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Thanks! love me some WOBs and also for that interesting thread. As it relates to this disscussion, i suppose that if a lifeless of a swordsman is better at swords play than a lifeless of a peasant something remains with the body. If an awakened soulcast statue of a dead swordsman is also better at sword play then we could conclude that whatever stays with lifeless was present in the stone before it was awakened...?

Thanks. This is this was basically what I was thinking too. The person dies (or is already dead) and their mind goes with them in the cognitive, but the stone remembers something.

So a deepest one gets a stone soulcaster and turns a person to stone and then communes with that stone. Do you think that they would have access to that persons memories?

So if the memories override the breath control it would be like a poor mans Returned, and if it were the Breath overrides the memories it would basically be useless. No chance of a lifeless you control that also has the knowlege of their past life and can answer questions about it and perform intelligent tasks they could do while alive?

Hi, since my idea is along the same lines I will post it here. Would it be possible to hemalurge the Intelligence and memories out of someone with a copper spike, then awaken that person as a lifeless and then give that lifeless the spike with their own mind and memories? Would they still be under your control if it worked?

Wax can already fly good enough, and becoming a radiant might make him lose his resonance. Wayne on the other hand becoming any kind of radiant would be almost taken to compounding level of healing ability through stormlight.

Was Adolin carrying his shardblade when he went through the Oathgate? Is Maya walking around as a deadeyes in shadesmar when Adolin summons her as a blade or does she dissapear from Shadesmar? When Syl is not a shardblade is she walking around shadesmar? When Syl is being a shardblade for Kaladin is she living a parallel life in shadesmar? The spren in shadesmar who talk about looking after deadeyes so they dont walk off the edge of the boat would have a hard time doing so if they kept dissapearing and turning up in different places. Could someone clear this up for me, or is it still all speculation?

"Would you like to destroy some aluminium today?" "For the thousandth time no!" "WHY AM I ALIVE!" "Honestly I got the breaths and wanted to play around, I thought I could call them back. And then I had to waste the rest of my breaths making this stupid sheath that can hold you" Sheath: "Dude! I'm right here!" But seriously, you wouldnt describe Nightblood as a sword that cuts through evil things but is normal in every other manner.

I guess that commanding Nightblood to destroy evil gave it special effects that not all awakened swords would have, so maybe specificity does have effect.. Then again maybe not, I mean he doesnt destroy evil so much as he destroys everything except shardblades and aluminium. "Destroy aluminium"

For question 1 I was reading and waiting for a reveal that Shallan might have been doing more than light weaving. Shes regular crazy as well of course, but she is also a soul caster who is summoning stormlight and willing herself to become someone else. I know thats not how soulcasting works, but i thought about how twin born are said to also get some kind of third power that is emergent from their two powers. I also remembered the scene where she drew a person, Elhokar I think, as a more confident figure and showed it to him to profound effect. Possible soulstamping?

I guess you are right that you would not get all the benefits of a good night sleep from tapping wakefulness, because some of the benefits are side benefits, such as healing. However I did imagine the memory loss and psychological instability would at least be far decreased otherwise a wakefulness compounder wouldn’t be able to go more than a week. I think the need for sleep is mostly due to these things, as in, they are what you are saving up essentially. As for the slow draw like Atium versus the massive bursts all the time, I was hoping there would be some benefit coming from super wakefulness rather than just having extended normal wakefulness. Something like if someone took some alertness drug, or the things hwiles mentioned. It would be cool if possible. When the villain idea was mentioned I thought about them using savanted bronze to search for Harmonies Pool tirelessly. Perhaps with the limitations you mentioned he could take to sleeping just to get Harmony out of his head (which he can access through insanity).

This makes me wonder what compounding wakefulness would look like, burning a metalmind of one nights sleep as fast as you can would do what exactly? Perhaps he would get some kind of boost on top of never getting sleepy, like Miles Teg never feeling pain.

Allomantic aluminium and feruchemical nicrosil the twin gnat! But my real answer was set in stone when i chose my name here. I do however question why the Inquisitors were said to spend soo much time storing health when surely they would have pewter. For the real world, where I dont really think about combat, then zinc compounding for sure - unlimited mental speed plus rioting emotions in individuals or groups would be the quickest way to win at life. Second choice steel + steel for in the cosmere.

Since strength from allomantic Pewter doesnt come from muscle size and while storing strength from allomantic pewter doesnt make you skinnier, perhaps compounding that strength, rather than regular feruchemical strength, would let you tap strength without growing in bulk? I suppose this comes down to whether the nature of the ability is preserved, would a tin compounder be able to burn tin and store sight, then tap that sight and still be able to see through mists like with allomantic tin?

So if you wore your only goldmind on your head and got decapitated you just die? Because the spirit stays with the larger portion. I mean if you carried your only goldmind on your arm and that arm got cut off, the rest of you wouldnt drop dead while the arm grows a new you...

Yeah exactly, that was basically my idea, not so much breeding from inquisitors, just giving someone the maximum spikes while still being able to live long enough to bring a baby to term, and have the baby live. You could probably give the male much more spikes since his part in the process is shorter. And I was presuming that the offspring would have less negative effects than the spiked person. Would they have tears in their spirit webs? Would the offspring of someone who recieved copper hemalurgy have to deal with mental conflicts? Presuming this then with each generation you could get more of a trait from a single spike and thus reach higher levels of power with less spikes and thus less spirit web damage. As with what to do with psychotic brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles... hemalurgy. Of course if it really was as straight forward as this then there would have been no real need for Harmony to intervene with the Koloss...

Do we know how the Koloss blooded were created? Was it something of Harmony or is it the Spawn of a Koloss? I heard somewhere that if an Inquisitor were to procreate they might pass on some extra spiritual DNA. I ask because it would be interesting to try a few things based on this. -Surely a koloss blooded would provide a stronger potency spike, could you compund this effect through generations of repeating the process -if you get two people and give them hemalurgy for mental strength and then make them reproduce would they produce a super smart baby, and would it have the drawbacks that usually come with grafting someone elses mind onto yours? -Suposedly doing the same for emotional strength or powerful senses, also, I heard that an electrum spike is what gives Inquisitors their multiple atium shadows so imagine breeding this into a bloodline. -Make children with more than one alomantic or feruchemical ability through this method??

The grandma seems to think their lineage is very important, more than just family pride? This may possibly even explain why the grandmother has a stronger cognitive shadow, she may have had more investiture through bloodline. Plus, help me out if you can because I dont have my copy right now. One of the characters ponders if there really is a shade of Silence's husband and notes that he doesnt recall her ever having a husband. IIRC he then thinks something like "that would mean that the girl is..." So is there something there?? Did she have a husband and if not where did her oldest daughter come from? Also, Arcanum Unbounded Spoilers:

I dont have access to my copy right now, but I dont remember any animal shades being mentioned, guess they dont have a strong enough cognitive body.

If you could steal a breath, be it divine or origional, through hemalurgy, could you then give that breath to someone else or use it in awakening or a divine healing or something? or would it be stuck in the spike? Perhaps you could give the breath to someone or something with a command, throw the spike away and then they give the breath back to you. Also if you use tin hemalurgy on someone with sensory heightenings would you get the heightened senses? my guess is no, but the reason why would be interesting to me.

Vin burns pewter while sleeping, so even if TLR couldnt tap a metal mind while sleeping, he could slowly burn one.

Just have a hospital where the doctor gives the sick person 1000 breaths and then takes them back when the person is better

How about "trash talk into my enemies minds while i fight them" or also "relay my thoughts to whoever i want"

Oh yeah that much I knew, but its still a big difference ethically than me going around and killing more people. I mean the earrings are in circulation either way, I woulndt even need to keep them. Plus they would probably be easier to get my hands on than medalions.

So I cannot nicroburst the allomancy I have stolen through hemalurgy, and I cannot compound things like the blessing of presence. How about the bit about the earrings? If they can allow harmony to talk to you then they must carry some charge, however small. So for a compounder I guess that’s just as good as a full spike, and without having to kill anyone. So I can make decent use of the nicrosil compounding without having to commit murder or know how to hemalurgy. And from what you have informed me I could even be a speed compounder just from earrings.