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No idea. Questions about getting FTL were Rafoed by Brandon.

Yes.

Interesting observation, but that's not the case, Elantris spoiler WoBs: But it did affect them in some way when it was happening, Elantris spoiler WoBs:

You can't reach 0 but with some attributes you can go really close to it:

Remember, nicrosil works the same way as duralumin, but you're making others burn all metals at once, not yourself. Did you read TLM? Boosting a leecher who is actively leeching somebody would likely make him leech everything (if a leecher has enough chromium) from his target at a single moment. Keep in mind, leeching takes time if there are a lot of metals. We know what electrum with dualumin/nicrosil would do - it would do almost the same what happened when Elend burned Atium with duralumin: Now with gold, you would make a person do what Kelsier experience when he was burning Malatium when he died - he peered into SR and saw Rashek's past, his Ascension - the same would likely happen to a person who is burning gold when boosted with nicrosil - instead of simply seeing his shadow, he would peer into SR and saw a clear vision of his past event (or possibly his alternate present - but a single one, not hundreds - like Kelsier with Rashek's vision).

Surge of Transoprtation Add to your build A-bendalloy, and a Bondsmith bond, which can cause time dilation. Don't forget about healing that can be useful. Or just be a Windrunner, go to space, and just accelerate with 1g (or just stuck as many as you can) for around a year in random direction and you will reach speeds very close to the speed of light. The fastest that's physically possible. You can't go faster than that in any other way.

Lift's case would be very similar to Awakener allomantically burning an Awakened metal - and there are 2 conflicting WoBs on that: It might be possible that she would get something more from burning Awakened food - but it has to be done with her Breaths.

They have control over Surges, Honor did chained all Surges after Ashyn destruction, specifically Bondsmithing. RoW ch 66: RoW ch 111: Shards have some power and influence over their invested art, not full power, but enough to change it a little and limit it. Odium would be able to do that as well if he could grant Adhesion to Fused. It's the same like Preservation changing the rules of Allomancy to swap 2 base metals with Atium and Malatium - Shards didn't create their invested arts, those came from interactions between Shards and the planet, but they can influence it a little. I'm not so sure if somebody only with Adhesion would be able to manipulate connections like Bondsmiths. Bondsmiths need a massive god spren and have also the surge of Tension as well. They're biased: They're now more like a spren, serving his will, fueled by his Light - if Odium limits spiritual Adhesion in a way to prevent them from touching bonds with him or Shards, they can't really find a loophole. Curiously, it does not give a number. So I'm either way on this one. It feels a bit contradictory for the fused to reject adhesion as a surge, while accepting that an unmade regularly grants it. The text was written by humans, it's likely counting all 10 Surges - which doesn't mean Yelig-Nar has access to spiritual Adhesion as well - Amaram didn't use it at all. Yes, the WoB posted by Frustration. It's the number of squires. They might be also stronger than other squires as WoB suggests. Resonances are mostly unknown to us. We know only about Windrunners and Lightweavers resonances and nothing else in the entire Cosmere. Read again post by Frustration and quotes there: It's not as simple as Gravitation+Adhesion=Reverse Lashing or something like that. It's more subtle, more focused on a person rather than just powers. What is a resonance by definition? "the quality or state of being resonant. : a reinforcement of sound (as a musical tone) in a vibrating body or system caused by waves from another body vibrating at nearly the same rate." Reverse Lashing doesn't fit that definition - it's just another power, that has nothing to do with a body. But when a Windrunner is "hit" by a tone of Gravitation and tone of Adhesion, he vibrates with both of those tones, combining them into a single tone (tones, rhythms, vibrations - not powers). His body, his spirit, resonates with a new tone that creates some new effects, new sound. The new tone isn't the same as the tone of Gravitation or Adhesion, it's something new, created by a combination of those two tones. It's like a Windrunner is a tuning fork, and both Adhesion and Gravitation are also vibrating tuning forks, which creates an interference pattern, and a Windrunner is tuned to that pattern, resonating with it. Tbf I don't really know what I'm writing here anymore, but I imagine it working somewhat like that. Radiant is resonating with a new tone, which creates some effect on him and others close to him, rather than just giving him a new power. That's the resonance that we're talking about. Resonance which is the effect, not power. But reverse lashing is born between 2 powers merging together, which isn't the resonance we're talking about. Different orders have a bit different use of their powers, because their powers work together in a different way. We need Brandon to start writing about this to clear the confusion. Seeing the connection lines was likely only possible because of Honor's death and loosening of bonds he placed upon Surgebinding. It wasn't something that Bondsmiths of the past were capable of (probably). RoW ch 66: Journey before destination... It's not about their powers at the end, it's about how they will get there. Kaladin beating his depression, Shallan forgiving herself and accepting truths about her past, Szeth bringing justice to those who deserve it, Dalinar changing himself from the person he used to be to become a honorable leader Roshar needs. The final oath will for sure do something more than make them "better". Spren would be pulled closely to PR, experiencing life and emotions like humans are (as evident by Syl and Kal's 4th Oath). There will be more to the final Oath than simply Radiant getting better. Not really, Kal's second oath didn't make him able to use Gravitation, he was able to do it before that, he just didn't know. Shallan soulcasted before using illuminations, yet she was later unable to soulcast. Lift didn't really change with her Oaths, she was Awesome from the beginning. Only Skybreakers and Dustbringers have limited access to their Surge of Division, no one else has such limits. However with every Oath they're getting more efficient with their use of Stormlight, and their powers become more intuitive to them. Shardblades and Shardplates are granted to them too, yes, but that's a physical manifestation of their spren, not their power. SHALLAN ALREDY DID THAT IN OB! Yes, they underuse it. And that's the problem. They don't learn to use it, don't explore Adhesion, don't try new things with it. I doubt that with 5th Oath something new with their Surges will be unlocked to them, it's just by this time they will have so much experience with their Surges that they will just figure out new things that they can do with them, which they didn't think about earlier because they didn’t have enough practice.

This is why I think Moash, doesn't deserve redemption, because even when Odium's influence was pushed away from him, he still thought like this, RoW ch 111:

No idea, I wonder about it too.

Yes, you can. SA5 and Elantris spoilers:

That's very on topic! Wait, are you saying that I can watch LOTR for the first time again?? That's the use of F-copper that I've never considered. It's amazing!

Not in that regard. Everything that Ruin and Preservation were doing already was focused on resisting each other. They are opposed in the matter of nature - Ruin is all about change and entropy. while Preservation is all about stasis. But they are not destructive opposite, as Ruin's investiture is used to steal Allomantic powers, given by a Preservation's fragment in people's soul, Ruin's investiture can work with Preservation's investiture when Atium is burned with duralumin, and in Feruchemy they both work together as Feruchemy is both from Ruin and Preservation. While they are the opposite, that's why they repel each other's investiture - because investiture resists investiture. They created Scadrial without destructive interference, Feruchemy is working without this as well, the alloy of Atium and Lerasium can be made without anything like that as well. With Vin and Ruin they are basically Splintering themself, throwing powers at each other to kill the other Shard, which is something that other Shards can do as well, but without killing themself in the process as they are more experienced than Vin. It might be the case that Ruin and Preservation are so perfectly paired and opposed that it is not possible for them to Splinter each other without killing themself in process in normal circumstances - Ruin was Splintering Preservation when Kelsier Ascended, and that cause Ruin no harm, but that's because Preservation had broken agreement which was made between them, which opened him to Ruin's attack. SA spoilers

Not at all

That's why I said reverse lashing isn't THE Resonance, but it came from 2 powers merging and interacting together, Adhesion and Gravitation. That's why, by words of this WoB below, one can call reverse lashing some sort of resonance, for lack of better words, but it isn't the resonance we're talking about, which I pointed out. 1 word with 2 definitions.

That's a good point. I think it's reasonable to assume that Atium is repelling Mists. However I would not say that burning Atium repels Mists as well, because that's a different mechanism - power is released and is going back to SR, it's separated from Mists by a body, while spikes are invested with Ruin and are exposed to Mists. We have very similar thing with Elend at the end of HoA - he was burning Atium and Vin was supplying him directly with power without the need for metals (which is the same as drawing from Mists or burning normal metals). Nothing happened. Because of what happened to Elend, you will just burn Atium normally, separately from Mists. No unintentional duralumin burst of power. They would work in the same way. So nothing bad or weird will happen. Because every time Mistborn is burning Atium he is also burning other metals, which supplies him with Preservation's power - those two powers don't do anything to a person using them, they act as they should act. That's it. The same will happen with Mists and Atium. Atium is being burned separately, and isn't additionally powered by Mists, and Mists would supply all other 14 (Era 1) base metals, without being able to do anything with Atium, unless you use Mists as duralumin, like Elend did when fighting Marsh. Here is the difference between Atium and a hemalurgic spike - Atium is just a metal in your stomach, while hemalurgic spike is piercing your soul adding Ruin's investiture to it - that's why you can't Ascend while having a spike, and you would be able to do it with Atium in your belly - Atium don't change your spirit, spike do. And while Ascending, Atium is either vaporized with the rest of the body, turned into pure Ruin investiture and returns to SR/pits of Hathsin or just drop down from the air, remaining in PR of Scadrial. You can't, Preservation is too vast for a little Atium to change it. Investiture repels investiture, this is one of the most important rules of Cosmere. Different kinds of investiture repels each other. Ruin and Preservation’s investiture repels each other even more because they are perfect opposition to each other. That's the only reason why Mists and Preservation's power acts like that around spikes. Edit: SA spoilers:

Cryptics are named with numbers and patterns, why can't Bondsmith spren be named with titles?

It was never said that Bondsmith can't use Adhesion in the same way as Windrunners do. That's the connection I've never made. Good one. I like that explanation. Odium could do what Honor did and bind the surge of Adhesion to prevent this from happening and limit its power. That's not the reason why Fused don't have Adhesion. Additionally, Yelig-Nar might have Adhesion, as he was said to have all 10 Surges. Reverse Lashing, while technically a resonance, is not THE resonance of Windrunners - that's the increased number of squires. At 3rd Ideal it is already quite powerful, allowing for decapitation of Fused. However Windrunners from 3rd Ideal upwards, begin to get more and more accustomed to their ability to change pressure, which is also Adhesion. I think this is the Adhesion that will get "stronger" or more intuitive for Windrunners. Also keep in mind Windrunners don't really have limitations of when they can learn or use their powers. With more Oaths sweared they just gets better at it, more efficient and those powers are more intuitive to them - that's what I think will happen, they won't get any new power, they just get better at what they already have, more efficient and using those powers will be more intuitive for them. I highly doubt they will be able to reverse lash at distance - there is nothing that could suggest this, nothing that foreshadowed this.

I don't think so. I think they would just be better at naturally healing themself (with no gold), so they would have more health to store compared to normal Bloodmaker. Or they would have more delicate control over boosting other people's F-gold healing. It's really hard to say. These two abilities don't fit each other well. Name: medic if the second resonanse is true?

I see this happening, but also Harmonium might not change at all, because it's elementary components won't change at all. However the Vessel has some power over his god metal, and over time its properties might slowly change. I think there was a WoB asking if Harmonium would change if Harmony changed to Discord but I can't find it at all. I might be wrong about that WoB.

For me nr 1 is zinc compounder. Steel or pewter compounders are also very desirable, A-pewter/F-zinc is good too. There are just too many useful combinations and it really depends on what part of your daily life you want to improve.

Yes, except for Nale, none of them joined Radiant orders. But Radiants and spren bonding humans granting them Surges came after Oathpact was made. Very highly unlikely. Honorblade are different and are said to have powers beyond that of a Shardblade. There is something more going on with Honorblades that we don't know about yet. Yes, and who said that they didn't come with weapons and technology surpassing that of Singers? Ancient Singers looked quite peaceful in Venli's vision, living in harmony with the planet, shaping their tool from stone, not metal, they might not know the art of war and quickly get overrun by overly aggressive humans, who came with steel.

I was talking about different methods of manipulation connections other than metal arts. Which I should make clear. SA spoilers: He can get rid of his connection to Scadrial with whatever means, move to a different planet - but with having a blank connection, he can use it to connect himself to other planets and speak in their language, which would make this whole endeavor easier. Unless what allows him to exist as a Cognitive Shadow is the connection to Scadrial, and therefore he needs to keep connection to planets at all times - in this case he needs to replace his connection to Scadrial with connection to other planets first, which will allowed him to leave, SA spoilers:

That's again, not it. Wax died. He experienced death, and chose to come back. Not only that, but he also had a heartfelt conversation with Harmony, he came to terms with Lessie loss, he accepted that living a life is not a responsibility he has, it's just another adventure. And he chose to live. He knows what awaits him after death - a different kind of adventure, because Harmony showed it to him. He just wasn't afraid of death anymore. Marasi is different. In the very quote you posted (appearing for the 3rd time on this topic) she said that she'd lived her entire life with those fears and shame. He was experiencing them every day of her life - including that day. That's why, when rioted, she was able to handle it, because she knows what to do, how to not get overwhelmed by those feelings. She does it every day, and this time is no different. Effects of emotional Allomancy didn't disappear when rioted, she just knew how to live with those feelings. It does, I admit it. But in my mind it would make more sense if it was worded like "he felt dread, suddenly it disappeared. He doesn't need to feel it, he faced death already." - disappearance of feeling comes before the realization that he doesn't need to fear it anymore - that would be a more compelling argument for the use of copper. But it's the opposite and I'm saying that it's equally as likely that he just didn't have the feeling of fear of death in the first place, which he realized when rioted. Again, it's not about realizing that the feeling is artificial, it's about not feeling that at all. In all other cases, when rioted or soothe, it affected only feelings that already existed in that person. In the case of Wax, he didn't fear death anymore, which he realized at that moment. That's why it disappeared. I agree. I think there is no further need to discuss it anymore, we're repeating the same arguments over and over again, with no mutual understanding. And we will be doing this again if we continue. There are no compelling evidence that supports our opposite stands, therefore we won’t convince each other by speculation and interpretation of the same quotes in different ways.

Yes, that's what I always think was happening. I've missed the blank connection. Interesting implications. That means that you can store your connection to your friend, which isn't blank, which would make you for the time of storing to be less of a friend, but when you want him to ask for a favor, you can tap it, which temporarily strengthen your friendship with him, but you can use that connection ONLY on him. But if you can make that blank somehow, you can tap it to connect to any person you want to. Very interesting. But what does it mean blank connection? Yes, I do also believe that the emotions and memory of a person's interactions with you strengthen a newly formed connection, so when you stop tapping, the connection is strong enough for them to consider you more as a friend. But if you don't interact at all with that person, it will fade to almost nothing. Yes, but a blank connection makes his problem a bit easier to solve. He needs a way to store his connection to Scadrial and tap the blank connection, which would allow him to move freely from planet to planet. He doesn't need to tap a blank connection, but that's easier for him to gain language skill and familiarity with the land. Here is a Rafo WoB about that scene: Hmm, yes this can also be the case, storing always blanks connection. But that seems too easy to be the case, and too versatile, however it would certainly made making new friends far easier, matching F-duralumin Ars Arcanum description. Now as I think of it, can this be the answer to the question of why medallions grants powers despite people that used them don't have those powers? Can it be that the powers stored in nicrosilmind have blanked connection and they connect to the person that is wearing them granting them powers of Feruchemy and Allomancy? Like blanked connection is reaching out and connect you to the place you are right now, medallions are also reaching out and connect to the person that is wearing them.