Steeldancer

OathbrinNO SPOILERS YOU FOOL OF A TOOK

SHE'S A DRAGON AHHHHHH

I'm ready to speed read the next 3 chapters like a pro

I thought he was James bond. Not trump. No trump, thank you very much.

Limits? LIMITS? Not when you're Steeldancer

FATHER NOOOOO

When is some point

I'm not sure I explained myself properly, but whatever. Brain canon. Can I see that WoB? I've looked around and never saw that (but I'm also awful at finding WoB so)

It's spirit web stuff. Not feruchemy, but still spirit web stuff.

Ah ok. Here we go. It's not feruchemy, but it's manipulation of the spirit web. Connection and all that. Feruchemy can mess with that, but messing with that is not always feruchemy. Kolo?

I...lost the train of thought. I'm sorry. Could you please explain that again?

You know what? I don't think we have enough information. Let's call it a day and hope someone asks Brandon about this at a signing. Btw, I imagined it as -tap nicrosil, gain ability to use other abilities. Then you have to actually access said abilities- by tapping them. Either way, I feel we need clarification. BoM clearly didn't give us quite enough. I'll look around for any WoB on the subject, although I'm not sure there are any.

... I know that. My point is that I don't think you need to have another ability for nicrosil feruchemy to be useful. Unless there is a WoB about that that I haven't seen. You store INVESTITURE. The INVESTITURE, when tapped, allows you to access other powers. It... opens up your soul. I don't know how to properly describe it ugh. I swear it makes sense in my head. Here's a better explanation: investiture is investiture, no matter what type it comes in: allomancy, feruchemy, surges, aons. This power is naturally in the spirit web, because it's what the spirit web is made of. This is then stored in nicrosil, this raw investiture. When tapped, the investiture floods the spirit web, allowing for new powers to be accessed, sort of like how tapping connection allows new connections to be made. Now for these new powers to be accessed, you need another source of active, type investiture (like metals, or a metalmind, or a gem full of stormlight) in order to use it. With allomancy it's a bit complicated. With feruchemy you just need an unkeyed metalmind. But I think they could at the very least breathe in stormlight. This has just landed on my list of things i want to ask brandon.

Thats not what I pulled out of bands of mourning. Investiture is just investiture. It grants you the ability to use other abilities. Wax didn't tap a different type of nicrosil for each different ability. He just tapped investiture, which in turn allowed him to utilize any of the powers in the bands.

No I'm not saying they store stormlight. That's what the gem is for! The gem is like an unkeyed metalmind. For most people, an unkeyed metalmind also requires a nicrosil one to be able to use it. But a nicrosil could just tap their own stores to use them. In this case, the nicrosil would grant them the ability to use the stormlight. Or at least breathe it in. At that point, I have no idea what would happen. Maybe it would just not be useable in surges. Just the stormlight itself. (Strength, speed, healing, perfection ect.). That's what investiture metalmind do, from what I can glean in BoM. They grant you the ability to use an ability. Like... opening the gates. A new one you normally don't have access to.

Ok so this idea came from several assumptions. First, shardplate is made of investiture. Second, that investiture is keyed to the KR who originally made it. Yet gemstones are still able to power them. This leads me to the conclusion that gemstones are unkeyed sources of investiture. The issue is that not everyone has the ability to access it. BUT A nicrosil ferring could! Just like they wouldn't need the nicrosil band on an unkeyed metalmind, they can tap their investiture to use the stormlight. The question is, how would it manifest itself? It's not a spren bond. It might just be... stormlight. Idk.

My point exactly The gems are an unkeyed source of investiture, and so can put investiture into the keyed shardplate. Makes total sense. And I've never thought of gems as being unkeyed before... hmmm. Ideas stir within my brain...

What if an elantrian had duralumin ferring powers? Could they store their connection to Arelon and use it elsewhere?

Probably has something to do with identity.

That is actually one of my questions I intend to ask next time I see Brandon. I keep a small list, and that's on it. I also have a question about shinovar, aluminum, and the Scar.

My sister got married yesterday. So happy for her. And I'm meeting Rick Riordan in 2 weeks and I'm really excited (not as excited as I was about Brandon, but still pretty awesome)

Not really. I'm only just barely on the list. I'm not quite as prodigious as he is.

It is. His other books aren't always great, but there's a reason Enders game is so well respected. Have fun!

I doubt it is a fabrial. I think fabrials are their own magic system, according to WoB. Old, live shardplate used to not need gems. Just like blades didn't need gems. Except, blades don't run on stormlight. Shardplate does, IMO because it's MADE of stormlight. Given that the only way Roshar has had of moving stormlight is through gems, gems would have been added to give the shardplate the stormlight it needs to regenerate/function. I almost imagine it being like a leaf, with veins running through it. So the solidified stormlight would conduct the still gaseous stormlight through it. A radiant would be able to power their shardplate without using any gems, because they can absorb/emit storm light. This would also keep the shardplate from getting in the way of surges (which I suspect is because the shardplate is still keyed to that original radiant who made it). If it was a fabrial, it would function more like the half shards of Jah Keved. But it doesn't. It's a lot more effective, and grants strength and speed and a bunch of other stuff.

Then my question remains. Who developed the first glyphs? Who had the idea of expressing them on their shard blade and plate?