of god do not test it, but i'd bet a year's pay that at least 8/10 golden retrieves would produce a loyalty spike if harvested. that's more than enough for limited production of high fidelity, high quality, high uniformity Chimeras.

The key point here is that hypersensitive iron/steel sight are not a functional replacement for eyes. They simply allow one to perceive the environment around them by granting atomic-scale perception of the trace metals present in nearly all physical materials in a sphere around the user. When Inquisitors use it in era1, and this will probably be true for any future movie/show adaptations, this is depicted as a sort of terminator-style digital machine HUD in place of eyes, however, during the teaching and training examples it is reviewed far more simply. Short answer to your question: yes, a blind coinshot can learn (with significant training and practice or powerful artificial augmentation!) To perceive the world like an Inquisitor. The big caveat remains, however, that this sight is not like eyesight. It's simultaneous spherical vision centered on one's center of gravity instead of their eyes or brain. Interestingly, people who utilize this form of sight might reasonably be expected to develop peculiar behavioral quirks, like poor posture, failing to look in the proper direction when speaking to people, and an incredibly stiff neck (why swivel one's head left, right, up, or down, if it has no effect on one's center of vision...?) Edit: it occurs to me that Inquisitors might even accidentally look upwards when speaking to people shorter than them, simply because they technically "see" them from below if the person is taller than their stomach. im as sure as i can be that this is true and that it probably shouldn't ever be shown on screen because of how obnoxiously silly it would actually be to see it in real life.

I would totally not expect foreign godmetals to serve in Hemalurgy as wildcards exactly like atium; the metaphysics would just be too wonky...Ruin wanted to ruin things, so his metal steals anything (but only any ONE thing.) Preservation wished to preserve all, in stasis if necessary, and his metal rips out as much of a soul as it can grab onto and just...holds on to it... So I would think that Autonomy's metal would steal and grant that which maximizes individual degrees of personal freedom. This probably has a LOT of overlap with atium for most 17th sharder's purposes, but it should not be singular and universal like Ati's metal is. What could this mean? Well...it's possible that trellium only steals some metals from some of the normally organized metal quadrant, and steals only some other nonmagical characteristics while being inert against others. If it functioned as a full wild-card like atium, then that would essentially mean that Autonomy's metal is better at ruining things than Ruin's personal metal in his own personal insane asylum of a system since it also grants inherent cloaking from shardic attention. That just...wouldn't really make sense. It should do something similar to Atium, but specifically possess at least some of the limits and shortcomings that atium just straight up ignores. For example, I could see trellium simply being incapable of stealing spiritual allomancy and Feruchemy, or having other gaping holes in its ability to steal that simply never came up during Bleeder's very limited demonstrations. It occurs to me that trellium might simply steal the portion of a spiritweb that is most important to or valued by its victim. This would allow it to function as a full-blown wildcard, but in an uncontrolled (autonomous?) Way. For example, if you harvest a random tin-ferring with trellium through the heart, you would probably end up with a mangled piece of soul with tin-feruchemy coded into it; buuuuuuut...you might just get a mangled piece of soul coded with some random guy's love for his family if their Feruchemy was wildly unimportant to them. Now that...that would be like Autonomy; allowing victims to essentially choose what they surrender and putting the full onus on harvesters to truly case out and profile their prospective hunts...

Sure, they could definitely make material prices bottom-out, but...having a city's worth of raw materials (that were probably cut from stone originally, and therefore would exist as ungodly massive seamless blocks, instead of like...neat stacks treated lumber) is...a very good problem to have, but also still a massive problem. Highstorms are canonically unfathomably powerful, they are just tuned and tailored to never cause problems on screen that would make the entire story totally suck. Highstorms can and do throw large boulders; large boulders can crush wagons, it would just make the narrative suck. I do wonder how big of a single soulcasting event a Radiant could perform before they drained so much Investiture out of a highstorm that they caused the storm to fail to return to the Origin and recharge (or just peter out immediately). Since Soulcasting at a distance is technically possible, I wonder if Jasnah could blow up one of Roshar's moons and turn-off Highstorms forever while inducing immediate crippling climate change across the entire planet with a snap of her fingers if she felt like it. Edit: I think I understand, at least intuitively, how Roshar's ancestors made Braize uninhabitable...lol.

Hahaha, that's clever, but she would probably just give you what she feels like you deserve, same as she usually does for most people who visit her. That said, if you do manage to leave her puzzled, or ask for something noble enough or totally off the wall, there's always a small chance that Cultivation might get involved; she appears to have a lot more power over the old magic than the night watcher...which might help.

Well...in real life, people described as possessing hearts, minds, or souls with or of golden quality or capability are (historically) typically described as being the kindest, most compassionate, and most wise of all citizens and most commonly get called out for achievements in teaching, Healthcare, and philosophy. So...in order to hack an Augur's powers, I'd expect that you'd need to think of the problem like trying to hack a school, hospital, or government body. I know that isn't an answer, but hopefully it helps; I'm not totally sure what they can do.

My interpretation of the two systems in question, Awakening and Hemalurgy, has thus far been that knowledge of them = connection to them. That is to say: Having a Breath and knowing how to surrender and recover it, or having a jagged metal object and knowing how to carve something out of someone that you wish to steal from, is the heart of the matter at hand. Now...there is presidence in the Cosmere for that equation flowing backwards, IE: Connection to a person can be increased by a bondsmith (or most worldhoppers these days honestly), allowing one to speak other people's language and be heard without confusion, so this theory is definitely not without merit. First, I want and believe that the answer should, in general, be a flat out no. A connector ferring is connected to everything everywhere all at once to some degree and all of those infinite things are composed of infinitesimally small pieces of the 16 shard's investiture...how in the name of the god beyond are they going to increase their connection to one specific Shard in a reliable and repeatable and controlled manner? I would expect them to induce an aneurism first... It might still be possible though... I feel like a connector ferring who meditated next to a perpendicularity long enough while storing/tapping might be capable of some insanely dangerous and unique magic. In general though, I just don't expect that the average one could pick and choose what they were augmenting connection to in order to glean new knowledge that was also useful; I think this has to be a full bottom up environment manipulation art project in order to truly succeed.