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Note that we don't actually know whether he had the children before or after he ascended. Considering how much effort he went to prevent feruchemy from existing, I don't see him intentionally procreating and causing that to happen. As such, I'm more of the opinion that he had children before, in which case he might've turned them into mistwraiths.

Zane's increased steelpushing control was indeed due to the hemalurgic spike through his sternum, granting steel allomancy.

By definition, morality is entirely subjective. There is no such as a objective, universal set of morals. There are morals which society holds to be correct which most people follow, but that by no means makes it objective, it just makes them generally accepted. Evil, by generally definition as acts going against one's perceives morals of how the world is being, is therefore entirely subjective as well. Now this is a discussion I like to have, but since it would be straying away from the subject of this topic, and morality debates can get hazy on a forum, I would ask that you PM me if you wish to continue it. Also yes, evil is evil, but that's circular reasoning. And yes, I know you're trying to say that evil is objective with that.

Ah, okay, I was unaware that it has been officially published. And yeah, they definitely could've been out and no one noticed because they didn't look unusual.

1. Nothing. Their spiritual identity is only gone while they're storing. Otherwise it's as normal, like any other feruchemical attribute (save memories.) 2. That's what Forgery does, in a sense. If you're talking about on your own, probably not, though it has been strongly hinted that the alternate self shadow that an Augur misting sees could possibly be used to change their cognitive, and by extension spiritual, identity. 3. The two possibilities I see are either that both identities blend and it could give the person access to any identity keyed item keyed to either identity or the tapped identity would override the current one. It might be that it depends on the strength of the tap. In any case, same thing as if a trueself ferring tapped an unkeyed aluminummind that someone else had made.

That too yes.

Feasibly... I'm not sure. The question is whether how well a soulstamp takes is just dependent on spiritual identity, or dependent on cognitive identity as well. I feel like it does depend on cognitive as well, especially since cognitive can control how the physical and spiritual are as well, so you still wouldn't be able to be anything, but it would help if you suppressed your spiritual identity.

Yeah, I've heard some things. Probably would be better to at least put that in spoilers though since it isn't published, just because something is officially out doesn't make it okay to openly reference. In any case, if it was occurring at least that long before, then the Death Rattles should've been happening since then since WoB is that they started at the same time. It's kind of weird though because Taravangian said, IIRC, that they only had been happening for years, though since the effect since to be regionally-bound to the Unmade causing them, it's possible that it had been in a distant location before approaching Kharbranth and the Shattered Plains.

Depends, if they're storing all of their identity, possibly indefinitely. If they aren't regular as a normal person. Of course, that is assuming that the soulstamp isn't overriding their ability to perform aluminum feruchemy.

Sure, unless he detonates some dynamite and escapes. I'm still also not on-board with how well the aluminum would actually make it into wounds to prevent healing, though I guess a surface covering would work to prevent outward growth of new tissue.

Oh true, good point. I forgot that Pattern appeared for Shallan quite some time ago. I'll have to think about that. Our main evidence of the Unmade activity is the Death Rattles and the Thrill. To put your other points in perspective. I don't know whether 2 or 3 came first, though I think 3 came before 2. 1 came definitely after either 2 or 3 as we know that Taravangian visited the Nightwatcher after Gavilar's assassination.

You can allomancy/feruchemy compound in order to rapidly fill the bands if you have enough metal lying around.

Upvotes. Upvotes everywhere. This is genius. Brandon shows us again that he can combine science and magic and get something that makes some crazy amount of sense. I'll need to think about this a bit to see if I come up with anything else. Very good write-up. I understood enough thanks to my program which is close enough to chemical engineering. Maybe the bomb the Southerners had?

I don't think compounding a tap diminishes the return as a percent of the overall charge, but as a more or less flat amount taken from the overall charge based on how much the tap is being compounded. So, as an example. If you have your metalmind filled for 1 hours at 50%, you could tap 50% for 1 hour. Or you could tap 100% for 25 minutes, where 50 minutes of 50% was compounded into 100% for 25 minutes, and the last 10 minutes of 50% was used as a cost to compound the charge. Or the same for tapping 150%. You tap 150% for 10 minutes, meaning that you're compounded 30 minutes of 50% into 10 minutes, and the last 30 minutes of 50% is used to compound the tap.

No, we don't. We have word of God (Brandon) that this is how it is.

Correct. They have an unknown process which essentially automatically grants the holder a limited nicrosil feruchemy ability. In addition, based on how the Southern with Wax described the process, however that process works, interference is caused if someone tries to wear more than one medallion, indicating that the limited power each gives is likely keyed to that specific medallion.

I believe shardplate is essentially a godmetal, though of which shard(s) I am unsure. I'm thinking that it is either of Cultivation, Honor, or both, so it would give an effect similar to the intent of those shards.

According to Brandon they clash as a result of a nature feature of them when the two spiritual "genes" coincide in an individual.

In theory, yes it could be burned. In practice, probably not as shardplate is likely too invested to be able to burn.

Did you ask it or try to soulcast it? That would tell you.

To be fair though, at the start of Warbreaker, he could've been faking his Heightening, like he does to fake becoming a drab, just to avoid suspicion or attention.

No. There are other methods of rewriting the spiritweb in the Cosmere. For instance, lerasium can be used to rewrite the spiriweb, so it could probably be used to turn someone into a Full Feruchemist. Ascending using the Well of Ascension didn't turn TLR into a Fullborn, nor did becoming a sliver. He intentionally used a part of the Well's power to turn himself into a mistborn. Sliver's aren't naturally fullborn, though they do have expanded cognitive and physical traits because of the stress of investiture. The Emperor's Soul

I think there's a limit on how much investiture you can fit into a hemalurgic spike, and an entire spiritweb would probably surpass most conventional limits. That said, I did have a thought awhile ago that it could be possible. Anyhow, the thing is that I don't consider mistborn a human attribute, anymore than I would consider Stormlight Archive I see Mistborn as being the same way, as just referring to a specific set. My point is that expanding the spiriweb doesn't work, since the genes don't exist at that point. The allomantic gene has already degraded the feruchemical gene (see above) such that being a full feruchemist is not possible unless the spiriweb is rewritten to make that person into a full feruchemist. The gene isn't being suppressed, it's actually damaged.

Yeah, and it's spiritual DNA which doesn't work quite the same way. Also guys.

Stormlight Archive Also, it's preferable if you don't talk about non-Mistborn things in this forum outside of spoilers. You're saying whether being mistborn as a whole is a power which can be stolen? Personally I don't think so, it's just a collection of powers bound together.