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Well yes. Sentience should be enough for the power to be used which is why it is developed. My point is that it might not need to develop after reach some levels of sentience to be properly sapient.

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Because atium is a temporal metal which uses the spiritual realm to create the images, like gold. So since both operate using the same mechanics, a duralumin-enhanced burn should achieve similar effects, propelling the allomancer's awareness into the spiritual realm.

Investiture wants to be sentient, not necessarily sapient as far as I'm aware. Splinters have at least the sentient threshold.

There's also the extra power of Ruin used to form harmonium. That's more my guess as to where the excess is going.

Nice one @Erunion Mine was considerably less interesting. Went home from work and didn't see anyone else the moment I got home. Did spend the evening entertaining a friend I have some romantic inclinations towards with cat stickers on facebook, so that was fun.

The Lord Ruler was a fullborn sincest he possessed all 32 powers.

Also, they're probably also patrons because they hold the same surgebinding powers.

How good a god he is really has no bearing on his intent. Shards aren't innately gods. Gods are defined by the faith put in them by people so Harmony is a good god if he acts according to how people think he should act. Trell getting innocent people killed, but unlike Kelsier and Marsh, there isn't an apparent "lesser of the two evils" thing going on so the two aren't comparable. People liked them because they killed the tyrant who ruled the world and ground them into the dirt. Trell is killing people and defying Harmony, the guy who saved them, and brought them prosperity. Rather huge different.

I deserved that. Anyhow, here are two past topics that cover the same general theory. Maybe they'll spark some new ideas.

The Coppermind has all the information you need. http://coppermind.net/wiki/Knights_Radiant

Manipulating them is a far cry from your previous point that he was directly supporting them. Choosing not to talk about hemalurgy isn't the same as attempting to hide it. I haven't found any passage in the books which imply that he actively tried to hide knowledge as you suggested. Also, if he was trying that hard, he wouldn't have explained the basics of hemalurgy in the Words of Founding. He gives them hints and guesses so that they will grow because he wants them to flourish. Besides, he's already cut back majorly on any hints, since by his own admission, his help has in some part had the opposite effect, as it has stunted their growth. That isn't saying much since they're in contact with agents of an entity of some power who presumably can observe, to some degree, what Harmony is doing. Nothing has been indicated that they figured that out on their own.

We've seen these theories before. Do you have anything novel to add to them? As Hoid said, novelty is what humans value.

@Weltall Honor didn't call himself the Creator of Mankind. He just used it in reference when identifying himself as the Almighty, as that is a title for the Almighty by Vorinism. At least that's my interpretation. It's up in the air what he meant, but it fits more with what I've heard.

@garlickIf that was indeed Osthbringer information you posted, go back and put it in spoilers now. They exist for a reason.

Possibly, though I don't think identity would work that way. Burning aluminum would be a superior defense I think.

It's not really a secret though, more like we've (society) gotten lazy at using proper word definitions.

Fair enough. Without any other magic system or other investiture interaction, it is as useful as aluminum allomancy, so under that extremely limited scope you're correct. Although, since feruchemy, as far as we know, defaults to all the powers, being alone is an exception, so you still can't really call it redundant.

Redundant? Spiritual identity is extremely powerful when manipulated. Across a number of systems it is what prevents other people from directly tampering with investiture you're using. It creates separations which prevents people from trivalizing the magic use of other people. If it didn't exist a number of systems or technologies would become a lot less powerful as people could a lot more easily interfere in what others have done. It being as simple as I explain doesn't make storing it anywhere close to a raw deal as being to burn aluminum. In any case, aluminum allomancy has huge potential as well, so it's not that useless. Duralumin is the true raw deal as far as I can tell. Here are a few examples where identity comes into play I believe. Foremost, feruchemical metalminds. Without the existence of identity, anyone could access anyone's metalminds. Stealing them would become a danger and feruchemists would be a lot less willing to make them. The fact that storing identity is possible is what enables the creation of medallions. Furthermore, a full feruchemist who has learned to store their identity could probably access any metalmind they wanted, regardless of it being keyed or unkeyed. Warbreaker: Stormlight Archives

@hwiles Odium isn't killing shards because he enjoys it, he splintering them because he's afraid. I'll address other points later.

He still has the atium he took from the kandra at the end of HoA.

Yes. But that still doesn't mean he was a Fullborn, just that he had some more powers and possibly amplified others. I doubt he would've taken the time to somehow track down an electrum, aluminum and gold misting considering how useless they were considered at the time. Additionally, cadmium, bendalloy, chromium and nicrosil were unknown even to the inquisitors, so there's no way to have found the mistings, which means that gaining those powers at that time would've required four mistborn, which didnt exist.

As said in Secret History: They were shards before they were gods, and some of them likely are still not gods. Gods are defined by faith, not power.

Braize has a population of splinters so it might not necessarily be in a habitable zone.

That was what I was referencing, so I guess not. In any case, they know of it, so chances are that they can see it.