Mr Steez

Well "The" Lord Ruler was a fullborn naturally, but for anyone else using the bands you are right. Without the nicrosilmind (and other filled metals) contained in the bands, you'd be pretty useless.

Hello everyone. I discovered Sanderson about 2 years ago while reading the WoT. I've devoured each of his books since then. I'm looking forward to meeting more crazy people like myself.

I totally forgot that Marasi downed the vial before using Allomancy, did she also give one to Wax? That makes much better sense. So the Nicroslmind gives Marasi the invested ability to use all 16 metals, but the Allomantic power still comes from the ingested metals.

After finishing Bands of Mourning, I was confused as to the abilities granted by the bands. It makes sense to me that feruchemically charged metalminds with stored investiture would allow an individual to access and use the power in that metalmind because metalminds are how feruchemy is naturally used. I don't recall any explanation as to how allomantic ability could be stored in a metalmind. Once the allomantic ability is stored, why is it that the ability is accessed via tapping a metalmind instead of burning a metal? Also, this is my first post. Hello everyone!